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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The fifth annual Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF)-West hosted by the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) and Euromoney Energy Events in San Francisco, CA this week brought together over 350 investors, industry executives and policy makers for an engaging discussion on the state of the renewable energy industry, public policy, financial markets and corporate strategy in the renewable energy sector. During the two-day session, the 55 speakers and panelists expressed a call to action to those in the industry to continue developing financing solutions that promote growth and job creation in the domestic renewable energy industry.
Speakers from leading renewable energy companies, investment institutions, nonprofits and government organizations expressed the need for a consistent, stable policy signal from national, state and regional policymakers to drive renewable energy growth. "We need to move from politics to policy," said ACORE President Admiral Dennis V. McGinn during kickoff remarks on Day 1 at REFF West. "The depolitization of the energy industry is an essential factor in moving towards policies that will support a diversified energy portfolio."
The call for energy diversification echoed throughout the panels. Paula Gant, Vice President of Policy for the American Gas Association, emphasized the need for a diversified approach to energy development, stating: "Abundant and affordable natural gas doesn't mean that we shouldn't continue developing renewable energy. National security requires that we do."
The achievements of California in developing and supporting a thriving renewable energy economy were also a driving theme this year. Michael Peevey, President of the California Public Utilities Commission, and Yiaway Yeh, Mayor of Palo Alto, shared their insights on policy models that have worked in the state to support and drive the growth of a clean energy economy. "We will achieve California's 33% RPS target by 2020," said Peevey. With a population of over 36 million people and an economy that is the eighth largest in the world, California leads the nation in electricity generation from non-hydroelectric renewable energy sources.
Keynote speaker Mary Nichols, Chairman of the California Air Resources Board, lauded the tremendous advancements in clean technology that have created possibilities that were almost unimaginable 10 years ago. "The next three years," she said, "stand out to be the most important years to clean energy yet. The investments that come out of conferences like this will continue to make a difference." Rick Needham, Google's Director of Green Business Operations, echoed this message of optimism. "Our long term vision is that we can go anywhere and have access to cheap renewable energy. If we have the right financing mechanisms and incentives in place, the sky is the limit in what we can achieve in this industry."
Additional topics and highlights from the conference include:
- The impact of falling natural gas prices, and the resulting "paradigm shift" occurring within the natural gas and renewable energy industries, were discussed at length among panelists. There was agreement that this shift is initiating a tremendous change in how financiers, industry leaders and policymakers think about energy production and use in the U.S.
- Panelists attributed California's leading renewable energy portfolio to the surge of solar PV in wholesale distributed generation solar markets, and also noted a trend of renewed capital and investor interest into California solar PV from traditional and non-traditional investors.
- Lastly, panelists discussed the impact that fiscal tax reform could potentially have on the renewable energy industry. Panelists suggested that the expansion of Master Limited Partnerships to cover renewables could help level the energy policy playing field and be a way to bring new principal to the industry, thus creating additional opportunities to invest and deploy capital.
It's clear from this year's REFF-West that the global financial community is strongly supportive of renewable energy development in the U.S. and worldwide, but until there is stable federal policy for clean energy, the renewables industry must contend with regulatory uncertainty as well as political and economic challenges that can hinder growth and investment in the space.
"Representing more than 35% of all new U.S. power generation since 2008 and as a growing part of our transportation fuels supply, renewable energy is a material and competitive part of the nation's energy mix," said Dan Reicher, Executive Director of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford University "Following this year's elections, bipartisan support for smart energy policy with an important role for renewable energy is essential to maintain and increase the impressive levels of private capital investment and market growth we've seen in recent years."
The next ACORE and Euromoney Energy Events conferences will be REFF-Latin America and Caribbean in Miami on April 24-25, 2013 and REFF Wall-Street in New York City on June 25-26, 2013.
About REFF-West
REFF-West is the largest renewable energy finance conference focused on West Coast energy issues. It is hosted by the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, DC, dedicated to raising the profile of renewable energy, and Euromoney Energy Events, a London-based wholly owned subsidiary of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC and organizer of conferences to address topical issues in the energy sector. For more information, please visit http://www.reffwest.com.
American Council On Renewable Energy
Jessica McHugh, +1-415-262-5997
Source: American Council On Renewable Energy


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Russel discovers that he's not the only gay person in their little town. He agrees to a meet-up with a boy he came across online. This boy turns out to be Kevin, the uber attractive jock that he's been crushing on since forever.
Suddenly, Russell finds more people within the LGBT gender. They form a support group and disguises it as the Geography Club.
And what about the outcast Brian Bund? Does he belong to Geography Club?
This is one of my favorite gay teen fiction. Geography Club has a sincere and friendly atmosphere in it that charmed me enough to overlook the plot's lack of intensity. The narration was very clever.
I can't wait for the movie version!

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The Los Angeles Lakers added another power forward to their roster in winning an auction for the rights to Carlos Boozer, a person with knowledge of the transaction told USA TODAY Sports.
Boozer was available for silent bidding from any team with salary cap space after being waived using the amnesty clause by the Chicago Bulls this week. The Lakers' winning bid was not immediately known. The person requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the deal.
The Lakers' interest was a bit of a surprise because they have added two power forwards this offseason: No. 7 overall draft pick Julius Randle and free agent Ed Davis. They also re-signed big man Jordan Hill.
Boozer averaged 13.6 points and 8.3 rebounds a game last season, his lowest averages in both categories since his rookie season. The 12-year veteran has career marks of 16.6 points and 9.8 rebounds a game but often is criticized for his defense.
Randle has averaged in 12.0 points and 4.0 rebounds a game in summer league the past week. The Kentucky product was viewed as one of the more NBA-ready players in free agency. Hill and Davis both have the size to play some center, but Randle and Boozer are more traditional power forwards.
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AVGN: Kid Kool
Mike / August 3rd, 2011
August 3, 2011 at 11:09 pm
I like to touch meaty wangs.
August 3, 2011 at 11:15 pm
You can take the midnight bus to hell. That's a good game. As is it's doppleganger Psycho Fox for the Master System..Dirty Jared
August 3, 2011 at 11:22 pm
I wasn't expecting an episode although I checked anyway. Thanks broski!!
August 3, 2011 at 11:28 pm
Best avgn video i've seen in a long time.Red Lantern
August 3, 2011 at 11:29 pm
when i check cinemassacre.com and see a new AVGN episode,.. there is a tiny parade that starts marching in my head.myreflection462
August 3, 2011 at 11:31 pm
I have been waiting for this moment for years and it feels so good…… in my pants.
August 3, 2011 at 11:31 pm
holy cow surprise avgn! nice treat after a long day at work, thanks man!Gonzalo_vm
August 3, 2011 at 11:32 pm
helll yeahhh!!! a new avgn video!!!Taylorster
August 3, 2011 at 11:33 pm
Bitchin'… ;Dlinkfan3
August 3, 2011 at 11:34 pm
wow, i hate to beat the game then at the end the game says fuck u u didnt beat it fast enoughbenjigoenitz
August 3, 2011 at 11:37 pm
HAhahaha, very good episode!!!! xDD
August 3, 2011 at 11:43 pm
Haha, now James will never hear the end of "how many tries did it take to land kid kool in the trash?" from fans.
August 3, 2011 at 11:47 pm
Awesome, always glad to see a new AVGN. The game looks like a fun side scroller on the outside, but I definitely know how much controls can screw up a game 🙁felon
August 3, 2011 at 11:54 pm
conclussion: kid kool is NOT cool! hahaha
August 3, 2011 at 11:56 pm
I like you a lot, but don't take that to seriously, I find cool that you keep the avgn videos even with the movie rolling, you're awesomeRad_Galaxy
August 4, 2011 at 12:01 am
Good video James. It's nice to see a new AVGN. Honestly, I've really been enjoying going through the archives, and all the other cool stuff on your page. It's given me a new respect for you.Reputator
August 4, 2011 at 12:01 am
Woot, AVGN. Nice back shot in the trash can, was that an accident?ApacheMan2K
August 4, 2011 at 12:01 am
After looking at this — http://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/587382-kid-kool-and-the-quest-for-the-seven-wonder-herbs/images/box-71240 — here's an interesting something that may as well fit with how horrid this game really is.
The Japanese title, translated, is "Kakefu's Jump Heaven: Speed Hell". Anyone here notice any bits of irony? Or the opposite?JayRam
August 4, 2011 at 12:04 am
"Dr. Claws Dump 'n Pump"? what the hell? XDWestBuiltAMountain
August 4, 2011 at 12:18 am
Fun review – but question: why doesn't this site have a forum for us to more easily post and read posts on? It'd be really nice, and it's not hard to get a free one out there and link to it.You Can Just Walk Over It
August 4, 2011 at 12:21 am
Straight, to the point, and a good episode in my opinion. The 7 sins was a great way to summarize the control problems. Loved the throw to the can at the end, as well as the ending that said you didn't do it 'perfectly' (like bart vs the world).Syph
August 4, 2011 at 12:21 am
Good, simple episode. Glad to have the Nerd back.
And Dr. Claw's Dump and Pump… Wow. I can see it now.
"I'll flush you next time, floater… Next tiiiiime!!!"NPigeon
August 4, 2011 at 12:21 am
Great episode love that stuff is finally coming out. 🙂Koga
August 4, 2011 at 12:24 am
Beautiful review good job sir!Sam
August 4, 2011 at 12:27 am
Yes! Finally A New AVGN Episode! Keep 'em Comin James!BrockLobster
August 4, 2011 at 12:32 am
Yeah, I remember this rotten piece of fuck. It goes on record for having controls worse than "Menace Beach", and the game mechanics are worse, as well. Fucking SKIPPING ACROSS WATER LIKE I'M SOME KIND OF FUCKING PEBBLE. WHAT FUCKING FILTH! Thanks for reviewing this piece of shit-fuck, Nerd.thegokilives
August 4, 2011 at 12:37 am
This is one of my favorite AVGN episodes in a while! It was a very simple, yet very entertaining episode. I can't wait to see more of thesemrshibbs
August 4, 2011 at 12:39 am
Is Dr. Claw's Dump and Pump a real game!?
James, you gotta review this for us haha.callmeRaskolnikov
August 4, 2011 at 12:40 am
Great job on the scaled down AVGN. It doesn't even matter that you didn't make it a full length episode, which I imagine means you didn't spend nearly as much time on the production. It was still just as good as all the other episodes that I love. What a nice surprise indeed to see a new/awesome episode.
And I agree with Mike….if you think this game is amazing you REALLY need to take off the ole' "nostalgia goggles" and take a close look at the absolutely HORRID CONTROL!Densi
August 4, 2011 at 12:42 am
Awesome James i just found this game about 3 weeks ago. Looked like a decent game possibly a super mario bros 3 knock off, how bad could it be? Wow i was wrong . You are great James and an awesome inspiration keep it upTheLHP
August 4, 2011 at 12:44 am
I about died of laughter when he was explaining the part where the screen shifts up lolNoisyPanther
August 4, 2011 at 12:49 am
Alright, this episode was pretty cool.
And I guess you would know all about the fact that making something good takes time, right James?Mr. Vermin
August 4, 2011 at 12:53 am
this was great to motivate me to finish cleaning my room. The sooner I get done, the sooner I can watch the new episode!
it's been said, but seriously.. "Dr. Claws Dump'n'Pump"? How did you just breeze by that one? XD even the picture on it doesn't seem to lead you away from thinking exactly what it sounds like 😡
I've seen many games with a lot of potential be ruined simply by bad controls. Its very unfortunate when it happens, but I guess it makes you appreciate the good ones.
thanks for another great episode! I was excited when I realized it was the first Wednesday so happy to see it up now. I'm not sure how many times it took to get that last shot, but your face looked pretty damn genuine when you heard you got it. Keep up the great work!!
August 4, 2011 at 12:55 am
Though the game has it's flaws (the top of the screen scroll being annoying as hell, but liveable in the end) and the controls being bad, I simply love sitting down and playing this game. I've spent countless hours playing this game on my NES (and that was with good old NES roulette where any pet who walks by might nudge the console and send the game into glitchy hell).
Still, I love sitting down and playing Kid Kool, but I'm still glad there was an AVGN episode on it, cause even if it's called bad game I still like playing it, but AVGN is always so hilarious to watch.
Also, for any curious, I doubt I'm seeing this game through nostalgia goggles, as I had only gotten the game two or so years ago and still play it every so often on my Laptop (thanks to losing my NES and my Games in a move).
August 4, 2011 at 1:12 am
what a nice surprise!! As soon as I visit Cinnemassacre and see that there's a new video I'm like "fuck yeah"..but when there's a new AVGN video I'm like "FUCK YEAH"…I admire your hard work and dedication to everything you are doing..keep kicking ass and saying fuck!! (by the way James..since your first ANN video you have dug into the wretched catacombs of deplorable video games..many of which I have never even heard of..but Simon's quest I remember as a child and I agreed with all of which you pointed out in your video..but recently I played it again, and..well..once you understand the nature of it, it's actually a very good game..I mean, yeah, it's bad..but not the kind of bad where you're not even interested in playing it through ..the gameplay, the scenery and the music all kick ass..but the day/night bullshit..oh God..long live
CastleVania, and long live AVGN!!RetroGamerK91
August 4, 2011 at 1:42 am
That was a pretty good AVGN. A throwback to the older episodes, which is great. Although I really do love the bigger production episodes. But you can't pump those out as often, plus I bet you're saving any big stuff for the movie. Thanks for continuing the AVGN series, I would've been cool just waiting for the movie, but you're a real trooper, man, and you obiviously care for the fans, so once again, thank-you!
P.S.: Do you know where I can find a copy of 'Dr. Claw's Pump N' Dump'? I'd like to try it out sometime! LOL. XD64jamesbond
August 4, 2011 at 1:46 am
james you should do james bond games there is plenty of shitty ones like
007 racing
james bond jr
and good ones to
August 4, 2011 at 2:08 am
Dr. Claw's Dump 'N' Pump has some of the worst controls ever. It seemed like every time I pushed the A button he dumped instead of pumped.benevolent
August 4, 2011 at 2:13 am
whoa whoa.."Dr claws drump n pump" WTF!! seriously.Jenslyn87
August 4, 2011 at 3:25 am
A new AVGN 😀 Was awesome! I couldn't believe the fuckness when the screen scrolled up and down with every jump…
WHAT WERE THEY THINKINGLolguise
August 4, 2011 at 3:35 am
FUCK YEAH!!!!1Augie Creighton
August 4, 2011 at 4:10 am
I wonder if he threw that game for a perfect shot for maybe a few takes but that was fucken hilarious an a perfect episode hope there will be more james cause ur the fucken nerd and mike is the motherfucker.risk
August 4, 2011 at 4:15 am
AVGN is back, and doing it big. This must continue for another 97 episodes, or I'm gonna be pissed…wilmz68
August 4, 2011 at 4:22 am
Pretty pleeeease…..
Congrats on yet another funny AVGN episode. Keep em coming.
Can't wait for the movie!RememberTomorrow
August 4, 2011 at 4:31 am
How many times did you have to throw the cartridge until it landed in the trasch can?
Vary good episode!Cascade failure
August 4, 2011 at 4:34 am
I thought ninja baseball batman counted as a nerd episode, but this one is being called 103 and barbie was 102? Why does nbb not count?
Anyway, yay new nerd episode!sucidalspree
August 4, 2011 at 4:53 am
what happened to episode 102? you did the making of it
but the review is where?xdeathknightx
August 4, 2011 at 4:56 am
Nice, thanks for making the video 🙂flipper
August 4, 2011 at 5:38 am
this is so much better than thatguywiththeglassesLinearmode
August 4, 2011 at 6:18 am
i like the simplicity, much like the older ones, but didn't find it too funny. Maybe certain words are being overused… I don't know.
August 4, 2011 at 6:22 am
LOL great episode, classic ending.tFighterPilot
August 4, 2011 at 6:35 am
*entering cinemassacre*
*seeing that there's a new AVGN episode*
*watching it with excitement*
*episode ended*
*feeling empty inside again*
August 4, 2011 at 6:41 am
I owned this game when i was young and it' a fucking piece a dog shit…
But it's still funny to see you told about how shitty it was ^^Strazdas
August 4, 2011 at 6:52 am
i dont think they misspelled cool. i think Kool was the guys name.Kilgore
August 4, 2011 at 6:59 am
Because poor literacy is soooper kEwL! B-)van_foitte
August 4, 2011 at 7:09 am
Nice to see the nerd again, James.
I used to play Psycho Fox on my master system, and the controls were pretty fucked too. I remember liking it as a kid though, besides never being able to beat it.
We do have a new perspective of the episodes after the making off, and I may say I enjoy it even more now.
We, kids of the 80's, are actually special.
Well done!
Kisses from a Brazilian supporter and fan.Lassez
August 4, 2011 at 7:09 am
damn, is Dr. Claw's Dump and Pump inexplicably Inspector Gadget related, like the mario bros DVD? I'd love to see that one reviewed!Kilgore
August 4, 2011 at 7:17 am
Off the freefalling fuckballs, oneway bullshit into inviso bitch, two gear diarrhea across topside aquatic ass, jump fuckness into air suspension shitlift…. nothin but net… WOOOSH!
August 4, 2011 at 7:18 am
That ending made me laugh.Scab
August 4, 2011 at 7:34 am
that dr claw title sounds awesomejivebob
August 4, 2011 at 7:37 am
HooRaa! New AVGN episode. Thank You.Pablo1989
August 4, 2011 at 7:52 am
OH JAMES! 😀 i knew it you dont fogget my birthsday 1 day ago, GRACIAS AMIGO, i gonna watch…and be happy again 🙂 with my new 5 xbox 360 gamesthebigbadonion
August 4, 2011 at 8:37 am
that's easily one of the best avgn episodes in a while. I always preferred the more basic ones. It was funny well written and entertaining. I get the feeling you're going to do some of the best episodes while you're making this movie :pNintendo_Master
August 4, 2011 at 8:46 am
Great episode James! Certainly one of the funniest for a while. I'm glad that you didn't announce when it was going to be released, it's for the best really. Keep it up! 😀dmhagwood
August 4, 2011 at 8:56 am
Great episode! It's short, simple, and still awesome!cbherou
August 4, 2011 at 8:57 am
Another classic episode. Thanks! Dr Claw's Dump & Pump… OMFG hahaha…
August 4, 2011 at 8:58 am
That garbage can shot was priceless! Hahahahaha!jurc0
August 4, 2011 at 9:00 am
great episode. cant wait for another one. 🙂rabidchild
August 4, 2011 at 9:21 am
I just want to know, how many takes to get that cart in the can?
August 4, 2011 at 9:23 am
Excellent. I realize you are only doing episodes that are more barebones then some of the technical fx monstrocities of the past, but I actually still love these.
And yeah, now everyone is out looking for Dr. Claw's Dump n Pump. Nice lil addition.. haha.
GO GO Gadget FECES!….
"I'll get you next time gadget*pumppumpflush* Next tiiiime…"manitari666
August 4, 2011 at 9:37 am
of course kool is more cool with k !AlucardBelmont
August 4, 2011 at 9:47 am
loved the episode but couldve been funnier and dude i thought you got all ur castlevanianess in 09Warrax
August 4, 2011 at 10:12 am
Well done James, classic like episodes like this are great!Schloss Ritter
August 4, 2011 at 10:14 am
Vic Tokai also made Clash at Demonhead, and I see they reused some sound effects there.Matthew_Of_Wales
August 4, 2011 at 10:35 am
Is Dr. Claw's Dump and Pump an actual game?NKW160
August 4, 2011 at 10:47 am
It doesn't matter how long the reviews are or how high the production value is to me…I love them all and this review is no exception. Thanks for all the work and for keeping us entertained.
August 4, 2011 at 10:51 am
I've been waiting for you to make an episode of this game, because it's one of the most ridiculous ones I have for my NES.
Thanks, Jim!
August 4, 2011 at 11:00 am
Another hilarious episode!billpardy
August 4, 2011 at 11:12 am
never played this one but i do have decapitack or however the fuck you spell it….that game was pretty hard to but it definitly looks like it was of a better qualityscronan
August 4, 2011 at 11:20 am
Great review James! I vaguely remember hearing about this game but never played it back in the day. Vic Tokai certainly made some weird games…Clash at Demonhead was a favorite of mine as was Golgo 13 (and one hard fucking game to finish!)…but this one looks like they really unloading the shit wagon on it. ^_^pockybandit
August 4, 2011 at 11:38 am
New AVGN! That made my day! The ending with the trashcan was fantastic. Was it intentional?jivebob
August 4, 2011 at 11:40 am
Great video! What are the odds we get to see a Neo Geo system or game review in the future? I know you have referenced the extremely large games. Anyway, keep up the good work.Slashser
August 4, 2011 at 11:40 am
I think this was an attempt to make a copy of Super Mario Bros. you cant go back, there`s hidden blocks everywhere, there's a king in peril (super mario bros. 3), you stomp on enemies, there's a time limit… sort of, and another things…beema
August 4, 2011 at 11:47 am
I really want to play Dr. Claw's Dump N Pump. Does it come with a plunger-shaped peripheral?beerwolf
August 4, 2011 at 12:01 pm
AVGN strikes back!
You just made my day.SURPLUS_NiNjA
August 4, 2011 at 12:05 pm
So how many tries did it take you to get it in that bin? Or was it legitimately on accident?JamesRolfe
August 4, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Nothing makes the sun shine brighter during the day than to see a new AVGN episode in the morning.Xyno
August 4, 2011 at 12:11 pm
lol Vic Tokai is the Japanese LJN btw !!! 😉m4z
August 4, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Oh god, finally paid a visit again to see a new AVGN episode is at the top of the list instead of all the turtle stuff or whatever:
Watching this almost makes me feel aggressive… this game must really be annoying to play with all this screen freezing when jumping and the invisible stuff. And if you get this feeling and know that you'll never ever want to touch this game, you know that AVGN did a good job.
Nice episode!konami man
August 4, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Come on now, I won't have Vic Tokai compared to LJN. Those games sucked KFC Boner Bucket, with extra gravy for sure, But who can forget great titles such as Gologo and the legendary MD shooter 'BattleMania' TroubleShooter'.
Great video James 😉
August 4, 2011 at 12:35 pm
I just found your French copy 🙂
August 4, 2011 at 12:42 pm
This was awesome! As you said in your news this was oldschool 2006 style… and I love it! 🙂
August 4, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Wow he even covered barbie game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuU9Oy01oWY&feature=related 😛 cool huh?
August 4, 2011 at 12:58 pm
It's just so great that on top of everything you're busy doing, you still have time to make AVGN episodes and I'm glad that, even tho the game you reviewed seemed to be rushed when it was made, your review didn't feel rushed and didn't lack your AVGN style !! <3
Dr. Claw's Dump & Pump ?? I can only imagine what that game is like lol
Can't wait for the next new vid !!pmoves
August 4, 2011 at 1:18 pm
another great one, thanks james and mike
August 4, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Seven different herbs XDhajpermegaman
August 4, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Whoa, he played for like 5 hours!Heep
August 4, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Good episode! 🙂GreyFox
August 4, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Look at this! LOOK AT THIS!!!!!!
LMAO! Awesome episode 10/10TomM
August 4, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Great Review! Best part was when you mentioned Dr. Claw's Dump n Pump. And to the people who asked if it is real, it is. 🙂 Good stuff, keep up the good work!Shinoda
August 4, 2011 at 2:26 pm
I thought James was taking a break for the movie production. It's nice to see it's not the case!
I just hope this doesn't mean something is up with the movie…. *paranoia*Ioustinos
August 4, 2011 at 2:40 pm
A simple yet good review.
We appreciate all the work you've put in and eagerly await the movie. I'll wait as long as it takes, and I'm sure most others will too!SpeedyEric
August 4, 2011 at 2:49 pm
1:19- So, I take it that Vic Tokai is similar to Wisdom Tree.
2:50- Because poor literacy is KEWL (or in this case, KOOL).
5:40- In speaking of $h!t, I feel I need to do something similar, but in the oposite way, because of how screwy this is.
8:00- Wow. Nice shot! Reminds me of the basketball scene in "Alien: Resurrection."wulfyy
August 4, 2011 at 2:51 pm
this has made my day! thanks james 😀karaokefreak
August 4, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Awesome. An AVGN episode on my birthday – that's what I call a kool … uhm… cool present 🙂karaokefreak
August 4, 2011 at 2:58 pm
ah damn, it was uploaded on Aug 3rd.. ok, that was one day too early 😛 Still a nice episodewarwagon
August 4, 2011 at 3:01 pm
This just goes to show that "Less is more". In this episode all you did was talk trash about the video game and show gameplay footage. Just like the early days. I personally found that way more enjoyable than when you try to turn the episode into some sort of film. Welcome back James 🙂avgnfanfckballs
August 4, 2011 at 3:19 pm
this episode was by far the best in a while! avgn, welcome back to your roots! great video regardless of length, this one hit the sweet spot! im glad you have time to still make these videos as i wasnt expecting a video this great considering the announcement of the avgn movie! AWESOME!crossfire
August 4, 2011 at 3:27 pm
great review James. no bs huge production. just a straight game review of a shit game. it's what brought us to you, and it's what keeps us coming back for more.
August 4, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Old style,best style !
Thanks for the episode James,good as ALWAYS !lumberingjackal
August 4, 2011 at 3:45 pm
I really appreciate you keeping up with the avgn series. Great stuff! Thanks!!systemchaos
August 4, 2011 at 4:18 pm
I can't wait to see the outtakes on the next DVD: "Kid Kool trash bin throw" 😀 …
August 4, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Dr. Claws Dump 'n Pump!? holy shit, that must be awesome! please review that!Jerry1983
August 4, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Lmao nice and can James get anybetter lol lol i can't stop laughing free fall fuck balls lmao.
August 4, 2011 at 5:11 pm
A new AVGN! Have my babies!tonyaj420
August 4, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Good review but please lay off Simons Quest its a great game and I think James knows it.asnaes1981
August 4, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Kid Kool isn't kool, but that basket shot sure was!Minion of Yahtzee
August 4, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Just because poor literacy is Kewl, it doesn't mean this piece of seven sided fuck-poop is. Nice video James and no matter how you do these videos it should just be right for you. If some people like your older stuff fine, if people like your newer stuff better fine. Just as long as your cool with it we're cool with it.Brio
August 4, 2011 at 6:55 pm
You are great James!
I'm following you from about two years, but just now i decided to subscribe myself to your site. Why so long? I don't know.
I heard you so tired in this video.. I speak of your voice, not content. But all we, your fans, know that you are so busy with a lot of stuff..
But even so, you're doing great! You're awesome!
I just wanted to say: greetings from Italy!
Keep to follow your dreams, you are a great inspiration!
Congratulations for all your work, from the deep of my heart!
P.s. and so to Motherfucker Mike! Thanks both of you guys, and to all those who work and help here!
P.p.s. i apologize for some writing errors..
August 4, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Yeah, "Dr. Claw's Dump n Pump": awesomeness.kane117
August 4, 2011 at 7:26 pm
For a while, I thought there was something wrong with the newer AVGN videos, but I couldn't put my finger on what it was. It was like something was missing. Now that I've seen the good quality of this latest video, it finally hit me: it was the Nerd's attitude towards the games he reviewed. The name of the character is the Angry Video Game Nerd, but in the newer videos, he might as well have been called the Bored Video Game Nerd or the Apathetic Video Game Nerd. He tossed out phrases like "who cares" or "I don't give a shit" like they were confetti. Maybe it's just me, but when I watch an AVGN video, I do it with the expectation that I'm going to see the Nerd blow his top and give a bad game the full lashing it deserves, not see the Nerd reluctantly phone in a review. I mean reluctance has its place in the character, but it shouldn't be overdone. The Christmas episode that was based off of A Christmas Carol summed up the Nerd perfectly: he doesn't want to play shitty games, but somehow he's drawn to them like a moth to the flame.KilgoreTrout
August 4, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Awesome Man! Been suffering from AVGN withdrawls for a while. Watching your stuff with some cold beers, very nice indeed.Djister
August 4, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Always nice to see a new AVGN episode!
Please review Total Recall for the NES at some point. 🙂Benda
August 4, 2011 at 8:20 pm
JAMES!!!!!! I saw an announcement on youtube saying that your main priority is the movie and reviews will still be basic. well guess what? the reviews… ARE STILL FUCKIN AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! After all, your the nerd!


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It's three o'clock, and despite your novel-length to-do list, the only thing that holds your attention longer than 30 seconds is the thought of a caffeine or sugar fix. You'd get a better and more sustained boost, though, by practicing a midday meditation.
Typically associated with relaxation, meditation also jump-starts energy and clears a foggy head, says Eric Harrison, director of Australia's Perth Meditation Centre and author of "Flip the Switch: 40 Anytime, Anywhere Meditations in 5 Minutes or Less." "If you meditate consciously and don't succumb to sleep, your mind becomes calm and clear," he explains. And unlike the usual drowsiness cures, a few minutes of meditation can keep you alert all afternoon.
One of Harrison's favorite quick meditations involves tuning in to the sounds we generally try to ignore, which gives the chattering mind a chance to rest. So close your office door or find a quiet space and follow these easy steps -- and that cafe run might soon be a thing of the past.
Listening Meditation
+ Clear a space. Take a moment to remove some of the clutter in your immediate area -- mugs, scattered pens, loose papers. This helps you transition into meditation mode and sets the stage for a calmer, more productive afternoon.
+ Log off. Turn off your computer and silence the ringers on your work and cell phones. This limits physical distractions while freeing up your mind to focus on listening.
+ Close your eyes and normalize your breathing. Sit up straight and take long, deep, deliberate inhalations, followed by even longer exhalations. Continue this breathing throughout the entire exercise.
+ Begin listening. Tune in to the sounds around you as if you were listening to music. Let your ears explore both background and foreground noises. Are there any sounds you can hear now that you didn't before? What's the most distant sound you can hear? What's the closest? What music or harmonies do they create together?
+ Notice your mood. Suspend any judgments about the sounds that normally irritate you, like the hum of the copier, and just listen.
+ Check your body. Locate any tense feelings within, and concentrate on relaxing each one of them.
+ After several minutes, open your eyes. Notice the difference in your energy level. If you're still feeling groggy, distracted, or unfocused, continue the listening meditation for a minute or two more.
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Day 7: Visit Machu Picchu Sanctuary
After a very early buffet breakfast at the hotel, we make our way to the bus station for the ride up to Machu Picchu Sanctuary (30 min). Our trip leader will give the group an introductory two-hour guided tour of the ruins, after which we have the rest of the morning to explore the site on our own - there is a lot to do and see! Afterwards, we return by bus to Aguas Calientes for a late lunch and to meet our train. The ride from Aguas Calientes to Ollantaytambo takes about one and a half hours, and then a private vehicle will drive us back to Cusco (an additional hour and a half ). Upon arrival in Cusco (approximately 7 or 8 p.m.), we are dropped off at our hotel.
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The TMP102 is a two-wire, serial output temperature sensor available in a tiny SOT563 package. Requiring no external components, the TMP102 is capable of reading temperatures to a resolution of 0.0625°C.
The TMP102 features SMBus and two-wire interface compatibility, and allows up to four devices on one bus. It also features an SMB alert function.
The TMP102 is ideal for extended temperature measurement in a variety of communication, computer, consumer, environmental, industrial, and instrumentation applications. The device is specified for operation over a temperature range of –40°C to +125°C.
Note that the TMP102 is a 3.3V device and will require a Logic Level Converter (Sparkfun) to connect it to a 5V Arduino.
The TMP102 is a 3.3V device and therefore it is connected to the Arduino board through a Logic Level Converter[1]:
- LV to the 3.3V pin of the Arduino
- HV to the 5V pin of Arduino
- HV Channel 1 TXO to the SDA pin (analog 4)
- HV Channel 2 TXO to the SCL pin (analog 5)
- Low voltage Channel 1 TXI to the SDA pin of TMP102
- Low voltage Channel 2 TXI to the SCL pin of TMP102
- The RX pins of the Logic Level Converter are not used
- V+ of TMP102 connected to 3.3V
- ADD0 of TMP102 connected to ground
- ALT of TMP102 not connected
- All grounds connected together.
Component side with test overlay:
Example Code
The following code snippet reads the temperature from the TMP102, converts the raw value to degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit, prints it on an LCD display and sends it to the serial port.
#include <LiquidCrystal.h> #include <Wire.h> // initialize the library with the numbers of the interface pins LiquidCrystal lcd(12, 11, 5, 4, 3, 2); byte res; byte msb; byte lsb; int val; float tC; // temperature in Celsius float tF; // temperature in Fahrenheit void setup() { // set up the LCD's number (col,row): lcd.begin(20, 2); lcd.print("Temp"); Serial.begin(9600); Wire.begin(); } void loop() { lcd.clear(); /* get new value from TMP102 */ res = Wire.requestFrom(72,2); if (res == 2) { msb = Wire.receive(); /* Whole degrees */ lsb = Wire.receive(); /* Fractional degrees */ val = ((msb) << 4); /* MSB */ val |= (lsb >> 4); /* LSB */ /* calculate temperature */ tC = val*0.0625; tF = (tC * 9/5) + 32; /* show temperatures on display */ lcd.print(tC); lcd.print("\xdf""C"); lcd.setCursor(0, 1); lcd.print(tF); lcd.print("\xdf""F"); Serial.print(tC); Serial.print("C "); Serial.print(tF); Serial.println("F"); } else { lcd.print("ERR"); Serial.println("ERROR"); } delay(1000); }
- Data sheet: File:TMP102.pdf
- Breakout board schematics: File:TMP102 Breakout.pdf
- Connect to Arduino using the Sparkfun Logic Level Converter: http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20938&p=97163
- Available from Sparkfun, Coolcomponents and many others.
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Earth Day is April 22nd. Do you have any plans? Have you done much to live a more sustainable lifestyle this year? What have you done lately? I'm not the most aggressive tree hugger, but I do try. Most recently I realized my toilet was leaking and got it fixed. This doesn't seem like much, but it keeps an unbelievable amount of water from being wasted.* The water company dude pleaded with me to save money by trying to fix it myself, but clearly he did not know he was dealing with the world's worst D.I.Y.er. Sometimes you have to know when to suck it up and pay a trip fee. We've been through so many droughts here in Atlanta since I moved here ten years ago that I am pretty careful about conserving water.
Anyway, I found this part of The Earth Day site where you can check out all of the Earth Day events and see what's going on in your city. You can also make up your own event, and you can pledge to do an Act of Green. It's kind of fun and little things count. Some of the things people are pledging include:
- Going paperless with bills
- Eating More Local Food
- Bringing Reusable Bags to the Grocery Store
- Shorter Showers
- Converting every last light bulb to LED
- Banning plastic water bottles from their homes
- Using a clothesline whenever possible
- Buying a the most fuel efficient car possible
- Replacing appliances with more energy efficient ones.
These were just some of the ones that were in between total, total DUHS and totally insane. I mean really, if you're not already turning off the lights when you leave a room, get with the program! Same with those of you who don't bring your own bags to the store. I mean, one genius wrote "Don't Litter." Really Don Draper? You're still littering? Don't you give a hoot?
So, is there anything you can do to improve the planet, from wasting less to hitting a beach clean up? You certainly don't have to do it on Earth Day proper, it's just a good excuse to think about it and make plans.
*Regarding leaky toilets, most local utility companies will provide you with a free test kit to see if yours is leaking. They also provide kits for saving more water per plush as well (basically, you can accomplish the same thing by placing a brick in the toilet tank.


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BRENTWOOD — The families of eight special needs students sued former teacher Dina Holder, her principal and other Brentwood school district employees Wednesday, claiming they failed to report abuse suspicions appropriately and alert the community that Holder was a convicted child abuser.
All eight students, who were aged 3 to 6 at the time, had very limited communication skills — six registered on the autism spectrum, and two had Down syndrome. They all claimed that Holder subjected them to physical and mental abuse and to neglect. The federal lawsuit alleges former Loma Vista Elementary School teacher Holder, former Loma Vista Principal Lauri James, former Superintendent Merrill Grant, Assistant Superintendent Margaret Kruse, director of special education Margo Olson and her predecessor, Jean Anthony, violated the students' civil rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
It was only after this newspaper reported in January that Holder had been convicted of child abuse for kicking an autistic child while he lay on the floor in 2010 and the Brentwood Unified School District transferred Holder to another classroom, that the parents realized Holder's history, the lawsuit claims. Already the district has settled with the family of the kicked autistic child for $950,000.
District documents show James conducted an internal investigation into the incident, but it was parents who reported it to police. School employees are required by state law to report child abuse suspicions to police or Child Protective Services. James, other teachers, the director of special education, the school psychologist, speech therapists, speech pathology aides, instructional aides and other employees failed to report abuse suspicions, the lawsuit alleges, that surfaced as early as 2008, when a parent reported her child was slapped by Holder.
The revelations led to an uprising by parents of special needs students and the eventual ouster of Grant.
Attorney Peter Alfert, who filed Wednesday's lawsuit on behalf of the eight students and their parents, said the school district allowed Holder to continue teaching after her plea of no contest to a cruelty-to-a-child charge and did not inform parents of her legal issues.
"They were telling parents who asked why she was the new teacher that she was a good, accredited teacher that was good for their children," Alfert said. "When in fact they knew she was none of those.
"They allowed her to teach knowing one of the conditions of her plea was she couldn't be alone with a child," Alfert said, adding that it was a disqualifying act for a teaching credential, but the district never reported it to the state.
New Brentwood Superintendent Dana Eaton said Wednesday he had not seen the lawsuit and was unable to comment.
The plaintiffs seek compensatory and punitive damages. Many claimed the students sometimes came home from school with mysterious bruises and scrapes and started acting out in different ways and regressing in their educations.
Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni.


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Smoky Brown Eyes with Lancome Taupe Craze
Smoky Brown Eyes with Lancome Taupe Craze
I did this look yesterday, as I was testing several new products (as you can tell!), all to be reviewed soon. 🙂
You will need the following…
- Eyes: NARS Smudgeproof Eyeshadow Base (neutral eyeshadow base), Lancome Taupe Craze Eyeshadow Palette (pale beige, muted copper brown, muted medium brown, shimmering taupe, blackened taupe brown), Urban Decay Perversion 24/7 Liner (black), Bare Escentuals Buxom Lash (black)
- Face: Kiehl's Tinted Moisturizer (Medium), Burberry Pressed Powder (03)
- Cheeks: Hourglass Flush Aura Sheer Cheek Stain (pinky-red)
- Lips: Hourglass Scarlet Aura Sheer Lip Stain (deep red)
- Brushes: 249 (flat, firm brush), 239 (fluffy shadow brush), 222 (fluffy crease brush), 263 (angled eyeliner brush), 116 (dense blush brush)
For eyes, start by applying Smudgeproof as your eyeshadow base all over the eye area with the 249. Using the 222, apply the muted medium brown eyeshadow into the crease and blend upwards. Then, apply the blackened taupe brown eyeshadow with the 219 directly into the crease, and blend using the 222 to give it a gradient effect. Apply the shimmering taupe eyeshadow on the outer half of the lid with the 239. Using the 239, apply the pale beige eyeshadow to the inner half of the lid, and then highlight the brow bone with the same shade. Bring everything together by applying Perversion liner on the lower lash line and blending the pale beige eyeshadow underneath. Finish by sweeping lashes with Buxom Lash mascara.
For cheeks, apply Flush cheek stain on the apples of the cheeks and pat towards the temple with fingers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who don't know they have health problems rate their own health as good, according to a new study, but their self-image worsens when they're aware of their diagnosis.
Based on a large population survey in Norway, the authors say that increased use of screenings, more sensitive tests and widening diagnostic criteria may cause unexpected harm because poor self-rated health is tied to a greater risk of death.
Although early detection of disease can be important for treatment, the authors write in the journal BMJ Open, "disease-labeling" may cause problems by altering a person's perception of their own wellbeing.
"We know ever more people are being labeled, owing to more screening, lower diagnostic thresholds, commercial - and non-commercial – health campaigns and so on," Pal Jorgensen said. "Self-rated health is shown, several times, to be inversely associated with mortality."
Jorgensen, who led the new study, is a public health researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.
"It is also an important aspect in the increasing attention and discussion of overdiagnosis; people being labeled with disease, but where treatment does not lower mortality," Jorgensen told Reuters Health in an email.
Overdiagnosis generally refers to diagnosing and treating early or minor conditions that may never have progressed to cause a problem. This can include the controversial practice of diagnosing "pre-disease" states, such as slightly elevated blood sugar that falls short of diabetes (see Reuters Health story of May 6, 2011, here: reut.rs/1qoMlBk).
To gauge the effect of being diagnosed with disease on a person's perception of their own health, Jorgensen and his colleagues analyzed data on 33,734 adults between the ages of 40 and 70 who were surveyed and medically tested in the mid-1990s in Norway.
The researchers were interested in connections between how the participants answered the simple question "How is your health at the moment?" and whether or not they were aware of having specific health conditions, including diabetes, thyroid disease and high blood pressure.
The researchers used the medical testing data to determine if people actually had any of those three conditions, and found that people with diagnosed illness were less likely to say they were in good health.
But people with undiagnosed illnesses were more likely to say their health was good than people without those illnesses.
For instance, women who knew they had hypothyroidism were less likely to report good health than women without thyroid disease, but women who didn't know they had thyroid problems were 84 percent more likely to believe they were healthy than women who didn't have thyroid disease.
Similarly, people with undiagnosed severe hypertension were more likely to report good health compared to participants with normal blood pressure readings.
And, in general, participants who didn't know they had diabetes or mild to moderate hypertension were just as likely as people without the disorders to believe they were in good health.
"We were surprised that many persons with disease, without knowledge about this fact, reported their self-rated health as good, sometimes even more often than healthy people," Jorgensen said. "The fact that persons with acknowledged disease report their health as poor was not unexpected."
It's important to note that the study relied on self-reported information, which may not be completely accurate, and that studies like this can't prove that knowing about a health condition actually causes a person to feel they're in poor health, the authors caution.
It's possible that people who don't know about their conditions are more optimistic and worry less in general so they're just less likely to go to the doctor for check-ups or when they have vague symptoms, Jorgensen and his colleagues write.
Jorgensen said that people should be concerned and ask critical questions, like whether health screening will do them any good or improve their chances to live longer.
"The main effects of check-ups are more people defined as sick, more people undergoing treatment, without lowered mortality," he added.
Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society and author of "How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America," told Reuters Health the researchers are right on target.
"We've got data to show that depression and suicide increases in men who are known to have an elevated PSA, not men who have prostate cancer but men who have an elevated PSA that merits an evaluation for prostate cancer," he said.
People think early detection can only be good and they don't know that giving someone a diagnosis or label can be harmful, he said.
"So I think we need to think about these things, but we also need to have a more positive attitude about the early detection of some of these diseases," he said.
Neither expert suggested that genuine illness should go untreated.
Brawley said he would prefer that a patient and doctor know about any health problems so they could work through them.
"If I've got someone who's got mild diabetes or metabolic syndrome I might actually be able to work with that patient and actually get them to a near-normal state," he said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/1p6yFrM BMJ Open, online May 28, 2014.


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Slow-Motion Revolution
Slow-Motion Revolution
Shifting the world onto a sustainable path is a big job, but progress is being made. It's just going to take awhile.
All over the world, the movement for sustainability-for a healthy, lasting prosperity grounded in place-is advancing in a slow-motion revolution. From faith communities to labor unions, from government leaders to business executives, people on every continent and from all stations in life are increasingly acting on the values at the heart of sustainability-strong communities, fair markets, and responsible stewardship.
Consider a few current trends. Wind power is now the world's fastest-growing source of electricity. Tinkerers and engineers are devising new manufacturing techniques built on the ideals of zero waste and carbon neutrality. Community leaders are inventing or rediscovering potent and equitable ways of managing overexploited resources, such as fisheries and the atmosphere. Thinkers and entrepreneurs are creating ways of properly valuing nature's contributions to the human economy, making prices tell the ecological truth as never before. Some consumers are even discovering for themselves what psychological evidence has suggested for decades (and most faith traditions have taught for millennia): that the consumer society is not only unsustainable but hollow-so, no loss.
Unfortunately, remaining challenges such as climate change are so daunting, and countervailing trends such as global population growth and the rise of anti-scientific fundamentalism are so menacing, that it's easy to get discouraged. A look at the history of social change movements offers one antidote to such dejection. Setting the campaign for a sustainable economy beside similarly audacious causes of the past, such as the crusades for emancipation and suffrage, makes clear that our movement is advancing as quickly as can be expected, if not as quickly as we might hope.
Movements for fundamental change always unfold over many years, in fits and starts. Even the most visionary leaders cannot predict their course, only their ultimate success. As Martin Luther King, Jr., said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
Twelve men meeting in a London bookshop in 1787, for example, launched the cause of ending slavery in the British Empire-a movement whose chances of success at the time appeared infinitesimal. Slavery was far older than the Empire and more than half of humans then on the planet were held in slavery, serfdom, indentured servitude, or debt peonage. Worse, channels to reform were few. Scarcely one in ten Englishmen-and no Englishwomen-even had the right to vote. Yet within half a century, every slave in the Empire was emancipated.
Similarly, five women meeting in a parlor in upstate New York in 1848 launched the women's suffrage movement. At the time, nonslave women were legally wards of their fathers or husbands. Forbidden to sign contracts or testify in court, even married women had no legal rights to property, earnings, or even their children. Yet in just three-quarters of a century, women could vote not only in the United States but also in Canada and parts of Europe.
Slavery and disenfranchisement both became untenable, and their end-long thought impossible-became inevitable. What explains this extraordinary progression? The same two things that explain the success of history's other great social change movements: an unarguable moral principle-in these cases, freedom and equality-and a corps of people, initially few, who would not rest until that principle was reflected in society's norms and laws.
The sustainability movement arguably began with the 1972 UN World Environment Conference in Sweden. There, the agendas of environmental conservation and of human and economic progress met and synthesized into the living principle of sustainability: reconciling people and planet. One-third of a century later, the relative few of 1972 have become tens of millions around the world. A couple of years ago, I heard Prince Charles, the future king of England, give as profound and radical a plea for sustainability as any of my peers in the mid-1980s.
Why then does progress seem slow?
A movement is, above all, the intentional diffusion of a principle or value. That diffusion takes time, because it must move public opinion through stages from hostility to acceptance to action. None of the founders of the suffrage movement, for example, lived long enough to see the final victory. Historian Eleanor Flexner wrote of suffrage champion Susan B. Anthony, "She had lived and worked, without respite and without discouragement, through the years of ridicule, vilification, and apparent hopelessness.... When she died [in 1906], few thinking people denied either the logic or the inevitability of woman suffrage. The only question that remained was, 'When?'" Sustainability has traversed the same ground from ridicule to tacit agreement-but not yet adequate action-in just 35 years.
Flexner's phrase "without respite" warrants emphasis. The sheer magnitude of some challenges-moving the world's energy economy beyond fossil fuels, for example-could easily overwhelm optimism if we lack a historical sense of what movements can do. Anthony's successor, the suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt, summed up what it took to win the vote in the United States:
...52 years of pauseless campaign...56 campaigns of referenda to male voters; 480 campaigns to get Legislatures to submit suffrage amendments to voters; 47 campaigns to get State constitutional conventions to write woman suffrage into state constitutions; 277 campaigns to get State party conventions to include woman suffrage planks; 30 campaigns to get presidential party conventions to adopt woman suffrage planks in party platforms; and 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses.
Movements sometimes advance unpredictably. Their protagonists often have little idea whom they've touched. In 1869, the tiny Wyoming territorial legislature sent a suffrage bill to the governor as, by some accounts, a political joke. But 20 years earlier, the governor had attended one of the nation's first women's rights conventions. Silent on the subject during all the intervening years, he shocked the nation by enfranchising women for the first time in the United States.
Success for a movement, then, is measured not only in the "wins" of the day, but also-and more importantly-in the seeds planted for the future. In 1998, my organization, Sightline Institute, published Tax Shift, a book that argues for an innovative approach to tax policy in which taxes are moved from paychecks and profits to pollution and resource depletion. We knew the idea was so unorthodox that it would take years to gain acceptance. Yet adherents of the approach are moving into ever more prominent positions in the halls of power. Every few months, we learn of another emerging leader who is convinced of tax shifting's promise. Sooner or later, one of them will find him- or herself in a situation parallel to that of the 1869 governor of Wyoming.
Of course, satisfaction with our progress is no grounds for complacence. Another thing Martin Luther King, Jr., said was, "No social advance rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of dedicated individuals." That's where you and I come in.
Alan Thein Durning is founder and executive director of Sightline Institute (formerly Northwest Environment Watch) and the author of How Much Is Enough? and This Place on Earth, among other works. His blog can be found at Sightline.org. An earlier version of this essay appeared in Sightline's "Cascadia Scorecard News."


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Speaking of wacky conspiracies, Wired's Kim Zetter reports that the four massive undersea fiber optic cables that were recently severed are going to be out of commission for another week or so. (Fear not, there are friendly robots on the job, most of which I'm told harbor a secret affection for Hello Dolly.) As with this year's previous severing of multiple major data conduits serving Middle Eastern countries, there's a gentle hum of speculation—largely limited to blogs in the West—about whether the U.S. government might have had a hand in it. And as before, if the respectable press deigns to mention these notions, it's with a condescending chuckle about conspiracy theories and tinfoil hats. You know: "Ho ho, that Arab press, such fevered imaginations those people have..." Now, I have no idea why there have been so many overlapping problems with the fat glass this year, but I find this dismissive attitude pretty weird: Speculation about government action seems at least as reasonable and realistic as speculation about seismic activity or ship anchors.
Just as a general point—obvious but maybe worth making anyway—"conspiracy" is, by definition, what intelligence agencies do. A group of people with lots of resources, colluding in secret to infiltrate other organizations and influence world events—that's not a paranoid theory, that's their job description. If nothing of geostrategic consequence is attributable to conspiracy, we are wasting a lot of tax money.
More specifically, it's also not a wacky theory that the joint NSA/CIA Special Collection Service would very much like to tap these undersea fiber cables. We know this is true, because they've said so. It's in, like, books and magazines and other information sources not published on an old mimeograph machine in some dude's parents' basement. We know they've found it tremendously difficult—though not impossible—to do so thus far, in part because it's very hard to splice the fiber without at least briefly creating a detectable service interruption. So while, again, I dont know what the source of the current trouble is, we do know that if SCS were ever able to do this thing they've repeatedly stated their urgent desire to do, it would entail a disruption of data flow along these pipes, and a corresponding need to cover that disruption. I'll save everyone the modus ponens: Our intelligence agencies have told us they are hoping to create a temporary disruption just like this. So I'm perplexed that anyone would find it daffy to then suggest that a temporary disruption just like this could be the work of our intelligence services.
Installing a tap wouldn't even be the only good intelligence motive for doing a cut. We ended up joining World War I as the result of a similar disruption by the British, who severed Germany's transatlantic cables. The point was not to cut off German communications, but to force them to resort to either interceptable radio transmissions, or to other underwater telegraph cables that the British already had access to. That's how the British (and eventually the American press) ended up in possession of the Zimmermann Telegram, in which the Kaiser offered to support a Mexican invasion of the U.S. in the event that Wilson entered the war.
So to recap: We know governments have cut undersea cables for intelligence purposes in the past. We know that a goal our own government has acknowledged to be at the top of its intelligence agenda would probably require cutting undersea cables. But only paranoid kooks think "covert government action" is among the plausible explanations for a series of a series of severed cables. Who's out of touch with reality here?


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The five were allegedly part of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, which had its headquarters near Hook, Hampshire.
Winchester Crown Court heard audio from a meeting in 2007 had been recorded.
Heather Nicholson, 41, of Eversley, Hampshire, Trevor Holmes, 51, of Newcastle; Gerrah Selby, 20, of Chiswick, London; Daniel Wadham, 21, of Bromley, south London and Gavin Medd-Hall, 45, of Croydon, south London, are accused of being closely involved in a campaign from 2001 until 2007, which targeted companies in Britain and Europe.
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(Reuters) – MasterCard Inc's fourth-quarter results topped Wall Street estimates as more people chose card payments over cash but the payment network said global economic woes could slow revenue growth in 2013.
Shares of company, which had risen 4 percent in early trade, changed course and were down more than $ 1 at $ 514.35 in late-morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
"There is going to be uncertainty in Europe and the US could well be on a path for a slow recovery, but fiscal policy discussions and circumstances have not been completely resolved," Chief Executive Ajay Banga said on a conference call. "They could affect consumer confidence further."
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MasterCard's emerging markets focus boosted its fourth-quarter results. It earned $ 605 million, or $ 4.86 per share, in the quarter, up from $ 19 million, or 15 cents per share, a year earlier.
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This is my plea to Embarcadero for Delphi future.
I'm not asking to release everything under GPL, only to release VCL and the as much as possible of the IDE under a dual license schema.
What is the biggest single problem for Delphi wide adoption today? In my opinion the lack of community. When I started to using Delphi, (Delphi 1.0 in 1995) there was a huge community from Turbo Pascal days, now that community of young passionate future developers has grow in professionals that spread the word of Delphi in every company they worked.
But if I look now to the main Italian Delphi newsgroups, they are frequented mostly by professionals, with everyday problems to solve. And that's ok, but where is the future in this?
The words GPL has still a little of its marketing magic (and a very cheap one), so maybe it can attract again the kids, as I was in 1995 (ouch this hurts!).
I don't think that in 2008 any serious firm could consider using a GPL product with the idea of breaking the license. And if they were ready to do it they surely won't pay any license whatever.
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