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|2011-09-23, 01:50
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It's bacon!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Up and to the Left
Age: 38
No change in CPU usage from what I had seen of between the directx & gl renderer. Using gl renderer with the tweaked settings would certainly be preferred for the better quality subtitles.
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|2011-09-23, 05:01
|Link #42
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Location: California
As a recent thing, for anybody still on WinXP (in particular) having issues with VSFilter being too slow and don't like MPlayer, keep your eye on the xy-vsfilter project. The Chinese developer has made some very nice progress making the speed of VSFilter 184.108.40.206 comparable to the threaded-vsfilter fork (which only supports Vista and above unlike xy-vsfilter), even though xy-vsfilter isn't really threaded and had the standard pre-buffer code removed.
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|2011-09-23, 16:26
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Location: California
VSFilter 2.39.5.x repository is on guliverkli2, and is the version bundled and recommended by Aegisub. Guliverkli2 is no longer developed. This is considered the stable version of VSFilter. Pre-buffering in 2.39.5.x doesn't support animation.
xy-VSFilter is a 2.39.5.x fork for performance. Pre-buffering was removed, but caching and other enhancements were added in its place.
VSFilter 2.40.x repository is on MPC-HC but isn't actually stock VSFilter but rather VSFilter Mod + slight changes and bug fixes. Even though the MPC-HC project is active, VSFilter has no devs working on it (except for the occasional minor bug-fix). Pre-buffering in 2.40.x supports animation, but it sometimes causes flickering. Use of VSFilter Mod features in Aegisub should be avoided whenever possible for legacy compatibility when softsubbing. As of 2010, CCCP started bundling this version.
threaded-VSFilter is a 2.40.x fork for performance focused on multi-threading and pre-buffering. Only supports Vista and newer.
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|2011-10-03, 01:36
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Seems a lot of groups are switching to 10-bit so I went to update stuff. I installed the newest ffdshow tryouts and made sure MPC-HC was using it. There are a lot of crazy artifacts though that are clearly from the 10 bit not working.
So I went and downloaded the latest VLC to see if for some odd reason it worked and of course no luck (didn't expect much since it's also ffdshow).
So I'm stumped? I hear CCCP works but no way can I install a codec package to screw over all my other carefully set filters. Where is the actual codec CCCP is supposedly using? Googling is failing me hard.
|2011-10-03, 03:32
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Location: New York, USA
|2011-10-03, 10:42
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I tried experimenting with hi10p with my Daltanious subs for kicks. I managed to get it encoded with hi10p, but I think I'm doing something wrong. The original file (no audio) had approximately 179MB. When I finally encoded the video, the file size was 185MB.
Is this normal? I thought it would compress the video file to a smaller size compared to the H.264 video profile I've been using thus far. This is what i used in the batch file I made that was supposed to compress the video from to hi10p:
Anyway... point is... am I doing something wrong? If so, what can I do to make it right? (Or did I misread something in the first place?)
|2011-10-03, 13:28
|Link #49
I see what you did there!
From a multiplatform perspective it makes sense and would unify sub rendering behaviors. Heck, a new ASS spec and tags not exclusive to hardsubbing may come out of it.
It'd be less of a gamble than transitioning to 10-bit during the rise of DXVA/VDPAU with no roadmap for GPU decoding.
|2011-10-03, 13:32
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Hiding Under Your Bed
Join Date: May 2008
So, those 8 bit files are smaller than their corresponding 10 bit files. So your 10 bit encodes being a larger file size seems to fit that trend.
My own take is that only the videophiles really notice banding improvements from 10 bit, but even if the improvements are going to go largely un-noticed by most casual viewers, small-step advancements are ultimately a good thing, as many of them put together are why we see things in the quality we currently do.
|2011-10-03, 14:53
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
Just from my personal experience... I pretty much have to use MPC-HC for blogging purposes. I converted my netbook using the CCCP pack, and while it worked, it took a lot of tweaking and adjusting to get everything working the way I needed it to in terms of subs, screencaps, etc.
OTOH, on my main system - which I'd been avoiding converting because I didn't want to deal with all that again - I just uploaded the LAV codecs. Literally in 2 minutes I was playing 10-bit on my old MPC after clicking two boxes in the MPC options menu. Didn't have to uninstall anything or make any other tweaks. So far - knock wood - it's playing flawlessly. Far, far easier than any other method I've seen so far.
|2011-10-03, 16:14
|Link #52
Pretentious moe scholar
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Age: 31
If my experience with the X120e is any indication, I wouldn't count on 10 bit playing on a netbook due to performance issues.
|2011-10-03, 16:41
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Seishu's Ace
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
Yes, the internal renderer with EVR Custom. So far, so good. Also using LAV's hardware accelerated decoding.
My netbook is actually doing fine with the 10 bit using CCCP - it was just a lot of trial and error to get there. It's not an Atom, though, which I'm sure helps.
|2011-10-04, 07:09
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Excessively jovial fellow
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: ISDB-T
Age: 32
transitioning to 10-bit is not a "gamble" as it does not break anything important (even if it did break something important it still would not be a "gamble" because we are not actually risking anything). also, it does not break old encodes, like switching subtitle renderers would do (because libass is not fully bug-for-bug compatible with vsfilter).
furthermore, you're sounding like the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert, and this is not a good thing
|2011-10-04, 07:52
|Link #55
not fansubbing 24/7
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Germany
Regardless, Id say it would be much easier to fix mplayer2 for non-Linux platforms (i.e. write better video output drivers and a decent IPC implementation + accompanying GUI frontend for it) than attempting to actually fix anything dshow related.
|2011-10-04, 13:22
|Link #56
Senior Member
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Location: California
lachs0r, do you think there is any chance of Uoti or someone else implementing automatic YUV->RGB matrix switching for the gl renderer, based on video resolution and overridden by stream headers? I see Uoti recently fixed the problem with YUV->RGB matrix chroma scaling I was affected by, but it'd be nice if I didn't need to manually add/remove colorspace=2 from the gl options every time I switch between HD content (REC.709) and SD content (REC.601).
|2011-10-05, 03:40
|Link #57
not fansubbing 24/7
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Germany
|2011-10-05, 20:21
|Link #58
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Location: California
That's what I get for only bookmarking and checking changes on the master branch log.
{"BT.601", MP_CSP_BT_601}, {"sd", MP_CSP_BT_601}, {"1", MP_CSP_BT_601}, {"BT.709", MP_CSP_BT_709}, {"sd", MP_CSP_BT_709}, {"2", MP_CSP_BT_709},
{"BT.601", MP_CSP_BT_601}, {"sd", MP_CSP_BT_601}, {"1", MP_CSP_BT_601}, {"BT.709", MP_CSP_BT_709}, {"hd", MP_CSP_BT_709}, {"2", MP_CSP_BT_709},
By the way, there appears to be a subtitle font scaling(?) issue resulting in different line-wrapping with long lines, when a video is resized to 50% with the gl renderer in your latest mplayer2 builds.
Spoiler for 100%:
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|2011-10-06, 03:31
|Link #60
I see what you did there!
For mplayer2, I'm finding that Intel and Nouveau (but not Nvidia) need -vf format=yv12 for Hi10P to render properly with gl output on Linux. Haven't tested Windows.
Could it be a problem with Mesa/Gallium or is it on the end of mplayer2/libav?
Here's an example of output without yv12:
Spoiler for 10bit art:
Thankfully, VDPAU+ffh264 is fine.
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Romney launches new ad campaign in eight swing states
LOS ANGELES – On the same night Democrats conclude their national convention, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has released plans to launch a television advertising campaign across eight swing states.
Officials who track such spending report that Romney has purchased about $4.5 million in new advertising for the next several days.
Romney announced the new ad campaign Thursday night shortly after President Barack Obama addressed the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina.
The commercials suggest that Americans are not better off after nearly four years of Obama's leadership. They link Obama to high foreclosure rates, defense cuts, government regulations and the national deficit.
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PostgreSQL did microrelease updates three weeks ago: 8.4.3, 8.3.10, and 8.1.20 are the ones relevant for Debian/Ubuntu. There haven't been reports about regressions in Debian or the upstream lists so far, so it's time to push these into stable releases.
The new releases are in Lucid Beta-2, and hardy/jaunty/karmic-proposed. If you are running PostgreSQL, please upgrade to the proposed versions and give feedback to LP #557408.
Updates for Debian Lenny are prepared as well, and await release team ack.
On a related note, I recently fixed quite a major problem in
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Until I got married and benefited from my family and friends' generosity, I had a limited mishmash of cheap flatware. Receiving good-quality, matching spoons, forks, and knives has gone a long way to helping me set a nice table and feel like an adult.
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8. Sushi Queen Flatware from Anthropologie, $24 for a four-piece setting
9. Halstead Flatware from Crate & Barrel, $42.95
10. Renzo Piano "Piano" Flatware by iittala from Finn Style, $140
* This is the set I received through my wedding registry earlier this year. I can report that it looks great, is nicely balanced, and is holding up well...and it has a lifetime guarantee to boot.
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Arizona Internet Censorship Bill So Ridiculous, Even The MPAA And RIAA Are Against It
from the do-politicians-even-read-these-things? dept
The specifics of the bill take an existing law meant to stop harassing phone calls and applies it broadly to the internet. As Media Coalition points out, the bill:
... takes a law meant to address irritating phone calls and applies it to communication on web sites, blogs, listserves and other Internet communication. H.B. 2549 is not limited to a one to one conversation between two specific people. The communication does not need to be repetitive or even unwanted. There is no requirement that the recipient or subject of the speech actually feel offended, annoyed or scared. Nor does the legislation make clear that the communication must be intended to offend or annoy the reader, the subject or even any specific person.As Eugene Volokh notes in his own discussion of the bill, a telephone is a one-to-one device. The internet is many-to-many, and it makes for a very different situation when you're talking about content designed to annoy or offend:
Telephones are basically one-to-one devices, so a phone call that uses profane language to offend is likely meant only to offend the one recipient, rather than to persuade or inform anyone; but computers used to post Facebook messages or send Twitter messages or post blog items can offend some listeners while persuading and informing others.It still amazes me that politicians think that these are good ideas. They're grandstanding against "cyberbullying", of course, but if they're going to pass laws that have a major impact on the internet, can't they at least talk to someone who understands this stuff first?
So, under the statute, posting a comment to a newspaper article — or a blog — saying that the article or post author is "fucking out of line" would be a crime: It's said with intent to offend, it uses an electronic or digital device, and it uses what likely will be seen as profane language (see, e.g., City of Columbia Falls v. Bennett (Mont. 1991)). Likewise if a blog poster were to post the same in response to a commenter's comment. Likewise if someone posts something in response to an e-mail on an e-mail-based discussion list, or in a chatroom, or wherever else. (Note that if "profane" is read to mean not vulgarly insulting, but instead religiously offensive, see City of Bellevue v. Lorang (Wash. 2000), then the statute would be unconstitutional as well.)
The same would be true if someone posts something lewd in one of these places in order to annoy or offend someone, for instance if he posts a comment on a police-run public discussion page that says something like "the chief of police can suck my dick," to borrow subject matter from a prior Arizona telephone harassment case. And note that, given that case, the speech need not even be about one of the recipients, so long as it's intended to annoy or offend one of the recipients.


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Infrastructure Slideshow: CRM Evaluation: Four Tough Questions to Ask
By Dennis McCafferty | Posted 04-12-2011
Enterprises have spent millions of dollars on customer relationship management (CRM) systems since the late 1990s. Too often, though, companies have failed to get the value out of their CRM solutions that they've anticipated. This leads CEOs and CFOs to ask some hard questions about the ROI of their company's CRM choices. To head off the wrath of your top execs, CIOs need to ask their own probing questions before moving forward with any ambitious, CRM-driven proposal. In the book "Harvard Business Review on Increasing Customer Loyalty" (Harvard Business Review Press/available now), contributors Darrell K. Rigby and Dianne Ledingham weigh in on effective CRM planning, pinpointing the four questions that bring clarity to what otherwise could be a muddled process. In the end, it's essential to ensure that much-hyped CRM tools deliver needed, measurable value to the organization, the authors contend. Rigby is a partner with Bain & Company, directing its global-retail practice. Ledingham is a partner in Bain's technology and performance-improvement practice. Here are four questions to ask that will help you make sound decisions about CRM:
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2. Next to the private part are small flaps of skin or small skin folds.
3. Stretch this skin flap out so that it somewhat flattens and/or shows a crevice where the scent gland is located.
4. Take a moist Q tip (moisten w/ warm water) and gently wipe this area out.
5. This should be done on a monthly basis and has nothing to do w/ the animal being sterilized.
6. If its been a while the bunny might smell kinda "skunky", like "skunk perfume" as we used to say. Jessica's area had a yellow crusty like substance, the vet tech said that sometimes it can look like blackish dirt...so for her she hadn't had them cleaned in a long time.
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No one person at UNF epitomizes the theme of The Power of Transformation campaign better than Paul Ladnier, a legendary assistant professor of art who recently announced his retirement.
Not only has he transformed the lives of an estimated 5,000 students who have been in his classes throughout his 34 years at UNF, but he has also reached out to the community in a way that demonstrates the symbiotic relationship between a city and a university.
Those bonds were illustrated in April when UNF faculty and staff joined numerous art and design alumni, community leaders and friends to name an endowed scholarship in his honor. The Paul E. Ladnier Endowed Scholarship will provide financial assistance to UNF painting and drawing students thanks to 60 donors, including longtime UNF supporters George and Dottie Dorion, who made the lead gift. Among the donors, 26 UNF faculty and staff members, led by the entire Art and Design Department, as well as 14 alumni contributed to the scholarship.
Ladnier, who received the designation assistant professor emeritus, estimated he has spent between 30,000 and 40,000 hours in the classroom. "In a bigger sense students have touched me. I've learned from them. They have inspired me," he said. "Hardly a class went by that I didn't let them know that I have my job because of them."Ladnier said he still considers himself to be an "artist with no identity" because of the many and varied types of painting he has done during his career.
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Striker University - Finishing School 101 DVD-R
Are you happy being a weekend warrior, getting your spots in on the 4th match of the card every saturday night? Satisfied with wrestling in the bingo halls, rec centers and national guard armories? If so, don't bother with this DVD, you'll be just fine without it. This is for the guys that want to turn this business into their profession and seperate themselves from all the others. If you think experience and traveling everywhere to get booked is all you need to get that call up to the big leagues, think again!
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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (Thursday, August 22, 2013) – Colorado Rapids defenders Davy Armstrong and Kory Kindle will miss significant time due to injuries requiring surgery. In the coming days, Armstrong will undergo reparative surgery for a torn right anterior cruciate ligament, while Kindle will have surgery for a sports hernia.
Armstrong had been on loan with Phoenix FC since the end of July and suffered the injury while in Arizona. An MRI when he returned revealed that he had torn his right ACL. Dr. Wayne Gersoff will perform his surgery in the coming days and recovery is expected to take six months. Kindle, who has been sidelined for the last month due to a left ankle injury, was diagnosed with a sports hernia last week and has surgery scheduled for August 29 by Dr. Michael Napierkowski. He will likely miss three months for recovery.
While neither player has seen first-team action in 2013, Armstrong has appeared in eight MLS Reserve League matches for the Rapids while Kindle has played in seven during his rookie year.
The Rapids have a week off before returning to action on Saturday, August 31 at 6:30 p.m. MT at Sporting Kansas City, with the live coverage on Altitude featuring Richard Fleming and Marcelo Balboa starting at 6 p.m. MT. The next home match for Colorado comes on Saturday, September 14 at 7 p.m. MT at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit www.ColoradoRapids.com or call 303-825-GOAL.


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Former Savannah Mayor Susan Weiner died Saturday, family members said.
Her brother, Dr. Irwin Scher of Wynnewood, Pa., said Weiner died at Northeast Georgia Health System in Gainesville due to complications from an earlier surgical procedure.
She was 66.
Weiner was the first female mayor of Savannah, in office from 1992-1995.
Before moving to Savannah in 1985, Weiner, who grew up in Albany, N.Y., studied theater, education and speech at the State College of New York at New Platz, where she earned a bachelor's degree, according to earlier stories in the Savannah Morning News. She spent 15 years as an actress, and traveled globally during a nine-month tour of a one-woman play written by her husband, Al Weiner. Later, she taught classes in Cambodia and Thailand, according to previous Morning News stories. After her acting career, Weiner and her husband moved to Savannah after starting a management consultant firm.
A few years after that, she decided to enter politics. Weiner, a Republican, defeated Democrat John Rousakis, a five-term incumbent, in the 1991 mayoral race.
"Here is a whipper-snapper northerner woman, Jewish, comes to that gorgeous city and can't get a job with all her degrees and capabilities ... and got involved with politics," said her older sister, Linda Scher, over the phone from Weiner's home in Rabun Gap on Sunday evening. "And when she went down there and did what Suzie did, which was win everybody over, it showed everybody what she was capable of doing and became mayor down there."
In 1995, Weiner lost a re-election bid to then-Alderman Floyd Adams Jr., who became Savannah's first African-American mayor.
In May 1996, she was named executive director of the Good Government for Georgia Committee, a Republican booster group created by the late U.S. Sen. Paul Coverdell of Georgia, according to earlier stories. In 1999, Weiner and her husband moved from Savannah to be closer to her work for Coverdell. She was instrumental in the Coverdell Leadership Institute, a farm-team program for young Republicans.
"Susan had an insatiable desire for good conservative governance in Georgia," said Linda Parker, who worked closely with Weiner at the Coverdell Leadership Institute and remained friends with her until Weiner's death. "I would say she was a game changer."
Parker, who took over some of Weiner's duties at Coverdell Leadership Institute after Weiner was named by Gov. Sonny Perdue in 2004 as executive director of the Georgia Council for the Arts, said Weiner was a tough woman who didn't compromise on principles and left an impact on those who knew her.
"I think we had 300-plus scholars that went through the Coverdell Leadership Institute," Parker said. "... I've talked to about half of them in the last 24 hours. And that is just a testament to the impact she had on people."
One of those Coverdell graduates is Savannah Republican Jeanne Seaver, who recently ran for a seat on the Chatham County Commission.
"She shared a lot about her times in examples of leadership, and the things she went up against when she was the mayor of Savannah," Seaver said Sunday. "And she really loved being that leader here for a short time."
Al Weiner died in 2002 after a battle with cancer. Susan Weiner is survived by her older brother Irwin Scher, her sisters Linda Scher and Toby Elman and her stepson Lucian Weiner. The family will hold a private memorial service next week in Rabun Gap, where Weiner lived for several years. Another memorial will be scheduled for the fall and will likely be held in Atlanta, Linda Scher said.
"If you knew her, you would remember her," Linda Scher said of her sister. "She was just dynamic, remarkable, kind, bright, electric, dramatic and then quiet, sweet, sincere - a beautiful human being who died too young. Much too young. And I'm going to miss her."


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Center Research Question Addressed
January 2, 2014
Mr. Vince Willmore
Vice President for Communications
Tobacco Free Kids
1400 I Street NW, Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20005
Stay Engaged
Dear Mr. Willmore:
I am writing today about comments made by you about Mackinac Center for Public Policy research authored by myself and my colleague professor Todd Nesbit. The comments appeared in the online news organ Golocalpro.com.
In the article you describe our methodology as "seriously flawed," but there is no explanation contained in the article as to the problem you see with our method. Our methodology was carefully peer reviewed by doctorate-level economists and produces qualitatively similar results as those of numerous peer-reviewed, academic publications.
We welcome constructive criticism of our work because in the end sound review helps us to be better scholars. Our goal as researchers is to better understand the world around us and communicate that understanding so that more informed decisions about private action and public policy are made.
As is required for all empirical studies, we must make some simplifying assumptions in the modeling process, but we do not believe any of our assumptions bias the output toward a given outcome. If your research team believes otherwise, we ask that they play a constructive role in helping us reveal the extent of the relationship between cigarette taxation and smuggling activity.
Understanding whether smuggling activity is rampant or nearly non-existent is vital to establishing the proper mix of tax policy and education campaigns, provided Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids' goal of reducing youth smoking rates. We'd like to serve as a reliable source of information for all individuals and organizations concerned with tobacco tax policy, including your organization. Receiving constructive feedback is an important aspect in our success in reaching that goal.
It is worth noting here that this is the second time we have responded to your organization about some alleged shortcoming in our methodology. Last February we politely explained to your vice president of research, Mr. Danny McGoldrick, why his interpretation of our methodology was not correct. As he offered us no rejoinder we must assume our explanation was satisfactory.
That leads us then to a vital question: were you aware of our response to Mr. McGoldrick? If you were and still chose to complain about our methodology that would suggest that there is some other issue we still need to address.
Could you please explain in detail to us what has you so troubled about our methodology?
Michael LaFaive
Director of Fiscal Policy
Mackinac Center
Todd Nesbit
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BERLIN (AP) — Some of the main issues in Sunday's German election:
To tax or not to tax? Chancellor Angela Merkel's opponents want to raise income tax rate for top earners to 49 from 42 percent, a change they say is needed to finance investment in education, infrastructure and other priorities. Merkel's center-right alliance says raising taxes would harm the economy, which unlike many others in Europe is growing. It says Germany's tax take is healthier than it has been for years.
A minimum wage? Merkel's opponents want to introduce a mandatory minimum wage of 8.50 euros ($11.30) per hour. Germany has long been one of the few Western countries without a minimum wage; Merkel and her allies favor sector-by-sector and region-by-region deals between employers and employees rather than a one-size-fits-all minimum.
How to help? Merkel says Germany must stick to her approach of insisting that struggling countries fulfill tough conditions in exchange for aid, and vehemently opposes any pooling of European nations' debt. She also advocates a gradual approach to setting up a banking union that's seen as a key to regaining markets' confidence, arguing that European treaties would need changing to set up a single body to deal with bust banks.
Challenger Peer Steinbrueck's Social Democrats and their Green allies have voted for most of Merkel's policies in the euro crisis but criticized her for over-emphasizing austerity. Steinbrueck's party calls for a greater emphasis on economic growth as well as a debt-redemption fund that would see some eurozone debt pooled, while Europe's strugglers would be made to get their budgets in order. It also wants faster progress on the banking union. The Greens go further and advocate jointly issued eurobonds — though they say that's only a long-term aim.
Meanwhile a new party, called Alternative for Germany, has been appealing to those voters who believe Germany should never have entered into a currency union with the economically weak. The party wants to abolish the euro entirely.
Who gets benefits? Merkel's opponents are pledging to scrap a new benefit for parents who choose to stay at home and invest the money in day-care facilities.
Full marriage and adoption for gay couples? Not with Merkel unless Germany's highest court makes her. Germany offers same-sex couples partnerships that fall short of marriage; Merkel's conservatives have balked at going further, but past court decisions have forced her to extend gay couples' rights. Other parties gay favor marriage and adoption.
Going green? Everyone agrees on phasing out nuclear power by 2022, but there are differences over how to manage the switchover to renewable energy and keep down electricity prices. Steinbrueck's Social Democrats, for example, advocate forcing power companies to cut prices, but Merkel and her allies say that wouldn't solve problems stemming from legislation on renewable energy subsidies.
Who knew what and when? Merkel's government has faced tough questions over what it knew of the electronic intelligence gathering conducted by U.S. agencies on German soil. Even her coalition partners the Free Democrats have demanded more answers following the revelations by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, partly to bolster their credibility as a party that takes civil liberties seriously. The upstart Pirate Party has made it their main election issue, but it remains to be seen how heavily personal privacy will feature in voters' election decisions.


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Democrats' Make It In America plan is based on the belief that when more products are made in America, more families will be able to Make It In America. The plans is intended to create the conditions to help American businesses produce goods here, innovate here, and create jobs here; it includes many of the investments necessary for America to out-educate, out-innovate, and out-build its international competitors. President Obama has already signed ten Make It In America bills into law, many of which won bipartisan support. Business and labor leaders alike support Democrats' Make It In America plan—because Making It In America is central to the future of our competitiveness, our jobs, and our place in the world.
The following bills represent a cross-section of the legislation that were part of the Make It In America plan for the 112th Congress. This initiative is dynamic and continues to evolve: Democrats stand ready to examine and include other good ideas to create good jobs, help our companies produce more goods here, maintain our leadership in innovation, and educate a 21st-century workforce. Some of these bills are concrete proposals that are ready to be acted on; others are ideas for the development of legislation that can create jobs and strengthen American industry.
MAKE IT IN AMERICA IS…investing in infrastructure and supporting the flow of commerce.
- Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance To Help Transportation (FREIGHT) Act (Rep. Sires, H.R. 1338): Calls for the development of a National Freight Strategic Transportation Plan to assess the current national freight transportation system, designate priority freight corridors and gateways, and create a proposed investment plan to develop the priorities. It also creates a National Freight Infrastructure Investment Grants program, which would fund eligible projects such as port development, freight rail improvement, and intelligent transportation systems.
- Build American Jobs Act (Rep. Levin, H.R. 992)/Build America Bonds to Create Jobs Now Act (Rep. Connolly, H.R. 11): Extends the Build America Bonds program, provides additional funding for the Recovery Zone bonds program, and makes improvements to existing bond and credit programs to help states and local governments leverage private capital to create jobs today and build the infrastructure that is the backbone of future economic growth.
- National Infrastructure Development Bank Act (Rep. DeLauro, H.R. 402): Establishes a wholly-owned government corporation to facilitate efficient investments in and financing of infrastructure projects—from leading-edge broadband networks and energy delivery systems to modern ports—that foster economic development and keep America competitive.
- The Airports, Highways, High-Speed Rail, Trains and Transit: Make it in America Act (Rep. Garamendi, H.R. 613): Increases domestic content provisions for airports and rolling stock and eliminates non-availability waivers.
- One Global Internet Act (Rep. Lofgren):Establishes a government task force that would review, prioritize, and act on attempts by foreign governments to degrade or disrupt the flow of goods, services, and/or content on the Internet.
- Miscellaneous Tariff Bill: Eliminates duties on certain products not produced in the U.S., particularly raw materials and intermediate inputs that are used by U.S. manufacturers, reducing these manufacturers' production costs and making them more competitive.
- National Network for Manufacturing Innovation: Creates a national network of manufacturing institutes to stimulate U.S. leadership in advanced manufacturing research, innovation, and technology.
- Advancing Innovative Manufacturing Act of 2012 (Rep. E. B. Johnson, H.R. 6081): Creates industry-led consortia that will identify, prioritize, and address long-term, pre-competitive industrial research needs in advanced manufacturing; establishes a pilot program to promote advanced manufacturing and enhance the innovative capabilities and competitiveness of small and medium-sized manufacturers; creates a pilot program to award "innovation vouchers" worth up to $20,000 that small and medium-sized manufacturers can use to acquire technical expertise; and amends America COMPETES to provide competitive, merit-reviewed grants to community colleges for the development and implementation of innovative advanced manufacturing curricula and degree or certification programs.
- American Textile Technology Innovation and Research for Exportation (ATTIRE) Act (Rep. D. Price, H.R. 2275): Creates a competitive grant program to fund research and innovation and to promote increased textile exports.
- American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act (Rep. Lipinski, H.R. 5865): Brings government, business, and labor stakeholders together to formulate a comprehensive national strategy to attract manufacturing businesses to our shores, help them compete overseas, and encourage them to expand and create well-paying jobs here in the U.S.
- Permanent R&D Tax Credit (Rep. Carney, H.R. 1693): Make permanent and expand the Research and Development Tax Credit so research investments can draw capital that create tomorrow's jobs.
- Rare Earths Materials: Three bills have been introduced on this important issue. Rare Earths and Critical Materials Revitalization Act (Rep. Boswell, H.R. 618), Energy Critical Elements Renewal Act (Rep. Brad Miller, H.R. 952), and the Resource Assessment of Rare Earths (RARE) Act (Reps. Hank Johnson and Markey, H.R. 1314). These bills support the assessment and development of U.S. capacity in rare earth minerals critical to the manufacture of energy and other technologies.
- Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act (Reps. Levin and Tim Ryan, H.R. 639):Levels the trade playing field by holding accountable countries that create an unfair trade advantage by manipulating their currency.
Make It In America is…ensuring a level playing field, enforcing trade laws, and promoting exports.
- Enforcing Orders and Reducing Customs Evasion (ENFORCE) Act (Reps. Long and Linda Sanchez, H.R. 3057): Establishes new procedures for investigating claims that foreign manufacturers are evading anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders to better enforce trade laws and prevent illegal imports.
- The Customs Training Enhancement Act (Rep. Lipinski): Creates a public-private partnership between the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and American manufacturers to provide specialized training to CBP agents to prevent mislabeled or transshipped items from entering the U.S.
- Export Promotion Reform Act (Rep. Berman, H.R. 4041): Strengthens the interagency Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC); increases coordination among federal export programs; requires the government to gather input from more sources, including small and medium-sized businesses, when drafting strategic plans for federal trade promotion policies; and directs ambassadors to develop country-specific commercial diplomacy plans to increase U.S. exports.
- The Innovative Technologies Investment Incentives Act (Rep. Van Hollen, H.R. 1732): Accelerates innovation by providing a 25% tax credit for qualified equity investments in eligible high technology and biotechnology small businesses.
- Small Business Start-up Savings Accounts (Rep. Sewell, H.R. 1730): Establishes tax-preferred savings accounts for small businesses.
- Make It in America Block Grant Act (Rep. Cicilline, H.R. 1912): Establishes a grant program at the Commerce Department to provide small to medium-sized businesses in communities hardest hit by unemployment with the resources and strategies they need to retool and retrofit their operations and train their workforce in order to transition to the manufacturing of clean energy, high-technology, and advanced products.
- The Bring Jobs Home Act (Rep. Pascrell, H.R. 5542): Eliminates the tax deduction for moving expenses for companies sending jobs overseas and provides a new tax credit for companies that bring jobs back to the U.S.
- Corporate Tax Reform: Our corporate tax system is far too confusing and inefficient. It causes economic distortions by forcing managers to make decisions based on tax consequences rather than on solid business principles. Many of these decisions, unfortunately, send investment and jobs overseas. Reform could lower the corporate tax rate and bring investment back to make American business and the American worker more competitive globally.
- Workforce Investment Act (Rep. Tierney, H.R. 4227): Reauthorizes and modernizes the Workforce Investment Act to help close the gap between the talent manufacturers need to keep expanding their businesses in the U.S. and skill level of today's workforce.
- Workforce-Ready Educate America Act (Rep. Hochul, H.R. 4249): Allows a $1,000-per-student tax credit to employers that partner with educational institutions to provide skills training.
- Job Opportunities Between our Shores (JOBS) Act (Whip Hoyer, H.R. 1716): Establishes a Workforce Investment Act pilot program to provide education and training programs in advanced manufacturing.
- American Manufacturing Efficiency & Retraining Investment Collaboration (AMERICA Works) Act (Rep. Donnelly, H.R. 1325): Strengthens our workforce by helping American workers earn certifications, degrees, and qualifications for the jobs American industry needs to fill.
- Strengthening Employment Clusters to Organize Regional Success (SECTORS) Act (Rep. Loebsack, H.R. 1240): Forms partnerships between businesses, unions, and educators to train workers for some of the most needed 21st Century jobs.
- STEM Education: To strengthen American innovation, create the industries of the future, and ensure that our kids have the skills they need to fill well-paying jobs in those industries, we must invest in outstanding science, technology, engineering, and math education.
- Ensure that states develop rigorous core standards in science, to complement standards in math and reading
- Help interested science, technology, engineering, and math professionals enter teaching careers
- Build community partnerships to create externship opportunities for students
- Promote careers in manufacturing for high school students
- Fully fund STEM education provisions in the America COMPETES Act to strengthen manufacturing education, increase STEM career opportunities for women and minorities, and recruit STEM teachers from underrepresented groups
- Rural Energy Investment Act (Rep. Kaptur, H.R. 5955): Renews and streamlines the Rural Energy for America Program, which provides financial assistance to rural small businesses to purchase and install renewable energy systems and make energy efficiency improvements; renews and expands the Biobased Markets Program, requiring the federal government to increase by 50 percent its commitment to purchase biobased products like cleaners, lubricants, building materials, and other industrial products; and renews and streamlines the Biomass Crop Assistance Program, which provides incentives for producers to find new uses for biomass by-products.
- Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Act (Rep. Matsui, H.R. 502): Establishes a Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Fund, to be administered through the International Trade Administration, to ensure that U.S. clean energy technology firms have the information and assistance they need to be competitive and to create clean energy technology sector jobs.
- Security in Energy and Manufacturing (SEAM) Act (Rep. Rothman, H.R. 724): This program, initially created in the Recovery Act, invested $2.3 billion in tax credits for advanced energy manufacturing facilities generating more than 17,000 jobs and incentivizing an additional $5.4 billion in private-sector investment.
- New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions (NAT GAS) Act (Reps. Sullivan, Boren, Larson, and Brady, H.R. 1380): Provides incentives to encourage private investment in natural gas refueling infrastructure and the production and purchasing of natural gas vehicles and trucks.
- ·Advanced Vehicle Technology Act (Rep. Peters, H.R. 1367): The bill reauthorizes the Department of Energy's Vehicle Technologies research programs (FreedomCar and the 21st Century Truck Partnership) so that the next generation of advanced vehicles can be built in America.
- Energy Efficient Buildings and Homes: The Rural Energy Savings Program (Rep. Clyburn), along with the "Home Star" and "Building Star" programs, would support installation of American made energy efficient products.
- Market Based Manufacturing Incentives Act (Rep. Honda, H.R. 3495): Allows a tax credit for the purchase of new products certified as assembled in the U.S. and consisting of at least 60 percent of components assembled in the U.S.
- Patriot Corporations of America Act (Rep. Schakowsky, H.R. 1163): Rewards companies that voluntarily meet "patriotic" standards (e.g., produce at least 90 percent of their goods and services in the U.S., spend at least 50% of their R&D budgets in the U.S., pay at least 70 percent of the cost of health insurance premiums) by giving them preference in government contracting and a 5 percent reduction in their taxable income.
- The Keep American Jobs from Going Down the Drain Act (Rep. Sutton, H.R. 1684): Gives preference to U.S.-made goods and materials for use in the installation, replacement, and improvement of drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects.
- Berry Amendment Extension Act (Rep. Kissell, H.R. 679): Prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from procuring certain items directly related to the national security unless the items are grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the U.S.
- American Jobs Matter Act (Rep. Chris Murphy, H.R. 1354): Directs federal contracting officers, government-wide, to solicit optional information regarding the impact a contract award may have on U.S. job creation and authorizes the use of this information in award decisions.
- All-American Flag Act (Rep. Braley, H.R. 1344): Ensures that when the government buys American flags, they are made in America.
Federal regulations are crucial to protecting Americans' health, the quality of our environment, the fairness of our economic markets, and the safety of everything from our workers to the products we use to the food we eat to the air we breathe. Democrats will defend those vital and fair rules from special interests intent on overturning them. At the same time, we must take a common-sense approach to examine regulations that might have unintended consequences, fail to achieve their objectives, or greatly hinder the creation of jobs. President Obama has ordered an administration-wide review of the economic effect of federal regulations, and Congressional Democrats will build on that effort, while working to preserve the fair rules that protect Americans' health and safety.
Some Make It In America areas of focus include:
- Ensure legitimate end-users can use derivatives without incurring undue costs.
- Streamline and modernize U.S. export controls to allow for the export of widely available products in a manner that does not undermine U.S. national security.
- Increase transparency in the Buy America waiver process across all departments and agencies.
- Streamline the federal government's manufacturing programs to better meet the needs of today's manufacturers and provide them with one-stop shops to access federal assistance.
Since 2010, President Obama has signed the following Make It In America bills into law:
- U.S. Manufacturing Enhancement Act: Makes it cheaper for American companies to obtain the materials they need to manufacture goods. [Public Law 111-227]
- Protecting American Patents: Helps the Patent Office to begin to unclog the backlog—totaling about 1.2 million pending applications—by giving the agency access to more of the fees it collects so that patent applications can continue to be processed and innovative ideas can continue to move to market. [Public Law 111-224]
- Preventing Outsourcing: Prevents the outsourcing of U.S. jobs by closing tax loopholes that encourage companies to send U.S. jobs overseas. [Public Law 111-226]
- Small Business Jobs Act: Expands much needed lending to millions of small businesses and offers tax incentives to help small businesses grow, hire, and fuel our economy, without adding a dime to the deficit. [Public Law 111-240]
- Energy Jobs and Training for Veterans Act: Provides grants for programs to provide on-the-job training, apprenticeship, real experience, and long-term employment in all energy fields. [Public Law 111-275]
- America COMPETES Reauthorization Act: Establishes innovative technology federal loan guarantees for small- and medium-sized manufacturers and invests in science, technology, engineering, and math education. [Public Law 111-358]
- Reauthorization of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs: The six-year reauthorization ensures that the nation's small, high-tech, and innovative businesses are a significant part of the federal government's research and development efforts. [Public Law 112-81]
- Leahy-Smith America Invents Act: Improves the patent system to provide incentives for companies to continue innovating and manufacturing in the U.S. [Public Law 112-29]
- Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act: Reauthorizes the Export-Import Bank for three years, ending uncertainty for businesses and providing the resources needed to keep American exporters competitive. [Public Law 112-122]
- Surface Transportation Reauthorization: Funds infrastructure improvements that will support manufacturing, spur economic growth, and create jobs in our communities. [Public Law 112-141]


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Snowy, a beautiful 1-year-old white German Shepherd mix, is available for adoption at Jasper Animal Rescue Mission. She is very sweet and loves all people and gets along well with other dogs. She will make a lifetime loyal companion for any family. For more information, call 843-726-7799 or go to our website at www.JARMission.org.
This one-of-a-kind canine is sure to capture your heart. Kelsey was rescued from a nearby kill shelter - how anyone could have turned this cutie in is beyond comprehension. Kelsey dances for joy when you stop by to visit. Her unique gait and happy demeanor reminds us of a leprechaun
Visit Brooke's Haven Animal Rescue, 25 Buck Island Road, Bluffton, go to www.brookeshaven.org or call 843-757-7387. Hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and 2-4 p.m. Sunday.
Jubal is a 6-year-old neutered male Basset Hound who is housetrained, likes other dogs and loves all people. For details, call Maranatha Farm on 816-6676 or go to www.maranathafarm.org
Meet Cleo. Cleo is a 1-year-old hound mix. She enjoys going for long walks and snuggling with people on her bed. You can meet Cleo Monday through Saturday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Palmetto Animal League Adoption Center in Riverwalk Business Park.
Palmetto Animal League also has lots of beautiful hound mix puppies. Their mom came to us very pregnant. She had 13 puppies who are all looking for their forever homes. You can meet these adorable puppies Monday through Saturday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Palmetto Animal League Adoption Center in Riverwalk Business Park. For more information, call 843-645-1725 or go to our website at www.palmettoanimalleague.org.
The following pets are from Noah's Ark Rescue. They are all house- and crate-trained, vaccinated, neutered or spayed, micro-chipped, and heartworm negative. They adopt out of state. Call 843-540-6755 for more information, or go to www.noahs-arks.net.
Rover is a 1-year-old Lab mix who was found on the side of the road. Our Vet had to remove one of his front legs. Rover is a happy, healthy "tripod" and ready to rock your world. He loves all animals, children and people. He would make one lucky family a perfect family member.
Prime Time is 1½ -2 years old. He is a beautiful pitbull. He was hit by car but he is now all happy and healthy. He was set to be euthanized until we stepped in to save him! He loves children, people and other dogs. He loves to receive affection and gets very attached to people. Because of his past experiences it takes him a little more time to warm up to men.
Tyson is a 7-year-old Staffordshire terrier that was picked up as a stray. It appears sweet Tyson had been used as bait based on the old scars on him and the large chunk that had been torn off his upper lip and part of his nose. All he wants is for someone to be nice to him and let him love on them. He is a stocky, handsome sweet boy and loves other balanced dogs, children and people.
Rusty is a 10-year-old Pomeranian mix. His previous owner had been dead for a while before someone noticed the dog pen outside. They eventually saw Rusty. This innocent sweetheart lost his family and his home. He loves people, children and other pets. He just needs a home to spend the rest of his senior years.
Titus is a 4-year-old Chihuahua mix that was picked up when someone saw him dragging himself down a rural road. He couldn't walk because half of one leg was gone and the other leg had part of it missing. Titus had a successful surgery and is able to use his customized wheel cart. He is pain free, happy, active, healthy and fast. He loves people, children and other dogs. He is as sweet as a dog can be.


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Keikawa here, hijacking Lugiamania's thread with another announcement regarding the addition of a new J-drama called: Random Hero!!! This series is set to air every Friday starting on April 5, at 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
Random Hero will be available to Crunchyroll's audience in the following territories: U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and South America.
"Our protagonist – Kenta, played by Ryuta Sato – is a selfish, good-for-nothing type of individual, who can only think about his personal gain rather than the well-being of others. However, after a strange set of events he is given superpowers for only 10 minutes at a time. How will our self-indulging protagonist handle this power and rise above his basic convention of wisdom to become Random Hero in this season's latest drama!"
aaaand announcement number 2 for today, the fabulous boys of Uta no Prince Sama will be coming to Crunchyroll!
Uta no Prince Sama 2 will be launching on Crunchyroll on Wednesday, April 3, 2013, at 11:00am Pacific Time, available for Crunchyroll audiences in the following territories: USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Netherlands, and Scandinavia.
Uta no Prince Sama 2 is the sequel to the anime Uta no Prince Sama 1, both of which are based off of the popular visual novel game for the Sony PlayStation Portable. The plot centers around a girl named Haruka Nanami who enters the prestigious performing arts school Saotome Academy and dreams of being a composer for her favorite idol. However, when she winds up being partnered with six gorgeous male idols-in-training, in a school where romance is prohibited, things start to get interesting!
Produced by the famed A-1 Pictures animation studio (Fairy Tail, Anohana, Sword Art Online), Uta no Prince Sama 2 stars six talented singers/voice actors in the roles of the six main male characters: Hiro Shimono as Syo Kurusu, Junichi Suwabe as Ren Jinguji, Kenichi Suzumura as Masato Hijirikawa, Kisho Taniyama as Natsuki Shinomiya, Mamoru Miyano as Tokiya Ichinose, and Takuma Terashima as Otoya Ittoki. Veteran voice actress Miyuki Sawashiro stands out among all the guys as their female composer, Haruka Nanami.
Season one of Uta no Prince Sama will be available on Crunchyroll at a later date.
And for those of you following Saki Episode of Side A, Episode 15 just launched this morning for Premium users, with availability for free members next week.
As always, be sure to keep an eye out for more Spring 2013 announcements!
Hey everyone,
Spring is now in full swing and we here at Crunchyroll are continuing the good news for you guys! Kicking off today's announcement is Majestic Prince, another sci-fi mecha anime to add to our Spring 2013 lineup!
Majestic Prince will be launching on Crunchyroll this Thursday, April 4, 2013, at 8:00am Pacific Time, and will be available to audiences in the following territories: USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
Majestic Prince is based off of a manga written by Rando Ayamine and illustrated by Hikaru Nijima. The story takes place in the future where humanity has reached out into space to gather more resources, including sending out genetically modified teenagers into deep space to mine asteroids with giant robots. At first glance, Majestic Prince appears to have all the trappings of an action-packed robot-fighting series, but upon closer inspection, Majestic Prince does not take itself too seriously and injects a good dose of humor into the whole story.
Directed by Keitaro Motonaga, whose other works include Katanagatari and Jormugand, and features character designs that will be familiar to fans of Gundam Seed and Fafner of the Azure, done by Hisashi Hirai. The voice cast includes Hiroki Aiba as Izuru Hitachi, Shintao Asanuma as Toshikazu Asagi, Yuka Iguchi as Tamaki Irie, Yoko Hikasa as Kei kugimiya, and Junya Ikeda rounding out the main group as Ataru Suruga.
3/15 - Sparrow's Hotel
3/15 - Oreimo 2
3/29 - Valvrave the Liberator
3/30 - Mushibugyo
4/2 - Majestic Prince
4/2 - Uta no Prince Sama 2
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None for you!
iker_casillas wrote:
not available for Latin America
We better start to keep our hopes pretty low this season
aryoch 're right hopefully they release some for today
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If only I liked mecha
Can't wait to watch this, this and Valvrave look pretty good based on the PVs
What even
two of this seasons 4 mecha shows
(both of which i am giving a look)
Valvrave and this are the best picks up of the season. Hope both are 24+ episdoes.
SoTaku is love
I would love to see the new Hayate get streamed here.
Still waiting for a reply from help area! And waiting and waiting...
iker_casillas wrote:
not available for Latin America
I understand how you feel, but so far we get 4 of 6 shows which is not that bad, hope we get more and better shows, Latins deserve more
Yay! I was eagerly waiting for you guys to announce more titles. Now I'm only waiting for Karneval and Arata Kangatari. Thanks guys!
kewl, seen some good stuff coming, pretty pumped
Hoping to see that Haiyore! Nyarko-San W is one of the ones picked up, since CR did the first season.
another promising show ^^ THX
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Kevin Grandia | July 17, 2007
By Kevin Grandia • Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 10:39
One of our readers just emailed asking who we would consider to be part of the "Smog"-o-sphere, the antithesis of the "DeSmog"-o-sphere.
Here's a few of the blog sites we keep our eye on:
National Association of Manufacturer's Blog
Amy Ridenour's National Policy Blog
So there you go. The Smog-o-Sphere. Who did we miss?
SaskBoy recommended we add SmallDeadAnimals to the list and we agree.
you missed
You missed Kate's smalldeadanimals.com which regularly has comments about "Y2Kyoto" and how Tim Ball is the greatest thing since sliced white bread.
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
Forgot about smalldead...
Don't go on there too often. Usually they're more of an echochamber site. But they do get a lot of traffic. I'll add them.
socialscientist replied on Permalink
you missed....
treehugger dot com… pushing hybrids and taking ads from auto companies.
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
But they also write a lot of
Kate replied on Permalink
Clearing the smog?
If your site is truly about "clearing the PR pollution", then why is the ownership of the domain name cloaked?
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Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
Why not just go to our "About" section, we have names, bios, funding sources. It's all there.
Is there anything not in the "About" section you would like to know?
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Kate replied on Permalink
As I Suspected
secretly funded by Big Carbon Credit…
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
Where? Tell me how you came to that conclusion.
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
Your IP
Gee. Your IP goes to a generic server. You must be "cloaking."


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Many pharmaceutical companies have acknowledged the reputational risk associated with supplying medicines to the US penal system for use in administering lethal injections to perform capital punishment. To mitigate the risk and prevent the supply of their drugs to the US penal system, they have put in place distribution controls. This is supported by EU law that prevents export of these drugs for such purposes.
As a result of the industry establishing such distribution controls, some US states have halted – albeit temporarily – capital punishment, while others have sought to use compounded rather than manufactured drugs. A third category has started to use experimental drug cocktails to execute the death penalty.
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As reported by Goal.com on Monday, the defender came in to replace Pablo Zabaleta for Wednesday's late 1-0 win over Wigan but his boss could not hide his disappointment in the 24-year-old's performance.
"I think that he needs to work a lot," Mancini remarked to reporters of Richards. "I didn't like it [the performance]. "I am happy because he comes back to play but I thought that he was in better form.
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The Italian conceded, howeer, that it was crucial to allow Zabaleta to refresh his batteries after a prolonged spell in the side while Richards was unavailable, explaining: "Pablo has played a lot of games, it was important to give him a break."
With only three days having passed since their tense FA Cup semi-final win over Chelsea, Mancini felt that his players suffered from fatigue against the Latics.
"We had to work really hard because Wigan played very well," he observed. "Every game that we play against them is difficult because they play football and they play to win every game.
"I think we didn't play very well because we were so tired. Only in the last 20-25 minutes we improved and played better.
"There's only three days and for this reason we play with the four, five new players because we spent a lot of energy against Chelsea and it was difficult."