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Occupation Channel :: Transmission 001 :: Oct 15 to Nov 15, 2011
Occupation Channel
Transmission 001 :: Oct 15 to Nov 15, 2011
News from the ongoing occupation,
an art project happening in your city right now!
Welcome Home People!
October 2011 was an amazing month of action. So much has happened!
Here are highlights:
Oct 15, 2011 :: Global Revolution Day
"On October 15, tens of thousands of demonstrators staged rallies in 900 cities around the world, including Auckland, Sydney, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo, São Paulo, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, and many other cities. In Frankfurt, 5,000 people protested at the European Central Bank and in Zurich, Switzerland's financial hub, protesters carried banners reading "We won't bail you out yet again" and "We are the 99 percent." Protests were largely peaceful, however a protest in Rome that drew thousands turned violent when "a few thousand thugs from all over Italy, and possibly from all over Europe" caused extensive damage. Thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered in Times Square in New York City and rallied for several hours. Several hundred protesters were arrested across the U.S., mostly for refusing to obey police orders to leave public areas. In Chicago there were 175 arrests, about 100 arrests in Arizona (53 in Tucson, 46 in Phoenix), and more than 70 in New York City, including at least 40 in Times Square. About 150 people camped out by city hall in Minneapolis." — Wikipedia
Rome reaches the most violent the Occupy movement has become. Romans overturn vehicles and light them on fire. Violence in London as well. In New York City the police are on horseback as 1000s of occupants rally in Times Square. Occupy Spain, called "Take The Square" drew over 40,000 occupants.
JP Morgan Chase launches massive television advertising campaign entitled "Change" featuring motion graphics by the top special effects company in New York.
Here is one account from Occupy Denver: "After initially backing off, Denver riot police move in to clear demonstrators from Broadway Ave. The police line the street and surround the south and east ends of Civic Center park. After clearing the street and making arrests, police then move in on the people on the public sidewalk and make an announcement that they are part of an unlawful assembly and should move west through the park. Protesters stand their ground and attempt to protect a small tent that was temporarily erected to hand out food and water and serve as a first aid station. One protester offers food to police as a peace offering as they begin arrests, he thrusts it into their faces after falling back as an officer grabs his hands. The police push closer and begin physically pushing people with batons and spraying people with pepper spray."
An Occupy Austin march was held to the JPMorgan Chase Tower and to the Texas State Capitol. Over 1000 people participated in the march. Some protesters closed their accounts at Chase Bank. Chase Bank allowed customers who could document that they had Chase accounts into the building singularly to close their accounts.
Occupy Radio Austin (occupyradioaustin.org) starts broadcasting.
Oct 16, 2011
Michael Moore visits Occupy Philadelphia.
Jesse Venture, former pro-wrestler and former governor of Minnesota, creates a scene on MSNBC by yelling at hosts about truth in politics.
Texas Governor Rick Perry's presidential campaign raises $17 million dollars more than any other Republican candidate.
In Chicago, police arrested about 175 protesters in an operation to clear the city's Grant Park of demonstrators camping out in protest against corporate greed.
Oct 17, 2011
The new Libyan government issues a press release directed at the New York City police department, urging them to show restraint in dealing with the Occupants.
The Occupation spreads to online virtual world Second Life.
Rome again erupts in violence: "As the tear gas and petrol bombs fly from one ancient city to the next, the social sustainability of our present political economic arrangement is once again being thrown into question. The outbreak of violence in Rome — like in London and Athens before — is a symptom of a much deeper disease: the crisis of global financial capitalism and the profound legitimation crisis of our national representative democracies."
The Guardian publishes a report about how Gov. Rick Perry doctored environmental reports to remove signs of climate change.
The global population officially tops 7 million; double the global population of the 1970s.
Willie Nelson releases a 99% solidarity statement on Youtube.
Oct 18, 2011
Occupy Oakland raided by police during the night.
The International Performance Arts Association makes a grand solidarity statement with the Occupy Movement.
Harvard professor and creator of Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig speaks at Occupy Wall Street.
The NYPD were questioned over brutality claims from Occupants.
Oct 21, 2011
Occupy Melbourne (Australia) gets messy. Police dragged surrounding protesters out of the crowd one by one.
In New York, police arrested about 30 protesters including veteran civil rights activist Cornel West during a demonstration by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Oct 22, 2011
16th Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality in many cities, including Austin where the march was joined by an Anti-Death Penalty march.
Tea Party sends out a letter to small business owners suggesting they stop hiring new employees.
10 Occupants arrested in Cleveland.
Iranian women gather in front of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran to show their support of anti-Wall Street demonstrators in the United States.
Oct 23, 2011
Seattle Cops confiscate and destroy over 140 tents From Occupy Seattle protesters.
Michael Moore, on his book tour, begins pitching a national labor stand in Flint, Michigan.
A documentary premiers about the criminality of the financial crisis, called "Inside Job" and narrated by Matt Damon.
Philosopher Slavoj Zizek speaks at Occupy Wall Street.
130 demonstrators are arrested at Occupy Chicago.
5 Occupants arrested in Ft. Worth protest.
Oct 24, 2011
Early Sunday morning, protesters and nurses defended the first aid station against Chicago police by surrounding it. No arrests were made.
Celebrity, Naomi Wolf makes regular talk show appearances detailing her arrest at the Occupation. She repeated points out that she had broken no laws.
In Melbourne, protesters were being subdued with tasers and other shock weapons.
Occupy Museums movement flash mobs art museums in New York City.
Oct 25, 2011
"In the early morning hours of October 25, police cleared and closed an Occupy Oakland encampment in Frank Ogawa Park in Oakland, California. The raid on the encampment was described as "violent and chaotic at times," and resulted in over 102 arrests but there were no injuries. A street march that afternoon protesting the closure culminated in a confrontation between police and protesters, who sought to re-establish the Ogawa Plaza encampment. A group within the protesters threw stones, bottles and paint at officers, and the police fired tear gas into the crowds. During this confrontation, protester Scott Olsen, a former Marine and Iraq War veteran, suffered a skull fracture allegedly caused by a tear-gas projectile or smoke canister fired by police." — Wikipedia
1000s of occupants march in Portland.
Oct 27, 2011
Several cities such as Cleveland and Detroit win minor legal battles, extending curfews and gaining permits to continue the Occupation.
Wall Street firms are found to be planting protesters within the movement.
Oct 28, 2011
The Interfaith communities release a solidarity statement with the Occupy movement.
The hacker group, Anonymous releases personal details on 100s of individuals including known provocateurs and police accused of brutality.
Oakland's Mayor says she didn't know about the eviction of Oakland's protesters and encourages state employees to attend the Occupy march.
About 50 people were arrested during Occupy San Diego protest and 30 were arrested in Tennessee protests.
The City of Austin declared in a memo that new restrictions had been approved and would begin being enforced. These included a prohibition of sleeping on the mezzanine, exhibiting unattended signs, and the operation of food tables during certain hours.
Oct 29, 2011
"There were about 2300 occupied zones around 2000 cities worldwide." — Wikipedia
Global "Robin Hood" March, called for by Adbusters, demands a tax on global money exchange to benefit the poorest humans.
Regular coverage of the Occupation on cable television shows like the Cobert Show, Daily Show and Politically Incorrect.
Occupy Austin takes a stand at City Hall to defend their food table from being confiscated by police. 40 people are arrested and the Occupation is evicted from City Hall.
Occupy Denver gets hit hard again, with tear gas: "In the most violent Saturday in more than a month of Occupy Denver demonstrations and marches, Denver police fired mace and pepper balls at a crowd of protesters in Civic Center today and arrested 20 people. Just before 6 p.m., with ambulances waiting and police cruisers covering whole blocks around the park, officers donned gas masks and used megaphones to warn protesters the remaining tents were illegal. Wielding long batons, a few dozen officers pushed into the park and formed a circle around the tents. More officers were able to move in after several rounds of pepper spray and one round of pepper balls were fired."
Oct 30, 2011
Occupation arrests in Nashville are thrown out by a judge as unconstitutional.
Oct 31, 2011
Pro-democracy protesters marched from Tahrir square in Egypt to the U.S. Embassy in support of Occupy Oakland.
An Occupation protester breaks into the floor of the Congressional Deficit Super Committee in DC.
5 progressive members of congress start calling themselves "Occupy Congress" and declare that they stand with the 99%.
Occupy London starts a major controversy by occupying St. Paul's Cathedral, many of the priests support and many do not.
Nov 1, 2011
Youtube announces that the US Government is asking them to remove videos of police brutality from their online service.
Nov 2, 2011
"On November 2, protesters in Oakland, California shut down the Port of Oakland, the fifth busiest port in the nation. Police estimated that about 3,000 demonstrators were gathered at the port and 4,500 had marched across the city, however a member of the Occupy movement was quoted by the BBC as estimating as many as 30,000 may have taken part." — Wikipedia
Archbishop of Canterbury (London) urges debate of tax on bankers.
Nov 3, 2011
Veterans march in New York City.
Nov 4, 2011
Winter begins. Many Occupations including New York, DC and Chicago bundle up as the snow begin.
Occupy Oakland raided again by police. "Around one in the morning they brought out the riot police. At one point, they pushed the crowd out of the park, killed the floodlights, and surrounded us with officers armed with beanbag guns, rubber bullets, tear gas canisters, and nightsticks."
Nov 5, 2011
National Bank Transfer Day
"Frankfurt took the day of the Guy Fawkes Night as occasion for an extra loud and long demonstration, and Occupy Portland made its "Move Your $" campaign." — Wikipedia
Over 650,000 Americans switch from banks to credit unions in the last month, more the the entire previous year.
Nov 6, 2011
Major demonstration at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprisings, in Cairo, Egypt.
Nov 7, 2011
Protestors from Occupy Philly participate in a 'die in' demonstration outside a PNC Bank branch in Philadelphia on Monday.
Susanna Camusso, leader of Italy's largest labor confederation CGIL, arrives to deliver her speech during a demonstration to protest government policies regarding the economical crisis, in Rome.
Nov 8, 2011
Occupation Film Festival happen in Berlin. Many Occupations around the global launch technology projects. Occupy Portland makes 1000s of pies. Occupy Austin launches Occupy Apps, providing mobile phone programs for occupants.
Major legal victory in Ohio repealing anti-labor legislation created by Ohio's governor. Several Labor groups release pro-occupy posters.
Nov 9, 2011
Occupy Worcester (Mass) Occupies a home foreclosure auction.
High School students seize City Hall in Chile's capital. Lots of violence.
Two members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) who are covered from head to toe in green and blue bodypaint, as they hold a banner reading, "Save the Planet, Go Vegan," at the Nanjing pedestrian street in Shanghai, China
Student protests and some police clashes in London.
UCLA graduate student Cheryl Deutsch is arrested by Los Angeles Police Department officers after she and 10 other student protesters sat in circle in middle of the Westwood and Wilshire boulevard intersection as part of a protest of bank practices and rising fees at public universities.
Nov 10, 2011
Demonstrator marches during a student protest against government plans to reform higher education at the main square in Bogota, Colombia.
Demonstrators of a group "Occupy Rio" protest against Rio de Janeiro's governor Sergio Cabral in downtown Rio de Janeiro.
Protesters from the communist-affiliated trade union PAME shout slogans during an anti-government protest in Athens November 10, 2011. Greece named former European Central Bank vice-president Lucas Papademos on Thursday to head a crisis government, ending a chaotic search for a leader to save the country from default, bankruptcy and an exit from the euro zone. Reuters
Nov 11, 2011
"November 11th was another international protest day." — Wikipedia
Nov 13, 2011
Berlusconi, the prime minister of Italy, is forced to resign in shame for his role in the global financial crisis.
Over 100 police threaten Occupy St. Louis.
Occupy Portland triumphantly overwhelms police at their midnight curfew, only to be evicted a few hours later.
Nov 14, 2011
"On 14 November, Occupy protesters in Oakland, California were forced to leave by Oakland Police Department and local sheriff deputies. Multiple arrests were made." — Wikipedia
Ultra-right wing political groups in London arrested by Scotland Yard for plotting to infiltrate Occupy London.
Police show up threaten Occupants with assault rifles at Occupy Chapel Hill.
Nov 15, 2011
Occupy Wall Street evicted from Zuccotti Park for the first time. Mayor Bloomberg vows they will not be able to return with "equipment."


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Man found dead at Clarksville pump station identified
A man found dead at a pump station on West Fork Drive Saturday has been identified, and Clarksville Police are seeking additional information.
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Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative...
This year's conference will focus on Southern culture and Southern literature. Frye Gaillard, writer-in-residence at the University of South Alabama, will serve as the event's keynote speaker Gaillard has written extensively on Southern race relations, politics and culture as the author or editor of more than 20 books, including "Cradle of Freedom: ... (more)
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Miss and Teen Tennessee Latina pageant
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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. Two Montgomery Central High School students were injured in a head-on DUI crash near their school on Thursday.
Red Knight Distribution receives Clarksville-Montgomery County Green Certification
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APSU Breast Cancer Awareness 5K raises $3,375 to American Cancer Society
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Roxy Regional Theatre to Launch 31st Season with Monty Python's "Spamalot"
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Position Statement: Why volunteer management requires specific skills
Skills – Third Sector champions the skills of volunteer management. From our research and experience we know that the nature of volunteering means that people who manage volunteers require specialist skills – skills that are distinct from those needed to manage paid staff. By skills we mean the knowledge, understanding and experience that someone needs to do their job well.
Volunteering has a long tradition in the UK and this is set to increase under Big Society proposals to get more volunteers involved in shaping and running public services. Volunteering is "an activity that involves spending time, unpaid, doing something that aims to benefit the environment or individuals or groups other than close relatives."[1]
Over 40% of the UK population formally volunteers each year, and 25% of the population does so each month, which adds up to 24.7m volunteers a year.[2] This equates to 1.2 million full-time paid employees and contributes approximately £21.5 billion to the economy.[3] Volunteer management is essential to make sure that volunteers make the best contribution and get the most out of the experience.
A volunteer's relationship with an organisation may not be defined by legal structures and contracts, and there can be significant differences in the motivations, commitment and availability between staff and volunteers. In addition, volunteering can sometimes be ad-hoc. A volunteer can walk away from the organisation at any point.
Managing volunteers is a skilled job that is different from managing paid staff. While the role has more in common with other management roles at a senior or strategic level, at the day to day level there are a number of important differences. People who work with volunteers on a practical level, need to understand and know how to:
- Recruit, motivate and retain volunteers – needs an understanding that people volunteer for many different reasons and knowing how to maintain volunteers' enthusiasm and commitment is a real skill.
- Design task descriptions for volunteers - needs knowledge of how to design and disseminate task roles so that volunteers and staff are clear about how that role fits in with the work of paid staff and other volunteers.
- Manage the relationships between volunteers and paid staff – needs an understanding of the differing needs, interests and responsibilities of both volunteers and paid staff and the ability to manage these complex relationships.
- Induct, support and supervise volunteers – needs knowledge of how to give volunteers regular feedback and how to balance any concerns about their performance with maintaining their commitment and without compromising the quality of the work of the organisation.
- Apply the legal and other regulatory requirements – needs knowledge of how these differ from those that apply to paid staff.
These activities require a firm understanding of the context in which volunteering occurs and specific knowledge and skills that meet the needs of volunteers.
At a strategic level the skills needed to manage volunteers and staff are more closely aligned. However, organisations get better value from their volunteers if volunteer managers and senior managers have knowledge and understanding of:
- Developing and investing in structures that support volunteers
- Developing volunteers' skills and training needs
- Involving volunteers in designing and developing volunteer programmes effectively
- Succession planning for volunteers
- Aligning volunteers and volunteering with the organisation's strategy.
Skills development for volunteer managers
National Skills Network for Volunteer Management
Skills – Third Sector is developing a new national skills network focused on volunteering and volunteer management in collaboration with a number of partners. This will join up and share information about good practice, good skills development, accredited training and provide web-based resources. See National Skills Framework for the Voluntary Sector
Advanced level Apprenticeship in Volunteer Management
Skills – Third Sector is supporting future volunteer managers' skills by developing an Apprenticeship.
National Occupational Standards
The specific skills that volunteer managers need to do their job well are set out in the Managing Volunteers National Occupational Standards. These detail the particular knowledge, understanding and experience that volunteer managers need to do their jobs well, whether they are managing volunteers on the ground or at a strategic level. These can be a valuable and useful tool for preparing job descriptions, reviewing roles and responsibilities and can be used for appraisals. They can also be used to identify which areas someone needs to develop their skills and knowledge.
Evidence for specialist volunteer management skills
Research on Valuing Volunteer Management Skills carried out by the Institute for Volunteering Research identified: "several differences between managing volunteers and staff including differences in terms of motivation, recruitment methods, attendance at meetings, taking holidays, boundaries between paid and volunteer roles and the need to deal with mental and physical decline as volunteers got older."
The volunteer managers interviewed felt strongly that: "There was a need for volunteer management to be seen as a more clearly defined profession."
While The Manifesto for Change, which presented the findings of the Commission on the Future of Volunteering, concluded that: "Effective volunteering requires effective management." And that "The first step in valuing volunteer management is for an organisation to acknowledge that it involves volunteers in its work and, therefore, needs to consider how those volunteers are supported."
Volunteer England's Recognise, Invest, Support: A guide to valuing volunteer management also concludes: "the level of benefit an organisation stands to gain from volunteering is directly correlated to the amount of recognition and support it provides, and the investment it makes, in volunteer support and management. The more your organisation recognises, supports and invests in the people that manage your volunteers, the greater the benefit it will receive from volunteering."
Our experience and the evidence from research is that investing in volunteer managers is the best way to raise the skills and opportunities for all volunteers in the voluntary sector. Not understanding the different skills needed to manage volunteers and how they differ from managing paid staff, can lead to poor quality services for the people who use the services, poor volunteering experiences for volunteers and, at worst, can lay organisations open to legal prosecution and industrial tribunals.
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DCL:GRPH2:UCPACK : Coordinate Axis Routines for Date
The UCPACK is a subroutine package for plotting a coordinate axis with dates for tick marks.
This package is written based on the subroutine packages
UXPACK/UYPACK/UZPACK (See Chapter 3) for plotting
Cartesian coordinate systems.
To plot this type of coordinate axis, the normalization transformation must be
set using units in days. The coordinate axis will be plotted from the position
corresponding to 0 in the user-defined coordinate system (UC). Therefore, if you
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U.S. Girl Scouts seek more Latinas
From the San Diego Union-Tribune:
The Girl Scouts have set a goal of increasing membership by 1 million in the next five years, said Anna Maria Chávez, CEO for Girl Scouts of the USA. Hispanic membership, which has risen 55 percent in the past decade, would be a key driver of that growth.
"To be here today to talk about where we are now as a movement brings me almost to tears, because for 100 years, we have taken our mission to heart," Chávez told about 300 people gathered at SeaWorld for a Hispanic community breakfast.
Before her speech, Chávez chatted with a group of scouts who served as color guard during the morning event. Chávez gave each girl her personal patch, which bears her name and nickname, "Eagle 1." The girls said they couldn't wait to add them to their uniforms.
"She said that only the girls who meet her get the patch," said Melanie Kellis, 10, of Troop 5260.
Just a week ago, Chávez was in Washington, D.C., where thousands gathered on the National Mall to celebrate the Girl Scouts centennial.
She also met with President Barack Obama in the White House. Chávez pointed out to him that several Cabinet members and 70 percent of the women in Congress had been Girl Scouts. She also told him that the U.S. currently has 59 million Girl Scouts alumni, a number that seemed to surprise him.
"Absolutely, Mr. President. Not only that, they vote," Chávez remembered saying to Obama.
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Stemline Therapeutics To Present At Leerink Swann And Company Global Healthcare Conference
NEW YORK, Feb. 12, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stemline Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:STML), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing oncology therapeutics that target both cancer stem cells (CSCs) and tumor bulk, announced today that Ivan Bergstein, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, will present at the Leerink Swann and Company Global Healthcare Conference on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 3:30 pm ET at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
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Stemline Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel oncology therapeutics that target both cancer stem cells (CSCs) as well as the tumor bulk. Among Stemline's drug candidates are SL-401 and SL-701, both of which have demonstrated clinical activity, including durable complete responses (CRs), and an overall survival (OS) benefit versus historical controls in Phase 1/2 studies of advanced cancer patients. For more information about Stemline Therapeutics, visit www.stemline.com .
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th May 2012 14:55 UTC
James Hague: "But all the little bits of complexity, all those cases where indecision caused one option that probably wasn't even needed in the first place to be replaced by two options, all those bad choices that were never remedied for fear of someone somewhere having to change a line of code... They slowly accreted until it all got out of control, and we got comfortable with systems that were impossible to understand." Counterpoint by John Cook: "Some of the growth in complexity is understandable. It's a lot easier to maintain an orthogonal design when your software isn't being used. Software that gets used becomes less orthogonal and develops diagonal shortcuts." If there's ever been a system in dire need of a complete redesign, it's UNIX and its derivatives. A mess doesn't even begin to describe it (for those already frantically reaching for the comment button, note that this applies to other systems as well).
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Your inability, or unwillingness, to explain what we're missing just further underscores this. I'm guessing it would take a major effort to lead us through the convoluted logic to justify a scheme that's so counterintuitive to normal, non-Unix-indoctrinated people.
Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realise I was here to provide a CIS lecture. How about you make it your responsibility to educate yourself and then we can have an informed debate on both sides?
From the context of your post I'm guessing you're complaining about the directory structure. That wasn't what the original discussion was about. Whether "everything is a directory" with volumes mounted under / makes sense and whether the names and structure of those directories makes sense are two different things.
I'm actually inclined to agree that the current hierarchy and naming scheme in most *nixes are a complete mess.
Furthermore, I've see how well named volumes worked on the AmigaDOS command line. That made sense.
So do I. Volumes on the Amiga were no more intuitive than everything-is-a-directory on UNIX. Why is LIB: or C: any more easy to understand than /usr/lib or /bin?
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Pong, Asteroids, Dig Dug, Bump and Jump, Ghosts and Goblins, Tempest, Choplifter, Mr. Do's Castle, River Raid, Summer Games, Sidearms… I grew up loving video games. I loved my Atari 2600 and luckily for me, my good friend and next door neighbor, Daryl, had a Commodore 64 and hundreds [...]
Pong, Asteroids, Dig Dug, Bump and Jump, Ghosts and Goblins, Tempest, Choplifter, Mr. Do's Castle, River Raid, Summer Games, Sidearms… I grew up loving video games. I loved my Atari 2600 and luckily for me, my good friend and next door neighbor, Daryl, had a Commodore 64 and hundreds of games on disk. Where am I going with this? MC Hammer.
This is years ago, so excuse me if I get the facts slightly wrong. I was a roguish handsome young devil (I warned you about my facts) and I had recently been given an opportunity to find a new job (layoffs). I had been working as an animator of sorts and there were some animation jobs opening up in Los Angeles. I even went up and took a tour of the Disney Studios in Burbank. Our guide was a storyboard/layout artist and the uncle of a mutual friend. There were these great maquette's (can't believe I spelled that right on the first try) of Hyena's and we got to hear these great songs for the film by Elton John. We listened to dialogue reads by Jeremy Irons as an evil lion. There was this immense storyboard room with sliding tack walls filled with gorgeous artwork. Thoroughly impressive. By the end of the tour and over lunch I was basically offered a job. The strangest thing was, I think I remember my first thought being, no. Why? My gut reaction was I didn't want to ruin my appreciation of the animation field and Disney any further that it already had by seeing more of what goes on behind the scenes. I would end up working for Disney twice in the future and my concerns would be proven correct. Nothing wrong with Disney, far from it. It's just that sometimes, you don't want to know what goes into making the hot dogs.
Hot dogs… MC Hammer. Okay, back on subject. I didn't take any of the animation jobs up in Los Angeles but ended up with a great job in Carlsbad at a new company called Verizon. Wait, what? Oh yeah, it wasn't called Verizon yet. You see, Verizon used to be GTE and that company had a video game and multimedia wing called ImagiTrek. Let me tell you, the phone company had money, to say the least. At the time, there were just a handful of HDTV's in the continental United States and we had one hooked up to a Laser Disc in a storage room with an endless loop playing of flowers blowing in the wind. There was no other content to play on the massive orphaned television, just flowers. We were also developing this internet television service before there really was an internet to speak of. With this service we were developing, you could talk to other people through your tv, or order pizza, or look up information like in an encyclopedia. It was like the future, ten years early. I was hired as a production artist to work on sprite games for platforms like the Sega Genesis, SNES and 3DO. My first day on the job, they sat me down to read photoshop manuals and play Sonic. I played Sonic for hours that first day and at one point the head of the division walked up behind me and startled me. My first thought was "ahh, playing video games when the boss walks up… I'm in trouble." He promptly commented, "Nice job. You're getting much further than most people do." Oh yeah, that's right, it's a game company, they encourage gaming. I would have to get used to this. Time passed. I worked on some pitches for games and interactive CD's. I even did some sprite processing and simple animations for a game called Jammit. Now we get to the meat of the story.
One of the most awful feelings in the game industry, is working on a game for a year or more and then having it "shelved". This happens much more than you can imagine. I've worked on at least three games that have been shelved. One game in particular was the MC Hammer video game. Sure, I would have loved to work on the Slayer or Tom Waits video game, but that wasn't in the cards. We had signed on to do the MC Hammer video game and we began a time consuming and, in my opinion, rewarding adventure, to say the least. The game was a side scroller in the vein of Double Dragon, with villains and boss levels to defeat. The story line had a sort of end of days aspect to it with the bad guys being these possessed zombie like creatures called Soul Suckers. We shot a lot of the character moves on video like Mortal Combat had done and then rezzed those frames down to sprite size and added animations or color tweaks to those sprites. All this time, I was learning more and more about photoshop, which leads me to my favorite part about working on a project like this, the people you meet and work with. Sure, on some projects there are people you wish you had never met, but on the whole, if you're lucky enough, you're working with similar like minds that are as dedicated just as much as you are to making great stories and art. I was learning Photoshop from the books and talking with this great guy named Tommy Yune. Tommy had worked on the Photoshop Wow book and was just brilliant if you ask me. Oh, and he's also one of the nicest people on the face of the planet. Meet him, you'll see. Along with Tommy, there were great co-workers like Christopher K., Susan H., Lori N., Brian M…. okay, I see I should stop there, I could keep going on and on about the great people we had. It may sound obvious, but a great team is what you really need when you're working on a project that's going to take you months or years. Someone to pick up the slack or point out how to fix things or what remind you what doesn't connect to the work done months earlier. We worked on this crazy idea for what seemed like a year or more. I learned about rotation points, world views, LOD's, bit depths, LUT's, game mechanics, and ultimately business. We had this great working game where I could sit in the lead programmer's cubicle (I think that was Phil Sorger) and play the game like I had been playing the Sonic game, much earlier. That's about when the business lesson came in. You see, when we had started the project, MC Hammer was on top of the world with top selling records, flashy videos, his own line of shoes and Saturday Morning cartoons, but nearing the end of the project, the intense interest had passed and the publishing costs of the game far outweighed the projected profits of the game if it were released. I've been told that only the top 5 games each year end up making back the money invested, and alas, the MC Hammer video game didn't make the cut. Oh how I wish I could play this game on my cell phone now. Maybe we should have gone with the Kool Moe Dee video game.


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With the recent release of Heavy Rain, I've had interactive storytelling on my mind again. I was excited about the game, and for months it was one of the justifications I had for buying a PS3 in the first place (second place to The Last Guardian). But after playing the demo and hearing many detailed reports from friends I trust, I'm left a little stumped with David Cage's latest attempt at making storytelling a truly interactive experience. After all, David Cage's personal blog makes the following goals central to the player's experience of Heavy Rain:
- An evolving thriller in which you shape the story
- Mature content, reflecting a realistic world setting that explores powerful themes
- Stunning graphics, animation and technology support an emotionally driven experience
- Accessible gameplay via intuitive, contextual controls and interface
In this article I don't want to harp on David Cage or Quantic Dream. The kinds of goals he has for his games are right up my alley, and if the games fails to satisfy those goals, it would be rather asinine of me to point fingers at him or his studio. Instead, I'd like to think about what we mean by an "interactive narrative" and why we are being led further and further away from a truly interactive storytelling experience, especially in games that attempt to simulate one. So let me be clear: this isn't a review or a critique of Heavy Rain, but of the general kind of problems we face today in making interactive stories.
As a foil to Heavy Rain, I take a very simple and effective "edutainment" title from my back-catalogue of 1990s edutainment titles, and show that Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections: Stowaway! (whew) manages to produce a far more immersive and interactive narrative experience using a gameplay approach that is simpler and totally straightforward. (And I'll make it spoiler-free if that matters for you, I hope.)
The Response to Heavy Rain So Far
Michael Abbott's initial response to Heavy Rain captured almost every aspect of the game that made me cringe: dramatic tension fails to build, it confuses game-directed "input prompts" with player agency, marionetting the protagonist ultimately destroys one's affective connection to him, and an inconsistent/arbitrary control system that serves only to breed learned helplessness and frustration.
I think Michael puts it best when he writes, "The game is at odds with itself from beginning to end. It persistently reminds me that neither I nor my avatar possess consequential autonomy. In Heavy Rain, the game itself controls the game, and that doesn't feel much like interactive drama to me." (my emphasis)
The Problem
The question of "realism" in games is something we've been contending with for years. A couple of years ago the discussion was all about photorealism in Mass Effect and the new Star Wars films, and if it adds any value to a narrative or is just downright creepy and distracting (note: I snobbily avoid using the "uncanny" valley nonsense, just because most of the people who use that term have never read or understood Freud – and Heidegger's – powerful notion of 'the uncanny'). I argued that photorealistic games fail to "grab" us precisely because they try to systematically represent a character's face or bodily movements… and no amount of technological advancement will yield a believable computer-generated character. Instead, I motioned for a return to the heavy artistic stylization of characters by artists like Jim Hensen, who made "Kermit the Frog" and "Oscar the Grouch" far more believable than a digitized Jabba the Hutt.
In Heavy Rain we're facing the same problem. Although few people have pointed it out (as most of us are now desensitized to photorealism), the visual metaphor for the game is the same as all other 3D FPS games today: attempt to represent human physiognomy and movement as "realistically" as possible using highly technological means. Because David Cage wants us to believe that we're directing a film with "live" actors, the characters appear to move like people, appear to frown like people, and appear to cry like people.
Appear to. Ay, there's the rub. The attempt to make each character appear real is at odds with the complex storytelling goals of the game. When a game attempts to "simulate" rather than "express" an experience, it loses its ability to artistically exaggerate or highlight some aspects of the experience over others. Let me clear that up with an example…
If I'm trying to tell you a story about something that happened in my psychology class last week (ie. a student who disrupted a lecture by talking loudly), I should only relate details about the situation that are relevant to expressing the kind of experience it was. Maybe I was already having a bad day before I got to class – I stubbed my toe on my way to the bathroom, and one of the cats shit in my shoes, and during the lecture I kept tripping over words. All of a sudden it becomes believable that I lost my temper with a student who was talking in class, and royally embarrassed both of us.
But what if I started the story by introducing extraneous (yet true and representative!) details about the color and cut of the pants I was wearing, the way I did my hair that morning, and the temperature of the classroom that day, you'll likely say to me: Yeah, yeah, I get it! – but what does that have to do with the story? In other words, you can't simulate an experience – you can only express one through a story.
That's what games like Heavy Rain end up getting tripped up with. All of the extraneous details of the scene – the perfectly rendered eyelashes, the flaring irises, the reflection of tears on cheeks – all become the focus of every scene and distract the player from understanding the aspects of the story that really matter.
Not only that – but Heavy Rain tries to go one step further – it does not only want realistic visuals, but realistic kinesthetics. Instead of having the player direct the character at emotionally important moments crucial to the development of the story, the player is required to puppeteer every banal minutiae of everyday life, from pulling out a wallet to checking a watch. None of these micro-actions express anything important about the character's personality or her/his plight. As a result, I cannot distinguish between what's important and what's window-dressing.
The total experience, for me (and perhaps others?) is a game that resists itself at every turn: it wants me to participate in the unfolding of a story, only by forcing upon me irrelevant details and banalities that do little to express a coherent vision of a world. Heavy Rain is something like a schizophrenic-neurotic mom – she wants me to tell all my friends her jumbled paranoid fantasies. She hovers over me the whole time, and when I get some seemingly meaningless detail wrong she threatens to strangle me. Love you too, mom.
The Solution?
I had originally intended to write a love story to the numerous edutainment titles of the 1990s that simultaneously bored and impressed my 13 year old mind. Instead, I realized that many educational games succeeded at the one thing that Heavy Rain does not: letting me help direct the action on the screen, as if I'm a participant in the story.
Most games today only concern themselves with entertaining or immersing the player in a fantasy world, and that's a difficult enough job. But think about the tremendously difficult task the average edutainment title has – it has to both entertain and educate five to ten year old kids about some infinitely boring subject that only adults care about. Like 19th-Century Man'o'War ships, for instance!
Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections: Stowaway! takes Biesty's incredibly well-illustrated book and turn it into an interactive experience. The ship is cut into cross-sections that can be navigated using an UP/DOWN/FORE/AFT control scheme. Each cross-section has meticulously detailed illustrations that draw my eye toward the "story" being told in each pane; if I click on hotspots in the scene a little narrative plays out. It's as close as a game has ever come to an interactive pop-up book. Like Heavy Rain, you're on the hunt for someone – instead of a psycho killer, you're looking for a grungy little stowaway that is hiding in several places on the ship.
The difference in the control mechanism between Heavy Rain and Stowaway is night and day. Where the former tries to simulate motion by forcing the player into complex marionetting, the latter takes a traditional up-down-left-right scheme and works wonders.
In Stowaway!, I get the sense that when I click "down", I really am moving up to a lower section of the ship, even though I am not visually shown the transition between decks. How can a game that does not physically show me moving throughout the ship give me a sense of movement? Stephen Biesty accomplishes a feat of artistic consistency that any comic book artist could hope for: when I'm standing on the orlop deck watching the deckmates go about their business, I look at the mast and think, "Hey, that mast goes way down into the ship!" My imagination makes the transition between each deck of the ship for me; Biesty completes the image by showing me the next section of the mast, just as my imagination hoped. Stowaway! gives me a sense of agency by allowing me to help imagine parts of the scene for myself. Sure, there are plenty of illustrated details on each deck, but none of those details are extraneous to the kind of story being told about the brutality of an 18th century English Man-of-War.
Biesty accomplishes this by exaggerating all the right things: all of his characters and scenes are carefully illustrated to express a sense of humor and the deep gravity of war. The surgeon's assistant carelessly tosses a limb into a bloody bucket, and I simultaneously cringe and laugh at the sillyness/seriousness of amputation. The surgeon's amputation feels more real to me than any murder scene in Heavy Rain, because Stowaway! boils the experience down to its essential elements.
Imagining Makes it Real
That's all to say – Stowaway succeeds where Heavy Rain fails because it makes some space for the player's imagination to complete the experience. Representational realism – whether it is an attempt at puppeteering the character through the controls, or an attempt at photorealism – cannot itself make a game worth playing or a story worth following. What we experience as real in a game has much more to do with the aesthetic exaggerations the developer makes in order to give a scene a certain flavor. The Uncharted series is a perfect example of how talented voice acting can turn a boring and hackneyed character into a lovable rogue. Without stylization that highlights certain features of the character/scene over others, and allows the player to complete the rest of the image, your game will be profoundly tedious at best – and totally unbelievable at worst.


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With the nation apparently headed for higher taxes under the scenario known as the "fiscal cliff," Sacramento-area experts offered ways Thursday for people to prepare their personal finances.
Without congressional action, current tax rates will expire on Dec. 31, resulting in a $536-billion federal tax increase.
According to the Tax Policy Center, taxes would go up for more than 88 percent of Americans by an average of $3,500 per year.
Ray Benetti, a certified public account in Sacramento's Arden-Arcade area, said he has been receiving a half-dozen calls a day from clients who want to know how they should prepare.
"To get prepared for next year, you have to do something now. And I think a lot of clients are asking if they should sell stocks that have gains, and we're recommending that they do," Benetti told KCRA 3.
Benetti said it is almost certain that taxes on capital gains -- profits earned on stock transactions -- will go up in 2013.
He said he is also recommending to some clients to move expected income into the current year.
"People that are self-employed or that own a business can do that by calling their customers and saying, 'Would you pay your bill in advance?', if you're a cash-basis taxpayer, for example," Benetti said.
Dennis Ventry, a tax law professor at UC Davis School of Law, agreed that those two strategies might work for some people with high-level incomes.
However, he said middle-class Americans could do "little to nothing" to prepare for the fiscal cliff.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (1133 votes).
In short: Has a better reputation than it deservesIn full: I've done this race twice, '08 and '12.It's not that quick - as others have mentioned there are plenty of courses out there that are quicker.It's not that accurate - a common gripe from GPS wearers is that a particular course is short, long etc etc. Bottom line is that everyone on connect.garmin has this race as long by ~100-300m. I've no doubt the course was accurately measured, I just think that there's no way to run the "racing line" owing to the fact that the course is divided on the second lap.It's not that cheap - in fact, it's not cheap at all, the only reason I did it this year is because I could get a free entry because I'm an old git. Absolutely astonishing that any half in the UK could charge roughly 10 quid more than the London marathon. Is it really more expensive to put a 1/2M on in Bath than it is to put on a marathon in London???It's not that well marked - maybe I'm blind, but the only mile markers I saw were 3M, 10M and 11M, hardly ideal, unless you're wearing a GPS, in which case you're bugg3rd in any case (see above).Other than that, great race, see you all next year, providing I can get a free entry ;-)Date of review: March 16, 2012
In short: UNDULATING! And queue up for the start EARLY if you don't want to get stuck in the 4-mile long bottleneckIn full: I too would like to emphasise the fact that for a city run, this can not be labelled flat!! I did get a PB - but it was my first ever half marathon (1hr50)! but i was stuck in the bottle-neck at the back for the first 4miles, attempting to weave in and out where possible, eventually mounting the pavement and running full-pelt into the side of a portaloo... results could be displayed better online, as you are ranked by the big clock and not your chip, but we didn't cross the start line till 9 minutes past. the data should either be manipulable by the 'sort' button, or rank you in terms of time actually taken to run the race. i thought it would be the best day ever but i couldn't connect with the race on the day.Date of review: March 16, 2012
In short: Great race... not so sure about value!In full: This is the third year i have run bath, and i came out with a great PB! The race and the atmosphere is great. The one problem is the cost, and value for money. I know races are getting more expensive as the popularity increases, but only a few years ago this race was £30, now next years event has been advertised at an 'early bird discount' of £39! There was not a lot in the goody bag, and i actually think the medal has got worse, they do give a top, but this year all they had was large cotton ones (and this is not what was left over, this is all the started with). Lucazade were there sponsors again but did not have their tent this year as it was at Silverstone, they gave out drinks, but were in very short supply of bars/gels, in fact i did not get any and i turned up 2 hours before race start! Overall, i am not entirely sure if this race is worth it any more... UNDECIDED for next year!Date of review: March 14, 2012
In short: Brilliant race, getting expensive thoughIn full: This was my fourth year running the Bath Half and it is definitely one of my favourite races. The atmosphere and organisation is always great and it is definitely the course to run a PB on (not pancake flat but no major undulations). However, the race is getting very expensive. In 2010 the entry fee was £30, 2011 it went up to £34 and this year it increased to £37 (even more if unaffiliated). For this kind of money you would expect a technical t-shirt, but all you get is a size large cotton shirt that is too big to wear. If the price increases again I definitely won't run it next year- shame really because every other aspect of the race is spot on.Date of review: March 14, 2012
In short: Excellent sunny race but a bit congestedIn full: My second running of bath half marathon and two things stand out from last year. This year it was subtropical where as last year it was pure brass monkey weather. Last year it was less congested in the first few miles where as this year it was rammed. I did not enjoy the near self inflicted orchidectomy I nearly suffered about mile three from a hidden cone. That said it was a wonderful day made by the bordering on the bonkers support from the locals who are the best crowd anywhere in the country for running. The organization is superb and everyone is friendly. Why people have iPods on for this race amazes me as there so many great things to see and music all over the place why shut your self off? I was slightly slower this year than last probably because of congestion at the start and will certainly be in my pen earlier next year(bladder allowing). Thanks bath and thanks to bath race course park and ride as well. I expect snow next year if the weather is anything to go on!Date of review: March 14, 2012
In short: Favourite half, in my favourite city!In full: Another brilliant Bath Half this year. Course, as many have said is not exactly flat, although is definately designed for speed! The atmosphere along the way is superb, and the people of Bath turned out en masse to cheer us 12000 on (the fact it was a beautiful March day didn't hurt I imagine)Kicking back in Thermae Bath Spa afterwards further helped to round off a top race. Back next year without fail!Date of review: March 13, 2012
In short: Great atmosphere, lovely city, fab crowd support, dull, NOT FLAT courseIn full: 1st time at Bath Half and will be last. Main points summarised above. Too expensive, too crowded, even for the elite runners, of which i was one, and yes, too narrow and dangerous in some areas, as others have said.Having said that, the 'runners village' was well stocked and everything in terms of organisation for getting around seemed quite good. Always gonna be diffcult to get perfect for an event of this size and in a major, busy city.The course route is DEFINITELY NOT FLAT. I had to emphasise that, as reading other comments one would assume that it is flat and good PB potential. It isn't! I've races in many events and on all terrain and distances over many years. I know the difference in flat and undulating and hilly. Be warned! If you are a serious club runner or someone who really wants to achieve a good time, there are many other events out there that will offer you the chance to achieve your goal. And they are definitely flat and a fraction of the entry price for Bath Half.Fab atmosphere and brilliant crowd support make this a really enjoyable event for the majority of non-competitive and charity runners.Final issue: if you planning on doing the event, then plam to make a day or weekedn of it as trying to get out of the city using any form of transport that has to negotiate the course an absolute nightmare!! I used the park and ride. I finished the race in 80 mins. I didn't get out of the city until after 3pm. The Council refused to open parts of the course to allow buses, etc to cross, even though there were clearly no runners in sight on the course. Bad decision-making on their part caused a great deal of unnecessary delay and frustration, made worse by having to sit on a bus for almost an hour as the fantastic driver attempted to get out of the city. Yes, i could have walked, but would anyne really want to walk 2-3 miles all uphill after this event? Very few would.Rant over.Date of review: March 13, 2012
In short: Good course, great supportIn full: I've run this race for 6 of the last 7 years and always enjoy it. As most have said the support is excellent for most of the way round and the water stations were very well run. Even the start was ok for those nearer the front. A couple of niggles, they seem to have tried to divide the course up at more places to allow for the second lap runners to come through and this has actually made things worse. In Queens Square it was really tight and my family who were spectating there said that runners were falling over the cones and trying to go over and under the tape as the main bulk of people were forced to a walking pace. This is no good at nearly 2 miles into the course and previously it hasn't been a problem at this point. Another point, the pre race leaflet said that mile markers would be sprayed on the road which I thought was a really good idea. Were they there? I didn't see them and if they were there I would say they were too small. The mile marker signs are still too small as well, can we have them bigger please, maybe a column of balloons or something similar. The course always records long on GPS watches so proper mile markers are really important for those runners running to a pace.Date of review: March 13, 2012
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In short: Great atmosphere race and well organised - including the weatherIn full: My wife organised entry into the Bath Half as a birthday present and return to my birthplace - bit of a trek from Preston on a Sunday morning. Not ideal preparation being in a car for 3 hours! Everything went fantastically well. Bath as a city seemed to embrace the whole event, the support was fantastic, and the whole route was lined with enthuiastic spectators. Drink stations were well stocked and manned and the course is pretty flat with a few undulations. The only problem was hearing the PA at the start as the acoustics were poor in the "green coded starter pen". Any Water Aid runners must have been appalled by the water being wasted at roadside - there must be a better way of providing water for runners? All said and done - a great event, the weather helped as it was brilliant and the people of Bath who turned out to cheer did the city proud. All very well organised, loads of toilets located about the route and runners village - seamless - great city and great race.Date of review: March 13, 2012


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On Thursday's 30 Rock, Jenna Maroney (the insane blonde actress) names Liz Lemon (played by Tina Fey) her maid of honor. In discussing the bachelorette party, Maroney lays one ground rule.
We can't stay at The Palms. One of the Maloofs wants me dead, the other one loves me and I don't remember which is which.
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