text: Press release | 2010-09-30 | 10:00 AM Energy News Europe - week 38, 2010 Denmark 'New transmission capacity required for green energy conversion' Børsen, 2010-09-23 To make the Danish national economy benefit from a conversion into green energy, investments totalling more than DKK 21bn (EUR 2.8bn USD 3.75bn) in the transmission network in northern Europe have to be carried out, according to a new analysis by Ea Energianalyse for Vestas and Dong Energy. The investments are required for exports of wind power and bio-mass based electricity, particularly to Germany and the Netherlands. Capacity between Denmark and Norway and Sweden is already high, and there are exchange of electricity between the Nordic countries. The report concludes that Denmark would benefit from exports to countries on the European Continent, where prices are higher. © Esmerk Estonia Electricity exported and imported via Estlink cable YLE.fi, 2010-09-20 At the moment, electricity is also exported from Finland to Estonia. The Estlink cable that was introduced in 2007 has previously mainly been used to import electricity from Estonia to Finland. Estonian major customers now buy electricity from Finland from time to time because electricity supply in the area has decreased. The deregulation of the Estonian electricity market has also changed the situation. According to the Nordic electricity exchange Nord Pool, the price of electricity has gone up slightly in Estonia. At times, Finland's exchange price has been lower than the Estonian price. As of 20 September 2010, the whole 350 megawatt capacity of the Estlink connection will be steered in accordance with trading on the electricity exchange. According to Finland's electricity transmission system operator Fingrid's CEO Jukka Ruusunen, this is a positive development and makes way for the next transmission connection with Estonia. The transmission capacity of the Estlink 2 cable that is to be completed by 2014 will be 650 megawatts. © Esmerk Fortum invested EEK 1.2bn in Pärnu CHP Ehitusuudised, 2010-09-24 Te Finnish Fortum invested the total of EEK 1.20bn (EUR 76.69mn USD 102.01mn)in building the peat/wood chips powered Pärnu CHP in Estonia. Pärnu CHP generated thermal energy will cover the demand for thermal energy in Pärnu. The CHP is put into test production. Eesti Energia collected EEK 18mn from Fortum in linking the CHP into its electricity distribution network. © Esmerk France EDF's marine turbine pilot site to be operational in 2011 Le Figaro, 2010-09-18 French electricity group EDF has announced that its pilot site for marine turbines in Paimpol-Bréhat (known for the intensity of its currents) would become operational in the spring of 2011. © Esmerk GDF Suez pulls out of Penly plant Les Echos, 2010-09-23 GDF Suez is pulling out of the Penly nuclear plant project in France after facing stiff opposition from EDF which aims to maintain its monopoly in the sector. It has given up hopes of being a partner operator as well as of building and managing the site itself. Having won this battle, EDF will manage the project, but GDF Suez hopes to operate third generation plants in 2020, and wants to build an Atmea reactor in the Rhône valley. © Esmerk Germany Eon names cost of nuclear power compromise Financial Times Deutschland, 2010-09-23 Johannes Teyssen, chief executive of Germany's largest nuclear power plant operator Eon, expects the terms of the extension of the operating life of German nuclear power plants to undermine the company's results by between EUR 700mn and EUR 1bn (USD 1.34bn) per year. In 2009 Eon posted an adjusted net profit of EUR 5.3bn. Eon will have to pay about 40% of the fuel element tax, which will cost Germany's four nuclear plant operators EUR 2.3bn per year in 2011-16. However, Teyssen expects all of Eon's nuclear power plant to continue to operate profitably. © Esmerk Lithuania Inter RAO Lietuva to sell Baltic NPP's output to EU Kaliningrad.RU, 2010-09-21 The Lithuanian electricity distributor, Inter RAO Lietuva, will begin selling electricity produced at the Baltic Nuclear Power Plant (Baltic NPP) being built in Russia's Kaliningrad region. Inter RAO Lietuva, a subsidiary of Russia's state-owned electricity group, Inter RAO UES, will be in charge of exporting Baltic NPP's output through the planned power links to Poland and Sweden to customers in the EU. Baltic NPP will produce 17.2 TWh of electricity per year by 2020. The nuclear plant's first unit will be launched in 2013. © Esmerk Nordic Electricity consumers to gain freedom across borders Nordisk Industri, 2010-09-23 The Swedish Energy Markets Inspectorate (Energimarknadsinspektionen), in cooperation with its corresponding organisations in Denmark, Norway and Finland, have worked to formulate a shared electricity market between the countries. They hope that by 2015, households/businesses will be free to choose their electricity providers from any of these countries. In order for this to work, NordREG (Nordic Energy Regulators) will play a more active role in connection with clients, with electricity network companies sliding out of focus. This way consumers will only have to be in contact with one company regarding their electricity contract. Under these outlines, consumers will only need to deal with the electricity trading company, which will also handle all invoicing and other relevant matters for their business, as well as, for the electricity network providers. © Esmerk Norway EWZ acquires 20% stake in Jæren Energi Stavanger Aftenblad, 2010-09-22 A 20% stake in Norwegian local energy company Jæren Energi has been acquired by EWZ Deutschland, the German subsidiary of Elektrisitätswerk der Stadt Zürich (EWZ), the municipal electricity company in Zurich. The shares have been sold by Norsk Vindenergi and Norsk Vindpro, which both have reduced their stakes to 7% respectively from previous 17%. One fifth of Jæren Energi's wind power production will be exported to Zurich, covering the average electricity consumption of 18,000 households, according to a press release by the City of Zurich. Through holding a stake in the Norwegian company, EWZ also expects benefiting from its technologies when investing in wind power projects in Switzerland. © Esmerk Poland Fortum to decide about new power plant in Wroclaw in spring Wirtualny Nowy Przemysl, 2010-09-17 According to unofficial information, Fortum wants to make a decision whether it will build a new heat and power plant in Wroclaw and whether the plant will be fuelled with biomass, gas or coal in March or April 2011. The company's current strategy envisages investments in Poland, which is considered to be one of the key markets. The new plant is to have a power capacity of some 350 MW. © Esmerk Russia Fortum and Inter RAO UES sign memorandum of cooperation EnergyLand.info, 2010-09-13 Fortum (subsidiary of the Finland-based Fortum) and Inter RAO UES plan to cooperate in the electricity sector. The parties signed a memorandum to jointly explore investment and business opportunities in both Russia and other countries. Within a month, they will create a special working group to consider options for cooperation of two companies. © Esmerk United Kingdom Centrica seeks rapid planning consent for Hinkley Mail on Sunday, 2010-09-19 Centrica's chief executive has warned that planning system delays covering the Hinkley nuclear reactor may have an adverse impact on the security of energy supplies. Sam Laidlaw says that rapid planning clearance is imperative, otherwise the British Gas parent and its nuclear construction partner, EDF, may find themselves losing their place in the queue for nuclear construction contracts. Centrica says that if clearance is not forthcoming by early 2012 for the Hinkley plant, billions of pounds may have to be spent on new gas-fired power facilities. Laidlaw also warned that the UK could be obliged to import around three quarters of its gas requirements. © Esmerk Severn barrage scheme will not receive public funding Wales Online, 2010-09-22 Environment Secretary Chris Huhne could sink plans for a massive tidal project in the Severn estuary, which would have run between the Vale of Glamorgan and Weston-super-Mare. The plan, which would have cost GBP 15bn (EUR 17.65bn USD 23.45bn), but produced 5% of the UK's electricity requirements, will not receive any public funding, according to Huhne. A private consortium has attempted to raise funds for the project, but it is still unlikely to proceed without public backing. A smaller barrage upstream, the so-called Shoots barrage, could go ahead, while the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) says it will look at other schemes also. © Esmerk Huhne hails Green Deal plan Construction News, 2010-09-23 The Green Deal has been described by the climate change secretary as the first initiative of its kind across the developed world. The energy-saving plan, to be introduced prior to end-2010, may establish a completely new industry, helping to offset the impact of the budget squeeze, according to Chris Huhne. Financial incentives will be provided to householders to improve the energy efficiency of their homes, with energy firms paying to insulate properties and their up front investments being recouped by the savings made thereafter. Huhne says that up to 250,000 jobs will be created as a result of work covering 26mn homes. © Esmerk E.ON officially opens Robin Rigg 180MW offshore wind farm New Energy Focus, 2010-09-16 German energy group E.ON has officially opened the 180MW Robin Rigg offshore wind farm scheme off the Cumbrian coast in the Solway Firth on 15 September 2010. The 60-turbine wind farm, which started generating power earlier in 2010, has the capacity to generate enough electricity to power 117,000 homes. Robin Rigg is E.ON's third UK offshore wind farm scheme to be completed, following the Blyth and Scroby Sands projects. © Esmerk Visit Newsroom


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Washington, D.C. November 7, 2011 – To avert a long-term debt crisis, Medicare must bring its expenditures into line with the growth of the GDP. That is the focus of a new report, To Reform Medicare, Reform Incentives and Organization, from the business-led Committee for Economic Development (CED). Alain C. Enthoven, the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, wrote the report.
CED has sent this new report and a summary of all its policy recommendations to the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the "Super Committee") urging them to use their special legislative powers to direct the Congress to reform Medicare. Unless healthcare cost growth is curbed, it will explode both federal finances and business budgets. Employers have struggled with healthcare-cost inflation on a day-to-day basis, and see it as a major threat to future economic growth.
To Reform Medicare, Reform Incentives and Organization outlines how to bring Medicare's cost growth in line with growth of the GDP. It applies the principles of managed competition – greater cost-consciousness through choice and competition – to Medicare's open-ended, fee-for-service system.
Medicare expenditures, about $556 billion in 2011, have grown as much as 2.5 percentage points per year faster than the GDP over the past 25 years. In the next 10 years, with the retirement of the baby-boomers, the growth rate of the beneficiary population will increase from 2 to 3 percent per year. Under present policies, annual Medicare expenditures are likely to reach $1 trillion.
Medicare spending has grown so rapidly because of aging of the population; a large increase in the prevalence of costly chronic conditions and in the costs of treating them; advancing technology, which expands what medical care can do to improve and lengthen lives but rarely reduces costs; and our fragmented financing and delivery system that is filled with cost-increasing incentives and cost-unconscious demand. American medicine is dominated by uncoordinated open-ended fee-for-service, which encourages providers to deliver greater volumes of care, not necessarily improved outcomes.
In 2005, a Committee of the National Academy of Sciences reported "an estimated thirty to forty cents of every dollar spent on health care…is spent on costs associated with overuse, underuse, misuse, duplication, system failures, unnecessary repetition, poor communication and inefficiency." Curing these problems will require a profound change in organization and incentives.
All participants in the healthcare system need information, incentives and resources to work together to do what is best for patients. There are many ways to cut costs while improving quality, including but not limited to: best practices for prevention of infections; stronger primary care for prevention, early detection and treatment of disease; and active management of chronic diseases to reduce need for hospital care. Eventually, these fundamental changes could yield improved quality of care and healthcare expenditures half of what they would be if we stayed with the failed model we have today. These improvements will not occur by fiat. We need provider incentives aligned with the need for high-quality, affordable care.
Reform outside of Medicare is needed as well. Employment-based insurance breeds cost-unconscious demand that will undermine Medicare reform by competing with Medicare for resources. (See CED's 2007 report on reform of the employer system.) The tax exclusion of employer contributions should be abolished and replaced by a refundable tax credit usable only for purchase of health insurance, independent of the employer, to stop the open-ended tax subsidy to more-costly health insurance. Choice should be broadened for to employees by phasing in a requirement that small employers with fewer than 500 employees (about half the work force) buy health insurance through exchanges. Also, an effective anti-trust policy for health care is essential for true savings from competition.
To Reform Medicare, Reform Incentives and Organization is available here.

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Saxophone artiste Gianni Denitto, and drummer Matteo Fraboni first met each other at a jazz camp in 2008 in the Italian city of Tuscany, and hit it off. They started doing gigs at clubs, toured in Netherlands, and even cut a quartet album. So when friend-cum-brother Denitto asked Fraboni to join him for an India tour, as part of the cultural exchange programme a�?Italy meets Indiaa��, the latter agreed readily. And Fraboni is loving the experience a�� from playing at music and literary fests in Udaipur, Jaipur, Delhi and Goa, to savouring the vibrant food.
Tonight, the duo performs in Bengaluru for the first time, while collaborating with local favourite KN Prakash on bass guitar. Matteo has worked with Prakash in the past, and knew he fit the bill for this contemporary jazz night, titled Gianni Dettino Trio.
a�?I trust Matteoa��s recommendation (of Prakash),a�? says Denitto, whoa��s shared the stage with Indian artistes such as Nandlal Nayak, and Susmit Sen before, adding, a�?Thata��s the beauty of jazz. You can play together, and share your emotions even if you dona��t know each other.a�? Matteo backs him up, saying, a�?Jazz is a beautiful medium to communicate with other musicians. And a trio setup like ours offers a lot of room to improvise.a�?
At the Bengaluru gig, expect a mix of their respective compositions, sounds inspired from the American jazz tradition, and a few songs they have picked up from different cultures, of course, with the jazz filter.
When asked about his thoughts on the current jazz scene, Matteo says, a�?Back in the day, jazz artistes from the US and Europe used to make music that was way ahead of their time. We need to make more futuristic music.a�?
April 1. Tickets (Rs 400) available at the venue. At Indiranagar. 9 pm. Details: 41739250
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In November 2011, three SJC students embarked on a Work Integrated Learning project with Queensland Canegrowers. The students were given a brief to produce video news stories on the impact of pesticide run-off into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon.
Lisa Machin, Melody Pedler and Kimberley Vlasic worked under the guidance of SJC Industry Consultants – Skye Doherty, Dr Bruce Redman, Carmel Rooney and Anthony Frangi.
Over six weeks, the students researched, wrote and co-ordinated their stories in preparation for the location shoot in Far North Queensland. The shoot took place over four days in Cairns, Atherton, Tully, Innisfail and Babinda. Interviews were conducted with cane farmers in the region as well as representatives from CSIRO, Reef and Rainforest Research Centre, BSES (Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations) and members of Local and State Government.
The three news stories written and produced by Lisa, Melody and Kimberley were:
The School of Journalism and Communication would like to thank Canegrowers for providing this unique learning opportunity. Lisa Machin and Melody Pedler are now working as reporters for regional news publications.


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What's up! I'm a second year student at the University of Louisville, my current pursuit is a bachelors in Marketing and a minor in entrepreneurship! Not too sure what I want to do exactly yet, but owning/running my own business sounds like a pretty cool idea.
This mindset is one of the reasons I pursued being a rep for CP, it's definitely helped get my feet wet in the marketing and sales aspect that I know I can expect later in life!


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Yes, we deserve to survive. It is not the common European man, in the streets, that is being dominated by the disease of white guilt, but the elite ruling the European societies, an elite intellectualy, and most of all, emotionally, converted by the anti-racist «evangelization», whose ethics is essentially derived from the Christian mindset. That's the reason why anti-racism is so strong in Europe and not in societies that were not Christianized, such as India, Korea, China and Japan.ReplyDelete
But that is, it can never be too much stressed, the «conscience» of the ruling elite. Given the chance to vote for the «racists», the common man of Europe does actually seize it, as much as he listens the speech of these «racists». That's what happening, in different measures and contexts, in France, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Sweden, Holland.
I don't think that's true, though. There are "racist" parties in most countries and they are generally small and marginal. People have internalised the ethical taboos our system and culture have created and are not willing to violate them, even if it means their own destruction.ReplyDelete
Or consider the Counterjihad movement. Even the non-Jewish parts of it in Europe are now essentially boycotting me because I now speak openly about the facilitating role Jews are playing in what is happening to us. These people obviously have some ethical standard that says "Must not say bad things about Jews" and are willing to shun anyone who violates it, even if that person could help them in their struggle to survive the threat of Islam. That is what I mean. When people place some abstract ethical consideration above their own survival, they have, in effect, consented to their own destruction.
It is as if vegetarians let their child die of malnutrition because they didn't want to feed it meat.
Modern society flattens peoples instincts. Thats just a base observation to conclude from there. Had we still people who have to trust their own instincts to survive, manipulating would not have been that successful.ReplyDelete
We have in europa a long history of totalitarian order in christian fashion. Most societies function around tabu subjects. So they installed some wicked taboos after ww2. WW2 was a huge shock and the taboos associated with it, "antisemitism" and later "rayyycissm" have been hammered all the decades through into each and every one from young age on. White guilt is another product of these taboos, following the charge of "racist" ancestors. The guilt tripping is run into the guilt lane that christianity carved into european souls (hereditary sin and all that insane poison).
So all in all, europeans are charged and cannot escape intellectually, as they are busy learning their given school or career material. The media offers them no viewpoint to see behind the taboo and thus a small mainority only dares to search. Mostly people who do search behind this have too much time on their hands, no stable career and family duties. Mind also, societies thrive on conformity since christianity. In this world, so much confusing data is around, a worldview hard to develop. So the very large majority simply choses to conform to its next best guys, the schools' or the big media's wordlview. Who is keen on disrupting the social order around one self? No one is keen on this. So conforming to the mainstream is a virtue of keeping order, keeping society from plunging into chaos. These are all strong factors.
I once saw a documentary on the stunning drive to conform to majorities views proven by by experimentations. The majority will always just go with the perceived majorities view. As long as media is able to keep most crucial data under wraps and pretend the majority clings to the established taboos, the majority will insist on its destruction through immigration. Should the media fail in this task and conflict and chaos with crime counter the peace keeping urge of conformity, the new political forces can gain credibility. Note that the urge to conform might as well persuade only superficially the individual might harbor or even hide only from others a new set of views that can run against the guilt tripping ethnocidal tendencies. We need chaos and worsening economies coupled with high etnocrime from invaders. Then the inner instincts can again take hold and burst out, saving europe from the invaders.
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It's shell-shock. This condition is a human frailty,not a White one. However, it is pretty much only Whites who can be shell-shocked by their own morals. Yes, we deserve to live, because a people that has the ability to learn,understand, and grow always deserves the chance to do so. We have come so far, and have much farther to go yet.ReplyDelete
What we have done shows us the way to what we can do.
We can fight this suicidal death spiral.
Those of us who WANT to live, will. Those who don't,will not. And the new White people will arise from the ashes of the old.
I think it is a perfectly fair,and even beautiful, test.
If you see through the Jewdoo Box's lies, you remember how things were and want them to be that way again, if you oppose the anti-White proposition that all White countries and only White countries must be flooded with non-White immigrants at replacement levels, then have children and live, and spread those beliefs to your children. Step over the corpses of those Whites who do NOT oppose the anti-White agenda and take whatever you need from their bodies and estates as they kill themselves before the darkies and illegal aliens can,use this to feed your White families.
The path to survival is all very simple, almost completely instinctual even. Those who don't get it or don't want to,no, they don't deserve to live and will kill themselves. They are lost and will never even desire freedom or a healthy racial group no matter what happens. Those of us who WANT to live,and to be great,deserve to live and will do so.
This is all Mother Nature,here. She cares about your actions, not your feelings. If you don't hunt, you starve. If you don't heal rapidly, you starve. If you don't interpret the tracks and signs on the ground well enough, you starve. And if you don't fight back when you are attacked, you get eaten.
Fight back by having lots of White kids and teaching them about their folk and the realities of other races. Teach them to be honest and responsible and to look after their own kin and their elderly and young folk. We all have to prepare,and to begin to prepare our young for on-going and continuous racial holy war.


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Nairobi: Joyce Kabaki-Executive Director
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Mombasa: Jorem Mutsotso-Office Head
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Then out of nowhere you are like I AM THE GODDAMN BRONY BATMAN.
Better to post infrequently and have good things to say, then to post all the time and say a lot of useless crap.
No. I think we yellow is a good color for a commander. ....I'm gonna be sad when I move red and lose my blue!
It would be cool if you could make a custom Helmet and then make it your rank...
Maybe the Mods should et whatever colors THEY want for themselves, hmmm?That way they get whatever they want personally.
More ranks after commander?
could be but thats the jedi way
Drake is flamboyant, and may go over the top, but if he were not that extrovert then who would move things along?


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Well it doesn't take a Nuclear Physicists to figure out the subject of this book. Andrew Leatherbarrow has obviously spent a lot of time researching this book and it shows in the quality of the writing.
Chernobyl goes hand in hand with Nuclear Disaster but how many really know more than the basics of this historic disaster. This book not only goes into the details of the meltdown as it unfolds but also gives a view of the history of nuclear power disasters as well as what happened afterwards.
What I really loved about this book is the authors story of travelling to Chernobyl to truly immerse himself in the subject matter.I recommend this book to anyone with a passing interest in the Chernobyl disaster. This book is destined to become the go to book for those wanting to have a ver good overview.
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says that the company is trying to make similar next generation console and handheld hardware with a cross compatible operating system. This sounds as close as we can get to a hybrid machine, which many were expecting and hoping Nintendo would create.
"Last year Nintendo reorganized its R&D divisions and integrated the handheld device and home console development teams into one division under Mr. Takeda."
"Also, as technological advances took place at such a dramatic rate, and we were forced to choose the best technologies for video games under cost restrictions, each time we developed a new platform, we always ended up developing a system that was completely different from its predecessor. The only exception was when we went from Nintendo GameCube to Wii."
"In this perspective, while we are only going to be able to start this with the next system, it will become important for us to accurately take advantage of what we have done with the Wii U architecture. It of course does not mean that we are going to use exactly the same architecture as Wii U, but we are going to create a system that can absorb the Wii U architecture adequately. When this happens, home consoles and handheld devices will no longer be completely different, and they will become like brothers in a family of systems."
"Still, I am not sure if the form factor (the size and configuration of the hardware) will be integrated. In contrast, the number of form factors might increase. Currently, we can only provide two form factors because if we had three or four different architectures, we would face serious shortages of software on every platform. To cite a specific case, Apple is able to release smart devices with various form factors one after another because there is one way of programming adopted by all platforms. Apple has a common platform called iOS. Another example is Android. Though there are various models, Android does not face software shortages because there is one common way of programming on the Android platform that works with various models. The point is, Nintendo platforms should be like those two examples."


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A member of the Budget Motel Chain, the Alexander Motel and the fully licensed restaurant is all about quality and affordability.
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Guy House B&B caters for a couple, or a family group of up to 4 persons.
The Centre Point Mid-City Motor Inn has 19 well appointed quiet units built away from the highway.
We are located within easy walking distance to the Warwick RSL, restaurants and many other food outlets as well as the center of Warwick's CBD.
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Our accommodation facilities include Free Austar, a large salt water pool, BBQ and spacious two bedroom family units.
PITSTOP LODGE is a self-contained old Queensland home that has a comfortable, homely atmosphere, at a reasonable price.
We can accommodate up to 12 guests at any time, which makes it ideal for groups, couples and singles. PITSTOP LODGE can be booked as a whole house, or individual bookings.
Coachman's Inn Warwick is Warwick's newest and finest Motel. We opened on the 5th October 2006. One of the many benefits of Coachman's Inn Warwick is that it is located at the western end of Wood Street (New England Highway) and is a two minute drive to the town centre, tourist attractions and all civil and commercial facilities. The Warwick Hospital is less than a kilometre from our front door.
We are a family business and go the extra mile to proudly offer a high standard of service to ensure you experience terrific hospitality, whether you are staying with us or dining in our fully licensed bar & grill.
The luxury motel comprises 29 well appointed units – queen, queen & king single, family, dual key operation and king spa suites as well as 2 bedroom serviced apartments. All motel units have broadband access for the business executive, Austar television and DVD players. The property includes a swimming pool and guest laundry.
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By Nate Raymond and Zachary Fagenson
Dec 27 (Reuters) - The city of Miami on Friday lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that accused the city of fraud by making misleading statements and omissions in connection with municipal bond offerings.
U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga in Miami, Florida, said she was not convinced the SEC's complaint was a "shotgun pleading," rejecting the city's claims the agency failed to allege any false or misleading statement.
"Those general allegations support each claim for relief and identify the relevant events, misrepresentations, and omissions advanced by the SEC," Altonaga wrote.
The judge also rejected arguments the SEC failed to show that any of the alleged misstatements or omissions were material to investors, saying there was "just enough" to prevent such a finding.
In a separate ruling Friday, Altonaga also declined to dismiss the SEC's fraud claims against Michael Boudreaux, a former budget director for the city. Boudreaux had contended as a public official he had qualified immunity from civil liability.
Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado in an interview said the city "sort of expected this ruling." He promised to continue litigating, but also said Miami was willing to settle the case.
"What I hope is that we can get a settlement that would not affect the positive outlook that we have in the bond offerings of the city now," he said.
Representatives for the SEC did not respond to a request for comment. A lawyer for Boudreaux also did not respond to a request for comment.
The SEC sued Miami and Boudreaux in July amid a crackdown by the agency on issuers in the $3.7 trillion municipal bond market for failing to provide investors accurate and timely information.
The lawsuit said that beginning in 2008, Miami and Boudreaux made misleading statements about interfund transfers in three 2009 bond offerings for $153.5 million.
The SEC also accused the administration of the city, which has a population of 414,000 people, of violating a 2003 cease-and-desist order entered into to with the agency over similar misconduct.
Since the SEC filed the lawsuit in July, the city hired a new budget director, and a trio of top finance staff resigned in late August. In response to the allegation, the city has also offered to bring in a new finance team under a revamped structure.
The city is also under SEC investigation in a probe focused on $500 million in bonds that the city and county sold to pay for the Marlins' new baseball park in Little Havana.
The lawsuit came two months after the SEC similarly sued Florida's South Miami for fraud, saying it did not disclose issues with the tax-exempt status of two bond deals.
It was one of a number of actions the SEC has taken this year against municipal issuers.
In May, the SEC brought a landmark case accusing Pennsylvania's capital city of Harrisburg of making misleading statements outside of disclosure documents.
A month earlier, it accused Victorville, California, and others of defrauded investors by inflating the value of property used to secure a 2008 bond sale.
The SEC in March settled securities fraud claims against Illinois for misleading investors about its pension problems.
Most recently, the SEC announced in November a $20,000 settlement with the Greater Wenatchee Regional Events Center Public Facilities District, a municipal corporation formed by nine cities in Washington state.
The settlement, which resolved claims it misled investors in a bond offering financing an events center and hockey arena, was the first time the SEC had assessed a financial penalty against a municipal issuer.
The case is Securities and Exchange Commission v. City of Miami, Florida, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, No. 13-22600.


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Is Chopticon High School Haunted?
A Ghost Haunts Chopticon High...
About a year ago I wrote an article on the Ten Most Haunted Schools on the US East Coast, and it got quite a response due to a particular section written about a ghost haunting Chopticon High School. I am an alumni of Chopticon High School, and while I went to Chopticon High School I would hear many stories of a female ghost that was said to be the unsettled spirit of a woman who once taught at Chopticon High School...a woman by the name of Mrs. Heater.
The story varies from person to person, and many of the accounts told debate the true occurrence surrounding the untimely and tragic death of Mrs. Heater, but one thing mostly everyone agrees on is the fact that Chopticon High School is most definitely haunted by someone...or something. Is the ghost that haunts Chopticon High School the ghost of Mrs. Heater or is this "hogwash" as some might claim?
Mrs. Heater's Death
Mrs. Heater was a teacher at Chopticon High School. The topic that she taught is debated by the Chopticon High alumni now, but she was either an English teacher or a Business teacher for Chopticon High back in the 1980s. Mrs. Heater was a teacher that was well-loved by much of the student population, and everyone knew who she was. When she was murdered, the student body and surrounding citizens in the town were quite shaken...not to mention her family was thrown into a battle of emotions and imminent mourning.
A man by the name of Lester Broome (no it's not a made-up name as some claim) was Mrs. Heater's murderer. Apparently Mrs. Heater was at Chopticon High School one day when a disturbed individual took a knife to Mrs. Heater...taking her life. One source says that she was working at the school during the summer of 1983 when this Lester Broome who was a part of some work-release or handicapped program of some sort was cutting grass at the school. The story goes that Mr. Broome hated Mrs. Heater and wanted to take her out...and so he did. Some say that he stabbed her many times and dragged her body from a classroom to the nearest bathroom on the second floor. Other sources say that he tried to hide her body in the ceiling of the bathroom.
Where were the other teachers that day? Didn't anyone hear this going on or see something strange? One Chopticon High alumni says that a music teacher named Mr. Jester was also at Chopticon High that day but was in a totally different section of the building, thereby disabling him from hearing any of the activity. When Mr. Jester went to close up the school and check on Mrs. Heater, he found a trail of blood leading from Mrs. Heater's classroom to the bathroom. That was where Mr. Jester found Mrs. Heater's body.
Lester Broome was tried as a competent adult for the murder of Mrs. Heater and is apparently still in jail to this day. Some references state that Lester Broome's lawyers tried to get him off of the charges with an insanity plea...but that plea was said to have been thrown out by the judges.
Now, I have to stop here and say that I truly feel sorry for the victim in this story and her family and my heart goes out to them, even to this day. My stepsister knew Mrs. Heater's children well and confirms that this story is indeed truth...and a very sad truth at that.
Now legends and stories circulate St. Mary's County and Southern Maryland about a very haunted Chopticon High School. Could these hauntings be the ghost of Mrs. Heater? While we'd like to think that Mrs. Heater is in a better place, it is sometimes true that ghosts reside in places where their lives were tragically taken...so it is quite possible.
A Haunted Chopticon High School
So what sorts of creepy things occur at this haunted Chopticon High School in Morganza, MD? Footsteps are among the most common occurrences and paranormal experiences documented about Chopticon's haunted hallways and classrooms. One source even claimed that she and her friends were standing in one of the hallways of Chopticon High School when they heard phantom footsteps...footsteps sounding like high heels clicking down the hall and walking right up next to where the girls were standing. Needless to say, they were all very spooked and fled the hallway immediately.
When I went to Chopticon High School, I spent the night the smaller auditorium during a cheerleading fundraiser night. The girls and I were very creeped out to stay at the school, even though the stories of hauntings weren't quite so popular back then...the school still carried an air of "something isn't right here" and tended to creep most of us out to the point where we didn't want to leave the auditorium without a large group of girls present. I never experienced footsteps or any paranormal activity directly, except the feeling of something being around us...a feeling that I never quite shook from that night.
Feelings of impending doom and an air of uneasiness are quite often felt by students and even teachers that go to Chopticon High School to this day. Could these feelings of discomfort and phantom footsteps be attributed to Mrs. Heater's ghost? They could very well be; however, I am also a believer that sometimes imprints are left on the land...so it is possible that the land that Chopticon High School sits upon is actually haunted...and not necessarily the school itself. If you think about the history of St. Mary's County, then you would know that much turmoil has left its energetic imprint on the land.
Before and during the time that the English settlers came and began building in St. Mary's County, there were Natives living in this area of Maryland. Most of these Natives were eventually driven out or have since died...so is it possible that the Natives could be haunting the land where Chopticon resides? What about the battles between the Catholics and Protestants in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? If one is to do research on the troubles between the Catholics and Protestants in Maryland, one would see that much fighting occurred between the English settlers...possibly causing a residual haunting upon the land of Southern Maryland...and possibly the land where Chopticon High School sits.
What do you think? Is Chopticon High School indeed haunted by the ghost of the woman who died tragically in the summer of 1983 or are these hauntings simply residual energetic imprints left behind by more tumultuous times in Maryland's thick history?
© 2012 Kitty Fields
Nic article kitty
I am a 1985 grad and yes it happen the summer of 84 right before School started for the 84-85 year. Mrs. Hester was a Business teacher at the school and was in charge of running the School Book Store. I had no class with her but I did have dealing with her at the store and she was a very nice lady. Her body was found in the corner bathroom right outside of the Book Store. Mr. Jester was a Music teacher and the Band Director at Chopticon. I remember when school started for the year none of girls want to go into that bathroom where her body was found. Lester Broome had relative that attend the school but if I am not mistaken they were shipped to Leonardtown High. I will remember this sick act the rest of my life.
This is so sad to read. Beverly Heater is my aunt. I recently went to a family reunion and decided to look up her sons to see if I could reconnect with them. While searching for them I came across this article. I'd like to thank the author for showing sensitivity to her family. This tragedy was and still is so difficult for our family. In fact, my dad had to move our family away from the state as part of his healing process. I can only hope she's at peace and looking over her family and not roaming the hallways of this school.
My mother had her in 83 and it was told that mrs willingham was after school one night and heard high heels looked at the door mrs heaters was standing there only one in the school she grabed her keys and went out the emergency window
The only reason. He did that because he thought she made a rude jesture so he flipped out
It's just stupid you idiot
It's true my mom had her
Beverly Heater was the DECA advisor and was in charge of the book store. She was also a member of FBLA. She educated at CHS from August 1972 until the time of her death in August 1984.
Beverly Heater was the DECA advisor and was in charge of the book store. She was also a member of FBLA. She educated at CHS from August 1972 until the time of her death in August 1984.
Lester was released a few years ago and is still living in St. Marys County. 7th District
It is true, it it was during the day (Aug. 3, 1984). As any of the band students would attest, we showed up to band practice that day and were told to go home. The parking lot was full of police cars. According to the story as I remember, it was Mr. Copsey and Mr. Jester that found her. Mr. Broome was with a group from the Loretta House (which was a home for troubled youths in the 80's) working in the fields next to the school. Now the part I heard as rumor back then was that they had cut a watermelon as a snack, and he took the knife from that into the school. He killed her upstairs in the women's bathroom and hid the knife in the ceiling. He did plead guilty to the charges.
This story is true about miss heater I had her for a teacher in the 80's the year that it happened is wrong . I got out in 84 and this took place after that . But it is true I knew Lester also and he was definitely not right.
I went to Chopticon and Mrs. Heater was also my teacher, a very sweet lady. She maybe haunting the school to watch over all the students. She was a good teacher and cared for the students in the school. I hope she finds peace some day but until then, students shouldn't have no fear of her. I graduated in the year 1975.
yes,that was a true story she was a business teacher and a very nice teacher, she was my teacher, she was working after hours. She had small children at the time this happen. If the school is haunted by hwe ghost she will not hurt you., she would not hurt a fly. let in rest in peace, love you MRS. HEATE
There was a Lester Broome found guilty of 1st degree murder for something done in 1986. Not found guilty until 2000. You can find anything on the MD Judiciary Case Search. link is below ;)
Was there ever a newspaper article on this? If so, any idea where I can find it?
I to also went to Chopticon and it happened on the second floor at the top of the first stairwell if you were coming through the old main entrance. I can recall running the halls late at night trying to work off the last couple pounds for wrestling and always feeling very uneasy. That place was definitely spooky when it was empty and dark. I love that school but there is definitely something going on in there for sure.
Did the police say that she was raped and killed or just killed? weird that they didn't say the real reason behind this story and did mr broome admit why he did it? soo much questions going on my mind but yeah i feel very sorry for her :(
i went to chopticon a few yrs ago n there is a bathroom tht didn't rub me right could verywell be tha woman but i also feel it could be the land and not to mention theres a cemetary not to far away from tha school
I'm a freshmen at CHS now and I've heard of these stories a lot. I've heard that it was a mentally handicapped kid during the summer working and he dragged her in one of the boys bathroom and raped and killed her but you know these kind of stories differ from the person you ask but I do believe she was killed somehow and haunts the school
What a great hub for which I have to award an up up and away.
Take care and enjoy the rest of your day.
I went to a school where 16 or 17 kids and a teacher died in a firei never knew it t- no one said anything until I was in 7th grade- out of the school.. but I do remember smelling firewood fire smell at times-but the fire happened almost 40 years earlier...
!!! who knew!!!!
Great hub. I think the school is haunted by the teacher, though she does not appear to be doing anything bad to anyone.
Interesting, and I feel intensely sorry for Mrs. Heater. I hope she is at peace now.
You really know how to cut to the core of a man. I'm going to cry myself to sleep now.
Interesting story--I often wonder of some hauntings are related to really old energy in the land---
Unfortunately this is the price of a public education. First Chopticon, next Columbine - both haunted institutions.
Interesting. It could be a combination of both sources of haunts. Has the site ever been professionally investigated? This might be an interesting case for T.A.P.S.
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The comedy of Animaniacs was a broad mix of old-fashioned wit, slapstick, pop culture references,[2] and cartoon violence and wackiness. The show featured a number of comedic educational segments that covered subjects such as history, mathematics, geography, astronomy, science, and social studies, often in musical form. Animaniacs itself was a variety show, with short skits featuring a large cast of characters. While the show had no set format, the majority of episodes were composed of three short mini-episodes, each starring a different set of characters, and bridging segments.
Animaniacs first aired on "Fox Kids" from 1993 to 1995 and new episodes later appeared on The WB from 1995 to 1998 as part of its "Kids' WB" afternoon programming block. The series had a total of 99 episodes and one film, titled Wakko's Wish. It later aired on Nickelodeon, Nicktoons Network, and Cartoon Network in syndication. The Hub will start airing the series regularly in reruns on January 7, 2013.
The Warner siblings and the other characters lived in Burbank, California.[3] However, characters from the series had episodes in various places and periods of time. The Animaniacs characters interacted with famous persons and creators of the past and present as well as mythological characters and characters from modern television. Andrea Romano, the voice director and caster for Animaniacs, said that the Warner siblings functioned to "tie the show together," by appearing in and introducing other characters' segments.[4] Each Animaniacs episode usually consisted of two or three cartoon shorts.[5] Animaniacs segments ranged in time, from bridging segments less than a minute long to episodes spanning the entire show length; writer Peter Hastings said that the varying episode lengths gave the show a "sketch comedy" atmosphere.
Animaniacs had a large cast of characters, separated into separate segments, with each pair or set of characters acting in its own plot. The Warners, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, were three cartoon stars from the 1930s that were locked away in the Warner Bros. water tower until the 1990s, when they escaped.[3] After their escape, they often interacted with Warner Bros. studio workers, including Ralph, the security guard; Dr. Otto Scratchansniff, the studio psychiatrist, and his assistant Hello Nurse. Pinky and the Brain are two genetically altered laboratory mice that continuously plot and attempt to take over the world.[7] Slappy Squirrel is an aged cartoon star that would easily outwit antagonists and educate her nephew, Skippy Squirrel, about cartoon techniques.[8] Additional principal characters included Rita and Runt, Buttons and Mindy, Chicken Boo, Flavio and Marita (The Hip Hippos), Katie Ka-Boom, a trio of pigeons known as The Goodfeathers, and Minerva Mink.
- Yakko, Wakko, and Dot
- Skippy and Slappy
- Pinky and the Brain
- Rita & Runt
- Buttons and Mindy
- Goodfeathers
- The Hip Hippo's
- Chicken Boo (Skit)
- The Flame (Skit)
- Minerva Mink (Skit)
- Katie Ka-Boom (Skit)
- The Mr. Skullhead Show
- Good Idea, Bad Idea
- Mime Time
- Dot's Poetry Corner
- The Great Wakkorotti
- Random Warner Song
- Slappy Advertisement
- The Randy Beeman Kid
- Useless Fact
- Scene from Shakespeare
- Newsreel of the Stars
- The Wheel of Morality
Creation and inspiration
The Animaniacs cast of characters had a variety of inspiration, from celebrities to writers' family members to other writers. Executive Producer Steven Spielberg said that the irreverence in Looney Tunes cartoons inspired the Animaniacs cast.[1] The general premise of Animaniacs and the Warner siblings were created by Tom Ruegger, who also came up with the concept and characters for Pinky and the Brain. Ruegger was also the senior producer and creative leader of the show. Writer Deanna Oliver contributed The Goodfeathers scripts and the character Chicken Boo.[6] Producer and writer Sherri Stoner contributed heavily to Slappy Squirrel and Pinky and the Brain.[6] Nicholas Hollander based Katie Kaboom on his teenage daughter.[6]
Senior Producer Tom Ruegger modeled the Warners' personalities heavily after those of his three sons.[9] Because the Warners were portrayed as cartoon stars from the early 1930s, Ruegger and other artists for Animaniacs made the images of the Warners similar to cartoon characters of the early 1930s.[9] Simple black and white drawings were very common in cartoons of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Buddy, Felix the Cat, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and the early versions of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
Tom Ruegger created Pinky and the Brain after being inspired by the personalities of two of his Tiny Toon Adventures colleagues, Eddie Fitzgerald and Tom Minton. Ruegger thought of the premise of Pinky and the Brain when he wondered what would happen if Minton and Fitzgerald tried to take over the world.[10]
Sherri Stoner created Slappy the Squirrel when another writer and friend of Stoner, John McCann, made fun of Stoner's career in TV movies playing troubled teenagers. When McCann joked that Sherri would be playing troubled teenagers when she was fifty years old, Sherri developed the idea of Slappy's characteristics as an older person acting like a teenager.[6] Sherri Stoner liked the idea of an aged cartoon character because an aged cartoon star would know the secrets of other cartoons and "have the dirt on [them]".
Steven Spielberg was the executive producer during the entire run, Tom Ruegger was the senior producer, Jean MacCurdy was the executive in charge of production, and Rich Arons, Sherri Stoner, Peter Hastings, Rusty Mills, and Liz Holzman were producers of the show. The producers of the show usually had other jobs on the series; Tom Ruegger, Rich Arons, and Sherri Stoner all served as writers, and Spielberg was very involved in the show's writing, checking every script for the series.[5] Voice director Andrea Romano said that Spielberg also came up with story ideas, read storyboards, and came to recording sessions.
Writers for Animaniacs included writers Tom Ruegger, Sherri Stoner and Paul Rugg, Deanna Oliver, John McCann, Nicholas Hollander, Peter Hastings, Charlie Howell, Gordon Bressack, Jeff Kwitny, Earl Kress, Tom Minton, and Randy Rogel. Writers Hastings, Rugg, Stoner, McCann, Howell, and Bressack were involved in sketch comedy.[6] Other writers for the series came from cartoon backgrounds, including Kress, Minton, and Randy Rogel.[6]
Made-up stories did not exclusively comprise Animaniacs writing, as writer Peter Hastings said: "We weren't really there to tell compelling stories(...) [As a writer] you could do a real story, you could recite the Star-Spangled Banner, or you could parody a commercial(...) you could do all these kinds of things, and we had this tremendous freedom and a talent to back it up."[6] Writers for the series wrote into Animaniacs stories that happened to them; the episodes "Ups and Downs," "Survey Ladies," and "I Got Yer Can" were episodes based on true stories that happened to Paul Rugg,[11] Deanna Oliver, and Sherri Stoner,[6] respectively. Another episode, "Bumbi's Mom," both parodied the film Bambi and was a story based on Stoner's childhood reaction to the film.[4]
In an interview, writers for the series said that Animaniacs allowed for non-restrictive and open writing.[6] Writer Peter Hastings said that the format of the series had the atmosphere of a sketch comedy show because Animaniacs segments could widely vary in both time and subject.[6] Writer Sherri Stoner said that the Animaniacs writing staff worked well as a team in that writers could consult other writers on how to write or finish a story, as was the case in the episode "The Three Muska-Warners".[6] Writers Rugg, Hastings and Stoner said that the Animaniacs writing was free in that the writers were allowed to write about and parody subjects that would not be touched on other series.
The Animaniacs voice cast came from Animaniacs predecessor, Tiny Toon Adventures, including the voices of Yakko and Dot, Rob Paulsen and Tress MacNeille, respectively. Andrea Romano, the voice director and caster for Animaniacs, said that the casters wanted Paulsen to play the role of Yakko: "We had worked with Rob Paulsen before on a couple of other series and we wanted him to play Yakko." Paulsen also played the roles of Pinky and Dr. Otto Scratchansniff.[5] Romano said that the casters had "no trouble" choosing the role of Dot: "Tress MacNeille was just hilarious (...) And yet [she had] that edge."[4] The voice of Wakko, Jess Harnell, on the other hand, did not come from Tiny Toons, and said that before Animaniacs, he had little experience in voice acting other than minor roles for Disney which he "fell into".[4] Harnell said that at the audition for the show, he did a John Lennon impression and the audition "went great".[4] Producer and writer Sherri Stoner voiced Slappy the Squirrel. Stoner said that when she gave an impression of what the voice would be to Spielberg, he said she should fill the role.[4] The voice actress who played the voice of Rita, Bernadette Peters, is a Tony Award-winning musical theatre actress, and Romano herself wanted her for the role.[4] Other voice actors included Maurice LaMarche, the voice of the Brain, Squit, and the belching segments "The Great Wakkorotti" (Jess Harnell said that he himself is commonly mistaken for the role);[4] Frank Welker, the voice of Runt; and various voices by Jim Cummings, Paul Rugg, Vernee Watson-Johnson, Jeff Bennett and Gail Matthius (from Tiny Toon Adventures). Tom Ruegger's three sons also played roles on the series. Nathan Ruegger voiced Skippy Squirrel, nephew to Slappy, throughout the duration of the series; Luke Ruegger voiced The Flame in historical segments on Animaniacs; and Cody Ruegger voiced Birdie from Wild Blue Yonder.
Animation work on Animaniacs was farmed out to several different studios, both American and international, over the course of the show's production. The animation companies included Tokyo Movie Shinsha (now known as TMS Entertainment), StarToons,[12] Wang Film Productions, Freelance Animators New Zealand, and AKOM, and most Animaniacs episodes frequently had animation from different companies in each episode's respective segments.[13]
Animaniacs was made with a higher production value than standard television animation; the show had a higher cel count than most TV cartoons.[11] The Animaniacs characters often move fluidly, and do not regularly stand still and speak, as in other television cartoons.
Animaniacs was a very musical cartoon, with every episode featuring at least one original score. The idea for an original musical score in every episode came from Steven Spielberg.[14] Animaniacs used a 35-piece orchestra,[a] and was scored by a team of composers, led by supervising composer Richard Stone. The composing team included Steve and Julie Bernstein, Carl Johnson, Gordon Goodwin and Tim Kelly.[4] The use of the large orchestra in modern Warner Bros. animation began with Animaniacs predecessor, Tiny Toon Adventures, but Spielberg pushed for its use even more in Animaniacs.[4] Although the outcome was a very expensive show to produce, "the sound sets us apart from everyone else in animation," said Jean MacCurdy, the executive in charge of production for the series.[14] Assistant composers Steve and Julie Bernstein said that not only was the Animaniacs music written in the same style as that of Looney Tunes composer Carl Stalling, but that the music used the same studio and piano that Carl Stalling used.[4] Senior producer Tom Ruegger said that writers Randy Rogel, Nicholas Hollander, and Deanna Oliver wrote "a lot of music" for the series.[6]
Animaniacs had a variety of music types. Many Animaniacs songs were parodies of classical or folk music with educational lyrics, such as "Wakko's America", which listed all the states in the U.S. and their capitals to the tune of Turkey in the Straw.[15][16] Another song, titled "The Presidents", named every US president (up to Bill Clinton, due to production date) to the tune of the William Tell Overture (with a very brief usage of the tune Dixie).[17][18] Another song had Yakko listing the "Nations of the World" to the tune of the Mexican Hat Dance. Non-educational songs included parodies, such as the segment "Slippin' on the Ice", a parody of "Singin' in the Rain".[19][20] Most of the groups of characters even had their own theme songs for their segment on the show.[21]
The Animaniacs series theme song, performed by the Warners, was a very important part of the show. In the series' first season, the theme won an Emmy Award for best song.[22] Richard Stone composed the music for the title sequence and Tom Ruegger wrote the lyrics.[6] Several Animaniacs albums and Sing-along VHS tapes were released, including the CDs Animaniacs, Yakko's World, and Variety Pack, and the tape Animaniacs Sing-Along: Yakko's World.
Hallmarks and humor
The humor of Animaniacs varied in type, ranging from parody to cartoon violence. The series made parodies of television shows and films. In an interview, Spielberg defended the "irreverence" of Animaniacs, saying that the Animaniacs crew has "a point of view" and does not "sit back passively and play both sides equally".[24] Spielberg also said that Animaniacs' humor of social commentary and irreverence were inspired by the Marx Brothers[24] and Looney Tunes cartoons.[1] Animaniacs, among other Spielberg-produced shows, had a large amount of cartoon violence. Spielberg defended the violence in Animaniacs by saying that the series had a balance of both violent humor and educational segments, so the series would never become either too violent or "benign".[24] Animaniacs also made use of catchphrases, recurring jokes and segments, and "adult" humor.
Recurring jokes and catchphrases
Characters on Animaniacs had catchphrases, with some characters having more than one. Notable catchphrases include Yakko's "Goodnight, everybody!" often said following adult humor, Wakko's "Faboo!", and Dot's frequent assertions of her cuteness. The most prominent catchphrase that was said by all the Warners was "Hello-o-o, nurse!"[3] Tom Ruegger said that the "Hello-o-o, Nurse!" line was intended to be a catchphrase much like Bugs Bunny's line, "What's up, doc?"[11] Characters Pinky and the Brain had a catchphrase where Brain would ask Pinky, "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" to which Pinky would always respond with a non-sequitur. At the start of all Pinky and the Brain episodes, Pinky asks "Gee Brain, what do you want to do tonight?", to which Brain answers "The same thing we do every night, Pinky... try to take over the world!" in a segment that preceded the theme song. Also, Brain would shout "Yes!" in response to an idea that he liked.[7] Writer Peter Hastings said that he unintentionally created these catchphrases when he wrote the episode "Win Big," and then Producer Sherri Stoner used them and had them put into later episodes.[6]
Running gags and recurring segments were very common in the show. One example is the close-up of the Warner's water tower after the closing credits; right before the end of the episode, the water tower door would open, one or more of the characters would come out, say something to the audience, and the water tower door would close.[25] Something similar happened in the last few lines of the opening theme, where after the phrase "We're Animaney, Totally Insane-y", one or more of the Warners would chime in with a rhyming phrase. Director Rusty Mills and senior producer Tom Ruegger said that recurring segments like the water tower gag, such as the segment The Wheel of Morality, eased the production of episodes because the same animated scenes could be used more than once.[11] The Wheel of Morality was also used to take up time in an episode that was running short.[11]
Another running gag was that characters would make a brief appearance in other characters' segments and sometimes point out that they are not in the correct episode. Animaniacs even devoted an entire episode to characters and segments being switched around.[26] Characters from Tiny Toon Adventures also made appearances in some episodes of Animaniacs. Because of Steven Spielberg's involvement in the series, a running gag was that his films were mentioned in the series and even a caricature of Spielberg himself appeared a few times; for instance, in the episode "Hooked on a Ceiling", Spielberg was made "eminence" of the Sistine Chapel, and the Warners painted an E.T. picture on its ceiling (in the place of God) reaching out to Elliott (in place of Adam.
Humor and content intended for adults
A great deal of Animaniacs' humor and content was aimed at an adult audience. The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan Pirates of Penzance and H.M.S. Pinafore were parodied in episode 3, "HMS Yakko". Animaniacs parodied the film A Hard Day's Night and the Three Tenors, references that The New York Times wrote were "appealing to older audiences".[28] Some content of Animaniacs was not only aimed at an adult audience but were suggestive in nature. For example, one character, Minerva Mink had episodes that network censors considered too sexually suggestive for the show's intended audience, for which she was soon de-emphasized as a featured character.[4]
The Animaniacs characters had personalities and character traits similar to those of film stars in movies marketed to adults. The Warners personalities were made similar to those of the Marx Brothers and Jerry Lewis, in that they, according to writer Peter Hastings, "wreak havoc," in "serious situations".[6] In addition, the show's recurring Goodfeathers segment was populated with characters based on characters from the 1990 WB film Goodfellas, an R-rated crime drama neither marketed nor intended for children.
Animaniacs parodied popular TV shows and movies and caricatured celebrities.[11] One episode even made fun of a large Animaniacs competitor, Power Rangers,[24] and another episode caricatured Animaniacs' own Internet fans.[29] Animaniacs spoofs were multi-layered, with the episode parodying one specific subject and referencing other subjects along the way. For instance, the episode "Hooked on a Ceiling" did not only parody The Agony and the Ecstasy, but it also featured Quasimodo shouting "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!", a reference to The Hunchback of Notre Dame.[27] Animaniacs made fun of celebrities, major motion pictures, television shows for adults (Seinfeld and Friends, among others), television shows for children, and trends in the US. Animaniacs also made potshots of Disney films, creating parodies of such films as The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, Bambi, and others. Animaniacs Director Russell Calabrese said that not only did it become a compliment to be parodied on Animaniacs but also that being parodied on the series would be taken as a "badge of honor".
Animaniacs became a very successful show, gathering both child and adult fans. The series received ratings higher than its competitors and won eight Daytime Emmy Awards and one Peabody Award.
Ratings and popularity
During its run, Animaniacs became the second-most popular children's show in both demographics of children ages 2–11 and children ages 6–11 (behind Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers).[30][31] Animaniacs, along with other animated series, helped to bring "Fox Kids" ratings much larger than those of the channel's competitors.[32] In November 1993, Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures almost doubled the ratings of their rival shows, Darkwing Duck and Goof Troop, in both the 2–11 and 6–11 demographics that are very important to children's networks.[30] On "Kids' WB", Animaniacs gathered about one-million children viewers every week.[33]
While Animaniacs was popular among younger viewers (the target demographic for Warner Bros.' TV cartoons), adults also responded positively to the show; in 1995, more than one-fifth of the weekday (4 p.m., Monday through Friday) and Saturday morning (8 a.m.) audience viewers were 25 years or older.[20] The large adult fanbase even led to one of the first Internet-based fandom cultures.[34] During the show's prime, the Internet newsgroup alt.tv.animaniacs was an active gathering place for fans of the show (most of whom were adults) to post reference guides, fan fiction, and fan-made artwork about Animaniacs.[35] The online popularity of the show did not go unnoticed by the show's producers, and twenty of the most active participants on the newsgroup were invited to the Warner Bros. Animation studios for a gathering in August 1995[36] dubbed by those fans Animania IV.
The series gained high ratings even under disadvantageous circumstances. During November 1993, a Dallas Fox affiliate had a three-day transmitter failure, resulting in a blank screen instead of an episode of Animaniacs; during this period, about 11,000 homes were channeled to watch the Animaniacs episode, which was almost double the rating of the rival KXTX-TV children's show.
Nominations and awards
Animaniacs' first major award came in 1993, when the series won one Peabody Award in its debuting season.[38] In 1994, Animaniacs was nominated for two Annie Awards, one for "Best Animated Television Program", and the other for "Best Achievement for Voice Acting" (Frank Welker).[39] Animaniacs also won two Daytime Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition" and "Outstanding Original Song" (Animaniacs Main Title Theme).[22] In 1995, Animaniacs was nominated four times for the Annie Awards, once for "Best Animated Television Program", twice for "Voice Acting in the Field of Animation" (Tress MacNeille and Rob Paulsen), and once for "Best Individual Achievement for Music in the Field of Animation" (Richard Stone).[40] In 1996, Animaniacs won two Daytime Emmy Awards, one for "Outstanding Animated Children's Program" and the other for "Outstanding Achievement in Animation".[41] In 1997, Animaniacs was nominated for an Annie Award for "Best Individual Achievement: Directing in a TV Production" (Charles Visser for the episode "Noel").[42] Animaniacs also won two more Daytime Emmy Awards, one for "Outstanding Animated Children's Program" and the other for "Outstanding Music Direction and Composition".[43] In 1998, the last year in which new episodes of Animaniacs were produced, Animaniacs was nominated for an Annie Award in "Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Daytime Television Program".[44] Animaniacs also won a Daytime Emmy Award in "Outstanding Music Direction and Composition" (For the episode "The Brain's Apprentice").[45] In 1999, Animaniacs won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition".[46] When Animaniacs won this award, it set a record for most Daytime Emmy Awards in the field of "Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition" for any individual animation studio.[47] In 2009, IGN named Animaniacs the 17th-best animated television series.
Before Animaniacs was put into production, various collaboration and brainstorming efforts were thought up to create both the characters and premise of the series. For instance, ideas that were thrown out were Rita and Runt being the hosts of the show and the Warners being duck characters that Senior Producer Tom Ruegger drew in his college years.[11] After the characters from the series were created, they were all shown to Executive Producer Steven Spielberg, who would decide which characters would make it into Animaniacs (the characters Buttons and Mindy were chosen by Spielberg's daughter).[11] The characters' designs came from various sources, including caricatures of other writers,[10] designs based on early cartoon characters, and characters that simply had a more modern design.
"Fox Kids" Era: Episodes 1–69
Animaniacs premiered on September 13, 1993,[49] on "Fox Kids", and was on "Fox Kids" until September 8, 1995;[5] new episodes aired from the 1993 through 1994 seasons. Animaniacs aired with a 65-episode first season because these episodes were ordered by Fox all at once.[50] While on "Fox Kids", Animaniacs gained fame for its name and became the second-most popular show among children ages 2–11 and children ages 6–11, second to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (which began that same year).[31][50] In 1994, Yakko, Wakko and Dot also starred in the theatrical short "I'm Mad".[51] New episodes were aired on "Fox Kids" until the 65th episode aired; Fox then ordered no more new episodes, with the exception of a short, four-episode long second season that was quickly put together from unused scripts during the Animaniacs syndication period on "Fox Kids". After "Fox Kids" put Animaniacs into syndication for a year, Animaniacs switched to the new Warner Bros. channel, "Kids' WB".[50]
"Kids' WB" Era: Episodes 70–99Edit
The series was popular enough for Warner Bros. Animation to invest in additional episodes of Animaniacs past the traditional 65-episode marker for syndication.[52] Animaniacs premiered on the new "Kids' WB" line-up on September 9, 1995,[5] with a new season of 13 episodes.[50] At this time, the show's popular cartoon characters, Pinky and the Brain, were spun-off from Animaniacs into their own TV series.[53] While on "Kids' WB", Animaniacs gathered over one million children viewers every week.[33] However, Animaniacs was only successful in an unintended way, bringing in adult viewers and viewers outside the "Kids' WB" target demographic of very small children.[50] This unintended result of adult viewers and not enough very young viewers put pressure on the WB Network from advertisers and caused dissatisfaction from the WB network towards Animaniacs.[50] Slowly, orders from the WB for more Animaniacs episodes dwindled and Animaniacs made it through a couple more short seasons, relying on leftover scripts and storyboards.[37][50] The fourth season had eight episodes, which was reduced from 18 because of the WB's dissatisfaction with Animaniacs.[50] Finally, in 1998, Animaniacs was cancelled by the WB, led by executive Jamie Kellner, who has also been held responsible for the cancellations of Freakazoid! and Pinky and the Brain.[54] The 99th and final Animaniacs episode was aired on November 14, 1998.[55] Afterwards, Animaniacs segments were being shown along with segments from other cartoons as part of The Cat&Birdy Warneroonie PinkyBrainy Big Cartoonie Show.[56] On December 21, 1999, a direct-to-video movie starring the Warners, titled Wakko's Wish, was released.[33]
After Animaniacs, Spielberg collaborated with Warner Bros. Animation again to produce the short-lived series Steven Spielberg Presents Freakazoid, along with the Animaniacs spin-off series Pinky and the Brain, from which Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain was later spun off. Warner Bros. also produced three other series in the later half of the decade titled Histeria!, Toonsylvania, and Detention. Later, Warner Bros. cut back the size of its animation studio because the show Histeria! went over its budget,[45] and most production on further Warner Bros. animated comedy series ceased.[56]
Animaniacs, along with Tiny Toon Adventures, continued to rerun in syndication through the 1990s into the early 2000s (decade) after production of new episodes ceased. Animaniacs aired in syndication on the WB's sister network, Cartoon Network, from January 31, 1997[5] until Nickelodeon bought the rights to air the series for spring 2001.[57][58] Animaniacs does not currently air on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, or its sister network, Nicktoons, nor does it (or any other 1990s Warner Bros. show) air on Boomerang. Copyright: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animaniacs


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For those of you who are huge fans of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and can't wait for the first part of The Hobbit, I've got something you'll love to see. Peter Jackson has released a twelve minute long behind the scenes video, which shows how production is doing. Jackson has been making a series of video blogs to show us the adventures and what the crew go through shooting in New Zealand. This is the sixth video of the series and the first one released this year. Watch the video down below to see the progress of something amazing being made.
I'm very much appreciative of Peter Jackson's creating this behind the scenes video, I like watching the crew's experience with making the film. New Zealand has got to be one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen, I've got to visit there one day.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be coming out in 3D, 2D and IMAX theaters on December 14, 2012 and the second part The Hobbit: There and Back Again will release on December 13, 2013. Each behind the scenes video I see the more I get excited for this film, it's seriously going to be one of those movies you just can't miss.
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June 13-- You have questions. I have some answers.
Q: The "mother-daughter" team in the Jergens lotion commercials is great. Are they actually a mother and daughter? Please tell me about them.
A: That is a real mother and daughter, both from a famous comedy family. The mother is Leslie Mann, who has been in Jergens spots before, but is also known for movies such as "This Is 40," "The Other Woman" and most recently "Blockers." She is married to, and has often worked with, producer-director Judd Apatow. They have two daughters, Iris and Maude, who have also appeared in films as the daughters of Mann's characters; that's older daughter Maude in the Jergens spots.
Q: Is "Last Man Standing" coming back with new episodes?
A: Yes. Although ABC dropped the series in 2017 after six successful seasons, Fox has picked it up for the fall of 2018, where it will air on Friday nights, just as it did on ABC. Since the show was popular at the time, and has remained so in cable reruns, ABC's decision to drop the show was apparently less about ratings than other factors-including ABC wanting to own the shows it televised (as most networks do these days). "Last Man" comes from 20th Century Fox Television, which is part of the Fox empire, not ABC/Disney. There's a bidding war for some of the Fox company's assets right now, but for the time being the "Last Man" deal connects corporate siblings.
The Fox company as a whole is in play, with several companies battling to buy elements of it, for now at least the "Last Man" deal connects corporate siblings.
Q: Although I am WAY outside the demographic for "Supernatural" (I am 71 years old), I discovered it three years ago and have purchased and watched all 13 seasons. I can't seem to find out if there will be a 14th season. Can you find out for me?
A: I live to serve. And yes, brothers Sam and Dean Winchester will be back for another go-round this fall on The CW. Look for them on Thursday nights. By the way, the series is the longest-running one in CW history, even dating back to the old WB network before it morphed into The CW. It will hit 300 episodes during the coming season.
Q: We began watching a show sometime between 2000 and 2005 about a modest IRS employee who had to go to Nevada to investigate some question. Then without a heads-up, the show went off the air! What was the name of the show, why was it discontinued and is there a possibility of a rerun or a home-video release?
A: The show was "Push, Nevada," and it aired briefly on ABC in the fall of 2002. The series-which boasted Ben Affleck as co-creator-tried to engage viewers more by offering clues to the main mystery in each episode. A $1,000,000 prize awaited the viewer who solved it. But the audience was too small for ABC, which cancelled the show early in its run. As "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows" noted, remaining clues were jammed into the seventh and final night of the series-and yes, there was a prize winner. I do not know of anyone carrying the show, or an authorized video release; you can see some poor-quality copies of the episodes on YouTube.
Q: Why did they end "Inspector Lewis"? I loved it.
A: After 30 years of playing the character-first on "Inspector Morse," where he was sidekick to John Thaw's Morse, then on "Lewis" after Thaw's death-Kevin Whately felt he was done. "Everything has a life span and I think it's gone on long enough," he told the Radio Times as the series was winding down. "There were 33 'Inspector Morse' stories and we've now done 30 'Lewis.' I suppose it's a sentimental thing but I wouldn't want to do more Lewis than we did Morse because I do still think of it as an offshoot." And, he added, "There's the age thing as well-I'm older than John Thaw was when he died, bless him."
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