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With China's rise, Japan shifts to the right

With China's rise, Japan shifts to the right

Japan is in the midst of a gradual but significant shift to the right, acting more confrontationally in the region than at any time since World War II. The shift applies strictly to Japan's foreign policy and military strategy, not social issues, and has been driven both by China's rapid maritime expansion - particularly its emphatic claims on contested territory - and by a growing sense here that Japan should recover the clout squandered amid two lost decades of economic stagnation. Japan's shift can be seen in an increasingly muscular role for the nation's Self-Defense Forces (SDF), in a push among mainstream politicians to revise key portions of the pacifist constitution and in a new willingness to clash with China, particularly in the East China Sea, where U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said this week he was "concerned about conflict."

But analysts stress that Japan, even with its rightward shift, still remains ambivalent about its military; Japan is merely moving toward the center, they say, after decades of being perhaps the world's most pacifist advanced nation.

"The post-World War II Japan policy was to be low-key and cooperation-oriented," said Narushige Michishita, a self- described moderate and a security expert at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. "We tried to avoid any confrontation or friction with surrounding countries. .?.?. But there's a widespread feeling in the minds of Japanese people that being nice didn't work out."

Polls suggest Japanese are increasingly concerned about security and feel their country faces an outside threat. According to government data collected earlier this year, 25 percent think Japan should increase its military strength, compared with 14 percent three years ago and 8 percent in 1991.

(Washington Post, Sep 22)

Sep 20	Chinese hookers in Tokyo ride out the tense times in wake of Senkaku strife
	One result of the raucous and sometimes destructive anti-Japanese demonstrations over the disputed Senkaku chain of islands in the East China Sea that have raged recently across over 100 cities in mainland China (and Hong Kong) is that shops in Tokyo offering the services of Chinese masseuses have seen a sharp drop-off in demand. (Tokyo Reporter)

Source: http://www.newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/98474.php

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DIY Keypad Unlocks Your Apartment from the Outside [DIY]

Sick of using those old keys to get into your house? Redditor charmonkie shows off a homemade, keypad-powered deadbolt without actually modifying the door on his apartment.

The setup includes a stepper motor that turns the deadbolt from the inside, which is connected to a motor driver board and an arduino. The keypad sits on the outside of the door, with the wires traveling through the peephole on the door?which is a genius way of making sure you don't lose your security deposit?and everything's mounted in a tin on the other side. It isn't the prettiest (though you could probably make it prettier), but it's a pretty clever build, and handy if you wanted to let people in that don't have a key. Hit the link to see more.

Nothing Groundbreaking, Just a Keypad Controlled Deadbolt | Reddit via Hack a Day

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Former All-Star Shawn Green leads Israel in WBC

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) ? The players are either way past their prime ? consider former All-Star Shawn Green, who retired five years ago ? or minor league prospects, such as 6-foot-7 slugger Nate Freiman.

But for Israel, which didn't get a pro baseball league until 2007 and has precious few players competing in the sport on its home soil, the group of Jewish-Americans playing a World Baseball Classic qualifier at Roger Dean Stadium this week is something special.

Of the 28 players on Israel's roster, 23 are currently in the minor leagues. That compares to just six in the same category for South Africa, one of four nations entered in the double-elimination tournament.

It also helps explain why Israel, playing its first-ever WBC game, defeated South Africa 7-3 Wednesday night.

"If you want to say that we are the (qualifying tournament) favorites because we have the most professional minor leaguers, that's your call," said Israel manager Brad Ausmus, a former big league catcher and a member of the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

"But what's best on paper isn't necessarily the best on grass. You still have to win," he said.

If Israel can do that against either Spain or France on Friday, then Ausmus' team would be one victory away from qualifying for the WBC's main draw in March. And if that were to happen, Israel's team could get a major boost from Jewish-Americans such as 2011 NL MVP Ryan Braun of the Brewers, star second baseman Ian Kinsler of the Rangers and power-hitting first baseman Ike Davis of the Mets.

In addition, Kevin Youkilis of the White Sox has already committed to playing for Israel.

The team's MVP so far in this tournament is Freiman, who hit a pair of two-out, solo home runs on Wednesday. Freiman, a San Diego Padres prospect, hit 46 homers the past two years, including 24 this past season in Double-A.

"I've known Nate for a few years," said Ausmus, who is a special assistant for the Padres. "In my mind, when I was putting this team together and the qualifier was moved to September instead of November, Nate was our three-, four-hole hitter."

The 39-year-old Green, one of 16 big leaguers to hit four home runs in a game, batted fifth in the opener. He struggled early with a strikeout and a double play, but finished 2 for 5 with a pair of singles.

Also in the lineup is third baseman Josh Satin, who went 1 for 3 with two walks and scored twice.

Other top prospects on the Israel roster include second baseman Jack Marder, who hit .360 for the Mariners' High-A team, Double-A shortstop Jake Lemmerman and outfielder Joc Pederson from the Dodgers and Padres' Double-A catcher-outfielder Cody Decker. Pederson is considered by Baseball America to be the top prospect in Jupiter this week.

Reliever Josh Zeid pitched well in the opener after spending last season in Double-A for Houston.

Of course, none of those players were born in Israel. Unlike South Africa and France, which are using native-born players almost exclusively, Israel and Spain went for "heritage" picks.

Major League Baseball allows anyone with a Jewish grandparent to play for Israel. Similar rules apply for every other country, which explains why Spain's roster is full of players born in Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and the United State.

South Africa manager Rick Magnante doesn't feel there is a "level playing field" and offers a suggestion.

"Suppose everyone of African-American descent could apply for citizenship for South Africa," he said.

That's not the reality, however, and Israel is pleased with the early result and the prospect of growing the game back home.

Among the more intriguing players on the roster is Adam Greenberg. In his first major league at-bat, for the Chicago Cubs in 2005, he was hit in the head by a pitch from Valerio De Los Santos of the Marlins.

Greenberg never got back to the majors. At 31, he's a year past his last pro swing, for the independent Bridgeport Bluefish.

Greenberg scored in the opening WBC win. He's hoping to send Israel into the main part of the tournament, where All-Stars from all over take part.

"There probably is a stereotype out there about Jewish people not being great athletes," Greenberg said. "When a great Jewish athlete comes along, it takes some people by surprise."

"But the bigger picture is getting kids in Israel excited about baseball and showing them people that they can relate to playing the sport at a high level," he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/former-star-shawn-green-leads-israel-wbc-233049364--mlb.html

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"Trouble With the Curve" Review: Predictably Pleasing but No Home Run

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The good news: Clint Eastwood never once addresses an empty chair in his latest movie.

Even better news: the closest the movie comes to presidential politics is that it's about baseball, which has been known to have sitting Presidents throw out the first pitch at the start of a Major League season.

"Trouble With the Curve," a film that holds no surprises but offers much pleasure in its performances, stars Eastwood as Gus Lobel, an aging scout for the Atlanta Braves. He was widowed years ago and has a patchy relationship with his only child, Mickey (Amy Adams), who was named after Mickey Mantle, the legendary Yankee slugger.

Mickey is am ambitious lawyer and up for a partnership with her Atlanta law firm so she's none too enthusiastic when her father's boss (John Goodman), who's also his best friend, urges her to join Gus on a road trip through North Carolina to scout a promising hitting prospect (Joe Massingill). The pal fears that Gus' job is on the line and suspects that his eyesight isn't what it once was.

Over the course of several days on the road and at minor league ball parks, father and daughter bicker and bait each other, learn each other's secrets and frailties, and inevitably grow closer. Mickey also begins a tentative romance with Johnny Flanagan (Justin Timberlake, who's improving as an actor), a former pro pitcher now working as a scout for the Boston Red Sox.

As scripted by newcomer Randy Brown and directed by Robert Lorenz, a longtime producer and assistant director for Eastwood, "Trouble" is an old-fashioned movie, grounded in character and storytelling.

Much like a pitcher who signals ahead of time what he's going to throw, the movie is pretty obvious in laying down with a thud early on the paving stones for several late-breaking plot developments. Put it this way: nothing that happens in "Trouble" comes out of left field. All that really separates the film from a TV movie is its A-level cast. But with Eastwood and Adams working off each other, one just sits back and enjoys.

Looking grizzled and projecting a whiff of incipient frailty, Eastwood essentially reprises his cranky, growling tough guy from "Gran Torino," the 2008 film that marked his last time he was in front of a movie camera. His Gus is a cranky codger with heart, which is the best kind.

Adams takes the most clich?d of scenes in "Trouble" and make them genuine. She radiates humanity and realness. Contrast her work here with her recent steel-hard intensity in "The Master" and it's obvious that she's the real deal; one looks forward to many more extraordinary performances to coe.

In the end, "Trouble" is too pedestrian and predictable to score a critical home run, but the stellar performances and warm story make it a solid double. Heck, if viewed under the right conditions (plenty of popcorn and no crying babies), it could even stretch into a triple.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/trouble-curve-review-predictably-pleasing-no-home-run-232103499.html

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The Colored Pencil Society of America - Lines and Colors

Like pastel, gouache and various drawing media, colored pencil is an artist?s medium that doesn?t receive the level of recognition its adherents would like.

In part it shares the relative fragility and light exposure issues of works on paper (though materials are now being subjected to lightfastness tests), but largely colored pencil in particular suffers from an image problem, the impression that it?s not a ?serious? medium.

The Colored Pencil Society of America is an organization founded in 1990 to promote the use of colored pencil, provide exhibition opportunities for its membership and in general elevate the perception of colored pencil as a medium.

To these ends, the society organizes two shows each year, the International Exhibition, in which the medium for accepted works must be only colored pencil, and the Explore This! Exhibition, in which the primary medium for works must be colored pencil, but allows for the incorporation of other media, surfaces and techniques not allowed in the International Exhibition.

The society hosts galleries of the award winners in both exhibitions, going back several years. Unfortunately, the website is not well organized (you must drill down into the Galleries page, then to the individual listings and then to the individual year before seeing images, and from there navigation disappears except for a Home link).

Here are the gallery lists for the International Exhibitions and the Explore This! exhibitions.

Once into the galleries, you will find examples of colored pencil being used in ways you may not have expected if you haven?t been keeping up with the medium. Like work in pastel, much of it is more like painting than drawing, and furthers the notion that both could be thought of as dry painting mediums.

The society?s website provides a list of links to member websites.

There is an article on The Artist?s Magazine blog about the recent CPSA awards dinner, which prompted this post.

There is also a smaller, UK Colored Pencil Society, and Katherine Tyrrell, herself a proponent of the medium, lists other colored pencil societies and exhibitions on her Squidoo lens for colored pencil resources.

(Images above: Linda Lucas Hardy, Gregory Joy, Deborah Friedman, Jaclyn Wukela, Cecile Baird, Marge Dreher, Catherine Gauldin, Ester Roi, David Billingsley, Pat Averill, Kare Williams, Linda Koffenberger, Shawn Falchetti)

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