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Yuko Shimizu is a super-talented illustrator who lives in NYC. Her self-titled monograph came out about a month ago, and is full of provocative surrealistic comic art drawn first with traditional calligraphy brushes, overlaid with digital color and background to look like graphic prints. Super cool. I first met Yuko when I was working on the Studio360 piece about women artists in Japan. She told me that she had always drawn erotic women, but didn't realize she was a feminist until she came to the US for art school and her teachers asked her to analyze her own art for the first time. (The Western tendency to analyze is different from Japan, where it's more common to simply appreciate the aesthetic value of a piece.)
Category Archives: Books
Haruki Murakami's earthquake speech in Spain
Haruki Murakami gave a lovely speech when he received the Cataluña International Prize in June.
In Japanese, we have the word "mujō (無常)". It means that everything is ephemeral. Everything born into this world changes, and will ultimately disappear. There is nothing that can be considered eternal or immutable. This view of the world was derived from Buddhism, but the idea of "mujo" was burned into the spirit of Japanese people beyond the strictly religious context, taking root in the common ethnic consciousness from ancient times.
The idea that all things are transient is an expression of resignation. We believe that it serves no purpose to go against nature. On the contrary, Japanese people have found positive expressions of beauty in this resignation.
If we think about nature, for example, we cherish the cherry blossoms of spring, the fireflies of summer and the red leaves of autumn. For us, it is natural to observe them passionately, collectively and as a tradition. It can be difficult to find a hotel room near the best known sites of cherry blossoms, fireflies and red leaves in their respective seasons, as such places are invariably milling with visitors.
Why is this so?
The answer may be found in the fact that cherry blossoms, fireflies and red leaves all lose their beauty within a very short space of time. We travel from afar to witness this glorious moment. And we are somehow relieved to confirm that they are not merely beautiful, but are already beginning to fall to the ground, to lose their small lights or their vivid beauty. We find peace of mind in the fact that the peak of beauty has been reached and is already starting to fade.
Full text translated into English is here.
(Thanks, Jason!)
Facebook for Japanese people
Photography book features hot girls posing with gadgets
At the Kinokuniya bookstore the other day, I started flipping through a slightly porny (and in later pages, very much more porny) photography book featuring hot Japanese girls posing amidst lots and lots of gadgets. There's one more after the jump, of a girl with a fuzzy hat in a room full of vintage game consoles.
Everything you ever wanted to know about fuzzy mascots
Now you can learn everything you ever wanted to know about fuzzy Japanese mascots and kigurumi from this book.
Manga depicts Jesus and Buddha as roommates in present-day Tokyo
I was just clued into a manga series called 聖☆おにいさん, or Saint Young Men. It's about two young men, Jesus and Buddha — yes, as in the two very famous spiritual leaders from the Western and Eastern traditions. They've just returned from a vacation in the underworld and are living together as roommates in the Tachikawa suburb of Tokyo. The stories are penned by 28-year old Hikaru Nakamura, and chronicle the duo's adventures as they navigate their way through the modern world. Buddha is thrifty and very detail-oriented; Jesus is a lavish spender. Despite their differences, the two are best friends. Amazing.
Get my book for 35% off from Chronicle Books
Chronicle Books is having a friends and family sale; from now through December 5th, you can get my Urawaza book (and any of their other titles) for 35% off + free shipping. It's Christmas colored and it's fun. Yay! Just enter the code FRIENDS at checkout for your discount.
Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan at Chronicle Books
Tonoharu, a Lost in Translation-esque manga (+ Pink Lady UFO video!)
There's an interesting review and discussion over at Boing Boing about Tonoharu, a manga about an American who gets a job teaching English in a small Japanese town. Reviewers have likened it to Lost in Translation, and there's a somewhat heated discussion about how racist that movie is in the comments section. Take a peek if you're interested or want to contribute your two cents!
I love that Mark embedded a video of the famous Pink Lady song UFO kind of as an afterthought. Classic 70s tune written by a good family friend of mine.
via Boing Boing (Thanks, Lisa G!)
Hilarious Harry Potter fangirl revisited: "touch ok?"
In July of last year I posted one of my favorite strangest YouTube videos of all time — Japan's biggest Harry Potter fangirl and her encounter with actors Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe, aka Ron and Harry, at Hogwarts. Those clips in their entirety have since been removed from the interwebs because of licensing blah blah, but I found these snippets on YouTube of the crux of each, where she asks "touch ok?" and starts petting the two of them on the face. Love how she sniffs her finger after petting Ron's eyelashes!
How to keep pigeons away from your window
I recently discovered a pigeon nest near my bedroom window. I got rid of the nest, but the problem is that I don't really know how to keep them from coming back. I did write an entry in my book about how to keep pigeons from landing on your plants, but I'm not sure if this tip will be useful in my situation. If anyone has any other ideas, please let me know! I'm planning to hit up the hardware store this afternoon.
Yasuko Namba, once the oldest woman to climb Everest
While I was in Nepal, I read an incredible book by climber/journalist Jon Krakauer called Into Thin Air. It chronicles the events of an infamous Everest expedition in 1996 that left half a dozen people dead shortly after reaching the summit. Super sad, super amazing adventure story. One of the climbers who died was a 47-year old petite Japanese woman named Yasuko Namba. She was a graduate of Waseda University and worked on the business side of FedEx in Japan, but her real passion was climbing. That spring, she left her husband behind and took off to climb Everest on the same expedition with Krakauer, led by a famous guide who also died on the mountain.
Did you know that the first two women in the world to successfully climb the Seven Summits were both Japanese? The first was Junko Tabei, who climbed Everest with an all-female expedition sponsored by the Yomiuri Shimbun and Nihon Television. She passed out unconscious for several minutes before arriving at the top of Everest in 1975. Tabei is still alive today; she doesn't climb as much as she used to, but she's the head of the Himalayan Adventure Trust of Japan.
Namba was the second woman to complete this feat, but she didn't make it back alive. In fact, she died lost and alone in a freezing cold blizzard. Her death is written about in a lot of detail in Into Thin Air. She obviously had an amazing spirit and an incredible amount of guts. I'm sure everyone who ascends Everest does so knowing that they may not make it down alive. Still, I finished the book wishing someone had made a better effort to save her.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Tokyo Vice, a book about an American journalist on the yakuza hit list
I just finished reading Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan. It's a new book written by a guy named Jake Adelstein. If you haven't seen his byline, it's probably because he spent over a decade as a reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun — the Japanese version, that is. The book kicks off with funny stories of how Adelstein came to Japan to study Buddhism but ended up studying his ass off to pass the Japanese language reporter exam. Miraculously, he gets accepted and is thrown into detective-like work on the police and crime beats in the Tokyo area. Through anecdotes of his own mishaps as the only foreigner among all his Japanese colleagues and sources, we get some fun insights on Japanese culture. But the book also takes us deep into the world of Japanese crime beat reporting, illuminating the relationships among the police force and the yakuza and the media. It's interesting — you hear bits and pieces of this stuff on the news and in academic papers, but it's much more fun to read a first person account of someone who was really there. Towards the end, the book takes on a much scarier tone as Adelstein gets wrapped up in some serious yakuza conspiracies — I won't go into detail here, but the threats that Adelstein faces are real and present, and he doesn't sleep well at night.
I actually had the pleasure of meeting Adelstein yesterday; we and Hiroko Tabuchi of the New York Times hung out over Peking Duck and drinks in Roppongi. He is as fun and crazy as he appears to be in the book, which is a good thing. I should also mention that the writing is superb — I start reading a lot of books about Japan written by non-Japanese people, but rarely do I finish them out of anything other than a sense of obligation. This one, though, had me hooked to the end.
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein = 5/5
TokyoMango's holiday gift guide (books!)
If you're a last-minute holiday gift shopper like me and you're looking for something to get for your favorite/least favorite niece/cousin/uncle/sibling… why not get them a decent Japan book? Here are some recommendations:
The history geek…
John Dower's Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II is a crucial volume in understanding US-Japan relations in the post-WW2 era. It's also a fun read even if you're not a history geek.
The aspiring novelist…
Anything by Haruki Murakami is always a delight, and if you haven't read his stuff, you should do so, like, right now. One of my favorites was The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; I also really enjoyed Kafka on the Shore and South of the Border, West of the Sun.
Urawaza is a great holiday gift! Buy it.
It's been a while since I pimped my book Urawaza on TokyoMango, but I really think you should buy it for someone — your mom, your brother, your friend, a White Elephant party — for the holidays. It's green and red, colors reminiscent of Christmas Trees and Santa hats, it's not heavy reading, you'll learn lots of cool quirky tricks, and it's 30% off on Amazon and at Chronicle Books' web site with the discount code Family — which brings the grand total cost to about $10. Totally affordable holiday fun!
New magazine for people living with facial scars
A new magazine aimed towards people with physical disfigurations will launch next spring. It's called My Face, and it's the pet project of a self esteem support group called MFMS, or My Face My Style. The magazine will include interviews, medical information, and advice on how to fight discrimination at work and at school for the estimated one million people in Japan who suffer from facial injuries or deformities. These people aren't legally considered as physically handicapped, so there's little support. The founder, 42-year old Hiroko Togawa, told Mainichi:
You never know when something like this can happen, such as those of us who have been involved in an accident. I hope the magazine will help take the worry out of finding hospitals and dealing with symptoms.
How to recreate a scene from Zelda in your lunchbox
There's a wonderful cookbook in bookstores & on Amazon now called Face Food:The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes. It's a bento book that teaches you how to make delicious, nutritious meals that resemble your favorite anime, video game, or zoo animal. The art is simply amazing — here are Astro Boy and Zelda.
Face Food:The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes by Christopher Salyers
Otaku Encyclopedia, a book that teaches you everything about otaku culture
Great news for those of you who have always wanted to know everything there is to ever know about the otaku world! A new book called The Otaku Encyclopedia: An Insider's Guide to the Subculture of Cool Japan, written by Patrick Galbraith, is now available on Amazon. I have a copy, and was impressed by the thoroughness of his research &mdash he is doing his PhD at Todai, after all. Ever wonder what "moe" really means? Want to know more about Shokotan, itasha, or maid cafes? It's all here.
The super awesome Fred Schodt wrote the foreword.
The Otaku Encyclopedia by Patrick Galbraith
Bento Love: how to cook Japanese food that fits into a lunch box
When I was in elementary school, I was always jealous of the kids who had them &mdash all I wanted in my packed lunch was a sandwich, a fruit roll-up and a juice box in a brown paper bag. Later I found out that the kids who had brown paper bags wished they had the bento box in a cloth purse that my mom always made for me, even though it made me a little embarrassed that my mom cared so much about what I ate. Funny.
But if you're the PB&J type and are looking for an alternative for lunches, a new book called Easy Japanese Cooking: Bento Love might help you. In it, there are dozens of easy delicious Japanese cooking recipes that can fit right into a standard, rectangular bento box. Some examples: Salt-Grilled Chicken Steak Bento, the two-tiered Spicy Miso Pork Stir-Fry Bento, Stir-Fried Spaghetti Bento. Even if you don't end up packing it as a lunch, it's a great resource for simple Japanese meals.
Easy Japanese Cooking: Bento Love by Kentaro Kobayashi
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Barefoot Gen, a shocking manga about the atomic bomb
On my nightstand right now: Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima. It's a manga that is famous in Japan for being heart-wrenchingly sad and true. In it, author Keiji Nakazawa tells the story of Gen, a boy who survived the atomic bomb. I am still only halfway through the first volume, and the bomb has not dropped yet, but it's about to. Even the author's foreword is a total tear-jerker &mdash he tells the story of how he survived the bomb with his mom, who was pregnant and had to watch her husband and other child burn to death because she didn't have the strength to remove the debris that was burying them.
Barefoot Gen was actually one of the first manga to ever be published in English &mdash a group of volunteers who called themselves Project Gen took it upon themselves to translate several volumes (there are ten total) in the 70s. Currently, there are eight volumes available in English through Last Gasp. I am looking forward to reading all of them because this is one of those manga that I never read as a kid, but have always wanted to.
Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
Urawaza at my neighborhood travel store
I was at the lovely Get Lost travel bookstore on Market Street in San Francisco just now looking at travel books, and was pleasantly surprised by Urawaza being displayed right by the cash register. By the way, if you've been reading this blog for awhile and you still don't own the book, you should maybe get a copy. It's a great time suck if you need an easy read on a beach vacation.
Urawaza, my Japanese tips and tricks book, on Amazon


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Juventus boss Claudio Ranieri is excited ahead of their big match against AC Milan. "When there are all these great players available, the show is assured," said Ranieri. "Ronaldinho, Del Piero, people who can give you something unique and unrepeatable. I am lucky because I'll be sitting on the bench in the first row and I do not have to pay for my ticket!"
He added: "It's a big game between two teams that have given prestige to Italian football around the world. It means so much, but is not yet decisive. I am convinced that both teams will have a chance to challenge for the Scudetto this season."

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Faith and Grief and Jesus
What is the inspiration that compels the contemporary 'followers of Jesus?' My simple mind can only assume that if a person acts on love, forgiveness, and kindness – then I can assume that person is a follower of the Jesus that I understand is described in that one Book. (Note here – I do not claim Christianity as my source of faith.) You mentioned institutional intervention – do religious institutions qualify?
Let's talk about a grieving mother who's son was paralyzed. Let us just assume that there is a God who choses to participate actively in the lives of believers. Let us assume that God can heal any hurt. My notion as a chaplain was to give her some space. As I noted – she was in tremendous grief – she suffered the loss of all of her former hopes and dreams for her son. Grief is a complex dynamic, ushering in denial, sadness, anger, blaming and finally acceptance. The mother's first response in the grief process was of denial, followed immediately by anger at modern medicine, blaming incompetent doctors and overwhelming sadness. Gotta give her some time to process. But the question remains – Was her logic flawed? I gave her about a week to process, then I broached the subject of God's will versus our own will. The discussion was long and sad. The sum of it was that it was the mother's will that her son be healed – and she demanded of God that very healing. She even implied a conditional response – heal my son or I will stop having faith in You! We cannot know the will of God. Why do bad things happen to good people? If we assume the truth of an interactive God, then we must assume that his will takes precedence over our own.
This is deep stuff. I am not a person with a great mind. Others have gone before us, Plato, Locke, Kant, DesCarte – each of these great men have studied the idea of faith and the divine. This is the stuff of faith because the truth is not knowable.


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Discussion in 'Tennessee Titans and NFL Talk' started by TitanJeff, Dec 26, 2013.
I'm just glad Schaub's career ended with a game losing INT.
So this is what the gutter looks like. Been a while since we've been here. I like what the titans did to the place. New curtains. Plush carpet. Very nice.
2013 What a disaster. Holy smokes. 2014 can't come fast enough. Oh well. New coach, Clowney and Watt coming off the ends. 2014 looks bright in this POS division. Only 1 way to go which is up after 2-14.
Good luck with Munch next year!
No.. you could stay crappy. Just like the Titans have stayed "not good enough" for the past decade or so.
Sorry that your team's ceiling was only reached for such a short time, with even less to show for it than our short run in the early 2000s.
At least as Titans fans, we have grown accustomed to expecting suckage since 2003. Unless you get something really great in the next few years.. may want to join the club. The good seasons look even better that way.
Where ya been bobs on penis?
Draft Derek Carr #1... and see if he can break his brother's sack record.
Right here ET. 2014 another year of Munch, Locker, and Fitsmagic. Lol. Mediocrity at its finest.
your franchise can't even make it to our level, shut up
What level is that? Mediocrity? The only good thing that happened to the titans this year was old man Bud passed. Maybe now your franchise will be run by somebody half competent. Lol
last time I checked 7>2


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My Hearing Bird
I have a beautiful cockatiel who is 9 yrs old. I brought her as a birthday gift for my daughter when the bird was just a mere baby. At first when we got Roger, we were told it was a male bird but about 3 years later Roger laid eggs about 3 times we found that Roger was a female but we never changed her name.
Roger is very special to me because I'm deaf in one ear and partial in the other. Whenever my telephone rings she chirps loud until we answer the telephone. If my doorbell rings or if someone in hall near my door she will rattle her cage and chirps very loud until we let the person in. Whenever we go out and/or come home from work we have to go over to talk to her for a few minutes otherwise she will not acknowledge you later on. When guests comes to visit and she recognize the voice she will continue to chrip until you come over to say hello if not her she gets very upset and turns her back on you to let you know that she's a family member too sometimes, Roger thinks she human.
She also loves popcorn and potato chips and any other type of junk foods including fresh fruits. She enjoys sitting in her cage looking out the window communcating with the other birds that are outside. Many people stop and listen to the happy chirping and comment "Just Listen to that beautiful bird". Another thing my bird loves to do is listen to music from the radio and watch television she is very fond of music video and when a certain tune comes on that she likes she'll chirp along with it. When its time for bed she wants her cage completely covered and all lights off if the lights are not turned off she will scream on the top of her bird lungs to let you know that the lights bother her. She's indeed a very special bird to us.
We have a new addition to our family my daughter had a baby boy back in Feburary 2010. Whenever the baby cries, Roger perks up and chrips softly which seem to calm the baby down and he stops crying. Its like Roger has motherly love towards babies and young children she never cease to amaze me with her daily antic especially when I'm down or depress she know just how to make you feel loved.


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March 31/vs. Montreal/1:05 p.m./Turner South & ESPN2
April 2/vs. Montreal/7:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
April 3/vs. Montreal/7:35 p.m./Turner South
April 4/vs. Florida/7:35 p.m./TBS
April 5/vs. Florida/7:05 p.m./TBS
April 6/vs. Florida/1:05 p.m./TBS
April 7/vs. Florida/1:05 p.m./TBS
April 8/at Philadelphia/7:05 p.m./Turner South
April 9/at Philadelphia/7:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
April 10/at Philadelphia/3:05 p.m./Turner South
April 11/at Florida/7:35 p.m./TBS
April 12/at Florida/6:05 p.m./TBS
April 13/at Florida/1:35 p.m./TBS
April 15/vs. Montreal*/6:05 p.m./Turner South
April 16/vs. Montreal*/6:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
April 17/vs. Montreal*/3:35 p.m./Turner South
April 18/vs. Philadelphia/7:35 p.m./TBS
April 19/vs. Philadelphia/7:05 p.m./TBS
April 20/vs. Philadelphia/1:05 p.m./TBS
April 22/vs. St. Louis/7:35 p.m./TBS
April 23/vs. St. Louis/7:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
April 24/vs. St. Louis/7:35 p.m./TBS
April 25/vs. Milwaukee/7:35 p.m./TBS
April 26/vs. Milwaukee/7:05 p.m./TBS
April 27/vs. Milwaukee/1:05 p.m./TBS
April 29/at Houston/8:05 p.m./TBS
April 30/at Houston/8:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
May 1/at Houston/8:05 p.m./TBS
May 2/at Arizona/10:05 p.m./TBS
May 3/at Arizona/10:05 p.m./TBS
May 4/at Arizona/4:35 p.m./Turner South
May 6/vs. Colorado/7:35 p.m./TBS
May 7/vs. Colorado/7:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
May 8/vs. Colorado/7:35 p.m./TBS
May 9/vs. San Francisco/7:35 p.m./TBS
May 10/vs. San Francisco/7:05 p.m./TBS
May 11/vs. San Francisco/1:05 p.m./TBS
May 12/at Los Angeles/10:10 p.m./TBS
May 13/at Los Angeles/10:10 p.m./TBS
May 14/at Los Angeles/10:10 p.m./Fox Sports Net
May 15/at San Diego/5:05 p.m./Turner South
May 16/at San Diego/10:05 p.m./TBS
May 17/at San Diego/10:05 p.m./TBS
May 18/at San Diego/5 p.m./Turner South
May 20/at Cincinnati/7:10 p.m./Turner South
May 21/at Cincinnati/7:10 p.m./Fox Sports Net
May 22/at Cincinnati/7:10 p.m./Turner South
May 23/vs. N.Y. Mets/7:35 p.m./TBS
May 24/vs. N.Y. Mets/1:15 p.m./Fox-Ch. 54
May 25/vs. N.Y. Mets/1:05 p.m./TBS
May 26/vs. Cincinnati/1:05 p.m./TBS
May 27/vs. Cincinnati/7:35 p.m./TBS
May 28/vs. Cincinnati/7:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
May 30/at N.Y. Mets/7:10 p.m./TBS
May 31/at N.Y. Mets/1:20 p.m./Fox-Ch. 54
June 1/at N.Y. Mets/8:05 p.m./ESPN
June 3/vs. Texas/7:35 p.m./TBS
June 4/vs. Texas/7:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
June 5/vs. Texas/1:05 p.m./TBS
June 6/vs. Pittsburgh/7:35 p.m./TBS
June 7/vs. Pittsburgh/7:05 p.m./TBS
June 8/vs. Pittsburgh/1:05 p.m./TBS
June 10/at Oakland/10:05 p.m./TBS
June 11/at Oakland/10:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
June 12/at Oakland/3:35 p.m./Turner South
June 14/at Seattle/10:05 p.m./TBS
June 15/at Seattle/3:15 p.m./Fox-Ch. 54
June 16/at Seattle/8:05 p.m./ESPN
June 17/at Philadelphia/7:05 p.m./Turner South
June 18/at Philadelphia/7:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
June 19/at Philadelphia/1:05 p.m./TBS
June 20/vs. Baltimore/7:35 p.m./TBS
June 21/vs. Baltimore/7:05 p.m./TBS
June 22/vs. Baltimore/1:05 p.m./TBS
June 24/vs. Philadelphia/7:35 p.m./TBS
June 25/vs. Philadelphia/7:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
June 26/vs. Philadelphia/7:35 p.m./TBS
June 27/at Tampa Bay/7:15 p.m./Turner South
June 28/at Tampa Bay/6:15 p.m./Turner South
June 29/at Tampa Bay/1:15 p.m./TBS
June 30/at Florida/7:05 p.m./Turner South
July 1/at Florida/7:05 p.m./Turner South
July 2/at Florida/6:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
July 3/vs. Montreal/7:35 p.m./Turner South
July 4/vs. Montreal/7:05 p.m./Turner South
July 5/vs. Montreal/7:05 p.m./TBS
July 6/vs. Montreal/1:05 p.m./TBS
July 7/at N.Y. Mets/7:10 p.m./TBS
July 8/at N.Y. Mets/7:10 p.m./TBS
July 9/at N.Y. Mets/12:10 p.m./Fox Sports Net
July 10/at Chicago/2:20 p.m./Turner South
July 11/at Chicago/3:20 p.m./Turner South
July 12/at Chicago/1:15 p.m./Fox-Ch. 54
July 13/at Chicago/2:20 p.m./TBS
July 15/All-Star Game at Chicago (AL)/TBD
July 17/vs. N.Y. Mets/7:35 p.m./TBS
July 18/vs. N.Y. Mets/7:35 p.m./TBS
July 19/vs. N.Y. Mets/1:15 p.m./Fox-Ch. 54
July 20/vs. N.Y. Mets/1:05 p.m./TBS
July 21/vs. Chicago/7:35 p.m./TBS
July 22/vs. Chicago/7:35 p.m./TBS
July 23/vs. Florida/7:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
July 24/vs. Florida/1:05 p.m./TBS
July 25/at Montreal/7:05 p.m./Turner South
July 26/at Montreal/7:05 p.m./TBS
July 27/at Montreal/1:05 p.m./TBS
July 28/at Montreal/7:05 p.m./Turner South
July 29/vs. Houston/7:35 p.m./TBS
July 30/vs. Houston/7:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
July 31/vs. Houston/7:35 p.m./TBS
Aug. 1/vs. Los Angeles/7:35 p.m./TBS
Aug. 2/vs. Los Angeles/4:05 p.m./Fox-Ch. 54
Aug. 3/vs. Los Angeles/1:05 p.m./TBS
Aug. 5/at Milwaukee/8:05 p.m./TBS
Aug. 6/at Milwaukee/8:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
Aug. 7/at Milwaukee/2:05 p.m./Turner South
Aug. 8/at St. Louis/8:10 p.m./TBS
Aug. 9/at St. Louis/1:20 p.m./Fox-Ch. 54
Aug. 10/at St. Louis/2:10 p.m./Turner South
Aug. 12/vs. San Diego/7:35 p.m./TBS
Aug. 13/vs. San Diego/7:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
Aug. 14/vs. San Diego/7:35 p.m./TBS
Aug. 15/vs. Arizona/7:35 p.m./TBS
Aug. 16/vs. Arizona/7:05 p.m./TBS
Aug. 17/vs. Arizona/1:05 p.m./TBS
Aug. 18/vs. Arizona/1:05 p.m./TBS
Aug. 19/at San Francisco/10:10 p.m./TBS
Aug. 20/at San Francisco/10:10 p.m./Fox Sports Net
Aug. 21/at San Francisco/10:10 p.m./TBS
Aug. 22/at Colorado/9:05 p.m./TBS
Aug. 23/at Colorado/8:05 p.m./TBS
Aug. 24/at Colorado/3:05 p.m./TBS
Aug. 26/N.Y. Mets/7:35 p.m./TBS
Aug. 27/N.Y. Mets/7:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
Aug. 28/N.Y. Mets/7:35 p.m./TBS
Aug. 29/at Pittsburgh/7:05 p.m./Turner South
Aug. 30/at Pittsburgh/1:20 p.m./Fox-Ch. 54
Aug. 31/at Pittsburgh/1:35 p.m./TBS
Sept. 1/at N.Y. Mets/1:10 p.m./TBS
Sept. 2/at N.Y. Mets/7:10 p.m./TBS
Sept. 3/at N.Y. Mets/1:10 p.m./Fox Sports Net
Sept. 5/vs. Pittsburgh/7:35 p.m./TBS
Sept. 6/vs. Pittsburgh/7:05 p.m./Turner South
Sept. 7/vs. Pittsburgh/1:05 p.m./TBS
Sept. 8/vs. Philadelphia/7:35 p.m./TBS
Sept. 9/vs. Philadelphia/7:35 p.m./TBS
Sept. 10/vs. Philadelphia/7:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
Sept. 11/vs. Philadelphia/7:35 p.m./TBS
Sept. 12/at Florida/7:35 p.m./TBS
Sept. 13/at Florida/6:05 p.m./Turner South
Sept. 14/at Florida/1:35 p.m./TBS
Sept. 15/at Montreal/7:05 p.m./Turner South
Sept. 16/at Montreal/7:05 p.m./Turner South
Sept. 17/at Montreal/5:05 p.m./Fox Sports Net
Sept. 19/vs. Florida/7:35 p.m./Turner South
Sept. 20/vs. Florida/7:05 p.m./Turner South
Sept. 21/vs. Florida/1:05 p.m./TBS
Sept. 22/vs. Florida/7:35 p.m./Turner South
Sept. 23/vs. Montreal/7:35 p.m./Turner South
Sept. 24/vs. Montreal/7:05 p.m./TBS
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Are You Righteous? (NKJV)
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See how you measure up against
God's standard of righteousness:
1. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make for yourself
a carved image.
3. You shall not take the Name of the LORD your God in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day,
to keep it holy.
5. Honor your father and your mother.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness.
10. You shall not covet.
Have you broken God's laws?
Then God says you are a liar, adulterer, fornicator, thief, etc., at heart!
"But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death" (Revelation 21:8).
"You [God] hate all workers of iniquity" (Psalm 5:5).
"Unless you repent you will all likewise perish" (Luke 13:3).
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...after over 27 years of service in federal law enforcement. I became eligible to retire back in October, and up until then, I had sort of thought I would pull the plug right away. The job is, in my opinion, not what it once was; and yes I know nothing is what it was once, but that does not make it any easier to leave the job and head out to pasture.
For some reason, I keep thinking I'll wait a bit longer. The main excuse, I give to myself and to others, for waiting is that if I go out now there will not be quite enough to have me and my family financially settled. I have thought about that a lot lately, and I did some checking and came up with a figure and date that would make me happy (at least right now I think it would make me happy when it arrives) regarding my pension. To attain the figure I have in mind for my annual pension (no I am not telling you how much that will be as it is a private thing, too private right now for here) I would have to work until January 2009. That does not seem all that far off, only 2 years and 2 1/2 months. It ought to be something I could do standing on my head while spinning like a top - don't you think! Yet just as it has been getting harder and harder to go into work each day, I find it harder and harder to even think of retirement, and I am not sure why but I do have some ideas. The following is all my opinion about why I have not yet retired, and about why I am finding it hard to do so, even though I think the jobs sucks.
My job(s) used to be a fairly good one. I started off my career in federal service in the U.S. Border Patrol, as a Border Patrol Agent. I spent just over 4 years of my life dedicated to keeping the USA safe from those whose first on our soil act would be an illegal one. After those 4 years and quite a few on the job adventures including quite a few on the job injuries, quite a few off the job adventures that included at least a few senoritas and trips to places far from Calexico, California where I had been stationed - I figured it was long overdue for me to return to New York City.
I went back to NYC when I got a transfer from the Border Patrol into the U.S. Customs Service as a Customs Patrol Officer. I did that for a few years, then became a criminal investigator, and later a Special Agent (actually the same job just at higher pay than the crim. invest. in Customs).
All of the jobs had their share of boring lousy assignments, but all of them had more than a fair share of adventure - at least for me. Over the years I was one who never having been in the military service, and therefore never having learned the golden rule of the military, to volunteer for assignments. Because of that I wound up in a financial investigations group, then got transferred to a narcotics smuggling group, then to a general investigations group, and back into narcotics, then back to another financial group. These were usually the busier groups and the ones I was a part of were busy indeed. I have plenty of stories - all no brag, just fact - to tell to my grandkids someday about what I and other group members accomplished. I had some great supervisors, and great coworkers too and they will be included in my recounting of the good old days. I also have a lot of stories they maybe will not hear about some of the jerks I worked with and some of the even less intelligent and inept bosses under who I served - there was more than a fair share of them for sure. Some people should never have gotten into law enforcement, and I often wonder why they did; but I digress.
I went on, fairly happy in my work (though I could bitch and moan about anything, and let the bosses know when I thought they were wrong - often paying the price for it by missing a promotion), and I did more than my fair share of it over the years. An agent I know commented to me about a year ago that he was unaware of any other agent in our office having had as many cases as I had over my service in U.S. Customs. Maybe he was right, maybe not, and while I know I never had any earth shattering cases - I know I did my work and did it well, and many of my cases wound up with arrests, seizures, and convictions. Then things got kind of messy for me when a big boss wrongfully believed I had written some anonymous poison pen letters to Internal Affairs, The Office of the Inspector general, and the Secretary of the Treasury. I personally disliked that boss almost with a hateful passion, if only because I believed he was the biggest wrongfully vindictive asshole I had ever met, but I had never dimmed him out by writing anonymous letters. That was not my style. So I wound up transferred to a do nothing position. Not long after that, when the matter in those letters came under investigation, and the boss was about to go before a governmental hearing on charges another agent had filed against him and the Customs Service, said boss asked me if I wanted to go back to work for him, and he had a maniacal smile on his face when he asked. I declined. Instead, I testified at that hearing. I testified against him and against the Assistant Commissioner for Enforcement of the USCS (yes the 2nd in charge nationwide). My testimony, supported by that of others, and by hard cold evidence showed at least one of them to have perjured himself, as I now understand.
Customs did not reward me. I was transferred back to my old post. Not long after, I reported some wrong doing by an NY Police Department Officer who I had seen beat a prisoner. Very soon after that I was transferred to our office in Manhattan from JFK International Airport. I was then assigned totally administrative duties, to include collateral duties as a firearms instructor. I could live with those duties, and did so for a while.
Then came something that changed my career drastically, hell it changed all of our lives drastically. Yes I mean 9/11/2001. That date, bar the end of the world, was coming no matter what, it is too bad it came on as it did for all many reasons and for all too many people. My personal reasons are not that important in the overall scope of the events and aftereffects of that day, but I will tell you about some of them here, because they fit right in with the scheme of this rant. I was not in my office on 9/11; I was somewhere in CT, heck I cannot recall the name of the town or the department I was visiting, where my cousin and I were taking a Glock Armorers course. A police officer came into the room and told us an aircraft had hit one of the towers of the WTC. He said he would bring in a television during our break so we could all see the news as it unfolded. Not long after, and before our scheduled break, the officer came in again and told us of a second plane hitting the other large tower. A few minutes later and we were all watching on a TV in the classroom. John, that is my cousin, and I left and headed back to NYC. We must have shaved at least 45 minutes off our earlier drive time to CT on our return trip to NYC. The roads were empty, that is except for emergency vehicles like ambulances on the shoulders of the road, hundreds of them all lined up, and I flew. When we got back to the city we headed to Kennedy Airport office of Customs Office of Investigations. One of those asshole supervisors I told you about above asked me what we were doing there. Heck, I had the smarts to call our sector communications to see what needed to be done, and they told us, ordered us, to go to JFK. By the end of a long day, we had accounted for all of our NYC personnel.
With that day, the changes had begun. For about two weeks I helped carry out the resupply of our office, more admin duties but important ones. During the first week after 9/11, I went down to the WTC rubble piles and helped out on two shifts, the first on a bucket brigade as firemen dug for survivors/bodies, and I helped throw the rubble they dug onto a pile to keep it out of the way. The next shift I spent retrieving evidence from a customs vault wherein the wall had been breeched. It was scary stuff. Then I received word that no one from Customs was to go to the WTC unless specifically selected to work there, and that included a bar on anyone volunteering to help out. Well during the 2nd week after 9/11, while I was still doing admin duties, a call for volunteers came around, they were asking for agents to volunteer as temporary Federal Air Marshals. Out of hundreds of agents in the NYC, JFK, and Long Island Offices of Investigations for the U.S. Customs Service, there were two volunteers and one of them was talked out of doing it by her supervisor. Guess who that left.
I flew as an air marshal for about 5 months. It was not easy, especially for the first three weeks when I just about started to cry each time the plane started to roll down the runway. As silly as it may sound, I was literally so scared I almost peed myself a few times thinking that whatever flight I was on would be the next. For those of you who think that even stupider than silly, and who think it would not possibly be able to happen again, allow me to remind you that we were aware of intelligence that the public has not yet heard about; and then there was the shoe bomber attempt later on. The possibility of getting on that plane and never again seeing my family was all too real for me, so yes I was terrified. The possibility that some piece of turd Islamic extremist was going to get away with it again was also too real for me, and with the help of a dear friend who urged me on because he knew I was doing the right thing, I was able to go to work each day and fly on several flights on most of those days, to try to prevent even one more single American's life from being lost. It was the absolute scariest thing I have ever done over any period of time lasting more than a few seconds, maybe minutes, or maybe even hours at most. All the other scary things had come and gone in flashes; this one lasted 5 months of nerve wracking red alert levels for every minute I was flying. I lived through it unscathed, at least physically. Not even a thank you from the FAA or the TSA for that one, but then again, I was not in it for thank yous. Besides that, I sure got enough of em anyhow from flight attendants and flight crews, and from the savvy passengers who figured out I was the FAM in their game of 'Pick Out The Air Marshal' - a game that took place on each and every flight on which I flew as a FAM.
Another thing that happened after 9/11, was the dissolution of the United States Customs Service, the oldest law enforcement agency in the USA. It was done without fanfare, it simply disappeared after hundreds of years of service. You would think the U.S. Government would have had some pop and ceremony, but maybe the president and other officials were a bit ashamed of what it was they were about to do to us. They combined us with the by then defunct Immigration and naturalization Service, and put us under the new Department of Homeland Security. What a farce indeed, take it from me. Since the I&NS was primarily found responsible for allowing all of the terrorists, who attacked us on 9/11, into the USA in the first place, the I&NS was actually done away with, as I understand, by an act of Congress. I don't believe any mention was made of the Customs Service in that act of Congress. We were in effect being punished because of another's inadequacies. The Customs Service was split, as was the I&NS, into two basic parts: Investigations, and regulatory branches, although the I&NS also had the Border Patrol for patrol functions. Under DHS, new agencies were formed to perform the old duties. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) basically took all of the Customs Inspectors, Immigration Inspectors, and Border Patrol under its command. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took the investigative branches of those two other services, and of a few other agencies such as the Federal Protective service, and FAMs (for a short while anyhow as far as the FAMs went).
We, all Americans, heck all of the world, were told told by the administration (which I faithfully still serve but can disagree with) that the DHS with CBP and ICE was the primary department to deter terrorism, to combat terrorism, to investigate terrorism. Then our first secretary, that ex- governor who should have stayed in Pennsylvania as a town clerk, handed over all investigative authority related to terrorism to the FBI. As it turned out the now defunct Office of Investigations of the now defunct U.S. Customs Service, one of the best investigative branches of U.S. law enforcement, the one with the largest ever money laundering investigation against terrorists, and countless other high quality investigations, was now basically turned into an arm of the now defunct Immigration Service. Yes, once we were combined with I&NS investigators under ICE, it seems most of our duties have been geared toward finding illegal aliens and not toward: Money Laundering Investigations, not toward Strategic Arms Smuggling Investigations, not toward Narcotics Smuggling Investigations, not toward Fraud and Smuggling of contraband across the U.S. Borders, not toward almost anything we had dome before. Yet we keep all those investigations, but it has become apparent to even the door knobs in my office, that our main duties are those of less importance than those of a dog catcher. Don't get me wrong, I want to see all the illegals out of our country, but not at the expense of a terrorist being able to finance his operations because of his money laundering activities that we no longer look into.
So right now, after about 3 1/2 years of being part of ICE under DHS, I can say without a doubt the job sucks big-time. Those who have retired just before and even since all say how lucky they are to be out. Those still here gnash their teeth in despair, I kid you not, it sucks that bad.
The job sucks, and that comes from just about everyone on it, from both the Immigration and the Customs sides of it. Of course all the I&NS folks that came to ICE as agents got promotions out of this, so it may not be quite as bad for them, but I think they are just as demoralized by it all as are the ex-customs people. I guess I, as had many others, always wanted to do something important for our country. No that is not a joke. I always had a great amount of pride in my work and in the work of others in my agency who did good work. We made a difference, I believe we made the USA a safer place for all to live and enjoy their lives. Now I believe we are little more than an agency being set up beforehand as the scapegoats for the next 9/11 type of attacks; I believe it and so do many other ICE agents. Record numbers apparently are trying to bail out to other agencies, or retiring almost as soon as they can retire.
If it happens again, no that should be when it happens again, because it most surely will happen again that the mainland USA is attacked by terrorists, the U.S. government will need a scapegoat to deflect blame. They have it in the DHS, and in the agencies under DHS like ICE. Is it a disgrace for me to believe this? Maybe it is, but not because of my belief, but rather because ICE and DHS are set up to make me and others who serve believe just that. , and many other federal agents (not those just from ICE) are in utter disbelief that the government formed DHS as it did by destroying other effective agencies to combine them in a mega department with no to little direction. Sure you hear it on TV news and read it in the papers about how Chertoff brags we are the best, how the president tells you we are the frontline against terrorism, how we will prevent the next attacks. The truth is, I believe, we are given almost no authority to investigate anything related to terrorism. Lots of talk, more bragging, about what we will do when the time comes, and almost no authority or leadership that will actually get us to the point where we do it. ICE is, in my opinion, a straw man agency, little more. There is a better way to do this all, it is a crying shame it is not being done even though many suggestions have been made.
By now maybe you have forgotten why we are here - but I have not, and hopefully you are starting to see it again. Why is it that I have ambivalent feelings about retirement when my job, the job of any ICE agent for that matter, has turned into one of the lousiest jokes in law enforcement! I want to go, heck I counted down my days until my first eligible retirement date for 6 years because of those problems I had with the one boss I mentioned above. Yet I still strove to do my best at my job. I kept on volunteering for temporary things like flying as a FAM, for Secret Service assignments, for assignments to near the southern border to investigate illegal aliens, and even for a temporary assignment to the FBI's JTTF (which wound up being a sham to get me into an immigration group that had virtually nothing to do with real JTTF work). Heck volunteering for that phony JTTF assignment had me do work in an Immigration group for over 3 years, and the only arrests I made in three years were all administrative, all BS as relative to anything that would matter. Then I got placed into yet another BS groups, my current assignment, that even my Assistant Special Agent in Charge admits to me is pure window dressing.
Yet now, now that I am eligible to retire, I keep looking for excuses not to go too soon - why is that? Sure I may want to wait a little while to get more money into my pension, heck I am still paying off my mortgage, my daughter's college bills, and I'll have to pay for my son's college too. But I don't know if that is the half of it. So, I have to wonder am I insane, or is it because I have a need to do something that I have not yet done that needs doing. Heck, maybe if that is what I am thinking, then I am nuts. No - I do not want to play the avenging 9/11 hero, but yes I should would like to get some type of really important work done again before I retire, instead of being relegated to the rubber gun squad of near to retirement dinosaur agents. I think I owe it to my country to retire after having given all that I could within reason job-wise, and the current job is just so much balderdash as to make me want to puke. I guess I just keep wishing to get back into something that has some merit to it, real honest to goodness merit, instead of retiring as a do nothing from a do little to nothing agency. Something tells me that ain't gonna happen, and I will just have to accept that what I have accomplished in my career is all that I will accomplish in it. If so, then so be it, it is just a hard fact to accept when I know it could have been better than that.
If I do accept it, I may retire a lot sooner than my wife thinks, heck I could get a job flipping burgers at Mickey D's and it might be more important that what I do now. How sad, let me tell you, after 27 years plus of service to m7y country, how sad, especially considering the work that needs to be done; and not just by me but by all ICE agents.


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You Owe Me Grace (and I owe you an update)
It's been ages since I blogged, but I was scheduled to post on A Life Overseas today and it was a good reminder to update you "at home" here. So before I tell you what's over on A Life Overseas, here's what I've been up to in the last month. In no particular order … Watching Playschool, eating mandarins, and feeding chickens. My parents have been wonderful at helping care for Dominic, but I've still had plenty of time with the little man. We've discovered the kids show Playschool and also spent lots of time roaming around outside. We play in the sandpit, water the flowers,...Read More
Holidays in Noosa
Hello from the sunshine coast! I figured that after all the stress of being born Dominic deserved a holiday, so I packed him up and we've spent the last four nights at Noosa (also, the fact that some of my closest friends had planned to get-together for five nights up here may have been additional motivation). I was a little nervous about taking him away by myself at four weeks old, but it's turned out to be a great decision to come crash this party. Three of my friends up here also have babies younger than nine months old so there have been many willing hands to cuddle little D, and lots...Read More
Dear Dad, Love Dominic
Dear Dad, Happy first Father's Day! It's too bad that you're in Laos and I'm in Australia on this day, but when we were up together this morning at 3am Mum told me you had to go back to Laos in September to work because there are lots of mothers there who don't get enough to eat and have trouble producing enough milk to feed their babies. She sounded really sad when she said it – like she might cry. I think she often thinks of sad things when she's feeding me alone in the dark. Why is that? Anyway, I miss you. I mean, Mum is great – all soft and squishy and she just smells so...Read More
ANZAC Day and a mystery of rememberance at Gallipoli
It's ANZAC Day today – the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps Day of Remembrance – and it's making me think of Turkey, and Gallipoli, and a scene I witnessed more than three years ago now. In 2007 I spent four glorious weeks traveling around Turkey in the company of some of my dearest friends. Among other adventures we sailed the Adriatic, slept in caves, marveled (and laughed) at the phallic rock formations of Cappadocia, ate Turkish delight in Istanbul, and toured Gallipoli. I knew very little about Gallipoli before visiting Turkey. I knew it held an important place in Australian...Read More
Two years ago today
Two years ago today Mike and I put on fancy clothes and stood up in front of many people that we love and made a whole bunch of very serious promises about, essentially, loving one another. It was a wonderful, glorious, happy-filled, day that still makes me smile when I think of it. To be honest though, it wasn't all bubbles and champagne that day. I threw my back out the morning of the wedding, forgot to put together a reception run-sheet for our long-suffering MC's, Emma and Asha, until four hours before the ceremony, and felt more serious and stressed out than giddy and love-struck...Read More
A mishmash of chocolate, cashew, and pineapple
I've quit cloudy Ballina for cloudy Melbourne for a little while. I know people all over the country are hating the almost constant grey and frequent rain here at the moment – it's ruining many a crop and a holiday. But I must say I will take cloudy and rainy over bright and sunny most of the time now, my foot is just so much happier when the temperature stays under eighty degrees. I really don't think the happiness of my right foot trumps entire wheat crops and thousands of beach vacations, but me being miserable about the rain alongside everyone else isn't...Read More
I intend to update my website weekly, I really do. But things just get in the way. Like Mike coming back from Indonesia and the joys of reunion (and the trials of vicarious jet lag when we're relearning how to share a bed again and not sleeping at all well!). Then, Thanksgiving. Then moving offices at work the day before we left for Australia. Then packing. Then heading to the airport pretty much straight from work. Then five days in Sydney that included a good friend's wedding, an all day bruch, a lovely (hah) 4 hour interlude at the US consulate so I could get a new visa, and a hot and...Read More


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Motorists are facing long delays across Watford after a lorry and van crashed on the M1 this morning.
Police, firefighters and paramedics were called to the southbound carriageway of the M1, near junction 5, at 5.55am.
The southbound road had to be shut between junction 4 and junction 6a at 6.10am.
Part of the northbound carriageway also had to be closed as a precaution while the emergency services established if there was a need for an air ambulance.
Both vehicles had to be recovered and all lanes had reopened by 7.30am.
Traffic has eased slightly but motorists are still being affected by the delays across Waford.


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Dual Group 1 winner Boban has been well backed in 2014 Expressway Stakes betting markets and is a clear favourite to record his sixth straight victory in the Group 2 event at Royal Randwick on Saturday.
Boban opened at odds of $3 in the Expressway Stakes, but that price was quickly snapped up and the son of Bernardini is now available at a quote of $2.70 and has been one of the biggest market movers on the Royal Randwick card.
The four-year-old has only recorded one first-up victory, but has been a new horse since joining the stable of Chris Waller and the leading trainer is confident that he can start his autumn preparation with a win this weekend.
Rain Affair ($4.40) failed to fire during his 2013 Spring Racing Carnival campaign, apart from a five and a half lengths romp first-up in the Group 3 Missile Stakes (1200m), but has been well supported to score his second win in the Expressway Stakes after defeating Centennial Park and Shoot Out to win the 2012 edition of the race.
Trainer Joseph Pride expects Rain Affair to improve as he gets further into his autumn preparation, but the speedy sprinter generally performs well fresh and could prove difficult to catch this weekend.
Speediness was narrowly denied a maiden Group 1 victory by Boban in the Emirates Stakes (1600m) last year and punters currently rate the six-year-old a chance of turning the tables on Boban at Randwick this weekend.
The son of Testa Rossa has been a slight drifter in 2014 Expressway Stakes betting markets (out to $6.50 after opening at $5.50), but according to trainer Colin Scott is ready to run a big race first-up.
There has also been a sprinkling of support for talented mare Appearance, who is now into 2014 Expressway Stakes odds of $9.50 after opening at $11.
The 2013 Spring Racing Carnival campaign of Appearance was plagued by injuries that restricted her to only two starts, but trainer Guy Walter believes that the daughter of Commands is back to the form that saw her win the Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m) and Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1500m) during the 2013 Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.
Darley gelding Pinwheel ($10), talented sprinter Howmuchdoyouloveme ($11), new Waller acquisition Sizzling ($13) and Her Majesty The Queen Of England-owned Carlton House ($14) have also received some support from punters in 2014 Expressway Stakes betting markets.
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A community group which uses Facebook to flog people's unwanted goods has now raised almost £20,000 for charity.
Facebay Fundraising was set up two and a half years ago by Paisley woman Irene McDonald and her friends and has since supported a range of worthy causes, such as MND Scotland and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill.
Unwanted goods sold by the Facebay Fundraising team through the social networking site include good-quality furniture, toys, DVDs, ornaments, clothes and CDs.
All cash made is given to good causes and only items that other people can genuinely use are accepted.
The latest big donations from Facebay Fundraising saw almost £1,500 being presented to Alzheimer Scotland and £1,000 handed over to Macmillan Cancer Support.
Irene said: "In total, we have now raised £19,000 and there are more than 2,000 people in the Facebook group.
"It is doing really well and we have held various fundraising events, as well as selling goods.
"We want to thank the people who use the group and would also like to say a big thanks to the Storage Vault, which have been very supportive in storing items for us."
The Facebay Fundraising team includes Irene's husband Ian and friends Genevieve Watt, Carly McMenemy, Teresa Martin, Laura Greig and Jackie Cairns, who have given up their own free time to make sure it is a success.
Carly said: "It is a great way for people to grab themselves a bargain.
"People donate a lot of stuff that is so new, it still has the tags on it."
● To find out more, contact the team, donate goods or make a purchase, visit www.facebook.com/groups/FacebayFundraising.
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From Peak Oil to An Excess of Energy: The State of Global Energy
Everyone knows that oil production is declining. That it's only a matter of time before Peak Oil forces us to find new forms of energy or battle over soil like Kevin Costner in "Waterworld."
As usual, everyone is wrong.
Data recently released by the Energy Intelligence Group shows that production of global crude has now outpaced the demand. Take a look…
While it's never wise to get too excited about a single data point, this chart isn't just a blip on the radar. It reflects serious shifts in the supply and demand fundamentals that have changed energy markets over the last few years.
Energy markets may have more moving parts than any other market out there. It's a wide-ranging mosaic, but when you put all the pieces together, the picture is clear: nearly every measure points to supply outpacing demand for years to come.
Understanding Peak Oil, Supply and Demand
This article is the first in a series of articles devoted to examining recent developments that have rocked the ever-changing energy markets and brought the Peak Oil concept into question.
The Peak Oil bogeyman was first raised by M. King Hubbert in 1956. Hubbert developed a logistic model (which resembles a bell curve) that successfully predicted that U.S. oil production would peak in 1970.
Hubbert's model gained traction and has accurately predicted the peak levels of production in other countries since then.
But, as in any model, when time scales get long enough the prediction power breaks down as new information becomes a part of the equation.
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Hubbert's curve is based on properties of the natural world, which are based on geology. In that sense, it works. But let's look at a past example to see where it may break down…
Hubbert's model would have accurately predicted Peak Whale Oil. But the model wouldn't have been able to account for technology shocks. Once the unforeseeable means for using petroleum entered the energy economy, the path for whale oil was forever altered.
Just as they did then, new developments have rendered Hubbert's curve ineffective, or at least delayed it by decades.
Many energy optimists think that technology will bring new sources of energy through solar, wind, or biofuels. Some day they may. For now, the real advances remain in the petroleum industry. Huge discoveries and advanced extraction techniques have changed the economics of drilling for oil and other petroleum products.
You can see the effects of this expanded supply in today's oil prices.
Of course, the global economy has slowed, providing a short-term decline in demand, as well. I'll dig into that much deeper next week.
On a weekly basis, I'll consider all the factors of energy markets in deep detail to determine where energy prices are heading.
I won't only be reporting the latest news, arcane drilling reports, or updates on different oil projects. I'm going to provide a context to understand what to do with the latest headlines, and how to strategize no matter where energy prices go.
Stay tuned for next week!
Ahead of the tape,
Matthew Weinschenk
Comments (8)
I'm not too sure you're interpreting this chart correctly 🙂
That decrease in demand? That is called demand destruction and isn't good for the economy.
So yes demand has fallen below supply which will cause supply to fall again.
Sounds a lot like the bumpy plateau those peak oils freaks are talking about.
Perhaps there is something to what they're saying after all 😀
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June 9th, 2012 at 9:50 am
This actually looks exactly like what the peakers predict given the state of the global economy -as you state- "bumpy plateau".
This is a momentary, short-term development caused by a sinking world economy. It hasn't because any significant new quantities of oil have been discovered. For a *numerate* discussion of energy resource depletion, I suggest you start with the book referenced here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_mile_of_oil.
And as usual, it has nothing to do with the straw man "We're running out of oil argument."
We're in trouble, but that's because of the Energy return/price ratio, not any shortage of actual quantity. Energy return has decreased to less than a 1/5 of what it was in the 60s. Prices have increased. When the energy return is low enough, and prices high enough, oil is no longer useful as an energy resource.
And this happens long before we come close to "running out."
The blue area on that chart doesn't look like the global crude oil production graphs from EIA or JODI. Another article using the same graph states that it shows "liquid fuels", which includes biofuels and NGL.
And please, for the umpteenth time, don't conflate the terms OIL and ENERGY. It's entirely possible to have Peak Oil and an Excess of Energy, simultaneously.
We have already reached 400 ppm of Co2 in the atmosphere and once again there are dire warning by scientists that we must act to reduce emissions immediately. Once gain the captains of industry are ignorning them and with them the politicians. Once again the smear machine lead by "vested interests", will claim it is just a hoax promoted by greedy, commie scientists that need research grants, As the clock ticks we debate "peak oil"? Huh?
Has anyone done the math on it? Its not hard, just some addition and a little multiplication. You can very easily add up all the oil in the world, conventional and unconventional. Between, the EIA, IEA, and the CIA, there are more than enough sources. There are no incredible new discoveries. If someone comes on here and touts that they just found a 300 million barrel oil deposit, for one you have to estimate whats extractible, a rough high estimate is 50 % even though all wells are different. Then what is economically viable to extract. So you might end up with 30 % of the original 300 million. So we have a gigantic 90 million barrel well right. We consume on average in the world around 78 – 82 million barrels a day. Not so grand now is it. Say we found 100 billion barrels of ECONOMICALLY VIABLE oil, it would only last us another four years at current rates of consumption. Because if consumption rises, like during expanding economical times at a rate of 3 – 7 % per year, then it last substantially less than 4. Simple math.. I implore you to do some research and make your own mind up!!
This graph clearly shows that two good years of global recovery will once again push demand above supply.
Go map the oil price per barrel against any global average index (example, BBC Global 30) you will see the trend. demand recovers, oil prices rise, energy input costs increase, business falters, demand is destroyed, and bump… the global economy shudders.
The simple fact is, regardless of what supplies come on line over the next decade, it will NOT stay ahead of the required growth our economies need.
We live in a world of fake money throughout vast capitalist economies backed by energy that ALL require infinite growth to be sustainable. That isn't economics, its a pyramid scheme combined with a time bomb.
Green technology tends to save more money in the long run, deptise being more expensive to begin with for example, motion-sensing light fixtures that only turn on when someone walks into a room are more expensive than regular lights, but after a few years the reduced power usage saves money. What examples of green energy are you looking at that are so cost-inefficient? Around here (Midwest) people have been installing windmills, which are quite green that have consistently proven profitable.


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SUGAR LAND, Texas — Former NBA star Tracy McGrady signed Wednesday to pitch for the Sugar Land Skeeters in the independent Atlantic League.
The 6-foot-8 right-hander reported to spring camp last week and made his first scrimmage game appearance against Alvin Community College on April 16. In an inning of work, McGrady allowed one run on three hits with no walks and no strikeouts.
The 34-year-old McGrady spent 16 years in the NBA with the Toronto Raptors, Orlando Magic, Houston Rockets, New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons and Atlanta Hawks. The seven-time All-Star won two scoring titles.
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It's an open question whether Labor's leadership will come to a head next week and, if so, what will happen.
There's an extraordinary amount of agitation being stirred up in caucus. This is a destabilisation campaign that has the difference of being pushed by a relatively narrow group of people. But some are making big claims about the support for a spill, and for Kevin Rudd, the alternative to Kim Beazley. Only a vote would test whether their talk is ridgy-didge or bluff.
Clearly, however, the push to install Rudd, with Julia Gillard as deputy, has done Beazley substantial damage. It is showing many colleagues have written off his election chances, and buttresses Coalition claims about his weaknesses. His woes were deepened yesterday when the unions' national day of action didn't live up to the hype.
The "swinging voters" among caucus members are finding it hard to think clearly, especially as the frenetic telephoning usual in these situations hasn't been happening. They need to face up to both hard decisions and self-assessment. Do they really want to make a change? If they do, it should be made now. If they don't, they should abandon any idea of later visiting the issue, and get behind Beazley.
What are the pros and cons of change?
Much of the argument being mounted in favour comes, obviously, from a desperate feeling that Labor can't win. It is possible (but not inevitable) that it can't win with either Beazley or Rudd - that Howard's skills, a strong economy and the power of incumbency make victory a bridge too far. If this is the case, the question becomes: would Beazley or Rudd make up more ground?
The worst thing Labor could do is change to Rudd and have Labor go backwards, as happened in 2004, or make no net gains. That would burn the party and also burn someone who should, at some stage, have a bright leadership future.
Rudd and Gillard would have the attraction of fresh faces, a Christmas honeymoon, a flurry of publicity. People would be curious about how Rudd, who has not had a domestic portfolio, would handle areas other than foreign affairs. Gillard is lively, accessible talent.
But voters are a different kettle of fish from the media. They might find Beazley lacking but that doesn't mean they'd entrust the country to those they felt they didn't know sufficiently, especially when it is easy enough to stick with Howard.
Even some MPs who support Rudd feel it is too late to switch leaders. There would be very little time for him to imprint himself in voters' consciousness. This might not be such a problem in his home state of Queensland, where you would expect he'd be a plus (and Labor needs to pick up significant support). In NSW, however, the state campaign will dominate the first three months of 2007, diminishing the attention voters will give the Federal Opposition leader until after that.
Opposition leaders who have won elections since World War II - Menzies, Whitlam, Hawke, Howard - were all well known (Hawke only became opposition leader the day the election was called, but was a nationally known figure for years before - warts and all.)
The difficulty is shown by Whitlam's experience. It took him two terms to persuade the public and then it was no landslide in 1972, despite PM Bill McMahon having become a joke. Voters may be less rusted on to one side or the other these days, but equally, the advantages of incumbency are stronger.
There are few ideological differences between Rudd and Beazley. Rudd is pro-American, economically mainstream, godly and a sort of modern conservative on social issues (not rigidly hard line, but not libertarian either).
Nevertheless, a Rudd-led Labor Party would need some overhaul of policies to validate the impression of a new team on the move. But time would be short. Rudd and Gillard, who have previously seen themselves as leadership rivals, would also have to forge a strong working bond.
A relevant issue for caucus members is who would be better able to unite the party. After Latham's unexpected defeat of Beazley in 2003, the Beazley forces swung in behind him. They felt there was no choice - after two tilts at the leadership within months, Beazley and his supporters could hardly complain he hadn't had every opportunity. Whether the Beazley group would be so accommodating after a Rudd coup is less certain. They would feel angry about how it had all happened. Also, in the shuffle that would follow a leadership change, key Beazley supporters, such as Wayne Swan and Stephen Smith, would presumably be shifted, increasing their hostility.
It would, incidentally, be fascinating to see what would happen to the shadow treasurership under Rudd. Lindsay Tanner, at present finance spokesman, might think he had a claim, but if Julia Gillard was deputy, one would expect she would want it. She would then have to go down the long road of establishing herself with the business community.
Rudd, for his part, would have to cement a close relationship with the union leadership, many of whom (though not all) have become strong Beazley backers.
If Beazley remains, there is also no certainty that he can command unity. One crucial driving force behind the attempt to topple him is revenge for the past. There is no reason those who are implacably opposed to him would put aside those feelings.
Labor is at an extremely risky and difficult point. It is obsessing about old conflicts, seeking miracles, and unable to rise above pettiness and backbiting.
A while ago, it seemed as if it was getting things together. Now it is starting to look like the Liberals in the 1980s. By the way, desperate Liberals in 1989 thought a leadership switch held the key to success. But the electorate was unconvinced, Bob Hawke did over Andrew Peacock in 1990, and the door of government remained locked to them for two more terms.
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rjdohnert wrote:UNIX is not hacker or vulnerability proof, neeither is Linux. The only system that can be hacker proof is one disconnected from the net. The security guys are not spreading fud. The only reason why UNIX wasnt cracked more in the 70's is becausethe Internet wasnt around.
Hackers had the same amount of time to exploit Unix as they have Windows and Dos. Network connections had nothing to do with it. Windows and Dos falls every time. Unix doesnt and Linux most certainly does not. Its the design of the system, while Microsoft was busy trying to build an OS with which to lock in their monopoly the Linux and even Unix groups were building a more secure OS that doesnt crack under pressure. Bill Gates put out a memo having to tell his programmers to pay attention to security, which showed Microsoft didnt care from day one. When have you ever seen a memo like that have to come from the kernel group or ANY Linux or Unix vendor for that matter?


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