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Dawgs Host Pilots Before Trip To ASU
April 19, 2010
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THIS WEEK: The Washington baseball team (19-15 overall, 4-5 in the Pac-10) continues its current stretch of playing mostly on the road with three of four games this week taking place away from Husky Ballpark. First up, however, is a home date with Portland (23-9 overall, 8-1 in the WCC) Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. Last week in Portland, the Dawgs beat the Pilots, 6-5. The Huskies will give the start to junior LHP Adrian Gomez against UP. This weekend, the Huskies head to Arizona State (31-3 overall, 9-3 Pac-10) for a three-game series at Packard Stadium. The Sun Devils are ranked No. 1 in each of the major polls and have been much of the season after getting off to a 24-0 start. All three games from ASU will air live in the Seattle area on KKNW AM-1150. You can also listen to those broadcasts via a link from gohuskies.com. First pitch on Friday and Saturday is slated for 6:30 p.m. and on Sunday, the game starts at 12:30 p.m. The UW will start junior LHP Geoff Brown on Friday and sophomore RHP Andrew Kittredge on Saturday. Sunday's starter has yet to be determined. After the current road stretch comes to an end, the Dawgs will play 12 of their final 18 games of the regular season at home. Here's a look at this week's action:
Tue., April 20: Portland at UW, 6:00 p.m. - live video stats at gohuskies.com
Fri., April 23: UW at ASU, 6:30 p.m. - RADIO: KKNW AM-1150/live stats at gohuskies.com
Sat., April 24: UW at ASU, 6:30 p.m. - RADIO: KKNW AM-1150/live stats at gohuskies.com
Sun., April 25: UW at ASU, 12:30 p.m. - RADIO: KKNW AM-1150/live stats at gohuskies.com
COACH MEGGS: Lindsay Meggs was named the Huskies' new head coach in July of 2009, just the third different UW head coach in 34 years. Meggs came to the UW after having spent the last three seasons at Indiana State and the 13 prior to that at Chico State, where he won NCAA Division II national championships in 1997 and 1999. He helped Chico to the D-II College World Series seven times and won the league eight times. At Indiana State, he was named Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year in 2009 after guiding the Sycamores to a second-place finish, their highest since 1998. Meggs currently boasts a 634-322-4 record over 16-plus seasons as a four-year college head coach. He'd previously served as head coach at Long Beach City College and Oxnard College. Born in San Jose and a graduate of Saratoga (Calif.) High, Meggs played four seasons as the starting third baseman at UCLA. He was drafted by the Brewers in 1983, and then again by the Royals after his senior year in 1984. Meggs is joined by assistant coaches Dave Nakama, Greg Moore and Kevin Ticen.
SERIES HISTORY: Washington holds an 89-44-1 record all-time against Portland. Last week in Portland, the Huskies edged the Pilots, 6-5, thanks to a solo homer from Miles Kizer, which broke a 5-5 tie in the seventh. Last season, the Huskies and Pilots played twice. The Huskies beat Portland, 5-2, on an eighth-inning homer from Pierce Rankin in a game played at PGE Park in Portland. Later in the season, Jake Rife went 4-for-4 with a homer in a 6-5 win over the Pilots. Arizona State leads the all-time series with Washington, 24-12. The two teams had never played until 1998. Last season in Seattle, the Devils won by scores of 3-1, 12-1 and 6-2, with the first of those three played at Safeco Field.Two seasons ago in Tempe, the Sun Devils swept a three-game series in Tempe, winning by scores of 13-3, 11-4 and 13-7.
HUSKIES BACK AT SAFECO FIELD: Washington will return to Safeco Field for the fourth consecutive season this year when the Huskies host Stanford in a 6:30 p.m. game on Saturday, May 1. Earlier that day, at 12:10 p.m., the Mariners play host to the Texas Rangers at Safeco. Fans who show a ticket stub from the M's game can redeem it for a discounted $5 ticket to the Husky game. Last season, the Huskies played two games at Safeco. A crowd of 3,675 saw a 3-1 Oregon State win and there were 4,296 on hand for a 6-4 Arizona State victory later in the year. Three seasons ago, the Huskies beat No. 8 OSU, 6-2, in their first-ever game at Safeco. Attendance was 10,421., at the time a league record for a conference game. In 2008, the Huskies edged Arizona, 1-0, on a two-hit, 15-strikeout shutout by Nick Haughian as 5,187 fans watched on. Tickets are $8 and UW students are admitted free.
POSITION PLAYER NOTES (in alphabetical order):
#11 Chase Anselment, Fr. C/OF: Had an 8-game hit streak broken Sat. at Cal ... 2-for-4 with RBI in start Mar. 30 vs. SeattleU ... had a pinch-hit, 3-run triple to break a 4-4 tie in the 9th in Mar. 25 win at Dallas Baptist .. .the following day at DBU, went 3-for-4 with a grand slam ... started both games at Oregon and first two at Long Beach at DH ... started 2 of 3 at DH vs. Fresno State ... 5-for-10 with two doubles in FSU series ... 2-for-3 with 3 RBI in first career start Feb. 20 vs. Missouri ... also scored winning run in 9th as pinch-runner Feb. 21 vs. Gonzaga ... started all 97 games over four seasons at Meadowdale High ... Everett Herald's area player of the year following senior season in 2009.
#1 David Bentrott, Jr. SS: Has started 30 of last 32 at SS ... went 2-for-3 in each Cal game last weekend, meaning he was 6-for-9 in the series ... 3-for-5, 2 RBI Apr. 3 (game 1) vs. WSU ... 3-for-8 in 2 games at Gonzaga ... hit safely in all 3 at Dallas Baptist ... 2-for-3 with RBI Mar. 3 at Oregon ... started 74 of a possible 110 games at shortstop over the past two seasons ... started 33 of 55 last year, when he hit 5 homers ... helped Newport (R.I.) Gulls to the New England Collegiate Baseball League title during the summer.
#6 Andy Bethel, So. SS: Made 25 starts at shortstop last year, essentially splitting the job with Bentrott ... started Mar. 30 vs. SeattleU (1-for-3, RBI) ... started the first 2 games of the season at shortstop ... batted .265 and was a perfect 7-for-7 stealing bases as a freshman in 2009 ... played at Seattle Prep, just north of UW campus.
#2 Bradley Boyer, Sr. IF/OF: 12 in LF, 8 starts at 2B, 4 in RF, 1 at 3B and 1 at SS ... started all 3 in LF and as leadoff hitter at Cal ... 5-for-13 in Cal series ... 3-for-9 with a double in 2 starts vs. Arizona ... 2-for-5 with 2 RBI Mar. 19 at CS Fullerton ... 4-for-5 last Mar. 5 at Long Beach and 2-for-5 on Mar. 7 ... had game-winning RBI with 2 out in the 9th Feb. 26 vs. Fresno State ... 3 RBI and a homer Feb. 27 vs. Fresno ... fifth-year senior returned after having missed last season due to Tommy John elbow surgery ... easily the Huskies' most experience player ... entered 2010 with 130 starts and 524 at bats.
#21 Caleb Brown, So. OF: Started 33 of 34 in CF ... 4-for-9, plus 3 BBs and a HBP in Cal series ... 1-for-3 with 3 RBI in game 3 of WSU series ... 4-for-8, 2 RBI in 2 games at Gonzaga ... 4-for-11 with 2 doubles in Fullerton series ... 4-for-10 in BYU series ... 2nd homer of year Mar. 7 at LBSU ... 3-for-4 with 2 runs Mar. 3 at Oregon ... 4-for-12 in Fresno series ... a solid opening weekend ... 2-for-3 vs. NMSU; 2-for-4 vs. Missouri and 3-for-5 with 2 triples, a homer and 4 RBI vs. Gonzaga ... started 31 games, all in center field, as a freshman ... singled in first college at bat last Feb. 21 at Fresno State ... a two-time, first-team all-state selection in both baseball and football.
#3 Doug Cherry, Sr. 2B: Regular starter at 2B ... 4-for-5 last Sat. at California ... 4-for-5 last Wed. at Portland ... 4-for-5 with game-tying RBI in 9th Mar. 25 at Dallas Baptist ... 7-for-13 in DBU series ... started all 3 vs. Fullerton at 2B ... 4-for-6 in 2 starts at 2B in BYU series ... had 2-out, 2-run double as a pinch hitter in the 7th to cap a 7-run Husky rally in 11-9 win Mar. 5 at Long Beach State ... started at 2B Sat. vs. LBSU ... 2-for-4 in start Mar. 3 at Oregon ... started at 2B Feb. 28 vs. Fresno and drove in a run ... had a game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the ninth in the Feb. 21 win over Gonzaga ... also started at 2B vs. Missouri ... started 28 games last season, one at DH and the rest at second base ... homered in the season opener last season, at Fresno State ... earned first-team all-league honors as a third baseman for the Corvallis (Ore.) Knights during the summer.
#28 Miles Kizer, Jr. C: Started 2 of 3 at Cal as catcher ... belted HR to break 5-5 tie in the 7th in 6-5 win at Portland ... hit a grand slam Apr. 10 vs. Arizona ... oubled in start Apr. 7 at Gonzaga ... started 2 of 3 at BYU ... hit first HR in win Mar. 13 at BYU ... 2-for-4 as starting C Mar. 7 at LBSU ... started 2 of 3 in Tucson at C ... RBI double in the 9th vs. Gonzaga tied game at 9-9 ... NJCAA Division II first-team All-America last year at Glendale (Ariz.) CC ... lone JC player on the roster ... also played football at Glendale ... batted .390 with 14 doubles and a league-leading 52 RBI last season.
#22 Max Kwan, Sr. C: Started at DH Feb. 28 vs. Fresno State (0-for-1 with BB, run) ...had pinch-hit appearances vs. Missouri, DBU and Arizona ... returned to roster after having missed the 2009 season due to injury ... recovered in time to play summer ball for Kitsap (Wash.) ... last played a college game in 2007 ... began college career at Tulane, where he played in 2006.
#18 Jacob Lamb, Fr. 3B: 3-for-9 with a double and 2 RBI in Arizona series ... 4-for-4 with a double April 3 (game 1) vs. WSU ... 2-for-4 in start Mar. 30 vs. SeattleU ... 2-for-4 with 3 RBI Mar. 26 at DBU and then 2-for-4 with 4 RBI the next day ... went 6-for-10 vs. CS Fullerton ... homered Mar. 20 vs. Titans ... 4-for-10 with 6 RBI in BYU series ... 3-for-4 with HR, 4 RBI in Mar. 13 win at BYU ... drove in 1 Mar. 2 at Oregon and was 2-for-3 with RBI Mar. 3 vs. Ducks ... 6-for-12 in Fresno State series ... Metro League MVP and first-team all-state player at Seattle's Bishop Blanchet High last season ... hit .412 as a junior and .429 as a senior ... selected by the Pirates in the 38th round of the 2009 draft.
#12 Brady McGuire, So. C: Saw first action of '10 season as pinch hitter Feb. 26 vs. Fresno State ... also pinch hit at BYU, vs. CSF and at SeattleU ... saw action 13 games, starting 6, as a freshman in 2009 ... all 6 starts were at C ... played summer ball for Moses Lake (Wash.) in the West Coast League ... two-time all-league at Kentridge High.
#10 Sean Meehan, So. OF: 1st homer of the year was a grand slam Sun. at Cal ... 1-for-4 in start in RF in Apr. 10 win over Arizona ... started both games at Gonzaga in RF ... 2 hits off the bench Mar. 20 and 2-for-4 Mar. 21 vs. CS Fullerton ... 2-for-4 in start in RF Mar. 11 at BYU ... 2 hits and an RBI Mar. 2 at Oregon ... started 2 of 3 in Tucson and 2 of 3 vs. Fresno State in RF ... redshirted the 2009 season due to injury ... had a strong freshman season in 2008, batting .323 with 4 HRs in 65 at bats and 17 starts.
#25 Eric Peterson, Fr. IF: Got a start at DH Apr. 11 vs. Arizona ... started at DH Mar. 23 at SeattleU ... started season opener at DH (1-for-4, singled in first UW at bat) ... appeared in 2 games vs. Fresno State ... named the 3A state co-player of the year and KingCo league's 3A MVP as a senior at Liberty High, alma mater of UW great Tim Lincecum ... led the KingCo with nine homers, 24 RBI, 25 runs and a 1.182 slugging average as a senior ... drafted by the Royals in the 28th round of the 2009 draft.
#33 Julien Pollard, Jr. OF/IF: Started all 3 in LF and as leadoff hitter at LBSU and also in 1st game at BYU ... first start, in LF, Mar. 3 at Oregon (1-for-4, 1 run) ... appeared off bench in 2 games in both weekends so far ... versatile player could see action in LF, 3B, 2B or DH ... lone switch hitter on the Husky roster ... started 41 games as a sophomore in 2009, 26 at third base, 1 in left and two at second ... also made 19 starts as a freshman ... drafted by Twins in 2007 draft.
#8 Pierce Rankin, Jr. C/OF/IF: Started 1 each at RF, C and DH in Cal series ... 2-for-5 with a 2B as the DH last Wed. at Portland ... started 2 at C and 1 at DH vs. Arizona ... homered and reached on game-winning error in the ninth in April 1 win over WSU ... 2-for-3 with HR and 3 RBI in Mar. 25 win at DBU ... also hit a 2-run HR Mar. 27 at DBU ... 2-for-3 with a 2-run HR Mar. 23 at SeattleU ... started 2 of 3 at C and 1 at RF vs. Fullerton ... 3 doubles in series ... started 1 each at C, DH and RF at BYU ... 2-for-4 with 2 RBI in Mar. 13 win at BYU ... 3-for-3 with HR, 2 RBI Feb. 26 vs. Bulldogs and 2-for-4 with 3 RBI, 2B the next day ... started 1 game each at C, RF and DH in Tucson ... 2-run double broke 2-2 tie in win over New Mexico State ... UW's top returning hitter from 2009, batted .299 with six homers in 41 games last year ... made 23 starts at 2B, 12 at C, 3 at 3B, 2 at DH and 1 in LF last year ... began 2009 season as starting C, but injury kept him from behind the plate in second half of the season ... honorable mention All-Pac-10 in '09 ... played summer ball for the New Bedford (Mass.) Bay Sox, where he also pitched a little bit, during the summer ... grandson of two-time Rose Bowl MVP and college football hall of famer Bob Schloredt (UW '61).
#34 Aaron Russell, Sr. 3B./OF: Picked up 2 starts at 1B vs. Arizona ... went 5-for-8 in 2 games at Gonzaga (2-for-4 Tue. and 3-for-4 Wed.) ... due to injury, didn't appear for UW until BYU trip, when he went 3-for-5 with 2 doubles and 4 RBI in 2 games ... 1-for-3 in start in LF Mar. 30 vs. SeattleU ... started 1 game vs. CSF at 3B and 1 at DBU at DH ... started Mar. 13 at 3B ... batted .262 last year ... had 2 HRs, including a grand slam in 13-12 win over UC Irvine last year ... as a sophomore in 2008, went 6-for-6 with five runs in first appearance of the season, at UC Riverside.
#32 Troy Scott, Jr. 1B: Started 31 of 34 at 1B ... 2-run HR last Wed. at Portland ... solo homer Mar. 27 at DBU ... 2-run double Mar. 23 at SeattleU ... 4-for-9 in BYU series ... HR in Mar. 13 win at BYU ... 5-for-12 with 3 doubles and 5 RBI in LBSU series ... 4-for-12 in Fresno State series ... 2-for-3 vs. NM State ... started 102 of a possible 110 games during first two years at the UW ... batted .251 with 11 homers and 31 RBI last year, when he committed just one error ... honorable mention All-Pac-10 in 2008 ... helped lead Newport (R.I.) to the NECBL title during summer of 2009 ... named all-league and batted .400 with 10 RBI in 8 playoff games for the Gulls ... batted .600 with 9 homers, 27 runs and 17 steals as a high school senior at Auburn High ... taken by Twins in 2007 draft ... older brother, Ryan, played catcher at the UW.
#44 Andy Smith, Fr. OF: Started 2 of 3 in LF vs. Arizona ... first start as CF Mar. 30 vs. SeattleU ... went 2-for-4 in both starts Mar. 26-27. at Dallas Baptist ... had an RBI single off the bench Mar. 23 at SeattleU ... started season opener in LF ... started at DH Mar. 21 vs. Fullerton ... 2 starts in LF vs. Fresno State ... 1-for-4 in start in LF Tue. at Oregon ... scored 3 runs in 2 games vs. FSU ... played at North Kitsap HS under former Husky catcher Jeff Weible ... named league MVP after hitting .483 with 23 stolen bases as a senior ... spent junior season at Syracuse HS in Utah, but went to North Kitsap as a sophomore and senior..
PROBABLE STARTING PITCHER NOTES (Sunday starter TBD):
TUE. - Adrian Gomez, Junior LHP: Worked 1.2 scoreless IP in relief Sat. at Cal ... pitched an inning Apr. 11 vs. Arizona ... struck out 5 in 2.2 scoreless innings at Gonzaga Apr. 6 ... pitched in both ends of DH Apr. 3 vs. WSU ... allowed 1 R over 2.2 IP in game 1 and worked 0.2 scoreless in game 2 ... got the win with a 4.0-inning start Mar. 30 vs. SeattleU (4.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K) ... struck out only batter he faced for the win Mar. 25 at Dallas Baptist ... solid start Mar. 23 at SeattleU (4.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K), but no decision ... started game 1 vs. Fullerton, but didn't figure in decision (4.2 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 1 K) ... worked the final 6.1 IP in relief Mar. 12 at BYU, allowing 1 run and fanning 5 ... got the win last Fri. at LBSU in relief (1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 H, 0 BB, 2 K) ... gave up 1 ER in 5.1 IP of relief Feb. 26 vs. Fresno State ... spent 2007-08 on church mission in Mexico ... was married in December, 2008.
FRI. - Geoff Brown, Junior LHP: Got the win last Fri. at Cal (5.1 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 4 K) ... took the loss in start Apr. 9 vs. Arizona (5.0 IP, 7 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 4 BB, 2 K) ... pitched 0.2 innings in UW win Wed. at Gonzaga ... got a second straight no decision despite a good start and a UW win April 1 vs. WSU (5.1 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 3 K) ... got no decision in very good start Mar. 25 at Dallas Baptist (6.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 K) ... made 2nd start of 2010 Mar. 21 vs. CS Fullerton (L, 5.1 IP, 9 H, 5 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 K) ... started Feb. 21 vs. Gonzaga, working 3.0 IP (no decision) ... UW's most experienced returning pitcher coming into 2010 in terms of career innings (72.1) and appearances (51) ... has played for the Newport (R.I.) Gulls the last two summers, helping them to the title last summer and a runner-up finish in 2008 ... 5-0 with a 1.48 ERA during summer season this year ... drafted by Royals in 23rd round of 2007 draft.
SAT. - Andrew Kittredge, Soph. RHP: Suffered loss Sat. at Cal (6.1 IP, 5 H 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 5 K) ... earned the win Apr. 10 vs. Arizona (7.0 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 3 K) ... got a ND in start Apr. 3 vs. WSU (5.2 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 4 BB, 7 K) ... picked up a win and a save at Dallas Baptist ... worked 1.0 IP (2 H, 2 K) for save Mar. 25 and got win as starter Mar. 27 (5.1 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 0 BB, 5 K) ... picked up third victory in start Mar. 13 at BYU ... gave up 8 ER (6 of them in his last inning), but struck out 8 in 5.1 IP vs. Cougars ... had a good weekend at LBSU: earned a save on Fri. then struck out 10 in 7.2 IP Sun. for the win (7.2 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 10 K) ... suffered the loss despite good outing Feb. 28 vs. Fresno State (8.0 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 8 K) ... started and picked up the win opening day vs. New Mexico State (6.0 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 7 K) ... earned honorable mention All-Pac-10 last season ... named NECBL all-league last summer, for the league champion Newport (R.I.) Gulls.
BULLPEN NOTES: Colton Bielaski (RS-Fr. RHP) worked 2.0 scoreless innings Apr. 9 vs. Arizona ... pitched in 2 of 3 games vs. CS Fullerton ... worked the final 1.2 innings of the Missouri game (3 hits, 0 runs, 1 BB, 1 K) ... attended the UW last season, but didn't play baseball ... Adam Cimber (Fr. RHP) pitched both Fri. and Sun. at Cal in relief ... picked up a win with 1.2 IP Wed. at Portland ... started and took the loss Apr. 11 vs. Arizona (4.0 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 1 K) ... got the win in first start Apr. 3 vs. WSU (6.0 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 2 K) ... went 2.2 IP (3 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K) for 6th save vs. SeattleU on Mar. 30 ... worked final 3.2 IP Mar. 27 at DBU for 5th save ... pitched the final 2.0 in Mar. 23 win at SeattleU ... picked up 4th save Mar. 13 at BYU ... pitched 1.2 scoreless innings in win Mar. 6 at LBSU and then got the save Mar. 8 (1.0 IP, 1 H, 2 K) ... earned 2nd save Mar. 3 at Oregon (1.2 IP) ... picked up a win and a save in opening weekend ... struck out only batter he faced on 3 pitches for save in opener vs. New Mexico State ... worked final 3.0 (2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K) for the win vs. Gonzaga (Feb. 22) ... Jacob Clem (Jr. RHP) took the loss in relief Sun. at Cal ... also pitched 1.1 scoreless Fri. at Cal .. pitched 2.0 no-hit innings (4 Ks) for 3rd save Wed. at Portland ... worked 2.0 perfect innings to close out Apr. 10 win over Arizona, striking out the side in order in the 9th ... went final 1.1 (1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K) Apr. 6 at Gonzaga for the save ... pitched in all 3 WSU games ... worked the final 2.1 in game three for the save ... got the win April 1 vs. WSU with 3.2 no-hit IP ... retired last 10 he faced to close out that game ... also pitched 0.1 innings in game two of WSU series ... threw 3.0 scoreless innings for the win Mar. 23 at SeattleU (3.0 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K) ... younger brother of former Husky standout Zach Clem ... Ben Guidos (Jr. LHP) worked 1.2 innings in relief Sun. at California ... earned win with excellent start Wed. at Gonzaga (6.2 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K) ... pitched well, but took hard-luck loss Apr. 3 vs. WSU (3.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K) ... worked an inning Mar. 30 vs. SeattleU ... earned a save with 4.0 IP Mar. 26 at DBU ... took the loss as the starter Mar. 12 at BYU ... also started Mar. 6 at LSBU and suffered the loss (3.2 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 0 K) ... started and took the loss Mar. 2 at Oregon (5.0 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 3 K) ... worked 3.0 IP Feb. 27 vs. Fresno State, allowing 3 runs on 3 hits ... was slated to start opening weekend in 2010, but game was cancelled due to rain ... worked 1.2 IP in relief vs. Missouri ... lefty entered junior season with 18 appearances during career, nine starts and nine relief outings ... went 7-0 with a 1.27 ERA during the summer, playing for the Corvallis (Ore.) Knights ... Brandon Rohde (So. LHP) worked a scoreless 9th Apr. 11 vs. Arizona ... pitched 1.1 IP in relief Mar. 20 vs. Fullerton ... worked 1.2 in relief Mar. 11 at BYU ... threw 2.1 IP in relief Mar. 5 at LBSU (no decision) ... worked 0.1 IP in relief (no runs) Mar. 3 at Oregon, picking up first college win ... first college start Feb. 27 vs. Fresno State (no decision: 3.2 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 4 BB, 1 K) ... pitched 2.2 innings in relief in Huskies' season-opening, 4-2 win over New Mexico State ... pitched in just one game (1.0 IP) last year, but should contend for many more innings this season ... Forrest Snow (Jr. RHP) started Sun. at Cal, but didn't figure in decision (2.0 IP, 3 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 1 K) ... got no decision in good start Apr. 14 at Portland (5.1 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 6 K) ... pitched 2.0 innings in relief Apr. 9 vs. Arizona and then went 2.0 innings two days later vs. Cats ... got the win Apr. 6 at Gonzaga (5.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 K) ... retired the only batter he faced in the 12th inning April 3 vs. WSU ... earned a win Mar. 26 at Dallas Baptist (5.0 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 4 K) ... pitched 2.2 IP in relief twice vs. Fullertlon, including a 1-hit, 0-run, 4-K outing on Sat. ... pitched 0.2 in relief Mar. 12 at BYU ... got a no decision in start Mar. 5 at LBSU ... pitched a scoreless inning in relief Mar. 2 at Oregon ... worked a scoreless 9th inning for the win Feb. 26 vs. Fresno State ... pitched in 13 games last year, making 3 starts ... 4-1 with 34 Ks and 13 walks in 32.2 innings for the Anchorage Bucs in the Alaska League last summer ... first player ever drafted out of Seattle's Lakeside School, going to the Mariners in the 2007 draft.
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The shyest sparrow's supplications in the early evening trees
are a careful arpeggio - each note liberates a flotilla of leaves
fleeting, indeed, left scattered as archipelago in a dew-grass sea
fleeting, indeed, left scattered as archipelago in a dew-grass sea
this poem continues line by line from April 3 to April 17 2012
see April 10 posting for the next update and April 17 for the final post
by Melissa Green, Claire Beynon, Saradha Koirala so far ... more to come
Editor: Mary McCallum, TP co-curator
Tuesday Poem is two years old, and to celebrate we're writing another global poem. Twenty-six of our 31 poets living in six countries and 12 different cities will contribute a line each over 14 days to create it.
The global birthday poem kicks off at one minute past midnight on April 3, 2012 with a line from Boston poet Melissa Green - who also celebrates a birthday on April 3. Co-curator Claire Beynon (a New Zealander but currently in Ibiza, Spain) contributes the second line ten hours later, with Saradha Koirala from Wellington New Zealand posting at 6pm NZ time. The next day, it's Janice Freegard of Wellington in the morning and T Clear of Seattle in the evening, and on it goes until Tuesday April 17 when I post the final line and add a title.
The posts will be twice a day, usually around 8 am and 6 pm NZ Time, with some variations either side. Go to our global poem page to see who posts when and how, and remember to pop back to see how the poem unfolds and to cheer us on. Here's our first birthday poem, Tuesday.
Yes, Tuesday Poem is two years old. It began here on April 13 2010 after a casual start with a bunch of poets on my blog O Audacious Book , and has been posting every week since, bar a couple of weeks off over summer. Our Tuesday Poets take turns to be editor, and this involves selecting a poem, getting permission to run it, and writing up a response. It's that personal choice and response which, we believe, makes our posts so interesting and engaging for readers. Each of our poets also posts a Tuesday Poem each week on his or her own blog -- their own poems and poems they admire written by others. Look to the sidebar for those.
We have had so many wonderful poets and postings this year we can't begin to list the 'best of'. Fellow curator Claire Beynon and I bow deeply to the wonder of this - that a bunch of 30 poets (31 in fact) from six countries can work together to produce something so exciting, so profound, so community, so poetry and with so few hitches. Claire lives in Dunedin, I live in Wellington, and we've only met once ever, but we email, we talk by phone, and mostly TP progresses effortlessly giving poets and poems a platform and celebrating poetry in all its guises.
Our thanks to all our Tuesday Poets - including those who are on sabbatical or are in the alumni file - and to our guest editors, and all our followers and supporters. Reel through our posts - use the search in the sidebar - click on our Tuesday Poets sites - and see what it is we have here.
Nga mihi -
Happy Birthday -
Mary McCallum and Claire Beynon (curators)

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Originally this was about my Escape...but these days, this is about the way of the world..the things that cross my mind, and maybe yours..the creative battles and truimphs and losses...it is about love and understanding of ourselves first and others second...it is about doing what we love and being afraid to try...and then trying...I am blessed with the readers on this blog and my family and loves and my friends....thank you..
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|A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
-Bob Dylan
I know i've put this up before, but i like to remind myself.
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Home Sanctuary
The aged effect metal and handmade terracotta plant pot would complement a lush green fern beautifully, or you could plant a spiky succulent for textural contrast.
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One of the spooky archetypes of childhood imagination — the dark, mysterious house across the street — is literally brought to life in "Monster House," a marvelously creepy animated feature directed by Gil Kenan.
At first the house, which sits on a perfectly ordinary suburban block, seems like nothing more than the dilapidated home of Mr. Nebbercracker, a cranky old man with bad teeth, a gruesome comb-over and Steve Buscemi's voice. It quickly becomes clear — to a plucky boy-detective type named DJ and his two young sidekicks, and then to everybody else — that the ramshackle Victorian is possessed by a malevolent, demonic force. It seizes toys; it eats people. And since this is a movie aimed at an audience for whom the grosser bodily functions are a perpetual source of laughs, it vomits them up again. The house roars, belches, spits fire and in the end turns out to be...Kathleen Turner.
If I say that "Monster House" is the best child-friendly movie of the summer so far ("Ant Bully" and "Barnyard" will expand the competition in the next few weeks), it may sound like extravagant praise — or maybe like faint praise. In any case, modesty can be numbered among the picture's virtues, along with ingenuity. It runs a trim 86 minutes — during which I observed not a single fidget from my 7-year-old companions — and does not waste time on the Valuable Lessons routinely pasted onto family movies like nutrition labels on boxes of sugary cereal, to assure anxious parents that the junk has some value. "Monster House" is unpretentious, smartly written (by Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler) and a lot of fun.
It also represents, to the technology nerds in the audience, an interesting refinement of animation techniques. Like Robert Zemeckis's "Polar Express," "Monster House" (for which Mr. Zemeckis served as an executive producer) uses the digitally captured movements of real actors rather than computer-generated algorithms as the basis for its animated images. The people in the movie look a little like molded-plastic figurines (the ones in "Polar Express" looked more like porcelain dolls), but their gestures are uncannily fluid and unpredictable, making you appreciate the quality of the acting more than you generally do in animated films. The postures and gestures of DJ (Mitchell Musso) and his pals — a pudgy fellow named Chowder (Sam Lerner) and a preppy redhead named Jenny (Spencer Locke) — have an authentically loose and antic look. They seem like real kids, rather than like super-cute, big-headed cartoon moppets.
And for the most part they talk and behave like real kids, too, or at least like characters drawn from the rich tradition of plucky, intellectually curious kiddie-lit heroes. DJ is descended from Encyclopedia Brown (perhaps by way of Jimmy Neutron, but never mind), and Jenny bears some temperamental resemblance to Harriet the Spy. I'm sure Chowder will remind you of someone in your fifth-grade class, wherever or whenever that was. The adults in the picture — DJ's dithering parents (Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara), who take off for a dental convention the day before Halloween, Zee (Maggie Gyllenhaal), the grumpy sitter who takes their place, and the bumbling town policemen (Kevin James and Nick Cannon) — are predictably useless. The children, left to their own devices, must conquer the evil that, all but unnoticed, flourishes in their midst.
Mr. Kenan, making his feature film debut, is a lively storyteller. "Monster House" also bears the unmistakable creative stamp of Mr. Zemeckis and his fellow executive producer, Steven Spielberg. There are a few moments of amusing, self-conscious auto-homage: a Wilson basketball with a human face smudged onto it; plumbing fixtures that come to life with the slinky movements of "Jurassic Park" dinosaurs; a suburban Halloween out of "E.T." But the deeper imprint of Mr. Spielberg's influence, in particular, lies in the film's evocation of childhood as a state of wonder tinged with darkness. The absence of supervising grown-ups is both scary and exciting, and the monstrous house will remind audience members of all ages of the pleasure of being frightened without pushing the fear past comfortable limits.
As in most ghost stories, the fright stands in for other emotions — grief, disappointment, loneliness — and the film's climactic sequences combine hair-raising sensation with dreamy and delicate pathos. The plain suburban setting becomes (as it did in "E.T." and Mr. Zemeckis's "Back to the Future" movies) a zone of enchantment, in no small part because it seems so real.
"Monster House" is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). Some of the scary parts may be too intense for very young or very sensitive children.
Opens today nationwide.
Directed by Gil Kenan; written by Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler, based on a story by Mr. Harmon and Mr. Schrab; director of photography, Xavier Perez Grobet; edited by Adam P. Scott and Fabienne Rawley; imagery and animation by Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc.; music by Douglas Pipes; production designer, Ed Verreaux; produced by Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke; released by Columbia Pictures. Running time: 86 minutes.
WITH THE VOICES OF: Steve Buscemi (Nebbercracker), Nick Cannon (Lister), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Zee), Jon Heder (Skull/The Pizza Chef), Kevin James (Landers), Jason Lee (Bones), Sam Lerner (Chowder), Spencer Locke (Jenny), Mitchel Musso (DJ), Catherine O'Hara (Mom), Kathleen Turner (Constance) and Fred Willard (Dad).


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A new report from ARLA Propertymark has revealed that loyal tenants could be hit hardest by the proposed ban on letting agent fees.
The research was conducted with leading research consultancy Capital Economics to see just how much an impact the ban on fees could have on rental costs, the sector and the overall economy.
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Letting agent fees amount to roughly one-fifth of agents' revenues and cover imperative checks. Should they be banned, landlords will be passed on these costs through higher fees.
41% of landlords questioned feel that they will be left with little alternative but to pass these costs onto their tenants, at an average of £103 more in rent each year.
Sadly, this will hit long-term tenants the most. Based on typical rises of £103 per year, those in tenancies of ten years or more could lose out on over £750.
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The lettings sector employees around 58,000 people across the UK. Should agents take the full impact of the letting agent fee ban, 16,000 jobs could be lost. More likely, agents will pass on 75% of these costs to landlords, which could see 4,000 losses.
With landlords attempting to recoup costs passed on through agent fees, the responses were interesting:
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- 20% would sell some properties
- 8% would reduce the use of letting agents
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In addition, letting agents support a wide-range of jobs, such as with maintenance and legal firms, which could all face pressures.
David Cox, Chief Executive of ARLA Propertymark, said on the findings: 'The lettings sector is worth about £4 billion and employs around 58,000 people all over the country. The Government's Autumn Statement announcement that it plans to ban letting agent fees was the third big blow in as many years for agents, and exacerbate the threat to the private rented sector; an increasingly important tenure on which millions of people rely.'[1]
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After one fateful night, Raine Wilkins' life has never been the same…
Two years into a relationship with Formula 1 driver Teo Coates, Raine walks out of his life without offering an explanation. To shield him from horrifying events that are best kept secret, Raine breaks her own heart and the heart of the man she loves. And left with no choice, Teo is forced to abandon Raine to finish his race season.
However, Teo always wins, and losing Raine's heart has only made him more determined to reclaim it…
Now, a year later, he's back, and she's his only goal. But Raine is no longer the same girl he left behind; she's broken by the past and struggling to cope with each day. Unbearable memories have her nights plagued with fear, while her days are spent deliberately hiding away to avoid triggering full-blown panic attacks. Therefore, when Teo returns as England's favourite driver, and demands answers, all of Raine's careful planning is destroyed.
She is thrown into the one place she never wants to be—the spotlight.
Her newfound fame as Teo's public girlfriend raises old dangers, and exposes her to a group who will stop at nothing to tear them apart. If Raine and Teo are to be together, they must confront their past. However, only Raine knows the truth behind what happened during that sinister night, and revealing her secrets may cause Teo to leave for good.
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I enjoyed Not Enough, so when I was approached and asked to take part in the blog tour for Mia's new book I was happy to say yes. Chameleon Soul is the first book in the Chequered Flag series, but can still be read as a stand-alone contemporary romance novel.
Fast pace
I usually find a lot of romance can be too predictable and chick-litty - but Mia Hoddell's writing has a way of really drawing me into the story. I get drawn into the story by the fast pace and the characters, who propel the story along and make me keep reading. In fact, I read the whole book in two hours!
Recently, I've read a lot of books containing a celebrity or famous character. Usually though, the celebrity is a musician or a model, so reading about a Formula 1 world champion was actually pretty refreshing! On the surface, Teo comes across as your typical playboy racing driver (I couldn't stop myself from imagining him as a less annoying Lewis Hamilton at the start of the book). However, soon I found myself warming to Teo, and by the end my opinion of him had changed completely.
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Raine, by contrast, is the exact opposite. I felt Teo's frustration throughout the book as clues were left as to what happened to Raine, and I was itching to find out the details. I also thought Raine's friendship with Teo's brother Dustin was sweet. I liked the set-up for the sequel (no details announced as of the time of writing, in case you're wondering) and I'm definitely interested in getting my hands on a copy when it does come out!
However, there were a few little niggling details that stuck in the back of my mind. Without giving away any spoilers, certain scenes and events seemed a little unbelievable or far-fetched. Although only little things, they jarred me from the story, especially since it's clear Mia has done her research into all things F1 and the rest of the details were highly accurate.
However, as a whole, I still enjoyed this book. A perfect read for fans of quick, easy-to-read romance!
Rating: 3 stars.
Chameleon Soul is available to buy now.
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It takes a lot of something very special to allow a band like Cymbals Eat Guitars to accomplish that which they did on 2009's Why There Are Mountains and what they do on Lenses Alien. The gestures that Megazord into the album are not unfamiliar: angry guitars, a rhythm section complimenting the melodic intent of a given song with fury or shimmer, heartstrong and yet strangely narrative vocal work, tight, concise songwriting and arrangement… It's easy to dismiss the record as one we've heard before. In a lot of ways we have. Much of the guitarwork, in its asymmetry and hard edges, and song structures in their lurches and detours, recall (as the band as been accused by very nearly everyone) 90s indie rock titans like Pavement and Built to Spill. The vocal inflection and cadence of the record can't help make the lines penned stick in the same way as, oh I don't know, The Get-Up Kids or even Lifetime. But to start mentally filing, or calling names, takes away from the real question here: what is it that makes Lenses Alien a relentlessly beautiful album?
From the first couple bars of "Rifle Eyesight," Lenses Alien establishes itself as a collection of songs that build upon themselves, exploding into second and third-stage engines garnished by flourishes of bells and piano. But the band isn't content in allowing these tunes to climax out of control and fizzle into a drone of feedback; they don't abandon the ship as it tears the atmosphere – the album's drifting, understated moments serve as breathing room between monolithic hooks. And hooks there are plenty.
That is what makes Joseph D'Agostino such a superb vocalist: his verses move songs through the squall with a melodic bounce that renders the formal chorus pretty much unnecessary. This too is what makes a lot of the songs so fun. Too often in rock music, the vocals in a song fall into a couple uniform cadences and a couple verses and choruses, maybe a bridge, later the song is over. D'Agostino's pummel forward, always with a feeling of linear purpose, but never betraying the songs with over-variation. They twist and evolve and never settle back to quite the same place, but are also never intrinsically different. And when the song, its lyrical and emotional center, spits in disgust or anger or disappointment, so too does D'Agostino. Vocal enactment of mood and attitude is perhaps the band's greatest boon, and while many of the tunes feel like D'Agostino is telling us a story, we never really doubt that he's in there somewhere.
That said, the album maintains an extremely high lyrical quality throughout, and displays a poetic sensibility that weds with the noise fantastically. On "Plainclothes" D'Agostino alternately whispers and howls, "The drug store smilers tower ten feet tall / over a maze of abandoned cars / Their cancelled eyes show through the holes in their sphinx masks / I scramble to the dunes to puke under the pale moon." Whether the allusions to Saves The Day classic "Always Ten Feet Tall" and William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (in "cancelled eyes") may or may not be intentional, they work beautifully on their own and in serving to expand the images to include whole other universes of text. This isn't easy to do well. And yet this is still a record largely about being young and fucked up, perhaps because you've always been young and fucked up. On the same track: "Dry mushrooms taste a lot like communion wafers / to see cathedral ships behind the Bucks County sky when I was thirteen." The gorgeous "Wavelengths" has its own imagery, "Reborn in negatives of photos of dusk / regret so huge it's on a phantom axis" but also the sort of humor that would make Stephen Malkmus proud: "It's not about Satan or anything you just die / it's weird."
Maybe Lenses Alien isn't an essential album. It isn't perfect. The album loses a little steam around "The Current" and has to really work to gain back that momentum. But then again I don't really think it ever tries to be anything important. This isn't "Leaves of Grass," this is a really banging collection by a poet honing his craft, still experimenting and learning and having fun. What can I say? It's just a really fucking good rock album.


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I have been noticing for quite some time now, that there are a lot of people in neoreaction, or people interested in neoreaction, who tend to have a very limited understanding of economics, either because their interests lie elsewhere or simply because they do not have the time to study the subject. This post is for those people who wish they would know more about economics, especially macroeconomics. Moldbug himself had quite a few posts on economics, and those are all very good, but in some cases I believe he sacrificed simplicity in order to be as detailed and thorough as possible. The aim of this post is exactly the opposite. Understanding how the process of natural economic growth operates is indeed somewhat complicated (although not as complicated as some 'experts' would like to convince you), but in this post, I will try to explain it in the simplest way possible, so that whoever is new to economics can have at least a general understanding of this topic. Keep in mind, I am not a professional economist myself, I do not have a fancy degree, but I have read quite a bit about the topic and I think I have at least a general idea of what the fuck is going on. Which should be more than enough for the purposes of this post.
The modern world has actually almost entirely forgotten what natural economic growth looks like. And this is another reason why reviewing this subject is so important. You will never hear a mainstream economist say what I am about to write in this essay (hardly surprising of course, considering that I am following the Austrian School's account here). Through the constant repetition of boom and bust cycles, along with multiple interventions by governments in order to 'stimulate the economy' natural economic growth has become a thing of the past. The scientific consensus is that natural growth is evil. So it is almost an accident if it happens at all nowadays.
Now, I should clarify that what is meant by natural economic growth is growth which does not rely on the helping hand of the government with its massive stimulus programs and policies of monetary expansion. Yes, contrary to popular belief an economy can grow based entirely on private enterprise and you don't have your government spending accounting for 40% of GDP in order to keep GDP growth positive (then again GDP is a fudged aggregate anyways, but that is another topic). Now, as every Austrian economist will tell you, governments are not better at growing economies than private businesses. In fact they are much worse. And usually when they do try to 'stimulate' growth, that is exactly what causes the infamous business cycle. But this is not a post about Austrian business cycle theory, so we are not going to talk about that.
However, to paraphrase Hayek, in order to know why things go wrong we should know how they go right in the first place. So you cannot understand business cycles without understanding natural growth. You can't understand why your computer is not working without understanding how it is supposed to work, etc.
Before going into the main subject however, we will first discuss a concept which is fundamental for understanding human action. We shall begin by discussing the existence of universal time preference amongst humans.
What is time preference?
Time preference stands for the rate of preference people have for consumption of goods and services at an earlier date versus consumption of goods and services at some later date. When an individual's time preference rises, he starts consuming more and is saving much less (if he is saving at all). He is more concerned about the present and the near-future than the more distant future. When an individual's time preference goes lower, he consumes less and saves more, cares more about the distant future and is more concerned about the long-term than the short-term in general. The existence of time preference reveals one very fundamental fact of human action – everyone prefers to consume sooner rather than later. This is true because of the fact that time itself is a scarce good. Humans are not immortal – we all eventually die which means that we don't have an unlimited amount of time. Because of this fundamental fact, everything else being equal, everyone prefers to acquire and either consume or in some other fashion make use of a specific good sooner rather than later.
The time preference of the population directly influences the market interest rates and most importantly the overall structure of production of the economy. For now let's just clarify why time preference is the most important factor in determining interest rates. First of all, what is an interest rate? As you probably know, interest is the premium that the lender charges the borrower for a particular amount of money loaned for a given period. When person A lends person B a certain amount of money at a certain interest rate for, say, a year, person B, after the year has passed, must repay A the original amount of money loaned plus the interest accrued. But why do people even charge interest rates? You already learned the answer in the previous paragraph. People charge interest on loans (whether they are monetary or not) because of the existence of time preference. When people loan money they demand a higher amount to be paid back because everyone universally prefers money and goods in general sooner rather than later. So the delayed consumption that the lender has to go through has to be compensated with an extra premium amount repaid on top of the principal.
Now that we know what human time preference is and how it relates to interest rates we can finally move on to the main discussion.
To start with the conclusion, natural economic growth is driven by savings and not by consumption as most mainstream economists like to claim. For them, especially for Keynesians, it is all about demand – aggregate demand. If demand is too low according to their metrics, the government should intervene and 'stimulate' the economy by randomly spending money. It is not that important how the money are spent, what is important is that the overall level of demand increases so that there is no price deflation (fall in prices) and no fall in employment. This line of thinking is (you guessed it!) fundamentally misguided totally retarded.
For economic growth to be possible, first the people's time preference has to fall. This lowering of the time preference means that economic actors are now increasing their savings to consumption ratio i.e. they consume less and save more. This of course leads to a fall in the demand for consumer goods which also eventually lowers their price. At this point Paul Krugman is already having a seizure. But this fall in demand for consumer goods is necessary for the economy to be able to grow.
Now that the demand for, and the price of consumer goods has fallen this also leads to a fall in profits from producing them which forces firms in those consumer goods industries to cut back on their costs in order to keep themselves in business (some firms might actually be completely forced out of the market). So they start producing less, leading to a fall in the supply of consumer goods and of course, they also cut back on wages and labor as they do so. Remember that this whole process was initiated by the consumers themselves when they started saving more money and consuming less. The fall in the supply of the consumer goods is a response to the earlier fall in demand. Less consumer goods are now being produced not because of some mysterious 'market failure', but because the consumers themselves are now saving much more because of their lower time preference.
Now we come to the most important effect of the fall in time preferences and subsequent increase of savings – this leads to a fall in interest rates. With an increasing pool of savings available for lending and therefore for investment, interest rates fall and entrepreneurs can now borrow more money and undertake more roundabout and more productive long-term projects which were not profitable before when interest rates were higher. This leads to an increased demand in the capital goods industries as more roundabout and more long-term projects require a higher amount of capital. I believe it is common sense that more productive and complicated projects do require a longer time period to finish and a higher supply of capital. Or at least it should be to everyone who is not a Keynesian.
The result of this increase in demand for capital goods is that both the price of capital goods and subsequently the profits to be made in the capital goods industries rise substantially leading to a further increase in profits to be made in those sectors of the economy. Because of this the businesses already in those sectors start expanding and at the same time whole new business ventures get started as well. Just what you would expect to happen in an industry when the demand for its goods starts increasing. This of course means that wages start rising as well, as more workers are needed by expanding and newly started business enterprises in that sector.
These higher wages, caused by the increased demand for labor, start attracting workers from the consumer goods industries where wages were actually cut (because of the fall in demand for those goods) and some labor may have even been released. So, there is a shift of labor – from the consumer goods industries to the capital goods industries. This shift of course takes some time to happen therefore a mild short-term rise in unemployment may happen after the fall in consumption. In the real world, things happen in real time. This is not a statistical simulation in which the market can equilibrate immediately. It does equilibrate in the end, but that takes some time – several months maybe a year or two. In that period, yes, there is an increase in unemployment. But always remember that this is only temporary, as this unemployed labor is now needed for the production of the capital goods, the demand for which has risen, after the increased investment by entrepreneurs in more long-term projects.
After labor starts shifting, and the capital goods sector starts expanding, soon enough, the supply of capital goods in the economy starts increasing. This of course means that now more capital can be used in production which crucially increases the capital to labor ratio. The increase in this ratio means that workers now have more capital to work with which increases the marginal productivity of their labor (the employment of increasing amounts of capital, and labor, are of course both subject to the law of diminishing returns, but as this is an introductory text, we will not go into detail about that). Of course if labor is more productive this means that more goods can be produced than before, which, in the long-term, leads to a rise in the supply of consumer goods.
(Also, remember those long-term and more roundabout and more productive projects that entrepreneurs wanted to start after interest rates went down? Exactly. Now they are successfully completed.)
As the supply of consumer goods rises, ceteris paribus, their price falls, leading to an increased (real) wage to price ratio. In order words, the purchasing power of money rises, and people can now buy more stuff with the same wages they had before, assuming the money supply has stayed relatively constant, or at least hasn't increased to the same degree as the supply of consumer goods (money are also subject to the laws of supply and demand as is any other good exchanged in the market economy). Fluctuations in the money supply can affect this whole process very seriously, but once again, we are trying to keep it simple, so we will leave that for another time.
The modern technical term for this process of an increase in the purchasing power of money is of course (price) deflation, or more precisely, (as Austrians would put it) productivity deflation. Deflation is, of course, demonized by every single mainstream economist you can come across nowadays. But as we just saw, natural economic growth inevitably leads to deflation, assuming a stable money supply. And this fall in prices is not scary at all, as it directly results in an increased standard of living for everyone as the consumers can now by more goods with less money than before.
But to emphasize this last point some historical examples might be useful.
The most famous one is of course the period of industrialization during the 19th century. For example, in the U.S. from 1880 to 1896, the wholesale price level fell by about 30 percent, or by 1.75 percent per year, while real income rose by about 85 percent, or around 5 percent per year [1]. Of course deflation occurred not only in those sixteen years, but throughout the whole century accompanied by massive economic growth in both Europe and the U.S. interrupted only in times of major wars.
Of course nowadays everyone is convinced that deflation (no matter what kind, because there are several) should always be avoided because it unavoidably leads to depression. This is absolute nonsense and I hope that by now you fully understand why. But if someone keeps insisting on an undeniable deflation=depression relationship, you can always point him to this research paper (by two economists of the Federal Reserve, no less), which clearly states that:
"… the only episode in which we find evidence of a link between deflation and depression is the Great Depression (1929-34). We find virtually no evidence of such a link in any other period. … What is striking is that nearly 90% of the episodes with deflation did not have depression. In a broad historical context, beyond the Great Depression, the notion that deflation and depression are linked virtually disappears."
So that's that. I hope this post helped clarify (at least a bit) the mystical topic of economic growth. If something is unclear, post your questions in the comments below. Once again, I am not a professional economist (although I am probably still better than some), but I will try to answer any possible queries to the best of my knowledge.
[1] Data from: Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States: 1867–1960 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971), pp. 94–95.
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Or you could take President Harding's approach to the 1920 depression: Cut spending (by half!), balance the budget, and let God sort out the rest. By 1921, the depression was over.
We will eventually put the task of managing the economy back in God's invisible hand, while the former managers in D.C. roast rats and pigeons over burning piles of $100 bills.
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To start with the conclusion, natural economic growth is driven by savings and not by consumption as most mainstream economists like to claim.
I realise that this article is polemical, but even so, this is a remarkably wrong-headed statement. Most mainstream economists claim no such thing, as even a minimal amount of Googling would reveal. The baseline for understanding economic growth in mainstream economics is the neoclassical Solow-Swan model. In this (simple workhorse) model, abstracting away from population growth, the drivers of economic growth are either capital accumulation or technological change (i.e., productivity growth). When taken to the data, capital accumulation was not sufficient to explain the variation in growth levels across countries, leading to the assumption that productivity growth must instead be the factor that explained the residual variation in economic growth.


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500 Foods has a new website
We're thrilled to announce that we have finally gotten our new website off the ground. Been a long time coming, but with everything else being a higher priority, it just never got the resources it needed. But it is here now, and hopefully the foundation has been laid that will serve us well for some time to come.
For the technical people in the audience, the site has been developed using Drupal, with a Commerce profile as its base. It is hosted on a Rackspace Cloud Server, giving us excellent reliability and network performance in a high-availability setting. It is unlikely that we'll attract thousands of hits per minute anytime soon, but when we eventually come to that point, we're well-positioned to scale with little effort.
The online store isn't turned on yet as we're not quite ready to start selling products. However, the infrastructure is ready to go and we will turn it on very soon. It is being tested internally with a number of different classes of products so that when it does go live, it will be a useful addition to our arsenal.
The biggest sections of the site, however, are not public-facing but are used by our existing clients. Online documentation for all of our software and other systems is now live, along with courses and other support materials. Similarly for investors. So if you fall into those categories, please signup for an account to gain access to all of these materials.


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after the storm
after a day of heavy snowfalls the skies cleared and the sun broke through. Just like after a heavy rain, the most magnificent and dramatic light created some breathtaking views. This photo was taken at #17 at Marlborough Country Club. It was a great walk that evening and more photographs of snow are to come….


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Marilee grew up in Quincy, where she also raised her three children. She now lives in Holbrook.
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Good Morning friends,
As undertake in another country? The internalization is closely linked to entrepreneurship and it are concepts that are linked.
I take this post to inform that the Chambre of Lugo (Spain) has a proyect with The ParqueSoft ( Colombia) with programs to benefit Colombian entrepreneurs from all sectors to undertake in Spain.
Through these agreements Colombian entrepreneurs may establish branches of their companies in Spain.
For more information: Juan Manuel Delgado, Director of Parque Soft Palmira
Best regards,
"Opportunity for Colombian entrepreneurs to undertake in Spain"
Mireya Garcia
Global entrepreneurship Week 2009
Good Morning Friends,
With my first coffe in the morning, I inform you about the event Global Entrepreneurship Week, taking place throughout the world between 16 and 22 November 2009.
Global Initiatitive to inspire young people to make maximum use of their creativity,innovation and imagination.
Participating students,teachers,businessmen,social leaders,business leaders to promote entrepreneurship throughout in the world.
Best regards,
Mireya Garcia
Inspire them to think big and transform their ideas into reality.
Contest of bSherpas -Entrepreneur of the month
Good Morning friends,
With my first coffee in the morning,
bSherpas is a company formed by a group of people, highly committed to developing or emerging areas.
It is an online platform where entrepreneurs have a presence. The entrepreneur explained that the need for developing their project, the person interested in helping an entrepreneur can form part of your team interacting through different tools.
Actually bSherpas organize the contest the entrepreur of the month. The contest is based to find that is the best business idea in India, according to users.
For more information on participation requirements and prizes.
You can be the entrepreneur of the month!
Best regards,
Entrepreneurs Colombia
Good Morning friends,
With my first coffee in the morning …
Cultiving the entrepreneurial culture in Colombia. Foundation Saint Martin is organizing the third EXPO FAIR ENTREPRENEURSHIP 2009.
This event is organized by students of finance and international relations.
Date and venue of the exhibition: 20 May 2009
Its Founders, Mariano A , Sofan Alvear, Gloria Orozco and Arturo Alvarez have built in Bogota one institucion that is today a model in Latin America.
Initiatives for entrepreneurs !
Best regards,
Entrepreneurs in evolution (Mexico)
Good Morning friends,
With my first coffee in the morning …
Trends Entrepreneurial AC , nonprofit organization that conducts various activities to promote entrepreneurial development.
Entrepreneurs in evolution ( Mexico) is a group of businessman , entrepreneurs and professionals in various knowledge,experience, networks and projects to facilitate the achievement of our goals together, creating innovative business models to allow internal and external activities .
The president Paulo Cesar Ramirez is responsible for the presentation of the book Developing entrepreneurial skills and attitudes, enterprising young man who has integrated into a single model of human development, economic, environmental, social, technological entrepreneurs to form successful.
The entrepreneur should not have a lonely path.
Best regards,
For enterprising universtiy
Good Morning friends,
With my first coffee in the morning ,
Entrepreneurs who wish to undertake in the university, the entrepreneurship centers may help to you.
Academics from the universities should encourage and support entrepreneurship by making students feel the full supports of the faculty.
Initatives that are taking longer in some universities in Latinoamerica.
Special Mention
University of Concepción (Chile) from 2004 offers all of its students subjects up throughout the race. Those who complete the program receive a special diploma from the university attesting that have participated in a formal program of training and development of entrepreneurial skills.
Case in point is the Launch Workshop Graduate Entrepreneurship, University of Chile, the workshop is aimed at young academics who feel anxious to set up companies, who wish to learn the tools necessary to carry out its proyect, including plans, business etc…www.clubdeemprendedores.cl
Stimulating entrepreurship in the universities
Best regards,


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The Best Defense to Litigation Is a Good Bank Culture
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Of all the financial markets that should be resistant to manipulation, foreign exchange surely tops the list. With $5.3 trillion traded daily by thousands of buyers and sellers across the world, this should be one hyper-efficient market.
And yet six major banks recently agreed to a $4.3 billion settlement with US, UK, and Swiss authorities over charges that the banks had failed to prevent traders from attempting to manipulate the market. In all three countries, it is possible that criminal charges against individuals may follow.
The settlement is the latest in a long line of massive legal actions that hold banks responsible for the activities of their employees. Prosecutorial efforts to hold shareholders liable for myriad problems that bank employees have caused seem to have no end in sight. The goal of these actions is to prompt boards and their managers to reform banking cultures. If banks want to avoid more floods of litigation in the future, they'll have to act fast.
Charging corporations for the conduct of their employees was unusual until 1999, when Eric Holder, at that time the US Deputy Attorney General, wrote a memo to federal prosecutors outlining the criteria for bringing such charges. His memo — which has been superseded by a series of others in the years since — set standards that the government followed in suits against Enron, WorldCom and other corporations caught in scandals during the early 2000s.
The basic idea is that corporations are expected to provide a culture of good citizenship and appropriate business practices that comply with the law. Prosecutors who are considering bringing charges against corporations are supposed to consider a number of factors. These include the pervasiveness of wrongdoing within the company, whether it has a history of misconduct, whether the company makes timely and voluntary self-disclosures of wrongdoing to regulators and cooperates in investigations, and the existence and adequacy of the company's compliance programs, including management efforts to prevent, identify and discipline wrongdoing.
The proliferation of settlements in an array of financial markets in recent years makes it clear that banks must show they have made credible and persistent efforts to keep their people in line. They must be able to demonstrate that they have organized themselves into proactively watchful and compliant organizations, with thousands of middle managers who are well trained, motivated and rewarded for spotting and fixing trouble before it happens. This functional approach to controlling behavior is the essence of the much-discussed cultural issue in banks. (It does, however, force banks to confront the difficult question of how to reward people appropriately from the bonus pool for things that don't happen as opposed to things that do.)
Banks and their boards of directors are beginning to get the message. They appreciate that cases against them may have even worse consequences if their cultures are perceived pervasively and historically tolerant of misconduct.
The good news is that banks can turn things around. On desks like foreign exchange, improving the culture requires pruning the ranks of chat-room miscreants and re-training those who remain. Meanwhile, people selected for management must be inculcated with the idea that they can and will be rewarded for how well they play defense as well as offense.
Internal whistleblowers must be encouraged, not marginalized — which is in itself a real challenge. And ad-hoc committees at the operating-unit level need to be able to thrash out and resolve conflicts of interest and compliance issues as they arise.
All this requires a major reworking of middle management responsibilities and accountability. That's tough. But it can be done, and done effectively, if banks have the necessary will and the resources. The latest series of FX settlements suggests that major banks don't have a lot of time to lose.
–Roy C. Smith and Ingo Walter are professors of finance at New York University's Stern School of Business.


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Berri: New Govt. Must Distance Lebanon from Region Events, Represent All Forces
Speaker Nabih Berri on Friday called for a new government that would "distance Lebanon from the ongoing developments in the region" and "represent all of Lebanon's forces."
"We are seeking a government that would distance Lebanon from the ongoing developments in the region, a government with independent decisions based on national unity," Berri said in a speech in Baalbek marking the 40th anniversary of the disappearance of Imam Moussa al-Sadr, the founder of the AMAL Movement.
"Lebanon's government must represent all of Lebanon's parliamentary forces," the Speaker stressed.
He also hoped the obstacles delaying the government's formation will be resolved in the expected meeting between President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri.
As for the thorny issue of restoring ties with Damascus, Berri said: "We're awaiting a political solution for the refugee file after the formation of the government and we need official dialogue between the governments of the two countries."
Separately, Berri said some forces "are trying to stage a coup" against the "resistant, patriotic Shiite duo," in reference to AMAL and Hizbullah.
"They are desperately trying to drive a wedge between AMAL and Hizbullah," Berri added, noting that such an attempt has no chance of success.
Turning to the security file in the Bekaa region, the Speaker announced that AMAL and Hizbullah are "lifting the cover off every wrongdoer, offender or drug dealer."
"On behalf of our two parliamentary blocs I call for issuing a calculated general amnesty that excludes homicides and attacks on security forces," he added.
"We call for dropping the arrest warrants through the law... We stress our confidence in the army and the security forces to preserve Bekaa's security, but the pressing situations in the Bekaa require developmental projects," Berri went on to say.
Berri: Year after year, I announce in my name and in the name of my brothers in the AMAL Movement that we will continue working on liberating the imam and his two brothers from his place of detention in Libya.
Your Imam has been with Skeletor for the last 40 years!
He needs to justify his 'jihadi' existence for an 'imagined' cause and a non existent case. He is also asking the government to support the 'follow-up' committee and probably has a budget for it too.
His Imam is/was an iranian born terrorist; as simple as that.
He and his sect have robbed this country blind and he is still talking about 'shia deprivation'! Are we to understand that Berri considers himself 'deprived'?
I dont beleive he understands the question Justin.
he is a deprived shia; deprived of a brain, logic and common sense.
Justin, yes he is a secular Jaafari Twelver.
All shias specially those who follow wilayat al faqih like mowaten, southern, etc are either secular, atheist or Christian.
By distancing itself from the area I presume hes talking about the liberation of Palestine that is currently happening in Syria? lol
If it was a slip of the tongue he is quick to state the new governement will need to have dialog (take orders from) Syria and Iran.
Berri: New Govt. Must Distance Lebanon from Region Events
Oh I see; it is the government that has been interfering in regional 'events' and not hezbollah. So, yeah it makes sense.
He also is echoing the differences between to thieving parties by stating those who are trying to drive a wedge between AMAL and Kizbullah, noting that such an attempt has no chance of success. This is simply to remind Kizbullah that there is no honor between thieves. Many of us remember back in BEIRUT, Nov 1988 fierce street battles today among amal and Kizb gunmen, Syrian had provided Amal with a green light and they drove Kizballah from contested areas in west Beirut following three days of fighting that left 20 persons dead between them. Nothing has changed they still hate each others guts as competitors to thievery and illicit drug making.
Soon in the Shia eschatology, Moussa Sadr will become a Saint like the stinky Hassan Nasrallah after his cancer kills him.


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December 28, 2010
Extra Gas For Your Classic Bike
Back in 1999, I was planning my first major motorcycle trip. This was to be a 10 day trip, starting in NC, heading north to IL, then over to SD, down to CO, back across to IL and finally home to NC.
I was riding a 1996 Sportster at the time and had been told by numerous people that my 3.3 gallon tank was going to leave me stranded in the middle of the Badlands. After thinking it over, I decided to carry some extra gas, just in case. At the time, my only real option for carrying spare gas was in your standard 1 gallon square plastic tanks from the local Lawn and Garden Center.
So I picked up a pair and crammed them in my saddlebags. While technically this worked, the gas tanks stretched out my bags and used most of the available storage space. Definitely not the best situation as space is already a premium on a Sportster. The gas tanks did make the trip, although it turned out that gas stations were plentiful on the main highways and they were never even used.
Fast forward to present day and I find myself in the same situation. Now I'm riding a 1964 Duo-Glide with the original factory three gallon tank. My total range is even less than the Sportster, hovering under 100 miles per tank with a good tail wind. My initial search for a spare gas container turned up the usual suspects. There was still the 1 gallon Lawn and Garden gas tanks, but my rigid saddlebags do not accommodate them. There are also MSR fuel bottles, but the largest size is only 20 oz and I don't like the idea of the bottles bouncing and rolling around in my bags. I have seen some leather harnesses that allow you to strap the MSR fuel bottles on your bike's frame or crash guards, but these are expensive and you still are not carrying that much extra gas.
A couple weeks ago, the answer to my gas problem came to me while surfing the internet. Somewhere I stumbled across a product called the Reda Gas Can, which was developed by Reda Innovations out of Orland Park, IL. I have to admit that I was pretty excited to see this product. It's rare to find a new product that you can use on a vintage bike. Sure they make plenty of new gadgets that would work on a vintage bike, but am I really going to mount a Garmin GPS and iPod on my Panhead…
After contacting Reda Innovations, a new 1 Gallon Reda Gas Can was shipped to my door. As you can see in the picture above, these fuel tanks are designed to fit in the rear of a modern saddlebag. Just like everything else, saddlebags have followed the "bigger is better" development plan and are no longer the same size as the saddlebags on my 1964 Duo-Glide. This, plus the fact that the locking mechanism on my saddlebag is on the rear, meant that a different location would need to be found. After trying several positions, I found that the Reda Gas Can fit perfectly in the front of my saddlebag. Due to the taper of my saddlebags, the Reda Gas Can would not fit all the way at the bottom of the bag, but the gap under it is a perfect fit for my tool roll.
One of the things I was most impressed with on the Reda Gas Can was the spout. Like your standard gas can, the spout stores inside the can when not in use. Unlike a standard gas can, the spout is both spill proof and vapor proof, so you don't have to worry about your saddlebags filling up with gas fumes or leaked fuel. Also, a valve inside the spout will prevent spills even when the spout is mounted outside the can. By rotating a green collar on the spout, you are able to open the valve and safely pour gasoline from the can. The spout also has a tank anchor which hooks to your gas tank while pouring the gas, to prevent it from slipping and causing a spill. If that was not enough, there is even a locking mechanism which keeps the cap from loosening while stored in your saddlebag.
The Reda Gas Can is EPA and CARB certified in all 50 states, so you can pack it in your saddlebag without a worry. You can purchase the Reda Gas Can directly from their website at www.redagascan.com and even at www.amazon.com. I've also heard that this product is making it's way into dealerships and bike shops across the nation, so keep an eye out for it next time you are at your local motorcycle dealership or independent shop. One is good, but having two on hand would be even better. I think I'll be ordering a second for my other saddlebag…
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Brexton is proud to once again be the Design Builder in the renovation of a section of Lower Lights Christian Health Center. LLCHC is adding a grocery store to their mission of healthcare for the residents of Franklinton. LLCHC will operate a full-service nonprofit grocery store, Jubilee Market and Cafe, scheduled to open Spring 2018.
The market and cafe will offer Franklinton families healthy and affordable fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy products, meats, breads, ready-made meals and other grocery items sourced from local vendors and national distributors.


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2:14pm PT by Kimberly Nordyke
'Days of Our Lives' to Make TV History With Gay Male Wedding (Video)
Days of Our Lives is making history this week.
NBC's long-running daytime drama is set to air the first wedding between two males with the marriage of Will Horton (Guy Wilson) and Sonny Kiriakis (Freddie Smith). The wedding will take place over the course of three consecutive episodes.
PHOTOS: My Big, Gay Hollywood Wedding (Finally!)
Watch a preview below.
Days began the storyline back in 2011 when Smith (90210) joined the show.
However, this isn't the first same-sex wedding to air on a soap. ABC's All My Children was the first to air one back in 2009, with the nuptials of Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel) and Reese Williams (Tamara Braun).
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Transcript: Thom Hartmann & Bill McKibben : Pipeline is game over for environment? 17 August '11
Thom Hartmann: Welcome back, Thom Hartmann here with you. Our green report today, brought to you by SolarWorld.com, solar panels for home and business and there is nobody greener these days than Bill McKibben. Environmentalist, founder of 350.org, educator, author of numerous books, including "Eaarth," with two a's. 350.org the extraordinary website. And Bill welcome, welcome back to the program.
Bill McKibben: Thom, as always, what a pleasure to be with you.
Thom Hartmann: Thank you. I understand that you and a, you have an open solicitation to a group of friends to get arrested with you.
Bill McKibben: And it's turned out to be a bigger deal than we might have thought right at first. A couple of months ago a group of us, Naomi Klein and Wendell Berry and I sent out a letter asking people if they'd come to DC beginning August 20th through September 3rd to commit civil disobedience in an effort to persuade the president, not to grant a permit for this pipeline from the tar sands of Northern Alberta down to the Gulf of Mexico.
Thom Hartmann: This is called the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Bill McKibben: The Keystone. And you know, it's by far the biggest straw stuck into that tarry milkshake up there. Jim Hanson, the greatest climatologist on the planet, said not long ago that if we burned a large quality of that tar sands oil it's, and dare I quote, "essentially game over for the climate." That's what got even those of us who don't live along the pipeline route and have to worry about spills and those of us who don't live in Alberta and haven't watched the royal forest be destroyed, that's what got the rest of us finally, scared of the facts.
Thom Hartmann: Now is that because either A, it's just that much more oil being burned, because basically this is bringing Alaskan oil down to Texas refineries. Or is it B, that the process of extracting this oil from shale and from tar sands is, releases in and of itself, independent of the ultimate oil and gasoline that is burned, the process itself releases massive amounts of carbon dioxide. Or is it both?
Bill McKibben: A little of both. It is a completely ridiculous way to get oil out of the ground. You have to burn a lot of natural gas to heat the oil enough to make it flow and, but even if you didn't' have to do any of that, that pool of carbon up there in Alberta is the second biggest pool of carbon on the planet, after only the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. We can't burn it if we're serious about climate change. It's got to stay in the ground. And the good news is, to the extent that there's good news, is that, you know, this time President Obama is going to get a clean shot at doing this. Congress doesn't play a roll. The president has to sign a piece of paper saying this thing is in the national interest. And he said he will do it one way or another by the end of the year, and we're trying to demonstrate that there's deep support for him doing the right thing. And I think we're starting to do that. We've got about two thousand people committed to coming and getting arrested. This will be the largest civil disobedience action, I think, in the history of the U.S. environmental movement, and one of the largest of its kind in many years.
Thom Hartmann: Wow.
Bill McKibben: One of the great wonderful ironies, we didn't know it at the time, not ironies, beautiful coincidences, is that in the middle of these two week sit ins, two weeks of sit ins, they will be dedicating a monument to Martin Luther King on the mall and it will be a wonderful chance to show that his tactics and his witness aren't just history. They're very much in the present.
Thom Hartmann: Right. Speaking of non-violent sit ins. Two quick thoughts here. One, is that, my understanding, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that this oil is actually a whole heck of a lot closer to the Pacific Ocean than it is to Texas. But Canada won't the next states over, won't allow the pipeline to go through their states and that's why Alberta is trying to go through the United States. Do I have that right?
Bill McKibben: More or less. It's first nation's Indian tribes in Canada that have been very effective at blocking that pipeline. They have more legal rights than American native tribes and they've tied it completely up in litigation to the point where the Alberta Energy Minister said the other day that if they can't build this pipeline through to Texas they'll be, and here I quote him, "landlocked in bitumen," that's the technical name for this gooey, tarry sand they've got up there.
Thom Hartmann: Oh it's pronounced bitument, I always thought it was bitumen.
Bill McKibben: It could be, but…
Thom Hartmann: I have no idea.
Bill McKibben: They're going to be landlocked in the stuff if they can't build this pipeline. Which is why, as always, they're doing everything they can to game the U.S. political system that you know hired Hilary Clinton's old campaign, deputy campaign manager to be their chief lobbyist. Wikileaks document that came out a couple of weeks ago showed our envoys meeting with Canadian energy companies to help them gain favorable media coverage. It's wired. The only thing that will stop it is president Obama.
And that's why a bunch of us will be wearing, when we get arrested, we'll be wearing our old Obama '08 buttons, you know. In a sense this is less a protest of him than a kind of, an attempt to remind ourselves and him of the hope and joy that accompanied his campaign and election. On the night he was nominated he said, "If I'm elected it will mean the rise of the oceans will begin to slow and the planet will begin to heal." Now he's been hampered by our idiot congress for a very long time in doing at least some of the things that would have helped. This one, you know, he's a basketball player. He's got a 20 foot open jumper from the top of the key. And the question is will he shoot or will he pass? And we'll learn a lot about President Obama from this decision because it's his decision to make.
Thom Hartmann: It seems to me, Bill McKibben, that there's another natural ally for you in this, although, you know the right is typically bought out by corporate America which is all about the oil. And the Koch brothers, of course, are going to be all about this oil. They've got big refineries, I believe, down in Texas. But having a massive oil pipeline run right through the center of the United States is like a, you know, put your dynamite here with a giant red arrow on it on the map for any terrorist in the world that wants to do some harm to this country. And there's no possible way, given how big and how rough and how unpopulated much of the land through which that pipeline would pass, that it could be protected. It's a terrorist magnet.
Bill McKibben: That's one of the reasons why people in Texas and Nebraska in particular have been so outspoken against it. The great Jane Kleeb who has been leading much of the fight in Nebraska is here with us today. There's a huge caravan of people coming from Texas and Nebraska doing road shows all along the way and arriving here in time to be arrested toward the end of this two week protest. They're all over this. And it's not just a terrorism threat. The great threat of this stuff leaking into, among other things, the Ogallala Aquifer over which it will past and the fact that they're using imminent domain to take beautiful…
Thom Hartmann: They're going to take a lot of peoples' homes and maybe even some cities. They'll probably route around the cities but they're going to take a lot of peoples' homes and a lot of peoples' farms and a lot of peoples' ranches. The Ogallala Aquifer is the nation's largest?
Bill McKibben: It's the biggest pool of fresh, underground fresh water on the continent, I think.
Thom Hartmann: Yeah. And this is a giant lake of fresh water that's ten thousand or more years old, underground, that it took ten thousand years for rain water to seep down and fill it. And it supplies water to, what, about a dozen or more states?
Bill McKibben: Yes. I think 20 million Americans take their water from there.
Thom Hartmann: And if this pipeline was to be either blown up by people with nefarious intent or just good old fashion broke and nobody noticed it for a while and that oil got into that Aquifer, that's the end of safe drinking water and agricultural water for 20 million people.
Bill McKibben: 20 of the most preeminent scientists in the U.S. sent a letter to President Obama last week saying this thing is a dog. It's a no brainer to oppose it scientifically. The only question is politically. The Koch brothers have put so much money into it, the big oil companies put so much money into it. It's going to be hard for the president to stand up to this. We'll find out what he's made of. And the more people that go to TarSandsAction.org and get involved, the better the chances.
Thom Hartmann: Great. TarSandsAction.org? I'm assuming there's a link from 350.org as well?
Bill McKibben: There is indeed.
Thom Hartmann: Okay and we'll put one off there from ThomHartmann.com as well and we'll put it in our newsletter tonight that goes out to all of our subscribers as well. So, Bill McKibben, 350.org . Thank you Bill.
Bill McKibben: Take care.
Thom Hartmann: Keep up the great work. And let us know when you're in town, love to see you.
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It all started when my officemate moved out, last fall. We had shared the seventh-floor suite of offices over a liquor store, but the practice of law is as chancy as any other small business these days, and when Mike got an offer for better accommodations at a lower rent, he took it. I stayed on, putting up with the painting and moving all around me.
The United States Postal Service apparently does not handle change easily these days. It took them about three weeks to catch on to Mike's change of address. In the meantime, his mail mostly got dropped off on the second floor of our building, where the landlord's office is located. So did mine.
But when the USPS finally figured out that Mike was now at another address, for some reason I cannot understand, they decided I was too. Or maybe not. Some of my mail went to Mike at his new address. Some of it was returned to sender. Occasionally, I got some of it. And some of it just disappeared without a trace. No junk mail, no bills, no correspondence from court clerks and opposing counsel, and above all, no checks from my clients.
I called the Customer Service number at the downtown post office, and eventually got through to a nice lady named Joan. I explained the situation to her, and she suggested that I prevail on the landlord to number all of the offices in our suite—701, 702, and so on. I wasn't quite sure what that would accomplish, but I talked to the landlord. I also stuck a number 701 on my office door. So far, that has accomplished nothing.
So then I started becoming Super-Customer, a guise I often adopt to redress wrongs done to my clients, my friends, and sometimes myself. When in doubt, the Super-Customer calls the head honcho, or his/her PR guy. Or dashes off a nastygram to the lowest-level miscreant first, with cc:s to everybody on up the chain of command. This is one of the things lawyers are supposed to be good at. Normally, it makes corporate moguls quake in their boots and shower me with product coupons. My track record isn't bad.
But the Super-Customer routine works only when you actually know the chain of command, or at least the guy at the top. And several hours of online research failed to reveal the name or contact information of the Chicago postmaster. Or anybody else in his/her chain of command.
This is real transparency. A word from Mr. Wired about this term. "Transparency" is in these days. Everybody promises it, or aspires to it, or lays claim to it. It is supposed to mean honesty and openness (glasnost?) But think about it; if something is transparent, it is invisible. If you can see through something, you can't see it. Apparently, that's how the United States Postal Service operates, at least in Chicago. Trying to get results from a transparent organization is like trying to walk through a perfectly clean glass door. (Hence the title of this post, if you were wondering.)
I tried contacting my own congressional rep. His people were baffled. So then I looked up the House Committee list online, and discovered that another local representative (Danny Davis, from Illinois' 7th District) is on the subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia. Hot dog! Called his office, got routed to his specialist in postal problems, and actually succeeded in getting her to understand my problem. She is still working on it (with time off for the holidays), but I'm already encouraged. Maybe I will start the new year with regular mail service and my usual quantum of junk mail, and Ben Franklin will stop spinning in his grave. But the USPS is not your grandfather's post office. For those advocates of privatizing other government agencies, give this some thought.
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