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Freeing Ourselves From the Corporate-Ruled Global Economy
At a recent conference, I saw the potential for blending two of the most exciting emerging movements of our time -- the living building and the living economies movements. A vision of the combination of these two movements energized me with renewed hope that we humans can end our isolation from one another and from nature -- that we can move forward to achieve a prosperous, secure, and creative human future for all.
The Living Building Challenge
The conference I attended was led by Jason McLennan of the Cascadia Green Building Council and the International Living Future Institute. Ambitiously titled "Living Future 2011," the conference focused on the "Living Building Challenge," which takes Green Building standards to a new level. As I listened to the conference presenters, I heard some of the brightest and most tech-savvy minds in architecture, construction, and urban planning spell out the practical possibilities for creating built spaces around integrated energy, water, and nutrition (food) systems. Some of the ideas are still theoretical. Most, however, are already in application or being incorporated into physical structures now under construction.
These innovative proposals eliminate waste, feature natural lighting, and provide for onsite capture of rainwater, energy (wind, solar, and thermal), and organic matter (food scraps and human waste) for recycling and reuse, including for urban gardens (edible roofs and walls and built in green houses).
Water is used in the first cycle for drinking, dish washing, and showering; recycled for laundry and micro-flush composting toilets; and directed from there to onsite gardens from which it filters into the aquifer. Hot water, cooking, and space heating are integrated to optimize overall energy efficiency.
Integrating multi-purpose buildings into a larger multi-building neighborhood or district system adds opportunities to develop public green spaces, community gardens, edible landscaping, and small-scale poultry and livestock production, as well as natural wetlands and living machine water purification to continuously recycle nutrients, water, and energy.
Integrative projects also create opportunities to balance the utility loads of businesses, which generally have greater energy needs during the day, and residences, which have greater needs during nonbusiness hours. Bringing residences, employment, shopping, and recreation together in close proximity minimizes transportation requirements and facilitates the sharing of autos, bicycles, appliances, and tools, and community connections to mass transit, bike trails, and other transportation alternatives.
The Living Economies Connection
The living building framework focuses attention on shelter and nutrition as the basic essentials of a human livelihood. It seeks to remedy the dysfunctions of current infrastructure designs that isolate us from one another and operate in opposition to the biosphere's natural generative processes. The living economies framework focuses on networks of living enterprises and seeks to remedy the dysfunctions of an economic system that contributes to this same isolation and disconnect.
Both movements seek to bring the way we live into alignment with the structure and dynamics of Earth's biosphere, which self-organizes locally everywhere to optimize the sustainable utilization of energy, water, and nutrients in support of life.
The corporate ruled global economy isolates people and communities from the sources of their food, energy, water, materials, and manufactured goods, leaving them dependent on corporate controlled global supply chains that are wasteful, unstable, unaccountable, and environmentally and social destructive. The underlying system structure and dynamics are in most every respect mirror opposites of those of the biosphere.
Working in opposition to the biosphere, the global economy is maintained only by unsustainable dependence on a non-renewable fossil fuels subsidy. It is already failing and its ultimate collapse is only a matter of time.
The living economies movement seeks to displace this failed economic system with a planetary system of resilient, self-reliant local economies comprised of human-scale, locally-owned enterprises that use local resources to meet local needs in cooperative alignment with the structure and dynamics of local ecosystems.
Up to this point in time, the living economies movement has focused on the enterprise as the primary unit of production. The living buildings movement brings in a focus on restoring the household as a unit of food, energy, and water production. Each is an essential contributor to household and community livelihoods in a living future, and each creates opportunities for the other.
Implementing the Living Building Challenge creates many opportunities for local businesses to supply and install locally sourced building materials and technologies for the construction of new buildings and for retrofitting existing ones.
While home production will reduce demand for conventional food, water, and energy services, it will create new opportunities for local businesses to provide relevant expertise and inputs. There will be needs for local food processing and market facilities, as well as for businesses that specialize in creating and maintaining edible walls, roofs, and backyard gardens for households that lack the skills or inclination to do their own planting and maintenance.
Many of these activities require financing from community banks, mutual savings and loans, and credit unions that understand and support the unconventional technologies and ownership arrangements involved. Rebuilding community financial institutions that support all elements of the local living economy is a top priority of the living economies movement.
A Natural Alliance
The leaders of the living economies movement are predominantly entrepreneurs who view the world through the lens of marketing, finance, supply chains, and business value propositions. They are natural doers and risk takers eager to test new ideas, disinclined to spend a lot of time on planning, and impatient with drawn-out conceptual conversations.
The leaders of the living building movement are predominantly architects, with a sprinkling of urban planners, developers, engineers, and contractors. The architects and urban planners view the world through the lens of design and structure, think in terms of systems, and are drawn to conceptual frameworks that deepen understanding of what is required to bring the human species into alignment with the structure and dynamics of Earth's biosphere.
The living economies movement stands to benefit from the living building movement's conceptual grounding in ecological systems thinking. The living buildings movement stands to benefit from the living economies movement's skills in linking local businesses into mutually supportive networks of business relationships. The living building developers and contractors mix easily with the living economy entrepreneurs and are a natural bridge between the two movements. Both movements stand to reap significant benefit from this natural alliance.
The Connected Life
We humans, in a fit of adolescent hubris, have sought to liberate ourselves from the responsibilities of life in community. We are in denial of our fundamental nature as living beings -- forgetting that because of the way life manages energy, living beings exist only in active relationships to other living beings.
We have so confused individual autonomy with personal liberty that we have created economies that reduce caring human relationships to soulless financial exchange and structured our physical space around buildings and auto-dependent transportation systems that wall us off from one another and nature. In isolation from nature we have sought to dominate and control rather than work with nature's natural generative processes. We have paid a terrible price.
As we restructure our physical and economic relationships to achieve true economic efficiency and reduce the human burden on the biosphere, we will see even more clearly our interdependence with one another and the place we live. We will know where our food, water, and energy come from. We will know where our wastes go. And most of all we will be constantly reminded of the extent to which our happiness and well-being depend on our active engagement with the generative living community of which we are a part.
The challenges we face in making the transition are enormous. But so too is the opportunity to create and secure a living future for ourselves and our children for generations to come.


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A Country Called Home (Paperback)
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A powerful novel of young love and rural isolation from the acclaimed author of In the Wilderness.
Thomas Deracotte is just out of medical school, and his pregnant wife, Helen, have their whole future mapped out for them in upper-crust Connecticut. But they are dreamers, and they set out to create their own farm in rural Idaho instead. The fields are in ruins when they arrive, so they hire a farmhand named Manny to help rebuild. But the sudden, frightening birth of their daughter, Elise, tests the young couple, and Manny is called upon to mend this fractured family. An extraordinary story of hope and idealism, A
Country Called Home is a testament to the power of family—the family we are born to and the family we create.
About the Author
Kim Barnes is the author of the novel Finding Caruso and two memoirs, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country—a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize—and Hungry for the World. She is coeditor with Mary Clearman Blew of Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers, and with Claire Davis of Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty. Her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, MORE magazine, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She teaches writing at the University of Idaho and lives with her husband, the poet Robert Wrigley, on Moscow Mountain.
Praise For…
A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
An Oregonian Top Ten Northwest Book of the Year
"Gorgeously written . . . lush and memorable. . . . A Country Called Home contains whispers of its literary ancestors but issues its own rich-throated cry into the wilderness." –Kansas City Star
"In the literature of the American frontier, few setups are as fertile and reliable as the Easterner come West. . . . Because [Barnes] knows the territory so intimately, A Country Called Home is filled with exquisitely etched landscapes. The novel brims with the smell of brambles and berries along an Idaho riverbank, the gritty feel of the dust in an abandoned homesteader's shack, the sounds of grouse and quail in the fields." –The New York Times Book Review
"Casts light on the yearning, restless human heart. . . . Powerful." –San Francisco Chronicle
"In the tradition of the great Western writer Willa Cather, Kim Barnes has written a novel as deeply rooted in the soil of her native Idaho."–The Oregonian
"Quietly haunting…. [Barnes's] descriptions of the rugged landscape quiver with stark beauty, wisdom and redemptive grace, much as her characters do." –The Washington Post
"The idealistic dreams and careless attitudes of the 1960s echo through this powerful novel…. Barnes captures Northwest country with a poet's eye." –Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Brilliant. . . . One of three epigraphs, from master writer John Gardner, reads 'The fall from grace is endless.' And so it is with Manny, Thomas, Helen and Elise, who are always and slowly losing the battle not just with nature, but with themselves." –St. Louis Post Dispatch
"A Country Called Home, like many Western works of its kind, is a story of perseverance. Barnes's characters, all carrying their own secret pain, barely keep their heads above the waters that rage around them, literally and figuratively. . . . An elegy of sorts, to the power of the natural world, the lives it so indifferently claims and the grace with which those affected respond to its blows." –The Oregonian
"A Country Called Home is poetically written. The vivid descriptions of the land paint a romantic portrait of the wilderness, where the couple dream they'll find their ideal life but soon discover that nothing comes easy." –Las Vegas Review-Journal
"Barnes's prose is lovely, often incantatory, as she weaves the story of the troubled Deracotte family." –New West
"At the heart of this disturbing novel set in the Idaho wilderness is the desperate hunger of its characters to escape ennui and emptiness–in short, to find love. . . . Written in beautiful poetic prose, A Country Called Home is highly recommended." –The Tennessean
"The country through which Kim Barnes characters' travel in this novel of spiritual and emotional searching is a landscape eroded by grief and yearning and ultimately shame for our dissolution from our gods. I finished reading A Country Called Home some time ago and still cannot quite move on from the experience." –Mark Spragg, author of An Unfinished Life
"A Country Called Home feels like a classic. . . . An engrossing, sometimes heartbreaking read with a leavening of hopefulness, Kim Barnes's new novel is not to be missed." –Bookreporter
"Kim Barnes's new novel is an exquisitely complex story, by turns pointed and poignant, about everything that matters: family, loyalty, religion, memory, love. With a master's skill Barnes paints a world tinged with loss, adeptly depicting sentiments left unspoken, relationships stunted by the hard winds of grief and guilt, and singular moments full to brimming with natural beauty and grace." –Brady Udall, author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
"Barnes's use of language is stunning, making you want to reread paragraphs out loud to someone else so they can enjoy it with you." –Sacramento Book Review
"A Country Called Home is a weave of human longings, accurate in its rendering of the ways they accumulate. . . . Give it a while, watch it come to life, and you'll find yourself rationing the pages, wishing it was longer." –William Kittredge, author of The Willow Field
"A seductive book of love and obsession. . . . Some books are easily put down, but the best of them, like A Country Called Home, won't let go of you." –Claire Davis, author of Winter Range

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bacon and zucchini slice
- 12 slices bread, crusts removed
- butter, for spreading
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 red onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 3 rashers bacon, rind removed and chopped
- 2 zucchini (courgette), grated
- sea salt and cracked black pepper
- ¾ cup (90g) grated cheddar
- 6 eggs
- 1 cup (250ml) milk
- Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F). Spread one side of the bread slices with butter and press, butter-side down, into the base and around the sides of a lightly greased 20cm x 30cm tin.
- Heat the oil in a large, non-stick frying pan over high heat. Add the onion, garlic and bacon and cook for 5 minutes. Add the zucchini, salt and pepper and cook for a further 5 minutes. Spoon the mixture into the tin and top with the cheese.
- Place the eggs and milk in a bowl and whisk to combine. Pour over the zucchini mixture and bake for 30 minutes or until cooked through and golden. Cool and cut into squares to serve. Serves 8–10.
Jennifer Hockey
Love this recipe. Very straightforward. Excellent cold. My family felt it didn't really need the salt as the bacon provided enough salt.


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Archive of 2005
Last push for EU budget deal
Tony Blair will today begin two days of talks with European leaders at Downing Street to try to secure their support for Britain's proposals for the EU budget.
Straw appeals for hostages' release
Foreign secretary Jack Straw has repeated his call for Iraqi militants to release four Westerners they are holding hostage.
Thatcher admitted to hospital
Margaret Thatcher is due to return home this morning after a health scare saw her admitted to hospital last night.
Foreign torture evidence ruled inadmissible
The law lords have today ruled that foreign evidence that might have been obtained under torture is not admissible in British courts.
Skinner evicted over Commons drug slur
Dennis Skinner has been barred from the House of Commons for the rest of the day after accusing shadow chancellor George Osborne of taking drugs.
Kennedy slams 'centralised' Labour
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy today launched an attack on the government for making Britain one of the most centralised countries in the democratic world.
Interest rates held for another month
The Bank of England today said interest rates will be held at 4.5 per cent in December.
Cameron disarms Blair with support
David Cameron today set the tone for his new style of politics when he began prime minister's questions by giving the government his full support on school reforms.
Study finds ethnic inequalities in mental health care
Black African or Caribbean people are three times more likely to be hospitalised for mental health problems than the average, a new survey finds.
NHS 'ill-equipped' to deal with reforms
One in five NHS hospital trusts is likely to report large budget deficits in the near future, with a "real risk" that many of them will fail, a new report warns.
Stamp price rise nets Royal Mail £320m
Royal Mail has been granted permission to raise the price of stamps to fund investment in services ahead of the opening up of the postal market in January.
Unions 'stuck in the past'
The militancy that governs the words and actions of trade union leaders threatens to make the organisations "irrelevant", a former TUC economics chief warns today.
Kennedy grills Blair over CIA flights
Charles Kennedy today grilled the prime minister over allegations that British airports are being used by the CIA.
Injuries compensation scheme set for overhaul
People who suffer minor injuries as a result of crime would no longer be eligible for compensation under new government proposals announced today.
Conservative policy groups unveiled
The first of six new Conservative policy groups has today been set up to help decide the direction of the party under its new leader, David Cameron.
Cameron names his cabinet
New Conservative party leader David Cameron has named his shadow cabinet, with a return to the front bench for former leader William Hague.
Government wasting 'billions'
Government departments are repeating 'basic' errors and wasting billions of pounds in the process, a committee of MPs warns today.
Higher limit for small claims court urged
The £1,000 claim limit in the small claims court should be raised, according to a committee of MPs.
EU commissioner slams Britain's budget plans
Britain's proposals for reforming the EU budget were last night dismissed by the European Commission president as "unacceptable" and "simply not realistic".
Cameron crowned Tory leader
David Cameron has today been named leader of the Conservative party after taking more than two thirds of the votes of grassroots members.
Tax credit reforms welcomed
Plans to reform the tax credit system to make it more flexible and reduce the scope for overpayments have been broadly welcomed by campaigners.
Sex offender management 'needs improvement'
The management of sex offenders requires "considerable improvement" to ensure members of the public are not put at risk, a new report warns.
Brown to continue Blair's reforms
Gordon Brown has today said he would carry on Tony Blair's policy of reform if he became the next prime minister.
Chancellor accused over property tax breaks
The chancellor has been accused of performing an embarrassing "climbdown" after he scrapped plans to give tax breaks to people investing in property as part of their pension.
David Cameron's speech in full
Read David Cameron's speech on winning the race to become Tory leader.


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Today, the two winners of the ThinkCure auction who had the winning bids to go "Inside the Dodgers" will be here to spend the day following around yours truly to see what it's like to work for the team. It's always a fun day for me, as it's a reminder of how fortunate we are to do what we do for a living.
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WooHoo, new thread!!! Thanks Josh!!!
Josh, I wish I could get away and attend. I would certainly like to meet you and Thank You personally for this blog and all you do. I know it can be difficult at times. You are much appreciated. Our qualms are with the ownership and management, upper and on the field (or lack thereof)!!!! Don't take it personally!!! You're doing an exemplary job!!!!
I would like to think UCLA will make a move this season. We will see if the Bruins have the talent to do so. Any you are right about sitting through a doubleheader or games that drag. When the Dodgers first came to L.A. the games started at 8:00. Can't imagine starting a game at that time now although it happens quite a bit for eastern teams when the games are on national TV. I am amazed at those Red Sox or Yankee fans still hanging around at midnight their time for a routine 9 inning game.
Just an aside, but, do you think A-Fraud will break the all time home run record of 755!!! Yes, you read it right, in my book, Aaron still holds the record. Barroid is a farce!!! I personally don't think he can do it without the juice. Same way Barroid did it.
Thanks for the new thread Josh!!!! …… and I second that on what Jhall said 🙂
Lots of great posts on the previous thread. I have become a baseball fan as well, and know a little something about every team through all the work I have done trying to implement into a geography unit. So, if the Dodgers were to not make it to the post season, I have other teams I would like to see there.
Jhall – the Buckeyes are one of the talked about teams to take the BCS Title this year………cool!!
Hi'Ya Nelly!!! :)))
Well Nelly, as you and Trumom are honorary Buckeyes, I hope we make you proud.
Ken Levine congratulated A-Roid on his 348th home run. I thought that about said it perfectly. It amazes me how his whole ordeal just got swept under the rug, unlike Manny. The east/west coast bias in full affect it seems.
Baseball would and will be better when A-Fraud/Roid, Barroid, and Clemens, et al, are just relegated to obscurity and forgotten by baseball. They do not deserve the Hall of Fame!!!!
Hell, Pete Rose is not in the Hall of Fame because of what he did out of the lines. These guys cheated between the lines!! It's a no brainer.
If you put Barroid/Pumpkin Head or A-Fraud into the Hall of Fame because you think they were great players and made their claims before or after the steroids, then, it is total hypocrisy to keep Rose out. Make it an even playing field. Rose deserves to be in based on what he did as a player. If we are considering their total body of work, none gets in. If you want to divide it up into sections, OK, but do it across the board!!!!!
Sorry for the tirade about steroids gang. I just think our current team situation has been effected by it. (Read Manny, Martin, Furcal, etc..)
Rose gets my vote. Of course, I don't have one but if I did, he would get it. But I do think the media covered the story of A-Rod hitting his 600th home run because it felt it had to while most baseball fans cared little about it. Even some of the media grew weary of talking about it. It is just another home run and perhaps a personal milestone for him but of little significance to the game. Now if he lasts long enough to challenge for the home run title, clearly there will be a lot of interest and not all of it positive. I think we just have to look at the steroid era as another chapter in the history of the game and move on to whatever happens next.
Well, anyway, it will be decided in the court of public opinion!!! We need to find our offense and get a win to keep our bleak hopes alive!!!!
Have a great rest of the day. I will be at Dodger Stadium tonight to cheer on the boys, or what's left of them.
I hope A-roid doesn't come close to Aarons home run mark…yes, I agree with you, Jhall, Aaron still holds the mark in my eyes.
Hi Everybody
I know you're all ready for another night of baseball and since wins are pretty hard to come by, all the Dodgers can do is keep working hard and hope that things turn around.
There's 52 games left, a lot of baseball, enough time for things to change and anything can happen.
Twitter post from DodgerBlues ( http://www.dodgerblues.com ) :
"Mets release Alex Cora 18 games shy of triggering $2M option. Ned is erect. (6 hours ago)."
Obviously the last part is a joke (and mentions Colletti's attention to posture), but part of me feels it's only two more years before Ned signs all the guys we traded away in '04.
I'm just going to take the rest of this season like I did the entire 90's decade: Going down with the ship, holding out an inkling of irrational hope until the day they're mathematically eliminated, then turn to the "how can we best ruin our rivals' chances?" train of thought.
That's how I spent the 90's through 2004, and it's how Giants fans have spent over half a century.
I have a fleeting memory of the Dodgers winning the World Championship when I was seven, and that makes my baseball experience more fulfilling than any California-born Giants fan. Really, that's eating soup with a fork, though.
For tonight, let's get those Nasty Nats.
Let's do the Time Warp again!!! It's just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right………. I think of the "Rocky Hooror Picture Show" everytime this happens 🙂
Wonderful way to start a ball game…. good grief…it is the Nationals, guys!!!!!
These guys don't waste no time, right back into the lead.
I can't believe it. Another first inning HR.
For a team that's in the cellar, at least the Nats come out to play ball, and its not like they're trying to act as a spoiler to the Dodgers season.
The Dodgers do that all by themselves.
I thought the inning would end before Vinny finished the story.LOL
Livo doesn't knock himself out, he just puts it in and lets them hit it.
KEMP came close but at least it was far enough for an RBI,
They give us another and the game is tied.
I hope this isn't all for the night.
And I though JP was bad. Posednik isn't worth the powder to blow him to hell.
That's, "And I thought" not "though." Posednik pisses me off so much I can't even type straight.
Is Posednik our T.I.P., bpb1?!
We made Livo work in 6th.
There are so many T.I.P.s on this team Tru you could walk across the Atlantic and not get your feet wet.
A gem for Kuroda, his 9th.
LMAO, bpb1 !!!!! So true!!!!!
Are Posednik and Theriot signed through next year? Ooooh I hope so because they compliment this team so well. At least Ned will get to see them when I shove them up his ***.
When did Reed Johnson come back?
A few days ago, Nellyjune.
KOOL KUO..Dodger pitchers have to work hard almost every night and this year almost for nothing.
I'm pretty sure you could underhand them to Blake nowadays and he couldn't hit them. Glad he's our 3B next year.
Well, THAT was a fierce battle we gave them in the 9th. Whew!
LOL, you're sounding more and more like PObear's brother, bpb1 🙂
Gosh damn it Blake
Nats offense>Dodgers offense
Tick Tick Tick…
lol 2-0 come on Harris hitting.182
Harris was 1/14 in his last 10 games
WHEW!! Nice show BIG JON
Look mommy, the blind squirrel found an acorn.
I think he walk Harris on purpose.
[splat] I feel sorry for his little buddy though.
Walk off Loney
J-A-M-E-S!!!!!!! Thank-you!!!!
Man!!! I wanted to see a walk-off something by Andre!
I call it
This of course means that Ned's still buying.
Oh Nelly I know you do lol
Alright James!!! I guess you can have it tonight:)
Hi guys,
Anyone see the latest on the McCourts' battle?
"All she wants is a percentage of the company, whatever it's worth…."
"Frank does not want to become business partners with his former wife…."
Impasse. Sell the team.
This is a pretty cool story…….
They're both in their 80s. They've been going there since '72.
Well, I've been going there since '62. What does that make me?
Old, I guess.
Oh, and shad, parking was $1 for like………. forever it seems. Well into the 70s, for sure.
Submission error hell :(((( I have been locked out since Dodgereric posted his second article. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!!!!
Anyhow……………They should be ashamed of themselves for dragging the Dodger Organization through this, but what else should we expect from them at this point. If they cared about the team, their first priority would have been to make sure the team was taken care of, but who cares about the team and it's fans. It's all about the money………………for them.
Now, that 2nd story was fun to read 🙂
………and they don't call it old anymore…………………..they call it seasoned :)))
So far, I am able to watch "In My Own Words" with Andre
Thanks Eric but I was hoping Wally would've told me since he said that he went to both of those games of a doubleheader and I wish I was born earlier than 1978.
Who should be ashamed? ……………The McCourts. Sorry, it was originally it's own post and much longer, but as I was continually being submission errored, I added a comment about the other article and my issue with the blog and it's submission errors as well.
Jwally @ 4:22
No, AFraud cannot break Hank Aaron's all-time home run record because he is ineligible for the sam reasons that Barroids was ineligible.
Maybe AFraud can pass Barroids and get the record for most homers by a juicer.
Glad you're able to see Dreambo…… er, Andre's show. He really is an interesting guy, isn't he? And it's sure good to see him start stinging the ball again.
Kinda figures tonight. No sooner do I hang a new moniker on a guy when he goes off and contributes to a win. Anyway, it was about time that Pathednik did something good.
Yes, I am very happy to see him hitting the ball again, and it was also good to see James come through in the clutch tonight, seeing how he had at least three chances against the Padres the other day.
I used to go to doubleheaders whenever I could, shad. MLB used to schedule them all the time as they made financial sense then. If you were averaging 10,000 a game and could draw 30,000 for a double header, you can see why. When I read Ty Cobb's autobiography, he mentioned playing doubleheaders 3 days in a row. Of course, it doesn't make financial sense to do it anymore.
Anyway, for several years the Dodgers used to schedule a doubleheader just for old time's sake. I made a habit of going to them whenever I could. I never had a problem with seeing 2 games. I loved it. But, as lny4loney said, they'd be 8 hours long now instead of 5-6.
It would be great to see a double header in this day and age at the mlb level. It's too bad those days are gone, with the exception of make up games.
I decided to see if I could back up Cobb's claim. Unfortunately, baseball-reference only has game logs starting in 1920, and Cobb started playing in 1905.
But in 1922, his Tigers played:
7/3 – a doubleheader in Chicago against the White Sox (game 1 went 14 innings)
7/4 – a doubleheader in Detroit against the Indians
7/5 – a single game in Detroit against the Indians (11 innings)
7/6 – no game
7/7 – a doubleheader in Washington
7/8 – another doubleheader in Washington
So there is 9 games in 6 days in 3 cities. No airplanes for travel. No air conditioning.
Oh by the way, Cobb went 23 for 42 in those 9 games (548/.578/.738/1.316).
Can you imagine the pitching staffs today trying to do a schedule like that? One of the first things Steve and Eric (Lyon and Collins that is) said after tonight's game was Brox and Kuo were unavailable for tomorrow afternoon's game.
9/17 – a DH in Philadelphia
9/18 – another DH in Philly
9/19 – yet another DH in Philly
9/20 – a DH in Boston
9/21 – another DH in Boston
9/22 – yet ANOTHER DH in Boston!
Twelve games in 6 days! He was ordinary for those 12 games. Ordinary for HIM, anyway. Sixteen for 44 (.364/.472/.523/.994).
OMG!!!!!! That is just both crazy and incredible!!
Wow 1923?
Thought I?d get started helping the Nedster find next year?s Sweeneykiewicson:
Here are some candidates. I realize that some of them are underqualified (overqualified?); but it?s even harder to find somebody with the potential to be as crappy as Sweeney, Mientkiewicz, or Anderson than I thought. I went through the rosters of all 30 MLB teams on cbssportsline.com and this is all I could come up with.
Gary Matthews, Jr.
Mike Lamb
Wes Helms
Fernando Tatis
Manny Mota
Frank Catalanotto
Jody Gerut
Randy Winn
Augie Ojeda
Joe Torre
Eric Chavez
Robb Quinlan
Jenny Finch
While I was at it, I noticed a few guys down on the farm to keep your eyes on for 2012.
Mike Sweeney *
Gabe Gross *
Mark Kotsay *
Julio Lugo *
The 24 starting pitchers in that 6-day stretch may have thrown more complete games than the Dodgers have thrown in the last 3 seasons combined, which is seven. (2010 to date + '08 and '09 = 434 games played. 7 divided by 434 = 1.6%)
The 1923 Tigers threw 61 Complete Games in a 154 game season. (39.6%)
Torre would need a 25-man pitching staff.
OK, I'm anticipating someone's question.
9/17/23 – game 1 – Phil 2, Det 0
Detroit pitching
Hooks Dauss (6 innings)
Ole Olsen 2
Philadelphia pitching
Rollie Naylor 9
One of my favorite things: Time of game: 1:40
9/17/23 – game 2 – Phil 4, Det 3
Herman Pillette 7
Ray Francis 1
Fred Heimach 9
Time 1:47
9/18/23 – game 1 – Det 8, Phil 2
Ken Holloway 9
Eddie Rommel 2
Ren Kelly 7
Time: 1:58
game 2 – Phil 10, Det 9
Bert Cole 7
Earl Whitehill 1
Rufe Clarke (looks like he pitched to 1 batter and walked him)
Syl Johnson 0.1 (allowed 2 hits, game over. Clarke took the loss)
Slim Harriss 7
Bob Hasty 0.2
Eddie Rommel 1.1 (Starter from game 1 who got bombed)
Time: 2:17
9/19/23 – game 1 – Det 6, Phil 2
Syl Johnson 6.2 (finished yesterday's game 2)
Hooks Dauss 2.1
Rube Walberg 7
Slim Harriss 2
game 2 – Phil 4, Det 3
Ole Olsen 5
Earl Whitehill 2
Ray Francis 1
Dennis Burns 9
Time: 1:45
9/20/23 – game 1 – Det 5, Boston 4
Herman Pillette 6
Bert Cole 2
Hooks Dauss 1
Boston Red Sox
George Murray 6.1
Jack Quinn 2.2
Time: 2:12
game 2 – Det 2, Bos 2 (10 innings)
Ken Holloway 7
Hooks Dauss 3
Bill Piercy 10
Time: 1:52
9/21/23 – game 1 – Bos 4, Det 3 (new game, not a continuation)
Herman Pillette 6
Ray Francis 2
Alex Ferguson 9
Time: 1:39
game 2 – Det 15, Bos 6
Ole Olsen 9
Curt Fullerton 2.1 (gave up the first 7 runs)
Clarence Blethen 6.2 (the last 8. No sense ruining the pen, right Joe?)
Time: 1:48
9/22/23 – game 1 – Det 10, Bos 0
Hooks Dauss 9
Curt Fullerton 9 (Yep, all 10 runs)
Time: 1:48
game 2 – Bos 9, Det 7
Ken Holloway 5.2
Ray Francis 1.1
Earl Whitehill 1
George Murray 7
Jack Quinn 2
Time: 2:15
OK, it's getting late and I'm tired from painting the bathroom today. But first, a quick summary……
Detroit pitching staff for 12 games in 6 days:
Ken Holloway – 3 games, 21.2 innings
Hooks Dauss – 5 games, 21.1 innings
Herman Pillette – 3 games, 19 innings
Ole Olsen ? 3 games, 16 innings
Bert Cole – 2 games, 9 innings
Syl Johnson – 2 games, 7 innings
Ray Francis – 4 games, 5.1 innings
Earl Whitehill – 3 games, 4 innings
Rufe Clarke ? 1 game, 0 innings
9 arms (8, really), with 4 shouldering the load. That's not many, but frankly I was expecting less.
They played 3 DHs in 3 days in Chicago in Sept '24, took a day to travel to Cleveland and play another DH the next day.
There are many other times when they played DHs in back-to-back days, 3DHs in 4 days, 5 DHs in 7 days, etc. Almost all of these were in the latter half of the season, so I'm sure they were making up rainouts, but when you look at what they had to do, it's amazing.
Good night all, and if I get submission-errored, I'm copying this to a Word document and hitting the hay!
Yeah, lny4loney, the '23 Tigers had 12 pitchers on their staff all year. The 2010 Dodgers have had 24.
So far.
OK, this is really a lot of fun. But I guess I started too late tonight.
Good night my friends! And God Bless!
Marquis Career vs. LAD 12 11 5 2 0 0 0 1 1 74.2 56 24 19 6 17 46 2.29 0.98 .205
Marquis Season 3 3 0 0 8.1 18 20 19 2 6 3 0 3 59.3 2.88 .439 20.52
Those 3 teams were the Phillies and Brewers and I really won't be really shock if Marquis shut us down because he's a Dodgers killer but he's due to have another bad game and against us.
Thanks for the research, dodgereric.
Looks like my guess was right. Tiger pitchers and their opposite numbers threw 9 complete games in the 6-day stretch compared to the 7 CGs thrown by the '08-'10 Dodgers thus far.
Marquis, set to make $7.5 million in 2011 — the final season of a two-year deal — is 5-2 with a 2.35 ERA in 11 career starts against Los Angeles. The most recent was a 5-3 loss with Colorado on Oct. 4 at Dodger Stadium.
That defeat ended his five-game win streak over the Dodgers. Marquis is 4-1 with a 1.94 ERA in his last six starts against them.
Loney is 7 for 12 against Marquis with three doubles and a home run, but Andre Ethier is 1 for 17 and Matt Kemp 0 for 12.
Washington third baseman Ryan Zimmerman, batting .387 with five homers and 10 RBIs in his last eight games, is 2 for 9 with no home runs and six strikeouts against Lilly. Adam Dunn, who has seven homers and 14 RBIs over his last 10 contests, is also 2 for 9 versus the left-hander.
Just in – according to Yahoo, Garret Anderson has been DFA'ed! Oh happy day!
Good news for Dodgers fans, although I think it's too late to really matter.
Bad news for Garret, a classy player who should have gone out on a better note.
Sparkle – Dodgers just tweeted it – Anderson DFA, Jay Gibbons brought up.
YAY! It should have happened a long time ago.
I thought for sure they were making room for Belisario to come back.
Now they need to get rid of Sherrill.
Jay Gibbons or Euell Gibbons, don't make much matter now. All of the meaningful ABs already went to GA when they were still in the chase.
Still, getting rid of Sweeney Anderson is a good thing.


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Birds drop fifth contest in a row, endure second straight sweep
BALTIMORE -- Orioles Magic? Not exactly. At least, not lately.
A Baltimore club unable to fire on all cylinders finally got a quality start Sunday afternoon -- its second in nine games -- at the same time the team's surging offense went cold against Rays lefty Matt Moore. A night removed from watching All-Star closer Jim Johnson suffer his second consecutive blown save, the Orioles seemed almost snake-bitten, as they watched a home-run call go against them and several balls fall at the warning track.
The end result was a 3-1 loss to cap a series sweep at the hands of Tampa Bay, running the O's season-high losing streak to five games as they get set to square off against the first-place New York Yankees' ace CC Sabathia on Monday.
"That's a little bit 'woe is me' and 'the world's against me' thing, [but] that's not the case [with us]," manager Buck Showalter said. "We don't think that way. We've had some good things ... happen to us at times. That's part of playing a sport. There's some unique dips and turns to every season. It's frustrating for us, but you don't dwell on it."
Baltimore has suffered back-to-back series sweeps after going the first 12 series of the year without a sweep, and so far are winless on an eight-game homestand.
"Every team is going to go through their losses, whether it's five in a row, six, seven, it doesn't make a difference," right fielder Nick Markakis said. "We know that we're in a tough stretch right now. We've got to put it past us. Every team has gone through their troubles, and we're in ours right now, and we've got to fight through it and move on. We've got a lot of baseball left."
Moore, the Rays most efficient starter this season, especially after ace David Price's injury, went seven innings and held an Orioles offense that banged out 22 runs and 42 hits over the previous four games to just one run.
That run came courtesy of Adam Jones' third-inning single, which scored Manny Machado after his leadoff triple. Machado's ball, hit to deep right-center field, rolled to the wall after Rays outfielders Desmond Jennings and Matt Joyce converged. Jones, who stole second and third base on consecutive pitches, was stranded at third as Moore retired the next three batters on a strikeout and a pair of groundouts, marking the second consecutive inning the O's left a runner 90 feet from home plate.
"He's dealing right now," Jones said of Moore, who improved to 8-0 on the season. "He kept us off balance. We had a few opportunities to get runs. Nobody had a lot of opportunities today.
"You've got to maximize your opportunities. We capitalized on one, there were a couple others, but sometimes you just have to tip your cap to the man. He pitched his game."
So did Orioles starter Chris Tillman, with the exception of a few pitches that ended up being the difference in the game. Tillman, who was the last starter to give the team an outing of longer than five innings, did it again with a solid six-inning start that marked his sixth consecutive quality start.
"Pitching wasn't the issue today," Showalter said of his club, which also got 2 1/3 scoreless innings from T.J. McFarland. "It was trying to solve Moore. And their bullpen's been pretty tough. Moore was the difference-maker today."
The 25-year-old Tillman allowed three runs, including a pair of homers, one of which was a controversial solo shot from Joyce in the sixth inning.
Play was stopped after Joyce sent Tillman's fastball down the right-field line for what originally went down as a one-out double. Showalter came out to argue the call, with Nick Markakis indicating he thought the ball was foul. Rays manager Joe Maddon came out to counter that Joyce's ball hit the foul pole instead.
After a prolonged on-field deliberation between the umpiring crew, Joyce's hit was put under official review and correctly ruled a homer, pushing the Rays lead to two.
"The only thing I wanted to make sure of, if the play's being called a double on the field by reviewing it, it can just be a double or a home run. It cannot be a foul ball," Maddon said of the delay. "I was being told it could be ruled a foul ball and that's why I had to stick around a while longer."
"They got it right, so it certainly didn't affect the way the game ended up," Showalter said. "Joe was just kind of waiting to get the right call out of the dugout, because you can only get them to review it if you think it was a home run [not for fair or foul clarifications]."
Tillman got out of the inning without any further damage and struck out four total, helping stabilize an inconsistent Orioles rotation and giving his team a chance to win.
But the offense couldn't deliver off Moore, as the O's went 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position over his 106-pitch outing. Markakis opened the bottom of the sixth with a single, but he was forced out on Machado's fielder's choice as the O's wasted a pair of hits -- the other from Jones -- to mark their lowest offensive output since May 3. It was just the second time in eight games they've scored fewer than four runs.
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Depression and anxiety – can over the counter pills really help?
The idea of an over the counter pill to improve mental wellbeing has a lot of appeal – after all, one in five of us will have a problem with mental health at some time in our lives, especially anxiety or depression. But can supplements or herbal remedies make much difference?
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Besides St John's wort, the supplements and herbs with the most evidence for depression are omega 3 fatty acids, zinc and two supplements with complicated names: S-adenosyl-methionine (SAMe or 'sammy'), a chemical made in the body and thought to enhance production of mood-enhancing brain chemicals, and N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) - an amino acid with antioxidant properties that may help improve depression for people with bipolar disorder.
But despite omega-3 fats' anti-depressant reputation, it's not clear yet what formulation is best or at what dose – and if you're shopping for an omega-3 supplement to improve mood, it helps to know which fatty acid may be most useful. While the brain needs both EPA (eicosapentanoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), it's supplements containing EPA or mainly EPA that seem to have the most anti-depressant effect, according to Sarris.
Is the evidence for any of these products strong enough to convince doctors to recommend them? It's hard to know but probably only a minority of psychiatrists would do so, says Professor Philip Mitchell, Head of the School of Psychiatry at the University of NSW, and Professorial Fellow with the Black Dog Institute.
"Most clinicians have an open mind and if something works they'll use it, but the problem with many of these supplements is that the research is still evolving and the evidence still isn't strong," he says, adding that St John's wort is one exception – the evidence that standardised extracts of this herb help with mild, but not severe depression is good.
"There is Australian research that found n-acetylene cysteine helpful with schizophrenia and with depression in bipolar disorder. It's an antioxidant and there's a lot of interest in psychiatry in the possibility that oxidative damage to the brain may contribute to schizophrenia and depression, including bipolar depression. But again we need more studies in larger groups of people," he says.
And SAMe? Although some studies have found it helps depression – and one small trial found it improved the effect of anti-depressants – the jury is still out, according to Mitchell.
"With zinc, some studies show that people with depression have low levels of zinc, but it's not clear yet if this a cause or a result of depression. But there is evidence that diet has a role in mental health - although it's early days, there are large epidemiological studies showing that the Mediterranean diet may help protect against depression," he says.
If you have a problem with mental health then diet, exercise, sleep and social factors are all important. Some supplements may have a place too - but it's important to see them as part of an integrated approach and not a magic bullet.
A diet of mainly processed and 'junk' food as opposed to a wholefood diet of lean meats, fish, whole grains, fruit and vegetables may be a risk factor for mental disorders, adds Dr Sarris – but while there's evidence for some herbal and nutrient supplements to improve some symptoms of mental health problems, adding these supplements to the diet hasn't been shown to prevent these disorders.
"If you have a problem with mental health then diet, exercise, sleep and social factors are all important," he says. "Some supplements may have a place too - but it's important to see them as part of an integrated approach and not a magic bullet. "


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Since 1880, LCN has been on the cutting edge of technology, producing surface and concealed door closers along with ADA automatic door openers. These devices are found in high traffic areas such as hospitals, schools, government buildings and commercial settings. As the nation's premier door closer manufacturer, LCN door closers keep doors from opening too quickly or slamming shut, protecting pedestrian traffic as well as the door frame. They enhance security by ensuring doors latch and provide fire and life safety by adhering to stringent building codes.
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Concerning the recent flap over a play yard for dogs [News, "Dogged Daycare," July 31] (http://www.readthehook.com/93811/newsbiz-dogged-daycare-play-yard-shut-down), I want to add my perspective as an All Things Pawssible customer who has witnessed the conduct of the dogs, the efforts of the proprietors, and the growth of the business, including the play yard.
I take my dog, Flint, to All Things Pawssible twice a week.
All Things Pawssible spent considerable effort and money improving the yard in question, including replacing a chain-link fence with a wooden one and mulching what had previously been an unkempt lot. While the yard was open, dogs were constantly supervised and the yard kept clean. Every time I've ever seen a dog make a mess at All Things Pawssible, I've also seen someone immediately clean it up.
And while dogs do have short bursts of barking when they play, continuous barking is not allowed. If you think about it, no one has a greater interest in keeping the yard clean and the dogs under control than the people who have the most contact with the dogs– the owners and employees of All Things Pawssible. And the idea that an open-air yard would have a "dog smell" even if it's kept clean is preposterous.
The most disturbing aspect of this situation is how unfairly All Things Pawssible has been treated. The City of Charlottesville made the mistake here– erroneously telling the owners they didn't need a special-use permit– but the daycare is paying the price. All Things Pawssible has demonstrated their willingness to make extra efforts to improve the situation, yet they are practically being slandered in print.
It is particularly shocking that Mayor Cox publicly passed judgment on All Things Pawssible before he even visited them or deigned to acknowledge their repeated requests for him to tour their facility. An uninformed civic leader taking sides in a dispute between neighbors, when his role is to decide such matters fairly and impartially, is truly a nightmare– and I say this as a Democrat who has admired Cox's politics, and voted for him, in the past.
The City should own up to its mistake rather than stifle a positive member of its business community– a member who is contributing to the city's fiscal health through its growth, despite a sluggish economy. The City of Charlottesville should grant a temporary permit to reopen All Things Pawssible's playyard immediately, and should then proceed with granting the permanent permit.
Would I live next to the All Things Pawssible play yard? Happily.
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Cavalyn, who is known as ~DistantDream on deviantART, used the house animals and characteristics as a launching point for each of her gowns. The Slytherin dress is sleek and rich with a serpentine pattern. The lion-fringed Gryffindor resembles an adventurer's traveling cloak. The Hufflepuff dress, with badger fur capped sleeves, is fashion-forward without being showy, while the Ravenclaw dress is dramatic with its feather-like fabric and unexpected geometry.
Given that Cavalyn sews as well as sketches dresses, perhaps we'll be seeing physical versions of her designs some time in the future. In the meantime, you can see larger versions of the individual dresses in addition to her other fashion designs at deviantART.
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Equity futures are up slightly this morning:
The dollar is down slightly, bonds are up, oil is down, and gold is flat.
No data releases this morning, non-manufacturing ISM is released at 10 Eastern.
Below is a 3 month chart of the SPX. Note the small hammer that was created last Friday, right on the 50dma and just above the bottom Bollinger:
I'm still watching that lower boundary of the rising wedge and McHugh is flip flopping his count to believing that we need one more small wave down and that will be followed by wave 5 of c of B up to finally finish wave B. He does hedge in that he is saying that B could have completed, so he's also watching prices from here. Today and tomorrow will be important indicators of the count. I'll have more throughout the day, see you in the comments section…
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VANCOUVER, BC – Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced today that head coach Teitur Thordarson and goalkeeper coach Mike Salmon have left the club with immediate effect.
"Teitur and Mike have served the club extremely well in recent seasons, but we feel that today's changes are necessary in order to accelerate the process of turning around our difficult start to the season," said Paul Barber, Whitecaps FC chief executive officer. "We wish Teitur and Mike well for the future."
Whitecaps FC also announced today that current director of soccer operations, Tom Soehn, has assumed responsibility as head coach for the remainder of the 2011 season. Soehn will be supported by assistant coaches Denis Hamlett, who joined Whitecaps FC at the start of the season, and Colin Miller, now in his second season with the club.
"Tommy brings extensive experience in Major League Soccer, and in the past year, has immersed himself in the culture of our club. Supported by Denis Hamlett and Colin Miller, we have an excellent balance of Whitecaps and MLS knowledge and expertise," said Bob Lenarduzzi, Whitecaps FC president.
For biographies of Whitecaps FC technical staff, visit whitecapsfc.com/technical-staff.
About Vancouver Whitecaps FC
In 1974, Vancouver Whitecaps FC played their inaugural season in the North American Soccer League, and in 1979, the club won the NASL Soccer Bowl championship. From 1987 to 1992, as a member of the Canadian Soccer League, Vancouver won four straight CSL titles. In 2002, Whitecaps FC created a full club model that encompasses professional teams for men and women, extensive youth development and grassroots participation programs, facility development, and the Whitecaps Foundation to support specific initiatives related to health and wellness through soccer. Since 2004, Whitecaps FC have won two United Soccer Leagues First Division championships and two USL W-League championships. This year, Whitecaps FC began their inaugural season in Major League Soccer at Empire Field and will move into the new BC Place Stadium in downtown Vancouver in early October.
Whitecaps FC announce technical staff changes
VANCOUVER, BC – Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced today that head coach Teitur Thordarson and goalkeeper coach Mike Salmon have left the club with immediate effect.


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Futures are higher this morning with the /ES right on the 912 pivot:
The next higher pivot is at 935, and the next lower is at 848.
And let me say to all those who wrote me and said that the automakers should not be allowed to go bankrupt, "Pfluuuutttting fricken #%&?!" Okay, there, I said it. See, we were handing out billions to the automakers and now that Chrysler is finally in bankruptcy we learn that they will not be paying back the government for the billions YOU AND I gave them - EVER. Way to go.
Remember who the owners of Chrysler are. They are the political and the elite who own Cerberus, a hedge fund… of the elite. And where did those billions go? See, this is most definitely NOT the rule of law. The rule of law has a hierarchy for the repayment of obligations through the bankruptcy process. What happened here is that the rule of law was skirted to give the elite an out before the other creditors, and it was your money and my money that gave them that out. Money that they STOLE. They are thieves and they belong in prison.
Please, do not tell me ever again that we should be bailing some asshats out. Thank you. It was NOT in the best interest of AMERICA, it was completely against the interests of AMERICA and those who continue the robbery and theft are TRAITORS to our country.
Okay, now that I got that out. I'll continue.
According to Econoday, Purchase Applications rose in the first week of May:
Housing reports have been on the upswing, at least most of the data but not MBA's purchase applications index which is lagging behind. But there was some improvement in the May 1 week as the purchase index rose 5.0 percent to 264.3, a still very weak level. In contrast to purchase applications, applications for refinancing are very strong, up another 1.2 percent to 5,169.3. Refinancing makes up 74.4 percent of all applications. Rock-bottom mortgage rates are behind the rise in refinancing though rates did move higher in the latest week with 30-year fixed loans averaging 4.79 percent. The outlook for the housing market is definitely improving but expectations won't take off until MBA's purchase index shows some life.
And according to Econoday, the Challenger Job-Cut Report is showing improvement:
Challenger layoff count shows month-to-month improvement, at 132,590 vs. 150,411 in March. Interestingly layoffs were led by the government component, reflecting job cuts in New York City. The report noted that local and state governments are feeling the pinch from foreclosures and lost property taxes. Also interesting is that hiring intentions, a less looked at category in the report, improved to 27,062 from March's 19,309. The hiring gain was led by autos of all sectors, but the report stressed that the sector nevertheless is seeing heavy downsizing. Today's report points to easing contraction in Friday's jobs report. ADP is up next at 8:15 a.m.
AND, the ADP Jobs Report shows that jobs are being lost at a significantly lower pace in April than in March:
ADP estimates private payrolls fell 491,000 in April, indicating an easing rate of job losses. The report will increase talk that the worst of the recession has already passed. There was limited reaction to the report at least initially, but the result is very likely to increase risk appetite in what would be a positive for stocks and commodities and a negative for the dollar and Treasuries.
Greenshoots indeed, unless you're one of the 491,000 of course. This was a significant improvement over March which was a -742,000 figure. While I do not like or trust ADPs methodology, this is definitely a large improvement but still a very distressed level.
The Petroleum report comes at 10:30 eastern and there are several bond auctions once again. Must crank up the debt to give to the robber barons while indebting Americans. Nice.
And reports are out that Bank of America will need $34 billion in additional "capital." No problem, it's a buy of a lifetime. And Jamie Dimon claims that JPM is such an angel company that they don't need any more stinking capital. And how true that is! They have the taxpayers there to give them capital anytime they need it! This despite being the most highly leveraged financial institution in the history of the planet – derivative central.
And if you're a common stock holder in General Motors, you just got the shaft royal. In a dilutive shotgun of new stock, current shareholders are going to net approximately 1/100th the stock's current value as their debt is rolled into common shares. Again, this violates the RULE OF LAW for a bankrupt company. This is not how bankruptcy is supposed to happen and it places the American public as shareholders instead of bond holders in a company that is sure to go bankrupt later and when it does all those billions will be wiped away too, rewarding others and giving YOU the shaft AGAIN.
Very complex deal, yet that sums it up. And do you think the average American sees through the complexity to the bottom line?
I hope America wakes the heck up. To hell with the greenshoots, the only thing that should be sprouting up in America are the pitchforks!
Oh, and as far as the markets go, they are corrupt beyond belief. The rule of law is completely out the window. This is a time to be protective as risk takers will get burned eventually, count on it.
I think America needs to take a collective week off to mark the end of common sense and the end of morals and ethics in America. Then we need a revolution and a new independence day. This time independence from the central bankers.
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Chatwood impresses in solid effort vs. Giants
Pitcher allows one run in 5 2/3 innings; Rosario slugs two-run homer
DENVER -- Right-hander Tyler Chatwood threw many good pitches over 5 2/3 innings Saturday night, but even his worst pitch worked out for the Rockies in their 10-2 victory over the Giants at Coors Field.
The game was scoreless in the second inning, with Brandon Belt batting and Buster Posey at second. Right after going over signs with catcher Wilin Rosario, Chatwood saw a fastball sign but thought it was a curve, so the pitch sailed to the backstop. However, the ball bounced hard, right back to Rosario, who threw out Posey at third.
"That was awesome," Chatwood said. "For that to work out like it did was pretty good."
Just about everything else went as planned for the Rockies (23-20).
Chatwood, in his second start of his second promotion from Triple-A Colorado Springs, held the Giants to one run while pitching around seven hits and four walks. The fourth was Chatwood's only clean inning, but he consistently found the pitches to escape trouble.
"I just felt like I was in control and had a good gameplan going into it," said Chatwood, who threw 99 pitches before giving way to Josh Outman, who entered with two on and forced a Joaquin Arias grounder to end the sixth. "Just stay within myself, make pitches and get out of it."
Chatwood (2-0) had two starts during an earlier callup, and one was a scoreless six-inning effort in a win over the Dodgers on April 29, but he was nonetheless returned to Triple-A when Jhoulys Chacin returned from a back injury. Called up this time because of Jeff Francis' left groin strain, Chatwood is trying to stick for good.
"He's a great competitor," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "He's really done a nice job.
"We will figure stuff out as we go, but Tyler has thrown the ball really well for us. He's been very impressive."
Chatwood fanned Tim Lincecum with two on to end the second, forced a Hunter Pence grounder to end the third with two aboard and snatched Posey's hard bouncer with runners at the corners to end the fifth.
"I missed some pitches when I had runners on base, so he pitched really well," Pence said. "This lineup is a strong lineup. To have that kind of outing here, he did well."
The Rockies scored six runs in five innings against Lincecum (3-3), with one run on Chatwood's RBI single and two runs on Rosario's ninth homer of the season. It was Rosario's second homer in three games, after he had gone homerless the first 11 games of May. Troy Tulowitzki went 4-for-5 with a double and two RBIs, and Dexter Fowler put his slump behind him by going 3-for-5 with a double and two RBIs.
The Rockies, who blew a six-run lead and lost to the Giants in the four-game series opener, 8-6, Thursday night, have scored 20 runs while winning the last two. It's the first time they've won two straight against the Giants since sweeping a two-game series May 16 and 17, 2011. If they win Sunday afternoon's finale, it'll be their first series win over them since then.
The Rockies also have won consecutive games for the first time since an eight-game win streak April 12-20. It's only May, but the Rockies saw this stretch -- the series with the Giants, followed by three games at home against the National League West-leading D-backs, then three against the Giants at AT&T Park -- as a chance to re-establish that they would continue to be competitive in the division in the early going.
The offensive success has been welcome from a club that has struggled for consistency since the latter part of April. Fowler and Tulowitzki played through nagging injuries at times, Todd Helton did a tour on the disabled list with a forearm strain and Michael Cuddyer is out until at least Friday with a bulging disk in his neck. Rosario sees the hitting getting better.
"We're ready to go," Rosario said. "We're not afraid to go against any team. We're ready to go hit. We have our players, CarGo [Carlos Gonzalez], Tulo, Helton. The only guy we're missing right now is Cuddyer, and he's going to be with us pretty soon. When that guy gets to the lineup, it's going to be tougher to get outs."


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Yes, the Brewers have won seven in a row and opened up moderate leads on not-good-enough St. Louis and really-not-good-enough Pittsburgh, but that success isn't the most exciting thing in Milwaukee baseball. Nor is Prince Fielder's contract year or John Axford's mustache or the Yuniesky Betancourt experience. Rather, it's Nyjer Morgan and/or Tony Plush, Morgan's other persona, who's already given us a splendid postgame interview and a kite-flying escapade.
And after last night's 6-2 win over St. Louis, Morgan, who drove in three runs with a double off Chris Carpenter, spoke to Fox Sports Wisconsin as Tony Gumbo, an alter ego of his alter ego. (UPDATE: Some clever readers have suggested it's Tony Gumbel, lost brother of Bryant and Greg? Maybe.) He says he used his Plushdamentals to tickle the ball into center field, which should make you feel all fuzzy and weird inside. He does all this while adopting a tax attorney's affectation. Then he gives the camera a cockeyed glare. Pause for the interviewer to ask the television-interviewer-y questions, and for Morgan to give the television-interview-y-responses. Then one more question, and Nyjer screams. Stay plush, sir.
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The NBA D-League has done it again! The Maine Red Claws unveiled their new mascot this weekend (at a baseball game, of course) and he bears a striking resemblance to another booster from the same league. In fact, I think all they did was take Fort Wayne's Mad Ant and replace his hands with claws. Bingo! It's Crusher! (Click the image to fully experience the terror.)
So now folks on the East Coast can also be haunted by a horrific vision of their own death anytime they attend a minor league basketball game, just like their Midwest brethren. I just hope that in their sweat-soaked heat visions they don't try to pry open Crusher's appendages and feast on the sweet—but evil!—meat inside. (Don't forget the melted butter!) Although at this point, I think Crusher is more likely to eat you.
And yes, his dunking needs a little work, but that's why he is a D-League mascot.
CRUSHER SET FREE AT HADLOCK [Central Maine Sports Blog]
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Judge denies second appeal to block Kennebunk client list
Mark Strong, Alexis Wright face dozens of charges in Kennebunk prostitution case
A judge has denied a second appeal to block the client list in the Kennebunk prostitution investigation.
An attorney for one of the two people at the center of the Kennebunk prostitution case said lawyers for some of the suspected johns filed an injunction late Thursday. But Judge Andre Janelle denied that request.
Once that request was denied, a second appeal was filed, and on Friday afternoon Janelle denied that request as well.
Mark Strong and Alexis Wright are accused of running a prostitution business out of a building in Kennebunk and secretly recording the encounters.
On Tuesday, both Strong and Wright pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges in the case.
Kennebunk police said names could be released as early as Friday when it publishes its weekly police blotter.


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