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The accident occurred shortly after Simon and Portland Police Officer Jeff Bender were stopped and waiting for a train to finish crossing North Columbia Blvd. in the 2300 block. After the train cleared the roadway, Simon, who was the first car in line, did not continue eastbound on North Columbia. Officer Bender, believing that the vehicle has stalled, pulled up to Simon's vehicle. As Officer Bender reached Simon's vehicle he saw Simon accelerate sharply and continue eastbound. As Simon's vehicle continued to accelerate, Officer Bender pulled behind Simon and activated his overhead lights. Simon's vehicle swerved into the oncoming lane of traffic and collided with the Jeep vehicle immediately after Officer Bender activated his lights. Simon died at the scene and Armando Garcia was transported to Emanuel Hospital. At the time of the accident, Officer Bender had not initiated a pursuit on Simon.
Investigators believe that alcohol consumption may have played a role in this fatal accident. Portland Police Reserve Officer Clayton Teel was in the patrol car with Officer Bender.
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Loyal Checkin Horrendous customer service, wont stop billing your credit card Internet
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I called the company and in typical fashion , NO ONE picks up . I have left 2 nasty messages and now contacting the Bank and Pressing fraud charges.
They said I signed a contract which they digitally signed for me AFTER I paid the first months fees . I never , repeat NEVER signed a contract.
Thieves and frauds in my opinion...go elsewhere !
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This posting about Loyal Checkin was posted while a company from India owned Loyal Checkin and was not keeping up with support. J. Daniel Agency of Madison, Wi (oringial founders of LC) has re-aquired Loyal Checkin and moved all operations back to Madison, Wisconsin. We are adding new designs, products, features and training. Any complaint about Loyal Checkin has no relation to the current owners or current situation of Loyal Checkin. Jeremy Tyler, Founder/CEO Loyal Checkin
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The Internet Manager brags about some of his sales where he had customers crying in their cars after he ripped them off. He knows the names by heart fo customers he took for a ride. Sold someone an Odyssey that sells for $35,000 and after paying it off, they it will be double. He laughs at people who he's ripped off. So do other salesmen. They know those people by name off the tip of their tongue. Those who they couldn't they don't care about.
They'll bump your interest rate up a few points to make more money! Get the rate from your bank or credit union so you aren't ripped off. And the extended warranties and extras are a major ripoff. They are huge profit centers. A $795 Simoniz of your car costs them $125. That's a 650 percent markup!!!!!!
The Used Car Manager won't give you anywhere what your car is worth and comes up with excuses for it. Go to Kelley Blue Book and find out what it's worth. Demand that number.
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Says they ripped off people. Is greed and ripoff the same thing? No wonder why I hate car salespeople.
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"They'll bump your interest rate up a few points to make more money! Get the rate from your bank or credit union so you aren't ripped off." You are correct that it's better to obtain financing from a financial institution but that doesn't constitute a rip-off. "A $795 Simoniz of your car costs them $125. That's a 650 percent markup" You are incorrect. That is a 536% markup. Greed is not the same as a rip-off. Auto dealers are not required to follow Kelley Blue Book pricing. Were you recently fired from Westbrook Honda?
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Complaint Review: Lead Research Group
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Lead Research Group LRG Marketing : Rip Off, Scam, Theives, Poor Customer Service, STAY AWAY! Internet
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I called into Lead Research Group, and was glad to hear that they also used the Tel-Server Platform... Not only that, but the representative I spoke with, Rob Brack, assured me that LRG not only created but OWNED the platform. I was excited... after discussing with Rob the options available, he told me the lowest he could sell me a package for would be .0225 cents per minute. Confused, I asked why so high, since I am committing over a million minutes. He explained to me that since LRG owns the platform they control how I get charged, and I would be charged in 1 second incriments. [continued below]....
I bit, and gave LRG $5,000.
After running my campaign, I noticed very little difference, If anything their complimentary data was terrible. My average cost per transfer had gone up yet I was running around the same minutes per transfer?
I spoke to Rocky in their "IT" department, and he told me that minutes get rounded to the nearest 6th second, not nearest second! So my cost had gone up, I recieved worse data, and I was being charged in the same increments!
Total RIP OFF!
Not to mention, when I asked for a refund OF MY REMAINING BALANCE, I was denied! AND GET THIS! LRG DOES NOT OWN THE TEL-SERVER PLATORM! Another company by the name of Net Dot Solutions does, and LRG is under one of their resellers!
Stay away from Lead Research Group, their voice broadcasting, direct mail, and radio/TV spots!
Total crooks!
It has become my life mission to run these liars out of business, YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE LAST OF ME!
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AUTHOR: LRG Management - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, December 09, 2009POSTED: Wednesday, December 09, 2009
We used to offer live transfer services, prior to legislation which outlawed the practice on Sept 1, 2009. I cannot attest to the specifics of your experience based on a guess of which order this may apply to within our system. I can assure you that the platform we were using was Tel-Server, and any claims to our ownership of the original underlying programming and software/hardware may have been misconstrued.
Our goal at Lead Research Group is to deliver turn-key solutions to a business such as yours with simplicity and ease. It sounds as if you are more knowledgeable than an average business owner in terms of how dialing platforms work. It should come as no surprise to you that Tel-Server was one of the biggest and most robust platforms available for these services.
I also cannot verify what Mr Brack had indicated in your conversations. All of our sales staff is very well trained and capable of explaining the pros & cons of each of our marketing services. Since we no longer offer live transfers, nor the Tel-Server platform, the point is no longer relevant to its superiority in the dialing platform world.
Our rates, at the time, cannot be compared apples to apples with other dialing vendors. Lead Research Group bundles a variety of value-added services in order to facilitate a better experience through our platforms. While a Ford Pinto and a S600 Mercedes will both get you to the same place, at the same time, it is the value and luxury of a more robust and full-featured platform delivered by a reputable company that distinguishes price. We always believe that our services are fair market value for what we deliver (including price, performance, results). If that is higher or lower than our competition will allow the market to determine if we stay in business or not.
Our dialer platform was configured as "real-time" billing - which means that for every second you are on the phone (connected) you would be billed for 1 second. We never rounded to 6 second increments - as most of our competition had been doing at the time. This alone saved considerable expense to our clients and afforded us the opportunity to work with many satisfied customers.
I am not sure how, to whom, or with what regard you requested a refund. I would be happy to look up your customer record and see what events transpired. We're here to help solve problems by providing a solution. Your report doesn't necessarily prove any good will or expectation on your part other to tarnish our company's reputation.
If you would like to discuss this matter, professionally, I will either personally handle this or have one of our top managers investigate this further.
You can reach us at: 800-884-8371 or by visiting our website: http://www.leadresearchgroup.com or http://www.leadresearchgroup.com/contact.php
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Hi Fellas,
I was just wondering (after reading Moose Peterson's articles) about the differences between the Hoodman Hoodcap and the original supplied BM-1 LCD cover that came with the D1H. Is there any advantage in using the hoodcap? Is this clearer for viewing in sunlight? Or is the original supply sufficient for this purpose (We've been having cloudy skies all weekend since I got the body so I can't really tell if it is sufficient!).
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Prime minister pleased as programme helps 40,000 'troubled families'
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David Cameron has hailed the news that the government's troubled families programme has helped almost 40,000 households.
According to stats from the Department for Communities and Local Government, 39,480 "hard to help" families have had their lives "turned around" since the programme began, with children taken off of the streets and put back into school and people helped into work.
With the government estimating that each troubled family costs the taxpayer an average of £75,000, the programme could already be saving the country £3 billion a year.
The prime minister said: "Getting some of our country's most troubled families' lives back on track is a key part of our long-term plan - it saves the taxpayer money, gives people the chance to get on in life and secures a better future for these families, their communities and for our country."
Two years ago, the Tory-led coalition set out to address the behaviour of an identified 120,000 troubled families in England.
Under the programme, one dedictated team works with a whole family in a coordinated way, rather than different services reacting to individual problems.
Today's DCLG figures show that local authorities have identified more than 111,000 families for help, of which 97,000 are now being actively worked with under the programme.
Some areas have now turned around three-quarters of their troubled families or more. Wakefield has already helped over 85% of its targeted families, Leicestershire 78% and Bristol 75%.
Anne Longfield OBE, chief executive of 4Children, said the programme's progress was "good news" but warned: "However, it also means that there are still 80,000 families who are yet to turn their problems around and there are significant disparities in success between local areas.
"Some areas are not yet joining their services together to provide the intensive support needed. This will be even more important when the programme expands to a further 400,000 families from 2015/ 16."
The government defines troubled families as those who:
- Are involved in youth crime or anti-social behaviour.
- Have children who are excluded from school or regularly truanting.
- Have an adult on out-of-work benefits.
- Cost the public sector large sums in responding to their problems.
Local authorities are paid up to £4,000 on a payment-by-results basis for turning around troubled families.
Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said: "The troubled families programme is good for the economy as it reduces the £9 billion annual cost to the taxpayer and helps people back into work. It also improves life for communities which see less crime and anti-social behaviour and, most importantly, supports families who get a chance to have a brighter future.
"Progress is being made in all corners of the country and I'm proud that this government is taking action to help change the lives of the families most in need."
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Louisiana Tech cruised to victory on Thursday, running Charlotte out of the gym and running up an 80-60 score at Thomas Center.
Louisiana Tech won and also put money in the pockets of their supporters by covering the 13.5-point spread as favorites.
Louisiana Tech got 22 points from Alex Hamilton and another 12 points from Chris Anderson. Kenneth Smith contributed 13 assists, while Chris Anderson cleaned the glass with 8 rebounds.
Charlotte got a 20-point performance from Pierria Henry, who was supported by 10 points from Willie Clayton. Terrence Williams had 3 assists in a losing cause for Charlotte, while Willie Clayton grabbed 10 rebounds.
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A polygon is a 2-dimensional closed shape with straight sides. In this section we will revise the properties of polygons.
We already know that the angles in a triangle add up to 180°. Angles on a straight line also add up to 180°.
In the diagram, we see that:
a + b + c = 180° (angles in a triangle)
c + d = 180° (angles on a straight line).
If we rearrange both equations (subtract c from both sides), we get:
a + b = 180° - c and d = 180° - c.
Therefore, a + b and d must be the same (they are both equal to 180° - c):
a + b = d
Now look again at the diagram.
The exterior angle is equal to the sum of the two opposite interior angles.
This is true for any triangle.
Find each angle marked with a letter, giving reasons for your answer.
Did you get the answer a = 50°? The exterior angle (120°) is equal to the sum of the two opposite interior angles (70° + a).
Therefore, 70° + a = 120°, so a = 50°.
b = 60°, because the angles on a straight line add up to 180°.
b + 120° = 180°, so b = 60°.
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hi I have forgotten a simple pattern for a shawl you start with 3 stitches increasing every other row until the width that want y ou start toedecrease I have forgotten how to decrease this side of the shawl. your help would be much appreciated the stitch is all garter thank you rifka
Hello Rifka - I found a garter stitch shawl that begins with 5 stitches rather than three:
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Does your shawl follow the basic premise of construction as this one? How does your shawl differ from this one?
What shape do you want your finished shawl to take?
Are you starting from one side, rather than the top or bottom?
If so, you mark the end of the row where you're increasing (until it becomes obvious) and when you get to the size you want, you k2tog where you had been doing the increases. If you were doing yarn over increases, to keep the eyelets you k2tog, yo, k2tog--in other words, you take one extra stitch out to account for the yarn over.
hi becky that's it thank you rifka:)
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The beauty, flavor and (best of all) aroma of freshly harvested garlic
The garlic harvest begins and it is a wonderful time in the garden.
Nothing compares to the power, flavor and smell of the fresh stuff.
The newly pulled heads release their oil as they are split apart to be used in the kitchen.
I've pulled a quarter of my crop, probably 75 heads and they are hanging in my tool shed to cure for three weeks. Walking by the shed is a treat as the fragrance is intoxicating.
It always brings me back to my first visit to Bobba-Mike's Garlic Farm in Ohio. They had just harvested and a huge barn was filled with thousands of heads of garlic. I guess most people might be repelled by the aroma, but I was in heaven. I also met kindred spirits Bob and Wendy Zimmerman who started out planting an acre and have turned their passion into a full time job. It's where I still get my seed garlic today.
Garlic is one of the easiest crops to grow and this is the perfect time to find the right type to plant. Don't try to grow grocery store garlic unless it's from a local source. It might not be hardy and could be treated with something which retards sprouting.
Farmer's markets, local farms, garden centers and garlic farms will get you the right bulbs to plant.
The second week of October is the best time to plant, but ordering or finding garlic is done now.
The heads are separated into cloves and the biggest are planted three inches deep and six inches apart in soil amended with plenty of compost.
Then the beds should be mulched thickly with straw.
Next July the garlic is harvested when more than 50 percent of the foliage turns brown.
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The Malone University College of Theology, Arts and Sciences – Department of Visual Arts has announced a series of exhibits opening the academic year. Galleries at the University are open during business hours (8 a.m. – 5 p.m.) and are free and open to the public. The McFadden and Fountain Galleries are located within the Johnson Center for Worship and the Fine Arts. Art-in-a-Case is located within the Everett L. Cattell Library.
The McFadden Gallery will show portraits by Sharon Charmley from August 27 - October 2. The works featured highlight Charmley's sensitive approach to portrait painting integrating technical mastery with an insightful depiction of the subject. Sharon (Durkin) Charmley, of North Canton, has a fine art degree from Kent State University. Since graduating, she has studied with several professional masters of painting. From these teachers such as Marvin Mattelson, Richard McDaniel and Judith Carducci, she learned much of the classical techniques that is evident in her paintings. Sharon lives in Uniontown with her husband Jim, and their two young boys. If you would like to see more, or commission a painting, she has a website at: sharoncharmley.com.
The Fountain Gallery will show paintings by Susan J. Foster from August 27 - October 15. Foster's work focuses on large scale still life compositions which display a technical mastery combined with a painterly approach to the subject. Susan J. Foster, born in Warren, studied at the University of Toronto and The Ontario College of Art. She currently lives in Bradenton Florida where she teaches at the Ringling School of Art and Design (CCSP), at The River Studio School which she established in 2001, and at The Southern Atelier.
Art-In-A-Case, located in the foyer of the Everett Cattell Library, will feature Turning to Nature, Jewelry by Elizabeth Jacob from August 27 - October 15. Born in Canton, Elizabeth Jacob attended Ohio University where she earned a bachelor's degree in English. Her current work is jewelry handcrafted with quality glass beads, swarovski crystals, vintage beads, pearls, semi-precious stones and sterling silver and gold metal. She finds inspiration for her jewelry pieces in the natural world around her. Her jewelry is available through her studio, Yellow Finch Designs, found at yellowfinchdesigns.etsy.com/.
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Oh, don't get me wrong. I understood why he did the things he did, and came away a little more knowledgeable about the process of bringing anime to a more broad audience.
That still doesn't excuse his arrogance. The man talks like he's some sort of creative genius, like he's the saivour of anime, and if everyone had listened to him, the marked would have been better off.
The rest of your argument against mine is nonsense. Actually, its nonexistent. You have not countered a single thing I have said and have instead attacked me and labelled me some simply raging fanboy. I deeply respect your opinions when you have them, but it right now you're having a reaction, not an opinion.
I had no real problem with Macek before the podcast. Sure, I resented him as the guy who made bad dubs, but I didn't hate him, because it made sense for the time he worked in. But the things he did later, when anime was more than capable of having solid dubs and subtitles for Japanese tracks, are just disgusting. And I dislike his attitude.
Don't pigeon-hole me.
GATSU - Saying that Macross fans don't want an authentic dub for Macross is like saying Dragon Ball fans don't want one for Dragon Ball Z. The market is definitely there. And I've found that a lot of people didn't even know ADV put out Macross on DVD. Hell, I didn't even notice until they were playing episodes on Anime Network.
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An even better podcast than usual, guys...thanks for all the hard work! (And for asking my Fist of the North Star question!)
Lots of food for thought here, but the part that struck me most were Macek's themes of localization and evergreen titles. I get the feeling that I'm somewhat of a rarity among anime/manga fans in that I like localization....I like having a story communicated to me in a way where I, as an American, can lose myself in the story without having to screech to a halt every few minutes to consult translation notes or what have you. You can, of course, take localization way too far and there are times when the material just doesn't support it (particularly if its strongly rooted in Japanese customs), but as long as its done with care, and with the intent of maintaining as much of the creator's original intent, then I'm all for it.
And as for evergreen titles, I think the anime industry's move to producing chiefly TV series has really hurt their ability to cater these sort of evergreen, must-have titles to casual Western anime fans as well as they did in the early 90s. Just as an example, I have a ton of friends who used to be pretty diehard anime watchers, but whose watching habits have waned since college as everyone has gotten jobs, families, what have you. I've been tempted for eons to have an anime night to kind of remind these guys of all of the good stuff they're missing...but what would I show them? If they're only going to watch anime one time, for 2-3 hours, what value is there in showing them just the first 6 episodes of any given show? No matter how good it is, it's not going to give them a complete story, something that offers a sense of closure and, more importantly, something that they might see at the store, remember liking the whole thing, and dropping some money on it so that they can watch it again and again. Movies and OAV series fill that niche so much better, and are able to become those "evergreen" titles both because of their (typically) higher production values and their self-contained nature. I know that the reversal of the TV series trend won't be happening any time soon, but a guy can dream, can't he?
A couple other random thoughts...
- Oh, man, thanks for reminding me about the Robotech: Defenders comic...UGH! I bought an issue of that out of a 3-for-a-$1 bin just because it had "Robotech" in the title but ooooooh man, what a piece of garbage that was. Even the lettering was bad. It takes a special kind of comic to only cost you 33 cents and still feel like a ripoff.
- Nice shoutout to St. Louis when Carl mentioned Voltron! Because the company who made Voltron also owned a TV station here in town, they periodically reran that show well into the late-90s, and it was glorious.
- Thank you for letting Carl go off on the Ren & Stimpy tangent...really interesting stuff.
- It was great to hear the history of Streamline's growth chronologically, as having come to them a bit late in the game ('95) I had it all mixed up. I had no idea that Totoro was one of their very first products...I love that dub.
- The quote that surprised me the most: "14 theatrical releases, all of them making money." Now that's damn impressive.
- It was also really interesting to me how much non-returnability factored into Streamline's early successes. Non-returnability is a hallmark of the comic book direct market distribution model and has been working well for that industry (to a point) for almost 30 years. Contrast that with how returnability has completely decimated several anime and manga publishers and it's interesting to ponder how non-returnability would have changed the face of the anime industry. Sure, stores are more conservative in their ordering since they're stuck with excess inventory, but the publisher can operate a lot more effectively when they know that every sale that goes out the door is final.
- It was nice to hear his philosophy as to why Streamline's series releases (Zillion, Nadia) were truncated, but it didn't make it any less frustrating. To have 8 episodes of Nadia on VHS only to have to wait another decade to see how the story ended...GUH.
But yeah, great podcast all around, guys! And hey, mind if I throw out some ideas of future guests I'd like to hear on ANNCast? This seems like as good a place as any!
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Oh, definitely. I grew up watching Robotech and Voltron and Speed Racer on TV, and I knew all of them were "Japanimation" (as we called it back in those days). Their "different-ness" from everything else on TV at the time was pretty readily apparent, even at age 7 or whatever.
Ditto here. I thought the casting in the original Akira dub was spot-on, personally. Geneon's script was generally clearer and easier to follow, but I still prefer Streamline's overall.
Kind of hard to believe that when your first comment in this thread was you couldn't even hear what he was saying and still found him "rage-inducing." Sounds like you went into this podcast more than ready to be pissed off by anything Macek said.
Arrogance? I didn't hear anything I'd think of as "arrogant"...even when he referred to himself as the "Johnny Appleseed of anime," that was still a pretty modest way of saying he simply got the ball rolling that other people ultimately ran with. I'd say he's understating his historical impact on anime in North America, which is huge regardless of your opinion of the man and his work.
Y'know, if you don't want to be pigeon-holed as a "raging fanboy," you probably shouldn't respond to a two-hour long intelligent, reasoned discussion by calling the guy a "splooge stain." Just a thought.
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That was just me referencing his reputation.
He's exaggerating and making it seem like if he hadn't, nobody would have, and he should be congratulated for being some creative leader. No, more like he's a savior.
His contributions helped, yes, but he sounds proud of bad dubs. Like Dunbine's dub was anything but a disaster.
I went a little overboard with that, yeah.
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Since the early 1990s?
An entire shelf of Ghibli DVDs
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Paprika and everything else from Satoshi Kon
5 Centimeters Per Second and everything else from Makoto Shinkai
Ghost in the Shell films
Evangelion films
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Summer Wars (at least in the UK this year)
More Lupin III films
In the at-least-they're-pretty department like many early 90s stuff:
The Sky Crawlers
Pokemon Diamond & Pearl film trilogy (it doesn't get more mainstream than this)
Blood: The Last Vampire
Cowboy Bebop the Movie
Escaflowne the Movie
Afro Samurai
Sure, there is more of everything else, but that doesn't mean there isn't also more feature-length anime perfect for an evening gathering.
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This is fascinating stuff, though it's hilarious to hear someone argue that Lady Death could've been saved at all. I'd really like to hear some people from ADV Films respond to Carl's tales of working there.
The "Uncle Carl" label seems even more appropriate now, since he's like some avuncular old relative who's full of fun stories. And we can all forgive that Thanksgiving fifteen years ago where he had a few too many and threw up in the mashed potatoes.
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I guess I could have been more specific...I meant that these are guys who, like me, got hooked on anime in the 1990s on stuff like Akira, Fist of the North Star, Ninja Scroll, what have you, and then dropped off shortly after the era of Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, FLCL, etc. So what I was really looking for in my idle musing there were movies/OAVs that are really current to show them what's going on now.
You did mention some really good material (the Ghibli, Kon, Shinkai, and Hosoda stuff, for example), but those don't quite scratch the same "big adult action anime" itch. I mean, I know there's stuff out there (Afro Samurai, Appleseed), and maybe I'm not looking in the right places but those seem like the exception rather than the rule. Where's today's Wicked City, or Macross Plus?
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Even though Mr. Macek spoke very softly at times making it kind of hard to hear, I think this podcast might be my favorite to date. Its fascinating to hear the point of view of someone who has as much experience in the business as he does; puts things in perspective.
Don't feel alone, I also like localization for the same reasons you state as well as a few others. I'm certainly not what you'd call a purist, in anything really, not just anime.
That's right, I had forgotten about that. What station was that?
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ABTAP: My point was that, without Harmony Gold, Macross might have ended up with some faceless corporation only out there to get some toy sales out of it, where the rights might have been stuck in licensing hell, like DYRL. In other words, it would not be subbed and uncut today. And I've seen the subbed tape for Akira, and I did not notice any difference from the Geneon subs, other than the slang. In fact, the Geneon script was worse, because the company just had to insert some random joke about Tenchi Muyo in there. The Cagliostro print I've seen only had the names changed, as per the legal wrangling with the LeBlanc estate. And the Nue/Tatsunoko tension out-dates HG's own assertion of its Robotech copyright.
Charred Knight: I've seen all the original shows and Robotech, and I seriously do not notice a significant difference in the content. If people want to see a company rape an anime, watch the DiC CCS or 4Kids One Piece. Or the obvious Warriors of the Wind.
That is such bs. You could still watch the imports or fansubs. Totally different from when a monpolistic a-hole like Harvey Weinstein sues sites like HKFlix from selling uncut versions of Shaolin Soccer, or writes a contract where he's the only one allowed to distribute Fist of Legend and Drunken Master 2 on home video. Or when Buena Vista Japan and Sunrise try to screw us out of the Japanese tracks for Princes Mononoke and the original Mobile Suit Gundam.
But the Japanese version ends up going in the same direction with the added episodes, anyway.
Actually, I remember a couple fans who were absolutely pissed at the idea that ADV "stole" Macross from Animeigo, and they were buying up leftover box-sets. Didn't matter that ADV would have made the series cheaper and more available, with the possibility that the thing was profitable enough to get some of the newer OVAs. ADV was just stepping on their turf. [There's some sort of rivalry issue for some reason, just because ADV picked up the YUA movies and Shin KOR, since it's completely different from CPM licensing Beautiful Dreamer. ] And yeah, you can tell that the fact that ADV went under very soon after that the dub didn't make a difference.
As for DB, I'd imagine the hardcore fans want a dub which isn't from FUNimation. But unfortunately, FUNi wouldn't be where it is today if those newbs weren't so eager to buy the edited versions of Z. Hell, they're willing to settle for an inferior picture job being misleadingly labeled as "enhanced". And some of them were even willing to stand their ground on friggin' DB: E, for f**k's sake! So I don't really consider that fanbase a beacon of a quality.
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KPLR channel 11. Which back then was an independent but is now a CW station. Voltron even gets a mention in their Wikipedia article....apparently they were the company behind Denver, the Last Dinosaur, too. That explains a lot...
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The fact is that Macek is a very smart business man. You may not like everything he's done but I think he deserves a lot of credit for that. It's easy to sit back in retrospect and talk about how if he hadn't done what he did for anime someone else would have but that's nothing but wild and baseless speculation. It's also highly questionable reasoning. The only people that might have been able to do what he did to push anime into the mainstream would have been someone just like him and you'd probably hate them just as much and if it were some purist fanboy, well I doubt they would have managed to capture even close to the same mainstream appeal precisely because they are not smart business people willing to make smart business decisions.
Lord knows I hate to see anime messed with but I for one think that the current industry could desperately use more smart business men like Macek instead of a bunch of fanboys making stupid mistakes and running failing companies. If that means we don't always get accurate dubs then so be it.
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Perhaps this is the more accurate way to describe the situation: anime in America has expanded beyond the young-males-with-disposable-income-and-free-evenings demographic that it had in the early 1990s.
There's still just as much of that kind of action anime fare--it's just that there more of everything else. American anime fans are getting a better glimpse of wide variety of anime that Japan offers.
Now, if you still want "big adult action anime" after FLCL, there's:
Sword of the Stranger
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society
New Evangelion films
Patlabor WXIII
Blood: The Last Vampire
Vexille - 2077 Isolation of Japan
Diebuster Aim for the Top!
The Animatrix
Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War
Armitage: Dual-Matrix
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Blue Gender: The Warrior
Afro Samurai
Highlander: The Search for Vengeance
Batman: Gotham Knight
More Lupin III films
There's a lot of that out there, just like there's a lot of everything else out there.
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The thing is, other people were already doing what he did and I don't see or hear them painting themselves as heroes. Has Macek heard of a guy named Frederik L. Schodt? Peter Fernandez? Sandy Frank? He's probably heard of World Events Productions, since they did Voltron.
Bad dubs were necessary back in the day to meet standards and practices, to extend anime's range, but you're saying that bad dubs will help save anime now, when the standards we have are higher?
So, what's the ratio we should have, then? For every Darker than Black dub we should have two Dragon Ball Z dubs (I realize that both are by the same company)?
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It's not a matter of absolutes, and one can be both--one can be a smart business person and cater to both mainstream and dedicated fan audiences. Prosperity and accurate dubs/subs (remember, even the rare Streamline Pictures subs were needlessly inaccurate) are not mutually exclusive. Despite early mistakes, Funimation and Viz Media are proof of that.
Macek certainly was a capable business man, but calling him a very smart business man obscures the major mistakes to which he contributed. Trying to produce 65 animated episodes in less than a year with a measure of quality is one of them. (The falling dollar and lackluster toy sales often get the blame, but people forget that Robotech II: The Sentinels was already doomed by being seriously behind schedule and overly ambitious due to the U.S. team's inexperience in daily television animation production.) Macek's belief that the Lady Death film could've saved it all demonstrates a case of wishful coulda-been thinking at best, and serious myopia at worse. Funimation and Viz Media indicates that there are smarter business people in the business.
Macek holds himself up to criticism because he holds himself up as not just a business man, but one who takes creative credit that is not necessarily all his.
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Great podcast. I keep saying you are knocking them out of the park, then it gets better.
Since I'm a new anime fan, and didn't come to it via cartoons or comics, I have no historical animosity regarding localization (though I watch everything subbed now from the viewpoint of enjoying "foreign" film in its original form). It's just a really fascinating glimpse into the beginnings of an industry, before commercial formula and standardization set in, and I love those stories.
Regardless of anything else, you have a guy who had the skills and also the savvy to leverage them. He also got RESULTS. Something an anti-capitalist, or fanboy, won't appreciate. 14 profitable films speak for themselves in comparison to today's market. The Captain Harlock story is classic and priceless. I laughed out loud having witnessed these scenarios before. The point is, though, you could've lined up 50 people behind Macek, and maybe 1 of them would have actually gotten the job done, not to mention right, despite the insanity of the project. That other person might or might not have gotten a better result, but it doesn't matter.
All in all, just an inspiring story about someone able to get things done under simply ridiculous conditions and requirements. Someone who, as fate would have it, happened to be in the right place at the right time with the right skills, and more importantly was someone who was willing to put in the effort required to get the best result he could envision to meet the purpose and goal at hand.
And I didn't find him arrogant in the least. Proud of what he's done? Sure. And damn well good that he is. He's got nothing to apologize for, and if you can't stand that, then frankly that's your problem and nobody cares. You're more than welcome to submit your own list of accomplishments, though, and impress us with those.
Yeah, stock put-down of someone's talent and accomplishments. See those gravestones... no one's special, and they are all replaceable. No, he's not the second coming, and yes, the anime boom would likely have happened anyway, but that takes nothing away from this guy's work.
Sure, maybe the picture is painted more rosy than it was. Fact is, most of what anyone does at that point in an industry's birth is "questionable" by definition. Why? Because it hasn't been done yet, or to any degree to establish standards of success. There aren't any experts to turn to or guidebooks. If you can be that successful in those circumstances, you are a rare bird indeed.
It's very easy to criticize those actions in retrospect, but it's rather silly in fact to do so.
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Now let's take a look at plug- ins that deal with dynamics; that means plug-ins that affect the dynamic range of a sound. Now, these effects work kind of based on the relationship of a sound to a threshold. A threshold is a certain level of volume that you set that once the sound interacts with it, the Dynamics plug-in is going to do something to that sound. There are basically two kinds of effects in the dynamics processing world. There are those that care about any sound that goes above the threshold, and then there are those that care about what sounds don't make it up to the threshold, or live below the threshold.
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So, when a sound stays below that threshold, we're not going to have any effect. In all these little two-bar graphs, I have the initial sound, and then this represents what's actually happening, what they compressor does to that sound. So, if a sound doesn't hit the threshold, if it's not loud enough, it gets left alone, and it sounds the way it sounds. If a sound goes beyond the threshold, then what the compressor does is it actually compresses that sound, the volume of that sound, back down. It does it according to a ratio, which I've got up here.
In this situation, we have a 1:1 ratio. So, for every one DB--let's say these lines are different one DB, two DB, three DB--for every one DB we go above the threshold, the compressor is going to turn that sound down by one DB. So we have a 1:1 ratio. In this instance, we have a 2:1, and our sound has gone above at 4 DB. As a result, we're going to push that down two, which means for every two DB it goes above the threshold, push it down by one.
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