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Wausau Daily Herald
Sat, May 31, 2003
Land stewardship should not be a partisan issue
In a recent editorial, the Wausau Daily Herald correctly criticized actions taken by the Wisconsin Legislature's Joint Finance Committee, which directed the Department of Natural Resources to sell unspecified land for $40 million. That action was criticized as being both foolish and illegal.
In its efforts to solve an admittedly difficult and massive budget shortfall, the committee has made another error that, though legal, is even more foolish and shortsighted. I refer to the eviscerating of the state Stewardship Fund.
The Joint Finance Committee now is controlled by Republicans. I write as a totally bewildered and embarrassed Republican and a former member of that committee. I was a member of the state Senate when the Stewardship Fund was created in 1989 to protect recreational land and wildlife habitat and to expand and create state parks, forests parcels and other natural areas. Since its inception, the Stewardship Fund has helped preserve more than 225,000 acres of precious land in all but one of Wisconsin's 72 counties.
The Stewardship Fund has benefited our part of the state in many ways. It helped to preserve 1,485 acres of the Bill Cross Rapids area in Lincoln County which protected 3.5 miles of undeveloped Wisconsin River land. It facilitated the easement purchase of more than 35,000 acres in Marathon, Lincoln, Oneida and Iron counties. And it helped to protect tens of thousands of waterfront acres along the Willow and the Turtle-Flambeau flowages. These Stewardship successes are among the scores of projects that help make Wisconsin such a great place to live and visit.
Environmental protection, especially the stewardship of our land, should not be a partisan issue. And historically, the Stewardship Program has not been. The popular program was supported in such a strong bipartisan manner that under Gov. Tommy Thompson it was renamed the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund after Democratic Gov. Gaylord Nelson and Republican Gov. Warren Knowles.
Unfortunately, this budget session, only one Republican, Sen. Sheila Harsdorf, voted against the motion to gut the fund, which suggested cutting the program from $60 million a year to $15 million in the first and to $10 million in the second of the two-year budget period. Total cuts for the next seven years amount to a shocking $245 million.
Does the action help solve the budget crisis? Not really, according to George Meyer, former DNR Secretary and now head of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation and chairman of the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters. Because it is a bonded program, Meyer feels that the service costs are a pittance: About one-hundredth of a nickel out of every tax dollar.
Is the committee concerned about Wisconsin's bonded indebtedness? Not really, since they voted to increase bonding for highway construction only a week later.
Indeed there are dozens of conservation and environmental groups who are outraged by the committee's actions. At least 16 state newspapers have editorialized about the lack of wisdom shown by the committee in its drastic fiscal move. Not to mention the thousands of citizens across the state who are up in arms over the decision.
Is there any political or practical advantage for Republicans to cast themselves in such an anti-environmental light?
Republican Sen. Mike Ellis has openly castigated the Stewardship cuts. He questioned the Republican leaders about whether the committee really understood the harmful effects of the motion.
Sen. Mary Panzer, the majority leader, is on record as saying she doesn't believe there should be any cuts in the Stewardship Fund. Let's hope that she and Sens. Ellis and Harsdorf can persuade their Republican colleagues to reverse the Joint Finance Committee's action and eliminate the cuts to Wisconsin's bipartisan, environmentally sound Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund.
Walter John Chilsen served as a Republican state senator from 1966-1990. He is now a board member of Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters and 1000 Friends of Wisconsin and is a supervisor for the town of Weston.
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But a number of Republican lawmakers later officially recorded opposition in the House journal.
Rep. Jim Keffer, a Republican leader from Eastland, went to the microphone after an emotional Farias read HR 1694 and expressed hope "every state in the union is doing what Texas is proudly doing today …. And I'd be proud to add my name to your resolution and I hope that every member, and I won't speak for every member, but I know that some, their politics under this dome, prevents.
"But I hope, and I pray, every member of the House of Representatives will add his or her name to this wonderful resolution, and support our country, our Commander-in-Chief, and military as we go forward."
But a handful of Republican members peeled off the resolution.
"I support our troops but cannot support a resolution commending Obama's domestic handling of affairs," Rep. Randy Weber, R-Pearland, wrote in the journal.
Also recording "no" votes in the House journal: Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler; Rep. Allen Fletcher, R-Tomball; Rep. Marva Beck, R-Centerville; Rep. Dan Flynn, R-Van; Rep. Will Hartnett, R-Dallas; Rep. Dan Huberty, R-Humble; Rep. George Lavender, R-Texarkana; Rep. Barbara Nash, R-Arlington; Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball.
Rep. Allen Fletcher said he would have been OK with a resolution that simply commended the president for finally getting bin Laden.
"But it was a two-page resolution praising President Obama for his actions since he's been in office. I haven't agreed with two things he's done in the last two years," Fletcher said.
Fletcher has had a son-in-law serve in Afghanistan and a son who served in Iraq.
"I would have liked to have a resolution from the Texas House commending the president for what we accomplished. But I don't like the fact they had two pages of how great he is and what he's done when I don't agree with what he's done," Fletcher said.
Hartnett said he had to record a "no" vote because support for such a resolution means "you are vouching for every word."
"Words have meaning and can come back to bite an elected official," said Hartnett, a lawyer.
He couldn't support, for example, the section of the resolution that said: "Domestically, he has acted with both initiative and organizational acumen toward the precautionary defense of our citizens and has successfully prevented a terrorist attack on American soil during his service to our nation as president."
Hartnett said he supported the "vast majority" of the resolution.
"He deserves praise," Hartnett said. "But we don't get to pick and choose our sentences out of the resolution. When we vote for a resolution, we're vouching for the entire resolution.
"The proponents of the resolution knew exactly what they were doing," Hartnett said. "They were making a political gesture. I call that resolution the opening shot in the Obama re-election effort."
Farias had to suspend House rules for the resolution to bypass a committee hearing, where some of the objectionable language might have been blunted. But Farias says he probably would not have done anything differently "because the things that were said needed to be said."
All together, 52 Republicans (out of 101) provided notice in the House journal that they needed to clarify their support for the resolution: "We are not endorsing all of the administration's foreign policies."


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Traditional, in-store grocery shopping consumes 269 hours of your life per year (assuming you're the "average" American grocery shopper). Online grocery shopping and home delivery, on the other hand, only takes up about 13 hours total, if that. Throw in other benefits such as money saved on driving (IRS' most-recent estimate on the cost per mile of car travel is 58 cents) and impulse buying (4% of all groceries purchased at stores go to waste), online grocery shopping is a smart way to save yourself some time and money. [1] There's not much tradeoff either between purchasing your groceries virtually vs. physically: prices and quality are about the same, if not better. [2] So unless you really like fighting for parking spots, listening to the sounds of screeching kids, and waiting for granny to check out aisle 7, then we recommend that you make the switch to online grocery shopping.
To help transition you from brick-and-mortar to bits-and-bytes grocery shopping, Smartlife has browsed to the very end of the Internet itself to bring you a list of 100 places you can buy groceries online. In compiling this list, we started with Mashable's list of 50+ (okay, we took a bit of a shortcut) and then expanded/updated it from there. Like Mashable's, the list is divided into five different categories of online grocer: U.S. nationwide (general), U.S. regional (general), international, multi-cultural, organic, and specialty.
U.S. Nationwide — General
Amazon.com Grocery — This well-known Internet retailer offers a full range of non-perishable food items, attractive discounts, free home delivery, and a subscription program that gives you a 15% discount on items delivered at regular intervals. (Coupon Codes)
AULSuperStore.com — Buy non-perishable items in bulk or in regular-sized quantities with this online grocer that serves all 48 contiguous states.
Groceries-Express.com — Serves the greater Detroit area with a full line of grocery products, but also delivers non-frozen items throughout the country.
Meijer.com — Operating over 180 supercenters throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky, this superstore offers delivery of non-perishable grocery items throughout the U.S. (minimum order is $50) and in-store pickup of groceries ordered online at local stores.
MyBrands.com — Carries major brand-name products, specialty brands, and hard-to-find regional and seasonal products. Offers bulk-purchase discounts.
NetGrocer.com — Offers general grocery items, kosher items, and over 1,500 natural and organic items. Delivers to your home or next vacation destination and even to APO / FPO military zip codes.
ShopFoodEX.com — Ships general and hard-to-find non-perishable groceries throughout the continental U.S. Save yourself 10% on orders of $50 or more.
U.S. Regional — General
AcmeMarkets.com — For residents of DE, PA, and NJ, this brick-and-mortar and virtual grocery store offers either home delivery or in-store pickup of your groceries.
Albertsons.com — Pick up your groceries ordered online at a nearby store for $5.95 or have them delivered to your home for $12.95. Serves eight West Coast areas.
Amazon Fresh — Serving the greater Seattle area, this online market offers thousands of fresh food, farm-fresh, and bakery items delivered to you in temperature-controlled containers to ensure freshness and at convenient times of the day — pre-dawn, daytime, and same-day.
BigAppleGrocer.net — Delivers full-range of groceries to residents in Manhattan and Hudson County, NJ. Also ships non-perishable items to all 50 states — delivery is free for orders of $100 or more.
BlueRibbonFoods.com — Full-service grocer, specializing in beef, pork, and seafood. Delivers to residents in the Southwest part of the U.S.
BristolFarms.com — Delivers farm-fresh grocery items to areas of California.
Citarella.com — This "Ultimate Gourmet Market" offers products like fine Caspian Caviar plus a large selection of upscale seafood items. Delivers exclusive gourmet foods to residents of NYC and the Hamptons.
DagNYC.com — Delivers grocery items from physical retail stores to NYC residents. Offers same-day delivery and a $6.99 fee on orders of $50 or more.
DorothyLane.com — Online food market servicing Ohio.
FreshDirect.com — Delivers fresh-food items throughout the greater NYC area and offers an "Unlimited Delivery Pass" option that allows customers to pay a two-month, six-month, or one-year fee for unlimited deliveries over that period of time. (Coupon Codes)
GardenGrocer.com — Online supermarket delivers full-line of grocery items to residents in Florida.
GopherGrocery.com — Serves the Twin Cities region, offering more than 10,000 grocery items and a Loyalty Program that gives you $10 worth of groceries for every $500 you spend.
HomeShop — Delivers Kroger brands exclusively and thousands of other grocery items to several areas throughout Colorado. Also offers extra savings with SoopersCard account program.
MaxDelivery.com — Delivers thousands of grocery items as well as DVDs within one-hour to residents of the greater Manhattan area. First-time customers receive a 10% discount plus free "dinner-and-movie" delivery using the promo code MAXD.
MyPersonalFarmers.com — Sources food items ordered online from local farmers and producers. Services select areas in New York and Connecticut.
OneClickGrocery.com — Offers hundreds of grocery items at reasonable prices to college students in New York and Connecticut. Delivery is free.
Peapod.com — Delivers full range of groceries to several East Coast areas, parts of Chicago, and Wisconsin. Maintains history of your previously purchased grocery items for quicker shopping. (Coupon Codes)
RobertFreshMarket.com — Louisiana-based store offers in-store and online shopping for regional staples and favorites.
RocheBros.com — A full-line grocery store delivering to multiple zip codes in the greater Boston area. Accepts all valid manufacturers' coupons and doubles coupons with a face value of $.99 or less. (Coupon Codes)
Safeway.com — This well-known supermarket chain, servicing AZ, CA, MD, OR, VA, WA, and D.C, delivers groceries to your home from one of its physical retail stores. (Coupon Codes)
Schnucks.com — Offers more than 15,000 grocery items to residents in parts of Missouri and Illinois. Maintains your shopping history.
SimonDelivers.com — Services Minneapolis area. Packs your groceries securely to ensure freshness and for convenient home drop-off in case you're not around.
UrbanGrocery.com — Offering a selection of over 5,800 grocery items, this grocer delivers goods from Magruder's to residents in Washington D.C. Donates a fraction of all proceeds to the teen charity, ULTRA Teen Choice.
Wakozi.com — New online service based in NYC routes your order of beer, wine, cigarettes, groceries, and other convenience items to a nearby store for faster delivery.
YourGrocer.com — Servicing NYC and Westchester and Southwest Fairfield counties, this virtual grocery warehouse offers over 1,000 grocery items at a savings of 30-60% in comparison to local supermarkets. Receive free delivery each time you refer a friend.
Yummy.com — Servicing West Hollywood and Santa Monica, this full-line grocer delivers to your home or business in less than 30 minutes for only $3.99. Orders over $100 are delivered for free.
ExpatExpress.com — Visiting or living in another country? This grocer delivers hundreds of your favorite American food items to more 35 countries worldwide.
FoodFullStop.com — Offers home or postal delivery of fresh foods, kitchen equipment, cookbooks, and various gourmet gift baskets to customers in the U.K.
Freshline.com.au — Serves the Western Australia region with a full selection of organic groceries, including "green" body care essentials and pre-packaged boxes of organic fruits and vegetables.
GroceryGateway.com — Servicing the Toronto area, this online grocer delivers fresh and non-perishable items from Longo's chain of retail stores directly to your home or office. Satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! Also gives $5 off for first-time customers. (I'm moving to Toronto!)
MrCase.com — Specializing in big bulky deliveries, this virtual grocery warehouse serves the Toronto area.
Ocado.com — A winner of the "2008 Online Green Awards," this organic foods specialist delivers "green" goodies to residents in the U.K. Matches standard retail prices on all identical, branded products offered by its online rival, Tesco.com.
PicNDel.com — Offers a full selection grocery items backed with a 100% guarantee, weekly specials, and same-day delivery service to residents of Western Canada.
ShopQF.com — Delivers to parts of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Spud.ca — Canadian-based grocer that supports eco-friendly farming practices and delivers organic grocery items to parts of Calgary and Vancouver.
Tesco.com — Prominent U.K. grocery store offering home delivery service; exclusive discounts available to Tesco Club Card members.
TunisieMart.com — Delivers to groceries to Tunisian expats living abroad in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and other locations.
Waitrose.com — U.K.-based online supermarket offering fine wines, gourmet items, monthly bargains, and late-night deliveries to accommodate busy professionals.
YumTrade.com — Online grocery delivery service to home or office in Singapore.
ZimSeller.com — Online Zimbabwe supermarket delivering anywhere in Zimbabwe.
AmigoFoods.com — Latino grocery store delivering imported food items from Spain and Latin America throughout the U.S.
AsianFoodGrocer.com — This San Francisco-based grocer offers a full range of Asian food and supplies for delivery to customers in the U.S. via FedEx or USPS. Two-day air delivery is available for frozen foods.
DutchStuff.com — Online specialty store offers a wide variety of Dutch products, including regional cheeses, meats, and desserts for delivery to U.S. customers. Only orders of $30 or more are accepted.
eFoodDepot.com — Connecting with various ethnic food providers from all over the world, this online store delivers over 6,000 products to customers in the U.S. WARNING: several readers have claimed issues with ordering from this online grocer, ranging from outright scam to non-responsiveness to faulty orders.
EthnicFoodsCo.com — Offers various ethnic food items for delivery — Indian, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Greek.
EthnicGrocer.com — Delivers more than a dozen ethnic food items — including Korean, Turkish, Indian, Japanese, and Vietnamese — to U.S. customers.
GreekShops.com — Delivers non-perishable Greek food items and cookware.
IndianBlend.com — Delivers fresh Indian foods and spices to customers within the U.S. Orders over $80 receive free shipping and a free package of Maggi Noodles!
IndoMerchant.com — First online Indonesian grocer delivers spices, fresh meats, prepared foods, natural medicines, and even calling cards to all U.S. states for a flat fee, except Hawaii and Alaska.
Kalustyans.com — Delivers spices, herbs, sweets, coffee, tea, and healthy snacks, which are imported from all over the world.
Koamart.com — Online supermarket offering variety of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese food products.
KGrocer.com — Los Angeles online grocer delivers Korean and other Asian food items to customers in the U.S and elsewhere.
MexGrocer.com — This bilingual, San Diego-based online grocery store is the largest of its kind — specializes in more than 1,500 authentic Mexican foods available for delivery in U.S. and Canada via UPS and USPS.
Polana.com — Delivers Polish food items, including rye bread, kielbasa (sausage), pierogi (filled dumplings), and golambki (stuffed cabbage rolls). Hmm…yummy.
PortugueseFood.com — Purchase all types of Portuguese food online — salt cod, presunto (Portuguese cured ham), classic sausage chourio, and other Portuguese staples.
RussianFoods.com — Offers classic Russian cuisine and food items for home delivery to all U.S. states, except Hawaii and Alaska.
RussianTable.com — NYC-based online grocer delivers Russian and European food products.
Thokalath.com — Offers full line of Indian groceries for delivery in the U.S. Also offers 5% discount on orders over $100 and 12% discount on orders over $200.
TitanFood.com — Largest Greek specialty retail store in North America delivers Greek food items to your door.
DoorToDoorOrganics.com — This Pennsylvania-based, family-operated store delivers organic food items to locations in nine different states.
GoBio.com — Offers organic groceries and health products for delivery in the U.S. and Canada. (Coupon Codes)
Greenling.com — Specializes in organic food items, delivering to residents in central Texas.
OrganicDirect.com — Offers a huge selection of certified organic foods to residents in NYC, New York, and New Jersey.
PlanetOrganics.com — Locally-owned and family-run, this organic grocer services the San Francisco area. First-time customers receive $10 off their first order.
SuburbanOrganics.com — Delivers 100% certified organic groceries to customers in NJ, PA, DE, and MD.
UrbanOrganic.com — Servicing NYC and New Jersey areas, this grocer offers various organic produce and groceries and a weekly "value box" of seasonal fruits and vegetables. New customers are required to pay a one-time, lifetime membership fee of $25.
AlaskaHarvest.com — Oregon company offering seafood straight from the waters of Alaska — Alaskan crab (King, Dungeness, and Opilio), wild salmon (Chinook, Coho, and Sockeye), and plenty others.
AllenBrothers.com — Delivers assortment of beef, USDA prime steaks, chicken, pork, seafood, appetizers, and other food items.
AllFreshSeafood.com — Supplier to over 400 of the top restaurants in New York and New Jersey, this company offers a selection of whole fish, fillets, shellfish, smoked fish, caviars, and more.
AviGlatt.com — Offers variety of kosher food, kosher meat, and kosher dairy for delivery in the U.S.
BabiesTravelLite.com — Delivers baby foods and other baby products (e.g., diapers and toys) to your home or vacation destination worldwide.
Basic-Ingredients.com — Ohio's Christian-based grocer delivers pantry staples, candies, and other ever-day items in bulk quantities to your doorstep or makes them available for pickup if you live in the area.
BneMeats.com — Family-owned butcher shop located in Des Moines, Washington offers marinated meats, smoked meats, and fresh seafood. Fan favorites include Kalbi Beef Ribs and Candy Salmon.
BulkGoods.com — Delivers food items in bulk — nuts, seeds, dried fruits, spices & herbs, beans, organic, snack mixes, grains & cereals, etc.
CatalinaOp.com — San Diego wholesale seafood company delivering sushi grade fish, shellfish, roe, sea urchin, live California lobster, live abalone, stone crab, scallops, shrimp, and more. Members gain access to discounts up to 20% along with other specials.
CharlestonSeafood.com — South Carolina seafood store offers over 30 kinds of fish as well as other seafood — shrimp, lobster, oysters, clams, mussels, crawfish, calamari, and a lot more.
FishermansFleet.com — Massachusetts seafood specialist offering Maine lobster, Alaskan king crab, oysters, clams, mussels, and more. Live lobsters delivered next day via FedEx. All orders come with double your money back guarantee.
GortonsFreshSeafood.com — Maine company delivering an assortment of fresh, gourmet seafood and steaks to your home or office overnight or 2-day via FedEx.
GreatFood.com — Specializes in gourmet food items — seafood, cheese, fruits, vegetables, and more.
HeartlandSteaks.com — Specializes in beef, steak, and other meat products delivered U.S. nationwide.
HomeTownFavorites.com — Offers world-wide postal delivery of hard-to-find products and goodies along with customized gift baskets and gift certificates.
iGourmet.com — Delivers specialty foods and gourmet items throughout the U.S. — overnight deliveries available for $9.95 on orders of $85 or more. Also offers monthly clubs for cheese, coffee, and other fine products that make great gifts.
Internet-Grocer.net — Delivers dehydrated foods, freeze dried foods, and dry vegetables.
JetSetBabies.com — Offers baby food, infant formula, and other baby supplies delivered to your home.
KansasCitySteaks.com — Delivers premium steaks, USDA prime steaks, steakburgers, roasts, and other meat and seafood items.
LegalSeaFoods — Famous restaurant chain offers variety of fresh seafood online.
LiveLob.com — Delivers live lobsters, steaks, and more from Maine.
MarylandBlueCrabExpress.com — Fresh Maryland Blue Crabs and more delivered to your doorstep overnight.
OmahaSteaks.com — Offers wide variety of premium steaks, red meats, and other gourmet foods for delivery.
PikePlaceFish.com — Seattle's world-famous fish market offers a variety of fish and seafood. Free delivery to residents in downtown Seattle.
Sunrisefoods.com — Specializes in delivery of frozen-food items — seafood, fish, steaks, veal, lamb, pork, chicken, and vegetarian entrees. Serves all 48 continental U.S. states.
TaylorsMarket.com — Old-fashioned California grocery store delivers fresh-cut meat, fresh seafood, and gourmet grocery items.
VermontCountryStore.com — Delivers hard-to-find grocery items.
WeGoShop.com — Personal grocery shopping and home delivery service that goes to local stores of your choice. Serves U.S., Canada, Bahamas, and Puerto Rico. (Check the website's listings to see if your area is serviced.)
Westerns-Smokehouse.com — Family-owned, Missouri-based establishment ships specialty meats to all 50 states. Offers a variety of meat-based gift packs and a "Meat of the Month" club for less than $450 per year. Every order comes with a free meat stick!
WildEdibles.com — Well-known NYC fish retailer offers wide selection of seafood online — whole fish, steaks, fillets, live Maine lobsters, nine types of oysters, shrimp, mussels, clams, caviar, and more.
YourFoodStore.com — Iowa-based store offers hard-to-find and non-traditional items that are unavailable in most conventional supermarkets. Also offers a free 8 oz. bottle of Sue Bee Honey with every order of $50 or more.
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Chad Hagy contributed to this post.
- [1] According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2007 American Time Use Survey (ATUS), Americans who engage in the activity of grocery shopping spend an average of .74 hours per day. For information on the IRS' estimate on the cost per mile of car travel see this press release. Source data for cost of impulse buying: Meal Mixer Money Savings Calculator. To estimate the time it takes to purchase groceries online, we used the beta distribution statistical method: average = (a + 4b + c) / 6, where a = pessimistic estimate, b = most likely estimate, and c = optimistic estimate. Values we used: a = 20 minutes, b = 15 minutes, and c = 10 minutes.
- [2] See MSNBC article, "Attention! Online grocery-shopping is back."
Post updates:
- September 23, 2008 at 12:30 AM ET: Added JetSetBabies.com to the list. (This takes the list to 101, but who's counting?)
- October 8, 2008 at 6:30 PM ET: Added BneMeats.com and Greenling.com. (List is now at 103.)
- October 15, 2008 at 6:30 PM ET: Updated the average time a person spends grocery shopping to reflect the average amount of time spent by those persons (15 years and over) who actually engage in the activity (of grocery shopping) as opposed to all persons (15 years and over) who may or may not. See footnote [1] for more details and source data.
- November 27, 2008 at 7:30 PM ET: Added Meijer to the list (now up to 104).


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|2012-05-08, 14:10
|Link #641
Join Date: Dec 2006
Age: 33
I once theorized that every show has its audience, whether it be boring or ironic or poorly executed. But the way fans react en masse, for example preordering a show like Hyouka after the first few episodes, is just ridiculous. If the show cannot show its worth, because it hasn't even finished airing, what are the criteria these shows get preordered by fans? I'm genuinely interested in this. Looking over KyoAni's shows alone, Munto TV had a very nice story, but the animation in the first few episodes botched the whole experience. I am not too familiar with Nichijou to know why it wasn't such a big hit in the traditional Blu-ray sales sense--certainly, animation alone isn't the sole reason for sales successes, but it's a very influential one. To think back of all the moe moe shows from 00's, most of them struggled with tight budgets. And yes, everybody likes nice looking animation, but not on a boring show. Or maybe they do.
EDIT: I realize this looks like I'm giving stalker points too much credit, who knows what actual sales will be.
|2012-05-08, 14:42
|Link #642
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
As for animation, I'm not convinced that quality is a dominating factor. Ugly art/animation can certainly be a deterrent, but other than that, fans haven't proven to be particularly picky or discerning. I'd say that good animation is a potential hype factor (that gets fans speaking positively about a show), but it takes multiple hype factors to light a fire.
|2012-05-08, 15:17
|Link #643
Sparking a meme is a big part in this whole community thing as far as I've been able to tell. Now in Kyoani's case, while I haven't watched every show they've done to completion (god forbid I know) I've managed to catch every first couple episodes of everything they've done since Haruhi and honest to god it looks like they are trying to spark a meme to get them cred and posts with the 2ch crowd right out of the gate with every show. Just a few examples:
K-On: Moe Moe Kyun
Hyouka: "Dem Eyes" as people call it
Haruhi: Too many to name, but the Bunny Suit, Mikuru Beam, Endless Eight, Out of order airing gimmick, and God Knows come to mind
Lucky Star: The whole show practically centers around doing this
Clannad After Story: "Dozo have a Star Fish", Hit counters for Tomoyo beating up Sunohara
Usually you can tell when they're trying to do that because there's a certain sparkly background they use for a lot of them and the animation goes sky high during these scenes as if to tell the audience, "Look this is the scene you're supposed to pay attention to, this is where the new hit meme is!"
You can sort of see the community experience in play a little bit on AS too for certain shows that are also a hit in Japan. Nisemonogatari comes to mind as does recently Hyouka where you can see people discussing the specifics of girls getting toothbrushes crammed into their mouths and "Dem Eyes" in the most serious business manner such things can possibly be discussed, but when you ask someone to point out the specific qualities they like about the shows typically the response is silence or an admission that they don't really know and that to me is very telling of a lot of things.
|2012-05-08, 15:49
|Link #644
Pretentious moe scholar
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Age: 32
A pumped up base if far, far more likely to buy something as a "token of participation".
Does it have the most interesting plot among current moe shows? No, I'd say Sankarea beats it and possibly a few others too. But there's nothing I can see stealing KyoAni's thunder - the competition is competent, not exciting. This is not like Nichijou going up against Hanasaku Iroha, AnoHana, and Stein;Gate last spring.
I'd be the first to argue that KyoAni's ability to pump up its base is a key factor in it's success but that's only part of it. "Nice boat" didn't propel a single volume of School Days past 5K. Meanwhile, you have a show like AnoHana which borrows liberally from the Key-KyoAni playbook doing extremely well, and I'm not aware of it being a bit meme generator. And frankly, I know too many people who like their stuff who aren't part of the meme crowd. That doesn't surprise me. As a moe fan, I seldom consider KyoAni's shows best in category, but they've ranked highly on many, many occassions.
|2012-05-08, 16:40
|Link #645
Join Date: Dec 2003
Age: 37
And I'm not sure what insight you think you've gained from people not being able to enumerate the qualities they like about a show, but I would suggest that enjoyment isn't purely logical. Being able provide a list of objective qualities that explain why you enjoy something doesn't make your enjoyment any more real or legitimate than anyone else, nor does it mean that person is stupid or unsophisticated for ostensibly not having thought it through. Sometimes people also don't feel they need to justify their enjoyment to others, and that nothing good will come of having their enjoyment questioned.
Anyway, I'm not sure how this thread turned into "questioning the tastes of anime fans based on sales predictions", but it's pretty pointless. People buy what they like and -- go figure -- sometimes they don't like what you like. That's opinions for you...
|2012-05-08, 16:45
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With the new Region A Blu-Disc market, there might (might) more more overseas sales.
I fully intend to buy the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 series on BD and I know someone who plans to hold out for a potenal box set because it might be cheaper than getting seven discs plus shipping over time.
|2012-05-08, 16:49
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Sales only indicate one thing. That it was popular and marketed well if it sold high. If you spend too much time reading into sales and let them dictate/control what you watch or how you feel about anime, you are doomed to misery because the opinions of others are something you can't control and will always be bewildered by. Personally, the shows I like this season aren't even pushing 500 pre-orders yet. Think I care? No. It's not going to stop me from liking what I like. Remember, it does require a certain amount of fanaticism and ego to buy the product at its heavily inflated (but out of necessity) price.
Still need reasons? Pre-existing fanbases, fanaticism for the sake of ego and style. Don't think deeply about it, there are far better things one can do with their time.
|2012-05-08, 18:29
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I think that people might be reading a bit too much into Hyouka's level of success so far.
Coming 4th place in stalker points amongst new, non-BoxSet TV anime series is good, but it's not like setting the world on fire. Considering that Hyouka is made by the famous KyoAni, I'm surprised that anybody would be surprised by Hyouka's level of success. If Hyouka was coming tops that would be a bit surprising, but it's more or less exactly where I'd expect a post-E8/post-Nichijou extremely well-animated/drawn KyoAni show to be.
In other words, KyoAni's brand strength has declined a bit, to the degree that they don't automatically dominate the top of the charts any more, but they still have some brand name strength left.
|2012-05-08, 19:08
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Much like animation quality, brand is a significant hype factor, but it isn't enough to produce a megahit. I'd guess that Hyouka has managed to hook more fans than Nichijou, but the content still doesn't have the mass appeal of Haruhi, Lucky Star, or K-ON!
I think SHAFT provides a great example of variable success in spite of immense brand power.
|2012-05-08, 19:49
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Due to various factors, I think that "King of Moe" position has weakened a bit (some of this is simply P.A. Works and other studios rising in prominence), but there's still some brand name strength there for KyoAni.
0utf0xZer0 also raised a good point that relates a bit to my own - For people looking first and foremost for moe (and I'm not knocking those people at all, as I'm one of them myself sometimes), there's not as much competition this Spring as there was last. There's nothing quite like AnoHana or Hanasaku Iroha airing right now. So Nichijou faced stiffer competition than Hyouka is facing, at least when it comes to a certain type of show.
I have a theory that a large chunk of anime DVD/Blu-Ray customers go for what can probably best be described as brightly colored, anatomically-correct moe done in top-notch animation. KyoAni developed this particular style to utter perfection, hence earning themselves a dedicated fanbase, insofar as they were loyal to that art style (it may be that Nichijou was perceived as veering too far off from that style).
P.A. Works tapped into that same fanbase with Angel Beats! and Hanasaku Iroha.
Hyouka has this same brightly colored, anatomically-correct moe done in top-notch animation. This particular overall visual style (reminiscent of a well-produced visual novel) tends to sell very well, in my opinion. I think it might help to explain Guilty Crown's sales as well.
The key for SHAFT is producing shows where Shinbo's style suits the content that he's working with. Madoka Magica, for example, was a perfect fit here because its more magical aspects allowed Shinbo to go totally wild in some scenes (in witch's barriers, primarily), making it easier for him to go with more conventional artwork for other scenes. So the overall visual style feels more "cool and distinctive" than "weird and perplexing".
|2012-05-08, 20:42
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I think it's far more interesting that Space Brothers was holding its own on that list considering it has about zero features that might appeal to anime otaku. No kids in school, no cute girls, just a guy in his thirties who wants to become an astronaut and a potential love interest in her twenties. Once again we see that a show that targets a broad family audience and is shown in a reasonably accessible time slot (7 am on Sundays in this case) can have decent sales. Space Brothers actually has some good jokes aimed at adults, too, like the events at the beginning of episode three. Being family-oriented doesn't mean being boring; I'm glad there are people in Japan who also see that can be the case.
|2012-05-08, 22:06
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Conversely, Nichijou wasn't lacking in entertainment so much as it lacked in characters that fans liked. Due to the nature of the show, it never focused enough time on one trio or combination of them, thus fans never got attached to them. Other shows in that season like Ano Hana, Iroha, Steins;Gate, and even Tiger and Bunny allowed for that connection with the characters, thus they sold well and Nichijou didn't. It's not about moe, but with enjoying the characters.
From what I've seen, Hyouka started out hot due to the KyoAni hype, but has re-gained popularity due to fans enjoying those characters compared to the rest of the season. It's not necessarily the animation, though that helps, but it's the combination of emotion the show brings out and the characters inside it. As the first three episodes have gone by, people have gotten used to Houtarou, Eru, and Mayaka, and they like them. That's why it's starting to sell well. Moe might be a factor, but I'd argue that it's more connecting with the setting and the characters instead.
There's still nearly two months before most of these shows go on sale, so things will likely change again.
Edit: I'd also like to say that this is a theory of mine and isn't based on any facts. I'm merely disagreeing. I think you do have a valid point, but I feel it's not something that the Japanese fans think about when purchasing BD/DVDs.
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|2012-05-08, 23:37
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I'm sure most, if not all, of us can think of anime shows that fit this description (had great characters but didn't sell well). In fact, I can think of many shows with great characters that didn't sell well.
On the other hand...
Brightly-colored, anatomically-correct moe done to top-notch animation: There's a consistent pattern of shows of this overall visual appeal/style selling well.
So I think that visuals do matter. A lot.
But what is less subjective is a basic description of a particular artistic style, and high animation quality.
"Brightly colored anatomically-correct moe done to top-notch animation" is pretty objective. If a show has that, people will be able to see it. It's mostly objective - A show either has this visual style or it doesn't.
My observation is that shows with this visual style have a considerable tendency to sell well. That observation still stands as far as I can see.
Now, no doubt having good/great characters can "top off" a show's sales, if it has other strengths going for it. That probably was a factor in at least some of the KyoAni shows you listed.
But KyoAni really did develop and master a particular artistic/visual style, which other studios have been influenced by.
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|2012-05-08, 23:51
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If there were a single combination of objective traits that tended towards repeatable success, the industry would have clued in long ago (considering it's their job to capitalize on such things). In fact, tastes are always changing and there are a ton of different factors that affect success. Because productions usually start almost a year before the first episode airs, it's a bit of a gamble to figure out what will be popular 12+ months down the road. Obviously looking good and being aware of market trends is part of the equation, but there's a lot more to it than that. I think any attempt to point to any one factor as the key will be easily thwarted.
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Chihayafuru also hasn't been doing well.
Even the "cheaper animes" already costs alot to produce. So if the secret of selling more animes was the animation style, then everyone would have invested more money in their production if it guaranteed decent sales. But alas it isn't, because it was proven from the sales in the past that the animation style is not the only thing that makes people want to buy your DVD's or blu-rays.
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|2012-05-09, 08:08
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The other problem is that purchasing a show is highly subjective. There are many shows that I like or that appeal to me, but that I won't purchase due to budgetary reasons. Thus I have to prioritize, like the fans in Japan, and people prioritize differently. That's the subjective nature of sales.
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The story begins on Jan. 19, 1872, when former Confederate Gen. Jubal Early gave an address at Washington and Lee University celebrating the life of Robert E. Lee, who was born on that date and who had died two years earlier. Early extolled Lee's genius. In fact, Early claimed, Lee's Army of Northern Virginia would have won the Battle of Gettysburg, the turning point in the Civil War, if his orders had been obeyed. Early recounted the three-day battle, which raged from July 1 to July 3, 1863 (151 years ago this week), noting that after soundly beating the Union Army on July 1, Lee planned to attack it again with Gen. James Longstreet's units at sunrise the next day. But that sunrise attack, Early noted ominously, had never taken place.
Exactly one year later, Confederate Gen. William Pendleton repeated and then expanded on Early's allegation. Lee, according to Pendleton, had not only wanted to attack the Northern army at sunrise on July 2, but he'd given Longstreet explicit orders to do so. These orders, Pendleton said, were ignored. Pendleton then went on to argue that if Longstreet had not disobeyed Lee, the Battle of Gettysburg would have been won and, with it, Southern independence. If Longstreet had only followed orders, Pendleton added, Lee would not have been forced to attack the Union Army in their entrenchments with Pickett's division on July 3, which, we all know, turned out to be a disaster for the South—forever memorialized as "the high-water mark of the Confederacy."
So it was that "the sunrise attack order" of July 2, 1863, entered American history as a fact, and was treated as such for the next 100 years. In 1934, Lee biographer Douglas Southall Freeman, who had grown up near Early's home in Lynchburg, Virginia, published his celebrated four-volume biography of Lee, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. In it, Freeman backed Early's claim and speculated that Longstreet had disobeyed the sunrise attack order because his own "long cherished" plan for fighting the battle had been rejected. Instead of following Lee's orders, wrote Freeman, Longstreet was stewing in his tent, "eating his heart away in sullen resentment."
Very dramatic. Of course there is a glaring problem with all of this, which is that no one has ever found a copy of the order and no one who was present with Lee and Longstreet when Lee allegedly gave the order remembers him doing so. So, as historians have since learned, the reason Longstreet disobeyed Lee's "sunrise attack order" is because, manifestly, Lee almost certainly never actually gave it.
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Canada rallies to defeat Slovakia; two players ejectedby Mike G. Morreale
The Canadian National Junior Team rallied from a two-goal deficit despite having two players ejected from the game en route to a 6-3 victory over Slovakia on Friday at the 2013 World Junior Championship in Ufa, Russia.
After spotting the Slovaks a 3-1 lead when Marko Dano scored his second of the game at the 10:35 mark of the second, Canada connected for five straight goals. Mark Scheifele's deflection with 59 seconds remaining in the second gave Canada its first lead, 4-3. Scheifele, a first-round pick of the Winnipeg Jets in 2011, was named Canada's player of the game.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Ryan Strome, who connected for a pair of goals in the game, completed the scoring in the third. Defenseman Morgan Rielly finished with a goal and two assists for Canada.
"As a team [this win] is going to help us down the road," Rielly told the media after the game. "We understood that each team in the tournament is pretty good and we have to play well every night. Obviously we were put to the test [Friday] and we played well down the stretch."
Canadian goalie Malcolm Subban finished with 25 saves on 28 shots.
"Malcolm was great and there was a flurry in the third where he was great and that's what we need from him," Nugent-Hopkins said.
Subban stopped all 13 shots he faced in the final period against the pressing Slovaks.
"He loves playing in the big games and he always seems to rise to the challenge and that's great for us," Nugent-Hopkins said. "He's going to have to keep doing that the rest of the tournament and I'm sure he will."
The victory gives Canada two victories and six points in two games in the Group B field. The team will next face the United States on Sunday.
Making the comeback somewhat more extraordinary was the fact Canada was playing with only 10 forwards in the lineup after J.C. Lipon and Anthony Camara were ejected on two separate infractions. Lipon was given a game misconduct for a check to the head at 13:39 of the first. Camara was thrown out of the game after being whistled for a charging penalty on defenseman Patrik Luza at 6:21 of the second.
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Canada coach Steve Spott felt Camara's hit seemed to ignite his bench.
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A tripping penalty to Canada's Strome, who had pulled his team within 2-1 2:16 into the second, would ultimately give Slovakia a two-man advantage for 1:32. Dano would connect for his second of the contest on the 5-on-3 advantage.
Dano and Richard Buri would take penalties 18 seconds apart less than a minute later to give Canada a 5-on-3 advantage. Rielly ripped a shot from the left circle that deflected off the right hip of Slovakia's Branislav Rapac and past goalie Adam Nagy on the short side at 11:42.
Canada would pull into a 3-3 tie at 15:18 on a power-play goal by Ty Rattie off assists from Ouellet and Rielly. Canada would close out the scoring in the second when Scheifele was credited with his third of the tournament.
The Slovaks, coming off a 3-2 overtime loss to Russia on Wednesday, opened a 2-0 lead in the first period.
Dano, Slovakia's player of the game, opened the scoring when he jammed home a shot past Subban from in the crease 2:53 into the first. Dano, a top 2013 draft-eligible prospect, fought off a check from Brett Ritchie in the slot before receiving a pass from Matus Matis and sliding home his first goal of the tournament.
The Slovaks outshot Canada, 11-5, in the opening 20 minutes.
Tomas Mikus gave Slovakia a 1-0 edge 15:28 into the first on a power-play goal. Lipon was whistled for a major penalty for checking to the head of Slovakia's Tomas Mikus, in addition to being given a game misconduct at 13:39. At 1:49 into the advantage, Martin Reway curled the Canadian net and found Mikus alone in the left circle. Mikus gathered the puck and ripped a shot top shelf over the blocker of Subban.
"After that opening 20 minutes, we told each other that we had to get going and that's what we did," Rielly said. "[Slovakia] is a great team so we're pretty happy to get the win."
Slovakian goalie Adam Nagy, who finished with 24 saves, needed only five blocks in the first as the trapping Slovaks kept Canada at bay.
Canada is 8-0-1 all time against Slovakia at the WJC.
In other early action at the 2013 WJC on Friday, the Czech Republic scored a 3-1 upset over Finland in preliminary-round play in Group A at the Ufa Sports Palace.
Los Angeles Kings prospect Tomas Hyka and 2013 draft-eligible defenseman Marek Hrbas scored 2:17 apart in the first when the Czech Republic opened a 2-0 advantage.
Goalie Patrik Bartosak (2013 draft eligible) made 29 saves for the Czechs, including 12 in the first and 10 in the third. Finland had pulled to within 2-1 2:29 into the second on a goal by Chicago Blackhawks prospect Teuvo Teravainen.
Dmitrij Jaskin scored into an empty net with four seconds showing to close out the scoring for the Czechs (one win, three points). Finland has one win and one loss with three points in Group A. The Czechs upset the United States at the 2012 WJC in Edmonton and ultimately finished fifth after dropping a 2-1 decision to Russia in the quarterfinals of the medal round.
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Guest post by the very British Nick Leftley, senior editor at Maxim and a mate made for drinking with
A few months ago, I was out on a tequila-tasting night courtesy of the charming and spectacularly agave-obsessed folks at Don Julio. After tasting every variety of tequila they make (and at this point, I'd personally recommend the Don Julio 1942, an Anejo tequila that's creamy, peppery and as good for sipping as most decent Scotches), master distiller Enrique de Colsa introduced us to the concept of the Luxury Drop.
The Luxury Drop -- rather than, as it sounds, being hurled out of a helicopter made of crushed velvet -- is Don Julio's attempt to bring civilization to the untamed wilds of the classic tequila shot. Everyone who's ever licked salt off the base of their thumb before throwing back a shot of cheap, nasty tequila and shoving a wedge of lemon through their grimace can probably agree that, as traditional as it is, it is also to classy drinking what eating a sandwich you found in the dumpster is to fine dining. (Anyone who has never taken this shot has clearly never actually been in a bar, ever).
That's why Don Julio want to re-invent it as something special, while still retaining the basic character, and to this end have invited several of the world's finest chefs and mixologists to whip up surprising and delicious alternatives. There are just three rules to making one: it has to involve a shot of tequila; it has to have a routine (something other than just downing the shot); and it has to have a name.
At this point in the proceedings, a large table covered in cocktail ingredients was unveiled, and every person present was invited to try their hand at inventing a Luxury Drop. So, brusquely bypassing the mounds of glistening strawberries and blueberries for the fripperies they were, I grabbed a handful of fresh basil and went to work. The murky green concoction I ended up with tasted like a delicious salad that's somehow managed to get wasted in an Italian bistro on its way out for tacos. Success! Briefly stuck for an appetizing name to give something that looked like particularly verdant marshland (and, also, being a huge nerd), I named it, in typically classy fashion, Swamp Thing.
Enrique -- who, lest we forget, is Don Julio's master distiller -- declared it to be one of the finest shots he's ever taken, and guys, this man knows about tequila shots. And so, in the happiest and smuggest of all possible endings, a few days later I received a bottle of Don Julio 1942, signed by Enrique himself, to say thanks for inventing the Swamp Thing.
And we all lived drunkily ever after.
The Swamp Thing
2 shots silver tequila
Juice of half a lime
Spoonful agave syrup
Handful of fresh basil leaves
Cracked black pepper
Muddle the basil leaves in a shaker, then shake vigorously with the tequila, lime, syrup and ice. Strain into a couple of shot glasses, then sprinkle the black pepper on the base of your thumb. Lick off the pepper, down the shot.


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Thursday, November 12, 2009
For some reason google wouldn't let me add this to the first post, it was too important not to include.
6 comments:
- Elizabeth said...
P.S. We soon learned not to pester Mother with a whine about "nothing to do", because, invariably, we had to sort the clods and sticks out of the beans so that when it came time to cook a pot, the beans only needed washing. Can't believe you have both of these bags! They must be collector's items.
- November 12, 2009 at 11:14 AM
- Judy said...
I love Liz's term "clods". Sometimes the dirt was that big. How about a pot of beans for dinner? Sounds good. These bean sacks are a monument to our past and inspiration for our future.
- November 12, 2009 at 3:48 PM
- Ann said...
These are true "bean bags". No little imitation here. I can smell and feel the coarse gunny sacks just looking at them.
- November 15, 2009 at 7:39 AM
- Louise Blood said...
I can vividly remember as though it were only yesterday, sitting at the table on a rainy day with the table covered with newspapers and piles of beans. And of course we "cheerfully" sorted away, never grumbling. Fond memories (?) Is that bag where Dad got the picture for the big horn sheep picture?
- November 18, 2009 at 8:49 AM
- Judy said...
Hi Louise! You must be feeling good. So nice to have you having your say in this stuff.
- November 18, 2009 at 4:00 PM
- Steve Blood said...
As far as I can tell from the patterns that I have this probably is where the rams head design came from.
- November 19, 2009 at 7:10 AM


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Research on bees conducted by a class of 8-10 year olds was published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, complete with crayon illustrations.
In the paper published in Biology Letters, children from Blackawton Primary School reported that buff-tailed bumblebees can learn to recognize nourishing flowers based on colors and patterns.
The paper is written entirely by the kids, who may be the youngest scientists ever to be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Their principal finding: "We discovered that bumble-bees can use a combination of color and spatial relationships in deciding which color of flower to forage from. We also discovered that science is cool and fun because you get to do stuff that no one has ever done before."
(READ the paper at Royal Society Publishing)
Thanks to Nic Bernstein for submitting the link from Slashdot


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Al Armendariz, Americans reject Socialism, "philosophy of enforcement", Democrats, economy, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal bureaucracies, government, Marxists in the White House, Obama, politics, Range Resources, Solyndra Inc.
May 4, 2012 by Chip Wood
Armendariz was in charge of enforcing EPA regulations in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico. He was appointed to his post in November 2009 by President Barack Obama and quickly demonstrated a zeal for the job. He was infamous for his office's harsh prosecution — many would say persecution — of any company that fell afoul of EPA regulations.
In a lecture two years ago, Armendariz explained his "philosophy of enforcement" to the audience:
It was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean. They'd go in to a little Turkish town somewhere, they'd find the first five guys they saw, and they'd crucify them. And then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.
That's a pretty chilling and cold-blooded attitude, wouldn't you say? Notice that guilt or innocence has nothing to do with Armendariz's methodology. All he's concerned about is how quickly and how ruthlessly he can intimidate his subjects.
How would you like to have someone with this philosophy determining the future of the company you work for? Or founded? Or any private enterprise in this country, for that matter? Well, the sad truth is, there are thousands of petty tyrants like Armendariz working for your government — and being paid by your tax dollars — in hundreds of Federal bureaucracies. The only unique thing about Armendariz is that he got caught.
Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) deserves a tip of the hat for shining a spotlight on this particular cockroach. It happened because Inhofe decided to investigate an EPA vendetta against Range Resources, a drilling company the EPA accused of contaminating local water supplies. A lengthy investigation exonerated the firm, but not until Armendariz and his staff had done as much damage as they could to the company. As you probably know, the only energy producers the Administration of President Barack Obama likes are the wind and solar ones that need millions of dollars in Federal subsidies to survive. In the case of Solyndra Inc., $500 million in subsidies couldn't keep it going.
But if you're a for-profit producer of coal or oil or natural gas, forget it. You've got a big, bright bull's eye painted on the middle of your back. And it was put there by Obama and his environmentalist buddies.
The Wall Street Journal recently published a lengthy opinion piece by Bob McDonnell, in which the Virginia Governor lamented how the Obama Administration pulled the rug out of from under plans to develop his State's offshore oil and gas resources. He explained, "In 2010, Virginia was poised to become the first state on the East Coast permitted to produce oil and natural gas offshore."
But the plans were nixed by Washington "with little explanation and even less regard for the strong bipartisan and public support for the offshore initiative." Three months later, the Administration added insult to injury when it announced plans to subsidize wind-power development in Virginia's waters.
And the same thing is happening from the Gulf Coast to Alaska. Profit-making (and tax-paying) private companies that want to develop our oil and gas resources are told "no way, Jose." One project in Alaska that McDonnell cites could have created 55,000 new jobs annually — not to mention $145 billion in new payroll and $193 billion in additional government revenue. In case after case, it was a government bureaucrat — not the marketplace — that put the kibosh on the project.
And don't get me started about the Keystone XL pipeline. Thanks to the Administration's intransigence, thousands of jobs — and billions of barrels of oil — that could have been flowing from Canada to Texas and Oklahoma may now be going to China.
By the way, it's not just Federal regulators who can promulgate some crazy rules. So can State and local governments, as many homeowners can testify. Just ask Joseph Pomares, who was recently cited for having "standing water" in a birdbath he added to a rental home he owns in Astoria, N.Y. A new regulation to the health code there makes landlords responsible for any infractions found on their property that could lead to the "breeding or harborage" of mosquitoes. It seems regulators there take their responsibilities to prevent West Nile virus very seriously. The citation he received advised Pomares that he was in violation of Article 151 of the city's health code and could face a $2,000 fine if the situation was not remedied at once.
No doubt I could fill 100 more pages with similar injustices and outrages across this country. I was going to say that it was no doubt impossible to estimate the cost of complying with all the rules and regulations that have been inflicted on us by a Big Nanny government run amuck.
But if I said that, I'd be wrong. It turns out that the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a pro-free market think tank in Washington, has undertaken precisely such a study. And CEI says the total cost to our economy of government regulation amounts to a staggering $1.75 trillion a year.
To help put that price tag in perspective, CEI reports "Regulatory costs exceed all 2008 corporate pretax profits of $1.463 trillion." How many jobs has it cost us? It's impossible to know for certain, but the number is likely in the millions.
Speaking of unemployment, permit me to repeat something I pointed out in a Chip Shots item last week. Administration officials have pointed with pride to the latest unemployment figure, which allegedly has fallen to 8.2 percent. This is based on claims that 120,000 new jobs were added to the economy in March.
But buried deep in the report is the news that far more Americans who got new jobs dropped out of the labor force that month. The "no longer looking for work" numbers swelled by 164,000.
Just think about it: If every unemployed person stopped looking for work, our unemployment rate would be 0. That's the sort of "recovery" this administration is giving us.
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson said that King George had "erected a Multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."
Frankly, compared to what this Administration has done to us, our rebellious forefathers had it easy. Don't you agree?
Until next time, keep some powder dry.
–Chip Wood


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BOSTON (AP) — James "Whitey" Bulger has been admonished by a judge at his racketeering trial after a prosecutor reported that Bulger used an expletive when calling a witness testifying against him "a liar."
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Former FBI Agent John Morris was testifying Thursday when Bulger apparently muttered the remark. Bulger stared intently at Morris as he testified.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Kelly said Bulger "spent his entire life trying to intimidate people," but "he should not be doing that in federal court."
Judge Denise Casper said she did not hear the remark but told Bulger his lawyers are to speak for him.
Morris, who has admitted taking payoffs from Bulger, described meeting with Bulger and his partner as informants.
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SKY REPORTER: Saturn Appears in the Evening main content.
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Since its opposition late last month, the great ringed planet Saturn is considered an "evening star"—a planet above our horizon at sunset. With Venus and Jupiter low in the west during early evenings, and Mars twilight challenged in the predawn sky, Saturn is the name of the game for most planet observers during May 2013.
This year its ring system is well oriented towards us, appearing as a wide oval around Saturn's orb. Telescopic observers can well appreciate that world's visual magnificence.
The Cassini spacecraft, launched in 1997, reached Saturn nine years ago and ever since has been returning stunning photographs and remarkable data about the planet and several of its fascinating moons.
The satellites include Titan with vast lakes and rivers of liquid methane and ethane, hydrocarbon dunes, and a smog filled atmosphere. The next Cassini flyby of Titan is May 23, when the craft will pass 603 miles above the 3,140 mile wide satellite.
Saturn's much smaller moon, bright ice covered Enceladus, produces remarkable geyser plumes spewing water vapor and complex organic chemicals. Cassini's instruments closely observed Enceladus a year ago when the spacecraft passed just 46 miles above the satellite's surface.
On May 10 there will be an annular Solar Eclipse visible from Australia and the Pacific. A half-hour after sunset on May 14, the thin crescent Moon may be seen about six degrees from Jupiter low in the western sky. During the night of May 22 the Moon is in Virgo near Saturn and bright star Spica.
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|New Moon
|May 9, 8:28 pm
|First Quarter
|May 18, 12:34 am
|Full Moon
|May 25, 12:25 am
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As evening twilight fades at the start of May, Venus and Jupiter are low in the western sky while Saturn is rising in the east. Mars has moved to the early morning sky, rising during morning twilight throughout this month. During evening twilight in the last week of May changing alignments of Venus, Mercury, and Jupiter appear close to the western horizon until about an hour after sunset. The evening of the 31st features Mercury seven degrees above Venus, with Jupiter halfway in between.
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Spiceworks, the social business platform for IT professionals, has announced that it now has two million users, representing nearly 30% of all IT pros at SMEs worldwide.
The social business network combines free network management, network monitoring and help desk software with a Facebook-like community of IT professionals. Members can use the platform to discuss issues, share advice and information on particular technologies and services, and get quotes from vendors for new products.
The company claims that, between them, the two million IT pros using Spiceworks support 68 million workers and manage 116 million computers and devices, and spend more than $350 billion a year on tech products and services.
IT vendors can also set up branded vendor pages, converse with members of the community and deliver targeted advertising on the network. Spiceworks claims that 1,000 technology brands are now using the platform, including big names such as Intel and Microsoft.
"It took us four years for the first million IT pros to join Spiceworks, and it took us just two years for the second million, so the growth rate is accelerating significantly," Spiceworks co-founder Jay Hallberg told Techworld. "There's about seven million IT professionals who take care of the networks of the world's small and medium enterprises, so that means there's at least five million to go.
"We rely a lot on word of mouth among those IT professionals. What we're starting to see is that people who don't have a Spiceworks account are starting to feel left behind."
Last year, Spiceworks opened a new European headquarters in London, to expand its presence in the region and meet demand from technology brands. Hallberg said that Europe now represents 25% of its overall user base.
"Getting local vendors, or local employees of global vendors, to participate in the community aids the IT professional a lot. So now we have many more people in the UK participating, providing local answers and local commentary, that's obviously a big benefit to both parties," he said.
The news comes as micro-blogging website Twitter announces that it now has 10 million users in the UK alone. The company also opened operations in the UK last year. Twitter has more than 140 million active users worldwide.
Spiceworks will host its first ever SpiceWorld London user conference at Vinopolis on 24-25 May. Users can register here.


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Rastersoft leaks info about Frog Feast 3D and next game announcement
>> Sunday, October 28, 2007
While the Atari Jaguar gets a new upcoming release of Frog Feast on October 31, the news that Rastersoft brings to the Frog Feast Release Party is also of interest to the CD-i community as well. Additionally, Charles Doty (The programmer of Frog Feast) leaked some info about a possible 3D version of Frog Feast at the Atari Forum. Charles: "I already have the resources for a 3D Frog Feast. [Below] is a SpriteForge rendering of a 3ds model [of the frog]. I also have the flies and more. The only thing I have for Frog Feast 3D are the 3D models. I haven't started any programming or design on it." Counting the projects of Rastersoft, this must be the 4th game that he is working on. Charles: "The others are only at the design stage." So, what about the new multi-platform new Rastersoft project?
Unfortunately for us, the Jaguar community is much more vivid than the CD-i scene. "Come and join us for the 'official' Frog Feast release event. It will be held on the 30th of October at 11 pm CST (GMT-6); and wiil take place on the #Jaguar_Sector_II channel on irc.sorcery.net. We will be giving away a couple of Frog Feast t-shirts and mouse pads during the event."
Now for the interesting part: "In addition to the release of Frog Feast, we are expecting to have a very early preview of our next game available for download. This will be an early glimpse of the next product we plan to release. We are also looking for feedback on the game to determine the exact direction to take. Here's your chance to influence the next game."
Chaos89 also announced the start of the Rastersoft Store: "Charles is working on his Rastersoft store. It will be ready for the launch on October 31. He will post the link soon. All purchases will be done in his(Charles) store. The money will be sent to Charles. He will get his share of da money, and Charles will send me my share of da money(including manufacture costs). I will do all of the shipping. Oldergames ain't get'n from us!" So it seems Oldergames is permanently & completely out of Rastersoft's business. I'm not sure how this will go for other versions, but we'll hear about that eventually.
Meanwhile, read everything about Frog Feast CD-i here:
The Review,
The Interview,
The Release Info,
Info about a possible sequel,
The Source Code.
More info when it develops on October 31!


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