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"Bankrupting America": The Truth behind those 'Hole in the Ground' Ads
Suddenly, the ads were everywhere — flashing on TV screens and popping up on local radio stations. The TV ads featured a sweating white guy in a business suit shoveling dirt in the bottom of an ever-expanding trench while a voice-over boomed: "When you're in a hole, stop digging." In the radio spots, the scrunch of a shovel was interrupted by an echo-chamber-enhanced voice pleading: "Hello? Can we have a little help down here?"
The message was clear: Federal spending has put the nation in a hole and people need to tell Washington to stop — presumably by voting against incumbents in the November election. The messenger, however, was less clear. The commercials ended with the line: "This message has been brought to you by BankruptingAmerica."
But just who is behind these hole-in-the-ground advocacy ads? The ads don't say and the website (www.bankruptingamerica.org) sheds little light on who is bankrolling "BankruptingAmerica." The "About Us" page lists no staff, mailing address, affiliates or sponsors. BackruptingAmerica (BA) characterizes itself as "an educational project that explores the politics hindering economic opportunity and growth." BA's Web page claims its goal is "not to merely place blame or point fingers" but also to seek solutions.
The anonymous authors claim that the organization opposes "unprecedented government spending and debt,… higher taxes and poorly designed bureaucratic red tape" (as opposed to well-crafted red tape, presumably). Putting on populist airs, BA claims a concern over "corporate welfare" and appears to hold both Bush and Obama equally guilty of reckless spending. The site even posts comments by "Left-of-center political commentator Robert Reich" and jibes from Bill Maher cracking wise about government spending.
"Put on your Earmuffs"
As part of its educational mission, BA promises to "explain the key components and likely effects of 1,000-page bills the public never sees" and promises to "look for the hidden kickbacks and pork barrel projects Congress hopes you'll never find." These would be two worthy services but there is no evidence BA has yet bothered to pursue either goal. If there has been any critical feedback, you won't find it on the BA site. At the bottom of its page attacking "last year's unpopular bailouts to over 600 businesses," is the terse announcement: "Comments are closed."
BA's message is largely negative. Like the Tea Party, BA's vibe is sustained by vague complaints and attacks against "big government." One BA video explains "How to Create One Million Jobs in Five Easy Steps." Step 1: "Put on your earmuffs." (Ignore Washington's claim that Federal spending can create jobs.) Step 2: "Remove your earmuffs and listen to a smart economist." (Carmen Reinhart opines that the debt has damaged our economic growth.) Step 3: "Listen to another smart economist." (Christina Romer, departing White House economist, notes that a 1% drop in GDP equals 1 million jobs.) Step 4: "Apply Transitive Property." (Cutting the debt would help create jobs.) Step 5: "Go ahead and put on your earmuffs again." ("Ignore Washington's claims that cutting spending would harm job creation…. Tell Washington that cutting spending is essential for job creation.")
The message remains Tea-Party-friendly. There are few specifics on what programs to cut (reducing the Pentagon budget is one quick way to cut the deficit by billions) and certainly no mention of taxing the 1% of Americans who (thanks, in large measure to Bush/GOP tax "reforms") now hold most of the nation's wealth.
Following the Clues
So who is behind BankruptingAmerica? There is one slim clue. Under the heading: "What's in it for us?" BA reveals that it is "a project of Public Notice, a nonpartisan nonprofit… 100 percent focused on arming people with… economic facts and figures."
The first public notice of Public Notice apparently came in late February 2010, with a column that appeared in US News and World Report railing against Washington's "[b]ackroom deals, trillion-dollar deficits, pork-laden spending bills, and multibillion-dollar bailouts."
On September 28, Public Notice paid for an ad on MSNBC that complained of soaring debt and out-of-control Federal spending and ended with a call for viewers to turn out in November and vote for "small, caring government." The implicit message — that viewers should cast a vote against the incumbent party — seems inconsistent with the rules governing "nonpartisan nonprofit" organizations. However, Public Notice can get away with this because, unlike a traditional 501(c)3 nonprofit, it is a 501(c)4 organization. As such, it is free to engage in "limited" political activity and does not have to disclose its donors.
Jason Togyer, an on-air host at Pittsburg's WRCT-FM, was concerned that Public Notice has been "underwriting announcements on public, non-commercial radio stations… right before an election." The ads were included on "The World Café," a program produced by WXPN-FM in Philadelphia and syndicated on other nonprofit stations.
Togyer noticed that, like the BA homepage, the Public Notice website contains "almost no information about who's behind it." Public Notice claims its mission is to provide "clear, unbiased and useful information" to the masses. But, as Togyer notes: "They don't list a board of directors and they won't reveal who's funding it. They don't even list a mailing address."
The Public Notice website specifically attacks the government's stimulus bill, which it proclaims a failure. The website also features a video with clips (that appear to come from Glenn Beck's August 28 Washington, DC rally) that poses five questions: Which president (1) Spent $3 trillion in a single year, (2) provided a bailout for big corporations, (3) spent billions on a stimulus package during a recession, (4) hiked spending on non-defense items several times over the rate of inflation and, (5) passed a costly healthcare bill. The ad's answer is a bit of a shocker: "Both Bush and Obama."
This may look like a bipartisan jab but it's disingenuous. As "The Dissenting Indian" blogs in a piece titled "Public Notice — A Teabagger/GOP Front," "President Obama's healthcare bill was fully paid for… and even reduces the federal deficit — by $130 billion over the first ten years and by over $1.2 trillion over the second decade." By contrast, George W. Bush's Medicare prescription drug program was a costly boondoggle designed to enrich the country's largest drug companies.
Another clue to the politics of BankruptingAmerica is found by checking the site's "Media" section. BA has posted a number of op-eds that it has placed in newspapers around the country. They are all written by Gretchen Hamel. Ms.Hamel is the founder and partner of a public relations organization called Endeavour Global Strategies. EGP appears to have a staff of three. Sean M. Spicer also is listed as EGP's "founder and partner." Before setting up EGP, both Hamel and Spicer were powerful communications officials in the George W. Bush administration.
As Bush's Deputy Assistant US Trade Representative for Public and Media Affairs, Hamel was (in her own words) "a lead player in crafting and conducting" the campaign to pass Bush's Free Trade Agreements. Hamel got her start in Washington as Deputy Press Secretary for Rep. J.C. Watts (R-OK) before becoming Communications Director for Rep. John Carter (R-TX). In 2005, Hamel became "chief spokeswoman and press secretary" for the House Republican Conference.
Until 2009, Spicer served in the Executive Office of the President as George W. Bush's Assistant US Trade Representative for Media and Public Affairs. Before joining the White House, Spicer was Communications Director for the House Republican Conference. He has also served as President of the Republican Communications Association and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Defense Committee.
Hamel Goes On the Record
In March, Zachary Roth managed to reach Gretchen Hamel at the Public Notice office in Washington, DC and reported on his conversation in a TPMMuckraker article for Talking Points Memo (TPM). Asked what specific spending programs Public Notice wished to see cut, Hamel replied: "Its not just about one program." Asked about the funding sources behind Public Notice, Hamel would only say the organization had "dozens of supporters across the US." Asked to name some of the major donors, Hamel demurred. "We will not be disclosing our donors. We want to protect the anonymity of our donors." While she claimed this is common nonprofit practice, it is not.
Hamel reiterated the claim that Public Notice's mandate was nonpartisan. "We're gonna be critical of anyone who is involved in the misuse of taxpayer dollars and overspending," she declared. When Roth asked if she had objected to overspending while serving in the Bush administration, she said she had "but did not elaborate."
Hopping in the Hole
BankruptingAmerica is not the only "nonpartisan" PR firm waving its shovels in the direction of Washington. A group called DefeatTheDebt.com (DTD) is airing another set of ads that depict a flushed Uncle Sam shoveling away in the bottom of a large hole while a little girl looks down from above and pleads: "Please stop digging." Another DTD ad depicts a classroom filled with children pledging allegiance to "America's debt and the Chinese government that lends us money, and to the interest, for which we pay, compoundable, with higher taxes and lower pay, until the day we die."
DefeatTheDebt boasts more transparency than Public Notice, providing an address, staffing and contact information. The website reveals that DTD is a project of the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), a nonprofit "dedicated to studying public policy issues that affect the American economy." On DTD's website, Executive Director Rick Berman expresses concern that the consequences of our growing $13 trillion debt (which requires "$500 million in interest payments every day") could prove "disastrous." But there's another side to DTD and its sponsor, EPI.
According to SourceWatch, Berman created the Employment Policies Institute in 1991 to lobby on behalf of hotel, restaurant, alcohol and tobacco interests. EPI is also the home base for the pro-management Center for Union Facts. Despite its insider reputation as a "think tank financed by business," EPI continues to present a "populist" face by claiming a number of worker-friendly domain names including MinimumWage.com, LivingWage.com, and GatewayJobs.org. Even EPI's name seems to have been chosen for its proximity to the long-established Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank with roots in organized labor. It is probably no coincidence that the logo for Berman's EPI uses the same typeface as labor's EPI. The websites are easily confused: epi.org vs. Berman's epionline.org. (Chairs of Berman's EPI have included restaurant impresario Norman Brinker — Steak and Ale, Burger King, Pillsbury restaurant group — and Outback Steakhouse founder Chris Sullivan.)
In 1994, EPI warned that the Clinton Healthcare plan would trigger the loss of 2-3 million jobs. EPI did not advertise the fact that the Clinton's program was to be financed, in part, by a tax on cigarettes — or that EPI had worked closely with R. J. Reynolds on its campaign. In 1997, Philip Morris saw EPI as a good partner to promote its opposition to proposed smoking bans in public places. (Like Public Notice, EPI is also a 501(c)4 organization, which frees it to engage in "limited" political activity and hide the identity of its donors.)
In 2008, EPI and the Center for Consumer Freedom (also founded by Rick Berman) joined the Republican attack on ACORN by purchasing a full-page ad in the New York Times accusing ACORN of "a list of abuses" and directing readers to contact RottenAcorn.com. EPI's major gripe with ACORN was likely ACORN's insistence on increasing the minimum wage — including wages for workers in the restaurant, hotel and service industries. EPI prefers to defend lower minimum wages, claiming they best serve the needs of "the poor and uneducated." In1992, EPI was defending the fact that 6.5 million Americans had been relegated to part-time work, arguing that this meant greater "flexibility" for workers and companies.
In 2009, EPI crafted radio and TV spots for the "Committee to Rethink Reform," which attacked the Democrats' proposals for healthcare reform. SourceWatch reports that EPI has spent "substantial funds on ads in other right-wing campaigns." Other EPI ads compare the national debt to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and warn that a "Budget Freeze Wont Fix the Debt." One EPI spot stretches the "nonpartisan" label by featuring Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA).
On October 3, Rep. Wolf addressed the GOP's Patriot's Dinner in Prince William County, Virginia, and bemoaned the fact that the US now has to compete with India and China — "a nation that opposes our values, a nation that hacks our computers daily, a nation with no religious freedom." Wolf criticized the nearly $13 trillion in debt the US has racked up (while failing to mention that nearly all of that debt was accumulated while he was in office). In July, Wolf (who makes a point of his close ties to officials at Lockheed Martin) introduced his "Bring Jobs Back to America Act" — a plan to create new jobs without new federal spending. Noting that "many companies see the rising costs of wages and shipping in foreign countries," Wolf proposed luring US companies back home by offering lavish "tax incentives to aggressively 'onshore' these jobs." Ironically, July was also the month in which Wolf voted against the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010
How to Grab a Shovel and Fight Back
Washington has proven fertile ground for the spawning of misleadingly named lobbying groups. The roster of fake "grassroots" organizations includes Save Our Species Alliance (opposed to the Endangered Species Act), National Smokers Alliance (opposed to the regulation of Big Tobacco), Americans for Job Security (opposed to the estate tax for the wealthy), United Seniors Association (supported prescription medication legislation backed by Big Pharm), Americans for Tax Reform (Grover Norquist's anti-tax group), FreedomWorks (Dick Armey and right-wing billionaires), Americans for Prosperity (the Koch brothers' oil interests) and Karl Rove's American Crossroads (which is suspected of shifting tens of millions in secret funding from corporations to bankroll political campaigns in the November elections). These corporate front groups masquerading as grassroots organizations have given rise to the term "Astroturf." (The disclosure that California's Proposition 23 — an initiative that would torpedo the state's ambitious goal to address climate change by promoting "green jobs" in renewable energy — is largely backed by powerful out-of-state oil and gas interests has given rise to a new term for faux activism — the "gas-roots" organization.)
In response to growing citizen complaints, Sen. Max Baucus, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, has called on the IRS to investigate secretive political front groups that skirt the law to raise millions to support the campaigns of pro-business candidates. Baucus has specifically asked the IRS to look into the dealings of Rove's American Crossroads. In addition to congressional investigations, action is needed by the Department of Justice and the Federal Elections Commission.
Recently, "Diet for a Small Planet" author Frances Moore Lappé has stepped into the fray to call on friends to support the Fair Elections Act. "I'm on fire about what, to me, is the 'mother of all issues'," Lappé writes, "We're losing democracy itself, as the power of private corporate influence in elections is drowning out citizen's voices." Fortunately, Lappé notes, in late September, a key House committee gave the nod to the "Fair Elections Now Act." FENA — a bi-partisan bill sponsored by Reps. John Larson (D-Conn.), Walter Jones (R-NC) and Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) — would promote a nationwide system of voluntarily citizen- and public-financed elections that would free candidates to compete without relying on corporate money. Candidates would be required to raise donations of no more than $100 each from individual, home-state voters. These contributions would be matched four-to-one by a fund supported with revenues from the sale of Federal broadcast licenses.
Common Cause President Bob Edgar called the committee vote "a huge step forward for voters who feel ignored by Washington…. As long as we have politicians answering to corporations and lobbyists who finance their campaigns, they will never be accountable to the people who elected them."
Public Campaign CEO Nick Nyhart hailed the vote as sending "a strong signal" that 85% of US voters want regulations to "curb lawmakers' dependence on special interest campaign donations."
The program has already been adopted by three states, including Maine, where 80 percent of the state's legislators no longer have any financial reason to favor corporate gain over the public good. FENA already has 166 sponsors — Democrats and Republicans — and the support of more than 170 state and national organizations. A campaign is underway to press House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to bring FENA to a vote before the full House — hopefully, before the November election.
Actions You Can Take:
American Crossroads Watch. www.velvetrevolution.us/acrw/signup.php
Clean Up Washington. www.cleanupwashington.org
Write the Department of Justice. www.justice.gov/contact-us.html
Contact Congress: To find our where your representative stands on FENA, call the Congressional Switchboard at (202) 225-3121
Call Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (202) 225-4965.
Public Campaign. www.publicampaign.org/
Fair Elections Now. http://fairelectionsnow.org/
Gar Smith is the winner of several Project Censored Awards and is co-founder of Environmentalists Against War. He is based in Berkeley, California.


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Using Technology to Help Identify Terrorists
In the aftermath of the Boston bombings, facial-recognition technology is being seen as an important tool to help in criminal investigations. The WSJ's Jason Bellini explains how it works and why it sometimes fails.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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It's time to make your new year's resolutions
New Year's resolutions are one tradition that keeps coming every year, even if they are not fulfilled. New Year's Eve has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward to the coming year.It's a time to reflect on the changes we want or need to make and resolve to follow through on those changes. Hutchinson County Fire Marshal Danny Richards stated a few of his resolutions. " have three resolutions. First, Im going to try to be the best dad I can be to my sons. Try to help more people thru emergency response. Finally, the third and last is to make the best grades I can while working on my Doctorate Degree. Everybody should make a resolution," said Richards. BNH Facebook readers also have their own resolutions for 2013. Lisa Ann Thomison stated, "I vow to be a more trusting, open-hearted individual. The world needs more trust, love, and peace." Amanda Harris stated for her resolution to be less cursing. Jeff Parkhurst's resolution is, "to have a better attitude towards everything. To quit being so pessimistic."The staff of the BNH have a ultimate resolution to make the community's newspaper bigger and better in the year 2013.


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Keith Alexander's Lobbying Calls To Congress Kicked Off With A Joke About How He Already Had Their Number
from the not-so-funny dept
However, there is one tidbit in the article that struck me as interesting. We'd already mentioned how Keith Alexander of the NSA went on an emergency lobbying campaign with Congressional reps after learning that the amendment would actually come to a vote, but there's this little tidbit to add some color:
Alexander, the NSA chief, was forced to personally lobby members, calling their cell phones and opening with a joke that, yes, he already had their number.I'm all for people in government having a sense of humor. In fact, I think the world might be a better place if more people had a sense of humor, but somehow it seems insanely out of line and not particularly funny that the guy in charge of this massive spy program that we now know is collecting data on every single phone call would then call someone and kick off with a joke about his access to their phone numbers. This is not exactly a joking matter.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After being ranked 26th in the nation in the Feb. 13 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) poll, the MIT women's track and field team have broken the top 25 and have settled into the 22nd position. The Engineers are still one of only two institutions representing the NEWMAC that have made it onto the list.
This past weekend, MIT traveled to the University of Southern Maine for the New England Division III Indoor championship. The Distance Medley Relay started things off on a good note. The combined effort of freshman Nicole Zeinstra (Holland, Mich.) sophomore Kayla Harris (Baton Rouge, La.), senior Marie Burkland (Almont, Mich.) and freshman Allison Hallock (Boulder, Colo.) finished in first place with a time of 12:18.87, almost three full seconds ahead of Amherst's relay that came in second with a 12:21.78.
Freshman Sarah Quinn (Watchung, N.J.) performed well, first coming in second place in the mile with a 4:56.20 and then following that up with a win in the 3,000 meters with a time of 9:58.93, finishing over 20 seconds ahead of the second place finisher. Senior Lauren Kuntz (Pittsburgh, Pa.) also had a first place finish when she vaulted 12-01.50.
MIT will return to action this coming weekend (Feb. 22-23) when they travel to Boston University for the NEICAAA Championship.


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The Old Lady triumphed in their last-16 encounter thanks to Giovinco`s well-taken strike, but no less than three players were ruled out of action in a worrying sight for the coach
A single goal from Sebastian Giovinco was enough to put Juventus into the quarter-final of the Coppa Italia, as they overcame Cagliari 1-0 in Turin on Wednesday evening.
Celebrations for the home team were muted, however, as they suffered injuries to Emanuele Giaccherini, Arturo Vidal and Nicklas Bendtner before and during the match that could stretch their squad to breaking point in the coming weeks.
Juve coach Antonio Conte was given a rousing reception by home fans as he returned to the bench in Turin for the first time following his suspension, and the hosts wasting no time in piling the pressure onto Cagliari. The first half was almost completely one-sided in terms of possession and territory, but the Sardinians were pardoned on more than one occasion by their rivals` imprecision in front of goal.
The lively Sebastian Giovinco was a constant thorn in the side of the Rossoblu, and after narrowly missing with an early free kick, the former Parma man was given an excellent chance to open the scoring. Giovinco read perfectly Leonardo Bonucci`s lofted pass to break a faltering offside trap, but Bendtner also went close, flashing an effort past the post after fluid build-up from the Bianconeri. It was not to with the ball running away from him he could only release an underpowered shot that posed few problems for Cagliari keeper Avramov.
be the on-loan Arsenal man`s night, though, as he struggled in vain to open his account for the Italian club.
Bonucci again inspired an opportunity with a well-hit cross as play broke down following a corner, but with no markers in his vicinity, Bendtner steered his header wide of the post. As half-time approached, the Dane broke down and was forced off, Alessandro Matri coming into the action.
Opportunities for the visitors were few and far between. Gabriele Perico briefly threatened Gianluigi Buffon`s goal, but could only blaze over the bar after being played in by Sebastian Eriksson.
Juve finished the first 45 minutes well on top, but a pair of injuries left a sombre mood; as well as Bendtner, Giaccherini was forced out of contention during the warm-up, and his replacement Vidal was another casualty after pulling up with a muscle complaint.
Despite those setbacks, Conte`s charges continued their quest to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Coppa, and Matri caused a stir when he headed Giovinco`s free kick just wide of the net. The pressure was building, and with 10 minutes gone in the second half, Juve scored a decisive strike.
A low cross from the home team appeared simple to clear for Luca Rossettini, but the defender dawdled for far too long in getting rid of the ball. Juve took full advantage. Simone Padoin dispossessed his rival, and it fell to Giovinco, who jinked past the remaining markers to net the opening goal.
Having withstood the Serie A leaders for almost an hour, Cagliari would now have to drastically change their game plan, and come out for the first time to chase a result in Turin.
Daniele Dessena almost provided an instant response for the Sardinian institution, but the substitute saw his shot saved with class by the ever-reliable Buffon. Hopes were also briefly raised when Perico fired the ball into the far post, only to be extinguished once more as Mauricio Pinilla just failed to meet it with a despairing lunge.
With 15 minutes remaining, Cagliari were given perhaps their best chance of the match. Pablo Cepellini fired across the box following tenacious work from Victor Ibarbo in winning back possession, but his centre was diverted wide by Pinilla, who looked anguished at squandering the opportunity.
Juventus were in no mood to surrender their narrow advantage, and held on to book a place in the next round and keep their dreams of a third domestic double alive.
The Bianconeri become the third team to book their place in the quarter-final, joining Catania and Roma in the last eight. Five more ties are still to be decided, with Milan and Reggina continuing the round on Thursday evening.


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Tonight's Walking Dead, "Made to Suffer," was the eighth episode of the year, and therefore we're exactly halfway through the sixteen-episode arc of season 3. You know what that means: recess. Yes, just like last year, the show is now officially on break until February. Dammit, AMC.
A mid-season finale is a great time to introduce a flurry of action and leave us with some major cliffhangers, and I'd say tonight's episode didn't disappoint on this front. Let's get straight to the spoiler talk, shall we?
Things start off in the woods, with a walker stumbling in the direction of a woman's screams. Hey, it's another bunch of survivors, led by *drumroll* Tyreese! It's unclear how they made it this far, because their shit is seriously raggedy: one group member gets his weapon stuck in a walker's skull (which: finally! I mean, come on, it's been three seasons of people handily shoving things into and back out of human skulls like knives through butter), another gets savagely bitten. Sorry, random lady, but I'm disinclined towards sympathy based solely on your impractical Lori Hair.
Tyreese and his group make it to the ass-end of the prison, where Carl find them, thanks to his pro weaponry moves. Remember when Carl was a total pile of weaksauce and was always missing and stuff? Man, me neither. Now he's sweeping rooms with a suppressed pistol and channeling Rick's hardboiled leadership style: the new folks can stay in the prison, but they'll need to be locked in a cell for now. They should be safe, as long as they, you know, get back to that unpleasant business of hammering their infected group member into head-gazpacho.
Also, there's a creepy scene with Axel making the moves on teenage Beth which turns hilarious as he realizes Carol is not, despite her haircut, a lesbian. "My, this is interesting," he leers. "No it isn't," she says, before walking away. Burn. Post-apocalyptic rejection is the harshest rejection of all.
Over in Woodbury, the Governor is trying to have a moment with his daughter Penny. It might be sweet and tender, except for the part where Penny is a zombie, so it's actually just really awful and disturbing. As much of a verified bad guy as the Governor is, it's impossible to watch this without feeling empathy for what he's going through.
While Rick, Michonne, Daryl, and Oscar are sneaking into Woodbury, Glenn and Maggie are readying their escape. Glenn rips the arm off a dead walker like it's a turkey drumstick and he's at Ren Faire, then he breaks the forearm and peels back the flesh to --
(Do you ever just sort of sit back and marvel that this is a television show? Anyway.)
-- remove a pointy bone, which he gives to Maggie to use as a sort of walker-shiv. Damn, Glenn has leveled up in the last couple episodes. ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: MUTILATE CORPSE TO FORM WEAPONRY. Just in time, too, because the Governor has sentenced Maggie and Glenn to the "scream pits," which is either 1) the battle arena, 2) something even worse, or 3) a poorly-chosen name for a nice hot bath and a cup of hot chocolate.
Merle heads in to carry out the Governor's orders, but he's briefly stopped when Maggie stabs a guard in the throat. More armed Woodbury goons burst in, but luckily, that's the exact moment Rick's calvary descends, armed with smoke bombs (which I guess they … found at the prison? Made out of half-remembered Pinterest instructions?).
Gunfire is erupting in Woodbury, but Michonne's got other priorities: she goes sneaking into the Governor's house to wait for him, then gets distracted by the HeadQuarium and a weird noise coming from the closet. There she finds Penny, and thanks to the bag over the little girl's head and the odd fact that she's moving somewhat normally instead of lunging to the end of her chain, Michonne thinks she's alive and unclamps her chain -- nooooooooo -- before she takes off the bag. Penny's like, surprise! Want to comb my hair? Forever … and ever …. and ever ….?
The Governor arrives on the scene and brokenly begs Michonne to spare his little girl. "There's no need for her to suffer," he says. Danai Gurira's face is a marvel of great acting in this scene: instead of that stony expression we always see, she cycles through horror, a dawning realization of the Governor's true madness, and maybe even something like sympathy before she says, "She doesn't have needs." And she puts her blade right through Penny's head.
The Governor attacks, and he and Michonne have a brutal battle next to the HeadQuarium. At one point, Michonne's head gets pushed into a tank where a severed head tries to bite her and that is some inspired creepiness, right there. Throw in a few spiders and some public speaking and you've pretty much covered all the nightmare territories.
Michonne manages to stab the Governor in the eye with a shard of glass, and she's just about to finish him off katana-style when Andrea shows up with a gun. God, Andrea, you ruin everything. Andrea takes in the scene -- heads on the floor, heads in the tanks, Governor cradling his zombie daughter, etc. -- as Michonne just walks away, because her days of warning Andrea about shit that should be super obvious are OVER.
An epic gunfight goes down in Woodbury's streets, Daryl gets separated from the group, and Oscar gets shot. Bummer, Oscar, but you were basically the Star Trek guy in the red shirt, it was really only a matter of time. However, here comes a blast from the past: it's Shane! Sporting a sweet-ass beard and coming right for Rick! Except no, it's really just a random Woodbury dude. Jesus, pull it together, Rick. Worst hallucination timing ever.
In the final moments of the show, the now one-eyed Governor calls the town together in order to give a rousing speech about how he's man enough to admit he's scared of the evil terrorists trying to take what's theirs. The crowd is worked into a frenzy as the Governor then points out Merle as the guy who's to blame for the night's attacks. Ooh, Merle, look who didn't forget how you lied about Michonne being dead. But then things get worse: Daryl is brought forward as Merle's "accomplice." There they stand, the Dixon brothers, finally reunited, as the crowd calls for their death.
As for what happens next, we're all going to have to wait until February to find out. I don't know about you, but I've got one thought first and foremost on my mind:
What did you think of tonight's midseason finale? Are you dying (heh) to see the rest of the season now?
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10 Terrific Trays
The simple tray is a host's best friend. Use one to corral all the barware on a table or to distribute drinks and snacks from room to room. (Use a tray to serve your honey breakfast in bed and it may lead to its own kind of entertainment!) There are trays for every style out on the market, from mirrored to leather and lacquered to rustic. Here's a sampling of 10 terrific trays that hit a few of the different styles.
• Colorful Wooden Tray from Wisteria $49
• Scallop Lacquered Wood Tray from DwellStudio $98
• Square Lacquer Trays from West Elm $24
• Hayden Leather Tray from Ralph Lauren Home $486.50
• Antiqued Mirror Tray from Gumps $99
• STOCKHOLM Tray from IKEA $19.99
• Falconi Rectangular Tray from Horchow $275
• Format Tray from CB2 $39.95
• Ikat Melamine Serving Tray from Jonathan Adler $28.80
• Dark Acacia Wood Serving Tray from Sur La Table $49.95
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Federal Reserve policy makers went out of their way on Saturday to play down the risk that aggressive measures to bolster the U.S. economy would lead to inflation in the future, in a clear signal of support for its ongoing actions to spur growth.
The U.S. central bank last month maintained a controversial program of buying $85 billion of bonds a month, while pledging to keep interest rates near zero until unemployment hits at least 6.5 percent, so long as inflation stays under 2.5 percent.
Two of the central bank's most dovish officials — Chicago Federal Reserve boss Charles Evans and Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota — pushed back against recent signals from Fed hawks who want to taper those bond purchases.
"Without signs of actual inflation, many inflation-risk discussions ultimately raise this specter of ... unlocking the long-ago-vanquished inflation demons from the dungeon," said Evans, a voting member of the Fed's policy committee this year.
"We have to monitor it, we have to be mindful, but I don't think we should obsess over it," he told an event in Boston.
Minutes of the Fed's March 19-20 meeting, released on Wednesday, indicated that "many" of its 19 policy makers thought the pace of bond buying could be slowed in coming months, provided the nation's labor market continues to improve.
However, data released since that meeting showed disappointingly small U.S. job growth in March and an unemployment rate of 7.6 percent, which was actually down from 7.7 percent the month before but only because people gave up looking for work.
The Fed's preferred inflation measure is around 1.3 percent, well below its 2 percent target.
Kocherlakota, like-minded and speaking alongside Evans, argued that a balanced policy approach would allow inflation to deviate somewhat from its official 2 percent inflation goal, in order to lower U.S. unemployment.
"A balanced approach would allow for deviations of inflation from its longer run goal in order to facilitate a faster decline in unemployment back to its desired level," Kocherlakota said.
Kocherlakota is alone in advocating for even more accommodation from the Fed in the form of lowering to 5.5 percent, from 6.5 percent currently, the "threshold" at which the central bank will consider raising rates from near zero.
Meanwhile, a third official, Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart, also defended the bond buying and said the "chemistry" necessary to spark inflation — stronger credit growth and a much more buoyant economy - was simply not in place.
"I'm confident those improving conditions will be easily recognizable and the committee has a variety of tools to counter inflationary pressures with tightening measures," he told an event at the University of Iowa on fiscal policy.
Lockhart, who is not a voter this year, is viewed as a policy centrist and therefore a good guide to the consensus among Fed leaders.
"We are navigating in uncharted waters...but I am convinced we are weighing the benefits of the policy against the possible longer term costs in a balanced way," he told the audience.


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Chicken Scheme tutorials
This page contains a list of tutorials we have written (or would like someone to write) about Chicken Scheme.
- A guided tour through the CHICKEN republic
- Christian's FrOSCon 2011 talk
- JRM's Syntax-rules Primer for the Merely Eccentric
- A famous and very friendly introduction to the R5RS high-level macro system known as syntax-rules.
- Al* Petrofky's "An Advanced Syntax-Rules Primer for the Mildly Insane"
- A useful article to read if you wish to know the nitty-gritty details of how macro renaming works. This may help you to not only understand syntax-rules better, but will also provide a good basis for grokking explicit renaming and other macro systems.
- Explicit (and implicit) renaming macros
- Introduction to "explicit (and implicit) renaming" macros, the low-level macro systems used in Chicken.
- Macro systems and chicken (long)
- An excellent post by Alex Shinn, explaining different macro systems. Please note: This was written when Chicken 4 was not yet released, and hence refers to various different macro systems available for Chicken at the time. This is no longer true since Chicken now has ER- and IR-macros built in.
- Design by Contract
- How to use Design by Contract in Chicken.
- Assertions
- How to use assertions in your code as a way to detect programming errors.
- Autoconf - Automake
- A tutorial explaining how to use Autoconf and Automake in software packages containing Scheme files meant to be compiled by Chicken.
- Eggs Tutorial
- A tutorial about creating Chicken eggs.
- Chicken on handhelds
- A guide to using Chicken on embedded devices.
- Compiling Chicken on Windows XP with MinGW
- For the Windows using C/C++ newbies like me.
- Embedding
- Some pointers on embedding Chicken in another application.


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Decor For Small Bedrooms
Decor For Small Bedrooms need to be conceptualized keeping this in mind. Everyone necessities are different yet a balance has to be maintained between practicality and utility. Whenever we think of decorating a bedroom, we ought to first of all have a particular look or theme in your mind.
This is some resource for Decor For Small Bedrooms. Hopefully these suggestions will give you a little inspiration when it comes to decorating your bedroom ideas.


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From Melissa Rooney's June 11 column, "When parents can't read," she is clearly passionate about children learning to read, and certainly we need more advocates like her. However, when we write publicly about such things, we serve our audience better with facts than with false claims based only on observations from our own individual personal experience.
I am prompted to respond on seeing her citation of Bryce Courtenay (I had to look him up): "If you read one good book a month to your kids, you will do more for their education than the entire education system will achieve in 10 years."
It sounds like one of those grandiose claims that one might make if he's a little too fond of his own voice, but it is also a false claim, at least in the U.S. (It may be true in South Africa or Australia where Mr. Courtenay enjoyed dual citizenship.)
Years ago, the book "Freakonomics" made a splash by upsetting our cherished notions about a number of things, including what does, and does not, matter in raising test scores of young children. Reading to your child is not one of the things that matter. Yet Ms. Rooney asserts her firm belief, "I've no doubt that, regardless of his/her race or socioeconomic status, when a developmentally normal child is persistently exposed to reading from an early age, particularly by their parents, that child cannot help but learn to read."
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In their book and in a USA Today article published in 2005, Dubner and Levitt (the "Freakonomics" guys) cite the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study of 20,000 children, conducted by the U.S. Department of Education. Among many conclusions supported by data from that study, "the ECLS data show no correlation between a child's test scores and how often his parents read to him."
And, according to the ECLS, not only does reading to children not matter, socioeconomic status does matter. Highly educated parents, parents with high income, parents who speak English in the home and mothers who are 30 years or older when their children are born all correlate to higher test scores.
Another dubious claim of Ms. Rooney's own devising, she is "convinced that playing (LeapFrog DVDs) for kindergarteners [sic] several times each week would improve their reading skills significantly." It seems the only evidence for that assertion is her experience with her own children. Luckily, the ECLS shows no correlation between test scores and whether a child regularly watches TV at home. Whew!
Still, reading to one's children surely does have benefits, for the child and parent alike, and parents who can't read are an unfortunate problem in other ways. Just not in the way or to the degree that Ms. Rooney asserts: "If parents can't or don't read, it's almost certain that their children will have problems reading. Indeed, it's likely they will eventually read only on a rudimentary level – enough to get through life but not enough to reach their potential."
According to the ECLS, these parents can help them in other ways. As it happens, merely having children's books in the home correlates to higher test scores; having 50 books yields 5 percentile points higher than having no books, and 100 books add another 5 points beyond that. Being involved with the PTA also helps. But whether parents who can't or don't read have the resources or inclination to buy books and attend the PTA is another matter.
Perhaps it is true, as Ms. Rooney asserts, that "it is virtually taboo to consider the parents' lack of education. Because when considering their lack of education, we must also consider their lack of opportunities – and facing that challenge would cost even more than funding public preschool."
But what good does it do anyone to ignore the real problems and hang our hopes and resources on false notions and solutions that don't matter?
Randy Hamilton lives in Rougemont.


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Samsung has built a good reputation for televisions over the past few years. The company's best plasma and LED TVs do well in reviews and awards and are carried by many high-end home theater dealers (and frequently appear in our own Home of the Year winning installations). Now the company wants the same kind of respect for its audio systems.
Back in January we showed you the new tube-based stereo system Samsung had on display at the Consumer Electronics Show. Now that product, and a whole line of new audio gear, is hitting the streets. We were invited to a listening and info session in New York City to give the new effort a try.
First, some details. The products shown included the DA-E750 Audio Dock (SRP: $799.99), HT-E6500W Blu-ray 3D 5.1 Home Theater System (SRP: $799.99) and HT-E6730W Blu-ray 3D 7.1 Home Theater System (SRP: $999.99). Other speaker docks, including one inspired by a French horn, were also demonstrated.
There are two key parts to the premium audio strategy. First, tubes. Based one part on nostalgia impact and one part on sonic quality, tubes are included in all three of the above referenced systems. They use a hybrid amplification system that mixes in old-school analog vacuum tubes with new-school digital amps. The tubes, supplied by JJ Electronics from the Slovak Republic, are commonly used in guitar amps. The 12AV7 tubes (each system uses two of them) are dual triode vacuum tubes and are utilized in the preamplification stage. The tubes are said to last about 6,000 hours and can be replaced (by an authorized service agent). A digital amp is employed in the power amp stage. Samsung says the benefit of this system is that the tubes are able to create warm-sounding even harmonics. The digital amp is able to reduce distortion while producing volume.
Also new this year are glass fiber drivers with bullet-shaped phase plugs in the center. A built-in subwoofer supplies bass for DA-E750 system
Connectivity is also a part of the package. The systems include Apple's Airplay, Bluetooth, AllShare and physical docking connections for portable devices like iPhones and Samsung Galaxy products.
Of course, for $799, you expect it too look good too, so Samsung offers the system in a real wood cherry or black finish with a glossy-piano surface. That, coupled with the subtle orange glow emanating from the tubes gives the system a distinctive appeal.
And it sounds good. I was played a variety of tunes from James Taylor and Justin Townes Earle (who also performed live for the event guests). Indeed, the system sounded very good. There was a rich, full, quality to the music with clear details at the mid and high ends and warm bass on the low end that didn't sound too thick.
Samsung said it aims to take this product to high-end independent dealers, which makes sense considering that it's quite a bit more expensive than most of the speaker docks at a typical big box store.
In addition to the main speaker dock, 7.1 and 5.1 home theater integrated systems (with 3D Blu-ray player/receivers) were shown. Those systems also featured Wi-Fi (for Samsung's Smart Hub set), AllShare, and the same dual-technology amp system.
All these products will ship this Spring.
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On Friday, July 22, 2011, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) declared there would be a partial shutdown of the FAA because their authorization for funding and operation would be expiring and a new authorization was in limbo between the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. This inaction on the part of Congress for two weeks led to furloughs of nearly 4,000 FAA employees, the layoff of tens of thousands of construction workers employed to work on airport projects, the partial shutdown or stoppage of safety projects and a cost to the government of more than $1 billion in revenue from uncollected airline ticket taxes. This shutdown did not affect flight operations so the traveling public was not directly impacted by it. However, some airports in the U.S. Aviation System were. Their funding for Airport Improvement Projects (AIP) funded through FAA grants was temporarily interrupted. AIP monies are dedicated for safety infrastructure and purchases. Approximately 250 projects nationwide were affected. Fortunately, none of them were at Armstrong. Upon the return of the House and Senate to Washington last month, a four-month extension of funding was passed. This is the longest extension Congress has provided since September of 2009. A short term authorization has been approved 20 times in the past. Hopefully, a multi-year extension will be approved soon to provide stability needed to plan and move forward with needed improvements in the national aviation transportation system while a final agreement on the FAA Reauthorization bill is hammered out.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was in the news at the airport last month with a new security announcement. The TSA debuted new passenger screening software at Armstrong International that eliminates controversial passenger imagery. Since the introduction of the millimeter wave Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) machines, the TSA has been under fire for what has been described as explicit imagery of passengers produced by the machines and viewed by TSA personnel. On Friday, September 16, 2011, at Armstrong International Airport, TSA presented their new screening software referred to as Automated Target Recognition. The $3 million software enhances privacy by eliminating passenger-specific images and instead depicts anomalies detected during the screening process through a generic, computer-generated outline of a person that is identical for all passengers. The new software features a monitor attached to the AIT unit. When the software detects potential threat items on a passenger during screening, a generic outline of a person appears on the monitor highlighting any areas on the passenger that require additional screening. If no anomalies are detected, the text "OK� appears on the monitor with no outline and the passenger is cleared. Since the viewing device for the TSA agents is mounted to the actual screening equipment the passenger walks through, the off-site screening room previously used with the old software is no longer in use. The new software is being installed in all AIT units in 40 airports and is now in use at our airport. For more information on AIT, visit www.tsa.gov/ait.
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Through the camera eyes of the undersea vehicle Jason, scientists were investigating a quietly bubbling pit on the side of a large volcano on the seafloor south of Japan in April. Then the volcano erupted.
Jason's cameras captured the pit, 50 feet (15 meters) in diameter, spewing huge billowing clouds of gas and spitting rocks and red lava. A seafloor hydrophone deployed nearby captured the eruption's throaty roar. It was the closest scientists have been to an erupting submarine volcano and the first time they had made concurrent visual and audio observations of a deep-sea volcano in action.
"There were some scary moments," said Will Sellers, an expedition leader from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who guided the robotic vehicle Jason via a fiber-optic cable tethered to a research ship 1,800 feet (550 meters) above. "There was a significant amount of gas coming up out of the pit. You could only imagine what it would have been like at the surface, if it wasn't under that kind of pressure (from the tons of seawater above). It would have been huge. You wouldn't have been able to stand anywhere near it."
"The common reaction was, 'Are you sure we should be here?' " he said. "It's sitting there violently erupting away, and really, you got the impression that this thing is so unpredictable."
"There were lava bombs as big as your head," he said, describing globs of semi-molten sulfur. "We came up with several (stuck) in the frame of the vehicle. Fortunately they cooled enough by the time they got up to us.""I don't think any one of us suspected the full magnitude of the discoveries we were to make," Robert Embley, chief scientist on the research cruise, wrote in an online summary of the spring expedition.
Because they had visited the volcano twice before and because the gas was venting and not building up pressure, scientists knew that it was a viable place to safely observe and sample an active submarine volcano, Embley said.Volcanic gases were clearly visible under water in streams of bubbles and multicolored plumes.
Most of the time, "Jason could hover about 10 feet away and watch for hours," said Oregon State University geologist Bill Chadwick, who took part in the expedition. "You could never do that on land."
"We were struggling to fly around because the vehicle had picked up so much weight," Sellers said. "We did some spins trying to wash it off. It was kind of wishful thinking, a 'Hail Mary' maneuver, ... but there's no manual for this. So we just kind of made it up as we went along."
They recovered the vehicle but then faced a new challenge: the stench of fresh sulfur. Months after the cruise, WHOI engineer Bob Elder still wrinkles his nose recalling the rotten egg odor that "made the whole ship smell like a cesspool."
"The smell almost knocked everybody on the deck," Sellers said. "As you can imagine, it got into Jason's every nook and cranny." Elder said. Graduate students, scientists, and members of the Jason team volunteered to chip and power-wash pounds of the smelly stuff from the vehicle.
"The eruption certainly was the frosting on the cake for the cruise, and one of the coolest, most dramatic things I've seen on the bottom of any ocean," said Elder, who has participated in 81 research expeditions in his 19-year career.
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|2012-07-31, 15:49
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Valid argument about anime and cartoons?
Recently read a humorous article about the old time debate about anime vs. cartoons. I'm usually with the anime camp, but this guy has some good points.
What does everyone else think?
|2012-07-31, 16:07
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Lol, well, to me, anime is just Japanese animation, or Japanese cartoons; I don't really draw the difference, and just notes it comes from Japan. It doesn't need to be in another category, besides being noted as media by Japan.
The fact that the Japanese label all animation as anime is pretty obvious why-- because anime literally means animation; it's just an abbreviation.
For this reason, I feel distinguishing anime as separate is somewhat unnecessary, and comes off more as marketing. It's foreign to many of us, so that tends to make it more exotic in a sense to label it "anime". I'd assume it also provided something that media over in our own places didn't.
I mean , certainly, there was/is animation in my own country that could easily match Japanese animation for entertainment value and there sometimes still is, but it seems much less common these days.
|2012-07-31, 20:40
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Well, to speak logically, theres no difference between anime and other animation/cartoon from the rest of the world in general. Just like the article writer said, its just difference in terms used for anything animated. For example, here in my country, the equivalent for anime is called animasi.
Still, my otaku-ish side recognize anime as: any animation series/movies which story/script made by Japanese writers .
|2012-07-31, 21:18
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Anime is a form of animation, but it is a unique form of animation and is its own thing. Animation could be like fruit, and American animation is oranges and Japanese animation is peaches and 3D animated features (think Pixar) is apples, and so forth.
I still believe that Japan is the animation capital of the world. Large quantity of good and entertaining animation, with some great gems of animated feature films, too (like Miyazaki works). And I like that anime has everything from the edgy and the gar animations to the moe, fanservice, and ecchi animations.
|2012-07-31, 23:32
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Personally, I'm fascinated by many non-Japanese cartoons like Secret of Kells, the Pixar works, and a good number of French productions.
I'm also tired of how self-referential and otaku-driven anime is getting. Seriously, Steins Gate definitely has a good story to tell, but it wastes half of its time otaku pandering.
As for definitions, my personal one is that anime is cartoons designed for a Japanese audience, and all anime is cartoons. By that definition, Big O 2 is admittedly cutting it, but really, it's just a classification of convenience.
As for the article, it spends all its time on standards dissonance and the definition of anime... Not all that informative. It also fails to mention that American cartoons in general are far more lax in terms of certain kinds of sexual content. Japan gets away with far more in anatomy and questionable attire, but it's common to see characters kiss in American cartoons, which, if you pay attention, rarely happens in anime, and only a small portion of anime ever goes as far to include sex in the story. Whereas, it's common (if off screen) in American cartoons like The Simpsons and Family Guy.
Beyond that, it also blanketedly describes anime as more liberal, when that really is not the case. Beyond the sex and violence issues, American cartoons are very commonly extremely critical of the government and more open to exploring significant cultural issues, like in South Park. If anime tries to be critical of the government in any way, it's always through the cypher of a fantasy world. Not anywhere in anime will you find someone taking a critical stance on the current prime minister. Also, I would never call the attitude towards women in most anime to be anywhere near liberal. The proliferation of the "moeblob" who must be "protected" by males is downright misogynistic and far far away from anything that I would describe as liberal.
|2012-08-01, 02:50
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Japanese animation, or Japanese cartoons, are distinct enough from the animation/cartoons of the rest of the world that I think they do deserve their own unique classification.
For non-Japanese people, the term "anime" itself serves this unique classification purpose nicely.
With precious few exceptions, North American-made animation is either adult comedies, or for kids. I can't think of any recent North American equivalent to shows like Madoka Magica, Steins;Gate, Mawaru Penguin Drum, or Sword Art Online. In other words, shows clearly aimed at a young adult audience that isn't a comedy.
That's not to say that North America isn't capable of making animated stories like this. They certainly are. They just choose not to. Until they do, it shows a pronounced difference between anime, and the other animated offerings of the world.
That being said, if the word "Cartoon" doesn't exist in Japan (and the linked-to article claimed), then the Japanese are naturally going to call something like Spongebob Squarepants "anime". What else can they call it?
So if a Japanese person called a North American-made cartoon "anime", I'd let it slide. From their perspective, it makes sense.
But I think from a non-Japanese perspective, there's some value in having a specific term for animation designed for a Japanese audience.
"Cartoons" is a widely-used catch-all term. I'd like to see the term "cartoon" gain a bit more respectability, really, and I think that anime could help get it there. So saying something like "Gundam is not a cartoon, it's anime!" actually hurts the cause of animation-lovers like myself, really. It feeds into the perception that "cartoons" represent an entertainment medium (animation) that can't be taken seriously by adults, but with the added argument that only Japan can provide exceptions to this perception.
I think that argument will come off as absurd to most everyday people that are non-anime fans. And like it or not, the term "cartoon" isn't going away anytime soon. It's too popularized, accepted, and well-known.
So long story short, all anime are cartoons, but not all cartoons are anime... unless you're Japanese. That sums up my personal approach to it, anyway.
|2012-08-01, 03:04
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And what part hurts? Anime is unaffected by that one.
|2012-08-01, 03:19
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I'd like to ask the TC, what aspect of anime and cartoons is the argument you are making in this topic? From what I read in the article, it is mostly just about naming the medium, anime and cartoons all fall under the medium of animation.
It is true that somehow non-Japanese otaku always hate it when anime is referred to as cartoons, it is understandable. But things only go wrong when anime fans think that anime should not be called cartoons because they think anime is better than cartoons. Which is not true because Western cartoons are technically superior in most aspects except for style which is subjective and is what anime fans like. This is where the bulk of the argument between anime and cartoons is at.
But if the argument here is the name of the medium, then the most respectful way to call any form of animated media is to call it an animation. Anime, cartoons, animated films, 2D, 3D, stop-motion, all of them fall under the medium of animation.
|2012-08-01, 03:26
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---On whether anime and cartoons are the same thing. ---
アニメ (anime), abbreviated from borrowed word "animation" by Japanese, is animation, regardless of where its produced. Anime however, is the word that we borrowed back from Japanese, to refer to animated works produced by Japanese creators.
So アニメ and Animation are the same thing, but Anime is a subset of Animation made by Japan.
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---On the topic of liberalism and anime---
I would say anime otakus tend to lean right more than left (as evidenced by 2ch and moe anime themed 2ch aggregators), but most anime isn't political at all, and if it is, it tends to be leftist (anti-war, etc). Though a major thing that people point out is that misogynism tends to stand out right away in a lot of otaku anime, which is generally a pretty right wing idea. I don't think that important though. Nearly every male dominated subculture or gathering place, even those that trend towards libertarian/liberal ideals (reddit, 4chan, etc), have a lot of misogynism.
---The differences between Western cartoons and Japanese anime---
Lets first start by breaking up anime into two categories. Normal person anime (Naruto, etc) intended for children and families, and otaku anime (CLANNAD, Madoka) intended for a small subset of late teens to and male adults. Those two groups tend to be very distinct with very few exceptions (Evangelion, and more recently K-On!! and Nichijou).
The primary difference between normal person anime and cartoons is that one is full of moon speak and moon runes, and the other isn't. There are several cultural differences between Japan and the West that have to be taken into account, but the two are more similar to each other than either is to otaku anime.
Moving on to otaku anime. It is aimed at a very different group of people than normal person anime and cartoons, otaku. They share little in common with their Western cartoon counterparts (South Park, etc) other than the same target demographic. Any animation aimed at adults in the west tends to be comedies and are often political in nature, otaku anime encompasses a wide variety of genres and themes and only rarely make points about politics or social issues. Otaku anime is pretty much the only animated works aimed at adults that aren't comedies.
|2012-08-01, 03:33
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It's strange. I'm not particularly fond of western cartoons to the point where I'm extremely selective of them compared to my liberal choice of anime watching. However, I've never been disappointed in a cartoon I was fully invested in precisely because of my own bias and apprehension towards it whereas anime has let me down on more than a few occasions.
Skimming through that article there isn't much I haven't already learned about. And I'd still make the distinction between anime and cartoons anyway. I mean, Killer Whales are actually Dolphins but nobody refers to them as Dolphins now do they?
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|2012-08-01, 04:23
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Are we talking just TV here or are you including movies too?I admit that I can't think of any TV shows but I can think of a few movies.
|2012-08-01, 04:57
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The Otaku friend of that blogger should realize that "anime" in Japan is just a generic term that equates to the english "cartoon". At the same time "manga" is just a generic term that translates into "comics".
So there's absolutely nothing strange if Japanese consider "the boondocks" an anime and if you show them an X-men comic they'd still call it "manga".
But it's not like they think they're the same thing, it's just that they do not consider those terms to be specific of Japanese productions.
For example, what if I'd tell you that in my country "comic" is a word strictly used for american comics? If I were to show you a "comic" produced in my country you'd probably still call it "comic" because "comic" to an english speaker is an umbrella term. Even manga are comics by strict definition.
That still doesn't mean you won't be able to see the difference in style and philosophy or that you don't think there's any difference.
At any rate the main reason of the distinction between manga-comics and anime-cartoons is a matter of country of origin. The terms "manga" and "anime" were adopted into english to allow people to distinguish about the different products in a simplier manner than saying everytime "Japanese cartoons" and "Japanese comics".
By extension the terms were later used to identify a particular style that was proper of "manga" and "anime" and that was significantly discernible from the style seen in american productions.
Now let's be honest here: the styles are different. While there surely are some borderline cases, everyone, even someone who isn't an "otaku" or that cares about cartoons and anime at all would be able to tell the difference between a typical japanese cartoon and a typical american cartoon at first sight.
But as with every definition of a particular "style" when you start to break it apart and overanalyze it, you'll end up finding so many borderline cases and exceptions that they'll make you think whether a distinction should be made at all.
But that's the same thing it could be said about music. Is this rock, glam rock, grunge, progressive rock, hard rock, metal, heavy metal, power metal, nu metal?!
There are probably thousands of debates like that. It's probably better to consider the definitions of styles general ideals and the products themselves something that can be more or less be identified as one or the other but never with absolute precision.
|2012-08-01, 05:21
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I do agree that there are sex scenes of The Simpsons and in particular, Family Guy, like the Star Trek sex scene clip in one episode of Family Guy, but those episodes were always rated TV-14, not PG.
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|2012-08-01, 08:39
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I'm not sure I'm getting the point of that blog post, but distinguishing clearly different forms of animation is nothing to be worried about.
Japanese animation is clearly different to N.A animation, and clearly different to Russian animation, and clearly different to a lot of indie animation shorts which don't need to be identified as being from a particular country.
This difference starts even at the way these countries' animation studios approach the animation process, and ends at the cultural differences that make for distinct philosophies of art and life, resulting in completely different stories which are represented differently.
I'm not sure why it is not okay to make a distinction between, for example, animation coming from the USA and animation coming from Japan. If you want to call one 'cartoon' and the other 'anime', well that's semantics, but these categorizing terms didn't appear just because. There are good reasons for it.
|2012-08-01, 10:52
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The Japanese themselves call all animation as anime, even 3D, stop motion, all the way back since the days of great Japanese stop motion master Kawamoto Kihachiro.
Its just like animation is called 'dong hua' in Mandarin and anime is called Japanese dong hua, Western animation is called Western dong hua.
To the Japanese, Chinese animation is Chinese anime and Western animation is Western anime, simple as that.
If there are any good reasons behind such, its only to call the animation based on its language.
|2012-08-01, 11:38
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This is one topic I'm honestly tired of seeing, but I can't help but share a few thoughts on the matter.
First of all, I don't understand why there would be such a strictly defined dichotomy between "cartoons" and "anime". They are simply alternative labels for the animation medium, which no single culture has a monopoly on. Any other noticeable differences that might exist are the result of differences in the application of the medium. As such, while the medium takes many forms, there is still a significant overlap between trends in various cultures. In other words, this issue is not much a question of defining terms as it is a question of statistics.
In that respect, Japanese animation is better received than its Western equivalent because of its wider demographic reach. In Japan, animation is a well-established entertainment medium that is accessible to people of all ages. As a result, their animation covers a myriad of different genres thanks to the medium's general appeal. In contrast, Western animation is targeted towards a more specific demographic within the younger age groups, with a more niche market for adult audiences. Just from this, it's pretty easy to see how "cartoons" are often perceived to be for children. In terms of sheer diversity and variety, Japanese animation tends to win over Western animation.
Of course, one can always argue that recent hits like Avatar: The Last Airbender put the West on par with Japan's animation, but these are often few and far in between. Until the West can can treat animation as a medium in itself rather than as a mere genre, I'm not sure it can maximize the use of its animation.
|2012-08-01, 12:35
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I don't see what the problem is. Instead of us trying to create a universal naming system, if the Japanese people don't understand what we mean by "anime", can't we just, I dunno, explain?
Every person reads every word differently after all.
|2012-08-01, 15:25
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Oh man. Don't even get me started. I've been at this topic for a few years (on and off).
And from what I gather, it's a ridiculous argument, of which I fall on the currently "minority" side.
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