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The Political Economy of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region, 2008-2016
Old military works outside of the port of Keelung.
...excerpted with permission from Mai Che-en's The Political Economy of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region 2008-2016, published in June of 2017, Armonk: ME Sharpe.
....in the summer of 2008 controls on Chinese investment in Taiwan were lifted, and both Chinese capital and international capital flowed into Taiwan to drive up real estate prices in urban areas around the island, especially in the north. This writer recalls, nearly a decade ago now, speaking to an aide to a former US senator turned lobbyist, who remarked in anticipation of the triumph of Ma that came four days later: "We've been lining up clients for two years for a Ma victory."
The influx of international capital resulted in a real estate boom, and secondarily, a boom in services. Taiwan's underdeveloped leisure industry also received a jolt from Chinese tourists. Months prior to the 2008 election, foreign companies had been quietly revising Taiwan's infrastructure. While writing this book I had the pleasure of staying in the Far Eastern hotel complex right next to the Tainan Train station, whose renovations began in 2007, also in anticipation of Ma's victory. Nowadays Chinese tourists arrive regularly at the airport outside of Kaohsiung, and then are immediately whisked to the hotel where they go on tours of Tainan's historical sites. None of them know, of course, that the five star hotel they pay such extravagant prices for began life as an office building that had sat for years, unused....
...but it was obvious in hindsight what would happen. As Taiwan's industries offshored to China, with the last of the major semiconductor firms leaving in 2011, tourism and real estate boomed. Yet a growing uneasiness with the new, American style casino economy of rapidly rising income disparities, continuing income stagnation, and stagnant productivity could have led to the revival of a working class social justice movement. How was the threat of working class revolt averted?
The roots of the answer lie in the legislative election of 2008, the first of the many elections that have since given the KMT an unbreakable grip on the island's local electoral politics. That year a major electoral reform created winner-take-all districts, a move that many later came to see as a crucial setback for democracy. With its superiority in cash and unrivaled local networks, the KMT easily won a large majority, one that it has been able to preserve over time. While vote buying was a time-honored practice in Taiwan's elections, the 2008 Presidential election and subsequent legislative elections brought back the long unused practice of ballot box stuffing. Though few outside Taiwan realize it, the routine use of schools and other community centers as polling stations means that in practice the ballots are stored, counted, and processed by KMT supporters, since those institutions are heavily KMT controlled.
However, to win the 2008 elections, the KMT spent large sums of money. In order to recoup this expenditure, the KMT-controlled legislature then turned on the infrastructure faucets, creating flows of funds into their patronage networks which legislators then tapped. For eight years the KMT had starved the island's infrastructure spending in a bid to reduce incomes and discredit the DPP. This strategy was highly successful. The working class, which had suffered the most, experienced growth in household incomes as the flow of money out from the central government revived local construction and with it, local incomes. Essentially, the working class was bought off. KMT coffers were replenished as well. Out of the loop, the DPP, the TSU, and the Green Party remained impotent and impoverished, unable to gain any political traction.
The political effects of this were profound. KMT planners, adept at divide-and-rule strategies, also revived the party labor unions to divide the working class and prevent it from allying with the DPP. The DPP's own attempts to forge links with the working class suffered from its history of using the social justice movements to get in power, and then spurning them. With the KMT in sole control of government funding flows, local factions that had been allied to the DPP returned to the KMT, eliminating the DPP as a local political force throughout most of the island. Additionally, the flow of construction money, combined with the resurgent power of local clan and patron networks, kept workers in line. When those failed, there was always the threat of violence. The 2010 murders of four labor activists in Taoyuan by unidentified thugs still resonates among labor leaders seven years later.....
...the first three years of the Ma Administration saw excellent economic figures driven by increased public debt fueling massive public construction and asset inflation, especially in the north. This was accomplished over the strident objections of the Central Bank, resulting in the replacement of two central bank governors by an impatient President Ma. Completion of the Suhua Highway in the first Ma administration was followed immediately by commencement of work on the widely-derided tunnel through the central mountain range, by far the longest in the world, to connect Hualien on the east coast with Taichung on the west, planned to cut travel times to under an hour. The tunnel is under construction as of this writing. Except in certain service industries, however, productivity growth was non-existent, and the Administration took a hit when it closed many universities in the early 2010s due to falling enrollment and the funding pinch. Incomes remained stagnant, undercut by rising inflation driven by rapidly increasing land prices and expanding public expenditures. There was even suspicion in certain quarters that the economic numbers were becoming unreliable. Nevertheless, entrenched and well supported by local networks, the KMT won another resounding victory over the increasingly irrelevant and poorly-funded DPP in the legislative election of 2011. In 2012 Ma, riding the excellent economic growth of 2008-11, was easily able to achieve re-election against DPP Chairman Su Tseng-cheng. The DPP then broke up into its constituent factions. Five years later it remains a spent force...
....The real estate boom in the north and rising public construction lead inevitably to upward pressure on local wages, and thence, in turn to the importation of Chinese labor. The first Chinese laborers actually began arriving in the summer of 2010, as an "emergency measure" for "temporary labor" during peak construction periods. As Heinlein once noted, there is no such thing as a temporary emergency, and sure enough, two years later permanent flows of Chinese labor were legalized, leading, among other things, to diplomatic protests from the government of the Philippines, which was dependent on Filipinos in Taiwan for a large portion of its foreign exchange. Local businesses eagerly welcomed cheaper Chinese workers, arguing that it would enable retention of industry on the island, though by then the island's industries had largely left. Hardest hit by job losses, the aboriginal community remains strangely loyal to the KMT. Perhaps that is a legacy of....
...in the second Ma Administration was a foregone conclusion. With the onset of a genuine recession in 2012, and over 400,000 Chinese laborers in Taiwan, clashes between local workers and Chinese workers became commonplace, especially in the south, where Chinese laborers moved about only in groups even in the day. Protests from Beijing rose concomitantly. In June of 2015 President Ma was summoned to Beijing for talks, accompanied by an ailing Lien Chan, confined to a wheelchair, but still honorary chairman of the KMT. The now famous 17 Point Treaty was finalized, and....
UPDATE: Hai Tien had a great response below. I've put it up here.
... however, the shift by the KMT to a more Taiwan-centric position proved to be permanent. Senior cadres amongst the CPC were sorely disappointed to find that the growing Taiwanese identity continued unabated under President Ma, despite what was ostensibly portrayed initially in the international media as a pro-China government.
Despite increased cross-strait economic exchanges, the rising cost of manufacturing in the PRC, as well as increasing political instability spreading from the west of that country, ensured that future Taiwanese investment remained more or less at prior levels. In pursuit of ever cheaper labor, low level manufacturing continued moving into underdeveloped countries in Southeast Asia, and later - Africa.
... internal reforms undertaken by the DPP included large-scale decentralization, and the dismantling of the former KMT-inspired Stalinist party structure in favor of delegating increased power to local party offices - a move that would later be emulated by most political parties by 2012. Galvanized by their 2008 electoral loss, the DPP sought to convey a more professional image, a newfound emphasis on recruiting capable administrators and policy experts, as well as cosponsoring bipartisan legislation on various levels. The presence for the first time in Taiwan, of a responsible opposition party, continued the consolidation of liberal democracy in Taiwan. Coupled with the implication of several prominent KMT members in the Casino-gate scandal of late 2009, the DPP staged a major comeback in the 2010 local elections, winning Taichung City for the first time since 1997...
Yep. The future could go many ways. But crucial to a positive outcome is the revitalization of the DPP in the directions you've named. It's practically been a religious invocation on my blog that they need a professional chairman. And they need to stop mimicking the KMT as well.
More later today.
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great stuff man, you got link it to the full version, it is worth a million....
Raj said...
A very negative view and, with all due respect, just far enough ahead in the future that it's likely the blog will close before then.
I would prefer to see your views on the first two years and then the first four years in more detail (and without an imagined narrative).
Tim Maddog said...
...excerpted with permission from Mai Che-en's...
I sense some kind of Castrovalvan loop at work and play here. ;-)
Tim Maddog
Scary read.. You need to publish this.
Brrrrrr... Chilling, because it is plausible and intimately foreseeable. I like the Heinlein reference...
What you write here, though, sounds like science fact, rather than science fiction. Unless, the unlikely occurrence of someone listening to you and others like you actually does take place.
This "rise in real estate prices" and "murder of labour activists by unknown assailants, "... s--t! It sounds like déja vu!
DPP and TSU, are you listening?
Later today, I hope. But international capital backed Ma strongly and now they are going to want their reward. The question is, put crudely, whether we can transform into an economy dominated by real estate and services, or whether we're going to be scooped out and left with nothing, with international capital moving on to hollow out the next productive state. I can't tell -- I think there is a lot of positive possibility, actually. So many uncertainties.
But the combination of real estate flipping + massive infrastructure spending means that Ma has a demand "in" for the importation of Chinese labor. The only question is not whether he will do so, but how soon. Of all Ma's promises, that one was made to be broken.
Whatever way Taiwan's economy goes, the KMT will keep its grip on the legislature for many years to come, and Ma will win a second term, barring something bizarre and unforeseen. The next few years will see strong economic growth here, by all accounts.
Haitien said...
You really should consider taking up science fiction writing, Michael. There's a serious lack of speculative fiction concerning Taiwan in the local bookstores. For all our sakes (and mine especially), I hope that you're wrong on this one.
There will certainly be a short term boost to the economy, but Taiwan has a number of challenges it is unprepared for. These are rising commodity prices, a coming recession in the US, sky-rocketing oil prices, dependence on imported energy, peak oil and climate change. The path of major infrastructure investment is just digging Taiwan into a deep hole as this infrastructure will not be appropriate to Taiwan's needs in 2020.
Taiwan's PV industry is a possible bright spot in light of this. However, one only needs to consider Taiwan's lack of a good energy policy to see this won't help the overall problem much.
Dead right, David. Taiwan's choices during the last eight years have sucked, and we won't see any change under Ma.
Michael, your post reminds me of some of the doomsday scenarios proffered by diehard Blue-supporters back when President Chen was elected back in 2000.
Negativity and gloominess aside, no good yarn about politics can leave out domestic political scandals. Haitien's post alludes to this wonderfully. On this island, scandals are what ultimately shapes the narrative of any presidential administration. Given how President-elect Ma's reputation so hinges on his squeaky clean record, factor in the KMT's rather ugly record on corruption at the local government level, you have the recipe for a rather hard downfall.
With MA, the next four years will most likely be marked as the begining of the end for Taiwan. Unless Ma could assemble a very capable team...which is very unlikely. More and more investment and saving will be pulling out of Taiwan.
Economies based on real estate like ours in the USA are doomed ultimately to fail because there is a finite amount of real estate (like oil).
Does Taiwan allow foreigners to own its real estate? Many countries do not such as the Philippines.
Interesting to contemplate though.
The scariest part of this scenario is the massive influx of Chinese labor. In Tibet it has destroyed the culture.
Why are you so skeptical about international capital moving in and hollowing Taiwan out??? Don't most countries WELCOME international capital (ie foreign investment)? Generally, a large influx of foregin capital is seen as a show of confidence in a nation's economy. Hence the huge amounts of FC in China, India, and Vietnam. Do you think that multinationals are hollowing these nations out? Are you advocating that Taiwan reject this capital and become an isolated "nation" state like North Korea? Some explanation here would be most appreciated. Thank you.
I'm not skeptical about international capital when it invests in new productive capacity. I'd be delighted by investments in chip foundries, CNC machine tool firms, university branches, etc. Those increase the productive capacity of the nation and create wage advances linked to gains in human capital and technological ability.
But what's coming in here is not going to do even one whit for the productivity of the nation. There might be some service gains, but we all know what a service economy is going to mean for the vast majority of Taiwanese, the same thing it has meant for the vast majority of Americans: rising income inequality and falling purchasing power. When the real estate in Taipei is flipped several times, exactly what happens for the productive capacity of the nation? Nothing. There might be some nifty multiplier effects, of course, but they will be largely in services.
Instead, we're going to see higher debts and greater inflationary pressure on local incomes, relative falls in productivity over time, and so on. More industry will leave the island. It's going to be an economy in which a few people who do little that is productive make a lot of money.
I'm curious to see, since the US$ is headed into territory that makes the lira look like a reserve currency, whether the central bank here will decouple the NT from the $. I'm also curious to see how far the Ma administration goes in liberalizing land use laws. There's lots of value there that can't be captured because land use laws here are clinically insane.
So I am not skeptical about international capital, anon. I'd love to see FDI that raised the productive capacity of the nation here, as it is doing in the nations you named above.
From an academic perspective it will be interesting to watch Taiwan completely post-industrialize. Will we be left a dried-up husk with little productive capacity? Or will Taiwan be able to locate a future where it can preserve a viable economy in services and real estate, with a strong leisure component and high living standards? Too many unknowns... and our only model for this transition is Japan. Brrrr....
I posted a list of possible changes at the bottom of this page if anyone is interested. Its more humorous than academic.
Great stuff Michael, as usual. Thanks for keeping us informed.
China and India's stock markets are bubbles. Just to note.
Capital is good. It encourages investment (spending by companies) even if it's investment in the stock market and not FDI since you can raise more through IPOs or additional offerings.
Bubbles are bad because they encourage too much investment and spending. This could mean wasting a lot of money on things you shouldn't be investing in (like bridges to nowhere, inefficient companies that will continue to be inefficient, etc.)
Your "17-point treaty" is more likely to be an "agreement" (as with Tibet) since "treaties" can only be signed by sovereign states.
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When Will Rice and Young Get Their Due?
TOPICS:jerry ricesteve-young
Posted By: CJ June 11, 2008
Well, it's June, the least news-worthy time of the NFL year and there is still quite a bit to get to. Here we go:
Isaac Bruce is ready to make a difference for the 49ers, a long-time rival in his days with the Rams. There is a reminder in the article that Jerry Rice and Steve Young haven't yet had their numbers retired by the 49ers. The first word that came to mind was "travesty," but maybe that should be reserved for truly upsetting things in life, like natural disasters, wars, etc. Rice, the greatest receiver ever, and Young, one of the most efficient quarterbacks ever, not having their numbers retired aren't travesties, but the situations are peculiar for a franchise that has long been mentioned as one of the classiest in the league. Of course, that was mostly before the Yorks took over the team. Just in case the imbosoles running the franchise are unaware of the contributions Rice and Young have made, here is a glimpse at their accomplishments with the 49ers:
2,400 completions, 65.8 completion percentage, 29,907 yards, 221 touchdowns, 3,581 yards rushing, 37 touchdowns
7-time Pro Bowler, 7-time All-Pro, 2-time NFL MVP, 1-time NFL Offensive Player of the Year, 3-time Super Bowl winner, Super Bowl XXIX MVP, NFL record-holder for career quarterback rating (96.8) and career rushing touchdowns (43), and most touchdown passes in a Super Bowl (6).
1,281 receptions, 19,247 yards, 176 touchdowns
13-time Pro Bowler, 12-time All-Pro, 2-time NFL Offensive Player of the Year, 3-time Super Bowl winner, Super Bowl XXIII MVP, NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team, NFL 1980s AND 1990s All-Decade Teams, and here is the real kicker.
According to Wikipedia, Rice held the following records at the time of his retirement:
Career receptions (1,549), receiving yards (22,895), touchdown receptions (197), yards from scrimmage (23,540), all-purpose yards (23,546), rushing/receiving touchdowns (207), total touchdowns (208). That's just the beginning. Rice also holds:
44 other touchdown records
119 season records
23 game records
18 49ers records (including games played and started, touchdowns, points scored, and all-purpose yards)
91 age-related records
26 decade-related records
11 Monday Night Football records (including touchdowns, receptions and receiving yards)
35 single-accomplishment records
And we're still going…
8 postseason records (including games played, touchdowns, receptions and receiving yards)
9 Super Bowl records (receptions, receiving yards, all-purpose yards, touchdown receptions and points scored)
What more does the man have to do to get his freaking number retired? A generation of 49ers fans grew up on Montana-Rice and another generation has grown up reliving their Super Bowl wins and record-setting accomplishments through NFL Films highlights. Rice is as much a 49er as any other player in team history. His number 80 shouldn't be worn by any other 49er, ever.
Same goes for Young, who had to wait for Montana to leave before firmly establishing his dominance as a passer. His accomplishments are prolific, his contributions to the 49ers everlasting. No other 49er should ever be allowed to don the number 8 again.
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facci | July 23, 2008 at 6:35 pm | Reply
Rice I can see, but Young may be long in coming or they will be the last two, ever. They've already retired 11-numbers and every four or five years roster spots keep getting larger. Don't get it twisted about Steve Young's passing ability, because he had none. He'd have receivers all stretched, either up or out, with his throws. No, it was the SYSTEM he was in, like Montana. Just because Montana couldn't throw deep, he was accurate, all his passes, were in your chest. But like Steve, SF passing game was, 3-9yrds passes. Which happens to really kick your Completion Ave. up. Especially when that 5-yrd look-in to Rice or Owens over the middle, would go for 40-50-60-YARDS, whatever, AFTER THE CATCH. There was a lot of those kind of catches, because Steve is #1.(8.32 yrds.)In passing yards per attempt. Steve and Joe were blessed with top flight WRs. All West Coast Offense QBs,
had great stats. Montana, Young, Elway, Favre, Hassleback, McNabb, Garcia, T.Green, Easisson, Vick, [Grudens Oakland QB],

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Ahmad Jamal at 88: Still playing hard and on his way to Chicago
By Howard Reich
Pianist Ahmad Jamal in Orchestra Hall in 2014: Volatile music-making. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
The last time legendary jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal played what he calls his "second home," Chicago, he proved every bit as mercurial and compelling as always.
If you didn't know better, you certainly wouldn't have thought the man whose fingers darted from one end of the keyboard to the other — reinventing jazz standards and unveiling originals in Orchestra Hall — was 84 years old.
That was in 2014, which means that by now Jamal has lived a year for each of the 88 keys on the piano, a number that surprises him perhaps more than anyone else.
"I was 15 years old yesterday, I'm 88 today — what happened?" asks Jamal, who will return to Orchestra Hall on Friday evening to open the Symphony Center Presents Jazz season.
"Tempus fugit — time flies, and I'm speaking very, very sincerely. Yesterday I was 15 years old, with guys five times my age in Pittsburgh," explains Jamal, referring to the culturally vibrant city where he was born and grew up.
"I joined the union when I was 14, which wasn't correct, but the president let me join. Sixteen was the minimum age. So I've been out there a long time professionally."
Did Jamal ever think that audiences would stay with him this long?
"Well, one never knows, do one?" he says with a laugh. "And there, by the grace of God, they're with me all over. In France. I'm getting calls from Senegal. I get calls to travel every day. But I just don't want to leave home. I like to stay home."
Which helps explain why Jamal, who launched his international career in Chicago and has been based in New York since 1960, is playing a grand total of four dates this year, including the Orchestra Hall appearance.
And at a certain age, one gets rather selective.
"At 88 years old, you have to be," says Jamal. "You should be.
"There are a few of us still out there a bit older than me. I think (saxophonist) Benny Golson is a year my senior. (Saxophonist) Jimmy Heath is still performing.
"I'm trying to figure out what the white and black keys do after all these years," adds Jamal, with another characteristically robust laugh.
"It's a challenge, and a very wonderful challenge.
"I try and sit (and practice) as often as I can, which is not very often. I have two wonderful Steinway Ds I've had for a number of years. But, you know, this is a very chaotic time in which we live, with the computers and the cellphones, and the distractions can distract you."
Jamal certainly represents a rather earlier era in American life, the prodigious pianist having come to Chicago in 1948 and immersed himself in its roaring jazz scene. Strolling along 63rd Street, he'd encounter master saxophonists such as Lester Young and Von Freeman, everyone trying to scrape out a living.
By the mid-1950s, Jamal found himself ensconced at the long-gone Pershing Hotel on the South Side, leading a trio with bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Vernel Fournier. The live recording they made there together, "Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing: But Not for Me," became more than a jazz hit — tracks such as "Poinciana" and "But Not for Me" reached a mass audience on the radio.
How did Jamal — whose pianism then as now was mercurial, volatile and utterly uncategorizable — achieve such a feat?
"What influenced me is the fortunate thing that we don't have often: I became an artist-in-residence at a place called the Pershing," he told me in 2014.
"When you're working every night, five, six nights a week in the same ensemble, magic happens. Magical things happen. Wonderful things happen.
"Certain things happen when you can stay and play every night, but that doesn't happen (anymore). You don't have many rooms where you can sit and stay there.
"I wanted to record at the Pershing (because) I knew we had something. I didn't know we'd get that many, but I knew I'd get one or two people who would like what we were doing. … I spent eight or nine days mastering, editing and programming. I spent a lot of time picking eight tracks out of 43. What I did was diametrically opposed to (radio) airplay. Nobody was playing 7:45-minute recordings. We weren't going to get any airplay, according to the rule of thumb."
But just as Jamal always had done at the piano, he defied long-accepted rules, the melodic ingenuity and rhythmic appeal of his improvisations enticing generations of listeners.
To this day, Jamal knows where to seek musical rejuvenation.
"I've always gone back to the marvelous piano, and I still treasure it as a learning tool," he says.
"I find secrets every day. Or I discover things every day, let me put it that way.
"It's been a very interesting journey, and it still continues. I don't know how long, because you're only here for a few moments."
Those spent listening to Jamal are to be treasured.
Ahmad Jamal performs at 8 p.m. Friday in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; $42-$142; 312-294-3000 or www.cso.org.
Takacs Quartet
University of Chicago Presents will launch its 75th season with the return of the Takacs Quartet, which will perform Haydn's String Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4; Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 4, in D Major, Op. 83; and Brahms' String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2.
The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th St. (a pre-concert lecture with Steven Rings will begin at 6:30 p.m.); tickets are $10-$38; 773-702-2787 or chicagopresents.uchicago.edu.
Howard Reich is a Tribune critic.
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Alek Manoah is the best Blue Jays pitching prospect since Roy Halladay
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By DeuceDoucette
I got on the Alek Manoah hype train at the first stop, when he was the second pitcher taken at 11th overall in the 2019 Amateur Draft.
It wasn't any of his immense on-field attributes that pulled me in, however, but his larger-than-life personality and big heart. When Alex Anthopoulos signed Jose Bautista to a team-friendly, five-year, sixty-five-million dollar contract in 2011, he said he wasn't making a bet on the player, but on the person. For some reason that's always stuck with me.
It was a tweet to the newly acquired Anthony Kay in July of 2019 that made me a fan of Alek the person, as much or more than I was of Alek the player. He welcomed Kay to the family, of which he himself had only belonged for a few weeks.
A close eye on Manoah's social media timeline showed in the weeks and months that followed that this wasn't out of the ordinary — this wasn't just a kid trying to make a good impression with so many new eyes on him. He has a history of building those up around him. His confidence and passion are contagious.
It's a mentality that will endear him to an entire fanbase when he finally gets to take the mound at the Rogers Centre. The Blue Jays as a fan base have always fallen in love with those willing to lay it all on the line every single night. I think back to the Reed Johnsons and John McDonalds of the world, guys who didn't allow their play to dictate their personality.
You'll notice him, of course, it's hard to miss a bearded six-foot-six bull, upon the field, past the warning track—the first one to high-five his teammates as they come off the field after every single inning. It doesn't matter if he's still in the game, or if he started the night before. It's easy to see his priority is being the best teammate he can be.
On the mound, Manoah offers just about everything you could hope for in a young pitcher. Physically, he's built to last; tall with a solid lower body that he uses to aggressively drive his pitches in. Batters are noticeably uncomfortable, especially right-handed hitters, as his near hundred-mile-an-hour fastball tails back in towards their hands. And like a predator, toying with his prey, he'll come back inside with a 90mph slider.
Manoah's repertoire is mostly what you'd expect from a young power pitcher. He relies heavily on an impressive fastball. He throws it often and more often than not throws it for strikes, only having walked two batters in two starts. He also features a short, tight slider, you might even call it a cutter) as well as a long looping slurve-type breaking ball. He throws either of them in any count with supreme confidence. And like any hopefully dominant starter, he throws an ever-evolving change up with great, deceptive arm action.
He works quickly and stands tall on the mound as if he wasn't already enough of an imposing figure. He steps off the mound and goes for a walk as the ball is thrown around the infield after a strikeout before the batter even realizes what's happened.
Through two starts this year in AAA, no more than a few opposing hitters have made solid contact against him. There seems to be very little resistance in the cards to what he's offering hitters in the East Division. It would appear the only things keeping him from being in the Blue Jays lineup is the potential of workload management later in the season and the ever-thought-about, seldom acknowledged Super-Two cut-off date.
However, despite never having thrown a pitch in a regular-season inning for the Blue Jays he carries with him the family mentality. The same one he carries for WVU alumni and fellow Floridians.
It's easy to bet on a player with such an immense skill set, but it's even easier to bet on a player with the strength of character to hold up those skills and translate them into success at the highest level in the sport.
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Over the past 150 years humans have dramatically increased the amount of reactive nitrogen (N) put into the environment. In fact, humans have more than doubled the amount to the biosphere through the intensive production and use of fertilizers, agricultural practices, burning of fossil fuels, urban runoff and wastewater discharge. At the convergence point of coastal drainage basins, estuaries receive a disproportionately large amount of this N pollution. In many coastal ecosystems, N can cause a progression of conditions where the enhancement of primary production (algae growth) leads to the accumulation of organic matter, which encourages microbial consumption of dissolved oxygen in bottom waters. Areas of low dissolved oxygen (hypoxia, concentrations less than 3 mg/L threshold) or no oxygen (anoxia) are increasing across the globe. The effect of hypoxia on macrofauna species such as invertebrates, crustaceans, fish, is well documented but what is less understood is how hypoxia impacts benthic biogeochemistry and microbial communities.
In my dissertation research I am using Waquoit Bay (Cape Cod, Massachusetts) as a natural laboratory to investigate the impact of low oxygen conditions on crucial ecosystem functions. Nutrient regeneration, the removal of reactive N through denitrification and the regulation of greenhouse gases (e.g. nitrous oxide and methane), all have the potential to be dramatically changed under hypoxic conditions. Over the past century changes in watershed land use have doubled the rate of land-derived N loading to the Waquoit Bay ecosystem. As a result, the bay has seen dramatic ecological changes. Most critically, in many regions of the bay, limited mixing of surface and bottom waters in addition to pervasive macroalgae mats creates large fluctuations in dissolved oxygen concentrations. Using synergistic field observations and experimental manipulations I evaluate the biogeochemical and microbial response to low oxygen conditions by measuring changes in dissolved nutrient, di-nitrogen and greenhouse gas fluxes across the sediment-water interface. It is my hope that findings from this work will further our understanding of the impacts of N pollution and eutrophication on coastal marine processes and provide crucial information to develop strategies to reduce, mitigate and control hypoxia.


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Owls boss Jos Luhukay has told The Star he is more than happy with the make-up of his coaching staff.
Luhukay brought in fellow Dutchman Remy Reynierse as his assistant manager after accepting the Wednesday job last January. Reynierse, who has previously been in charge of the Netherlands Under-21s, also worked as Luhukay's right-hand man at his last club VfB Stuttgart.
First-team coach Lee Bullen and head of goalkeeping Andy Rhodes also provide support to Luhukay.
When asked if he is planning on making additions to his backroom team, Luhukay told The Star: "Maybe not today but we might do something in the future.
"I think we are all working very close and good together.
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Former Owls defender Bullen was briefly placed in caretaker charge of the side in the 2017/18 campaign following Carlos Carvalhal's departure on Christmas Eve.
The Scot kicked off his reign in superb fashion, overseeing a 3-0 triumph at Nottingham Forest. But the Owls failed to win any of the next three matches, losing 2-0 at Brentford before a humiliating 3-0 Hillsborough loss to Burton Albion.
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On the HBO series Barry, Anthony Carrigan plays Noho Hank, the sweetie-pie Chechen gangster who dreams about arguments with Thomas Friedman and always offers a submarine sandwich. Noho Hank is usually dressed in incredibly tight polos that show off his tattooed arms, and some sort of fitted shorts or pants. He never seems to wear socks. "Depending on where you are in Los Angeles, you can absolutely see that kind of guy," Carrigan says. "It's almost like you can smell the cologne on the shirts."
On a recent weekday afternoon at HBO's midtown New York headquarters, Carrigan has traded in Noho Hank's form-fitting wardrobe for a sweater everyone gathered for our small photo shoot thinks is great. (It's Rag & Bone, he says.) He's also lost the thick accent, although I sometimes think I hear it in his inflections.
About six years before Barry came along, Carrigan was having serious doubts about the future of his acting career. His bald head is not just a character choice; he has alopecia, and as his hair began to disappear he was warned that his career would do the same. Now, he's emerged as the actor behind the most lovable character on the acclaimed series about a tortured hitman who gets the acting bug. In comparison to Bill Hader's Barry Berkman, whose inherent violence is damaging everyone around him, there's something downright lovable about Noho Hank, a guy who does bad things but just wants to hang with his friends.
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When Thrillist visited the Vancouver set of The Magicians last fall, the Syfy series had just wrapped the 10th episode of Season 4, a musical titled "All That Hard, Glossy Armor." Various cast members were trying to recover from losing their voices -- Summer Bishil's poor throat was extra raspy -- and they'd also had a close calls with wildlife, when three bears attempted to crash the set.
Perhaps they heard about Margo's campaign for talking animals, or perhaps they were attracted to all the food and lights. "There were bear horns going off in the middle of the scene," said Brittany Curran, who plays Fen. "Trevor [Einhorn, who plays Josh] peaced out after that. He grabbed his coat and left." With the finale airing tonight, we asked The Magicians co-creator Sera Gamble and the rest of the cast to reflect on how Season 4 stand-out "All That Hard, Glossy Armor" came together.


In 2011, there was the Oxy humidifier sterilizer scandal that overturned the nation. People were extremely angry and fearful, so that great attention was placed on 'secured safety'. The government then established the Electrical Appliances and Consumer Products Safety Control Act. However, though three years have passed, the Act has yet to be publically announced. The public, itself, is opposing the Act. Why are people not in favor of the Act? Behind the face of secured safety, is there double-sideness in this law?
What is the Electrical Appliances and Consumer Products Safety Control Act? It is an Act that protects the public by addressing electrical and consumer safety. It was created to protect individuals' lives and the properties of individuals as well as to promote consumer interest in safety. The Act unifies electric safety measures and quality management for all goods such as clothes to daily living goods, and general merchandise. The point is in 'KC Mark (Korea Certification Mark)'. Korea has 13 legal certification marks that are issued by five different ministries; however, those legal marks were combined into one single mark known as the KC Mark in January 2011. The Electrical Appliances and Consumer Products Safety Control Act mandates that the KC Mark must be acquired for any product that will directly come in contact with an individual's body. Items such as baby clothes, electronics, bags, clothes, and other daily use products are included. Overseas direct purchase agents and parallel imports are not exempt.
It seems positive in words and it would eliminate hassles, unsafe products from markets, and put into measures that promote international responsibility. However, it does have its drawbacks. Originally set to come into effect on January 28, 2017, it was been delayed an additional year due to strong resistance from small business owners and overseas purchasing agents. With its implementation in 2018, backlash has strengthened. On the national petition site of the Blue House, there is a petition that urges for modifications or abolishment of the Electrical Appliances and Consumer Products Safety Control Act and 211,064 people signed for that.1) 255,554 people have also signed a second petition titled 'Please reasonably revise or abolish the Electrical Appliances and Consumer Products Safety Control Act: Small businesses and consumers alike are suffering'. And the key here was in the petition title: Small businessmen and consumers.
The first problem with the Act is its complex certification process to obtain a KC Mark. Korean Agency for Technology and Standards said, "If the Act's existing regulations are enforced without revision, there will be an increase of 5% in production costs due to KC certification for small manufacturers."2) Currently, the fee for certification ranges from 10,000 to 10 million won per item. The KC Mark certification requires manufactures to obtain certification for even minor safety concern low-cost household items such as accessories, socks, umbrellas, and cotton swabs. This actually is quite burdensome for smaller manufacturers. To make matters worse, it takes at least a week to get a product certified. The increase in production costs and the time it takes to obtain certification will have to be passed on to consumers, which will reduce a company's competitiveness in the market.
There is also the inefficiency from the possibility of repetition. The Electrical Appliances and Consumer Products Safety Control Act mandates that each vendor must receive certification for each of their products, even though the same product may have been already certified by another vendor.3) In other words, overseas direct purchase agents or parallel import companies will need to obtain multiple certificates for a single product. Moreover, if goods' size or color is altered, the newly modified product will need another certification. Individuals who violate the law's certification requirement face up to three years in jail or a fine of between 5 and 30 million won.
Even with the certification, can we assume all products are safe? Oxy products, the case that started the entire situation, had the KC Mark. Borny Korea baby mats that were found to contain dangerous preservatives, which resulted in skin and respiratory diseases, also obtained the KC Mark. Diaper from Beshie baby was found to have sharp piece of iron about 6cm, still managed to obtain a KC Mark. Ironically, certified products with the KC Mark of approval are not always safe. In those of issues, is the Electrical Appliances and Consumer Products Safety Control Act really going on as arranged with its serious problems?
On December 29, 2017, three days before January 1, 2018, revisions to the Electrical Appliances and Consumer Products Safety Control Act were passed. The National Assembly said that it would delay enforcing the law for an additional six months and adjust the Act regulations including criteria used to determine KC Mark certification during the 6-month period.4) The delay seems to have been enacted to reflect public sentiment. Revisions to the law stipulate five key additions: Immunity from certification for small manufacturing businesses, Allow overseas direct purchasing agents and parallel importers certification exceptions, Move from proactive management to post management, Provide support for private self-authorization, and Establish regulations that comply with safety standards.
The government's lack of consideration for smaller businesses stands out by the revisions. According to the Act revisions, 39 types of low harm household items have now out of need to acquire the KC Mark and meet with specified safety standards. The adjustments also eliminate reauthorization of certificates for imports of the same product. However, overseas direct purchasing agents who deal with high-risk electronic items must comply with the Act's certification requirement. Furthermore, despite a product having obtained a KC Mark, if the good is deemed dangerous, the government demands follow-up management and compliance with safety standards.
It could be said that revisions reflect the voices of existing concerns. Choi Seungjae, Chair of the Korea Federation of Micro Enterprise, said "Seven million small businesses eagerly await the passage of revisions, and we greatly welcome them, too."5) An official at the Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business also said, "The revisions reflect the views of small businesses so they are welcomed." That is to say, it is possible to claim that the government has succeeded in easing small business concerns with its revisions to its certification regulations.
The problem, however, is not over. While the government did bend, it did not complete all voices of concern. Revisions relate to domestic products only. They do not apply to overseas merchants who export their products to Korea. Furthermore, the matter that the final vendor, of which there are many who work in small businesses, are responsible for any damages to consumers. Cost and time, needed to obtain a KC Mark for the goods, are also up to them. Therefore, the government needs to consider its regulations more carefully by looking towards the effect they will have on the future. The government should discuss cautiously, taking into account the law itself as well as the opinions of all stakeholders in the industry during the 6-month delayed implementation period.


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Juniper Nights is a four-piece alternative rock band from Oxford, with James Gallagher on vocals and guitar, Zach Wilmott on guitar and keyboard, Marty Melvin on bass, and Tom Lindsay on drums. The band's latest 5 song EP, "Human Rush" displays an invigorating, take-no-prisoners blast of creativity into the tired and dull pop-rock wasteland. These lads from the UK refuse to accept the boundaries or other constraints of a fossilized genre. The recording tackles both a driving guitar sound, and mesmerizing melodic, mid to slow-tempo forages, with plenty of keyboard and string elements.
More of the latter than the former, but still with plenty of guitars. It's nuanced and complex, yet it feels easy, and its originality is an antidote to the kind of mainstream corporate swill that passes for indie alt-rock these days.
Tracks like "All At Once" presents a familiar sounding romp, embracing the loud, balls-to-the-wall jangly guitars, for a crunchy and edgy alternative groove. While "Antidote" weaves together a complex mix of cerebral lyrics and forward-looking sonic advances, where seamless pop influences propel the melody through clean guitar notes and dreamy keys.
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It's your turn! - An interview with Diogo Nogueira of Old Skull Publishing
1. How did you get your start roleplaying? What system did you use?
Well, I don't know if that counts, but I believe my initiation was with Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks, and then with the Dungeoneer RPG (which is an Advanced Fighting Fantasy version). I played many of their first gamebooks and then started to try make something similar with Dungeoneer. It was only with Tagmar (a Brazilian Fantasy RPG that functioned similar to the TSR Conan RPG) that I really started to understand the differences between gaming books and proper Role Playing Games.
2. How and when did you discover the OSR?
I think it was around 2010 or something. I had just got back to playing RPGs, and bought a bunch of 4th edition D&D books. I tried to play a campaign with them for about an year, but in the whole time, we didn't finish even 3 adventures. It wasn't like the D&D I remembered. Then I started looking around the internet to see what people were playing and I found about this whole "let's take a look into the origins of our hobby" thing and discovered Labyrinth Lord. I immediately wanted to try it out and it worked so fine (in a 3 hour session we did things we took months to accomplish in the 4th edition campaign), I became like an OSR fanatic, hunting everything I could find about the older editions and the things they were inspired now.
3. Tell me about Old Skull publishing, how did it start?
One of the things that I found really fascinating about the OSR was how everyone had their own vision of how the game was, and how it could be, and even shared these visions with the community, publishing games of their own. It was really refreshing. I realised we didn't really need a big company dictating what game we should play, how the setting was, what story we should be telling now. We could do our own thing. The game was really ours, and we could do anything with it. So over the years I played many many OSR games and each one there was something I really liked, but didn't have something another game had. So, the logical step was to make a game myself that would combine what I wanted to have, stealing bits and parts from a bunch of other games and put it out there, and see how it goes.
4. Tell me about "Sharp Swords & Sinister spells".
Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells is a game I made for myself. It's a light sword and sorcery RPG with strong Old School influences. It's not so light that you can't have significant mechanical bits and the rules almost don't matter. They do, and they have an important impact on it, but are easily manageable. If you need to create a character, you can do it in a few minutes. Need a monster? It's even quicker. It is inspired mainly by the stories of Robert E. Howard's Conan and Fritz Leiber Lankhmar series, although there are influences of other authors such as Clark Ashton Smith, Lovecraft, Michael Moorcock. And the actual system is a mixture and reimagination of various bits of different systems (it has parts inspired by Black Hack, White Hack, DCC RPG, Beyond the Wall, Call of Cthulhu, Edge of the Empire, Fiasco, and a bunch more), most of them from the OSR, but there is a thing or two outside of this realm of influence. I wanted to combine everything I liked in other games into my own, and the result it something unique, but that seems familiar too.
So, in the end, SS&SS is a simple yet robust system, that let me create things for it quite easily, without requiring too much work from me, while also giving me the elements a want to work with for the style of sword and sorcery adventures I like.
5. What are you currently playing?
I am currently playing Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells and Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. I am beginning a SS&SS urban crawl kind of campaign, inspired by the Lankhmar stories, with a bunch of generators to create gaming elements, hooks, places, NPCs, conflicts and other stuff (and I plan to publish the setting and city tool kit for the game later). For DCC RPG, I basically play a bunch of one-shots of the modules.
6. If you could campaign in any world which would it be?
That's a tough question. I love playing The One Ring, which takes place in Middle Earth, Star Wars RPGs, that happen in that universe... But I think one of the settings that really fascinates me is Edgar R. Burroughs' Barsoom. It is futuristic but medieval at the same time. The ruins, the mysteries, the different civilizations that live and lived there, the legends and superstitions. I guess I really want a good Barsoomian campaign someday!
7. Tell me about the SS&SS Addendum, and spell books.
Well, when I published SS&SS core book, I wanted it to be compact, having everything you really need to play a sword and sorcery RPG, with some tools. But the Addendum is that little extra, that spice you can put on your food to make it more tasty. The Addendum brings some optional rules inspired by the sword and sorcery genre, like a Luck boost drunk people receive, a rule for a strong bond with your adventuring companion (like Fafhrd and Grey Mouser have), carousing, the use of true names and things like that. Not to mention a whole lot of tables and generators to help players and referees come up with stuff during play, or during prep time.
8. Who is your favourite artist and or author?
Well, art wise, the name that always comes to my mind is Peter Mullan. I don't know what it is, but his art really leaves me amazed. I can stare at it for hours. He has something of Erol Otus in the early days but with something more. The details, the scenes, the weirdness of it. They are really something to be studied, and I do try to do that with my own art.
In terms of RPG authors, that's a tougher one. I really enjoy Harley Stroh adventures. They are so pulpy, so exciting and have a fell of sword and sorcery shenanigans that's right up my alley. As for proper game rules author, I really like the style of how DCC RPG was written. It's really inspiring, and is not just a gaming manual but a style and inspirational book. So, I guess Joseph Goodman.
But it just know occurred to me you might be talking about literature authors. Well, as of right now, I really like Fritz Leiber. Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories are exciting, sometimes dark, but they always have a light side to it too, some funny bits that makes you smile now and them.
9. What is one of your favorite adventures other than something that you've released (or worked on)?
Hummm... Let me think. As I said, Harley Stroh stuff is really right up my alley. I love Tower of the Black pearl, even though it is pretty straight forward. But it mixture rumors of legendary places, pirates, mysterious wizards, a tower that comes out of the ocean. In game play, it has a time limit that pressures the players. There are puzzles and problems they need to figure out themselves, without rolling dice. There is opportunity for roleplay and epic combat. There is everything in there.
10. When you get a chance to play a character, what type of PC do you like to play?
I don't get to play as much as I'd like, but when I do, I usually like to play the seedy scoundrel type of guy. Like Grey Mouser or Han Solo. The type that can handle themselves in combat, but prefer to solve problems with a bit of wit and subterfuge.
11. What are you most excited about in the RPG scene currently?
Setting toolkits, that generate stuff for you to play and use on the table, instead of just reading it to memorize details. Like Yoon-Suin, Hubris, Vornheim and things like that. Setting that are tools for you to play them and create content for the actual game, instead of just boring descriptions of every single detail you will never actually use in play. I really want to prepare the SS&SS setting like that!
12. Would you rather be a spell slinger or a beefy warrior?
Well, considering I am all about sword and sorcery, and that sorcery corrupts and deforms you in this type of fantasy, I will stick with the beefy warrior. I want to find ancient gold and spend with mundane pleasures!
13. What are your plans for Old Skull Publishing this year?
Wow, so many! But I need to focus at one at a time to finish them! I am currently writing a few short adventures to release for SS&SS and at the same time writing Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells, which will be Science Fantasy version of Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells. It will be literally sword and sorcery in space. Barbarians side by side with robots, aliens, sorcerers, psionics, mechanics and everything. It's going to be like Dark Sun meets Star Wars meets Hyborea or something. After that, back to SS&SS with it's setting!
14. Sushi or Dim Sum?
I don't know if there is a secret meaning behind this, but I love sushi. I do enjoy a Yakisoba though!
15. Where can we find you on the web?
You can find me on Google+ (https://plus.google.com/+DiogoNogueiraXP), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/diogonog), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/diogo_nogueira/) and Twitter (@diogoxp). Old Skull Publishing stuff can be found at RPGNow (http://www.rpgnow.com/browse/pub/10771/Old-Skull-Publishing) and Lulu (http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/OldSkull).
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Designated a Town of Huntington Historic Site in 1980, the Oakes Cemetery is hidden in the heart of Old Chester Hills. Located at the intersection of Beaverhill Lane and Whistlerhill Lane, the cemetery is in memory of Ephram Oakes, a soldier of the American Revolution, who fought with General Montgomery at the Siege of Quebec 1753-1846. Ephram Oakes was born in 1753 (actual birth date unknown) and died April 21, 1846 at the age of 93.
There is evidence of 13 burials in Oakes Cemetery, three of which were marked with simple field stones. Three other grave markers are damaged or missing.
Ephram Oakes, a veteran of the American Revolution is, of course, the most famous of the group. The rest appear to be family members, although unconfirmed. According to legend, Ephram Oakes lived at what is now known as Godfrey Lane, which was built around 1750, presumably by his father. Ephram, who was born in 753, would have grown up there.
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