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1969 Mickey Mantle Inscribed "Retirement Day" Ball with Iron-Clad Provenance
Starting Bid - $1,000, Sold For - $2,938
On June 8, 1969, Mickey Mantle received the highest honor obtainable by a New York Yankees player when the club retired his legendary number "7" and added his plaque to the center-field wall, where it joined those of Ruth, Gehrig, Huggins, and other Yankee immortals. Offered here is a remarkable Mickey Mantle signed baseball dating from that historic day. While we are sure Mantle signed many balls for fans that day, this is, without question, the finest example one could imagine by virtue of Mantle's special inscription and its impeccable provenance. Mantle has inscribed the official American League (Cronin) ball in black ink (grading "6/7") on a side panel "To Frank/My Best Wishes/On my Day of Retirement/Mickey Mantle." The "Frank" to whom this ball is addressed is none other than Frank Scott, baseball's first player agent, and Mantle's longtime business agent and friend. Many years ago our consignor obtained this ball directly from Scott, who has not only provided a one-page handwritten letter LOA, but also a photo of Mantle signing this very ball for him in the locker room after the ceremonies! Both the letter and photo, as well as a ticket stub from the game, accompany the ball. In his letter, dated June 8, 1994 (exactly twenty-five years after the event) on Frank Scott Associates letterhead, Scott attests to the ball's provenance and also references the photo: In full: "Dear Charlie: The picture of Mickey Mantle signing the Yankee baseball, accompanied by the baseball as well was autographed to me personally on the day of his retirement #7 in June of 1969. During that time and during his entire playing career I represented regarding his outside activities. Respectfully, Frank Scott." The 10 x 8-inch black-and-white photo pictures Mantle in the clubhouse signing the ball as Scott looks on. The photographer's credit, "Louis Requena," appears on the reverse. Louis Requena was a well-known New York sports photographer and is best known by collectors today for a series of New York Yankees picture postcards he published between the years 1964 and 1966. Mantle officially retired on March 1, 1969, during spring training, but it wasn't until June 8th of that year that the club officially honored him by holding its second "Mickey Mantle Day." (The first "Mickey Mantle Day" was held in 1966.) Over 60,000 fans packed Yankee Stadium that day to honor Mantle, and in his speech he honored their loyalty: "Playing eighteen years in Yankee Stadium for you folks was the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer." Other than Mantle's Hall of Fame induction, the 1969 "Mickey Mantle Day" was certainly the greatest postseason honor he ever received and this ball remains a significant, tangible memento from that most celebrated event. The ball displays light surface wear and is in Excellent condition. The photo displays a small tear in the lower right border and surface paper loss on the reverse from having once been mounted, and then removed, from an album. Together with a ticket stub (1.5 x 2.5 inches, Ex-Mt) from the June 8, 1966, "Mickey Mantle Day" game. LOA from James Spence/JSA. Total: 3 items (ball, photo, ticket stub). Reserve $1,000. Estimate (open). SOLD FOR $2,938
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Drought during the growing season and hurricanes during harvest time usually would translate into poor quality cotton. But that wasn't the case this past year for Georgia producers.
"The quality from this past year's crop has been tremendous, despite the weather problems we've seen," says Don Shurley, University of Georgia Extension economist.
Looking at quality data from past years, Georgia's most persistent problems, he says, have been color and staple. "Every once in a while, we get high micronaire due to drought. But color grades and staple have been the consistent thorns in our side. And color is largely weather related, caused primarily by weather problems during harvest," says Shurley.
It's important that Georgia growers remember that they're now in an export market, he says. "Two of every three bales produced are sent overseas. But it's interesting that there's not a global standard in terms of measuring quality. That's a big question mark. If we were interested in comparing our cotton to Brazil's cotton, or Australia's cotton, it would be difficult. But we're in a global market, and we're in competition with these other countries," he says.
As for export customers, China continues to be the key player, notes Shurley. "If China needs cotton, we must be able to export to them. If we continue to produce 18 to 20 million bales of cotton per year in this country — considering the current state of our textile industry — we must be able to export 12 to 13 million bales annually. If not, then we don't need nearly as much cotton as we're producing today," says the economist.
Looking at Georgia's 2004 cotton crop — beginning the week of Sept. 9 — color remained at a good level, says Shurley. "Color got worse as we proceeded through the harvest season, but it was still pretty good. What surprised me is that the cotton that is less than 41 — what we call light-spotted grades and what you're discounted for — wasn't a problem this past year. It hovered around 10 to 12 percent of the crop throughout the harvest season. It hasn't varied much despite the weather and rain this crop saw," he says.
The staple of Georgia's 2004 cotton crop was at about 34.5 and close to 35, he says. Uniformity trended downward as the harvest season progressed, he adds.
"Micronaire also trended downward, but it's still in the acceptable range."
Research, says Shurley, has shown a relationship between strength and harvest timing. "We were please to see that strength was good throughout the harvest season."
Comparing Georgia's 2004 crop to past years, staple is better with much less short staple than in other years, he says. "Strength also has been very good, with three-fourths of bales grading 29 or higher. This is fairly high strength in terms of what mills are looking for."
In terms of how growers are paid or discounted for quality factors, Shurley says averages from this past November show that growers were being paid a little over one half cent for a staple 35 and being discounted about three quarters cent for a staple 33.
Growers, he continues, were paid about 1.5 cents for a 31 color and discounted about 1 1/2 cents for cotton below a 41. Growers also were docked about $4 per bale for low uniformity, he says.
"We're being paid more now for color than we once were paid and about the same for staple. Payment for uniformity also hasn't changed. One of the things we've noticed, particularly on the discount side, is that discounts are heavier when a particular quality parameter is a problem. If we have a problem with short staple — if there's a lot of it in the pipeline — we tend to get hit a little heavier for it.
"We don't have a lot of short staple this year, so the discount isn't nearly as much. We made a lot more staple 35 this past year compared to what we usually make, so those who have 35's aren't getting paid quite as much for them. There's not a lot of competition for it. This is supply/demand at work."
The No. 1 complaint about Georgia cotton, says Shurley, has been short fiber content. Staple, he explains, is the upper-half mean length — the average length of the longest 50 percent of the fibers in a sample. If a sample has 100 fibers, you take the average of the longest 50 of them.
"The staple is not the average fiber length of the sample. It's the average length of the best half of them, so it's actually above the average."
Uniformity index, he says, is the average length of the sample — which we don't know — divided by the staple. "If this is the formula for the uniformity index, we can calculate the average length. It's simply the staple multiplied by the uniformity index, which the classing data gives us. From those two numbers, we can calculate the average length of fiber in a sample."
There's much variability in the measurements, says Shurley. "Take a bale with a staple of 33 and a uniformity of 79 — short staple and low uniformity. The average fiber length in that sample is a little more than 26.
"Take another bale with longer fiber and high uniformity, and the average fiber length is almost 20. That's a difference of about 3/32 of an inch, which is a very significant difference."
Looking at data from 1999 through 2004, Shurley says the average length this year is 28, which is the best during the six-year period.
"Staple and uniformity must be taken together. If uniformity is high, say an 83, and staple is 33, then everything is uniformity short. It wouldn't be desirable under some circumstances. You can have a 'middle of the road' uniformity, and if your staple length is much improved, then your average length is higher. So there has to be less short fiber content in that sample."


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TUSCALOOSA | Like the Planning and Zoning Commission almost a month before it, the Tuscaloosa City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the plans for an approximately $42 million multiuse development for the former Tuscaloosa Chevrolet site along the Black Warrior River.
TUSCALOOSA | Like the Planning and Zoning Commission almost a month before it, the Tuscaloosa City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the plans for an approximately $42 million multiuse development for the former Tuscaloosa Chevrolet site along the Black Warrior River.
The vote came after Christopher Kritzman, a partner and developer for Chance Partners, the company behind the development, gave a more than 20-minute presentation outlining the research and vision that went into the creation of the 452-bed complex that will feature almost 40,000-square-feet of commercial space.
"We wanted to make sure this area was open and tied to the area," Kritzman said, noting the designs were crafted to ensure the project complements and blends in with downtown Tuscaloosa and the surrounding facilities, such as the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater.
"We really view this as downtown land, so we wanted to make sure there was a harmonious fit there," Kritzman said. "And we want it to be very walkable — very urban — with street-front restaurants and cafes."
Kritzman said Chance Partners spent nine months studying the area, reviewing city ordinances and researching other areas of the city's plans and residents before creating the project the company is calling "Riverfront Village."
The bedrooms will be divided among 201 living units of one-, two- and three-bedrooms in a combination of lease and for-sale spaces.
The retail space is planned on the bottom floors of four of the possible five buildings — one of which will be four stories, while the others will be three stories or less — on the 7.6-acre site.
Kritzman also said construction of the project will bring an estimated 268 jobs, $20 million in new local income and $1.95 million in local taxes and revenue.
Once complete, the development is expected to bring 65 new jobs, $4.6 million in local income and $800,000 in taxes and other revenue.
With the council's approval of the plans, the development is on pace to have much of the construction completed by July 2014.
The development must clear one additional hurdle — a final vote of the City Council — that is expected to be met with no opposition next week.
The plans were met with words of praise by the City Council, which 14 months ago blocked a similar proposal on the grounds that it was too large and ill-suited to the surrounding public infrastructure.
Both the council and the Planning and Zoning Commission rejected the proposal by Carter development company to build 270 apartment units with 854 bedrooms and 7,500 square feet of retail space on the site.
As a result, the City Council adopted new rules for its Riverfront Development zone that limits the number of bedrooms a developer can place in a unit to three and dictates that 20 percent of every square foot of a new residential complex must be dedicated to commercial or retail space.
"Chance Partners designed the site to meet those requirements," said John McConnell, director of the city's Planning and Development Services, to the council. "I think they have a project that you'll be very happy with."
Mayor Walt Maddox thanked Chance Partners for being mindful of the investment of public dollars that went into the Amphitheater and Tuscaloosa Riverwalk recreational trail, which this development will abut.
"I really appreciate you understanding that perspective," Maddox said.
Councilman Lee Garrison, a driving force behind the public infrastructure and amenities that have grown up along the Black Warrior River in recent years, also voiced his support.
"I believe when we started the Riverfront Development Committee years ago ... that this is what we wanted to see," Garrison said of the project. "This is going to be another just incredible project for our community.
"I'm just tickled to death for our community that this is going to happen."
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Raindrop Coat on a Lady Grey Day
Added Feb 15, 2010
by sunnilj9
Cedar City, Utah...
I was a pattern tester for the Lady Grey Coat from Colette Patterns. I initially tested this pattern with muslin and then laid it aside with intentions of making it from something fabulous later on. One of my New Year's Resolutions was to finish unfinished sewing projects and I felt this fell into that category. The coat turned out beautifully and I'm so happy with the finish. This coat is rated "Advanced" and I suppose that it is to a certain degree, but the fantastic instructions make you feel like it is for a beginner. I highly recommend this coat pattern to anyone!
In the initial construction of the muslin test, the sleeves were too big for the armhole. I corrected this on the muslin but then forgot to correct my pattern, hence why my sleeves are gathered at the top when the pattern does not call for it. I was too lazy to fix this for the finished jacket and felt that the sleeves would be just fine in the end if gathered. I also gave the sleeve a pleat at the elbow since they were a bit large-ish for my arms.
All in all, I'm completely in love with this romantic coat. I thought the large collar would drown me, but I find that the flared waist to hip area gives this coat great balance. A perfect addition to a rainy day and some warm Lady Grey tea.
Material Notes
Made from heavy cotton, with the texture and weave of burlap
Lined with Anna Maria Horner's Little Folks Cotton Voile
Topstitched in turquoise silk thread, finished with on big wooden button to close
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Nov 25, 2014, 05.11 PMby MarineSea
Oct 30, 2010, 01.02 AMby sabinaholtby-1
May 31, 2010, 01.55 PMby irin
oh my God, this is amazing – i am in love to this coat :)
May 29, 2010, 03.20 AMby 00001
Beautiful colors, I love it :) awsome job!
Mar 30, 2010, 09.25 PMby candyjoyce
Just making the Lady Grey at the moment.
Can I ask, did you find that you needed to shorten the pockets?
I have just turned my hem 2 inches and have found that the pockets peak out of the bottom, even though I have trimmed the pocket SA right back.
Mar 15, 2010, 02.43 PMby laceydacey
This coat is AMAZING!!! gorgeous just gorgeous…you did a wonderful job : )
Mar 9, 2010, 10.09 PMby olystyrene
Love the peplum, this is just gorgeous and so flattering! The turquoise goes very well with those mustard gloves – a beautiful ensemble!
Mar 5, 2010, 06.16 PMby tallykay
This coat is so cute! I really like the style. You look very good in it btw
Feb 23, 2010, 03.59 PMby loveliette
fabulous, you picked a gorgeous color!
Feb 22, 2010, 09.35 PMby susanne2011
This is an awesome coat, I just ordered the pattern for it. Thanks a million for letting me know about it. It is really lovely!
Feb 21, 2010, 03.38 PMby erdronen
What a gorgeous coat! I love the color and that pattern is fantastic! Beautiful job!
Feb 19, 2010, 07.38 PMby yoshimi
Absolutely stunning! I Love Love Love it. Thanks for sharing!
Feb 19, 2010, 02.33 PMby leighr
I have this pattern waiting to be made. I love the Colette patterns. I made the Beignet skirt for a coworker's wedding and it was a breeze and turned out lovely and flattering.
Feb 18, 2010, 10.33 PMby dtale
So stylish. And the gloves!
Feb 18, 2010, 08.04 PMby suribabe
Wow, its amazing. I love it. Colour is fab too..
Feb 18, 2010, 02.27 PMby zozowahine
I totally by-passed the Lady Grey pattern when looking at the new range of Colette Patterns, having seen your I now want it BAD! Your sleeve solutions are very inspiring. Thanks for the detailed info
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Feb 18, 2010, 05.29 PMby sunnilj9
It's a fantastic pattern! Go buy it, right now. You will not regret it!
Feb 18, 2010, 02.02 PMby elegantmusings
Absolutely stunning! I love how the flaired peplum makes this style really stand out. It looks fantastic on you! :)
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Feb 18, 2010, 05.33 PMby sunnilj9
Thank you! I totally agree about the peplum and really I can't believe how well it balances out the collar. I think coat is so well designed as everything about it gives it that hourglass figure.
Feb 18, 2010, 10.29 AMby pinup
swoon, gorgeous!
Feb 18, 2010, 10.15 AMby lastregatta
WONDERFUL!!!!! I would buy a coat like this!
Feb 18, 2010, 09.29 AMby bohemiannow
Wow, this is divine! I love it, the colour is marvelous and the finishing so well made!
Feb 18, 2010, 08.03 AMby loyl8
love it!!!!!! super cute and the gloves (target?)…..awesome!!!
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Feb 18, 2010, 05.21 PMby sunnilj9
Yes! I saw one lone pair there awhile back (target) and thought, "What are these doing here? They look marvelous!" Bought them right up. Seems like they go with nearly everything. Love that mustardy color.
Feb 19, 2010, 05.38 AMby loyl8
me too!! Almost bought them myself but I bought the mustardy beret instead.
Feb 18, 2010, 02.50 AMby christine-1
I have this coat 90% finished myself (has been that way for about 2 months now!), mostly because it's not thin-coat weather yet. I had the same problem with the sleeves. I like your sleeve-solution a lot. mine is navy wool, which after seeing yours now seems a bit boring to me! I love the colors you chose, both in and outside. your coat definitely inspires to finish mine soon!
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Feb 18, 2010, 05.24 PMby sunnilj9
Oh, I'm sure the navy would be so beautiful. Really. I did actually try looking for a navy wool and could never find just the right fabric. I saw this fabric at a "two dollar fabric store" and knew it was the perfect thing for me. But, I buy this color alot. It's that color I love but never own up to really loving it. Thank you!
Feb 18, 2010, 01.46 AMby mo-mo-sew-sew
DANG GIRL!! YOU GOT MAD SKILLS!!! i've checked out the collette patterns and while they're not really my style, i've really appreciated all the creations everyone has made with them. once again, your color choice is stellar.
Feb 17, 2010, 11.21 PMby Lucha Suarez
so fabulous
Feb 17, 2010, 11.12 PMby missymellie
I love the shape of this jacket!
Feb 17, 2010, 11.01 PMby paunnet
Wow! This looks amazing!!!
Feb 17, 2010, 10.19 PMby bijouxbetty
This is gorgeous! I love the colour, and the pattern is very well balanced to make the collar very complimentary and not at all overwhelming. Beautfully sewn finish too :)
Feb 17, 2010, 10.02 PMby sandrasews
Wow so beautiful. Great colours and lining.
Feb 17, 2010, 09.43 PMby badkitty-1
Oh, I love this (and Lady Grey Tea)! What a good job and such lovely fabric xx
Feb 17, 2010, 08.52 PMby latulipenoire
This is just lovely and your photos are adorable. I've been wanting to make this coat for months and it's so nice to hear that the directions make it less daunting!
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Feb 18, 2010, 05.26 PMby sunnilj9
Oh yes! Do try it. I'm sure you will find the directions so easy to follow. The hardest part for me was cutting out all of the pieces. And yes there are alot! Took me 3 hours! So worth it in the end though.
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Massachusetts Student Charged With Threats Out On Bail
A North Attleborough High School student who spent Christmas in jail after being accused of threatening to ``shoot up'' his school has been released on $10,000 bail.
Patrick Skrabec was released on Thursday after a dangerousness hearing in Attleboro District Court. A judge also ordered him to obey a curfew and report weekly to a probation officer, among other conditions.
The 17-year-old Skrabec had been held since his arrest on Dec. 21.
Skrabec told police he was joking. The Sun Chronicle reports that his lawyer argued in court that the junior had no access to guns, no history of discipline problems, and no criminal record.
Prosecutors argued that all threats need to be taken seriously given the shootings in Newtown, Conn. (Associated Press)


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Professor of communications at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, and founder and co-director of PSU's Media Effects Research Laboratory, Dr Shyam Sundar says moderate interactivity—through hyperlinks, dialogues with editors and reporters, devices to enable interaction with other readers—is in general a better option.
"If you are not too much interested in content, interactivity helps to draw you in. However, too much interactivity serves to distract you from the content.
"Politically apathetic users are bowled over by interactive features, but politically involved readers of news like moderate interactivity over high or low inactivity. It is cognitively overloaded and they get turned off by the bells and whistles that interactivity brings in.
"We do find that interactivity brings in engagement or involvement with content. So higher the interactivity it draws people in, it brings you face to face with content. But if the content is not good at that point, then people get disappointed. So you have to be careful how you deploy your interactive resources. If the content is mediocre, it might not be such a great idea to bring people face to face. If it is good, it's your benefit to build as many interactive features."


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Crabs, lobsters, prawns and other crustaceans
Just as insects swarm on land, crustaceans dominate the seas. Crustaceans include animals such as prawns, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, shrimps, yabbies, as well as garden slaters and pillbugs.
Crustaceans live deep in the ocean, high on the rocky shore and everywhere in between. Some species are found in fresh water and a few have adapted to life on land.
Crustaceans vary in size from microscopic plankton less than 1 mm long to enormous crabs. Smaller crustaceans such as amphipods, copepods and isopods form the basis of many ocean food chains.
Although crustaceans are extremely varied, they all share the following characteristics:
- a body divided into a head, thorax and abdomen
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bernardo needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 99 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
We want to relaunch the website http://www.arpad-kraemer.com. It will feature more content and should be redesigned for a brighter and more modern look. The design should be rather simple as to support the little amount of information on the website.
Coding of the design is not required, we want the design of the homepage and one inner page.
Arpad Krämer
Arpad Krämer is a composer who composes modern songs and classical music. His work is not to be considered mainstream music, which should be reflected in the design. He is doing musical productions, which will be presented on the page with images and sound samples, as well as conducting classical orchestras.
Site Structure
The website contains the following elements in the navigation:
- Home
- Person
- Works
- Media
- News
- ContactLayout
We are open for layout suggestions. We made a few sketches of the above mentioned pages, it is not required that you keep this exact layout if you do a great design though.
- http://www.alpinresorts.com/images/…n/home.png
- http://www.alpinresorts.com/images/…person.png
- http://www.alpinresorts.com/images/…/works.png
- http://www.alpinresorts.com/images/…/media.png
- http://www.alpinresorts.com/images/…n/news.png
- http://www.alpinresorts.com/images/…tact.pngOf course we don't want you to design all pages for this prize. We want one design for the home page and one for the works page, I just thought that you might like to know how the rest of the website could look like.
Target Audience
The target audience of the website are directors of operas and theatres. Secondary, this website should serve as source of information for colleagues and fans.
The design should have a calm, serious and slightly artistic spirit. It should support the pragmatic down-to-earth, but also the creative and original nature of the presented person. Kitsch is absolutely not wanted. Don't present the composer as someone who's sitting behind the piano all day - in reality, a lot of the music is written down on empty sheets on a desk using only a pen.
Accepted File Formats
Any sort of layered format readable in GIMP. (*.psd, *.xcf, ...)
Previous Website
There is an existing website at http://www.arpad-kraemer.com. We don't like the dark look of the website and especially not the kitsch on it (little clefs, piano).
- bright, professional look
- simple design to support the little content (this is no portal)
- artistic influences
- lots of whitespace
- fixed width, scalable (think em/%), default width < 950px
- kitsch
- flash
- overloaded pages
- small fonts (<12pt)
- overuse of gradients!!!! (sorry, people tend to oversee this one...)


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Title: Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster
I know the bossman already Capsule Reviewed this, but it's one of my favorite Godzilla movies and I felt it needed a bit more attention than what was given. Please note, this'll be one of those whole Synopsis type of reviews, so do bear with me.
Frankly, I don't know if I'll do it again. Making small sentances about a movie for each part that goes on is a bit tedious. Still, I did the best I can so I'd prefer constructive criticism.
Ghidorah, The Three Headed Monster
Rated:PG, most likely
3 slimes
Copyright Company and Date: TohoCo. 1964(Japan)/1965(U.S.)
Submitted by Inferno
Godzilla- Everyone's favorite giant radioactive flame-spewing lizard.
Rodan- World's biggest Pteranodon that flies at the speed of sound.
Mothra- A freaking huge mealworm that is worshipped by islanders with no life whatsoever.
King Ghidorah, A.k.a. Ghidrah- Giant space dragon that is born from a meteor and shoots lightning from its mouths.
Shindo-The human hero of this movie.A cop who gets assigned to protect the princess then gets shafted by her after saving her life 3 times over
Princess Salno- Princess of a small country that gets possessed by an alien somehow. Fortells the coming of Ghidorah.
Naoko-Sister of Shindo,Reporter. Befriends the Princess and Mothra's Fairies. Other than that, pretty much useless.
Mothra's Fairies- Tiny tiny women who can communicate with Mothra by way of singing.
Murai-Geologist who leads a team to study Ghidorah's meteor.
The Assassins- 4 guys who dress like American Mobsters, lead by the All-Too-Imposing force of SUNGLASSES MAN! They get smashed by rockslides.
When a multitude of rocks are in the area, Godzilla will constantly throw those instead of using his ray beam.
Kaiju invented volleyball.
Kaiju can communicate with one another no matter what sort of stupid noise they make.
A grown Japanese man is almost the same height as a 5 year old Japanese boy.
Meteors are sporadically magnetic,grow and can hatch evil space dragons.
Global warming is a sign of Armageddon.
Martian women are hot.
Never leave princesses alone on airplanes. They are liable to jump out at a moments notice.
Giant Mealworms are the Gods of happiness.
Blue Whales can jump out of the water like dolphins.
Rodan can act like a giant parrot sometimes.
Opening Credits- See the monsters fight before the movie even starts! Hot Damn!
8:48- There WHAT is?!
15:42- Behold the magic of dubbing! She says the words a second before and AFTER her mouth shuts!
28:03- He just GAVE you the drink! Why did you ask for it again?!
31:36- Godzilla hasn't even shown up yet! Wtf are they going on about?
33:18 to 33:25- It's a sad day when you have to mirror the footage you just shot a second before.
40:56- What the hell kind of noise is that for guns to make?!
42:21- Godzilla's on the docks!
42:44- No, wait, he's still in the water......
48:00- If she just named the monster, how the hell do they know it's called "Ghidrah?!" Word does travel fast in Japan...
1:15:30- You had her in your sights! How the hell did you miss?!
1:17:31- Godzilla hates being shot in the crotch.
Naoko:"Did you say Brainwaves? Oh now really, there's no such thing as brainwaves!"
UFO Enthusiast: "Look young lady there's a lot you need to learn about many things besides brainwaves.Strange and terrible things!"
Princess: "Good people of earth, I call your attention to the ever expanding universe. It is time for the people of earth to awaken
to their responsibilites as one of the peoples of space!"
Person in crowd: "ARE YOU A BOY OR A GIRL!?!Why don't you do a striptease for us!"
Show Host 1: "You're almost the same height you know!" *comparing the size of a boy to his co-host*
Show Host 2: "Cut it out will ya? You're on camera!"
Naoko: "Shindo! Give me the key or I'm calling the police!"
Shindo: "Oh you stupid....You forget I AM the police!"
Naoko: "Hey Shindo, what did you find out about her?"
Shindo: "Only that she's a martian!"
Shindo: "Aaaugh. These monsters are as stupid as human beings!"
Note: This is a review of the American Version, as, in my opinion, is a hell of a lot funnier.
This movie holds a special place in my heart, mainly because for years I had it taped off the TV from a now defunct TV station
at about 3 in the morning. Upon getting the DVD and watching it again, I find I remember way too much about this movie than most people should.
The film starts out with some U.F.O. enthusiasts waiting for contact from their space bretherin. In their minds, since they have been wasting their nights for a few weeks, they should get some kind of sign from their alien overlords. They do not get a reply and blame it on our heroine, Naoko,because she's an outsider.She insists that she's interested but otherwise doesn't give a damn.
While the enthusiasts are complaining to her, a meteor shower begins, and one of the shooting stars lands nearby in a remote mountain area.
Meanwhile, Shindo is doing paperwork or whatever it is cops do all day when his boss tells him he'll be doing some bodygaurd work for a Princess from some country named Selgina.
No, I've never heard of it either.
Apparently a lone cop is more than enough to gaurd royalty from a band of assassins in Japan back in the 1960's. We then cut to another scene of the princess on her royal airliner or something.
She's being all primp and proper and princessy when she looks out the window after ordering one of her servants to fetch some water.
A bright light shows up (assumed to be a U.F.O.) and it uses some kind of mind control on her. In a spooky voice it tells her to jump ship, it even opens the door for her!
Apparently the assassins planted a bomb on the plane and it blows up as soon as she lets her space buddies pick her up.
Now I'm no expert on planes,but when she opens the door, everything besides her stays in place. Shouldn't there be a sudden JUMP in pressure, sucking tons of stuff out of the door with her?
Ah, whatever.
We then go back to the meteor in the mountains. Meet Professor Murai and his team of random goofballs.
Murai is Naoko's boyfriend but he really doesn't add much to the plot after his whole part with the meteor. His team you can just forget about. They make it to the meteorite and set up camp. Almost immediately the meteor exhibits signs of magnetism as it sucks up their pickaxes like a fat kid with a mikshake.
As Shindo asks why his royal date stood him up at the airport, he is informed the Princess' plane exploded. He laments not being able to gaurd a hot chick like that for about a minute before giving an "oh well" kind of response to it. Naoko meanwhile is given a assignment to go listen to a raving lunatic in the city streets fortelling the end of the world. I guess back in those days any crazy person who babbles on about the end of the world was given news attention. Nowadays we just ignore them and their nice body-size signs.
Suprisingly, the prophet has a freaking HUGE crowd around her. Have these people NOTHING better to do that day? Unsuprisingly to us viewers, the prophet is none other than the possessed Princess,she says she's a martian and that some real bad things are about to go down.
Murai and his team are studying the meteorite and notice their equipment isn't flying towards it anymore, also it's apparently getting bigger.
What they don't talk about is how it has a nice pulsating glow to it. That's a sure sign that some weird crap is going on right there.
One of the team's "Crazy Sh*t is about to happen" meter starts acting up and he pleads to leave the thing be. Capt. Ahab (Murai) has to have his White Whale though and insists they stay.
Shindo arrives home and watches television with his mother and sister. Apparently Japan has this TV show based upon the fascination with Washed Up/Obscure Celebrities and people get to tell the show who they want to see. Kind of like what E! does on a daily basis. Two kids show up and they want to see Mothra. Well the show can't fit a giant freaking bug into the building, but they convienantly have the next best thing: Mothra's singing fairies. For some reason their singing lets people (even the people watching the broadcast on TV!) see their island.
It is a bleak and desolate place where one constantly bows to a giant infant moth for all time.
The song also cryptically states that one has to think happy things at all times, OR ELSE!. Great, huh? Just like Club Med.
I bet some of you wonder what the hell happened to the other worm from Godzilla vs. Mothra. Well the fairies blatantly state that it died somehow.
Way to tramutize the kids for the rest of their lives.Send all therapy bills to Mothra's island.
Anyway, Shindo gets bored watching the tiny singing women and their giant worm and goes to read the paper. He is immediately shocked to see the Princess as the crazy woman his sister reported about.He reports it to his boss, who is rather unimpressed,passing it off as mere likeness.
Shindo does get permission to gaurd her on his own time though.
Unfortunately Selgina reads the same newspaper as Shindo does and they get word of the Princess too. They send out their best men: Sunglasses Man and Three Guys Who Might Be in the Yakuza.
Meanwhile, Shindo picks up a old bum who happens to have the Princess' bracelet. When they ask about it, he says he pulled her from the ocean thinking she was a castaway from part of a wrecked boat. She gave him the bracelet in exchange for some spare clothes and runs off when they get to port.
Hell, I don't care if he saved me either, knowing what that guy looked like, I would haul out of there ASAP too.
Shindo has him look at a few pictures and he gives a positive I.D. on the princess. Shindo's boss asks the million dollar question:
"How in the hell was she the only one to survive a plane explosion?"
Apparently one of the U.F.O. guys from the start of the movie is the top source on this.
He spews some crap about other dimensions and holes in the fabric of space time and we're supposed to believe it.
I would have believed something more simple: She jumped out of the damn plane and into the ocean. I dunno about you, but I'm pretty sure water cushions your fall, and if you know how to swim and you're relatively near a fishing area, well, you're set.
Shindo, Naoko and Murai (on a break from meteorite staring), see the Princess on TV, preaching to hikers at a volcano to make tracks because Rodan's going to show up soon. No one believes her until the Pteranodon busts out of the mountainside, almost on cue.
She then shows up at a ship about to take the fairies back to their desolite little island. The fairies are the only ones to heed the Princess' word about gloom and doom and make tracks before anyone can notice the 2 inch high girls leave suddenly.
Personally, if someone was able to predict Rodan coming out of nowhere within a few seconds of time, I'd stay off that ship too.
The Princess is then picked up by Naoko for some reason; I guess it must be a slow news day when tiny women with giant worms aren't more important than normal sized ones that can predict the future.
Meanwhile, back at Murai's ranch, the meteorite is getting bigger,the magnetism picks up again for no good reason and Murai's team is tired of staring at a glowing rock from space all day long.
Naoko takes the Princess to a hotel to get her cleaned up for a TV report (God knows how long she's been in those clothes) and the assassins spot her. Given that she's been brainwashed, the princess doesn't really give a damn about them. They decide to wait until she's alone to ambush her. The fairies also show up in Naoko's hotel room, saying they believed the Princess, and with good reason. We find out the ship's sailing course heads straight into Godzilla, who promptly blows it up. For those of you keeping score,the Princess is 2-0 with her predictions.
Naoko gets the Princess all prettied up for a TV interview when Shindo comes-a-calling. Naoko goes to meet him in the main lobby and the killers see their chance. They're about to ice the princess when the fairies intervine by TURNING OFF THE LIGHTS! In the confusion, this gives Shindo and Naoko enough time to get upstairs and chase the assassins off.
Afterward,Shindo says the princess needs professional help,so they get her out of there. Lucky thing too, Godzilla just decided to go on his traditional random rampage through town.This time though, he's
constantly p**sed off at Rodan. Seriously, he stares up at the sky angrily, hoping Rodan would swoop down enough to get into heat beam range.
I'm guessing Godzilla is jealous at Rodan's ability to fly.
Meanwhile,the meteorite finally appears to be doing something besides growing and eating pickaxes! It glows and makes small explosion noises before splitting apart,showing off a light sprinkler firework show and spitting a fireball into the air! The fireball becomes Ghidorah, (which by 1960's standards is a pretty good special effect) it wasn't a meteorite after all! It was a cocoon for a giant space dragon!
Yes, the title monster finally appears after about 50 minutes into the movie. It's basically a 3 headed western-style dragon that spits lightning, has the worst flying noise ever and giggles like a schoolgirl for a roar. Seriously, listen to that thing make a noise, it sounds like it's laughing.
Shindo decides to take the Princess to get some therapy to cure her of her "martian-ness".She tells everyone that Ghidorah is here to kick ass and take names, cause frankly thats what he's doing.
They believe her, but still think she should get some rest. Despite the fact Godzilla and Rodan are making their way towards the hospital, noone moves an inch.
Japanese people must be real jaded about Kaiju attacks by now to just ignore that.
The Japanese government laments they now have 3 monsters at once rampaging throughout Japan, they begin to consider nuclear weaponry when Naoko, Murai and the fairies show up. The fairies propose Mothra, Godzilla and Rodan gang up on Ghidorah. The japanese government gives a plan a 'why the hell not, we have no other good ideas' and the fairies sing their little song. Mothra is on the way!
Unfortunately, Naoko blabs the location of the Princess over national airwaves, giving the assassins the location of their target.
Meanwhile, Godzilla somehow has caught up to Rodan and they begin to fight in very awkward ways. Godzilla batting Rodan at random and Rodan pecking away at Godzilla's head. Rodan's pecking is actually quite effective. It either stuns Godzilla for a bit or at least makes him wonder wtf exactly just happened. Shindo and the doctors, have decided to use shock therapy on the Princess. The assassins
arrive, see this and decide to rack up the volts, hoping to make one crispy Princess. However, their plan is thwarted by the Kaiju's rather silly fight as Rodan PICKS UP GODZILLA AND DROPS HIM ON SOME POWER LINES!
I am not making this up.
By sheer chance of luck, this also cuts electricity to the hospital, leading to another gunfight in the dark with the killers; making them run away again.
Godzilla and Rodan continue to fight as well as play Giant Monster Volleyball with some rocks. Godzilla tosses the rocks at Rodan, Rodan bonks them with his head back to Godzilla, Godzilla punches them back at Rodan. Repeat until not funny anymore. Seriously, I have never seen Godzilla toss more rocks than in this movie. Thankfully Mothra shows up and attempts to get the two to work together to kick some golden dragon ass. Godzilla outright refuses to help humanity because we shoot at him whenever he decides to take a stroll downtown.
Personally, I agree with Godzilla. If the insect world decided to wage war on me every time I accidentally stepped on one of them, I'd be p**sed too.
Either way, Mothra is fed up with both of them and goes to fight Ghidorah on his/her own. During Ghidorah's random blasting of the countryside, a rockslide kills 3 out of the 4 assassins. Guess they didn't have their seatbelts on.
After Mothra gets its butt handed to it by Ghidorah, Godzilla, who realizes how big of a wuss he'd be if a worm stood him up in a fight, goes to beat on Ghidorah.
Rodan decides to just fly around for a while until Ghidorah gives chase to the flying lizard.
During all the fuss of monsters fighting each other, the Princess wanders off somewhere. Probably sick of her present company rambling on like morons.
While Rodan is being chased by Ghidorah, Godzilla follows with Mothra in tow, literally. Godzilla lets Mothra bite his tail while Godzilla drags him/her up the mountain they both just came down. Out of nowhere, Rodan does a quick 180 and slams himself into Ghidorah, knocking them both to the ground while Godzilla and Mothra continue their uphill climb. Rodan is basically a sitting duck, with Ghidorah taking potshots at him until Godzilla starts his rock throwing again.
We find out the Princess is basically climbing down the mountain praying to God that the Kaiju defeat Ghidorah. Since she's all by herself, Sunglasses Man decides to snipe her from across the canyon. Luckily, he's a poor shot and Shindo shows up to shield the Princess. The near-death experience forces the Princess to snap out of her martian state and back to her former self. Still, things look bad for Shindo and the Princess until yet another rockslide caused by the Kaiju finishes off the last assassin.
I'd like to pause for a second to point out how silly his death is. Seriously. It's something you have to watch to believe.
Anyway, the 3 on 1 against Ghidorah goes well. Godzilla basically provides the beatings while Rodan and Mothra team up in a rather silly "Shoot lots of web on the dragon" technique.Personally, I don't know where the bug keeps all of it. I'm guessing we're supposed to believe Mothra's webbing paralyses as well as ties up its foes. Otherwise, Ghidorah just forgets he can tear himself out of it. After a mighty toss by Godzilla and STILL MORE ROCKS, Ghidorah takes off.
Sure, don't kill him or anything. It's not like he'll come back for revenge sometime.
The rest of the human plot goes like this: Princess gets a press conference, thanks Shindo for his help, gives him the cold shoulder, leaves for her country. Seriously, when someone saves your life 3 times over you at least owe him something. She doesn't even give the poor guy a kiss on the cheek or anything.
Stone cold, man. Stone Cold. Just look at his eyes when he sees her plane leave. He's crushed.
Finally, the fairies and Mothra return to their island death trap, leaving Godzilla and Rodan dazed and confused. Much like our viewers.
In all due fairness, I liked this. 4 Monsters on screen at the same time doing monster things. The plot just got dragged down by the human side
of the coin. Ah well. Such is life.
If anyone managed to read all that, give some feedback, please. :smile:


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Two months after the birth of their son, J.P., Alicia and Jon Maricle, both airline pilots in Colleyville, Texas, found themselves tired, busy, and seriously irritable. "Most of our day consisted of changing J.P.'s diapers, nursing, pumping, burping, playing, rocking him to sleep, and repeating this seven more times -- which meant we didn't get enough sleep," says Alicia.
One day, after yet another tough night, Alicia asked Jon to mow the lawn before he went to a ball game with his friends. Interpreting her request as bossiness, he blurted, "You don't do anything!" After cutting the grass, he went to the game, leaving Alicia to stew for several hours. "By the time he got home, I was insisting that we either get marriage counseling or try out a Do-It-Yourself-Divorce website."
Fighting words are hardly foreign to couples, but for new parents like the Maricles, conflicts occur all too often. The arrival of a baby usually has a profound effect, both joyful and straining, on a relationship. According to the Gottman Relationship Research Institute, a research and counseling center in Seattle, up to 70 percent of couples experience a decline in marital satisfaction after a baby is born. This dissatisfaction is due in great part to increased fighting, says John Gottman, Ph.D., cofounder of the institute and author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. Chronic arguing is unhealthy not only for your relationship but also for your baby. Children of all ages pick up on tension. "Infants will typically be irritable and have eating and sleeping problems," says Pamela Jordan, Ph.D., a nurse, the author of Becoming Parents, and an associate professor of Family and Child Nursing at the University of Washington. The occasional tiff, especially one in which a resolution to a problem is worked out, is relatively harmless, notes Jordan. It's the constant, aimless fighting that can cause trouble. "When the home is a battle zone, family members walk on eggshells or avoid each other, and kids learn unhealthy ways of interacting," she says.
Here, the biggest culprits behind new-parent tiffs, and how to put the peace back into your relationship.
The "I'm So Tired I Could Scream" Syndrome
Sleep deprivation -- one of the most common gripes among new parents -- can spark dramatic mood swings and unprovoked arguments. "Without adequate amounts of sleep, we can become short-tempered," says Rhonda Nordin, author of After the Baby: Making Sense of Marriage After Childbirth. The key: recognizing when anger toward your partner is actually just crankiness and circumventing the argument before it escalates. "The heat of the moment is the worst possible time to try to deal with something," says Jordan. "We often push issues at these times because we think if we postpone them, they'll never be addressed." Put discussions off until later that night when the baby is in bed, she suggests. "You'll learn to trust that the issue isn't being brushed aside but merely put in a place where it doesn't take control of your life." The Maricles learned their lesson: "We overreacted to what might normally be a perfectly appropriate comment, and that turned into an argument."
The Maricles also needed to work on making themselves less exhausted. Alicia went for a tried-and-true solution: "Sleep when the baby sleeps!" she says. "I would take a little nap when J.P. was napping instead of trying to clean the house or do laundry." The couple also agreed that it wasn't necessary for Jon to wake up with Alicia for all of J.P.'s night feedings. "I realized that there was no reason for both of us to lose sleep," says Alicia. "Now, Jon gets some extra sleep and really appreciates my 'sacrifice.'"
The Lopsided-Duties Dilemma
One night a few weeks after their son, Adam Jr., was born, Adam Westley, a golf service worker in Dayton, Ohio, came home and complained to his wife, Amber, that the house was a mess -- dirty dishes in the sink, baby gear strewn around the living room. "He said, 'This makes me not want to come home sometimes -- I can't stand a dirty house,'" recalls Amber, a stay-at-home mom. "Then I said, 'If you don't like it, then you can clean it!'"
One of the biggest points of contention among new parents is an unequal division of labor. The problem isn't necessarily that the duties are lopsided but that one spouse's expectations haven't been met, says Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, who conducted a five-year study about how couples cope with the transition to parenthood. In the Westleys' case, neither partner's expectations were being met: Adam expected Amber to clean; Amber expected Adam to help out more. Clear up any misunderstandings about who should do what by talking openly about itóbefore the baby arrives, if you can. "Couples need to be clear about their expectations for the division of housework and childcare, and then their actions need to match those expectations," says Perry-Jenkins.
The "Mommy Knows Best" Myth
Depending on which parenting books you've read and how your parents raised you, you won't always agree with your partner on how to best care for the new baby. But remember: The two of you are helping each other raise a child. If you find yourselves butting heads over little issues -- such as how to hold the baby when he's crying or which outfit to dress him in -- back off every now and then, suggests Gottman. "Realize that there's more than one way to burp a baby," he says. "If you really feel your spouse's approach is unsafe, direct him to your pediatrician."
The Money Pit
Thanks to the new expenses they found themselves saddled with during the first few months following their son Tyler's birth, Scott Scheirer, a factory worker in Reading, Pennsylvania, and his wife, Lori, fell into a regular pattern of arguing about money. "If I'd buy myself a pair of shoes for work, she'd complain that I couldn't buy her sneakers," Scott says. "We'd always end up shouting."
With a new baby comes the need for gear, clothes, and childcare. But it's not just these costs that can cause conflict. No matter how wealthy they are, all couples argue about money. Why? Money symbolizes power and control. Typically, the person who earns it is the one with the greater amount of perceived control in the family. "Many men who earn more money (than their wives) feel that they should have authority over spending," says Olivia Mellan, author of Money Harmony. Conversely, "research has shown that women who make more usually want to share the power democratically." Therefore, she says, it's up to women to teach men the benefits of teamwork, no matter who has the bigger paycheck.
How to do this? Talking about how your parents viewed money can offer a lot of insight into your own and your spouse's financial views, says Mellan. Discuss your goals and values when it comes to saving and spending and try to find common ground. Then keep it up with monthly or even weekly money talks. If one parent usually handles the money maintenance -- paying the bills, dealing with the bank -- it can leave the other person in the dark without a clear picture of the family's financial situation. Take turns balancing the checkbook or simply spend five minutes every month going over it together.
The "Partner or Parent?" Problem
"Unfortunately, we don't seem to be one of those lucky couples that are even more passionate and loving after having a baby," says Kristen Chase, mother of a 6-month-old in Plainville, Massachusetts, about her relationship with her husband, Brian. "The romance has been put on the back burner. Right now we're more in mommy/daddy mode than we are in husband/wife mode."
The Chase's situation is typical: Couples don't make their relationship enough of a priority after a baby is born. Sex often disappears and their time alone diminishes, says Gottman. The standard advice can really make a difference: "Plan a weekly date, make sex a priority once a woman's desire returns a bit, and plan romantic getaways." Revel in the new light in which you can now see each other. Does your husband look adorable and sexy when he is rocking your baby to sleep? Is he amazed that your body could produce such a miracle? By focusing on all the joys of parenthood (yes, there are joys!) and remembering why it was you wanted to have a child together in the first place, the inevitable arguments you have with your partner will just be small bumps in the road.
Michelle Lee is a freelance writer based in New York City.


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Cute Kids' Watches
Tick Tock: Fun Watches For Tots
Tick Tock: Fun Watches For Tots
Wearing a watch can make kids feel more grown up, whether they do it to practice responsibility, tell time, or even just for play. Regardless of the goal, watches should be fun, with bright colors or designs that evoke kids' favorite characters and pastimes. Here are our favorite watches to get them telling time, using their imagination, or both.
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Hideaway Dell Venue 10" Pro Case [5055]
Finally a super protective case + stand without compromise. The Hideaway features a proven rugged design with a disappearing stand. The stand ingeniously hides away into the easy grip rubber pattern, and can easily be engaged with a flip and a click.
The Hideaway supports two modes: viewing mode and typing mode.


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Looking to get advice from others who have done so or haven't but are overflowing with a variety of useful knowledge about matters of business, taxes, and stuff like that (I'm looking at you, Tom). Here's my situation: my primary source of income is travelling all over LA County fixing office's computers and networks as a sub-contractor for this asshole who does almost nothing to pretend to be a legitimate business except for having a really ugly website, paying for Google AdWords placements, having a big yellow pages ad, and... actually no, that's about it. He doesn't even rent out office space, I pretty much just work out of my house and meet up with him in person once or twice a week to hand in checks and get paid. It's an annoying company to work for because I get no health insurance or mileage reimbursement but I make a high percentage of all the profit I bring in, so in theory I make really good money until you factor in car expenses, not to mention the high costs of illegally purchasing all the medications I need. The thought of starting my own company and doing the same work for the same costs but making 100 percent of the profit instead has naturally crossed my mind from time to time, but I've always been too lazy and have a savings account for appearances only.
Despite my laziness, recently I've started getting requests from quite a few offices that have no relationship with my employer (naturally I had to sign a pretty strict non-compete agreement when I started working for this guy stating that I can't poach his clients) to do their IT, the most recent one being a big enough job--somewhere between 5-10 grand just for the initial setup--that I think it might be time I actually form a company to handle my side clients.
So, wiser, older people who understand this stuff, what do you recommend I do and what can you tell me that I'm probably not already thinking about?
There's the question of being a sole proprietor vs. an LLC (I'm leaning towards LLC since it would protect me from being sued personally in the unlikely event that I ever ruined a client's life and also because as a person I have fucking terrible credit but as a new company I could probably finally get a credit card again which is kinda critical as being able to purchase 2000 dollars worth of equipment immediately can be kinda crucial in my line of work). Anybody got any insight into which would be best considering that the growth of this company will probably have to be done very gradually since I need to build up a larger client base and save some money before I can actually completely split from my day job.
Anyone out there whose work makes them acquainted with whatever new business loans/grants/whatever-just-gimme-some-goverment-money-things I might be eligible for? Does Mr. Obama have some program that will just give me a bunch of money for no good reason?
Does anyone have a copy of that book in the infomercials with that guy in the Riddler jacket?
You get the idea. Explain real life to me, older people. Thanks.


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Race day dilemma: Where to park in Durango?
In effort to simplify parking on race day, organizers of Durangos opening USA Pro Cycling Challenge stage developed a parking shuttle plan.
There will be free parking at four locations with free shuttle service to the downtown area.
Free parking will be available at the Durango Mall on the south end of the city; at Durango High School and La Plata County Fairgrounds on the north; at Twin Buttes to the west; and at Fort Lewis College on the east.
Free shuttle buses will take spectators from those parking lots to the Transit Center downtown. From there, spectators can walk to the race course or take a shuttle to the Fort Lewis College campus.
The shuttles, which will include local school buses and other resort buses, will include a host or hostess to answer questions, direct visitors to downtown locations and provide historical tidbits.
The free shuttles to and from the parking lots will run continuously on race day from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Parking in the downtown core will be limited severely by street closures for the race.
In addition, there will be special bicycle parking with valets in the downtown core. People are encouraged to ride bikes to the race.


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Defined Benefit
Should investors be increasing equity allocations to emerging markets?
Emerging markets' equity performance has struggled relative to the developed world over the last few years, leading some investors to question the rationale for an allocation to these markets.
Emerging markets' equity performance has struggled relative to the developed world over the last few years, leading some investors to question the rationale for an allocation to these markets.We believe this is short-sighted. Emerging markets are nowadays simply too significant for investors to ignore. Their stockmarkets represent around 11% of the MSCI All Country World index, while their combined GDP accounts for a third of the global economy. We believe that, given these statistics, all investors should be considering an investment in this part of the global market. While we believe there is a good structural argument for an allocation to emerging markets, our focus in this article is on the medium-term tactical case and whether investors should be looking to increase their allocations.
The strategic case
Understandably, emerging markets were traditionally seen as a higher risk asset class, particularly following the currency and debt crises of the 1990s. As a result, institutional investors viewed an allocation to the developing world as short term and tactical, rather than strategic. This picture has been changing dramatically over the past decade or so.
Since the 1990s, many emerging economies have been transformed. As a group, they have grown 3–5% faster than the developed economies, a performance that has been highly correlated with emerging equity markets. While the growth gap has been narrowing recently, in our opinion it does not change the justification for further strong stockmarket absolute and relative returns. Emerging markets' share of global growth continues to increase – China contributed around 40% to global growth in 2013, more than the US – and they are expected to account for over 60% of global growth for the foreseeable future.
This rapid growth represents a major structural change to the world's economic system. It has been caused by the arrival of over 2.5 billion people in China and India, who are for the first time starting to acquire wealth and disposable income. Bank of America Merrill Lynch estimates that global wealth will increase from €313 trillion in 2010 to €667 trillion in 2030, with emerging countries responsible for 80% of this new wealth. And, in a break from the past, it will be domestic demand growth rather than exports that will be the primary driver of emerging economies' growth (Figure 1).
As a result of these trends, economic fundamentals in the emerging world tend to be stronger than for developed markets. The world is still feeling the repercussions of a global financial crisis caused by inappropriate lending, borrowing and over-leverage in the developed world. In contrast, by and large, the emerging world is typically characterised by high saving ratios, low levels of debt and prudent lending policies. While economic health varies between countries, on several other measures, such as current account and fiscal balances, the fundamentals are generally stronger in emerging markets than the developed world, which is still struggling to recover from the global financial crisis.
The tactical case
The near-term catalyst. Part of the explanation for recent disappointing emerging market performance has been that both GDP and earnings have surprised on the downside. Cyclical pressures, including a poor external environment, low commodity prices and local currency weakness, have weighed on profitability. However, history tells us that emerging markets are likely to be among the primary beneficiaries of a pickup in global growth. Consensus estimates of global growth for 2015 and 2016 are currently 3.0% and 3.1% respectively1.
While domestic consumption remains the primary driver of emerging growth, a global cyclical upturn should support exporters in particular. This would be a welcome development for emerging markets as exports have detracted from growth there since the global financial crisis. They have indeed recently started to turn positive, supported by generally competitive exchange rates, as can be seen from Figure 2. This in turn should be positive for economic growth and improve the prospects for positive earnings revisions. The consensus forecast for 12-month forward corporate earnings growth, as collected by data provider IBES, is currently around 10% for the MSCI Emerging
Markets Index.
1Source: Bloomberg, 27 October 2014
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Interdisciplinary Studies Bibliography
- Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research, 2nd edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Dill, Stephen H., Integrated Studies: Challenges to the College Curriculum, Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1982.
- Kockelmans, Joseph J., Interdisciplinarity and Higher Education, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979.
- Lattuca, Lisa R., Creating Interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching among College and University Faculty, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2001.
- Lipson, Charles, How to Write a BA Thesis: A Practical Guide from Your First Ideas to Your Finished Paper. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- Moran, Joe, Interdisciplinarity, London: Routledge, 2002.
- Thompson Klein, Julie, Humanities, Culture and Interdisciplinarity: The Changing American Academy, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.
- Thompson Klein, Julie and William G. Doty, Interdisciplinary Studies Today, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994.


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by Susan Mikula Campbell
Town of Niagara residents will have a chance to comment on a possible tax abatement for a planned $71 million Fashion Outlets of Niagara expansion during a town IDA public hearing at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, at Town Hall.
"This is strictly tax abatement. The Town Board will become involved when we're asked for site plan approval," said Town Supervisor Steve Richards.
Doug Morrow, vice president of development for Macerich Partnership, owners of the mall, spoke with town IDA members about the project last Wednesday and expects to return for next Wednesday's public hearing.
The new retail space of about 175,000 square feet would be attached to the existing mall and use some of the former Sabre Park trailer park property, now owned by Macerich. The expansion plan also includes additional parking.
Cal Richards, chairman of the town's IDA, said the hearing will give the public, whether from the town, county or school district, a chance to comment. After the hearing, the IDA will hold a regular meeting to decide what they are going to do, he said. "I'm not sure if we will take action, but we could," he said.
Will the project be good for the town? "Definitely. No question about it," Cal Richards said, adding that calls the IDA has received so far are "very positive."
Macerich is looking for a 15-year graduated property tax abatement plan, the mortgage filing fee with the county and certain sales tax exemptions, he said. Its property tax benefit would be about $5.8 million over 15 years and the sales tax exemption on construction and furnishing the project would be about $1.5 million.
By the conclusion of the project, the community will benefit from new jobs, as well as increased sales and property tax funds. Richards said the total community benefit is estimated to be at $45.2 million.
Richards said Macerich's application shows that, in the first year after construction is completed, 16 full-time and 46 part-time jobs will be added. By the third year, there should be 649 full-time and 1,884 part-time jobs for a $44 million payroll. Jobs will include managerial, clerical, engineering and property maintenance.
Macerich has not yet released names of retailers that will occupy the new space, but Morrow said his company either has signed leases or is in negotiation with most of the potential tenants.


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BOSTON — Health club membership in the United States increased by more than three percent last year from 41.3 million members (over the age of six) in 2005 to 42.7 million in 2006, according to the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA). This is the first increase after a two-year stall in membership numbers in 2004 and 2005.
In addition, the number of Americans who visited or belonged to a health club increased by more than six percent from 64.9 million people (over the age of six) in 2005 to 69.3 million in 2006. Health club membership has increased more than 25 percent in five years, and growth in health club patronage has increased nearly 20 percent during the same time.
The growth may be partially due to increased public awareness about the dangers of physical inactivity and the health and fitness industry's efforts to make exercise more accessible to all ages and fitness levels, IHRSA says.
However, Joe Moore, president and CEO of IHRSA, says clubs must do more.
"Research has shown that a perceived lack of personal time, which is often limited by commitments to family and work, in addition to financial and geographical constraints, is one of the most commonly cited reasons that people choose not to exercise," Moore says. "By working to remove the barriers to exercise and increase the personal and financial incentives to exercise, we hope to encourage even greater growth in health club membership in the years to come."
More than 50 percent of adults don't get enough physical activity to provide health benefits, and 30 percent — more than 60 million people 20 years and older — are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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We have all heard that discarding plastic waste at sea can lead to problems. The images to the right speak for themslelves.
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A True Snake Oil Salesman
Players try to sell wacky products in MBA student's successful new card game.
Quick, how would you sell an ear pen to a teacher? How about a broom cannon to a pirate?
What is a broom cannon anyway? And why are pirates your target demographic? The answers to these questions are up to you as you play Snake Oil, a new party card game created by Full-Time MBA student Jeff Ochs.
In Snake Oil, players draw from a deck of 285 noun cards and combine two of them from their hand to form a crazy new product. The potential purchaser is one of 72 wacky customer cards, which range from a clown to a rock star. The player wins if the customer buys the product.
The original idea for the game came while Ochs and some colleagues were traveling to a national conference in the fall of 2008. They were on an airplane and flipping through a sales catalog to pass the time. "After joking about some of the products, I noticed a pattern developing. A lot of products were combinations of two random nouns, like camera goggles and pet stairs," Ochs says. "My friend and I started playing with random noun combinations to create new products, and we entertained ourselves for the rest of the flight."
After playing with the basic concept on the plane, Ochs friends and family thought there was some potential to the game, but he didn't commit to commercializing it right away. "However, I liked the idea enough to keep playing with it and took it one step at a time," he says.
The game ended up on the back burner as Ochs went to China in 2009 with his wife and began teaching English. "In the fall of 2010, after teaching English for a year, I felt I needed a new challenge to keep me fresh," he says. "So I decided I would actually try and manufacturer the game while I was there." Ochs found a factory in Beijing that would make the game at an affordable price and let him watch each step of production. "It was a fantastic learning experience in doing international business and sourcing," he says.
Back in the States with 1,000 games created and now stored in his garage, Ochs set about taking care of other administrative tasks, including applying for a trademark, registering his company, launching a website, and figuring out how to ship the games around the country. "Since then, it has been a whirlwind of selling Snake Oil.
In November, I attended a game conference in Chicago and Games By James started to carry our product," he says. "By the end of December, we sold over 300 in Games By James and another 150 or so to friends and family. Sales were much faster than I anticipated they would be, and we are nearing a decision point about re-ordering."
Despite the early successes, Ochs considers Snake Oil a side project. He is pursuing a master's degree in public policy from the Humphrey School along with his MBA and his career goals lie in entrepreneurship and social finance.
"I am an experiential learner and I wanted to have something to which I could apply the theories I was learning in class. This turned out to be a great option," he says. "I do have an idea for using the creative concepts in Snake Oil as the basis for a non-profit program that would engage students in actual new product development and marketing."
Ochs says he loves the irony that he is selling an actual product called Snake Oil, which in turn involves selling other crazy product ideas. "It is a great moment when someone points this out to me," he says. "Given that I traveled to Chicago this fall and plan to travel to other conventions this summer, I am now officially a traveling snake oil salesman."
Snake Oil recently won the "Major Fun Award" and was also accepted into Books-A-Million, which is putting the game on the shelves of some of its book stores around the country.


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Until you can get your blood-stained hands on a playable version of Darkwatch, the only way you can experience it is through what you read and what you see and if what you see is exciting, it is largely due to the efforts of Sammy Studios' Farzad Varahramyan, the company's creative visual director. For this Full Moon Diary we asked Farzad about the origins of the visual style behind the vampire-Western video game. As you will see, arriving at a signature look for this unusual concept didn't come easy.
"Darkwatch came from throwing out various concepts, one of them was some kind of a Western-themed game," Farzad says. "The melding and juxtaposition of two themes -- vampires and the Old West -- is something we've seen a little bit in movies, but we haven't seen as a video-game property. Our very first vampire iterations weren't very dark; they felt more like a cartoon property."
The look of the main character was a springboard for the property as a whole.
"We realized we had to hit a much darker and mature tone. The turning point was the final iteration of Jericho's design -- when we saw that drawing, everyone knew that we'd hit something. It definitely has a mature edge and theme to it. What we've tried to do since is establish 'visual DNA' for the property so the team could create designs that fit in that world," Farzad says. "In Jericho, for example, he's really been designed to have a strong silhouette, with specific areas of graphic design over his dark silhouette."
Part of that DNA is a strong "read" (instant recognition factor) for all the characters. The game's other characters receive similar attention. They're more than just targets in a shooting gallery -- each character is a unique part of the Darkwatch mythos.
"One of the things I keep in mind in designing characters is; would this character be compelling enough to buy as an action figure?" Farzad says. "We've had the pleasure of developing several strong lead female characters. They are not merely eye candy, but are strong characters that drive the story and have powers of their own. We're also working very closely with the game design team to create villains with compelling backgrounds, which helps us to create characters that are more three dimensional."
This sense of design extends to the world and the technology of Darkwatch as well. The game has recognizable Western touchstones, but goes beyond what you'd find in the real west.


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Since it's year end, I thought I'd post one more "fun piece" for everybody. After Thom posted an article on his customized KDE desktop, I thought it might be interesting to compare desktop screengrabs and see what other OSNews'ers desktops look like. Are you cluttered or clean? Are you minialist? What's your wallpaper? Upload a picture to an online service or your own website and show off your desktop. I'll start: Adam's desktop (312kb).
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Made for organizing space and making it easier to move items from one bag in the Travelling Collection to another, Moleskine has designed these Multipurpose Cases, available in four sizes: Small, Medium, Large and Pen Case. Black with a zipper, they attach to the inside lining with Velcro strips.
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1. inaugural - noun
· an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president)
Synonym(s): inaugural_address
2. inaugural - noun
· the ceremonial induction into a position; "the new president obviously enjoyed his inauguration"
Synonym(s): inauguration
Hypernym(s): initiation, induction, installation
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· occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction; "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball"
Antonym(s): exaugural
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· serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage"
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Car News
2013 RAM Heavy Duty Updated with New Styling, Revised Powertrain
- Minor exterior updates, major interior changes.
- New suspension for the truck.
- Other updates improve towing, hauling.
Several major upgrades are coming to heavy-duty variants of the full-size RAM pickup for 2013. According to Chrysler, the RAM's parent company, the 2013 RAM Heavy Duty and Chassis Cab models will offer a long list of revisions, from interior and exterior updates to powertrain and suspension changes that are designed to give the trucks improved towing and hauling capabilities.
Truck shoppers are most likely to notice updates to the pickup's interior and exterior, which roughly mirror changes made to the light-duty RAM 1500 last year. On the inside, that means a new steering wheel, a revised gauge cluster, and new climate and stereo controls. The RAM 2500 and 3500 models are also newly available with a 7-inch electronic gauge cluster, which complements the 8.4-in center-mounted touchscreen display for the pickup's uConnect infotainment system. While minor, exterior revisions include a taller front grille, LED corner lamps, restyled badging and a new power folding mirror design.
But while stylistic updates are the most noticeable changes to the 2013 RAM 2500 and 3500 models, Chrysler went even farther under the pickup's skin. The biggest update is new front suspension, which can haul heavier loads and front-mounted accessories, such as snowplows. Wider frame rails, which are necessary to accommodate the upgraded suspension, were also added. And a new Powernet wiring system can accommodate up to 72 inputs for aftermarket accessories--good news for ambulance firms and other buyers interested in attaching electrical items to their vehicles.
In addition to changes to the truck's undercarriage and wiring, Chrysler is also adding a new engine to the RAM 3500's lineup. While last year's 6.7-liter Cummins turbo diesel remains available in the pickup, the automaker's 5.7-liter Hemi V8 will become standard to satisfy shoppers clamoring for a gasoline engine. That motor will produce 383 horsepower and 400 lb-ft of torque, while the 6.7 retains last year's numbers of 370 hp and a monstrous 850 lb-ft of torque.
Other changes to the truck include standard electronic stability control for all heavy-duty models and improved cooling systems for the truck's transmission. While newly standard ESC makes Ram the first truck to offer the safety feature across the board, the added cooling will help the transmission keep from overheating when towing heavy loads.
According to Chrysler, the updated RAM models will start production in January. We expect to learn more details, including finalized pricing figures, towing capacity and payload capacity, closer to the truck's launch.
What it means to you: Truck shoppers looking for a highly competitive heavy-duty pickup should check out the 2013 RAM Heavy-Duty.


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African Mango, known scientifically as ivingia gabonensis, has been used for medicinal purposes in Africa for centuries and has been studied extensively by modern scientists for the past 20 years. The extract from the seeds of the fruit has been found to have a powerful effect on weight loss because it converts calories into a more usable form of energy, making it easy for the body to use more calories for energy and store less calories as excess fat. African Mango reduces hunger by stimulating Leptin, which tells your body it has had enough to eat, and by also delaying stomach emptying which causes you to feel full longer.
African Mango has been shown to lower LDL (bad) cholesterol levels while raising HDL (good) cholesterol levels. It does this by binding to bile acids to carry cholesterol from the body. The high fiber content of African Mango aids this process as well.


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Description of AmoebaLocomotive cells, often 220 to 760 µm in length, although A. diminutiva Bovee, 1972 is only 15 to 20 µm. Usually polypodial with one dominant cylindrical pseudopodium, often with ectoplasmic ridges. Resting, or well fed, cells irregularly rounded. Floating form with long, radiating pseudopodia. Cytoplasm granular in appearance often with truncated bipyramidal crystals. Posterior uroid morulate when present. Single nucleus, discoid or ovoidal, sometimes with peripheral granules. Nucleolar material often scattered. At the ultrastructural level, surface coat of A. proteus has filaments rising 230 nm above the plasma membrane whereas coat of A. lenigradensis amorphous and without filaments. Freshwater. The genus is best known for the species A. proteus which is a popular teaching tool and familiar to most students of biology.