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Turning Occupation into Lasting Change
The history of populist uprisings like Occupy Wall Street isn't a reassuring one. The last one to have any staying power was the populist farmers revolt of the 1800's, and it was aggressively dismantled by everyone from the two major political parties to the banks and railroad corporations of its day.
Most revolts are snuffed out well before their efforts impact the political scene—not because their ideas and issues aren't relevant, but because the major institutional players within the system-that-is rapidly attempt to snag the power and energy for their own. In the eyes of the Democratic Party or the national environmental groups, this revolt is merely seen as an opportunity to assimilate newly emerging troops back into those groups' own ineffective organizing. After all, if those institutional groups have actually been effective all of these years, why the need for a revolt at all?
It's when these revolts become mainstreamed by their "friends" within existing institutions that they lose their steam, and become just one more footnote in an endless stream of footnotes of revolts that have burned out early. The pundits and "experts" are already trying to put this revolt in its place. A recent New York Times editorial declared that it "isn't the job of these protesters to write legislation." That, the editorial argued, was what the national politicians need to do. The Times couldn't be more wrong.
If the Occupy movement is to succeed over time, it must follow the lead of community rights building efforts that have begun work to dismantle the body of law that perpetually subordinates people, community, and nature to wealthy corporate minorities. For example:
- In November 2010, Pittsburgh's city council stripped corporations seeking to drill for natural gas of their corporate personhood rights, protections of the commerce and contracts clauses of the U.S. and Pennsylvania Constitutions, and the right to pre-empt community ordinances with federal or state law.
- In March 2011, for the first time since Ecuador added rights for nature to its Constitution, a judge stopped destructive corporate development in a suit brought by ordinary residents on behalf of the Vilcabamba River.
- This November, Spokane residents will vote on Proposition One which 1) grants neighborhoods complete control over local development, 2) affords rights and protections to the Spokane River and Aquifer, 3) grants Constitutional protections to employees in the workplace and 4) makes People's right's superior to corporate rights.
These communities, and many like them, have begun adopting Community Bills of Rights, which elevate the rights of people and nature above the rights of corporations. It's not another exercise in putting out good-sounding statement, but a seizure of governmental lawmaking authority to make government work on behalf of a majority rather than continuing to serve as a colonized entity to corporations.
Instead of diluting themselves to meet the needs of already-institutionalized groups who aren't going anywhere, the Occupy folks must move in the opposite direction: deepening and strengthening their effort by demanding structural change in how the current system operates. That means moving away from the institutional advocacy promoted by mainstream progressive organizations (which has proven to be ineffective against the type of consolidated wealth that makes decisions about every aspect of our lives today) and towards a new form of advocacy and activism. Rather than negotiating the terms of our de-occupation, we must rewrite the very rules under which our system operates.
Can communities reclaim the right to say no?
Many communities trying to avoid fracking, corporate farms, or big box stores find they don't have the legal right. Their response? Take on the very structure of law.
Mainstream progressive groups have failed by constraining their activities within legal and regulatory systems purposefully structured to subordinate communities to corporate power. Transformative movements don't operate that way. Abolitionists never sought to regulate the slave trade; they sought freedom and rights for slaves. Suffragists didn't seek concessions but demanded the right for all women to vote. The Occupy movement must begin to use lawmaking activities in cities and towns to build a new legal structure of rights that empowers community majorities over corporate minorities, rather than the other way around.
It's taken a century's worth of manufactured and concocted legal doctrines to allow corporations and their decision makers to wield not only our legislatures against us, but also our courts. Our country's wealth inequality did not arise overnight, but emerged slowly as the corporate minority eviscerated almost every memory of a true democratic system.
They've built a system that not only allows those with the most wealth to have the most decision-making power, but one in which even our constitutional rights have now been bestowed onto corporate "persons," thus insulating them from governing authority.
What's been happening in communities such as Pittsburgh and Spokane since the early 2000s is a revolution that anchors itself in basic local lawmaking powers derived from our innate right to self-government. Residents of over a hundred rural American communities have now seized their local governments by using municipal lawmaking power to recognize rights for nature, to strip corporations of certain claimed rights, and to elevate community decision-making rights above the claimed "rights" of corporate decision makers. In the process, they've stopped everything from proposed corporate factory farms to natural gas "fracking" and corporate water withdrawals.
These communities have begun to understand that the specific issues that affect them cannot be solved without dismantling a structure of law, government, and culture that guarantees that corporate minorities will continue to make decisions on energy, agriculture, and resource extraction.
Occupy Wall Street must become Occupy New York City—with groups of New Yorkers seizing the City and its Boroughs and using the municipal entities to align their governing structures with their demands. That may mean eliminating corporate rights within the City, recognizing the rights of neighborhoods, and restoring labor rights within the workplace.
Occupy Seattle and Portland must actually occupy their municipalities via citizen initiatives and other processes to begin to change the law with which their cities operate by eliminating corporate rights and privileges.
The 99%, Rising
YES! Magazine's ongoing coverage of the movement that began with Occupy Wall Street.
This means understanding that our current system, in which a corporate minority wields a stranglehold over 99 percent of us, won't change just because one bill is introduced into Congress, or promises are made by financial institutions. Structural change—focused on reversing who decides policies from energy to transportation to finance—must be forced. We must use our cities and towns to drive upwards against state and federal frameworks of law that protect decision-making authority by the one percent. It means that, in each of the cities where we live, we need to start working together to define the rights we need and then use those municipal structures to obtain them.
As winter nears, the Occupy movement should take note of community organizer's Saul Alinsky's observation in Rules for Radicals, "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag." There may only be a brief window to convert street-level momentum into organized rights-legislating movements in each of our local communities.
In their own words, why protesters are occupying Wall Street.
Naomi Klein: There's only one thing that can block the wish list of the one percent, and it's a very big thing: the rest of us.
How the anti-corporate protests have evolved into the populist force now sweeping the nation.


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Oceania Brings Us the Rivieraby Paul Motter | 05.25.12
With two brand new ships now comprising the majority of capacity, Oceania has been transformed into a completely new cruise line.
Oceania introduced Riviera to the Oceania Cruises fleet with a lovely christening ceremony (watch the video) held mid-cruise in Barcelona on May 12, with Cat Cora, the Food Network's only female Iron Chef, as the godmother. Riviera is the sister ship to Marina, introduced in February, 2011, and together these two spacious and elegant ships have redefined Oceania. Capacity combined they now make up two-thirds of the Oceania fleet.
If someone asked for my professional opinion, and in fact I get asked this quite a lot, I would say these ships are among the best at sea – when you consider all the elements that comprise the ideal cruise to me. Why? I believe there is a ship for everyone, but certainly not everyone will like the same ship. My personal preference is for ships built primarily for travel – and Oceania focuses on port-intensive itineraries, often in port every day of a cruise, making it a great line for travelers.
The best cruise travel includes excellent cuisine, because eating well is one of life's best pleasures. For cuisine, Riviera and Marina both provide a formidable culinary consistency that I have rarely seen at sea, even on so-called luxury cruise lines.
Finally, it must provide a night of perfect relaxation and sleep to restore me for the next port of call. The staterooms are roomy and accommodating, with luxurious king-size beds and pillows with Ralph Lauren linens.
To top it off, Riviera is just a gorgeous ship, with beautiful décor, original artwork, good entertainment and quiet but attentive service. Add the philosophy that exciting destinations are the primary reason to board a ship, and Oceania is now among the best cruise experience anywhere – at least for me.
Does the Oceania Riviera appeal to you? Discuss it here in the Oceania forum.
The Culinary Details
Most of the cuisine served aboard Oceania was developed by the popular French chef Jacques Pépin, known for his 1960s television series on PBS. Pépin is now 76-years old and still is far more interested in preparing amazing food than branding his own name – like so many modern chefs.
In fact, Pépin had never opened a single restaurant in his own name until last year when Oceania's Marina set sail with the intimate and eponymously named "Jacques" onboard. (There is also a "Jacques" on Riviera). His authentic French menu features classic dishes like French black foot free-range chicken, warm pistachio and truffle sausage, pumpkin soup ladled from a real carved pumpkin and Brittany-style Maine lobster. Best of all, there is no additional charge to dine there.
Nor is there an additional charge to dine in any of the other five main restaurants onboard Riviera and Marina including the Polo Grill for steaks and chops, Toscana for abundant Italian and the Grand Dining Room as the regular restaurant. In addition, there is Red Ginger which qualifies as one of the best Asian Fusion restaurants at sea, with only Nobu aboard the Crystal ships as a rival.
The line does not include alcohol or gratuities in its cruise fare, but you can purchase a house wine and beer package for a very competitive $29.95 per person per day. To add spirits the daily price becomes $49.95 per person.
Even more Culinary Options
For those who want to avoid the calories, Oceania is one of the few cruise lines affiliated with Canyon Ranch Spa for its healthy choice menu items.
People who love good wine can try La Reserve sponsored by Wine Spectator Magazine; a series of seminars on wine pairings and tasting (cost: $95 plus gratuity).
Everyone should try the Bon Appétit Culinary Center - the only cooking classes at sea where not only the chef, but also the guests have an actual kitchen work-station with sinks, induction heating elements, whisks, knives and real ingredients. Other cruise lines only have show kitchens where you can watch the chef. I made my own frittatas, scones and poached eggs. Add this to watching the 24-hour Jacques Pépin channel on the stateroom television, and I feel ready to open my own restaurant.
Other Onboard Attractions
Other onboard attractions include arts and crafts classes, hands-on materials supplied. For inspiration, both new ships come with an extensive multi-million dollar all-original art collection, with the exception of a few limited-edition Picasso prints on each ship. There is also an expansive library.
Each ship has a production-show theater with a 10-piece show ensemble and a seven-piece orchestra. The theaters are nice but not the high-tech extravaganza venues you see on mega-ships. But the advantage to that is stage shows (produced by industry veteran Jean Ann Ryan) with more emphasis on talent than "special effects." The tribute band "Beatlemania Now" also appeared on my cruise, but different special artists will appear on various cruises.
The Spa is run by Canyon Ranch Spa. Oceania is one of the few cruise lines in the world not to have Steiner Leisure for its shipboard spa services. One of the few rare differences aboard Riviera is a thelassotherapy pool in the spa in place of two hot tubs on Marina.
But other than décor and the spa pool the two new ships are nearly identical. When these two new ships were originally announced in 2007 CEO Frank Del Rio said "Good things come in threes," but times change and on this cruise he said "If there is to be a new ship it will probably go to Regent with a few years." Regent is the luxury sister cruise line to Oceania and Del Rio is CEO of Prestige Cruise Holdings, the parent company for both lines.
About the Chief, Frank Del Rio
I want to add something about the personality behind Oceania Cruises; Frank Del Rio. He was with Renaissance Cruises in the 1990s when it went under, once a very popular cruise line that just made a few fatal errors which Frank outlined in this New York Times article.
Frank started Oceania with just one of the repossessed Renaissance ships in 2002, and grew slowly by adding more former R-ships until the line was acquired by a private equity firm, Apollo Management in 2007. Oceania now enjoys the same cult-like following that Renaissance held in the 1990s - solidly booked at very healthy prices. Apollo gave Frank a nice compensation when he sold the line, plus he now serves as CEO for both Oceania and Regent Seven Seas Cruises. It's a classic American success story.
Amazingly, Del Rio built these most enticing cruise ships, yet he has never set foot aboard a competing cruise ship. (Inviting a cruise line executive to sample the competition is an industry courtesy). Frank doesn't care about the "conventional wisdom" of other cruise lines. He would rather take his cues from his customers. "I just built the ship that I would want to take a cruise on myself," he told us.
Frank Del Rio has very good taste.
Does the Oceania Riviera appeal to you? Discuss it here in the Oceania forum.

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JT KERR Memorial Baptist Church, 150 LP Willingham Pkwy., will hold a fish dinner fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 28. Plates $7. Call 910-455-3888.
HOMECOMING at 11 a.m. Sept. 29 at Verona UM Church with guest speaker the Rev. Thomas Conway. Dinner at 1 p.m. at the fellowship hall. Call 910-347-1858.
FALL REVIVAL at Baysden Chapel PFWB Church, 623 AI Taylor Road in Richlands at 6 p.m. Sept. 29 and 7:30 p.m. nightly Sept. 30-Oct. 2 with the Rev. Ernest Humphrey.
SHEPHERD�S of the Community Day at 4 p.m. Oct. 13 at Moses Temple AME Zion Church with speaker the Rev. A.M. Kelly and St. Louis MB Church.
HOMECOMING at 11 a.m. Sept. 29 at Calvary Baptist Church, 122 Thompson Street featuring the Walker Brothers. Dinner follows in the fellowship hall. Call 910-455-8378.
FAITH Outreach Church of God in Christ will hold a pre-anniversary service at 5 p.m. Sept. 29 honoring Johnson and Sylvia Hooper. Call 910-938-3696.
OAK GROVE Church, Hwy. 50 South in Pin Hook presents the Walker Brothers in concert at 6 p.m. Sept. 29.
SUNDAY School Tailgate held Sept. 29 at St. Julia AME Zion Church, 112 Kerr Street. Breakfast at 8 a.m. lessons at 9 a.m.
TROG DEACON Union will perform at 2 p.m. Sept. 29 at TROG Headquarters building. Information, call 910-324-5500.
QUEENS CREEK UM Church, Hubert seeks vendors for its annual Holiday Fair fundraiser held Nov. 2. Spaces available. Call 910-358-7782.
MANHOLLOW MB Church, Hampstead hosts a celebrating life service honoring cancer survivors at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 12. Light breakfast served. Call 910-347-4996.
FIRST BAPTIST Church of Kellumtown hosts a Fall Revival at 7 p.m. nightly Sept. 30-Oct. 4 with the Rev. C.B. Chadwick and area choirs providing the music. Call 910-347-1223.
CHRISTIAN Faith Assembly, Trenton offers a free youth program for youth in Jones County. Enrollment forms at school guidance office. Information, call 910-340-4509.
BETHLEHEM OFWB Church will celebrate its 100th Homecoming/anniversary at 11 a.m. Oct. 13 with lunch following. For more information call 910-324-1747.


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Less than a week ago, Dylan Baker confirmed that he'd be returning as Dr. Curt Connors in Spider-Man 4. At the time, he said he'd be regulated to a small background role similar to his appearances in the last two Spidey films.
Now, comes an insider report from Jim over at Market Saw who's saying that The Lizard may not only be in Spider-Man 4, but that he'd be the only villain of the movie. This of course would bring the franchise back to its one-villain roots as utilized in the first two movies of the series.
Sam Raimi did say that he loves The Lizard...
The info allegedly comes from a reliable inside source, but we know that the script is still being worked on by Gary Ross.
If true, this wouldn't be unexpected as the franchise so far has made plenty of effort in tying each film to its predecessors and Raimi made sure to include Dr. Curt Connors in the last two movies. It makes total sense to have The Lizard make an appearance and I'd love to see that transformation finally occur. However, I wouldn't mind if he was the lesser villain of a pair of baddies instead.
Three villains, as we saw awfully featured in Spider-Man 3 is simply too much, but as we've seen in other comic book films, two can work nice if done right. So, whether that means The Lizard is the featured super villain or a secondary one, don't be surprised to see Dylan Baker grow some scales in Spider-Man 4.
Remember though, this next Spider-Man adventure may be the last time we see Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker and Sam Raimi helming behind the camera. With that in mind, is Dylan Baker's Lizard really the last villain we see Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man duke it out with? Is that an epic enough conclusion to their Spider-Man franchise which may continue with a Spider-Man 5 & 6 starring different actors and helmed by a different director?
Dylan Baker to take the spotlight in Spider-Man 4?
However this may play out, I'm a fan of Baker and would be happy seeing Connors turn grow his arm back. This could be the end of the hopes of some fans who want to see Bruce Campbell play Mysterio.
What do you think of the idea of The Lizard being the main (and only) villain of Spider-Man 4?
Spider-Man 4 is scheduled for an early March production start and will hit theaters May 6, 2011.
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Judge Holds Federal Agency May Pursue Issue of Hiring Discrimination After Complaint That Quantum Foods Fired Hispanic Man Because of His National Origin
CHICAGO – Federal District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly has ordered that Bolingbrook, Ill.-based Quantum Foods, LLC must provide information and documents regarding its hiring and recruiting practices and procedures at its suburban Chicago facility in response to a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) administrative subpoena, the agency announced today.
The subpoena was issued in connection with an EEOC investigation stemming from a charge of discrimination filed by a Hispanic employee contending that he had been fired because of his national origin. The court rejected Quantum's contention that the EEOC could not obtain hiring data because the terminated employee had not alleged "that he was discriminated against in the hiring process." (EEOC v. Quantum Foods, LLC, N.D. Illinois No. 09 C 7741, Memorandum Opinion and Order, 4/26/2010, M. Kennelly, D.J.)
In holding that Quantum Foods could not avoid compliance with the EEOC subpoena, Judge Kennelly noted that "because administrative subpoena enforcement proceedings 'are designed to be summary in nature,' a court's oversight role is limited," and that the "Seventh Circuit [U.S. Court of Appeals] has acknowledged that in cases of wrongful termination the EEOC may investigate an employer's job classification and hiring practices."
The court also rejected the company's contention that EEOC was seeking information and documents for too long a period, writing "Though a charge must be filed within three hundred days of the discriminatory conduct, the EEOC is not limited to information within that period [and] it is not unreasonable for the EEOC to seek four years of information to investigate the charge."
Quantum's contention that confidentiality concerns justified its non-compliance also was rejected by the court. Confidentiality, Judge Kennelly, wrote, "is no excuse for non-compliance since Title VII [of the Civil Rights Act of 1964] imposes criminal penalties for EEOC personnel who publicize information obtained in the course of investigat[ions]. . . . Congress has made the choice."
John Hendrickson, EEOC regional attorney in Chicago, said, "The court in this case rejected a series of what the EEOC believes are discredited routine defenses, but which some employers still attempt to raise when confronted with EEOC subpoenas. Such defenses appear to us at the EEOC to be among the least productive approaches to dealing with EEOC investigations, yielding only delay and expense. For that reason, we are pleased that the court recognized that EEOC subpoena enforcement actions are summary in nature, and will not support extended litigation."
The EEOC subpoena enforcement action is being litigated by Supervisory Trial Attorney Diane Smason and Trial Attorney Ann Henry, and the administrative investigation is being managed by Chicago District Director John Rowe.
"It's no secret," Rowe said, "that the EEOC is looking to challenge systemic employment discrimination where we find it, and that must be one of our potential concerns in cases like this. So it's important that we get subpoenas issued whenever necessary and that we move to get them enforced in court expeditiously. That's what we have been attempting to do here."
Ann Henry added, "There are a few remaining issues related to what must be produced under the subpoena which Judge Kennelly has proposed to decide after what he has described as 'a brief evidentiary hearing' for which he will set a date on May 10, and we'll be ready to go on that. But the real import of yesterday's decision is that Quantum is going to have to comply with the thrust of the subpoena or face contempt, and the EEOC investigation is going to be on track and moving ahead—including on the issue of discrimination in hiring."
On its web-site (www.quantumfoods.com), the company describes itself as having "evolved from a portion cut steak provider into one of the world's largest multiple protein providers to foodservice, military, and retail," and states that it has "nearly 1,500 employees working in two production plants and one distribution center on [its] Bolingbrook, Illinois campus."
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Some shoppers are very serious about Black Friday — so much so that they're willing to leave their infants unattended to get a deal.
A photo of a baby left alone in the corner of a Best Buy popped up on Reddit. The person who posted the photo explains:
We are hanging around, resting from standing in the cold for 2 hours, and this woman walks from this little area into the aisles of the store and starts shopping for stuff.
My cousin points out that there's a baby in the carrier and no one's is watching him or her. We decided to see how long the parent would take to come back. 20 minutes. This woman left her infant unattended for 20 minutes in a Best Buy on their busiest and most chaotic day.
Someone could have easily taken the infant out from the carrier and walked out of the store, and she would not have known until she looked in the carrier.
Commenters shared other stories from Black Friday of kids left to fend for themselves as their parents went off to hunt for bargains.
It's not just in-store. Kids also get left in vehicles. One commenter tells his story:
Around 1 A.M. my boss was walking through the parking lot to our store in the mall and witnessed a child no older than 2 years "hanging out of a car".
Here's how it was described to me. The parents had left this kid in their rental car apparently with the doors unlocked. The kid tried to open the door but his foot became stuck in a bag (most likely a shopping bag). So he's got his feet inside the car and is hanging on to the handle of the open car door and if he lets go he will fall face first onto the asphalt. So the poor guy's just stuck there, screaming.
My boss calls the police, of course, and once they'd contacted the rental company to track the parents down, the police basically told them that they could either leave the mall immediately or get arrested.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Austin-based talk show host Alex Jones has made the first major format change to his popular radio show in 10 years, adding an incredible fourth hour of broadcast time and streaming a live video feed over the Internet.
Launched yesterday, the extra hour, audio of which is available for free at Infowars.com, affords Jones more time for his much-loved rants as well as an opportunity to cover additional news items and invite more guests.
Live video streaming of the fourth hour to Prison Planet.tv subscribers gives viewers the inside track to a behind the scenes look at the sometimes chaotic, and always passionate, studio environment and persona of the host as he battles the New World Order on a daily basis.
Jones takes full advantage of an external video feed cam and a document cam to document his claims as well as illustrate hot topics covered – and uncovered – during the show.
Subscribers will also have access to on-demand video archives of the show after each broadcast.
Prison Planet.com forum members were excited to learn of the change after it was announced yesterday and expressed excitement at the expansion, which is intended to be an embryonic step into the cutting edge world of an eventual online video TV network.
"This was too cool, to have just started listening about a month ago, and now be here for this next step into reclaiming the Truth in Broadcasting!" wrote one.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Another day of searing heat was on tap for California Tuesday, but temperatures were expected to begin heading downward.
A blistering fall heat wave broke records across the state Monday, including an all-time high of 113 degrees in downtown Los Angeles.
Downtown hit the record-high temperature for a few minutes at about 12:15 p.m., breaking the previous record of 112 degrees set on June 26, 1990, said Stuart Seto, a weather specialist at the National Weather Service office in Oxnard. It was the hottest temperature recorded in downtown LA since record-keeping began in 1877.
As pedestrians waited to cross the street in downtown on Monday afternoon, they lined up diagonally to take advantage of just six inches of shade that a light pole cast on the radiating sidewalk.
Parking lot attendant Jorge Marin beckoned drivers into his lot with an orange flag and a song he knew from church.
"Like a ray of sun falling me, it burns, how it burns," he sang in Spanish.
Commuters broke a sweat just standing in the shade waiting for a bus. Women accessorized with umbrellas and parasols to hide from the heat.
The fall heat wave pushed temperatures well over 100 degrees from Anaheim, home of Disneyland, to San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz and Salinas on the usually balmy Central Coast. Many records were set or tied.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power on Monday recorded the highest-ever demand for electricity. The utility registered a peak demand of 6,177 megawatts, breaking a previous record of 6,165 megawatts from July 2006, DWP spokeswoman Gale Harris said.
As Mother Nature served up California in a roasting pan, some sought relief at the beaches, though fewer than over the weekend as the heat wave built.
"Because it's Monday and it's a school day, the crowd is a lot smaller, (but) it appears a lot of people aren't going to work or school," said Los Angeles County lifeguard Capt. Angus Alexander.
The National Weather Service said the siege of dry heat was being caused by a ridge of high pressure over the West that was keeping the Pacific Ocean's normal moist and cool influence at bay.
Conditions are expected to remain hot Tuesday but not as extreme.
Red Flag warnings for fire danger were posted in some areas, but mostly due to the withering effect on vegetation alone rather than the dangerous combination of low humidity and offshore winds.
A small but persistent brush fire broke out in Thousand Oaks west of Los Angeles, and about 200 firefighters in full gear carried heavy hoses up hills to douse the flames.
The early fall blast of intense heat follows an unusually cool summer that often found beaches covered in overcast and whipped by chilly winds.
The 113 registered in downtown Los Angeles would not be so remarkable in the populous inland valleys and deserts of Southern California — the highest temperature recorded in Los Angeles was 119 in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Woodland Hills on July 22, 2006 — but downtown's highs are typically well below those areas.
"Usually there's more of a sea breeze that moderates coastal (areas) and downtown," said NWS meteorologist Eric Boldt.
Another day of searing heat on tap for California
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Another day of searing heat was on tap for California Tuesday, but temperatures were expected to begin heading downward.


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Tackling youth unemployment through work-based learning: experimental evidence from South Africa
South Africa's youth unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world — by some estimates it stands at 52%.
South Africa's youth unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world — by some estimates it stands at 52%.
Despite the well-acknowledged importance of using evidence for decision-making by many development actors, organizations in most countries are not using timely and responsive mechanisms to effectively support evidence-informed policymaking.
The increase in female-headed households in low- and middle-income countries is a result of a range of factors, including male migrant labour, epidemics such as HIV, and armed conflict.
Launched in September 2015, the Science Granting Councils Initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa (SGCI) strengthens the capacities of science granting councils in 15 countries in order to support nationally-led research and evidence-based policies that
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to alter our world and to advance human development, with dramatic implications across every sector of society.
Africa is increasingly becoming a hotbed of innovation. Between a growing number of tech hubs, a burgeoning maker's movement, and even increasingly connected Indigenous communities, the seed of innovation in Africa has been planted.
This project will contribute to more inclusive technological designs in science, technology, engineering, the arts and math (STEAM) by building capacity in gendered innovations.
South Africa has one of the highest burdens of diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa. For example, 42% of women in the country and one-third of men are overweight or obese.
While there is a growing body of information available about child marriage globally, relatively little comparative work has been done to examine its different manifestations, experiences and impacts in different settings.
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Engineering and construction leader Cupertino Electric, Inc. (CEI) recently announced its continued support of the Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) Student Competition, a national construction industry event in Sparks, Nev., where college students prove their estimating and engineering skills in a real-world setting. The annual competition, in its 26th year, ran through February 9 and attracted more than 1,000 construction management and engineering students from across the United States.
"Because of the increasingly important role of electrical contracting on construction projects, students, like those attending ASC, are hungry for exposure to the sophisticated side of electrical contracting," said Kathy Abbott, college relations manager at Cupertino Electric, Inc. "The ASC Competition is a great way to introduce students to the career paths and experience that new employees have when joining a nationally-acclaimed organization like Cupertino Electric."


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Dear friends:
Between 2004 and 2011, Socialist Voice published a wide variety of articles reflecting a non-sectarian, revolutionary socialist outlook on history, politics, and the global struggle for a better world.
We're proud of what we have achieved, but our commitments to broader movements for justice and social change have made it difficult for the editors to devote the time that a publication of this scope requires.
So we have reluctantly decided to suspend publication indefinitely.
We will continue working closely with the many activists we have met through Socialist Voice. We also intend to keep writing for a variety of publications, including Links, Green Left Weekly, and The Bullet, which over the years have republished many SV articles.
We will keep this website online. To view all the articles Socialist Voice has published, see the Index by Date or the Index by Subject. To locate articles by specific authors, or containing keywords, use the Search box in the left column.
Socialist Voice also published 17 pamphlets: all are available as free PDF downloads from Reading from the Left.
Our commitment to the cause of socialism in the 21st century is undiminished. Thank you for your support: we look forward to working with you in our common fight for freedom and justice.
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Better Homes and Gardens December 2011 / By: Amy Panos / Producer: Ariella Chezar
I have been lucky to be a part of a few magazine photo shoots and each time I learn something new. The thing which consistently amazes me most, however, is the amount of planning, work and attention to detail which goes into setting up just one picture. It takes an entire team of professionals to produce just the right look for a story.
The floral photo shoot took place over the course of three days. The stylist and photographer, along with their assistants, producer, and floral artist Ariella Chezar spent the better part of the first day unloading all their equipment, supplies, props, and flowers as well as preparing the spaces where photos would be taken.
My mudroom and laundry room were filled with flowers, the garage became a props and supplies staging area, and the kitchen served as command central as well as where most of the flower arranging took place. Lots of stuff and people everywhere!
The first day included lots of furniture moving and rearranging - basic set up for the upcoming two days of shooting. The photographer looked at the lighting in the house to determine what time during the day the light would be best in each room and the floral artist created several of the floral arrangements based on what rooms would be used during the first day of shooting.
One of the funnier moments during the photo shoot occurred when I returned home to find two huge panels of MDF (medium density fiberboard) - painted red - in the garage. My husband and I joked that it would be ironic if they ended up using them in our living room since we had changed the paint color from red to white. Sure enough, they did use the panels in our "used to be red room" shown in the photo below.
I have to say it truly was a privilege for me to host this photo shoot. I had a wonderful time meeting the entire staff who put together this fabulous story. It was a great experience – one which I would love to do again!


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The world of cinema in our time is very diverse. If only ten years ago almost only actresses with the figure of top models appeared on the big screen, now, more and more, magnificent girls have begun to conquer the hearts of the audience. One of them is Rebel Wilson, who made her imperfections of the figure with her dignity. In the films she plays funny fat girls who sunk into the soul of the viewer. Many fans believed that Rebel Wilson had fallen into the world of cinema due to her non-standard figure, she also had this idea, but soon she decided to prove to everyone that her success was not only in magnificent forms.
The path to Rebel Wilson 220 lbs weight loss
Rebel was so difficult that she did not correspond to the ideals of men, and here also the ill-wishers were filled with reproaches from all sides. She lived in constant stress, both physical and moral. And the whole struggle with stress was reduced to food, as she claimed to stress nutrition. The food for her was both reward and consolation. Rebel Wilson 220 lbs weight loss was for all very unexpected. The girl came to the wedding to her friends in a dress, in which the loss of several tens of kilograms of Rebel was noticeable. She decided not to stop at this and continued to fight with herself. She argued that the food for her is an addiction, and you need to deal with this as a drug. She decided to become healthy.
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The girl did not completely abandon the sweet, because according to her, what is the point in life if you can not eat ice cream. But on the other hand, she began to work hard. For her, special fitness plans were drawn up, according to which she works all day with the instructors. Also, according to her, daily massages affect Rebel Wilson 220 lbs weight loss, for which she is extremely grateful to all the staff of the fitness center. Rebel Wilson began to lead a healthier lifestyle, began to walk more and engage in various sports. She participates in marathon trips and mountaineering. The girl is ready to make every effort to become healthy and find her love. We hope in the near future we will see its wonderful transformation.


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I'm working in a large council that has four main computer suites. The computer suites all have dozens of 42U racks filled to the brim with servers, tape drives, SAN systems, phone systems, etc. Probably about 90% of the stuff is classed as 'critical' and can't be shutdown without arranging serious downtime... especially the phone system which is required 24x7.
So, do I need to PAT test every item within these rooms?! All the servers use IEC connectors into the rack... there are no 'plugs' on the cables just Male to female IEC cables. The racks, in essence only have earth connectivity from the power distribution points (glorified extension leads) but a lot of these plug directly into UPS feeds via 16 AMP commando plugs.
I'm talking about testing over 600 items in a room which is 'mission critical'!
My understanding is the manufacturers testing will cover a server for four years before I need to touch it (IT equipment, office, Class 1 - Table 7.1 IEE code of practice) but these servers are hardly comparable to a desktop PC as they never move. It is also likely that most servers are swapped out in 5-6 years so do I need to bother at all other than a formal visual inspection?
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NEW YORK -- Procter & Gamble's fiscal first quarter net income fell 7 percent on a stronger dollar and costs related to restructuring, but its results beat Wall Street expectations in a sign that a turnaround plan that it started in the spring is beginning to work.
The world's largest consumer products company, which has faced declining global market share, in May announced a plan to focus on its 40 top businesses, 20 biggest new products and 10 most profitable emerging markets as it undergoes a cost-cutting plan aimed at saving $10 billion by fiscal 2016.
The maker of well-known consumer goods such as Tide detergent and Pampers diapers said on Thursday that it's ahead of schedule with its planned job cuts, and that it might consider going beyond its $10 billion cost cutting plan. P&G also said it has created a new position called global productivity officer that will report to the CEO and monitor possibilities for cost cuts.
But perhaps most importantly, P&G said is beginning to grow market share. During the three months ending Sept. 30, the company said that it held or grew market share in businesses representing over 45 percent of its revenue during the quarter, up from 30 percent in the fourth quarter. That jumped to nearly 60 percent in the U.S., up from 15 percent in the fourth quarter. Its market share is still slightly down globally, but the company expects global market share gains by the second half of the year
The news comes as P&G has been facing increasing investor displeasure about its lack of global market share growth and pricing and product missteps. The pressure has grown since activist investor William Ackman disclosed that he has a 1 percent stake in the company. Ackman has agitated for change at other companies he has a stake in, such as J.C. Penney and Canadian Pacific Railway.
The results also are a much-need positive for CEO Bob McDonald, who has been criticized for not doing enough to turn around the company that makes well-known consumer goods such as Tide detergent and Pampers diapers. McDonald said the quarterly results show that the company is in the "early innings" of its restructuring plan and that it is showing progress.
"We're confident that this strategy will enable P&G to generate superior levels of shareholder return in both the short and long term," he said.
The results are a step in the right direction for P&G, which has admitted to missteps in balancing growth in emerging markets like China, which account for about 30 percent of its revenue, amid an uncertain global economy and lackluster market share growth overall. As growth in developed markets like the U.S. has slowed, consumer product makers have looked abroad for new customers.
But it's a tricky balancing act for all consumer product makers, particularly as the European economy remains under pressure and growth slows in China. Indeed, on Wednesday Kimberly Clark said it will exit its European diaper business. And on Thursday Colgate said it will cut 6 percent of its workforce by the end of 2016.
P&G also has admitted to making some mistakes in pricing in categories like laundry and oral care in the U.S., and has lowered some prices. And it has also suffered from supply chain problems, such as a delayed launch of its Tide Pods in February.
Citi Investment Research analyst Wendy Nicholson said the results show P&G's cost cuts and pricing steps are finally outweighing negative factors.
"First quarter results boost our confidence in the full-year outlook for Procter & Gamble, and we consider this a good `checking of the box' in the first stage of this turnaround story," she wrote in a note. She kept her "Buy" rating on the stock.
During the quarter, Procter & Gamble's net income fell to $2.81 billion, or 96 cents per share. That's down from $3.02 billion, or $1.03 per share, last year.
Excluding restructuring and European legal charges, its so-called core earnings were $1.06 per share. Analysts expected 96 cents per share, according to FactSet.
Revenue fell 4 percent to $20.74 billion. Analysts expected $20.79 billion. The stronger dollar, which cuts into the value of overseas sales, hurt revenue by six percentage points, the company said.
For the fiscal second quarter, Procter & Gamble predicts adjusted core earnings of $1.07 to $1.13 per share with revenue ranging from down 1 percent to up 1 percent, implying revenue $21.88 billion to $22.32 billion. Analysts expect net income of $1.09 on revenue of $21.76 billion.
For the full year P&G kept its guidance for adjusted core earnings of $3.80 to $4 on flat revenue growth to up 1 percent. That implies $83.68 billion to $84.52 billion. Analysts expect net income of $3.90 per share on revenue of $84.38 billion.
On the news, shares rose $1.99, or 2.9 percent, to close at $70.07 Thursday, after reaching a 52-week high of 70.83 earlier in the day. The stock had been up by about 2 percent so far this year.


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With passion and unflinching honesty, renowned tattoo artist and New York Times bestselling author Kat Von D chronicles her journey to develop greater personal strength by taking bigger risks in life, love, and her art in this stunning illustrated book.
In Go Big or Go Home, her most intensely personal work yet, Kat Von D raises the expository and tattoo bar as she writes candidly about her greatest desires, fears, successes, and failures, and shares how she has dealt with them—for better or worse. In seven thematic essays, she addresses issues close to her heart—individuality, strength, creativity, independence, presence, wisdom, and altruism—and draws on engaging and inspiring stories from her own life and those of her clients throughout each section.
Aligned with this focus on risk taking, making bold moves, and taking responsibility for her actions is Kat's decision to create only large-scale tattoos especially for this book. Each tattoo represents a two-fold commitment: one from Kat as an artist. and the other from the client, for whom the tattoo almost always represents a significant event or a visible manifestation of his or her evolving inner self.
Filled with Kat's sketches, handwriting, and specially commissioned photographs of tattoos—both in process and complete—Go Big or Go Home features a range of astounding work both on regular citizens and the many celebrities who seek her out, including songwriter Linda Perry, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, actor Ewan MacGregor, rapper Game, and comedian Bobcat Goldthwait.
Above all, this special book captures the candor, compassion, and enormous talent of an artist beloved by millions worldwide.
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Renowned tattoo artist, author of New York Times bestsellers High Voltage Tattoos and The Tattoo Chronicles, and star of LA Ink, Kat Von D raises the bar with her most intimate work yet: Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love, and Tattooing.
Kat has always been a risk-taker in her day-to-day life, her creative work, and in love. In Go Big or Go Home, she writes candidly about her greatest desires, fears, successes and failures, and shares how she has dealt with them. In seven thematic essays, Kat addresses issues close to her heart—such as individuality, independence, and altruism—and draws upon her own experiences and those of her many clients.
Filled with Kat's sketches, handwriting, drawings of tattoos, and process photos, as well as specially commissioned photographs of the finished large-scale tattoos by celebrity and fashion photographer Patrick Hoelck, Go Big or Go Home covers a wide range of her astounding work on regular citizens, as well as the many celebrities who seek her out her artistry.


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George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees baseball team, died in 2010. Had he died in 2009 or 2011, his family might not have been able to continue its ownership of the team because of estate taxes.
But because he died in 2010, the tax laws then in effect were such that the family could keep the team.
"It was perfect timing," says Frank Blossman, estate planning specialist with Mississippi Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company.
"So many times, we talk with people who think they're close to their goals in estate planning, when in reality they're quite far away," he said at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation at Jackson.
Farmers should continually be working with their estate planners to be certain they're staying abreast of changes in the law and changes in their farm business, he says.
Regardless of the size of your estate, planning is important to insure that "if something happens to you today, your assets will go where you want them to go, to the people you want to have them," says Bob Hughes, also a Mississippi Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company estate planning specialist.
"Years ago, farms were being lost to the tax man when one party in the operation died and taxes came due. Many farmers were asset and land rich, but cash poor, which often made it difficult for heirs to pay estate taxes.
"The IRS isn't interested in taking land, tractors, cattle, or chickens — they just want you to pay your tax bills. So, planning is important to be sure things are shipshape at the time they're needed in order to preserve assets and insure their transfer to another generation.
"You need to understand the differences between estate planning and estate tax planning, and some of the challenges your family will face at some point down the road, the strategies that can help you reduce some of the costs and perhaps even some of the taxes.
"Although estate taxes not as much a problem right now as they once were, it looks like they may be starting to rear their ugly heads again."
In simplest terms, says Hughes, "Your estate is everything you own. When you die, all you own is poured into the funnel that is your estate: personal property, real property, business interests, retirement plans, life insurance, other assets.
"The objective is to pass all this to your heirs. The problem is that everybody's funnel has leaks. Estate planning attempts to plug as many of those leaks as possible."
Those leaks, he says, can include estate taxes, partial-year income taxes, any debts owed, attorney/accountant fees, probate costs, final expenses, and others.
Estate planning objectives have to do with accumulation, conservation, and transfer or distribution of assets, Hughes says.
"Almost everyone is in one of those phases. If you don't yet have an estate, you're trying to accumulate one. If you've accumulated some assets and wealth, you're interested in preserving it, and with the economy and markets as they are today, preservation is becoming more and more difficult. Others are at a stage of life where they're interested in transferring their assets to those they love and care about, rather than seeing them taken by some government entity."
Minimum shrinkage of assets
A goal of estate planning, he says, is to "make sure we get our assets to those we want to have them, with minimum shrinkage due to costs, taxes, or other expenses, and to do it with maximum security — to know that all the necessary documents are in force, that we've established a way to pay for expenses, and that we've tried to reduce those expenses as much as possible."
Unfortunately, Hughes says, "Many successful farm families often do a poor job of estate planning."
Some "extremely important" documents everyone needs include a properly drafted, valid will, a durable power of attorney, a durable power of attorney for health care, and a health care directive.
"This should involve a team of advisors: your attorney, your accountant, your estate planner, and your trust officer, if you have a trust."
A will is important, Hughes says, to determine how property you own will pass to someone else, but it needs to be properly drawn, witnessed, and the signatures notarized.
"You need to be aware, too, that a beneficiary designation, such as for a retirement plan or life insurance, will override a designation in your will. So you need to be sure that you frequently review beneficiary designations and update them so these assets will go where you want them to go.
"If you die without a will, the state of Mississippi has one for you through its intestacy law. If you leave your estate to chance or to the state, there's a good chance things aren't going to turn out the way you intended. It can get very complicated — and it can become even more complicated if there are surviving minor children or grandchildren."
While tax planning "is not as big an issue as it was two years ago," Hughes says, "two years from now it could well be a bigger issue.
"Tax laws are constantly changing. In 2000, the estate tax exemption was $675,000. In 2001, a law was passed that Congress said would eventually wipe out the estate tax. But it was only a 10-year law, and even though the estate tax went to zero in 2010 [to the benefit of George Steinbrenner's family], in December 2010 they passed a law to set the exemption at $5 million.
"But, that's only for two years. If Congress fails to act before its expiration, it will revert to just $1 million in 2013."
Hughes quoted a memo from a Jackson, Miss., law firm:
"After three months of deliberation, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, the 'Super Committee', has failed to develop any proposals for reducing the nation's debt. This failure perhaps increases the possibility that the estate and gift tax exemptions will return to $1 million Jan. 1, 2013 as currently scheduled. Further, Democrat Rep. Jim McDermott has introduced the Sensible Estate Tax Act of 2011. This proposed legislation would raise the estate tax rate to 55 percent and decrease the gift and estate tax exemption to $1 million as early as Jan. 2012. While the level of support for Rep. McDermott's proposed legislation is unclear, both the introduced legislation and the Super Committee's failure highlight the need to act now so as to take advantage of the increased gift and estate tax opportunities."
While the McDermott bill has only been introduced and isn't law, Hughes says, "it nevertheless shows the way some in Congress are thinking" and emphasizes the uncertainty of tax law.
The estate tax exemption today is $5 million. A wife can take her husband's $5 million exclusion and add her own $5 million exclusion, thus protecting $10 million in assets, he says.
"But will it exist that way a year from now? Who knows? Good planning now can equal big savings later."


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RAMALLAH, West Bank – A leading human rights group has asked the Palestinian government to investigate alleged police beatings of protesters who were demonstrating against the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Human Rights Watch quotes witnesses as saying police prevented the protesters from approaching President Mahmoud Abbas' compound in the West Bank during a rally there on Sunday. Israeli-Palestinian talks were launched in Washington the following day.
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Just to be clear, I've made peace with the ending to True Tears. I just wanted to help explain where Reckoner was probably coming from, as my own experiences with True Tears is much the same.
That being said, P.A. Works should totally do a Noe OVA.
Clearly P.A. Works wants people to keep remembering True Tears given the way both HSI and Tari Tari referenced it, as well as given the way True Tears is being marketed and sold right now.
The next logical step would be to actually revisit True Tears with a different ending. I have little doubt it would sell well, as True Tears' brand has been helped by HSI and Tari Tari (both of which sold well). I also think that, commercially, True Tears was more a victim of circumstance than anything (i.e. going up against the KyoAni big boys of the time).
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Seriously, no. True Tears has an ending - it doesn't need another one, that's now how it works. If they wanted to make a true sequel with a different storyline, I'd be all in favor, but re-doing the series just to pander to the fans who didn't like the first ending would be about as crass as it gets.
|2013-03-11, 21:36
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|2013-03-12, 00:15
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Have some salt
The Tomoyo OVA was perfect for what it did. But that's only because it's Tomoyo, who's way better than any of the girls we're talking about anyways. :3
|2013-03-12, 09:10
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If there's something inherently wrong with a narrative having multiple endings, then just about the entire VN genre is inherently wrong. VNs aren't beyond criticism, but I think it's a bit much to think that their very format is inherently wrong.
I don't see why the VN concept of "True Ending" and "Alternate Ending(s)" can't work for other types of narratives (especially ones that are similarly romance-focused). I don't know any Nagisa/Tomoya fan who thinks that the Clannad: After Story ending is in any way tainted by the mere existence of alternate ending OVAs (but I'll grant that Archon is right about the timing of the Kyou one being a bit weird).
|2013-03-12, 14:01
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Have some salt
So on paper at least, this is a very powerful concept. To me though, it's watered down by some rather annoying melodrama, interspersed with Hiromi doing splits and Noe dragging Jibeta along. (Wut?) It may not be to Ano Hana's level, but I can't really say I'm too impressed either. Was the romantic development there too sudden? Nah, there were hints of it all along. But in the end, I see a lot of points being made, but the emotional impact is more like "really? Is that it?" and I just really didn't care who "won" by the end. The last few episodes have aged rather poorly for me.
This is coming from someone that has used Hiromi's "key" scene as an avatar before, so don't think I'm some angry Noe fanboy like some out there. :3
|2013-03-12, 14:20
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Well, honestly, what I remember most fondly about True Tears was how it was a very suspenseful and unpredictable (to me, at least) love triangle that kept me on the edge of my seat until the very end.
But I guess that the cost of that is that you don't necessarily get the sort of follow-up that you might like to see. And I'm talking about every character here, as even I felt that the final couple was robbed a bit of some nice romantic scenes to cap off their at last realized union.
Perhaps Guardian Enzo is right, and the best option would be an extension of the ending we saw. I could easily imagine a good 4-episode OVA coming out of that, at least.
|2013-03-12, 14:28
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Have some salt
It's why I tend to get more mileage out of anime like Clannad, even though something like True Tears has significantly superior writing.
|2013-03-12, 22:32
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Personally, I don't really feel anything for Key save for After Story and maybe a female character or two wlike Tomoyo. I am always turned off by their constant mood whiplash between extreme slapstick comedy one moment and mega melodrama the next. There's a reason why I consider Angel Beats the worst PA production, which is already on the weaker end when it comes to Key based works.
Series like ef tale of memories and True Tears which aired around the same time Clannad s1 really got the shaft despite having significantly better writing, artistic direction (particularly ef) and not so one dimensional merchandise focused characters.
Which is why I really like PA works slice of life/drama anime originals. To me they have this charm where they seem to be a hybrid of anime and live action tv. Yea I bitch about Iroha all the time, bit the highs of that show were some the best I've seen in the medium. Also I blame a certian writer .
PA themselves know that this is the strength. I'm watching Tamako Market atm and man the quality differential between that kyoani original and a pa original is gigantic. It's like comparing sword art online and shin sekai yori/psycho pass.
|2013-03-12, 22:47
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True Tears was 2008 (HALF A DECADE AGO). Get over it guys. No matter how bitter you can get, Noe did not win. AGAIN, NOE DID NOT WIN.
Anyway, is it just me or is PA Works starting to look the same. Well I guess it can't be help since RDG has Mel Kishida but from background art to characters, it's all starting to look the same. Then again at least it has more ambition that KyoAni.
|2013-03-12, 22:57
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Monarch of Rughzenhaide
Maybe its the fact PA has upped their volume from doing 1 title a year or two, to 2 or 3 titles per year.
|2013-03-12, 23:11
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Anime fans can have very long memories sometimes. And when animation studios go out of their way to reference their older works, can you really blame us?
As memorable as I find True Tears to be, I doubt I'd still be talking about it now except that P.A. Works keeps pushing it. I assume that P.A. Works wants people to keep talking about True Tears or they wouldn't keep pushing it.
So Reckoner, Archon, and I are only giving them what they want.
|2013-03-12, 23:23
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Australia
Ironically this key visual is the closest they've ever gotten to capturing tanu's style but it never seemed to have made it into the anime...
|2013-03-12, 23:28
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Have some salt
Well, Clannad ended in 2009 and the novel was written in 2004, but we can still complain about how it ended. :3
Spoiler for Key:
I think the bigger problem is the predictable "omg cry now" cues that plague their stories. If anything, I would say that pacing is the problem that really prevents any of the Key anime from being truly masterwork productions because it becomes jarring. For this, I really would credit Kyoani for adapting it well as they could, and you know how much I hate doing that. On the other hand, Kanon's middle 8 episodes were concise and packed in a lot of drama and emotion perfectly. In fact, I'd say they pretty much kill almost everything that Clannad could offer.
And actually Angel Beats, to go back to PA Works, is probably one of their less bipolar works. In fact it uses its melodrama extremely sparingly, though I suppose it was used badly anyways. It actually works well as a comedy, of which I always felt Key has done better in.
And PA Works > Kyoani to me atm. Though both their character designs are declining! Nothing has really matched True Tears's amazing visual style.
|2013-03-12, 23:41
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Visually and character design-wise, I think that True Tears hit the sweet spot between "too detailed" and "too streamlined".
If True Tear's' character designs were any more detailed, it probably would have been much harder to animate well, and the characters might have felt less "moe" to some viewers.
But if those character designs were any more streamlined, they'd risk losing their visual distinctiveness.
The problem is that P.A. Works went from this sweet spot to increasingly streamlined. First, it became a bit more streamlined in Hanasaku Iroha. Then they went ever farther with Tari Tari. With Tari Tari, it really did take me a long time to tell Sawa and Wakana apart (well, unless Sawa was wearing that one particular outfit of her's that was just out of this world fantastic, lol).
It would be nice if P.A. Works tried to get back to the balance they achieved with True Tears. Not that I expect them to, mind you. HSI and Tari Tari both sold better than True Tears after all.
|2013-03-13, 06:03
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Me at work
I honestly like HSI,Canaan (looking at the OP again makes me hope PA does another action anime someday) and True Tear's designs all equally.
I do preffer NagiAsu's designs over those of Tari Tari so to me that's a step in the right direction
The fact we got an animated PV for it back in october when it'll air in the summer at the earliest is pretty reassuring as well.
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|2013-03-13, 06:39
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Monarch of Rughzenhaide
I'm honestly worried about Nagi no Asu Kara. Cheesy music, sad crying loli, childhood friends, love triangle... it honestly seems as if Mari Okada is writing another Anohana but this time for PA Works. The background art is indeed gorgeous looking for sure, but I don't like the character designs at all. It reminds me of those mid-2000 VN artstyles (and by extension Key), which I can't say I'm a fan of. It also screams a "CRY CRY CRY" atmosphere and I have feeling it's going to be over-melodramatic with lots of forced drama and crying, just like Anohana/Key is. And I have a feeling that this "Menma" type girl is not gonna win me over whatsoever...
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Warren Buffett just gave his opinion on one of the hottest tech stocks of the decade— Apple—at Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders meeting.
Responding to a question about both Apple and Google, the Oracle of Omaha had this to say, according to Reuters: "I would not be at all surprised to see them be worth a lot more money 10 years from now but I would not buy either one of them."
Essentially, he wouldn't buy Apple—but he wouldn't short it either.
Take that how you will.
Hat tip to the folks tweeting from Omaha.
#Buffett on Apple and Google: won't buy them, wouldn't short them either #brk2012 $AAPL $GOOG — Ben Berkowitz (@BerkowitzRtrs) May 5, 2012
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NEW YORK -- "I do need to say thank you to the fans," said R.A. Dickey after Tuesday night's Mets loss. "There was an energy in the park tonight different than the last few nights. It may not have been because I was pitching," he hastened to add, but "at this point in the season, you want to give the fans something."
Dickey won't quite say it, but anyone else will: Of course it's because of him. Citi Field was sullen and almost empty on Monday night, but lively and hopeful, if eventually disappointed, on Tuesday. The main reason to watch the Mets now is to see Dickey throw his "freak" pitch as he chases 20 wins, something the Mets themselves have acknowledged with a special R.A. Dickey ticket plan. (As one fan put it: "… Because once every five days, we don't suck.")
The Mets are stumbling to the end of another lackluster season, but in Dickey they have one of the most remarkable stories anywhere in baseball. He has been the subject of dozens of profiles, he's published a deeply personal and well-reviewed memoir and charmed the pants off of an exhausted and dispirited fan base, and co-stars in a documentary, "Knuckleball," opening in limited release on Sept. 18. Yet he is not only living up to the hype, he is exceeding it.
Given his personality, experience, lack of an ulnar collateral ligament and career trajectory, Dickey would be a great story even if he were clinging to the majors by a thread. Instead, he is having one of the best seasons a knuckleball pitcher has ever had, and an excellent one by any standard. He has the lowest ERA in the National League among qualified pitchers, and threw back-to-back, complete-game one-hitters in June. He is perched at 18 wins, and while pitcher wins aren't a very accurate measure of performance, the magic No. 20 might well land him the Cy Young award, for which he is a leading contender. He'd be the first true knuckleballer ever to win it.
What's most striking among many striking things in Dickey's 2012 season is, well, the strikes. Conventional baseball wisdom says that even the guy who throws the knuckleball has no idea where it's going, that the pitch has a mind of its own, that, as knuckleball emeritus and Dickey mentor Charlie Hough has said: "Butterflies aren't bullets. You can't aim 'em. You just let 'em go." But Dickey sure seems to have a decent idea of where his pitches are going. As near as anyone can tell (separate records are not kept for knuckleballers), his strikeout rate this season of 8.86 per nine innings is the best any knuckleballer has had -- better than Tim Wakefield's best seasons, better than Hough's, better than Hall-of-Famer Phil Niekro's (another Dickey mentor). Dickey has K'd 195 batters and, more astonishingly, he has walked only 45. That's great for any pitcher, let alone one releasing butterflies in the direction of the batter's box.
Asked what, if anything, he's doing differently this year to produce these results, Dickey thinks for several seconds. "I mean, what manifests on paper is that I'm striking out more guys than I ever have," he says. "Now, the way that I'm doing that, I think I'm just becoming more comfortable with my craft. Another year of development maybe, being able to change speeds a little more, being able to change elevations a little bit better and know what I'm doing. I think those may be reasons."
The fact that Dickey himself is using words like "think" and "may" is just why the baseball establishment is so leery of the knuckler. But it's also what makes Dickey's season, and career arc, so special. What the hell is happening here? How long will it continue? No one knows. Enjoy it.
Dickey's career ERA was 5.48 when he took up the knuckleball -- after nearly a decade of bouncing around the minors and barely holding on in the majors -- in a last-ditch effort to save his career. As "Knuckleball" highlights, desperate last-ditch efforts are where just about every successful knuckleballer has started. With Hough, it was an injury. Wakefield, the film's other star, was a failed first baseman. It took Dickey more than two years of honing the pitch before he made it back to the major leagues on even a semi-regular basis. His career ERA is now 4.01; his average over the last three seasons with the Mets is under 3.00. Dickey will be 38 in October. This is not how these things usually work.
It used to be that a number of pitchers who were not mainly knuckleball pitchers, like Hall-of-Famer Early Wynn, included the pitch in their arsenal -- it was part of their game, a way to surprise and unbalance hitters. But that practice has just about died out. "It's just so hard to throw a good traditional knuckleball without throwing it all the time," Dickey says. "Because when you throw other pitches, you just lose the feel. That's why people throw it all the time, it's because they need that feel in their hand … it's really, really hard."
Dickey is anxious to dispel the idea that anybody can throw a knuckleball -- he jokes that every position player on the team thinks he can throw one. But that seeming accessibility, however illusory it may be, is also part of the fun. Most people can't throw 95 mph, but, purely from a strength perspective, a lot more can throw a 60- or 70- or even, in Dickey's unusually hard-throwing case, 80-mph knuckler.
It's long been speculated that if a female player were ever to make it to the major leagues, it would be as a knuckleball pitcher. The prospect remains an unlikely one, of course, but asked whether it was possible, Dickey's face lit up.
"Yeah," he says. "I think she'd have to be left-handed, too. A left-handed knuckleball pitcher. I think it's possible."
Knuckleballers are all about possibility. Dickey was a first-round draft pick for the Texas Rangers in 1996 who saw his bonus cut from $810,000 to $75,000 after tests revealed the lack of a UCL in his elbow -- a discovery that baffled doctors, who maintained he should barely be able to turn a doorknob without pain. He struggled first as a "regular" pitcher, then again as a knuckler, and didn't find sustained major league success until 2010. But all along, it was still possible.
It takes a special kind of stubbornness to stick with the game that long in the absence of much encouragement. Dickey is earnest, thoughtful, devout, careful to put the team first in his interviews, and geeky -- he loves "Star Wars," his dorky habit of naming his bats after fictional swords from fantasy books led to one of the best New York Times corrections ever, and he comes to the plate to the theme song from "Game of Thrones." But he also has a stubborn streak a mile wide. This past offseason he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise money to help victims of sex trafficking -- over the objections of the Mets, who were anxious to protect their unexpected star pitcher, then just two seasons removed from obscurity. Dickey went anyway. Given his ensuing season, the team should probably ask him to climb again.
That same stubbornness is a valuable asset on the mound: Dickey never gives an at-bat away. And he doesn't give an inch just because it's September and the team is way out of contention, attendance is down and everyone, from manager Terry Collins to the beat writers to the clubhouse attendants, is visibly tired. Dickey left Tuesday's game with the Mets trailing by a run but with a chance to win -- "as always," said Collins. Both last fall and this, Dickey's late-season motto has been: "There's always something to play for."
In Dickey's case, that something is not just the 20 wins or the Cy Young; it's also the knuckleball itself.
Since Wakefield retired last season, Dickey is the knuckleball's lone torchbearer, and a vocal advocate for the pitch that saved his professional life. Even if a pitcher can master the knuckleball, difficult enough by itself, finding a club that will take a chance on it is just as great a challenge. It's striking, hearing baseball insiders discuss the pitch in "Knuckleball" or reading about their opinions in Dickey's memoir, how great the contrast is between the way fans see the knuckleball, and how the baseball establishment views it.
Fans (and writers) love novelty. For a baseball fan, one of the best parts of the game is getting to see the unusual and unpredictable happen within the tight, unchanging framework of 27 outs. Talent evaluators, on the other hand, do not like novelty at all. In a sport where reliable talent is already deeply difficult to find and project, they crave predictability and want to know what to expect -- which you almost never know with the knuckleball.
Knuckleballers are all about defying expectations, mostly the batters' expectations, but also the fans' and sometimes their own. That explains why so many teams were unwilling to commit to Dickey over the years while he was learning his craft. But it's also why the Mets, in the middle of another predictable disappointing September, are able, every five days, to give their fans the best surprise in the game.


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The Boston Globe posted an article with some information about the tv show inspired by on the women from "The Fighter" which is tentatively called "Breaking Boston".
Mark Wahlberg will be busy in 2013. On the same day the actor's new movie opens, we're told he'll start shooting a TV pilot here inspired by the tough-talking sisters in the Oscar-nominated film "The Fighter."
The show, which Wahlberg calls a "docu-series," is set to begin filming in Boston Jan. 14, the same day "Broken City," Marky Mark's new action flick costarring Aussie actor Russell Crowe, hits theaters.
We're told the pilot, which is being pitched to A&E, has a tentative title — "Breaking Boston" — and a cast of six young women plucked by producers from neighborhoods in and around Boston. As we previously reported, the show will focus on women who, in Wahlberg's words, "live in the real world," meaning they struggle to overcome hardscrabble circumstances that could include problems with money, jobs, boyfriends, family, or drugs.
Wahlberg, who's enjoyed enormous success as a producer with the HBO series "Entourage," "In Treatment," and "Boardwalk Empire," is producing the pilot with Stephen Levinson of Leverage, Bill Thompson of Bill Thompson Productions Inc., and Stephanie Drachkovitch of 44 Blue Productions.
"Breaking Boston" is just one of a few reality TV projects Wahlberg is pursuing in the new year. Already in the can is "Teamsters," a pilot focused on Boston's Teamsters Local 25, which A&E is mulling over now. And he's also partnering with his brother Bob Wahlberg to produce a show about a couple of low-level former Whitey Bulger associates who run a towing company. In an interview in November, Wahlberg said he's not interested in making crass reality TV franchises like "Jersey Shore" and "Real Housewives."
"There are plenty of ways to get a paycheck in this business, but I'm always looking to do something top quality," he said.


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10 not 11!
Tomorrow at 10 am (NOT 11!) I'll be at Traditional Chinese Cultural Center, Potomac Community Center Social Hall 11315 Falls Rd., Potomac, MD 20854 (I said 11 before)
Oh, and by the way, the talk at Monmouth University was incredibly lovely, with delicious manicotti (sp?) had by all. Ronni is a goddess! (That's who arranged the thing, masterfully). I talked to counseling program grad students while wearing a button that said "Not your fucking therapist," which was given to me by Violet Blue of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Good times.
Now I lay me down to sleep and prepare for my ten am (not 11) tomorrow.


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You can understand grounding by overcoming common reasons for confusion.
When people are tripped up by the requirements for grounding, it's often because they don't realize Art. 250 covers both grounding and bonding. An unfamiliarity with the fundamental differences between the terms bonded, grounded, and effectively grounded makes the situation even worse. Not knowing these definitions makes proper application impossible.
How do grounding and bonding differ? When you bond something, you're permanently joining metallic parts to form an electrically conductive path that can safely conduct any fault current likely to be imposed. Proper bonding creates an effective, low-impedance, ground-fault current path for the purpose of removing dangerous voltage from a ground fault by quickly opening the related overcurrent protection device (OCPD).
When you ground metal parts of electrical equipment you're intentionally connecting the equipment to earth. Failure to properly do so could result in high voltage on metal parts if lightning enters the structure. Lightning doesn't necessarily strike only grounded items when seeking a path to the earth. If the metal parts aren't effectively grounded, much of the high energy from the lightning strike will dissipate into the structure, which can result in electric shock or fires inside the premises.
Sometimes metal parts should be grounded to earth to help prevent the build-up of high-voltage static charges where the discharge (arcing) could cause failure of electronic equipment or a fire and explosion in a hazardous classified area.
System grounding is the intentional connection of one terminal of the power supply to earth for the purpose of stabilizing the system line-to-ground voltage during normal operations. According to IEEE-142 (Green Book), "arcing, restriking, or vibrating ground faults on ungrounded systems can (under certain conditions) produce surge voltages as high as six times normal."
To effectively ground something, you must intentionally connect it to earth through a ground connection or connections of sufficiently low impedance and of sufficient current-carrying capacity to prevent the buildup of voltages that may result in undue hazards to connected equipment or to persons.
Art. 100 is clear about what grounding and bonding mean, but in some cases these definitions get lost along the way. For example 404.9(B) requires snap switches to be effectively grounded. This doesn't mean you must intentionally connect the switches' metal yoke to the earth via a ground rod. Instead, it requires you to bond the metal switch yoke to a low-impedance effective ground-fault current path so dangerous voltage from a ground fault can be removed by opening the circuit protection device.
Perhaps the NEC says it best. Bonding is the "permanent joining of metallic parts to form an electrically conductive path that ensures electrical continuity and the capacity to conduct safely any current likely to be imposed." On the other hand, a ground is a "conducting connection, whether intentional or accidental, between an electrical circuit or equipment and the earth or to some conducting body that serves in place of the earth."
Any time you encounter confusion about grounding and bonding, just refer to Art. 100 and carefully read the definitions. Then any action you take will be solidly grounded in the proper understanding of these important concepts.