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Growth investors would prove well positioned over February 2019 as the majority of equity markets experienced positive returns, continuing their rebound in performance from the previous month.
Overseas developed shares increased by 3.4% in hedged terms, as the Australian dollar (AUD) depreciated against the majority of major currencies. Productive trade negotiations between China and the United States (US) led positive consumer sentiment over the month, as the two parties made headway on a potential end to the trade dispute, while a scheduled increase in tariffs was suspended by the US. Avoidance of another government lock down in the US also boosted confidence.
However, the Venezuelan crisis and renewed tension between India and Pakistan was a reminder that markets are still volatile. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut estimates for global growth over 2019 and 2020 due to the concern of the effects on the global economy from a "no-deal" Brexit and China slowdown.
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) minutes from its January meeting revealed plans to reassess the current strategy of monetary tightening and whether further rate hikes would be needed in 2019. Markets received the news positively, boosted by the prospect of friendlier market conditions.
In Europe, the focus was still on Brexit as Theresa May held discussions with the European Commission on a potential deal. However, discussions did not appear fruitful following dispirited comments by the President of the European Commission, JeanClaude Juncker. The month ended with no clear developments, and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn supporting a second public vote on the issue, which boosted sentiment due to the prospect of a no-Brexit scenario.
The Australian equity market outperformed its hedged international counterpart, as the S&P/ ASX 300 Index increased 6.0% over February. Australian Small cap equities also enjoyed a solid month, returning 6.8%. Performance was driven in part by a rebound across the banks as the fallout from the Royal Banking Commission proved to be less severe than expected. However, the housing situation in Australia continues to erode as prices continued to fall over February. There appears to be little support in the near future with lending standards tightening as a result of increased scrutiny from the Royal Commission.
The fall in house prices has affected forecasts by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). The minutes from the RBA's recent meeting outlined concern on the effect falling housing prices will have on inflation and growth forecasts. Monetary policy has since moved into neutral territory, with a rate cut as likely as a hike predicted for the next implemented change by the RBA.
SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS
The RBA decided to leave the cash rate unchanged again in its early March meeting at 1.50% per annum (pa), remaining at the same level since August 2016. RBA Governor, Philip Lowe, noted that the global economy grew above trend in 2018 but slowed in the second half of the year. Outlook for global growth remains reasonable, however downside risks have increased. In most advanced economies, unemployment is low and wage growth has picked up. Growth in the Chinese economy has continued to slow, with authorities easing policy while also paying attention to risks in the financial sector.
Financial conditions have eased recently after tightening towards the end of last year, where long-term bond yields have declined, consistent with the subdued outlook for inflation and lower expectations for future rate hikes in several economies. The Governor also noted that Australia's central scenario is for the economy to grow by around 3%, driven by rising business investment, higher spending on public infrastructure and increased employment. The RBA is expecting underlying inflation to be 2% this year and 2.25% in 2020. Conditions in Sydney and Melbourne's housing markets have continued adjusting, after the earlier large build up in prices. The RBA continues to view a low level of interest rates as ideal in supporting the current Australian economy.
Australian seasonally adjusted employment increased by 39,100 in January, above expectations for a 15,000 rise while December figures were revised to an increase of 16,900. The unemployment rate remained at 5.0% for January, in line with expectations. The participation rate increased to 65.7%, above expectations for 65.6%. Part time jobs decreased by 26,300 and full time jobs increased by 65,400.
Australian building approvals increased 2.5% month-on-month to be down 28.6% for the year to January, compared to previous levels of -8.1% (revised) and -22.0% (revised) for respective periods ending December.
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Manufacturing Index recorded 54.2 in February, below consensus for 55.8, and below the 56.6 recorded in January. Of the 18 manufacturing industries, Printing & Related Support Activities; Textile Mills and Computer & Electronic Products were the top contributors, while Non-metallic Mineral Products was the only industry that reported a decrease in February. The ISM Non-Manufacturing Index recorded 59.7 in February, above consensus for 57.4 and above the 56.7 for January. Of the 18 nonmanufacturing industries, the top performers in February were Transportation & Warehousing; Management of Companies & Support Services and Wholesale Trade. None of the industries reported a contraction over the month.
US Non-Farm Payrolls increased by 20,000 in February, below the previous 311,000 increase (revised) for January. The unemployment rate decreased to 3.8% in February.
US gross domestic product (GDP) advanced estimate for Q4 2018 is 2.6% quarter on quarter (QoQ) annualised, above expectations for 2.2%.
The Caixin Manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) in China recorded 49.9 in February, above expectations for 48.5. The indicator signalled broadly stable operating conditions in February.
An advanced estimate of the European Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) decreased to 1.0% over the year to February, below expectations for 1.1%.
The Eurozone composite PMI increased to 51.9 in February, above 51.0 for January, indicating a modest improvement in growth.
The final estimate released for Q4 2018 Eurozone seasonally adjusted GDP was 1.2% for year-on-year (YoY) and 0.3% QoQ, in line with expectations for both.
AUSTRALIAN EQUITIES
The Australian equity market outperformed its hedged international counterpart index over the month, as the S&P/ASX 300 Index increased 6.0%. The S&P/ASX Small Ords was the strongest relative performer, increasing 6.8%, while the S&P/ASX Mid 50 was the weakest, increasing 5.0% over the month.
The best performing sectors were Financials (+9.1%) and Energy (+7.8%), while the weakest performing sectors were Consumer Staples (-1.4%) and Healthcare (+1.3%). The largest positive contributors to the index return were CBA, ANZ and Westpac, with absolute returns of 8.8%, 12.4% and 10.4% respectively. In contrast, the most significant detractors from performance were Coles, Cochlear, and Stockland with absolute returns of -9.4%, -11.7% and -6.9%, respectively.
The broad MSCI World ex Australia (NR) Index increased 3.4% in hedged terms and 5.6% in unhedged terms over the month, as the AUD depreciated against most major developed market currencies. The strongest performing sectors were Information Technology (+9.1%) and Industrials (+7.3%), while Real Estate (+2.9%) and Communication Services (+3.3%) were the worst performers.
In AUD terms, the Global Small Cap sector was up 6.4% and Emerging Markets was up 2.7% over February.
Over February, the NASDAQ increased 3.4%, the S&P 500 Composite Index increased by 3.2% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased by 4.0%, all in USD terms. In local currency terms, major European equity markets experienced positive returns as the FTSE 100 (UK) increased 2.3%, the CAC 40 (France) increased by 5.0% and the DAX 30 (Germany) also increased by 3.1%. In Asia, the Japanese TOPIX (2.6%), the Hang Seng (2.7%) and the Chinese SSE Composite (13.8%) all increased, whilst the Indian S&P BSE 500 (-0.6%) decreased over February.
The Real Assets sector was positive for both domestic and global investors over February. The FTSE Global Core Infrastructure index increased 2.9% and Global Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) increased 0.4% over the month (both in AUD hedged terms). Domestic REITs posted an increase of 1.8% over February, while Australian Direct Property (NAV) returned 0.3% on a one month lagged basis.
Global bond markets were broadly negative over February as yields increased across most major regions. The Barclays Capital Global Aggregate Bond Index (Hedged) increased 0.1% and the FTSE World Government Bond (ex-Australia) Index (Hedged) decreased 0.2% over the month. Ten year bond yields increased in Germany (+3 basis points (bps) to 0.13%), in the US (+8bps to 2.72%) and in the UK (+8bps to 1.31%), whilst Japanese yields decreased (-3bps to -0.02%). Two-year bond yields experienced positive movements over the month as German bond yields increased (+1bp to -0.55%), along with the UK (+8bps to 0.83%), US (+6bps to 2.53%) and Japan (+2bps to -0.15%).
Returns for existing domestic bond holders were positive over February, with 10-year yields (-14bps to 2.10%) decreasing, whilst five-year yields (-15bps to 1.71%) and two-year yields (-14bps to 1.72%) also decreased. Of the Bloomberg Ausbond indices, the Treasury Index produced the highest return, increasing 1.0% over the month, while the Bank Bill Index return was the lowest at 0.2% over the month.
The AUD depreciated against the USD over February, finishing with a Trade Weighted Index of 60.7 on 28 February 2019. The AUD appreciated against the Japanese Yen (0.2%), but depreciated against the Euro (-0.6%), the Pound Sterling (-3.0%) and the USD (-2.4%). On a trade-weighted basis, the local currency decreased 1.5% over the month.
Iron Ore increased 0.6% over February, finishing the month at $85 per metric tonne. The S&P GSCI Commodity Total Return Index increased 6.4% over the month. Gold prices finished the month at US$1,315.65 per ounce, falling 0.5% over the period, while the oil price increased 6.0% to $66.02 per barrel over February.
Source: Mercer LLC
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Dispatches | May 19, 2013
Short Story Month, Day 19: "Against Specificity"
During the month of May, The Missouri Review will highlight a single short story to help celebrate National Short Story Month. We've asked a diverse group of readers and writers to participate by sharing a short story that demands to be read. Today's blog post comes from author Kyle Minor.
I just finished reading Douglas Watson's The Era of Not Quite, newly published in trade paperback from BOA Editions. "Against Specificity," the first story in the collection, is among the most extraordinary stories I've ever read. It begins like this: "The trouble: You want Thing A but are stuck with Thing B."
This is as good a distillation of general Americanness as I can imagine, and it's also the bare bones set-up that fuels 90% of all American fiction. The standard advice offered to fiction writers — concrete, not abstract; specific, not general — is advice Watson ignores. But he ignores in the way that is almost always the most generative of something new: He pushes against the good advice as hard and as far in the opposite direction as he can, until what would otherwise be ill-advised becomes better than what could possibly have been merely good.
The reader is reminded, in "Against Specificity," of the thought experiment David Foster Wallace offered in his paired half-stories titled "Adult World." In the first half, Wallace offers a set-up of no small domestic trouble between a man and a woman, and he writes in a low-key register the movements through the cause-and-effect chain. But at the halfway point, he abandons the prose in favor of a schematic outline of the second half of the story, in which he shows each of the beats the story will cycle past, and offers notes about what they'll mean for the characters, what everyone will want, what will be withheld from everyone, and how everyone will feel about all of it. The reader gets the sense of a writer wrestling with himself, at first abandoning the realist prose in order to ridicule its conventions by showing the machinery that lies beneath them, but then, as the writer moves through the machinery, there is a growing sense that the writer is nonetheless moved by what the machinery is offering up in the lives of the man and the woman. The reader is moved, too. It is a shock to feel such an emotional response to an outline meant to undermine the emotional response that the story would otherwise provoke. Ultimately, Wallace seems to be showing the reader how the machine itself is as much a thing of beauty as the lives of the characters who are animated by it, and the reader or writer who admires formal experiments away from the realist/domestic wing of American fiction might also be forced to consider, because of Wallace's recontextualization, the beauty of the form that underlies even the dominant kind of story against which the reader or writer might be rebelling, and the things that character-driven fiction might yet have to offer literature in the hands of a writer whose restlessness might animate it yet again.
That's the kind of recontextualization "Against Specificity" serves up, as well, except instead of stripping away the prose, as Wallace did, Watson strips away the names of everything — characters, objects of desire, the settings in which the psychodramas of want are played out — and replaces them with variables (Thing A, Thing B, Thing C, Thing D) and unspecific grounds of action (the Thing Exchange.)
At the same time, Watson lards his metaphors with specifics. The longed-for Thing A "shines like a gold tooth in the mouth of Jesus," and if "joy itself were sugar maple, Thing A would be the syrup joy gave."
The Thing Exchange itself is a Kafkaesque maze of procedures. Wanters of Things must take numbers and wait in lines, even though there might be no one else waiting. Maybe the clerk who forces the waiters to wait might be reading a book titled Against Specificity, and if you ask how the book is, the reply might be: I really can't describe it.
Halfway through the story there is a run of dialogue among "you," the silence, the disembodied voice, and the person, in which a great many people say the word "Nothing" in a row, but each iteration of Nothing seems to mean something different, which the reader will know by context, and the segment ends with this line: "The silence is great with child."
By time the reader gets to the story's ending, the reader might feel indicted (the fact that the story is written in second person probably contributes to this feeling), and who among us hasn't been burdened with this trouble of being stuck with Thing B but wanting Thing A, fighting hard to get Thing A, offloading Thing B, and then living with the trouble of not knowing whether it was the right thing to offload Thing B for Thing A?
The story's ending is worth quoting in full:
"About this truth: It is not that you wish you had held on to Thing B–you don't. Nor do you foresee diminishing returns from your possession and observation of Thing A. You have not suddenly found allegorical meaning in your life, or for that matter in your mother's. Indeed, this truth has nothing to do with your mother. Nor is it connected with your father, or Indiana, or any of the many things that state represents. The truth that roars now in your mind the way a furnace roars in the dead heart of winter has nothing to do with the Thing Exchange or any of its employees, not even your neighbor. It does not in any way involve circus clowns, scurvy, oranges, or out-of-work magistrates. And it certainly doesn't have anything to do with the road to hell, down which you are by no means walking, your hands in your pockets, your feet scuffing the hides of the well-intentioned, your mind turning over and over the question of which you prefer: the little that is or the nothing that will be. There is no one to help you decide."
Kyle Minor's second collection of short fiction, Praying Drunk, will be published by Sarabande Books in February 2014. His recent work appears in Iowa Review, Forty Stories: New Voices from HarperPerennial, and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013. Photo by Jen Percy. To learn more, visit Kyle at www.kyleminor.com.

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Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1899. He, his wife and child emigrated to the United States in 1940. He wrote and taught at Wellesley and Cornell, among various pursuits. When he turned 60, he emigrated to Switzerland where he lived till his death in 1977.
Poet, novelist, literary critic, lecturer, and translator.
Nabokov was the Russian-American author, also an expert on butterflies. Forbes was a Cornell University professor of entomology.
1941 - 1948 : Lecturer in elementary Russian and Russian literature in translation, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
1948 - 1958 : Professor of Russian and European literature, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
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The Philadelphia School District released an interactive map of asbestos removal projects throughout the district's schools. Growing concerns of asbestos throughout schools got national attention early in the year. Now, the city is ready to provide funding to eliminate the toxin from schools.
Asbestos Removal Map Released by Philadelphia School District
Earlier this month, Philadelphia launched an interactive dashboard indicating the location of all asbestos construction projects in the school district dating back to 2016. The map lets users track the estimated completion dates at certain sites, along with other school-specific information from the Department of Public Health.
Schools throughout Philadelphia and the United States face concerns about asbestos each school year. When inhaled or ingested, asbestos can increase the risk of serious health issues, including cancer.
The map contains over 1,700 active projects. The city categorizes around 400 sites as "major projects."
Councilman Proposes $10M in Funding For Removal
Derek Green, a Philadelphia Councilman, introduced an ordinance to provide $10 million for asbestos removal in schools across the district. The councilman cited asbestos, lead, and other environmental issues currently afflicting school buildings.
According to a local source, a Philadelphia school teacher who was recently diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease prompted the remediation proposal. Most schools built before the 1980s used asbestos in some form of insulation, flooring, roofing, and other major building components.
Regulations now require schools to make plans that address the existence and removal of the toxin, according to the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA). Teachers exposed to asbestos over the course of long careers risk developing mesothelioma, asbestosis, or other diseases. With most Philadelphia schools containing asbestos, the coalition estimates the cost of lead and asbestos removal and other repairs could exceed $170 million.
Councilman Green is a supporter of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers' coalition, called Fund our Facilities. The alliance of elected leaders, labor organizations, and community groups throughout the state work to secure funding for school building improvements. Other members of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers hope the City Council will quickly pass the legislation of additional funding.
Asbestos Remediation Recurrent in Philadelphia Schools
Schools throughout the district have active asbestos problems, prompting the temporary closure of some. In 2019, five Philadelphia schools closed due to potential exposure to toxins. Since then, other schools were closed, including Carnell Elementary, Clara Barton Elementary, Francis Hopkinson Elementary, and T.M. Pierce Elementary.
The issue of asbestos exposure at school is not new. Closures due to toxins date back nearly 50 years. The large exodus of middle-class families to the suburbs in the 1970s left poor children remaining in dilapidated, asbestos-filled schools. A general lack of awareness and funding sanctioned asbestos exposure among students and teachers for decades.
The Julia R. Masterman magnet school delayed the start of school earlier this year after concerns of asbestos exposure. Ongoing building improvements prompted backlash from parents and teachers over the school's safety plan. According to some parents, the school was not clear enough about the extent of asbestos.
D'Onofrio, M. (2019). Councilman wants to give school district $10M to address lead, asbestos in classrooms. Retrieved on November 25, 2021, from https://www.phillytrib.com/news/local_news/councilman-wants-to-give-school-district-m-to-address-lead/article_b862f901-8b26-56ee-a863-2a46068de897.html
Mancin, M. (2021). In response to growing concerns, Philly releases map of asbestos removal projects in schools. Retrieved on November 25, 2021, from https://www.phillyvoice.com/city-controller-releases-interactive-map-philly-school-asbestos-projects/
Office of the Controller – The City of Philadelphia. (2021). Asbestos Projects in the Philadelphia School District. Retrieved on November 25, 2021, from https://controller.phila.gov/philadelphia-audits/interactive-asbestos-dashboard/#/
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (2021). Fund Our Facilities. Retrieved on November 25, 2021, from https://www.pft.org/fund-our-facilities
The School District of Philadelphia. (2020). Asbestos. Retrieved on November 25, 2021, from https://www.philasd.org/capitalprograms/programsservices/environmental/ahera/#1574363238286-d2bdaa08-eb51
Wolfman-Arent, A. (2019). How 30 years of broken promises, false starts led to another Philly asbestos closure. Retrieved on November 25, 2021, from https://whyy.org/articles/how-30-years-of-broken-promises-false-starts-led-to-another-philly-asbestos-closure/
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July 17, 2013 by JasonPowell
While checking for what Saab news I could come across this morning, I came across a completion to the almost year and a half bankruptcy process of Saab Cars North America. The article was posted yesterday at 7:58PM and stated that Saab's US unit gets nod for ch. 11 liquidation.
Some of the important points from the Law360 post are below:
The estate of Saab Cars North America Inc. is expected to have a liquidating trust of about $20 million to use for disbursements that will see administrative, priority and secured claims paid in full, attorneys for the company said in court.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher S. Sontchi said "good lawyering" helped navigate what began as a rancorous case into the home stretch of a seemingly peaceful close.
"This is certainly a much better result than it looked like it would be in the beginning," Judge Sontchi said from the bench. "I'm happy to sign the [confirmation] order."
Under the plan, all classes of creditors except those holding unsecured and equity claims are expected to receive a full recovery.
Unsecured creditors owed $77 million are expected to receive anywhere between a 25- to 82-percent recovery depending on the success of certain estate causes of action and whether Saab AB and Saab Parts AB eliminate or substantially reduce each of their intercompany claims against SCNA, according to the disclosure statement.
Equity holders are expected to receive nothing.
Ally Financials claim of 18.5 million will be listed as satisfied after reaching a settlement in May, according to the court records.
Under the settlement agreement, Ally will see about 3.8 million from the sale of vehicles that had been in port with the rest, about 13.6 million going back to the SCNA estate.
I had reached out to Tim Colbeck to ask for his thoughts on yesterdays decision and his response was that "Yesterday was bittersweet, in that it represented the final disposition of SCNA, but also the result was as good as it could have been given the circumstances."
Yes, this really does seem to be as good as it could get given all the circumstances surrounding it and it feels good to see that a large number of creditors are expected to receive a full recovery. This chapter is nice to finally see come to a close.
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SAAB should have filed for bankruptcy almost a year earlier
November 29, 2012 July 8, 2016 by Rune Moberg
Meanwhile, in the "Swedes working in an official capacity won't lift a finger without trying to make it look like they are part of a bigger conspiracy, thus inflating their own self-worth"-department:
TTELA yesterday brought word that the receivers are about to file their report with the courts saying that SAAB should have filed for bankruptcy much earlier.
The report consists of about 50 pages describing the reasons behind SAAB's bankruptcy and the chronology of their demise.
"They refer to a report by the CPA company Grant Thornton and agrees with their conclusion that "the time of SAAB's insolvency points back to the start of 2011 and at the latest the stop of production April 6th 2011″ which is a minimum of eight months prior to the bankruptcy."
Muller has yet to read the report and won't comment.
Having followed this debacle for some time now, I find it strange that the Swedes do not ask themselves "how come EIB, who had absolutely nothing to risk, were the ones that pulled the trigger on denying Antonov as an investor?". That happened after April 6th, and EIB's approval would have ensured continued production at a point where the company was about to start production of two new models (with an additional one in the pipeline for introduction next year).
Hopefully more details will be made available when the final document gets published tomorrow.
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Swedish Television examines the controversies around Saab — part II
October 31, 2012 July 8, 2016 by Rune Moberg
As Tim reported a few weeks ago, Swedish television have explored part of the story of what went on in 2011 concerning Saab. The program can be viewed on svtplay.se and parts of it is in English.
I won't go into details, but some quick notes to follow:
Most of what was revealed has been reported here on SU before, but tied neatly together to present a more fleshed out picture of the situation.
Victor gave the reporters full access to his e-mail archive and there was a significant change in the way SweGov communicated with VM after Saab asked for approval of Antonov. Prior to the crisis, Victor was invited to the 50th birthday of a SweGov official (Hans Lindblad), and afterwards all he got was "your official contact with swegov is nn".
Hans Lindblad figured in the talks between Geely and Guy Lofalk
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Final bid on Saab before the end of March
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According to P4-West and ttela.se the receivers have sent a letter to the different companies that have expressed interest for Saab. In that letter the receivers have stated that a final bid has to be made before the end of March, and the deal should be completed before April 30.
On a personal note, I think we will see a final candidate in April but the final signature could need one or two weeks longer.
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The Kremlin says there isn't any proof for 'hearsay' accusations of Russian 'operatives' set to border Ukraine
After Western media carried reviews, on Friday, citing unnamed US officers, claiming that Russia is making ready a "false flag" incident with a view to invade Ukraine, the Kremlin has dismissed them as baseless and unfounded rumors.
"So far, all these statements have been unsubstantiated and not backed up by anything," spokesman Dmitry Peskov informed TASS information company, when requested in regards to the tales making the rounds.
Earlier within the day, nameless US officers echoed claims from Kiev that Russia had despatched "operatives" into the disputed areas of Donetsk and Lugansk in jap Ukraine, to organize a "provocation" that might set off an "invasion."
CNN was the primary to report the assertion, adopted by the Guardian, Washington Post, Reuters, AFP and Bloomberg.
Washington has accused Moscow of planning to invade Ukraine for weeks now, although the Kremlin rejected this as "fake news." Similar warnings have been publicized in US media yearly since 2015, all the time based mostly on nameless sources, and have by no means come to move.
The quotes from an nameless US official apparently dovetailed with insinuations by US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan about Russia "laying the groundwork to have the option of fabricating a pretext for an invasion," introduced up at Thursday's White House press briefing. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby referred to those claims at his personal briefing on Friday, however then added the US evaluation is that Russia hasn't but determined whether or not to invade.
Washington's claims come after every week of high-level talks with Russia, NATO and the OSCE to debate Moscow's proposals for bettering collective safety in Europe. The US and its allies rejected Russia's key proposals out of hand.
Senior Navalny allies added to Russia's 'terrorist & extremist' checklist
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Back once again, here are the tunes that I'm listening to RNAF. "But Rachel, aren't you a DJ? Where the house music at?" Fear not: I gotchu. Head over to my Soundcloud or Mixcloud for those. I have included a few more dancey tracks on this playlist as well, including the new Rudimental #fire and the much anticipated (by me) "House Work," that I had been waiting for for months since it dropped on a Magician Mixtape.
A few of my favorite songs on this playlist, if I have to choose, are Rudimental's "Healing" as well as "Electric Church" by Mike Taylor, The A-Trak/ Cory Enemy remix of LÉON's "Tired of Talking", and the Vintage Culture and Slow Motion! remix of Sofi Tukker's "Drinkee". Apparently "Healing" was floating around Ibiza this summer as ID and it's been really well received, with its disco and classic housey vibes.
Ending the playlist with Norah Jones' newest release, "Carry On" because yes, she's back with a vengeance!


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Glendale senior David Odun-Ayo plants his weight on his right prosthetic foot and kicks a soccer ball with his left.
Odun-Ayo played organized soccer for the first time this season. He initially told the coaches he was a midfielder, a mixture of offense and defense. But Glendale's coaches liked his aggressive style of play and relentless hustle.
They made him a forward. Odun-Ayo, with a great grin on his face, would go on the attack.
Odun-Ayo had played pickup soccer in streets and fields as a boy in his native Nigeria, but took up football and wrestling at Glendale.
"I've always loved soccer, ever since Africa, so I just thought it's my senior year, the last year, I might as well play with my closest friends," Odun-Ayo said.
Odun-Ayo was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency, a rare non-hereditary birth defect. Part of his right leg is missing and he walks and runs with a prosthetic leg. Odun-Ayo didn't let his limb difference stop him from being involved in sports. His billboard smile shows how much he enjoys playing soccer.
"It's been so fun. I just love being out here. I actually love coming to practice," Odun-Ayo said.
To many, he's an inspiration. He just wants to be one of the guys.
Glendale soccer coach Jeff Rogers didn't hesitate to let Odun-Ayo try out for the Falcons in the preseason, despite his lack of experience in organized soccer. Rogers liked the senior's contagious positive attitude from the start.
"He said to me, 'I just want to be a part of it. I'll be a team manager, I'll do whatever you want me to do,' but it worked out that we had a uniform for him on our junior varsity," Rogers said.
In his debut on the J.V. squad, Odun-Ayo played forward and scored two goals, both on headers.
"One was a diving header. And so after that game — just seeing the smile on his face and interacting with his teammates — he's been a positive influence on our kids," Rogers said.
Odun-Ayo has been known to share his story with younger children who have limb differences.
"I have talked to other kids," Odun-Ayo said. "It's not like it's a bad thing or anything. I'm just giving information, telling them no matter what I have, I can still do everything. It's more like an informational, motivational thing."
He's also not afraid to laugh at his circumstances, or let you know it's OK to laugh along at some of the quirks that come with playing soccer with a prosthetic leg. Odun-Ayo wears a shinguard on his prosthesis, and he's happy to chuckle about it.
"The rules are rules," Odun-Ayo laughed.
Coach Rogers shared a story from a tournament in St. Louis, where an athletic trainer who had never met Odun-Ayo noticed him running with a slight limp.
"One of the trainers said, 'hey, what's wrong with your leg? Do you need tape or something?'" Rogers recounted. The good-natured Odun-Ayo politely declined any tape and walked away chuckling.
"He's got a great sense of humor," Rogers said.
After soccer season, Odun-Ayo will return to wrestling. He wrestles without his prosthetic leg, which allows him to use unorthodox strategies that can cause trouble for the opposition. For a wrestler with all of his body weight on one foot, Odun-Ayo is surprisingly aggressive.
"I'm very low to the ground, so they can't really take a shot on me," Odun-Ayo said. "It's a lot harder for (the opponent) because they have to think for a second what to do to me."
After high school, Odun-Ayo aspires to study computer engineering. His short list of colleges he would like to attend includes Cal-Berkley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There's a brain for math behind the billboard grin.
"I love math. Oh, I love math and science, definitely," Odun-Ayo said.
Rogers says Glendale's soccer program will miss Odun-Ayo's sense of humor, but also the never-say-quit attitude.


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The genus is native to western and central Africa.

Species
 Delpydora gracilis A.Chev. - Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia, Gabon
 Delpydora macrophylla Pierre - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo Republic

References

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For no particular reason at all (and why else do we have blogs if not to indulge the whims of our wanton subconscious) today I remembered this scene from RKO's 1935 film Roberta. The film was based on a smash Broadway musical with music and lyrics by the eternal Jerome Kern and although Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers are key players, Roberta isn't a Fred & Ginger vehicle. The story focuses on the story of Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott, but it is Fred & Ginger who own each and every frame. Their on screen relationship is surprisingly earnest, which makes it even harder to understand why the film isn't readily mentioned in the same breath as Top Hat and Swing Time and the other titles in the Astaire/Rogers canon.
In this scene, the two have rarely been better–or more organic. They are terrifically young (Ginger was only 22), spry, athletic, Astaire's choreography is electric and they just look like they are having an absolute ball together.
Talk about infectious! These were the days when movies truly did make magic.


Rob and Chris are here to deliver their thoughts on the first Raw and SmackDown episodes of the month of July.
Robert O'Neill: Roman Reigns is here to open the show! I wonder what's on his mind.
Chris Novak: Well, he wants to fight "Bob" Lashley. But instead, we get Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre. Earlier, we learned Dolph is facing Seth Rollins at Extreme Rules in a 30 Minute Ironman Match, which is a HELL of a thing. Dolph and Drew waste little time in putting the boots to Roman, but here comes Seth for the save!
Robert O'Neill: Hey that was fun! I imagine we're gonna get a Seth/Roman vs. Drew/Dolph match at some point.
Chris Novak: Rollins and Reigns run into Kurt Angle backstage, and demand they face Dolph and Drew. Angle, looking dumbfounded, says they'll face them next week, because Roman and Bob Lashley are facing The Revival. However, Angle just snaps and changes the match to happen this week. What the hell is Kurt's problem? Why is he so incompetent? Somehow I don't see how this lasts for the rest of the night.
Robert O'Neill: Years of not taking care of his body. That's how. Anyway, Matt Hardy is here for a match with Curtis Axel, who, along with Bo Dallas did a fantastic parody of Hardy and Bray Wyatt again before the match.
Chris Novak: At the same time, this feud is just… ice cold. And Bray Wyatt getting hurt (Bless him, and best wishes for a speedy recovery for him) doesn't help matters here either. This match is fine so far, but Lord, we couldn't do Bo vs. Matt tonight? I feel like I'm watching a rerun. Anyways the match itself was okay. Axel pinned Matt Hardy (again). That's what this whole feud has been, so guess what's going to happen at Extreme Rules?
Anyways, after commercial break, we're getting our first segment of Bayley in counseling. There are many ways that this could go… hopefully it's one of the successful ones.
Robert O'Neill: Before that though, we discover we're getting Roman and Bob vs. The Revival and also Roman and Seth vs. Ziggler and McIntyre. How fun!
Chris Novak: Well, the first Bayley-Sasha counseling segment is in the books and… THAT'S DOCTOR SHELBY!!!
Robert O'Neill: My God, they actually did it.
Chris Novak: AOP are facing Titus Worldwide next. Can you guess what's going to happen next?Robert O'Neill: Pain was authored.
Chris Novak: That's correct, Rob.
Robert O'Neill: Time for Roman and Seth vs. Dolph and Drew. I'm ready for it.
Chris Novak: Roman is doing some heavy coughing, which is kinda gross to listen to on the ring mic. Anyways, this match has been outstanding so far. Seth, once again, is proving why he's #1 in WWE this year and there really isn't anyone close to him right now. They're putting together so many unique spots and creative ways to try and set up the Roman hot tag. It's actually wonderful. AND THAT'S THE REVIVAL!
Robert O'Neill: Well holy crap, they appear to be setting The Revival up for success. That's excellent. Roman ate a Shatter Machine!
Chris Novak: Rob, remember when you thought… never mind, I won't even rub it in. They looked spectacular here.
Robert O'Neill: Constable Corbin is in the ring and talking about how things went south with Finn Balor last week. Balor comes out and apologies and then they get into a fight. I guess this will be a match at Extreme Rules. That's fine!
Chris Novak: Have to say again, I'm digging Corbin's rebrand. They've put him in a role where he can succeed at being a gigantic dickhead.
Robert O'Neill: Liv Morgan is out for a match with Ember Moon. This is a cool usage of the two, as both aren't near the title hunt, but can still have a match together. It was fun, too! Ember got the win, but Liv looked good.
Chris Novak: Liv has been really impressing lately. She's improving REALLY quickly and I think there's a lot of potential in her. Really dig her game, and not just cause I'm biased since she's from New Jersey.
Robert O'Neill: Oh man. Another counseling segment. This time, Bayley and Sasha pretended to be the other one, and it was hilarious. These are great.
Chris Novak: Can I just say: Bayley's been showing off a lot of comfort while talking lately, and a lot of personality also? Something that I've picked up on. I'm liking it a lot. This was funny, and I'm sure there'll be people complaining about it, but it did its job.
Robert O'Neill: TOP GUYS WATCH! The Revival are out to face Roman Reigns and Bob Lashley! Let's see how this plays out.
So the match went on, Roman refused to tag Lashley in throughout the night, he got pissed and came in on his own, but then left as The Revival started beating up Roman to the point where they got disqualified and gave him ANOTHER Shatter Machine. They look damn good tonight.
Chris Novak: This is as good as they've looked on the main roster since they debuted and kicked The New Day off the territory. Hope this leads to something.
Robert O'Neill: Nia (with Natalya) beat Mickie (with Alexa). Whatever.
Chris Novak: Feud's just kinda cold as ice at this point. Get me to Alexa-Ronda, already, please. Thank you.
Robert O'Neill: It's time for the main event! Braun Strowman is taking on Kevin Owens, who has been trying to get out of the match all night. We know how this is gonna go.
Chris Novak: Did you expect Braun Strowman to put Kevin Owens into a portapotty and then send it barreling off the stage? That's how it went!
Robert O'Neill: That was amazing. A lot of people didn't like it, but I'm here for Braun Strowman essentially being a cartoon character, and Kevin Owens is the perfect foil.
Robert O'Neill: It's July 3 and there should be some fireworks on Smackdown Live! AJ Styles is facing Aiden English, and Jeff Hardy has a US Title open challenge lined up!
We begin the night with Renee Young in the ring, though. She's going to be interviewing the newly reunited Team Hell No.
Kane is discussing why he came back to help Daniel Bryan, and Bryan is noting how Kane mistreated him in the past. One of my favorite things WWE does is continuity, because they do it so rarely. So when they're like "hey remember the reason we stopped teaming up five years ago? It was because you turned on me and tried to end my career! You tried to abduct my wife!" That's really awesome coming from the company that SWORE the first-ever Triple H/Undertaker WrestleMania match was at WrestleMania 27.
Chris Novak: Found the Team Hell No stuff to be pretty good. I legit laughed at Bryan's comment about Kane burning his brother. While others think that Bryan's being wasted right now, I'm quite liking this so far two weeks into it. We'll see how it shakes out heading into the go-home SmackDown next week.
Robert O'Neill: Now the Usos are out here! And they don't think Team Hell No should get a title shot at Extreme Rules just because they got back together, which leads to a match later tonight. If The Usos win, they're added to the match at Extreme Rules.
Chris Novak: This should be a fun bout.
Robert O'Neill: It's time for Jeff Hardy's Open Challenge! Let's see who answers the call. It's The Miz!
Unsurprisingly, it was an awesome match from two of the ten best workers in the company at the moment. Hardy retained with a Swanton Bomb, but they made it look like Miz was going to win via the ropes but the ref caught him before the three count.
Chris Novak: Miz and Jeff Hardy had a pretty great MITB qualifier and this was a stirring matchup, as well. It's obvious that these two are among the top workers in the company this year. They just keep performing at a high level each year.
Robert O'Neill: Up next, The New Day is out to celebrate America with pancakes! Well this is fun so fa- OH NO SANITY IS HERE. RUN EVERYONE.
Holy crap. SaniTY demolished them.
Chris Novak: Even with them losing last week, this was a good bounce back for them. I'm absolutely here for six-man warfare between these two teams. I have no doubt that what follows this will be very good.
Robert O'Neill: The much-anticipated James Ellsworth vs. Asuka match ended in a double countout after Ellsworth ran away, Asuka chased him, they came back to the ring, and Carmella took Asuka out. Strength in numbers!
Chris Novak: They protected Ellsworth. Amazing.
Robert O'Neill: Becky Lynch took out Peyton Royce, and it's suddenly _quite_ apparent that they're doing something with Becky. I just hope Charlotte doesn't return and ruin it. Give me Becky vs. Carmella or Asuka at SummerSlam, please.
Chris Novak: That's six consecutive wins for Becky on SmackDown Live… that's not being done by accident. Nobody just wins that many matches in a row without there being some kind of method behind the madness. I suspect that Becky's gonna get the title match at SummerSlam.
Robert O'Neill: Finally, we have Team Hell No vs. The Usos. To no surprise, this was a blast. Team Hell No got the win, and Kane did the YES chant, and all is well with our heroes as Smackdown goes off the air.
Chris Novak: That was a pretty good match, as expected. Good win for Team Hell No to establish themselves again against one of the top tag teams on the brand.


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Personal Log of Arthur Read A steward's diary from the troopship convoy of 1914.
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The Orvieto was en-route to Australia when the First World War broke out, and upon her arrival was requisitioned by the Government of Australia for use as a troopship.
Carrying the General Staff and over 1,000 officers and men of the AIF (Australian Imperial Force), and at the head of a convoy of ships escorted by Royal Navy and Japanese cruisers, including HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Sydney, she sailed in October 1914 for England, calling at Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Said and Alexandria. The troops she carried, although originally destined for Europe, were to be disembarked at Alexandria and sent into action in the Gallipoli campaign.
You can read personal accounts of this voyage written by two people who were on board, namely Alfred John Hotton and Arthur Read.
Soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force preparing to embark aboard Orvieto in Melbourne, October 1914. (Alexander Turnbull Library F 77944-1/2).
Troops relax in the harbour at Alexandria, December 3rd/4th 1914. Orvieto is in the background. (Photos of the Great War www.ku.edu/~kansite/ww_one/photos/greatwar.htm).
More photographs depicting the Orvieto, as well as photographs taken on board, can be found on the Picture Australia web site at www.pictureaustralia.org. Just type the word Orvieto into the box and click Go. Many of the photographs were taken by the official press correspondent for the voyage, C.E.W. Bean, and a great many more photographs taken by him can be found by searching for Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow on the same site.


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This standard has been the guiding star for many years in industry and is now released in a fresh version. IDA's emeritus, Bud Lawson, was one of the architects behind this standard and is now giving us the background and theory. Thereafter we will have experience reports from representatives of three different companies.
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We are living in a machine-like world today, where machines are taking the place of handmade art, especially engraving. Still there are few artists like Vijay Kharkar, who are striving to keep the art of engraving alive.
Glass engraving is a form of decorative glasswork that involves incising a design on to a glass surface, by cutting grooves into it. Diamond coated or Tungstone Carbide stylus, Stone or Copper wheels used with a lathe machine, hand-held rotary drill and Diamond coated burrs are tools, which when used with the right skill produce such attractive and mesmerizing designs that it's difficult to get your eyes off such artistic pieces.
14 years ago, Vijay Kharkar, a Pune based artist left his pencil and brush and adopted the hand-held rotary drill to begin working on glass engraving. At 74, there is no end to his enthusiasm. Without any formal training, but armed with the essential tools of hard work, experimentation and practice, Kharkar has developed his own technique and mastered the art. His inspiration and learning comes from the works of eminent engravers like Wayland H. Cato from the U.S., James Denison from UK, Catherine Miller from West Virginia and master glass engraver Max Erlacher.
Glass being a very versatile medium can be used in different ways in engraving and presents excellent results; this is what Vijay Kharkar realized and began experimenting with different tools and themes like portraits, landscapes, animals, floral designs and old sculptures. The outcome of these experiments is the number of awards and accolades he has collected for his work, not only in India, but from all over the world.
A precision-driven process, glass engraving involves utmost concentration and a very steady hand; being a non reversible process, mistakes are not permissible. With such inherent challenges, Vijay Kharkar faced many challenges like his work 'Old Age' required rough texture to depict agony and 'Amorous Couple' needed a softer texture to incorporate the mood. The spray of water and the huge rocks visible through the spray in 'Niagara' needed numerous trials with a variety of tools. 'Pieta' demanded a marble sculpture effect and matching the picture on two glass sheets to show the 3D effect. He says that his most challenging works were 'Pieta' and 'Veiled Beauty'.
With acid etching fast replacing the art of engraving, Vijay Kharkar suggests young artists to be exposed to this art form via exhibitions, displaying photographs on blogs, publishing links to the works of great glass engravers, holding competitions for glass engravers to encourage young artists to take up this art form and also by creating awareness in the public about this art.
Browse through other signature styles; portraiture; photography; papier-mâché; sculpture; painting etc.
It is unbelievable that these are engraved on glass!Amazing dimension and depth in the works.
I, Chanel stand for the laser engraving machine business, show the highest respect to Mr. Vijay Kharkar. Awesome!
It is unbelievable that these are engraved on glass!
Hi Vijay ! Thank you for sending your artwork our way. Your talent is quite impresive. We look forward to seeing more.
Vijay's engravings show an amazing creativity and skill to create these works of art in a very delicate, but versatile medium - glass. I am proud to have the Niagara Falls as a priceless piece in my collection.
Thank you for appreciating my work. It is people like you all that will keep encouraging me to achieve even better results.
IT is simply awesome!To do such works of details, one requires patience, meticulousness, careful handling of the glass, and of course Talent.You have them all.All the best for your new work.
I have seen your glass engravings at Pune. Your engraving skill is par excellence.
as a whole, as nothing becomes conspicuous.To make engraving eye-catching, few features need to be bold enough.. e.g. "The Humming Bird"
Perhaps, u will weigh this angle too.
I like your "NIGERA FALLS" the most.
Thank you for your comment. Can I see some of your work? It would be a pleasure.


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Eduardo Braun-Menéndez (January 16, 1903 – January 16, 1959) was a noted Argentine physiologist.

Life and work
Born in Punta Arenas, Chile, he was a naturalized Argentine citizen from a very early age, and was raised in Buenos Aires.

He studied at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, choosing cardiovascular medicine and physiology as his specialties. His doctoral thesis dealt with the relationship between the pituitary gland and diencephalon to blood pressure, and was developed at the Institute of Physiology under the supervision of Noble laureate Dr. Bernardo Houssay, in 1934.  After receiving his doctoral degree, he went to England to study at the University College London, where he investigated the metabolism of the heart.

On his return from England, he joined the prestigious team at the Institute of Physiology, with Luis Federico Leloir, Juan Fasciolo, Juan Muñoz, and Alberto Taquini to work for a few years on the mechanism of nephrogenic hypertension. He made the most important discovery in his career during this research, that of angiotensin, in 1939.

At the Institute, Braun-Menéndez became a research leader in cardiovascular physiology in 1945, and served as a senior lecturer and teaching assistant in the same area until 1946. He directed the Institute of Experimental Biology and Medicine until 1946 and was also the head of electrocardiography and physiotherapy at the Municipal Institute of Radiology and Physiotherapy of Buenos Aires. He returned as Houssay Chair at the Institute of Physiology in 1955, and served as a professor. Additionally, he was a member of the Buenos Aires National Academy of Medicine and was honored with the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of California and the University of Brazil. In addition, he was vice president of the Argentine Society of Biology and secretary of the Argentine Association for the Advancement of Sciences. He received the National Award for Science twice.

Braun-Menéndez also helped to create the important scientific journal Ciencia y Investigación which published its first issue in 1945. It was directed by him until 1959, the year that he died. Another of his initiatives included the Acta Physiologica Latinoamericana, a publication written in multiple languages for the publication of the work of Latin American physiologists.

Dr. Braun-Menéndez died in a plane crash near Mar del Plata with his daughter on January 16, 1959. The accident was Austral Air Lines' first.

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NPB Players in the Australian Baseball League
The 2012-13 season for the Australian Baseball League is kicking off tomorrow (November 1) and it looks like there are several Japanese players that will be appearing in the league. Hanshin has sent three players to the Canberra Calvary - pitchers Masanori Fujihara and Hirokazu Shiranita as well as outfielder Kohei Shibata. The Lions are sending pitchers Hirotaka Koishi and Yuta Nakazaki along with catcher Shota Nakata to the Melbourne Aces. (Melbourne also has a Japanese coach named Mitsuharu Nagayama but I've been unable to figure out if he is a coach with Seibu or not.)
2012 BBM 2nd Version #619
I won't go into too much detail about what cards are available for each of these guys as a simple search using the Inventory Manager at SportsCardForum.com will give you the complete list (thanks Jason!). I don't think any of the six have any Calbee cards, although they have some Konami and Owners League cards. Each of the six appeared in a BBM Rookie Edition set - Nakata and Shiranita in 2008, Nakazaki and Shibata in 2009, Fujihara in 2010 and Koishi in 2012. Fujihara, Koishi, Nakazaki and Shiranita appeared in the BBM 1st and 2nd Version sets in their rookie seasons (Nakazaki didn't make the 2nd Version set), but have pretty much only been in their respective team sets in the following seasons. Shibata has appeared in the 1st Version set in 2009, 2010 and 2012 as well as the 2nd Version set in 2012. Nakata's only BBM cards (other than his Rookie Edition card) are from the Lions team sets.
There's an additional Japanese player on an ABL roster but he's not an NPB player. The Brisbane Bandits have an outfielder named Hirotoshi Onaka who is a minor leaguer in the Texas Ranger organization. He has never played in NPB but apparently signed with the Rangers out of International Pacific University in Japan.
I'm not entirely sure all the rosters are up to date as the Sydney Blue Sox roster still lists 43 year old Korean pitcher Koo Dae-Sung who I thought retired at the end of last season. So there may turn out to be more players than I thought - conversely it may turn out that ALL the rosters are old and these six played LAST season but I'm fairly confident that that's not the case.
A couple new items of interest are out there:
- BBM announced a couple of new box sets. One is a memorial set for Tomoaki Kanemoto containing 28 cards - 27 "regular" and one "special" card - possibly an autograph, bat or jersey card. It will be released at the end of November. The other new set is the annual Rookie Edition Premium set. This is a 50 card set featuring 48 "regular" cards and two "special" cards - possible autograph and memorabilia cards. The 48 regular cards break down as 36 rookie cards (3 per team) plus 12 "Rookie's Moments" cards (1 per team). The website says that the set will be out in early November but Jambalaya has the set up on their website already.
- AmiAmi has announcements of several new sets that haven't shown up on BBM's website yet - a "Rising Carp" box set, and a "Giants Legend" set. They also have a listing for a box set featuring the Carp produced by Hiroshima Athlete Magazine. There's also a set out from Number One for Hiroyuki Nakajima.
- Ebbets Field Flannels has put out a couple new Japanese baseball items - a 1958 Nankai Hawks hat and a 1966 "Nagoya" Dragons t-shirt.
UPDATE - Ebbets Field Flannels is also now selling a 1937 Nagoya jersey.
Labels: BBM, New Stuff
Card Of The Week October 28
The Chiba Lotte Marines named former Lions catcher and manager Tsutomu Itoh as their new manager a couple of weeks back. Itoh's one of my favorites (I think I have a soft spot for catchers who play forever - Itoh, Tanishige, Nomura, etc) and this gives me an opportunity to show off a couple of cards of him that I've picked up recently.
The first one is Itoh's 1982 rookie card from the Takara Lions set (one of the other rookie cards in that set was someone named Kimiyasu Kudoh):
The other is a 1989 Calbee card (#52) showing what I'm pretty sure is a play from the 1988 Nippon Series as that looks a lot like a guy in a Dragons uniform trying to score:
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Today was draft day in Japan and as always, Deanna at Marinerds and Gen at Yakyu Baka were all over it - Deanna apparently staying up all night to cover the action as the draft started at around 1 AM Pacific Time. While all eyes were on Shohei Otani and would anyone draft him despite his announced intention to go directly to the US (only the Fighters), there were a couple Tokyo Big Six players taken so I'll do my annual list of the existing cards for the drafted players.
All the sets listed are from BBM. I'm only listing the regular cards here as I don't have a complete list of the insert cards from the Tokyo Big Six sets.
Koji Fukutani, Keio (Dragons #1)
2012 Tokyo Big Six #25
2011 Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version #02 (shown)
2011 Tokyo Big Six Spring Version #08
2010 Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version #02
Kazuki Mishima, Hosei (Baystars #2)
2011 Tokyo Big Six Spring Version #14 (shown)
Shota Sugiyama, Waseda (Dragons #4)
2012 Tokyo Big Six #10 (shown)
Takashi Uemoto, Meiji (Carp #3)
It's possible that there's some former Tokyo Bix Six players who were drafted out of either the independent leagues or the industrial leagues today but I don't recognize anyone off hand.
Labels: Draft, News
Prestige Collectibles Auction
The latest Prestige Collectibles Auction is now online. It will run until November 8.
The auction contains the usual selection of really cool (and expensive) stuff. Among other things there's a card of Hall Of Famer Shigeru Sugishita when he was a Meiji University, a card of a very young Katsuya Nomura, a 1967 Kabaya-Leaf Sadaharu Oh card and a couple cards from the very rare 1971 Kabaya "3-D" set - Oh, Tsuneo Horiuchi and Shigeru Takada.
Here's a list of all the legitimate Japanese baseball cards of Shohei Otani:
That doesn't mean you won't see something that's not on this list on eBay, especially after he signs with an MLB team. That would be someone's unlicensed, home-brew card.
Just in case I wasn't clear, here's the list again, in reverse order:
Labels: News, Players
Yokohama Taiyo Whales
I got to thinking when I was doing a post on Takuro Ishii the other day - how many former Yokohama Taiyo Whales players are still playing? Yokohama changed their name to the BayStars (or Baystars or Bay Stars - never quite got that straight) in 1993. I took a quick look at who appeared on the Whales' final roster in 1992 and it looks like there are three guys still active. Two of them were kind of obvious - Motonobu Tanishige and Takashi Saitoh, but I was surprised to discover that Daisuke Miura made one appearance in 1992 - pitching what looks like two scoreless innings.
There are no contemporary cards of Miura with the Whales that I'm aware of - he was drafted in the 1992 draft (fall 1991) but his first cards aren't until 1994. There are a couple Rookie Edition cards, however, that show him in a Whales uniform:
2003 BBM Rookie Edition #117
Obviously the 2003 card is from the 1992 draft - oddly enough, his 2007 BBM Draft Story card shows him in a BayStars uniform.
So I think there's only the three former Whales players still active - can anyone think of anyone else?
Card Of The Week September 21
The Giants kept the Dragons at bay today by beating them 3-2 on a walk-off hit in the bottom of the ninth by Yoshihito Ishii. Ishii, who was pinch hitting for Yoshitomo Tani who was pinch hitting for Tetsuya Matsumoto (the Dragons changed pitchers after Tani was announced), hit a bases loaded single to left to win the game. This sets up a winner-take-all playoff final for tomorrow.
Like so many others before him, Ishii is an unlikely post season hero. Ishii is a 34 infielder who has previously played for Yokohama and Seibu. He had a few years in the mid-00's as a regular with the Lions - even making the All Star team in 2005 - but he hasn't played a lot at the ichi-gun level the past few seasons. The Lions released him at the end of last season and the Giants picked him. He only appeared in 51 games for the big club this year, although he did hit .315.
It looks like there's only one card of him this year - from the BBM Giants set. Since I don't have that card, I thought I show one from his days with the Lions:
2008 BBM Lions 30th Anniversary #83
Takuro Ishii
Yet another player who retired at the end of this season was Takuro Ishii of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. Ishii originally was signed at age 18 by the then Yokohama Taiyo Whales in 1988 as a pitcher (which I've mentioned a couple times before) named Tadanori Ishii. As far as I can tell, the only contemporary card of him as "Tadanori" was in the 1990 Takara Whales set. The pitching thing didn't work that well for him, so in 1992 he became an infielder. His first cards as a position player came in 1993 with BBM (#362), Tomy (#232) and Takara BayStars (#0).
1993 Tomy #232
Ishii became a regular in 1993 and quickly became a star. He ended up playing with the BayStars until 2008, getting over 2000 hits for them.
2001 Future Bee #Yb-1 (Parallel)
Ishii made six All Star teams during his career - first in 1995 and then five straight years from 1997 to 2001.
1995 BBM All Stars #A26
He only played in one Nippon Series during his career (which isn't a surprise considering he played most of his career in Yokohama). In 1998, Ishii hit .364 as the BayStars defeated the Lions in six games, leading him to win one of the "Outstanding Player" awards.
1998 BBM Nippon Series #S58
After 20 years with Yokohama, Ishii left the BayStars for Hiroshima after the 2008 season. He spent most of the past four seasons as a part-time player and pinch hitter.
Labels: Players
New BBM Sets
BBM announced a couple of news sets the other day:
- a box set commemorating Hiroki Kokubo's career. It will be a 28 card set - 27 "regular" cards and 1 special card - possible autograph and/or memorabilia cards are available. I'd hope that BBM might use some pictures other than ones of Kokubo throwing his bat after his swing, but two of the three sample autograph cards shown on the linked page show that same pose. The set will be released in early November.
As an aside, there appears to be another Hiroki Kokubo commemorative pack based set coming out from a company called (I think) Number Athlete that will be coming out shortly. BBM will also be releasing commemorative box sets for both Tomoaki Kanemoto and Takuro Ishii, although no information on these has shown up on their website yet.
- the 2013 "Historic Collection" set called something like "Jersey Numbers". This will be a 144 card pack based set (like the previous 10 "Historic Collection" sets) that will feature current and retired players and highlight their uniform numbers. There are 129 "regular" cards and a 15 card subset for players who have their numbers retired by their teams. There will be two insert sets - 24 "Great Numbers" cards each featuring two players who share a uniform number and 12 "Photo" cards. There will be also autograph cards available. The set will be released in late November.
Hiroki Kokubo's Retirement
Hiroki Kokubo announced his retirement a few weeks back (err...make that months) and his Hawks were eliminated in the playoffs today by the Fighters, so he has played his last game. I did a retrospective on him a couple months back when he reached 2000 hits, so I thought I'd concentrate on something else here. I had made a comment in a post a while back about BBM having a "usual photo of Hiroki Kokubo throwing his bat on his follow-through". I figured I'd attempt to back that comment with some evidence, so I went all of his BBM cards to see how often they used a similar pose. The answer is - very often. Here's a bunch of examples, which by no means is all of them:
1998 BBM #537
1998 BBM Hawks #FD48
2002 BBM All Time Heros #122
2002 BBM Preview #P76
2005 BBM 1st Version #352
2006 BBM Record Makers #125
2008 BBM 70th Anniversary #84
2009 BBM Legend Players #064
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Yuki Nishi of the Orix Buffaloes threw the third no-hitter of the 2012 NPB season last Monday. It was the regular season finale for both the Buffaloes and the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, so it was the final regular season game for Hiroki Kokubo. This was only the second time in Japan that a pitcher threw a no-hitter in his team's last regular season game. The only other time it happened was in 1937 when Mitsuhiko Ishida of Hankyu turned the trick against the Tokyo Senators.
Here's Nishi's 2011 Calbee card (#107):
Tomoaki Kanemoto
Tomoaki Kanemoto of the Tigers played his final game today at Koshien against the Baystars. I was lucky enough to tune into the game this morning (US East Coast time) just in time to see him hit a single in the sixth inning - the final hit in his career.
I've previously done a post for Kanemoto when I did a series of posts on the Top 15 Career Home Run Hitters a few years back, so I won't go into a lot of detail on his career. He's best known, of course, for his consecutive game and innings streak - the innings streak is the longest known in professional baseball history (passing even Cal Ripken's) and the game streak was the second longest in Japan (behind Sachio Kinugasa).
He was drafted by Hiroshima in the fourth round of the 1992 draft (which was a hell of a round as it also included Norihiro Nakamura and Ichiro Suzuki).
2007 BBM Draft Story #113
2001 Upper Deck Victory #026
2008 BBM Hiroshima Memorial #24 (Celebrating his hitting for the cycle)
Following the 2002 season, he departed Hiroshima for the Hanshin Tigers. He went to the Nippon Series twice with the Tigers, in 2003 and 2004.
2007 BBM Tigers #T099
2005 BBM Nippon Series #49
Kanemoto made the All Star team 11 times in his career (1995-97, 2000-01, 2003-06, 2008-09). He was MVP of one of the games in 2003.
He reached 2000 hits in his career on April , 2008.
Shingo Takatsu
Former Swallows relief pitcher Shingo Takatsu retired a couple of weeks back. Most recently, Takatsu had been player-manager for the Niigata Albirex of the independent Baseball Challenge (BC) league.
Takatsu had attended Asia University in the late 1980's before being selected by Yakult in the third round of the 1991 draft (which was held in fall of 1990). His BBM rookie card is #387 in the 1991 BBM set. His first Calbee card was not until the 1994 set (#99).
2011 BBM Tohto 80th Memorial #16
Takatsu became the Swallows closer in 1993, a role that he pretty much kept for the next 11 seasons (with the exception of much of the 1997 and 1998 seasons). He recorded 260 saves through the 2003 season, passing Kazuhiro Sasaki for the most career saves in Japan. Here's a 2002 Calbee "Be Excited" card commemorating his reaching 200 career saves:
2002 Calbee EX-3
Following the 2003 season, he came to the major leagues, signing a deal with the White Sox. He spent the next two years in the US, pitching quite well for Chicago in 2004 but not so well in 2005. The White Sox ended up releasing him at the beginning of August and he was picked up by the Mets for the remainder of the season. He then returned to Japan for the 2006 and 2007 season, coming back to the Swallows and extending his save record to 286 (which has since been passed by Hitoki Iwase of the Dragons).
In 2008, Takatsu attempted to return to the US by signing a deal with the Cubs. He was released in spring training, however, and ended up signing with the Woori Heroes in Korea. He signed with the San Francisco Giants organization in 2009, making 14 appearances with the Triple-A Fresno Grizzlies. In 2010, he joined the Sinon Bulls of the Chinese Professional Baseball League.
2011 CPBL Player Of The Year #032
By recording a save with the Bulls, Takatsu became the first pitcher to ever record saves in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the US.
I'm not positive, but I think he spent both 2011 and 2012 with the Niigata Albirex. He was only player-manager for the 2012 season. I don't know if he intends to continue as manager next season.
Takatsu made the All Star game six times in his 15 years in Japan - 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2007, his final year with the Swallows.
00 BBM All Stars #A21
He appeared in four Nippon Series (1993, 1995, 1997 and 2001), winning all four with the Swallows. He earned the nickname "Mr. Zero" by appearing in 11 Nippon Series games (a total of 16 2/3 innings) without giving up a run.
97 BBM Nippon Series #S9
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2012 BBM 2nd Version set
New BBM box sets