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The man who had served as Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince is now its king. King Abdullah became the ruler today upon the death of his half brother, King Fahd. Fahd was 84. Abdullah is 81 and essentially had been the kingdom's leader since 1995, when Fahd was sidelined by a stroke. University of Houston Professor Michael Economides writes about energy in World Energy Monthly Review.
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The new king faces problems including liberalizing an ailing economy, dealing with pressure for greater freedom and democracy and battling religious extremism. Crude prices soared past $62 per barrel in early trading on word that Saudi Arabia's King Fahd died this morning. Many analysts say Fahd's death is unlikely to affect oil supply from Saudi Arabia and the impact of the news is expected to be temporary. Professor Economides says there are other factors affecting oil prices.
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World Energy Monthly Review has already published several articles about the region.
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What may be of a more lasting concern to energy markets is the possible impact on production after fires at two U. S. refineries last Thursday. BP says gasoline output at its Texas City plant was cut by 35,000 barrels a day.
BP says the installation of the wrong type of steel pipe contributed to last week's explosion and fire at its Texas City refinery. BP spokesman Ronnie Chappell says workers erroneously installed a section of carbon steel pipe in the refinery's resid hydrotreating unit this February. The pipe should have been made of chromium alloy steel. The U. S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigating Board says high-pressured gas was released when the pipe broke on Thursday. The reactor combines heavy crude oil with hydrogen as part of the conversion to lighter products. Chappell says investigators are trying to determine whether contractors or BP employees did the installation work. The company also plans to check the facility to make sure the proper piping was installed at similar units.
An energy bill has been signed into law today by Governor Rick Perry. The measure deals with sources such as wind, biomass and solar power–and cutting pollution. Backers say the law is meant to boost the amount of energy produced by renewable sources in Texas. The plan requires that about five percent of the state's energy come from renewable sources by 2015. The goal is ten percent by 2025.
Four projects that the Port of Houston Authority wants to see have been included in the Transportation Reauthorization Act that has passed out of Congress. The four projects in southeast Harris County include the straightening and widening of Port Road near State Highway 146, which officials hope will ease traffic congestion and improve cargo flow in and out of the port and improve roadways used by trucks and improve several railroad crossings. Metropolitan Transit Authority officials have requested $1 billion in federal matching funds over the next ten years to address Houston's long-term mobility needs. Some $10 million will benefit Houston's METRO bus system. The bill also includes $22.8 million for the Houston Large-Scale Freeway Landscaping Project.
Two Houston companies have agreed to disclose more information about their health care "discount cards." Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today announced the agreement with Family Health and Family Care/NAPP. Abbott in April sued both companies. He says the companies will disclose to consumers that their health plans are not insurance. Both companies must stop misrepresenting which health care providers accept their discount cards. Medicaid or Medicare recipients also must be told that they're only eligible for certain benefits associated with the cards. Customers must be informed in advance that a deposit may be required before some services and that card enrollment fees are not refundable. The judgment orders the companies to set aside $175,000 for restitution to people who file a written complaint within six months.
Emerging markets power firm Globeleq is buying power generation assets in South Asia from El Paso Corporation in a $109 million deal. The transaction includes several projects in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia and the Philippines. Globeleq currently owns over 900 megawatts of generating capacity in Asia. The Houston-based company is the only operator solely focuses on the emerging markets of Africa, the Americas and Asia.
Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass LNG affiliate has filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to expand the capacity at its receiving terminal. Construction on the facility began in March, with start-up set for early 2008. Houston-based Cheniere says the terminal will add three additional storage tanks to the three already planned.
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The National Rifle Association today announced plans to boycott Houston-based ConocoPhillips. The dispute involves the company's suit to block an Oklahoma law allowing employees to keep guns in their vehicles while parked in company parking lots. NRA executive Wayne LaPierre announced the boycott in Idabel, Oklahoma at a rally. The show of support was for employees fired by Weyerhauser in 2002 after guns were found in their cars and trucks in the employee parking lot. Weyerhaeuser says the weapons violated a new company policy, but the fired workers say they weren't told of the rule. LaPierre says ConocoPhillips filed a lawsuit challenging a law passed last year to prevent companies from firing employees because they have a gun inside their locked car or truck. The boycott targets Conoco and Phillips 66 gas stations.
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Jury selection began today in a San Diego, Texas lawsuit claiming Clayton Homes forged signatures that put up land as collateral. Tennessee-based Clayton Homes denies wrongdoing. Plaintiffs Attorney David Rumley says Clayton Homes has been unable to explain how a dead person could sign the documents. The plaintiffs are Vicente Saenz, Teodulo Saenz, Manuel Chapa, Wally Gonzalez and Imelda Gonzalez. The lawsuit claims agents of Clayton Homes forged the signatures of Vicente Saenz, Teodulo Saenz, Gloria Saenz Chapa and Agapita Saenz. The documents give the company the Saenz Ranch, should another family member default on the loan of a manufactured home on the property. The documents allegedly were signed in 2001. Gloria Saenz Chapa died in 1993 and Agapita Saenz, whose correct name was Agapita Sauceda, died in 1999.
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Democratic Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono's campaign team called a fundraiser email about sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh an "error" after it was sent out during a hearing with testimony from Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford.
"A fundraising message was sent this morning in error," "Team Hirono" wrote in an email, according to CNN. "We apologize sincerely for the error. All contributions that were made on this page will be donated to organizations helping survivors of sexual assault."
Hirono is running for re-election with only token opposition this November.
"I am about to ask you to make a donation to support my re-election campaign before the [Federal Election Commission] fundraising deadline on Sunday," read a fundraising email for Hirono, according to a screenshot posted on Twitter Thursday morning. "Here's the main reason: I am spending every minute of my day fighting the Republicans who are desperate to rush Brett Kavanaugh's nomination and deny a fair investigation into the credible sexual misconduct allegations against him."
Hirono is "particularly vulnerable to right-wing attacks" because of her focus on the Kavanaugh allegations, the email said.
Hirono told men to "just shut up and step up" on Sept. 18 in light of accusations against Kavanaugh from Ford. A reporter asked Hirono about the effect of having women on the Senate Judiciary Committee that is holding Thursday's hearing.
"Of course it helps that there are women on that committee, but you know what? I expect the men in this country and the men in this committee … to demand an FBI investigation," Hirono, a member of the committee, said. "But really, guess who's perpetuating all of these kinds of actions? It's the men in this country! And I just want to say to the men in this country — just shut up and step up! Do the right thing for a change."
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At the time, I wasn't quite sure why I did this. Indeed, Craig used to get a bit irritated by the suggestion. Our creative process had little to do with any of the pubs nearby. The best ideas were almost always conceived in the office in impromptu chats that more closely resembled a team of wordwits trying to crack a crossword, than an unruly drunken brainstorm. The discussions were, if anything, embarrassingly intellectual – as much about what we wanted to say, as what the right gag was to achieve that end.
It's not that we didn't go to the pub, but that tended to happen after the newspaper was put to bed. And it is true that we enjoyed our beer. Indeed, to keep afloat in the early days, we had an increasingly frequent number of "fund-raising" parties, which involved us inviting our friends to the pub, and then charging them a small door fee for the privilege.
This happened from the very beginning. In fact, we held the first one on the night of May 8, 1999 – the night the first edition launched. We had completely underestimated the task of getting a newly designed newspaper out the door and pulled a couple of all nighters, delivering the files to the printers literally on the way to the launch party. We then headed straight to a Kinko's on Broadway, printed out a few copies of the first edition on A3 paper, stapled them hurriedly together, and then headed straight to the Bellevue Hotel. It was a slightly inauspicious start, but rather appropriate given our later track record in the area of delivering on time. (Later in the night, a few of us ended up, drunk, at the printers, watching the first edition roll off the press).
Such parties were also an opportunity to make sure our friends were all subscribers. We had the launch party, we had a party to celebrate our 8th edition (which happened to coincide with an empty bank account), and then less than a month later, towards the end(-ish) of 1999, we had our first annual Christmas party, a bit early, in order to stave off insolvency once again.
We would always joke about our insolvency. We had raised a total of $6,500 through two tranches of capital raising in the first year. Mostly it was family putting in $500 or $1000 – my sister, my mum, Craig's parents, Dom's parents, Julian's partner, quality investors all of them. Our biggest "equity partner" was a notorious Sydney publican-cum-philanthropist, who stunned us with an investment of $3000 as soon as she could see we were earnest young men who planned to make a thing of sending up important things. The rest of the money came from my credit card — I had had the common sense to increase my credit limit to $2000 shortly before we started. Between the capital, my card and the cash of subscriptions we scraped by.
Julian, who quickly became in charge of those sorts of things, used the Christmas party each year to present the annual accounts. The Christmas Party was always held in the same brown carpeted bar of the Commercial Travellers Club in the basement of that strange mushroom tower attached to the MLC building in Martin Place. It was in that most 1970s of settings that Julian would whip out the PowerPoint and deliver a polished presentation outlining our financial position, and the various and many laws we were breaking by continuing to trade.
We all laughed, partly because everyone in the room knew it was just a joke. After all, The Chaser was growing. Every party we had included a few more unfamiliar faces, and even the occasional celebrity lawyer or talk show host. The fact that the subscriber numbers were never nearly as large I publicly claimed was irrelevant. A newspaper that counted Bob Ellis as a friend was on a path to unbridled success, surely?
And remember, we came to life during the dot-com boom. Within months of starting, we had already been approached by one dot-com investor to sell a third of our stake to them for $350,000 at a valuation of $1 million. To someone who was still deriving their primary income from baby-sitting, this was as tempting as it gets. Still, channeling just a small fraction of our outsized arrogance, we brushed off the offer with the smug knowledge that we were worth far more. Even then, we knew that losing control of our destiny was far more dangerous than breaking a few chunks of the Corporations Act.
Eventually – about a year or two after we started – one of our founding contributors, David Stewart, who had decided to pursue law over satire, stumped up the ungodly sum of $30,000. For that he got 10 per cent of essentially nothing. But his cash flooded the whole enterprise with boundless wealth that was quickly consumed by increasing payments to our cartoonists and more valued columnists.
I'm not sure you'd ever find this definition in a dictionary, but for me, at least, 'theatre' is when you leverage the imagination of your audience to convey an idea or thought or image at a fraction of the cost it would take to actually replicate. Theatres can take you to Denmark and show you the inner conflicts of a Royal Court, without requiring anyone to even leave their seat.
In my latest venture – The Roast (on ABC2 – 7:30pm weeknights) – our correspondents travel the world without ever leaving the comfort of the green screen. There is a charm to this that has surprised me. I used to think that the best thing a daily satirical news show could do would be to embed its reporters in the real world. Station one in Canberra at Parliament House, another in New York, another in Pyongyang. Now I'm not so sure.
The green screen is an invitation for the audience to imagine what this show could be if its correspondents were able to go anywhere. The gap between its actual resources and its ambition allows the audience a role in its success. The Roast requires the audience to fill in its (considerable) gaps with their imagination in order to enjoy it. It's far more satisfying – and far more theatrical – than, say, Iron Man 3, where every twist and turn is replicated in such detail that no imagination is necessary. That's not to say Iron Man 3 is bad (it is), but simply that it is not theatre – it's spectacle.
I say this not because I've gone off a weird tangent to impress the Film Theory students who stumble across this post (I have), but because it is this realisation that has helped me work out why, when The Chaser was first starting, I told everyone that all our best brainstorms were conducted in the pub.
In the early days, when you read The Chaser newspaper, you would get a chuckle from the headlines, and there was some half-decent cultural comment too.
But at least part of the enjoyment, and part of the reason why people became so evangelical about it, and why our readers would continue to turn up to our parties despite their increasing frequency and rising entry price, was because of the theatre surrounding it.
The audience was imagining the mythical drunken brainstorm that led to the front page where we published John Howard's personal phone number, when in fact, the decision to do so was made at the last minute and was largely because we couldn't think of anything else to put on the cover.
They were imagining the heated arguments that led to Chris throwing his chair at Craig over the placement of an adverb on the front cover upon the death of the Queen Mum ("A life tragically cut short" versus "A life cut tragically short"). The fact that I'm not even sure we had chairs during the production of that edition was irrelevant. (We were camped out in the Melbourne office of the now-bankrupt dotcom that had tried to buy us.)
The Chaser always felt like it was on the cusp of something better: something more outrageous, something more solvent. And so all our warts and inadequacies just added to our charm. All the front-cover typos and tales of readers never getting their subscriptions, all the embarrassingly earnest opinion pieces up the back of the rag, all the printing errors: they all became an invitation for readers to imagine what The Chaser could be if it actually was what it aspired to be.
It was the theatre rather than the actual subscriber numbers that kept The Chaser growing. The Chaser was appealing to read because it invited the readers to use their imagination to fill in the gaps. You could just imagine how amazing it would be to be one of The Chaser editors. Constantly drunk, constantly witty, constantly partying, and rarely even turning up at the office. It was a wonderfully attractive conceit, even if it was completely untrue.
Thus, if I have any advice for the editors of The Citizen, it is this: allow your readers the space to imagine what you want to be. Don't let reality get in the way of your ambition. Let the readers fill in that gap. That way, it's much more satisfying for them, and it's much cheaper for you.
* The Chaser newspaper was distributed nationally with a paid circulation of around 6000. The comedy team published 96 editions and an endless number of Annuals between 1999 and 2005. Their first TV show was the Election Chaser in 2001.


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So you're interested in working aboard a cruise ship. If you have experience with children, a Youth Counsellor position might be of interest to you. Spending half of your time as a camp counsellor, and the other half as a babysitter, you'll be responsible for making sure the children on the cruise, are having as much fun as their parents in the bars upstairs.
Youth Counsellors often sign shorter contracts, lasting anywhere from 4-6 months. Pay is average, but factoring in the ability to travel, included food and accommodation, it can make it an attractive package.
From the day you sign on the ship, to the day you leave, you will be working every single day. There will never be a single day where you won't work. From embarkation day, to sea days, to port days, the job differs entirely. It's a lot of work, so let's break it down by the hours.
A typical sea day looks like this:
8:30 AM Wake up, get ready
9:00 AM Open centre, start morning programming, play games
12:00 PM Lunch break
2:00 PM Take kids to play sports outside
5:00 PM Dinner break
7:00PM Open centre for evening programming
9:00PM Take kids on a parade around the ship
10:30PM Close the centre, stay for late night fun time
1:30AM Last kids leave – close the centre
2:00AM Crawl into bed… or more likely, head to the crew bar. Rinse and repeat
Fortunately, on days where the ship makes port, our schedules are a lot less packed. Some staff will need to stay aboard and look after kids – but it's done in shifts. Assuming you don't get scheduled for a "training" session, you will have plenty of time to explore the port that you're in.
About The Job
Most of the day is spent looking after kids. A word of warning though – many youth counselors enter thinking it will have a camp-atmosphere. While at times the kids centre will have a camp feel, more times than others you'll feel more of a babysitter than a camp counselor.
You will work in a team, and always have at least one other counselor working with you. Depending on the location of the ship, the company you can work with, and the time of the year, the ship could have anywhere from 11 to 1100 kids onboard – so do your research before you catch your flight. If you're the kind of person who can thrive in a busy atmosphere, than you might be well suited for this job. If you're the person who's more autonomous, and more likes working with youth on with a laissez-faire attitude, then I recommend looking into teen counselor positions.
If you're still keen after reading this – apply! Who knows, in a few weeks you could be sailing the Mediterranean visiting beautiful islands and playing ridiculous games. Don't forget to pack your best pirate outfit!


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Archive for September 2010
Sept 2010 in Review
Running – 84.7 miles over 13 runs. Probably not as many miles as I would like in my last month before a marathon, but it was my second consecutive month over 80 miles, so I'll take it. At 764.8 miles, I am still on target for my goal of 1000 miles for the year. I'm very pleased that every month this year has been over 70 miles. That is off-the-charts amazing for me, and previously thought unthinkable! In fact, with 3 months to go in the year, I've out-run every single year in my history besides last year, when I only had another 36 miles, with 801 for the year. Quite an accomplishment for me!
Races – 1 (NYC Marathon Tune-Up – 3:15:54)
Biking – 70.7 miles over 3 rides. 50 miles came in a single day, when I went up to Piermont, over Labor Day weekend. I've only been on the bike once in the last 3 weeks, which is no good as I have a triathlon coming up this weekend! I have 485 miles for the year, which keeps me on target for my other goal of 1500 run/bike miles for 2010. 485 is also the most bike miles I've had in any year since I bought the bike in 2007.
Swims – 1 – Definitely not enough triathlon training for this weekend!
Gym workouts – none
Softball – 2 wins!
Injuries – Back spasm (mild) set me back 3 days. Also badly messed up my pinkie toe after the 18 mile race.
Sicknesses – none
10 Days to the Chicago Marathon
10 days to the Chicago Marathon! And I got another late run in, pushing the distance up to 7.9 miles. It felt good. I didn't feel like I would be able to go another 18.3 miles, but I'm sure on race day in Chicago it will not be nearly as windy or as humid. At least I hope not. NYC was super humid and super windy today, and my run route took me down the East River, into the wind, and then back up the East River, with the wind. With a temp of 74 and dewpoint of 74, it was very very very humid and uncomfortable. I had a bottle of Powerade with me that I drank about every 2 miles.
All in all, I'm very pleased with my week, after suffering a back spasm last Friday. I ran 4 times since Sunday, for 22.5 miles. And, if I do an easy run Sat, and the 5 miles required by my triathlon on Sunday, I'll have 27 miles for this week, easily my highest week in my marathon training where there were no long run. Then I'll be satisfied to taper in the last week before the race.
This week was made tougher both because I attended a conference in NYC the last couple of days, meaning long days, lavish dinners, and poor eating all around. The other challenge this week is that my wife left yesterday to San Francisco for the weekend and won't be back until Monday. So I carefully need to plan my workouts around my kids' schedules. I can leave them alone together, but I cannot leave Katie alone. I also cannot go out in the mornings. So, will make the most of what I can this week.
Hardest part of today's run was heartburn and a bit of a side stich early on, from my poor eating habits today. In addition to the too much soda, and generally bad eating, I had taken Katie out for pizza tonight and had a slice myself. I thought I was OK to run, but the heartburn came right away at the start of the run, but did fade away to annoyance by the 3rd mile.
I was chatting today at the conference with someone I know from Chicago, and it turned out she ran the marathon last year. That was nice, and inspiring!
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11 Days to the Chicago Marathon
11 days to the Chicago Marathon! And today I was too busy to think much about it. I did get a run in early this morning, which was a bonus, but then didn't have a chance to think about it the rest of the day.
I'm attending a conference here in NYC, which means long days and late dinners. Was home late last night after dinner (with wine). Still managed to get up at 5am, and get a 4.4 mile run in before helping to get Katie ready for school. Then was at the meeting all day, which was followed by another late dinner with wine!
My run this morning was actually great. Pushed a steady hard pace, made possible by the distinctly lower dewpoint, compared to prior days. Ran 4.4 miles in about 41 minutes, and felt pretty good. It was my 3rd run in the last 4 days (14.6 miles total), and things are feeling smoother now. Also, my back continues to improve. I'm hoping to get a longish run in tomorrow night, then take the day off Friday, and an easy run Saturday before the Red Bank triathlon on Sunday.
Once that is done, I'll be able to turn my full attention to the Chicago Marathon.
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12 Days to the Chicago Marathon
12 days to the Chicago Marathon! And I'm nursing myself back to health, hopefully. My back is still a bit tight at times, but running is manageable.
Last night I had a very strong 6.2 mile workout along the East River. While my time was a little on the slow side (9:50 pace), the effort was outstanding. It was late, and rainy, so it was pretty deserted, and peaceful, in a gritty sort of way. The humidity was rough, and it was only the occasional breezes and cool rain that allowed me to get through it. I intend to push myself in my runs the next few days, and hopefully peak right around 10-10.
On a related note, while most people are heading into their taper now, I have come to realize that there is no taper for me. My entire set of training seems to have been one long taper. For one reason or another, I just not have put the necessary miles in to have something to back away from, which is essentially what a taper should be. My high mileage weeks have been around 30 miles, due to a single long run in those weeks. My other weeks are only in the 15 mile range. Therefore, I have no need to taper, and rather need to push myself a little in the next 9 days, so I'll be primed on race day.
On a final note, yesterday I was perusing some old posts. I happened on Sept 2008, and I was struck by all the challenges I faced that month. In particular, I had 2 really, really bad races (here and here), and it just helped to put things in perspective for me. That Nov 2, I ran my fastest NYC Marathon ever, and followed that up in Feb 09 with my most amazing marathon ever. Just goes to show that even when things are looking down, there are other factors at work, and if you pursue your goal with vigor, good things will come.
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13 Days to the Chicago Marathon
13 days to the Chicago Marathon! This morning I rested and slept in, until 6am. My back is still a bit tight and stiff in places, and I think a little worse after my 4 mile run yesterday, so decided to take it easy this morning. My intention is to exercise tonight, late in the day, so I can just take it easy afterwards. I was scheduled to play softball tonight, but that was cancelled due to rain. That will make it easier for me to get a run in, and then take it easy afterwards.
Otherwise, I'm just really looking forward to the fall weather coming into place, but it is just slow in happening. Even now, when the temperature has dropped somewhat, the dewpoint and humidity is still high, and less than tolerable for my taste. Right now, the temp is 69 deg, but the dewpoint is 66 deg, or sky high. Yes, it will not be as bad as mid-summer, but it will still feel far too humid for me. And it sounds like we can expect more of the same all the way through Thursday.
Here's to hoping for good weather in Chicago on 10/10. See the long range forecast here: http://www.myforecast.com/bin/expanded_forecast_15day.m?city=14745&metric=false
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14 Days to the Chicago Marathon
14 days to the Chicago Marathon! 3 days into my back injury, and, it is feeling much better! Enough so that I was able to run today, which is awesome! On the one hand, I had about 20 miles planned for this weekend and only ended with 4, but on the other hand, at least I only lost 2 days of training. Now need to take stock and determine if I'm up for the triathlon I'm signed up for on Sunday, in Red Bank.
So not only have I had this back issue, but also dealing with 2 other problems after my long run last Sunday. Both on the right side. The theory is that since my neck and lower back was tight on the left side for that run last week, I was overcompensating on the right side. Not only did I destroy the pinkie toe on my right foot with a blister under the nail, but I'm also having shin pain on my right leg, in both of my last 2 runs. I'm no stranger to shin pain also (a long history of minor injuries), so I know how to deal with it (I hope).
Regarding my pinkie toe, I've lost toenails before, but never completely obliterated the nail like I did this time. Was able to clip out the entire thing, even the full cuticle! There is now an empty cavity where the cuticle should go. Definitely an odd sight, but I love the look of the baby new nail already trying to form on the skin. And, the best news, no more pain in that toe at all!
Two weeks to the big day, and I'm 9 chapters into my motivational lift, A Race Like No Other, so now I'm officially starting to get excited.
15 Days to the Chicago Marathon
15 days to the Chicago Marathon! And I am still a bit down for the count (back spasm yesterday), but it is not nearly as bad as I feared, or as bad as I've had it in prior back episodes. Really counting my blessings.
I stayed home from work yesterday, but was not relegated to bed all day, and it was not terribly painful to stand up, sit down, roll over in bed, etc. More of just an annoying uncomfortableness, than the kind of nerve and muscle pain I'm used to dealing with my back. In fact, I was able to my family down to our weekend house in NJ last night. I am able to get in and out of the car with just minimal stiffness and pain. And, since my lower back and neck are OK, I have almost full mobility in the car.
Today will be a full day of rest. Tomorrow I'll probably start some light stretching and core work, and maybe be able to start running again by Monday or Tuesday. I have softball on Monday night, and weather permitting, I hope to be able to join.
Last night I was checking out where my hotel is in relation to the race, since I know next to nothing about Chicago. Looks like I'm less than a mile from the start, and the course winds around near the hotel at least 3 times, so maybe my family will be inspired to watch for a bit???


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When is a market not a market?
A market is not a market once it has been cornered.
There is growing concern about where rates are headed. That is normal. There is growing concern with the seemingly bizarre trading of the longer end of the curve. That concern is normal too. What isn't normal is the nature of the bond market today and that goes a long way to explaining what we are currently seeing.
Let's focus on the 10 to 20 year part of the curve for example. There will be no new issuance in that part of the curve if we count new 10 year bonds as part of the 5 to 10 year bucket. All we get is some small amount of roll down which doesn't change the argument much.
Of the $221 billion of bonds in that 10 to 20 year bucket, the Fed already owns $93 billion, or 42.4%. Since the Fed is limited to no more than 70% of any one issue, they could buy up to their max position of $155 billion in under 2 months of QE.
Photo: TF Market Advisors
If the Fed decided they wanted to push aggressively on the 10 to 20 year part of the curve, they could own 70% of it by the end of March.
Is there any reason to assume the Fed wouldn't do this?
Seriously, think about it.
This Fed is aggressively trying to manipulate rates both across the curve and across products. They may well do things we never dreamed possible if it suits their policy agenda.
Of the remaining 30% of bonds, how many are held in not available for sale accounts? Some portion of the longer dated bond market is held by entities that aren't actively willing or even able to trade it. The potential free float is tiny. The existing free float may already be small.
When we look at the 20 to 30 year (or what has become TLT land for retail) we see a similar story. The Fed already controls 37% of the market and could buy up to 70% in less than 7 months even if we issue some new long bonds.
Again, what portion of the long bond market is held by investors who aren't the selling type?
We talk about the size of the treasury market, and with T-bills, Bonds, and TIPS, it is over $11 trillion (I didn't include the $800 billion of TIPS because they would have required me to build a more complex spreadsheet, and don't think it changes much of the analysis).
So we all think about this "super liquid" $10 trillion market, but where we want to place the bets, there is already a maximum of $620 billion that is free to trade (and I suspect that is highly overstated given the existence of not available for sale accounts). It is not a co-incidence that this is the case.
It isn't "random" that 76% of the Fed holdings are longer than 5 years. It is part of a plan that the Fed now owns about 40% of all bonds longer than 5 year maturity.
Nothing about the portfolio construction is random, and that is important to remember.
Whatever you want to say about the Fed, they are very smart people. You can disagree with them, but they have an agenda and will execute it.
They only tell us part of their agenda, the rest we have to figure out, but it is no coincidence how they built out this portfolio. They want to be able to control rates, and if you think they won't use their ability to buy up to 70% of the longer dated market in a few months, then you are betting against what the data tells you.
The Fed can control the front end with their pledge to keep rates at 0%. So long as they keep that pledge, the front end (2 years and in remains under control). The 2 to 5 year range needs a bit of help, but greed, and otherwise steep forward curves, help the Fed in that battle. It is the longer end as well.
The coupon story is useful as well.
Photo: TF Market Advisors
The Treasury currently pays out $203 billion in coupon interest and something on the t-bills, which I took the liberty of rounding to 0, which isn't that far from the truth.
What we see is that while the Fed only owns 16% of all T-bills and Bonds it controls almost 30% of all interest paid. Again, the Fed is managing this on purpose. Bonds with greater than 8% are all almost at the 70% limit. They went and targeted those bonds. It lets them funnel more money into the system by buying high priced bonds, and has a bigger benefit to treasury who gets to pay itself the 8% coupons and leaves the rest of the world to own the 1% and 2% coupon bonds.
The Fed paid for hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy will cost us $60 billion or so, and the Fed, happens to have $60 billion in income that can be used. Our deficit this past year would have been $100 billion greater without the Fed direct payments (they have mortgages and other assets).
The indirect benefits are also large. A measly 1% higher rate on the one year debt getting rolled over would have added $30 billion to the deficit. The numbers are mind boggling. If Ben could figure out how to get himself paid 2 and 20 on that portfolio he would be one rich professor.
So what does this all mean?
I don't see how the Fed announces anything that talks about taking down the balance sheet. Not now, and possibly not ever. The moment people get concerned, the market will start pricing in the unwind, no one will want to buy the long end of the curve and it will play havoc with rates.
Who in their right mind would buy 10 year treasuries when you know that the equivalent of multiple years of supply is being sold by the Fed along with the ones the Treasury department will need to sell. It isn't like the Treasury department will be able to stop issuing bonds. They have to deal with rolls and frankly with ongoing deficits.
As a hedge fund, are you really going to "fight the fed" and buy 10 year bonds once you think they need to sell them? I don't think so. More importantly, who will make a nice 10 year mortgage when the 10 year treasury is selling off?
That is the problem. The Fed has built up such a large portfolio, that the only likely way to exit it is through letting it mature. That at least takes the $2 trillion seller out of the market (remember, they are still in buying mode).
Due to the potential damage a sell off occurs, both in the cost of funds for the treasury, but more importantly in the knock on effect it has on other yield products, I would expect the Fed to defend any big move aggressively. Not only do they have the money to do it, but the float is small enough it may take far less than people think to defend the market.
There is another reason the Fed will be reluctant to sell. The government needs the income. As the Fed sells, they hand back less to the treasury, so not only do we have to pay a higher rate on new borrowings, but we will be receiving less income.
Maybe this can occur in some ideal world where growth is "so good" tax receipts outpace anything else, but I think you are now requiring a fairy tale ending, rather than a mere "goldilocks" ending, let alone the disaster scenario of being forced to stop buying without real growth taking hold.
So we may "not be Japan" but we may have reasonably low rates for some time. I still have long the long bond in the "Best Ideas" and have been tempted to cut it but when I look at this along with the economic data, I think I keep it for a trade. I would like to recommend a double position in it, but am frankly scared enough that with so little liquidity we could see another big downside day and want to keep some powder dry.
Stay warm, good luck with the storm if you are affected, and put yourself in Ben's shoes and see why you think he has created this particular portfolio and how you would react to various market moves if you were him. I suspect you will come up with the same conclusion, which is this market will be defended and is easier to defend than we have been conditioned to think.
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The composition of municipal waste arisings in the
UK is known at best poorly. The data used by DETR in Waste
Strategy 2000 are shown in Table 1, and though no source was
quoted, they appear to have been based upon old data from the
National Household Waste Analysis Programme (NWHAP) carried out
at the start of the 1990s. This data may be of limited use. Quite
apart from the fact that the data refers to bin waste arisings
only as opposed to municipal waste as a whole (i.e., less than
two-thirds of the total stream - see above), the actual methodology
used in the NHWAP has been the subject of some criticism. For
example, the lack of significance accorded to sampling dates may
have biased results from samples, and the fact that materials
may have been mixed together, so transferring mass from 'wet'
to 'dry' fractions, will have influenced the weight ascribed to
a specific fraction.
Table 1: Waste Composition Data used by DETR/NAW
and in Environment Agency Demonstration Disk for Wisard
Quite apart from the fact, therefore, that one would
expect street litter, bulky collections, CA waste arisings and
other contributing wastes to have a composition different to bin
waste, the limitations of the approach undertaken imply that this
data is unlikely to constitute an adequate basis upon which to
base waste planning decisions. Furthermore, the fact that the
base data is now so dated forces one to ask questions concerning
the evolution of composition over time. This is something we know
relatively little about.
Compositional data are important in understanding
which materials are available in which quantities for diversion
through recycling and composting. Indeed, ideally one requires
a more detailed breakdown (than that given by DETR/NAW, itself
supplied by the Environment Agency) if one is to assess accurately
the suitability of materials for recycling, composting, energy
from waste incineration and other waste treatment options. An
even finer resolution in the characterisation of waste is required
if one is to seek to understand the merits of pursuing materials
reduction (in industry) as a strategy for minimising waste at
the household level. This would be required to improve understanding
of how to minimise wastes associated with specific products.[332]
The discussions around composition are by no means
trivial ones. They can skew strategies in one direction or another
since they suggest what is and is not feasible in terms of different
waste treatment methods. Under the Landfill Directive, the biodegradable
components of the municipal waste stream are most important. These
are, principally:
DETR estimated that these constitute 62% of all wastes.
Note once again, however, that these data referred only to household
waste as opposed to all municipal wastes.
Whether this figure is 'correct' is difficult to
know. It may be that it is a good estimate for the total fraction
(though as mentioned above, some feel it is too low), but the
breakdown of that fraction is as important as the total figure.
In the DETR/NAW work, the breakdown of this biodegradable fraction
is such that the proportion that is paper is larger than the proportion
that is putrescible. Other work suggests that the opposite may
be the case. Furthermore, European data on composition seems to
confirm this. Alongside other countries, the UK data appears rather
off with the putrescibles fraction very low. The different breakdowns
suggest different strategies.
For these reasons, waste composition data is a matter
of considerable debate. In particular, in the wake of the publication
of A Way With Waste (the consultation draft of the England and
Wales Strategy), many disputed the compositional data being used,
especially in respect of what were believed to be low figures
for the putrescible fraction. Network Recycling comments that
all of their most recent domestic waste audits (bin waste) have
found a putrescible content of at least 30 % (putrescible meaning
kitchen and garden waste, and not including other types of biodegradable
waste as defined in the Landfill Directive). Recent waste analysis
work conducted in six areas in South Gloucestershire found that
the average putrescible content of the waste stream was 39 % (range:
34 % 56 %).[333]
Sampling in Brixworth (for Waste Watch) gave a putrescibles figure
of 49%. Ecologika report on seventeen waste analyses carried out
in London. The average figure for compostables (again excluding
paper) quoted is 38%.[334]
Other individuals we have spoken to suggest that evidence increasingly
points to a percentage figure in the high 30's. This raises the
question as to whether the data used in Waste Strategy 2000
is sufficiently robust to base a strategy upon.
All of these comments refer to bin waste only. It
is true, of course, that if one seeks to separately collect (as,
for example, in Brixworth) compostables in Brown Bins, one may
draw out more putrescible material into bins that might otherwise
have gone elsewhere (i.e. CA sites, or home composting). However,
this may make the collection more representative of total wastes
(as opposed to just bin wastes).
As regards CA site wastes, two similar sets of data
are shown in Table 2. Relatively few studies have been carried
out on CA waste composition (and even fewer on street litter etc.).
Yet materials delivered at CA sites may be very easily separated,
and much of the material, including inert construction materials
(presumably, a major part of the DIY noncombustible fraction),
and wood (which is frequently lumped into the 'miscellaneous combustibles'
category, even though wood packaging is now covered by the Packaging
Regulations), may be suitable for reuse, recycling and composting.
Again, the putrescibles fraction is of the order 40%.
Table 2: Results of Two Studies Concerning CA Site
Waste Composition
Much better data is needed on composition than we
have at present. The Environment Agency is due to commence shortly
the next stage of the National Household Waste Analysis Programme.
Dr Dominic Hogg, March 2001
Personal communication Rachel Jarrett, Network Recycling. Back
Ecologika (1998) ReInventing Waste: Towards a London Waste
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Spring is Here
As winter comes to a close and we welcome spring, we at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office remember that spring is a great time in our community – a new baseball season begins, spring break is approaching, and graduation draws near for our students. We enjoy celebrating these good times in our community.
If our officers can help with traffic control or security monitoring at special events, please call us well in advance of a scheduled event. If at all possible, we will help provide coverage for your special events.
We also want to remind you that with the warmer weather, children may be playing near our county roads. Please take extra caution and slow down when driving through residential neighborhoods. And remember, children learn by watching us. If you are traveling with a child, please model good driving habits, including:
- Wear your seat belt.
- Obey the speed limit.
- Slow near schools and neighborhoods (and explain why this is important)
- Do not text while driving.
- Make sure children are in the correct car seat.
For many more driving safety tips, please visit the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration at: www.nhtsa.gov/road-safety
Thank you for keeping our roads and our citizens safe, and we look forward to the great times that spring will bring.
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Sheriff Herrig has been employed at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office since 1982.
In 1993, he was appointed by then Sheriff Roy Dunnaway to the position of Undersheriff.
On April 4th, 2008, he was appointed to the position of Sheriff by Governor Kathleen Sebelius to fill out the term of Sheriff Dunnaway.
Sheriff Herrig is a member of the National Sheriff's Association, Kansas Sheriff's Association, Capital Area Major Case Squad, International Association of Property & Evidence, Kansas Chiefs of Police Association, and Midwest Association of Certified Voice Stress Analysts.
On July 22, 2009, Sheriff Herrig was appointed to represent the Kansas Sheriff's on the Kansas Advisory Group on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency prevention by the Governor.


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Europe's particle physics lab, CERN, generated its share of cloudy headlines at the recent OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, as a multi-year collaboration between CERN's openlab Project and managed cloud provider Rackspace reached prime-time as the underpinnings of OpenStack Kilo's federated identity capability. Other organizations also contributed code and ideas as this project rolled into OpenStack, but CERN continues to explore other cloud technologies and perhaps even other ways of solving very similar problems.
As Frederic Lardinois reported for TechCrunch at the time, OpenStack Executive Director Jonathan Bryce used the opening keynote at last month's Summit in Vancouver to announce a number of advances within the project. One of those was support for 'federated identity,' or the ability to log in to a remote OpenStack cloud using credentials associated with your own OpenStack cloud. Given the early — but essentially unrealized — promise of a global network of interoperating OpenStack-powered clouds, this federated identity capability is an important step in the right direction. And use cases like CERN's — where international teams of scientists may very reasonably wish to regularly process data on CERN's servers, on servers at their own universities and research centers, and even on the public cloud — are a prime example of why an ability to access all of these resources with a single login matters.
CERN has been a Rackspace customer for a number of years, but this particular collaboration began in 2013. Rackspace funded a post at CERN, and the two organizations worked together to tackle issues around the federating of workloads between CERN's data centers and Rackspace's public and private cloud environments. A year ago, the first outputs from the collaboration were contributed to OpenStack Icehouse, and contributors have continued to polish and enhance the code to reach the more functional offering within the latest Kilo release.
Issues around federation of identity and distribution of workloads clearly matter to CERN, where petabytes of data are routinely generated by large — and expensive — projects that are of global interest. CERN's ability to add additional computing resources on-site is severely constrained by a lack of power and space for larger data centers. Along with other European generators of big science, the European Space Agency (ESA) and European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL), CERN participated for a number of years in a European Commission-funded project called Helix Nebula.
Helix Nebula should not be confused with the defunct NASA cloud project called Nebula, the open source cloud project called Open Nebula, or the failed OpenStack-based builder of cloud appliances called Nebula. Helix Nebula began as a research project, funded by the European Commission, and involving both the demand-side interests of large European science centers and the supply-side capabilities of cloud providers (like CloudSigma) and technology firms (like SAP). Together, they hoped to explore the ways in which a group of technology providers might collaborate and share resources to meet the rather specialized requirements of Big Science. The initial project finished some time ago, but the partners (and new additions) continue a loose collaboration as something called the Helix Nebula Initiative. They've developed a marketplace for cloud resources, and are promoting the long-rumored concept of a European Science Cloud with increasing vigor. CERN remains closely involved, with former openlab boss Bob Jones Chairing the Helix Nebula Initiative and authoring a recent paper on the European Science Cloud idea.
And now CERN is inviting interested parties to Geneva later this month, to explore the feasibility of securing the money and cooperation to do more:
In order to explore further avenues for the establishment of an open, secure and trusted cloud computing Marketplace for European science, businesses and society, The Helix Nebula Initiative is organising an open day event entitled Towards a European Open Science Cloud in co-location with the Helix Nebula Initiative's 6th General Assembly.
The participation of the European Commission with (sic) encourage the alignment of the Helix Nebula Initiative with the EC's vision of a Single Digital Market and the potential role of a European Open Science Cloud.
Helix Nebula tackled some tricky issues associated with the way that science can work in the cloud, and the group continues to play a role in raising awareness of the challenges that remain. Aggregating existing computing resources amongst European universities and research centers clearly makes some sense, and the commercial organizations involved in the Initiative obviously see opportunities to offer their own services into the mix. But so many of the biggest players in cloud are quite obviously absent. Even Rackspace, with which CERN already collaborates on very similar issues, is not at the Helix Nebula Initiative's table. And almost anyone can join, now the formally funded project has ended.
The challenge here is to move beyond (usefully) bringing stakeholders together in order to raise issues, to (sustainably) deliver a set of services that demand-side organizations (or their funders) will choose to pay for. There are a lot of other sources of cloud computing and, as the announcements from Vancouver so clearly showed, a lot of other projects where the problems facing European big science can also be solved.
Disclaimers: the European Commission is an occasional client, but not in areas related to the Commission's interest in the Helix Nebula project, the Helix Nebula Initiative, or the proposed European Open Science Cloud. Rackspace has also been a client. The OpenStack Foundation supported the cost of my recent trip to their Summit in Vancouver.


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QPR goes down after City mauling
Queens Park Rangers bowed out of the Premier League with a whimper after Manchester City's Sergio Aguero scored a hat-trick to lead his side to a crushing 6-0 victory over the London club.
Chelsea later effectively ended Liverpool's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League after the newly-crowned Premier League champions held them to a 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge.
With two games remaining, fifth-placed Liverpool have 62 points from 36 matches, six behind Manchester United who occupy the final Champions League qualifying spot and have a better goal difference (+25 to +11).
Chelsea have 84 points from their 36 games, 11 more than second-placed Manchester City, who confirmed their place in next season's Champions League.
QPR needed to win their remaining three fixtures to stand any chance of survival but a sorry defeat at the Etihad Stadium left them nine points adrift of 17th-placed Newcastle United.
"I don't think it's time for any post-mortems because our fate is now what it is," QPR's interim manager Chris Ramsey told Sky Sports.
"Everybody is very disappointed we've lost our status in the Premier League. We need to make sure we rebuild and give the fans and the people from west London another Premier League club in the next couple of years."
It was almost three years to the day since Aguero's dramatic goal deep into stoppage-time lifted City to a 3-2 win over QPR which secured their first Premier League title.
Rangers survived that day, only to go down the following season, and they arrived in Manchester this time knowing only victory would prevent them from joining Burnley in an immediate return to the Championship.
QPR have collected only seven away points this season and made the worst possible start when Aguero danced through the visitors' feeble defence before chipping the ball over onrushing goalkeeper Robert Green.
In a rare foray forward, QPR's Charlie Austin had a header ruled out for offside before Aleksandar Kolarov's low free kick flew through the porous defensive wall and settled in the bottom corner.
Aguero added his second when he capitalised on Yun Suk-young's error to race away and slot past Green and he completed his hat-trick from the penalty spot after Matt Phillips had felled David Silva.
James Milner added a fifth with a simple finish and Silva rounded Green to slot home after a sublime move to complete a miserable day for QPR.
Liverpool welcomed the champions with a guard of honour at Stamford Bridge but the hosts were in no mood to thank them as Chelsea's Cesc Fabregas left his mark on Raheem Sterling with a heavy challenge in the opening minute.
Chelsea could have been forgiven for showing signs of a title hangover but they looked sharp early on and took the lead after five minutes when captain John Terry rose above Rickie Lambert to power a header home from a corner.
But Liverpool had their own captain to thank just before halftime as some slack Chelsea defending from Adam Lallana's free kick allowed Steven Gerrard to sneak in at the far past and level the scores.
Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois had to be alert to deny Sterling's deflected cross in the second half before Jordan Henderson dragged a volley just wide as Liverpool made one final push to keep their Champions League qualification hopes alive.
"I think now this team's got to prepare for next year. We wanted to make a statement with our performance today," Gerrard, who is leaving for Los Angeles Galaxy at the end of the season, told Sky Sports.
"Unfortunately we didn't win the game but we've shown that with a few additions we can compete next year."
Fourth spot would guarantee United a Champions League playoff with the top three automatically qualifying.


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I've never forgotten the front page of the Sunday Territorian on my first weekend in Darwin. Unfortunately I can't remember the headline, but the article comprehensively detailed an ice-cream heist from a local servo.
Stolen: three Cornettos, a Golden Gaytime and a packet of Bubble O' Bills. Or something along those lines. The crook might have grabbed a pie as well.
You don't have to be in Darwin for too long to realise that things are, well…. a bit different around here. The expression "Only in the Territory" has crease marks, it's that well used, but I love it anyway. How else do you explain murder by saucepan, crocodiles in the public swimming pool and a guy playing scratched CDs being billed as "Live Music"?
Sometimes "Only in the Territory" is just too easy. Racing boats made out of beer cans? A pub decorated with bras? A regatta in a river that has no water? A main road called Dick Ward Drive that starts in Coconut Grove and ends in Fannie Bay? Tick, tick, tick and tick. That's when we aren't even trying.
And credit where credit's due: The NT News has put in a lot of "Only in the Territory" leg work. How else would we know about the infamous young man who "stuck a cracker up his clacker"? Or the Jock-odile Hunter (a fella who took to croc wrangling in his undies)? How can I forget the "Best Man left Bleeding After Being Hit in Head by Flying Dildo" headline? And don't get me started on the peacock who terrorised the caravan park, the horny emu or the driver who filmed himself masturbating at 150 kilometres an hour.
Fair to say, our criminals aren't the smartest. A few weeks ago the NT Police reported a woman making a complaint to them about her stolen cannabis. They said they were only too happy to hear from anyone else who found themselves in a similar situation.
That also reminded me of the time I watched someone get ejected from the NTFL Grand Final.
Him: You can't kick me out for a crime I committed three years ago.
Cop: Crimes.
Him: Orright, crimes.
Cop: C'mon, off you go.
Him: Fuck you! I'm just here to watch the footy! Youse are just jealous that I made more money than you. I made thousands of dollars a day!
On that note, he spat on the ground, gave the double finger and stalked off.
So there's stupid. But then there's also Territory Tough. I recently enjoyed the tale of a traditional owner who sneers in the face of Box Jellyfish and their more prevalent friends, the Irukandji.
"When I was a kid, we used to chuck them on each other and have box jellyfish fights", Rodney Brown told journo Megan Palin.
"I've been stung two or three thousand times throw netting on Rapid Creek. You just go to shallow water, kneel and wash it off…and within 20 minutes you can be eating at Hungry Jacks."
You can't argue with that.
My Only in the Territory (also known as You Never Saw this Shit Down South) List is a bit more tame than all of that (and you might have some seen some of these already), but here goes:
My first Darwin boyfriend refused to go to hospital when he cut his leg open, drunk, on the Nightcliff Jetty. Instead, he took some painkillers that were prescribed for his friend's horse and sewed the gash up himself.
A buffalo skull holding on the spare tyre in downtown Darwin.
Opening a library book to find a pre-squashed mosquito.
On my first day at work, I was introduced to the team. New names to remember included Happy, Mango and Fridge. I then toured the building and shown the sick bay. "Jo from Tech Services sometimes keeps her Wildcare rescue animals here", I was told. "Best check under the bed first." Sure enough, there they were: two flying foxes and a Kingfisher.
Kids throwing rocks off the Rapid Creek footbridge, trying to sink box jellyfish as their tendrils are carried out by the tide.
A guy with this tattoo:
Driving to work behind a mini van filled to the brim with boxes of salty plums.
Driving down a deserted Territory road and the sign says "No Shooting".
Coming home to find my housemate has turned the wheelie bin into a "plunge pool".
A three year old kid in a Bintang singlet.
An afternoon in Litchfield National Park watching a water monitor eat a yabby three times the size of its head.
Getting home to find two geckos mid-coitus above the doorway.
Walking along the Nightcliff Foreshore and spying one of the regulars: an Indonesian guy who rides a bike with his pet cockatoo on the front and a boom box on the back.
An evening with thirty fishermen discussing the best ways to prepare devon, going out thongs and the defiling of toothbrushes on boys' trips to Bali.
559 lightning strikes in one night.
A friend buying a house in the rural area. It comes with a gun cabinet. The gun cabinet (with replica(?) guns) is in the kids room.
Having a mechanic called Bomber and buying your bed off a guy called Knocker.
Finding green ants down my bra.
A bumper sticker that says Eat the Peanuts out of my Shit.
Watching a family light fireworks off a pram. Baby is still inside of said pram.
Getting to work and finding that someone has shat on the doorstep (Actually that was the Kimberley)
Driving a cop car when you're not a cop (No, that was the Kimberley too)
Grove Hill Hotel. Just…Grove Hill Hotel.
Bullets in the road sign to Batchelor.
Checking the classifieds and finding a Bitch Box for sale ($50) and a crocodile skull available (with permit).
And that's just skimming the surface. "Only in the Territory" can be crazy, wild and stupid, but also beautiful and grotesque. Like watching Whistling Kites duck and dive for road kill on the highway in the Dry Season. Or finding a full collection of Margaret Fulton Cook Books (including Cake Icing and Cooking with Eggs) on the second hand shelf at the IGA next door to Litchfield Pub.
God I love this place.