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Metal News for December 26, 2009
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24 news articles posted on this day.
Maroon Announces First 2010 Tour Dates
Maroon has announced their first shows for 2010. Here are the latest dates, with more to come:
09.01.2010 - Ulm (Ger), Kliffrock Festival
22.01.2010 - Stuttgart (Ger), Winterfreeze Festival
01.05.2010 - Schmerikon (CH), Fiesta Pagana Open Air
NIN Frontman Trent Reznor Issues Update
Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has issued the following update:
"Happy holidays everyone and thank you for an exceptional year! Sorry I haven't been around much lately, I've been working on not working for a couple of months, which for me is hard work. 2010 has a number of things planned including new material from nine inch nails and something else that isn't nine inch nails. I am in a state of rediscovery and reinvention that feels unfamiliar, unsure and exactly what I need."
"In the meantime, here are some miscellaneous performances from 2009."
"Last" live from on stage in Holmdel NJ 6.06.09:
Two Ton Anvil signs with Dark Star Records
Two Ton Anvil signs with Dark Star Records. The band is fronted by founding members Chris Chubb and Brian Ericson, who both sing lead vocals and play lead guitars. Look for their self-titled album "Two Ton Anvil" coming soon on Dark Star Records.
You can check out their music video for "Victims" off their upcoming self-titled album below:
Judgment Hammer Streaming New Song Online
Montana thrashers Judgment Hammer have issued the following update about streaming a new song online from their latest album "Arbiter of Fate" via their MySpace page:
"Thrashers, the track whose lyrics define our name can now be heard on our page. Anyone who hasn't yet purchased it should have a listen to 'Judgment Hammer,' the second track from our debut album! Remember, copies can be obtained through our myspace page, our website, or itunes! Missoula metalheads are encouraged to avoid shipping costs by obtaining their copy from budget cds."
Abraxas Posts Studio Recording Footage
Abraxas, the new death metal band featuring Makoto Mizoguchi (Hate Eternal) on guitar and bass, Mike Hrubovcak (Monstrosity) on vocals, and Lance Wright (Vile) on drums, are currently in the process of recording their new album "Damnation." The album is set to be released some time in 2010. The band has posted two studio videos online, which can be viewed below. Abraxas also issued the following update about the recording process:
"All the songs turned out really great so hopefully you guys like it like we do. Mike's vocals and Mak's guitar solo/melodies will tracks at different studio somewhere in states in end of JAN/2010. More info/proper tracking order will post here soon so please stay with us for more updates!! Have a great new years everyone and more brutal death/thrash from us coming on the way in 2010!!" More...
Dead Shape Figure Issues Studio Update
Finnish thrash metal band Dead Shape Figure has issued the following studio update:
"Dead Shape Figure has now completed the drums and the guitars for the next album. We are gonna record the bass next week and the vocals will be recorded during the first week of the year 2010."
The band has also been posting a video studio blog on youtube. Watch the latest video below:
Zandelle Parts Ways With Guitarists
Brooklyn New York power metal band Zandelle has issued the following message regarding their new album and departure of guitarists Rudy Albert and Paul Duthil:
"In other news, guitarists Rudy Albert and Paul Duthil have parted ways with Zandelle. Zandelle is currently on the lookout for two new guitarists. If you or anyone you know is interested in trying out, please contact us at: firstname.lastname@example.com. We are currently working on completing our latest project, 'Shadows of the Past,' which will feature 10 songs from the early years of Zandelle along with two bonus tracks."
As Zandelle searches for a new guitarist they have also begun work on mixing their next album "Shadows of the Past."
Cerebral Bore Announces Festival Appearances
Scottland's Cerebral Bore have announced they will be performing at several upcoming European festivals. Cerebral Bore's tour dates and festival appearances are as follow:
1/6 2010 Creations Studio w/Tools of torture, Scordatura. (FREE ENTRY AND BRING YOUR OWN BOOZE) Glasgow, Scotland, Scotland
1/7 2010 Satans hollow w/ Rompeprop, Tools of torture + more Manchester, England
1/8 2010 UK tour with Rompeprop, Tools of torture @ Wagon & Horses Birmingham, England
1/9 2010 Winter gore fest w/ Rompeprop, tools of torture Sunderland, England
4/30 2010 Neurotic Deathfest 2010 w/ Carcass, Dying fetus, Origin + more Tilburg, Holland
5/1 2010 Neurotic Deathfest 2010 w/ Carcass, Dying fetus, Origin + more Tilburg, Holland
5/2 2010 SWR Barroselas metalfest w/ Dying Fetus, Beneath the massacre, Putrid Pile, Barroselas,Portugal
5/28 2010 Portside Metalfest 2010 Stockholm, Sweden
5/29 2010 Portside Metalfest 2010 Stockholm, Sweden
6/10 2010 Deathfeast open air 2010 Hunxe, Germany
6/11 2010 Deathfeast open air 2010 Hunxe, Germany
6/12 2010 Deathfeast open air 2010 Hunxe, Germany
7/7 2010 Moscow Deathfest Open air festival Moscow, Russia
7/15 2010 Obscene extreme openair 2010 Svojsice, Czech republic
7/16 2010 Obscene extreme openair 2010 Svojsice, Czech republic
7/17 2010 Obscene extreme openair 2010 Svojsice, Czech republic
8/12 2010 DEVOURMENT EUROPEAN TOUR BEGINS Czech republic
Icarus Witch Reveals New Album Details
Icarus Witch has announced that their new album, "Draw Down The Moon," will be released February 9th, 2010 through Cleopatra Records / Koch Distribution. The band has also revealed the tracklisting for "Draw Down The Moon," [cover art] which is as follows:
1. Black Candles
2. Aquarius Rising
3. Reap What You Sow
4. Dying Eyes
5. Draw Down The Moon
6. Serpent In The Garden
7. Funeral Wine
8. Haunting Visions
9. The Ripper
Dragonwind To Release New CD In January
New York metal band Dragonwind will be releasing their new CD, entitled "Return of the Dragon," on Friday January 29rd at Sikora Post. Guitarist Scott Ketch comments on the band's future, "Me (Scott) and Matt will no longer be doing any other bands, leaving Dragonwind as our one and only musical focus. We know that our current lineup works, and we no longer have the time to write and play with any other project. With more focus and drive, fan's can look forward to a long and bright future for Dragonwind."
Einherjer Rising Reveals New Album Details
Jordanian one man metal band Einherjer Rising has announced their upcoming album "Berserk" tracklisting, which is as follows:
1. Berserk - The Grand Raven Feast
2. Desrever Alumrof Ecnetsixe
3. Jormungander
4. Hand Me the Battle Axe
5. Nature's Cult
6. Eidolon
7. Heathen
8. Wrath of a Morbid Soul
9. Of Ragnarök
Iced Earth Announces Central/South American Tour
US metal band Iced Earth has announced the following Central and South American tour dates:
JAN.30.2010 - Monterrey, Mexico - Café Iguana
FEB.02.2010 - Mexico City, Mexico - Bulldog Café
FEB.06.2010 - São Paulo, Brazil - Via Funchal
FEB.07.2010 - Curitiba, Brazil - Master Hall
FEB.09.2010 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - El Teatro Flores
FEB.11.2010 - Santiago, Chile - Teatro Teleton
FEB.14.2010 - Bogotá, Colombia - Teatro Metropol
Crowbar Announces New Guitarist as Matt Brunson
Vocalist Kirk Windstein, of the sludge metal band Crowbar, has issued the following update:
"Hey to all of the Crowbar supporters out there. I will be having a bunch of updates coming your way really soon. For starters, Matt Brunson (Kingdom Of Sorrow) is now the permanent guitarist in Crowbar. We of course all remain very good friends with Steve Gibb, but his personal training business and gym are doing great I'm happy to report, but that, and his family at home simply do not give him the time to play with Crowbar any longer. We love him dearly and thank him for his dedication while he was jamming with Crowbar."
"I would also like to inform anyone that doesn't already know, the first show of the Stillborn Fest with Hatebreed has been moved from Syracuse to Electric Factory in Philly. This will take place on the 26th of December. Please check www.hatebreed.com for any more updates. There are a lot of good things going on in the Crowbar camp and I will be updating the site frequently. "
Dystrophy Discusses Lyrical Meanings
Vocalist Greg Bueno, of the New Jersey melodic death/thrash metal band Dystrophy, has issued the following update providing insight into his lyrics:
"Something that I always set out to do with lyrics is to have the words match up with whatever is going on musically to make the song a unified whole. There is a tendency in metal for the words to just be there, shouted uniformly without much thought, especially in lots of thrash and death metal bands. There isn't anything inherently wrong with this approach, except that I like to be a little fancy when it comes to using certain compositional techniques. There is also a tendency in metal (moreso nowadays than in the past) to fill up every possible portion of the song minus the guitar solos with vocals. This is just plain stupid. Riffs need time and space to breathe and deliver their own intensity, so with few exceptions, I didn't feel the need to write 60 lines of lyrics per song." More...
Dauntless Parts Ways With Vocalist Ari Nieminen
Finnish death/thrash metal band Dauntless has issued the following update regarding the departure of vocalist Ari Nieminen:
"After playing his last gig in the sold-out Nosturi (/w Dimebag Beyond Forever & Profane Omen) Ari wants to focus his energy and time into his studies and speding time with his family. No drama involved, sorry. The whole band wants to thank Ari for his invaluable efforts towards the band as a great vocalist and as a good friend. Take care, you phat platypus!"
Sectioned Signs To Paragon Records
Hungarian metal band Sectioned has announced their signing to Paragon Records. Their latest album, "Purulent Reality," [cover art] features the following tracklisting:
1. A Lonely Grasp of Winter
2. My Love of Decay
3. Loneliest Man
4. Behind My Eyes
5. Mirrors
6. Village of the Sun
7. Purulent Reality (Outro)
Aldaaron Signs To Paragon Records
French pagan black metal band Aldaaron has announced their signing to Paragon Records. The tracklisting of their new album, "Nous Reviendrons Immortels," [cover art] which will be released in February 2010, is as follows:
1. Neiges sépulcrales
2. Seigneur de l'hiver
3. Instrumentale
4. En route vers la bataille
5. Nirnaeth Arnoediad partie 1
6. Nirnaeth Arnoediad partie 2
7. Royaume
8. Prophéties
Dillinger Escape Plan Video Interview Available
Hardtimes.ca recently conducted a video interview with the members of the Dillinger Escape Plan, which can be viewed below. The band is set to release their new album "Option Paralysis" on March 22nd, 2010. Some of the announced song titles from the album include "Gold Teeth on a Bum," "Crystal Morning," "Good Neighbor," and "Farewell, Mona Lisa"
Dillinger Escape Plan Interview HARDTIMES.CA
HARDTIMES.CA | MySpace Video
Rev 16:8 To Record New Album
Swedish black metallers Rev 16:8 have announced they will be performing at the Wintermoon Productions festival 2010 in Lyon, France. The band is also currently in the process of writing new material. The recording of an as-yet-untitled second full-length album will begin in May 2010 in Necromorbus Studio, Stockholm. Samples of Rev 16:8's music can also be found at their MySpace page.
Ihsahn To Play Wacken Open Air Festival
The Wacken Open Air website has been updated to announced that solo artist Ihsahn, who has previously been involved with Emperor and Peccatum, has been confirmed for the German festival. The Wacken Open Air Festival will take place August 5th to August 7th, 2010. Ihsahn's upcoming album "After" will be released in Europe on January 25th and in the U.S. on January 26th.
The track listing for "After" is as follows:
1. The Barren Lands
2. A Grave Inversed
3. After
4. Frozen Lakes on Mars
5. Undercurrent
6. Austere
7. Heavens Black Sea
8. On the Shores
Video Interview With Behemoth Vocalist Available
Themetalheadz.com conducted an interview with Behemoth frontman Nergal before their show at the Wulfrun Hall in Wolverhampton. The video clip of the interview can be found below.
Tombs Video Interview Available
Stormbringer.at recently conducted a video interview with New York metallers Tombs in Vienna, Austria. The video clip of the interview can be viewed below.
TOMBS Interview from StormbringerZine on Vimeo.
Resurrected Vocalist To Sit Out Portugal Shows
Germany's Resurrected has issued the following statement about their vocalist Carsten sitting out their upcoming shows in Portugal:
"Our singer Carsten is forced to sit out both Portugal shows in January due to a chronic pneumonia he caught at Mountains Of Death Festival this year. His current cure does not allow to grunt more than two or three songs in a row. Chris Mieves from GRIND INC. will step in for both shows and he's already excited doing that job! We hope Carsten is fit again by April as we plan to arrange a little UK tour then. We'll keep you updated!"
True Witness Signs with Dark Star Records
Dark Star Records has announced the signing of Chicago's melodic metal band True Witness. True Witness is: Allen James (Vocals), Randy Gonet (Lead Guitar), Tom Miller (Drums), Aaron Czajka (Rhythm Guitar), Brian Gordon (Bass). You can check out some of their music on the band's MySpace player.
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FBI agents and sheriff's deputies arrested a man on Saturday who is suspected of robbing a Fallbrook bank on Wednesday.
An FBI agent had been looking for the suspect in Encinitas, then started driving north on Interstate 15 and happened to notice the man also driving north, sheriff's Lt. Jeff Maxin said.
Patrol deputies helped stop the driver in the Fallbrook area, near Old Highway 395 and Pala Road, about 3:30 p.m. Scott Moline, 50, was arrested, Maxin said.
Moline is suspected of robbing Bank of America on South Main Street about 10 a.m. Wednesday, and saying he had enough explosives in a waiting car to blow up the bank. He was given money with a hidden dye pack, which exploded in his pants pocket, Maxin said.
He said evidence related to the holdup was found in the vehicle Moline was driving. A passenger in the car was detained, questioned, then released.

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A slushy slinger carried out a bizarre attack at an Oklahoma gas station that left an unsuspecting store clerk drenched and the station unable to sell gas for several hours, resulting in a couple of thousand dollars in lost business.
Store surveillance cameras at the Hop n Sack gas station in Lawton caught the incident on tape as a woman in black hurls the sticky confection all over a clerk while her friend walks away smiling. The slushy drink also short-circuited the store's high dollar gas machine, rendering the station unable to sell gas until 11 the next morning when the machine was repaired.
"A 24-ounce slushy, a blue one" was the suspect's weapon of choice, station owner Rick Sellers tells ABC News. On video, the woman can be seen standing at the counter casually next to her friend in a white shirt before hurling the beverage at the clerk. The clerk then wipes her face and calls the station owner to report what happened.
But aside from being a little shaken, the clerk is doing fine. "She's good," Sellers said. "She was shook up but she is fine, she opened the next morning."
According to Sellers, a deputy sheriff had been called to the station earlier in the evening after the two women in question allegedly tried to instigate a fight with the clerk who was taking a break outside the store. The two women returned to harass the clerk after the deputy sheriff left the scene.
The drink thrower also went to school across the street from the station and was at one time friends with the store clerk.
In addition to the mental damage caused by the slushy slinger, Sellers also tells ABC News the attack cost his business $2,000 in lost gas sales after the sticky blue drink shorted out the electronic machine used for making gasoline sales.
Captain Craig Akard of the Lawton Police Department tells ABC News charges may potentially be brought against the assailant. "We'll work the case up and present it to the DA's office, there was a charge of malicious damage to property and assault and battery listed on the offense," he said.
If the district attorney decides to pursue the case, the suspect, who may have fled to Georgia, may be forced to return to the Oklahoma. "There is a possibility that if the suspect did leave town she will be brought back," said Akard.


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Scoreboard is closing its doors for good, after its liquor license was revoked following serious liquor violations, but the owners are not going quietly, as statuses posted on the bar's Facebook page allege that the actions taken against the bar were racially motivated and unjust.
Scoreboard's license was revoked late Thursday evening, according to the Press & Sun-Bulletin, following the bar owner's plea of "no contest" to a charge that 14 minors were found in the bar in early May.
"The establishment has been a continued problem over the past several months," Binghamton Police Chief Joseph Zikuski told Press & Sun.
But on Friday, the Scoreboard Facebook page posted a status claiming the decision to close Scoreboard was racially motivated, citing New York State Liquor Authority violations by the Rathskeller Pub and Uncle Tony's, who continue to operate on State Street, to show Scoreboard was treated unfairly.
"As our neighbors all around get away with serving minors we got persecuted despite the fact that we made all efforts to maintain and uphold the laws," the Facebook post said. "Tony's the Rat are part of the good ole boys on State St. with the mayor on their side kissing butt. Biggest difference between Scoreboard and these bars… The color of our clientele."
The post, and a subsequent post on Saturday, continued to criticize Zikuski by name for calling Scoreboard a "problem," and accused Binghamton Mayor Matt Ryan of persecuting Scoreboard for its "diverse crowd."
Andrew Block, the executive assistant to the mayor, sent an email to Pipe Dream dismissing Scoreboard's claims that race played any factor in the revocation of the bar's liquor license.
"The Scoreboard closed because the State Liquor Authority revoked the bar's liquor license after its employees committed multiple legal violations," Block wrote. "The case is very unfortunate all the way around, and it speaks for itself. The allegations of racial bias are not only unfounded, but also an insult to all those who have suffered racism and worked to eliminate it."
The owners of Scoreboard could not be reached for comment.
The Rathskeller Pub, the establishment most berated in the Scoreboard Facebook post, is open again after suffering a litany of liquor violations in 2011 — including a citation after a bar owner ordered a DJ to announce "fire" to clear out underage patrons during a police raid.
However, the Rathskeller's liquor license was suspended in March 2011, something Scoreboard's post did not acknowledge.
A representative from SLA did not respond to Pipe Dream's calls to inquire into the revocation of Scoreboard's liquor license.


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A towering, Sleepy Hollow-esque oak in Joe and Nancy Robinson's front yard has hung over Beard Road in Shaftsburg as long as anyone can recall. Planted roughly 180 years ago, during the Andrew Jackson administration, the tree has weathered all types of severe storms until this one.
It now is cracked, essentially destroyed, its ancient branches down and rudely cleared from the roadway.
"People have been going by with their chainsaws and have been cutting it back. You couldn't get by at first," Nancy Robinson said over the hum of a nearby generator. "It was our favorite tree," her husband, Joe, added. "When we bought this house we made sure the tree was included on our property."
The Robinsons' loss of power and property damage isn't unusual in their neighborhood. Shaftsburg (also known as Woodhull Township) in Shiawassee County, was one of the areas hardest hit by the Dec. 21 ice storm, according to Thomas "TJ" Clark, director of Shiawassee County's Emergency Management Homeland Security.
"At one time 64 percent of Shiawassee County was without power," Clark said, calling the county crippled. "Consumers will say they have 11,000 without power, but those are meters, those aren't individuals. One meter could service an apartment complex or a quad that the landlord pays. We look at the impact of the population density — not on how many non-spinning meters Consumers is reporting as out of service. So at one time we were looking at over 43,000 people that were without power."
There were warming centers across the county set up for those in need — from Perry to Corunna and Bancroft. Shiawassee County also used its "Code Red" emergency alert system, which updates residents via cell phone, home phone and email, according to Clark.
Clark also said a few deaths may be related to the storm, including a fire and carbon monoxide poisoning, but the cases are still under investigation. Meanwhile, out-of-state tree and power-line workers, including Asplundh and T&D Solutions, spread out in the cities and surrounding rural areas restoring much of the power grid over the weekend.
Up the street from the Robinsons, near the Shaftsburg Village Market, lives Landan Dibble, 25, who lost power on Christmas night. How has he kept warm? "Right now, by chopping wood — stacking it up," he said the day after Christmas, holding his axe near a pile of freshly cut logs. "We just use stove heat." Dibble said his area is a wreck in all directions. "It dropped a bunch of lines down Beard and Shaftsburg Road. If you take any of these connecting roads to Haslett there are a lot of lines down to the ground. When you drive around, every second you see another tree that's dropped. Even today, I'm out here chopping and I still hear them dropping."
Those without stoves and fireplaces were forced to fire up the generator — or rush out and snag one. Rob Jones, the freight supervisor at the Home Depot in Owosso, said they had dozens of cold residents waiting in line. "We got 96 generators in a little after 8 p.m. on Monday night," said Jones, a 17-year employee. "We had people lined up back to the receiving department, they started coming in at 4 p.m. — we stayed open an hour late, until 10 p.m., selling them — the next morning there were only 20 or so left. They were gone right away. I've never seen generator sales like this. The only time it was close was back in 2002 or 2003 during that black-out."
Some area businesses were affected but managed to cope. Julie Sloan, 19, an employee at Brent's Pizza in Perry, said the store closed temporarily due to the outage."On Christmas eve we had a generator, so we reopened," Sloan said. "But we definitely lost money because we didn't have the store open for two days and a lot of our supplies got ruined. We had to have someone come in and re-wire the oven so the generator could power it — the lights were flickering a lot. We got it back Christmas morning, about 10 a.m."
Jim Sebrell, 57, lives on the border of Shaftsburg and Laingsburg. His power went out at the onset of the storm. He said he and his neighbors have been helping each other out throughout the ordeal.
"We're keeping warm with a generator, spending $20 or $30 a day on gas — but we have everything except hot water," Sebrell said. "I've been helping anyone I know who needs help, clearing their driveways. When everything clears and we get power we'll start cleaning up yards in the neighborhoods. I've never seen anything like this and I'm 57 and have been in Michigan all but one of those years."


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TAMPA — A Valrico man was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for taking sexually explicit photographs of a relative.
"I don't even like waking up anymore," Robert D. Paige, 37, said in federal court, apologizing for what he called the stupidity that landed him behind bars. "If I was told by a doctor that I wouldn't live anymore, I wouldn't care."
Paige was found guilty during a nonjury trial of producing child pornography and possessing child pornography. U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew sentenced him to a concurrent 10-year term on the possession charge.
He also must register as a sex offender and be placed on supervised release for life once he's out of prison.
Paige later admitted taking sexually explicit pictures of the 16-year-old girl, which she told investigators were to be sold online to pay off her $2,000 cell phone bill.
"I was absolutely repulsed by what you did," Bucklew told Paige, saying details of the case enraged her.
Paige denied that he planned to post the images on the Web to make money and said he deleted them from his digital camera.
"I'm thinking, 'Oh, my God. That's worse,' " Assistant U.S. Attorney Colleen Murphy-Davis told the judge. "What did he do it for? Some perverted reason? That's the only thing that's left to believe."
Court records say Paige conducted three photo shoots between August and September 2008. An FBI analysis of his computer recovered more than a dozen graphic images of the girl.
He told detectives that he and another adult talked about making money through a porn site and that the girl must have overheard the conversations. Paige told investigators that the girl approached him the next day and offered to let him take nude pictures to help pay her cell phone bill. Paige said he never forced her to participate.
The girl told authorities about the pictures when she was taken into custody under the state's Baker Act. She had told law enforcement that she wanted to run away from home and hurt herself.
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London, July 1 (ANI): Two teenagers sisters were reportedly shot dead after they were seen dancing in the rain in Pakistan.
Noor Basra, 15, and Noor Sheza, 16, were killed by five gunmen after their clip dancing around caused outrage in their ultra-conservative town.
According to the Mirror, their mother Noshehra was also shot. Police suspect that the murders were ordered by the sisters' step-brother to restore the family's 'honour'.
The sisters were filmed six months ago break-dancing after it started raining heavily.
The girls were seen running around with two younger children outside their house in their village in the deprived northern region of Gilgit.
The stepbrother Khutore and the gunmen are all thought to be on the run. (ANI)


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The Bookseller's flagship feature this week talks about the different ways someone can be poached: an agent steals away a client, an author decides to move to a new publisher, or something in between. In truth, I always thought poaching was strictly reserved to the agent/author realm in the vein of Andrew Wylie's notorious habits, but either I'm wrong, or the Bookseller had to stretch the definition a whoooooooole lot to fill the space.
But anyway, "self-confessed former poacher" Patrick Janson-Smith, who headed up Transworld before becoming an agent, explains it thusly: "stealing writers from other publishers is 'all about author care', claiming that his motivation for making poaching approaches was to rescue writers languishing in under-published limbo. "I care very deeply about my authors, and if I love an author and see them being undersold, then I feel it is my duty to ruffle a few feathers."
He tried to lure Ian Rankin away from Orion, did get Carl Hiaasen away from Macmillan and tried awfully hard to secure Bill Bryson for Transworld's very own. Then there's Lionel Shriver, who recently switched to HarperCollins (for way more money) to publish her next books after Serpent's Tail did so well by WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN.
But how much is the seeming lack of loyalty due to poaching than to numbers, or authors simply getting dropped? Most agents and publishers are fairly circumspect. While literary agent David Godwin describes losing authors as "a blow to the stomach", he "absolutely" defends their right to move. Serpent's Tail boss Pete Ayrton is similarly sanguine about Shriver's recent departure: he says that HarperCollins' generous golden hello was "just reward for 20 years of labour".
But what do you think of poaching, in all its myriad forms? Send us your tales of authors you wanted to hang onto, moved to different publishers for compelling reasons, and the like.


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Investors stuck with shares in Nortel Networks Corp. still have nothing to cheer about, even after Google Inc. offered the company $900-million (U.S.) for its 6,000 patents. On the other hand, Nortel bondholders are looking very good right now.
Nortel filed for bankruptcy protection in January, 2009, and has since been shedding assets at an impressive pace. Fourth quarter results, released in early March, showed that revenue shrivelled to a mere $28-million - down from fourth quarter revenue of more than $2-billion as recently as 2008.
The company has said repeatedly that the creditor protection proceedings will likely render the common shares and preferred shares worthless. However, Bloomberg News reported that Nortel's 2016 10.75 per cent bonds, due 2016, are in another realm: They rose to 93 cents on the dollar on Monday in New York.
That's up from a low of about 14 cents in early 2009, during the depths of the financial crisis. While bonds are usually a fixed income investment, they fell so low that they began to take on equity-like characteristics, with higher risk and reward built into the price. Indeed, anyone with the fortitude to buy these bonds at the low are now up about 550 per cent.


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Super League: Warrington Wolves crush St Helens
Chris Riley scored two of Warrington's eight tries as the Wolves beat St Helens 48-22 at the Etihad Stadium.
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Second rower Trent Waterhouse also crossed twice and kicked eight goals from as many attempts as the Wolves bounced back from their surprise home defeat by Hull to secure their fifth win out of seven at the annual two-day Super League extravaganza.
Saints made the worst possible start when Jon Wilkin's grubber kick was seized on by Simon Grix and, inside the first set of tackles, Richie Myler and Ryan Atkins combined to get Riley over for his first try.
They looked to be still in shock when Atkins leapt in the air to collect Stefan Ratchford's lofted kick to score a second try and, with Ratchford adding both conversions, the Wolves led 12-0 after five minutes.
Superb offloads by ball-handling Pacific Islanders Willie Manu and Tony Puletua created the space for centre Jordan Turner to get winger Ade Gardner over for Saints' opening try on 16 minutes.
Tom Makinson kicked the touchline conversion and there were only two points between the sides when stand-off Nathan Ashe sent Turner over for a second try after Atkins had lost the ball on his own 20-metre line.
The game was finely balanced at that stage but the Wolves took a firm grip with three more tries in the last 13 minutes of the first half.
Riley took two defenders over the line with him after taking Ratchford's pass for his second, veteran Lee Briers dummied his way past Wilkin and Waterhouse finished off a 50-metre flowing move for his side's fifth try of the first half.
Ratchford's fumble on his own 10-metre line early in the second half gave Saints a perfect attacking platform and they made the most of it when Turner gathered Wilkin's kick to claim his second try.
Warrington's grip loosened even more midway through the second half when Gardner fended off Myler to race down the wing and second rower Josh Jones got the supporting Lance Hohaia over for a fourth Saints try.
Makinson kicked his third goal to cut the gap to just eight points but the Wolves simply stepped up a gear in the final quarter to run in three more tries.
Waterhouse took Myler's pass to stretch out for the line to register his second, Grix had a simple run-in after Turner had shot out of the defensive line to attempt an interception and returning skiper Adrian Morley supported a break by Mickey Higham to score the most popular try of the day.


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11 minor-leaguers invited to spring training
The Rays have invited 11 of their own minor-leaguers to big-league spring training, including recently acquired RHP Matt Andriese and 2011 first-round pick OF Mikie Mahtook.
With these 11 players the spring roster is officially at 59, but the Rays have signed at least three other players who are invited - INF Wilson Betemit, RHP Juan Sandoval and OF Jeremy Moore - so the working total is 62.
The invited 11 are catchers Mayo Acosta, Curt Casali and Luke Maile; infielder Cole Figueroa; Mahtook; right-handed pitchers Andriese (acquired from San Diego), Steve Geltz, Merrill Kelly, Victor Mateo; and left-handed pitchers Braulio Lara and Adam Liberatore.
Here are bios on the 11 as prepared by the Rays media relations staff:
Acosta, 26, has thrown out 40.1 percent (175-of-436) of attempted base stealers in his seven-year minor league career. He spent the 2013 season with Double-A Montgomery, appearing in 71 games and hitting seven home runs. He played in 30 games for Toros del Este of the Dominican Winter League, finishing third on the team with a .292 (21-for-72) batting average.
Andriese (ANN-dreese), 24, started the 2013 season with Double-A San Antonio (Padres) and was named to the Texas League midseason All-Star Team before earning a promotion to Triple-A Tucson. He combined to go 11-7 with a 3.27 ERA (134.2-IP, 49-ER) and 105 strikeouts over 27 appearances (25 starts) between the two levels, ranking among Padres minor league leaders in ERA (fifth), wins (second) and strikeouts (fifth). He was acquired as part of a seven-player trade with San Diego on January 22.
Casali (cah-SAL-ee), 25, split his first season in the Rays organization between Class-A Charlotte and Montgomery. He was acquired from the Detroit Tigers in exchange for minor league left-handed pitcher Kyle Lobstein prior to the start of the 2013 season. The Florida State League All-Star was transferred to Montgomery on July 23 and went on to hit .383 (46-for-120) with five home runs and 31 RBI in 35 games with the Biscuits.
Figueroa, 26, spent the 2013 season with Triple-A Durham, compiling a .286 (132-for-481) batting average along with 20 doubles, three home runs and 62 RBI for the International League champions. He appeared at five different positions over 129 games (94-3B, 20-2B, 12-SS, 5-RF, 1-LF) and struck out only 30 times in 461 at-bats. Following the season, he was recognized by the Rays baseball operations staff as having the Best Strike-Zone Discipline in the organization.
Geltz, 26, spent his first season in the Rays organization with Triple-A Durham, appearing in 41 games and going 5-3 with a 2.82 ERA (67-IP, 21-ER) and 80 strikeouts. He held opponents to a .156 (35-for-225) batting average, lowest among International League relief pitchers, while establishing a career high with 67 innings pitched.
Kelly, 25, split the season between Montgomery and Durham, earning a June promotion to the Triple-A level. He went 13-10 with a 3.64 ERA (158.1-IP, 64-ER) in 28 games (26 starts), ranking among Rays minor league leaders in wins (third) and strikeouts (111, fifth). Following the season, he made nine appearances for the Salt River Rafters of the Arizona Fall League, going 1-0 with a 4.91 ERA (11-IP, 8-ER).
Lara, 25, converted from starting pitcher to reliever in his sixth year with the Rays organization, appearing in 45 games with Montgomery. He went 4-2 with a 4.38 ERA (72-IP, 35-ER) and 14 games finished for the Biscuits, including a 0.55 ERA (16.1-IP, 1-ER) over 10 appearances in August. He made one appearance for Durham at the end of the season.
Liberatore (LIB-er-uh-tor), 26, made 43 appearances with Durham after one game with Montgomery to open the season. He went 5-3 with a 3.58 ERA (60.1-IP, 24-ER) and 69 strikeouts for the Bulls. He has posted a 2.95 ERA over four minor league seasons.
Mahtook (MAH-took), 24, spent the season with Montgomery and hit .254 (130-for-511) with seven home runs and 68 RBI, which ranked third among Rays minor league players. He led the Biscuits with 71 runs scored, 30 doubles and 25 stolen bases. He was selected by the Rays in the first round (31st overall) of the 2011 June Draft.
Maile (MAY-lee), 22, spent the 2013 season with Class-A Bowling Green, batting .283 (102-for-361) with four home runs and 49 RBI while being tabbed to both the Midwest League midseason and postseason All-Star teams. He threw out 36 of 70 attempted base stealers (51.4 percent) and was named by Baseball America as the Best Defensive Catcher in the Midwest League in their Best Tools survey after the season.
Mateo, 24, spent the 2013 season with Montgomery and went 7-9 with a 3.93 ERA over a career high 153.1 innings pitched. He allowed one run or fewer in eight of his final 10 starts of the season. On August 24, he recorded the second no-hitter in Biscuits history, first in Riverwalk Stadium history, in a 9-inning shutout of Jacksonville (Marlins). It marked the second no-hitter of his career, joining lefthander Matt Moore and righthander Wade Davis as the only pitchers with multiple no-hitters in franchise history.


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LEWISTON, Maine -- The No. 21 nationally ranked Bates men's tennis team nearly got a 2-1 lead after doubles play, but settled for a 2-1 deficit that turned into a 8-1 NESCAC loss to top-ranked Middlebury on Sunday at the Wallach Tennis Center.
The Panthers (14-1, 5-0 NESCAC) remain unbeaten against Division III competition, while Bates (6-6, 1-1 NESCAC) suffers its first conference loss and drops to the .500 mark overall.
Bates got its lone point at No. 1 doubles, where sophomores Matt Bettles (Taunton, England) and Rob Crampton (Wilton, Conn.) got past Middlebury's Andrew Peters and Brantner Jones by an 8-4 score. Middlebury coasted to an 8-1 win at third doubles, and at second doubles, the Panthers' Spencer Lunghino and David Farah pulled out a 9-7 decision over Bates senior Sam Woods (Cambridge, N.Y.) and junior Jeff Beaton (Haverhill, Mass.).
The Panthers dominated singles play except at the No. 2 position, where Crampton won the first set against Middlebury's Zach Bruchmiller but ultimately fell in a hard-fought match, 3-6, 6-4, 10-8.
Bates plays next plays on Friday at 3:30 p.m. at NESCAC opponent Trinity.
Middlebury plays host to Skidmore for a non-conference match next Saturday at 1 p.m.
Middlebury 8, Bates 1
April 17, 2011 at Lewiston, Maine (Wallach Tennis Center)
1. Matt Bettles/Rob Crampton (B) def. Andrew Peters/Brantner Jones (M), 8-4
2. Spencer Lunghino/David Farah (M), def. Sam Woods/Jeff Beaton (B), 9-7
3. Mike Malhame/Eric Vehovec (M) def. Peter Yanofsky/Tim Berg (B), 8-1
1. Peters (M) def. Bettles (B), 6-0, 6-1
2. Zach Bruchmiller (M) def. Crampton (B), 3-6, 6-4, 10-8
3. Alex Parower (M) def. Berg (B), 6-3, 6-2
4. Lunghino (M) def. Beaton (B), 6-3, 6-0
5. Jones (M) def. Ben Bogard (B), 6-0, 6-1
6. James Burke (M) def. Kyle DeSisto (B), 6-3, 6-4


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Georgetown Hospital wrapping up renovation
GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) - The first phase of a $34 million renovation project at Georgetown Memorial Hospital is wrapping up this month.
The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reports (http://bit.ly/1r0BOba ) the work on the renovations has been going on for several years. The project has included new patient rooms, a cardiac catheterization lab and the hospital exterior.
The newspaper reports the 64-year-old hospital now also has new windows, two expanded surgical units and a new roof.
There's also a newly refurbished parking lot.
Hospital officials say the layout will change a bit as well, making both outpatient and inpatient services more accessible.
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New Online Questionnaire Speeds Up Child and Spousal Support Process
May 01, 2013, 15:29 ET from Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
HARRISBURG, Pa., May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Individuals applying for child or spousal support for the first time will now have the option to complete a new questionnaire online that will help speed-up the process, saving time for the clients and the courts.
"By moving the questionnaire online, it will ease access to services for Pennsylvania's children and families who rely on financial support to help keep them safe and healthy," Department of Public Welfare Acting Secretary Beverly Mackereth said. "This questionnaire streamlines the existing manual process and allows for a more efficient and effective child and spousal support system."
The online questionnaire can be used by anyone requesting child or spousal support for the first time, and offers an alternative to the paper data sheet used during intake interviews at the local county Domestic Relations Section office. It will take 30 minutes to complete online. Once complete, the information is uploaded into the electronic child support system to be quickly accessed by the Domestic Relations Section, when the applicant comes into the office for the intake interview.
Applicants must file for support at their local Domestic Relations Section office within 60 days of submitting their online questionnaire. If the client does not appear within 60 days, the questionnaire will be taken out of the system and will no longer be available to the client or to the courts.
"The creation of the new online questionnaire is just another example of why Pennsylvania's Child Support Enforcement Program consistently ranks first in the nation for its child support collections efforts," Mackereth said.
To access the online questionnaire, visit www.childsupport.state.pa.us.
For more information about the Department of Public Welfare, visit www.dpw.state.pa.us or call 1-800-692-7462.
Media contact: Carey Miller or Donna Kirker Morgan at 717-425-7606.
SOURCE Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare


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WASHINGTON, DC—In his most strongly worded pronouncement yet, Surgeon General J. Putnam Andrews issued a stern warning to all U.S. citizens Monday that, if provoked, he may prove "seriously hazardous" to their health.
"A number of recent clinical studies have shown that messing with me poses a significant health risk to any motherfucker who thinks he is man enough to try it," a visibly agitated Andrews said at Monday's press conference. "I would strongly advise all Americans not to even think about it."
According to Andrews, "Field data collected at several Washington, DC, bars last night demonstrates a strong causal link between getting in my face and the development of several potentially life-threatening conditions, including but not limited to: cracked skulls, ruptured chest cavities and severed spinal cords."
Andrews announced his support for a new, federally mandated warning label across his chest, which would advise those near him that a serious number may be done on their asses if they keep it up.
"This is the only reliable manner in which Americans can be cautioned about the very real health risks posed by me," he said.
In addition to the new warning label, Andrews announced that an education program stressing the importance of generally avoiding him will tour the nation's elementary schools starting next month. Andrews then unveiled the program's theme song, "Stay The Hell Out Of His Goddamn Way": "When J. Putnam comes around/play it safe and get the fuck out of town," sang a visibly nervous "Trevor," the rapping kangaroo who stars in the show.
As helpful as the proposed program is expected to be, Andrews stressed that it is not enough. "It is up to families to take surgeon general safety and avoidance education into their own hands," he said. "Don't wait for your kids to ask about me. Approach them and talk to them now, because one day it may be too late."
Less than an hour after his controversial pronouncement, following a brutally violent altercation with a group of tobacco-industry lobbyists, Andrews fled the nation's capital and has been missing ever since. Andrews is believed to be traveling with an elite platoon of highly trained surgeons, who remain intensely loyal to the Surgeon General's command.
"If you do see this man, use extreme caution. Do not attempt to confront him," White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry warned. "The public is advised that approaching Andrews in any way could lead to ass-kickings, severe lung and heart problems, and low fetal birth weights among pregnant women."
Andrews is the first surgeon general to go rogue since May 1994, when Joycelyn Elders went berserk, telling media representatives that she does not believe schools should teach children that masturbation is wrong. A White House special-operatives squad was able to terminate Elders before she could do any further damage, but fear of an out-of-control surgeon general—an office that many government officials have long believed has "too much unchecked power"—has remained ever since.


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There have been quite a few metal bands that have survived the test of time but do not have the appreciation they deserve and Master is definitely one. Formed originally in Chicago (they are now in Czech Republic), they have been making death metal since 1983 a few years before Possessed or Death and impressingly enough they are still going strong today. Master started out slow, but in recent years they have been averaging a new album every other year. "The New Elite" is their eleventh full length album and they show no signs of slowing down.
I would suggest this thrashy death metal band to any metal fan who enjoys their music extreme. Master has accomplished with three members what many bands have been unable to do with five members. Influenced by Slayer, Venom and Motorhead, they have a very heavy thrash sound. Vocalist Paul Speckmann greatly reminds me of Tom Warrior, the vocalist of Celtic Frost. Master has also greatly matured with age, unlike many death metal bands. In this respect, I would compare Master to Death. Just like Chuck Shuldiner and company greatly evolved from "Scream Bloody Gore", so has Master from their debut release. Master's lyrics definitely show the thrashy pissed off side with themes of politics, death and religion. A great example of this is from Smile As You're Told, "Commanders are just put in place, the soldiers are easily blamed. The governments feed the machine as taxpayers simply complain." www.metal-temple.com
SACRIFICIAL SLAUGHTER is an American Death Thrash band from Southern California. Formed in 2001 by vocalist Steve Worley, the band has been hard at work in the underground community for over a decade. With label support coming for the first time in the bands history in 2009, SACRIFICIAL SLAUGHTER released their debut full length "Spontaneous Suicide" worldwide via Crash Music/EMI.
A rigorous touring schedule would ensue including multiple stints all through out Europe and North America along side many tour mates such as MASTER, PESTILENCE, VITAL REMAINS and many more.
BLACK SEPTEMBER(Death Metal with female vocals)
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importantly, original. Although unrefined, the demo laid the path for
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Haha the flake was probably someone from a Spanish show called "Saber y Ganar" ("Know and Win") since they ask anime questions every now and then and the host is/was? an anime voice actor.
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Siren Visual is releasing Usagi Drop on DVD in Australia in February (ANN news item) as part of their noitaminA series of releases. Like the previous releases I imagine it will be sub only. In some ways we are lucky here in Oz, although normally we don't get quite the same range of shows as America.
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Ah, the old double-dipping conundrum. In this case, I'm talking about the same title bought in DVD format, only to then be released in BD, or variations of that scenario. Hate when that happens. I'm always looking for something in the best quality format (so here it would be BD). What I end up with is usually the DVD version in a nice box with great art on the DVD jackets AND then later the BD version, which has superior video and audio characteristics, but usually just the simple blue case with not so much art on the cover. A good example (though in reverse from what usually happens) is Ghost In The Shell: Solid State Society, which I bought in Blu-ray, then turned around and bought the DVD version of, only because the DVD version came in a steel case. And now we have combo-packs, where we get both, whether we want both or not! Sigh.
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My problem with dbz is look at the dvd releases, original singles/boxsets, remastered, orange box set release, yellow box set release, dbz blu ray; and you know dbz will be released like 3 more times on blu ray alone.
I have the db funi sets, and all of gt, but I still dont know what version of z to get , in addition to getting kai.
And what gimps really, I mean funi is a lame company that milks these mega serious way too much; dbz has 295 episodes, the blu ray disc can hold a lot of episodes, and you are releasing only 17 episode on a set you are going to charge what 40-50 bucks for. Are you high. Divide 295/17 and then multiply by 40 bucks. Just look at one piece each season is split into like 5 parts, and we are on season 6 or 7, and each sells for like 40 bucks; how much will you bleed from loyal fans. Viz is also guilty of this to some extent with there naruto releases of 13 eps. Bleach was okay for a while with 25 ep or so on the first 3 or 4 sets, but then they also started lowering ep count.
And I know one of the douches on this site, said we should thank viz or funi for lowering our ep count while keep or increasing prices.
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I disagree. Vertical books are relatively popular with libraries and sturdy covers and good quality pages are a godsend for them. A cheaply made book like the avarage Shounen Jump-title doesn't last very long. It may even be destroyed within a year if circulation is high.
But if you think that's besides the point, look at the pagecount. At nearly 300 pages the avarage Black Jack book offers 50% more content than the avarage manga while costing 50% more. I think that's a decent deal.
BTW if you're going to use Tezuka manga as a weapon, I recommend the hardcover edition of Ayako.
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The thing that stops me from even considering Funi's DBZ BD is the fact it'll have the old dub from what I hear. Kai was interesting because it was a completely new dub. DBZ is still, let's face it. one of Funi's earliest work and it shows.. especially with liberties to the script and stuff.
Or maybe that's Ocean? I have no idea, I never knew the difference between the dubs since they redubbed it more than once apparently.. which is the one Freiza made a ton of jokes like "pop the weasel" and "I want to caress these balls"?
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Hmm, I'm not really sure how to get people to pay attention to Tezuka either, since it's such an older style that takes some getting used to. I'll just point at Vertical and go "whatever they're doing, they're doing it right"
As for giving the ole' axe to something, I'd probably axe the DBZ franchise, Akira Toriyama would want that too since it feels like he's been trying to end it for over a decade with no success, lol. That way he could work on something new or just make more video game character art.
That would be my mercy axe, my "stop it already!" axe would probably be Bleach or Naruto.
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I think that's Ocean, but still the original Funimation dub had some changes from the original dialogue to add comedy to even the most serious characters (but they did not send people to "another dimension"). Funimation also had some hidden sexual innuendo like King Cold saying "What's a Goku?" in a suggestive tone.
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Location: Kissimmee, Florida, USA
I agree Vertical is doing something right. My youngest son has bought all their releases of Black Jack with the final volume on Pre-Order from Amazon. The Books-A-Million, B&N and Borders (R.I.P.) in the Orlando Metro could not keep copies on the shelf.
It's gotten him interested in other classic titles and I expect he will start collecting another one once Black Jack is finished by Vertical.
The nice part is that the whole family has access to those "killer" books.
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
While I do agree that a release for Bunny Drop is very likely, given that attention it has received, I am pretty sure it is over. Unless, of course, I missed a second season being announced somewhere. The first one is definitely done though.
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If I could send an axe to series right now it would definently be Bleach. The series had no business spoiler[going on after Aizen was defeated] and everything afterwards has been disappointing. As a fan I have to say that Bleach has gotten me to a point where I almost completely despise it, and it's sad to feel that way about a series I used to really like.
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It's important to note that it has ALWAYS been FUNimation the entire time here in North America (well, except that little Harmony Gold thing for a while that no-one remembers). Ocean Studios voices and Shuki Levy music? Produced by FUNimation. Ocean Studios voices and original score for the first three movies? Produced by FUNimation. Texas cast and Faulconer Productions music? Produced by FUNimation.
(In other words, both Newstone's ball-caressing Freeza and Young's weasel-popping Freeza are FUNimation.)
What perhaps makes things most confusing is that the rights holders in Europe (AB Groupe?) later on went and found some loophole to create their own "alternate" English dub of the series, stole FUNimation's scripts basically verbatim, went back and hired Ocean to provide the voice cast, slapped their old Mega Man music into it, and somehow it also made its way outside the UK to Canada.
There's only so far I can get behind Kai being its own "separate" product. It's true in that it's a native HD scan, it has some substantial re-editing, re-adjusted color palette, and new music...
... well, that's where things also break down. Do you purchase the first four volumes of FUNimation's releases with Kenji Yamamoto's music, and then go on to buy the rest of the series with the Shunsuke Kikuchi (original DBZ) replacement music? You'll never have a complete 1-98 version of Kai with a consistent score, even in Japan. Toss in (what I consider very legitimate) complaints about the lack of variety in pieces sampled for the replacement score (I think we've calculated it down to around a full 1/3 of what should be available to them), and you've got a slapped-together product getting further slapped-together.
That's all ignoring the English dub side of things, but I can't speak too heavily on that. At the end of the day, it's a separate product, but it's the same story. I like the Bladerunner analogy, but that's confined within a single feature presentation. This is split across episodes upon episodes, and when it goes back to the Kikuchi score, you're basically just watching DBZ again, now with awkward edits abound.
For the hardest-core of hardest-core fans (and I... guess?... I speak for them? ), dipping back in again with Raditz once every two years is a total drag. It's actually been MORE than once every two years:
Toss yearly video games into the mix that cover the same material constantly (start with Raditz and end with Buu! You like that! It's fun!)... hey, at least Raditz is Shigeru Chiba doing a different voice...
But I'm the only one that's only-moderately-using-an-excuse-of-being-"forced" to buy all of them...? Right...?
Oh, he's had plenty of opportunity to do tiny things on the side. His involvement with on-going DB-franchise stuff is incredibly limited. He's usually assigned a "Supervisor" credit that boils down to nothing more than a glorified... well, nothing. They just like to list him, even when he barely does anything. "Yes, that looks fine to me!" is what we learn he's up to most of the time.
Since the manga's end, he went on to finish the Neko Majin series, just recently did a one-shot called Kintoki, continues to contribute art to the Dragon Quest games... the man doesn't really need to do a whole lot with all the piles of cash he's got sitting around .
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David the Gnome was a Spanish animation, not an anime.
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No, this just shows that Tezuka still has contemporary value. You pretty much have to put Tezuka aside when talking about classic manga, because his stuff tends to break all of the rules when it comes to the general conception regarding classic manga selling over here. But I do agree with most of the Answerfans repsonses here, outside of when Aaron called Vertical "pretentious".
I also agree with the idea of having places like CrunchyRoll or even NicoNico stream older animes. I can understand that getting the streaming rights for new shows as they come out can be time-consuming, but during the summer and fall, when there aren't as many titles to go after, I could see these companies try to get "catalog licenses" and go after a couple of older animes. I would love to see the 1967 Dororo anime with some sort of translation, but it seems highly unlikely; I'd settle for streaming, though.
Finally, an easy way to support older anime is to buy Discotek's releases. The most recent animes that company has done are D.N.Angel and Lupin the 3rd: Episode 0: First Contact, which are both nearing 10 years old already. Everything else they license is mostly from the 70s and 80s, and it's great to see a company be able to make a living on those titles; it lets them be willing to do a title like the very first Lupin the 3rd TVs series from the early 70s, then I think that's great.
As for the whole "simulcasting/streaming hurts DVD release chances" we can only hope that Funico will help remove that stigma, but even then it can only be to a point. In the end there are simply some animes that might be simply worth streaming
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I'd prefer it if they released LoGH in seperate "seasons" sets.
But I realize you just used it as an example. It'll probably never be licensed.
As for the newest DBZ release, I'm not entirely convinced the Blu-Rays are better than the Dragon Box DVD release. If I want DBZ in HD, I'll go for Kai, it shortcuts through a lot of filler and has a new, much better English dub than DBZ's.
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It's an original anime by Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig and famous actor Jaden Smith, along with a celebrity voice cast. What could possibly go wrong? Mike Toole investigates Netflix's latest original. ― They finally did it, folks: they animated Jaden Smith's Twitter account. That was what I thought after hearing Smith's character, Kaz, unwind the first of many bizarre pronouncements, in a bid...
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It's "Draw 5 cards" for one cheaper than Braingeyser would do it, so that's fine. Then it has trinket text of "Go on, build a ridiculous deck, you know that you want to..."
Personally, I love it. Though yes, mainly I love it for the trinket text which should totally be a silver-border card. Though in that land, I'd suggest the trinket text of "Draft an additional 60 cards"
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Not only was the masked miaicagn fatter than the genuine one but the narrator was the big give away in his annoyed and very impatient tone of voice when he explains how the trick was done. The lady may have been beautiful like they always are in the masked miaicagns clips, but her dancing was way too provocative for high quality magic of the real masked miaicagn. The explanation of how it worked made no sense at all ==
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You know, I do find this intriguing. The doesn't untap thing looks like a control method for a minor splash, but I think the card reads better if it was simply a basic land that turned into another basic land once a number of lands was hit. Like SU mentioned, 6 may be too high. But, really, any number under that seems fair game.
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Not sure what's going on about the colors, but if it isn't "in addition to its other types", it's better than a Plains. If it's like it reads, it seems too random. You want nonbasics (okay, some) to fix your mana. By the time you have six lands, this is totally irrelevant in a regular land.
If I want black or red, I'll just use the latest BR land. Even in a WBR deck, I'll probably want something else.
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Talk about pushing creatures. This on turn one is at the very least a free Divination (that requires you to give up a land drop) for any color. More often, though, it will be a free Concentrate which is downright broken.
Jace Beleren cost three and it was a fantastic card if you just used the -1 until he died.
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Was "Flying, gains first strike when attacks". Trying several other versions.
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I'm torn between this and a version of Chattan Sparrowhawk that says "Flying, first strike, can't block creatures with flying." Both have the "sail overhead unhurt, then SWOOP on prey" feel for different reasons.
I definitely want at least two birds, so I guess this is in (as its simpler) and I'll rework Chattan Sparrowhawk, probably making it cost 1W?
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Huh. Village Bell-Ringer says this is spot-on. I'm never sure whether to be pleased or annoyed when I discover I've designed a card that wizards later comes out with :)
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Probably the most boring PFW ever.
'Sokay. Boring is good.
at #9 Oklahoma 26, Iowa State 6
at #21 Nebraska 20, Iowa 7
at #16 Wisconsin 45, #19 Penn State 7
at Dallas 20, Miami 19
And, I suppose if I want a fifth game to round things out, I have this one:
at Cincinnati 23, Cleveland 20
Posted by @ 9:10
(Pun very definitely intended.)
Denizens, to officially start your week off, we have this from the Sibling Unit:
The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.
We are all familiar with a Herd of cows, a Flock of chickens, a School of fish and a Gaggle of geese.
However, less widely known is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), an Exaltation of doves and, presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls.
Now consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not…
… a Congress!
"Indeed", as the Puppy Blender would say.
From that, we jump to some breaking news that's hitting Fox as I type this (and confirmed by Drudge via CNN)…that Bawney Fag is bailing out on Congress.
Merry Christmas, Denizens!
Posted by @ 0:31
"What would a commercial with me be without an incredible offer like this?"
Uh…barely watchable?
Posted by @ 19:30
Denizens, remember last year when I lamented what it appeared one Destiny Hope "Miley" Cyrus was turning into?
Shame, Miley. Given who your dad is, we out here were hoping you'd spare us a modicum of angst by not becoming a clone of Britney Spears. That you might grow up to be someone we'd want our daughters to emulate – someone wholesome, upright, even pure (relatively speaking, anyway).
Guess we can't have everything we want in life, huh?
Well, Denizens? Chalk up yet one more WITY for Der Spatulameister (hat tip: 411mania):
Miley Cyrus is a "pothead" and apparently she doesn't care who knows it.
At least that was the "party line" at her private 19th birthday bash last week at the Roosevelt Hotel Beacher's Madhouse Club in Los Angeles. In a video obtained exclusively by Flash, when Kelly Osbourne presents a cake to Cyrus emblazoned with the face of a ganja icon, the former "Hannah Montana" star cracks, "You know you're a stoner when friends make you a Bob Marley cake — you know you smoke way too much f***in' weed."
Of late, it seems the former child star has gone to great lengths to distance herself from a clean pop image, including hosting "Saturday Night Live" this year and dissing Disney child actors. Can another "SNL" sketch with dead-on Cyrus impersonator Vanessa Bayer be in the works?
Can a prison career a la Lindsey "My Breasts Have Been a Big Hit" Lohan be far behind?
Posted by David Hartung @ 6:23
Outside of the Magnolia state, this game had no importance, but last evening Mississippi State beat Ole Miss 31-3 in their annual match-up. MSU is now bowl bound with a 6-6 record, while Ole Miss is through, and is looking for a new head coach.
For State fans, this officially a PFW!
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Unfortunately, Denizens, I don't have any stories to tell about having kicked an Occupussy's ass during my Black Friday shopping experience (yes, I went – scored myself a damn good monitor, too), so here's something gleaned from the Backyard, courtesy of my sister-in-law:
Note, if you will, that this particular laptop is running…Ubuntu.
Cool, huh?
Posted by @ 12:00
(Yeah, it's a rerun of a rerun of a rerun. Of a rerun. Et cetera, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
Bite Sue me, mkay? I'm busy cooking. )
I first penned (penned?) this screed (g) on 11/17/01. I thought it appropriate then (and still do), it being Thanksgiving and all, to jot down a list of those things for which I was thankful. This year the tradition continues, below the fold, as usual with only a few minor tweaks to keep things current:
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Denizens, this week's episode of the Perfect Football Weekend starts out with a game of "What Took You So Fuckin' Long?"
Five years ago, the National Collegiate Athletic Association – otherwise known as the NatCollAthAsses – banned the use of Injun names (yeah, I said it – you PC-types can shove it) for its member organizations. Among the universities affected were the U of North Dakota Fighting Sioux.
Back then, the university made noises about taking the AthAsses to court.
Five schools changed or are changing their nickname, including Midwestern State in Wichita Falls, which became the Mustangs. One school was allowed to keep its nickname but was put on a watch list. The University of North Dakota announced that state officials voted to sue the NCAA to keep its Fighting Sioux nickname.
Well, the other day, they found an ally.
GRAND FORKS, N.D., Nov. 1 (UPI) — The Spirit Lake tribe Tuesday sued the NCAA for blocking its attempt to let the University of North Dakota use the sports nickname Fighting Sioux.
Tribal attorney Reed Soderstrom said the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court challenges the NCAA's policy banning the use of Native American names and imagery by collegiate athletic teams.
He said the suit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association was brought on behalf of more than 1,004 members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe "in direct response to their attempt to take away and prevent the North Dakota Sioux Indians from giving their name forever to the University of North Dakota" despite a tribal vote in 2009 and a "sacred and religious spiritual ceremony" by tribal leaders in 1969 that granted "perpetual use" of the name to the school.
About damned time someone fought back against the PC bullshit. Said it before, will say it again – who the Hell appointed these assholes to be our moral arbiters?
Let's get to the football before we stuff ourselves silly. Normally, this being Thursday, there'd be a Heights game – but Killeen took care of that, and I don't have any other skins in this particular game (Sulphur Springs obligingly declined to be good enough to get past the area round of the playoffs); however, it's Thanksgiving, so that means Cowboys-Cowboys-Cowboys, buddy (a little SportsRadio 1310-The Ticket lingo, there).
Today, it's Miami at the Death Star – and, unlike 18 years ago, there's no snow in the forecast, so there won't be a repeat of Leon Lett's blunder. The Fins won the preseason finale in Miami; however, even though they're playing better of late, it still shouldn't be good enough to beat El Choko and the 'Girlz.
Tomorrow, instead of chucking up a hairball against the Cyclones of Iowa State, 21st-ranked Nebraska will host Iowa's other major-college team at Lincoln – that being the Hawkeyes of Iowa. Iowa hasn't been great this year, so you'd think this should be a gimme.
Then again, so was Northwestern.
Bo's boys are a 9½-point favorite at home, so let this one scare you a bit.
Speaking of Iowa State, they'll be the sacrificial lamb at Norman on Saturday, as Bob Stoops' ninth-ranked Sooners take their Baylor frustrations out on the Cyclones. OU's a 28½-point favorite at Memorial Stadium – this one's gonna get real ugly, real fast.
Also Saturday, Bucky (having been plugged in for Arlington Heights) will get to feast on Nittany Lion at Camp Randall as Penn State comes calling. Bucky's a 15½-point favorite, and the rule is in place – they win, and it's an automatic PFW, no matter what else happens. Suffice to say, I like my odds.
In other games, it could be Turner Gill's swan song as Rock Chalk gets hammered by Mizzou at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. Honestly, I don't foresee KU bringing my old friend back for another year, do you?
And TCU is off this week – which is probably good news for BCS-chance killer Ross Evans, as he got himself in a bit of a legal dustup this past week.
TCU kicker Ross Evans faces a misdemeanor charge of criminal trespassing after he kicked in an apartment door while trying to retrieve a cellphone for a friend of a friend, Denton police said Monday.
Been nice knowing you, Mr. Evans. Patterson should kick your ass off the squad yesterday.
We're back Monday or so with the recap – Sunday, if I can get over my L-tryptophan hangover by then. In the meantime…happy Thanksgiving, HDD.
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Those of you who have read me for any length of time – well, you probably knew it was coming all along, didn't you? – but you know damned well what this is.
For now, click the link. Go ahead. Click it. I effin' dare you.
And turn it up. Waaaaaay up. )
That's right, sportz fanz: It's vacation time for His Rudeness. A chance to Get Away From It All, as it were.
Thanks to Bambi & his shitty economy, though, Mrs. Venomous & I are staying in town and not doing a helluva lot, due to the money just not being there.
MRS. VENOMOUS: Ohhhhhh, don't worry, sweetie. We'll find plenty of things to do. (wink)
Vicar, General – you guys have the conn. General…when you're done chlorinating the gene pool of Occutards down there in the Southern Command, could I borrow another squadron of those black helicopters…?
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Posted by @ 11:49
On a rerun of the program Gene Simmons Family Jewels, I have just overheard Gene saying he was responsible for developing the careers of the group Pet Shop Boys.
Reaction: Oh, shit – you mean it's all his fault?
Posted by @ 10:47
If this bastard is that good…then explain Kansas State, A&M, Oklahoma State and Rock Chalk.
Arlington Heights 25, Killeen 60 (Area round, AHHS eliminated)
at #19 TCU 34, Colorado State 10
#5 Oklahoma 38, at #22 Baylor 45
#16 Nebraska 17, at #18 Michigan 45
Dallas 27, at Warshington 24 (OT)
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Vegas Uncork'd
Vegas Uncork'd runs Thursday through Sunday at Caesars Palace, the Cosmopolitan, the Bellagio and Mandalay Bay. Tickets are still available for half of the events. To check availability and buy tickets, click here.Nourishing the Las Vegas economy
- Overall: $20 million over five years
- In 2011: $6.6 million
- 2011 attendance: 5,000
- Share of international visitors: 15 percent
- Average spent per Uncork'd visitor: $2,300
- Amount spent by the average Las Vegas visitor: $1,020
- Average gaming budget of Uncork'd attendees: $1,131
- Amount of gaming budget for average Las Vegas visitor: $448
The Southern Nevada desert isn't a garden spot for a chef, but it's close.
Because of Las Vegas' proximity to the fertile soils of California, chefs don't have to look far to get the ingredients they need for the Strip's annual food showcase, Vegas Uncork'd by Bon Appetit. The festival, which draws some of the world's biggest stars of food and wine, begins Thursday and runs through Sunday.
"Locally grown for us is not Las Vegas, but more or less Southern California," said Vincent Poussel, executive chef for Aureole at Mandalay Bay.
The farmers' markets of Los Angeles give Las Vegas what it needs to consistently be among the world's top cities for AAA Five- and Four-Star restaurants. Each year, Uncork'd showcases some of the biggest culinary names on the Strip, drawing thousands of foodies from around the world. More than 20,000 have spent $20 million at the event during its first five years.
This year's event features 60 restaurants, 50 chefs and 30 wine experts. This week, visitors not only can get a table at Mesa Grill, they can have a seat at a sold-out dinner Thursday night prepared by the owner, Bobby Flay. Wolfgang Puck will celebrate 20 years in Las Vegas with lunch Thursday at his Spago restaurant in Caesars Palace.
Uncork'd generated $6.6 million for the Clark County economy last year, and the people who come for the festival do more than eat. Each of the 5,000 people expected to attend will bring an average of more than $1,100 to the casino floor, according to event officials. That's two to three times the average of what other Las Vegas visitors spend on gaming.
During the weeks leading up to Uncork'd, the chefs have been making sure they have the best crops shipped from California farms to Vegas tables. That means staying on top of not only what is growing in season, but what crops are tasting the best in the state that leads the nation in fruit and vegetable production.
"Every chef is using the farmers' markets — every chef," said David Myers, whose restaurant, Comme Ca, is at the Cosmopolitan. "It helps that we have a farmers' market in Los Angeles every day."
Myers, who will be making grilled corn and a chilled crab lollipop at a party following Friday night's Celebrity Chef Poker Tournament, gets produce from a variety of farms — including urban growers in spots as surprising as the upscale Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood.
"It sounds crazy, but you can get incredible corn from Brentwood," he said. The chilled crab will come from the East Coast.
Poussel keeps trusted associates who frequent the farmers' markets on speed dial. Every morning he gets a call from a buyer in Santa Monica who has been scouring the Los Angeles markets.
"He will let us know right away if something is in the market, something is hot," Poussel said. "I just received the first shipment of porcinis. I'm going to try to use them in our Sunday Steak and Eggs brunch with Charlie Palmer at Mandalay Bay."
To make world-class food for the Uncork'd crowds, chefs not only need the best ingredients, but lots of them.
Julian Serrano said he would need 250 pounds of chicken, 80 pounds of Spanish pork chorizo and 25 pounds of rabbit for valenciana paella at the festival's newest event, "Follow that Food Truck," scheduled for Thursday evening.
Poussel is ordering some 50 pounds of clams, 30 pounds of shrimp and 30 pounds of Mahi Mahi for chefs Palmer, Rick Moonen, Mary Sue Millken and Susan Feniger. All of the seafood for Saturday's clambake at Mandalay Bay will come from the Gulf Coast.
Don't forget the wine.
Jason Smith, sommelier at Bellagio, said one of his tastings would pair a pricey wine from France with a more casual but rich-tasting wine from California. He wants the audience to see which they think tastes better.
Smith said fine wine didn't have to be stuffy.
"We're here to enjoy the wine, not put it on a pedestal," he said.
The event also gives Las Vegas a chance to show off its world-class talent.
"Sometimes, we get overlooked by places like San Francisco and New York, but we really are standing right alongside of them," Smith said.
Uncork'd is one time the red carpet chefs roll up their sleeves and fire up the stoves. Even chefs who run daily operations at Las Vegas' finest restaurants are awed by the spectacle, when their famous bosses come to town.
"From a gastronomic standpoint, it's insane," Poussel said.
Thursday night's Masters Dinners illustrated the intimacy of Uncork'd, including one featuring Food Network star chef Bobby Flay. Three tables, sitting 14 people each, offered up a four-course dinner including Flay's trademark use of chili peppers. Even the pickled peaches and the chocolate ice cream packed a punch.
Two couples from Wisconsin had come to Uncork'd four of the five previous years. They've bought tickets to Flay's dinner just about every year he's had one.
The chefs don't take their fans lightly, either. Flay said he spent took two days preparing the menu, including trying two different soups, from which he picked one, and changing the desert from the printed menu to his new spicy ice cream. He also lightened the kick of the ice cream at the last minute on the suggestion of his pastry chef, trying to make the ultimate experience for the Vegas crowd.
"The thing I'd like to get more credit for, that I don't, is being in my restaurants," Flay said. "The thing about cable TV is that they record something and then play it all the time. People can get the wrong idea about what I'm really doing. But my favorite place to be is in the kitchen of one of my restaurants."
Follow the events of Uncork'd this weekend, live on Twitter, via @rsylvester.