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For the New York-New Jersey Super Bowl Host Committee the clock is winding down, literally – their website has a ticker that counts down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until the 2014 Super Bowl, which is slated to take place nearby in the Meadowlands and be the biggest Super Bowl celebration in history. Last week, the clock said there were 472 days, 23 hours, 57 minutes, and 20 seconds and counting left until the big game day.
While the game isn't taking place in Hudson County, a few local towns plan to host related events, including Hoboken and Secaucus, which have been designated Super Bowl primary impact zones.
"This is likely to be the most expensive Super Bowl in history, from the ticket price to a hotel room." – Jim Kirkos
Some area hotels are already sold out for that time period, and some local residents are renting out their apartments or rooms during that period, using web sites.
Two types of fans
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Local business leaders anticipate a "frenzy" of reservations immediately following the 2013 Super Bowl in New Orleans next February, which is the focus at the moment.
Once the New Orleans Super Bowl is over, the area will see much publicity and attention on plans for 2014, according to Bill LaRosa, director of cultural affairs and tourism for Hudson County.
"You have two sets of fans who will attend the game," said LaRosa. "One is the fan who attends no matter who is playing in it…the second group is [comprised of] the teams' fans."
LaRosa noted that the fans of the Super Bowl experience tend to book far in advance, whereas the fans that follow a specific team may not book until they know the outcome of the NFL playoffs in 2014.
"We just don't know," said LaRosa of the potential impact on the area. "We have never had this kind of event."
An estimated 150,000 out-of-town visitors are expected in the area during Super Bowl 2014. MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford holds 82,500 people. The northern New Jersey area as a whole has 10,000 to 12,000 hotel rooms, while New York City has 90,000 hotel rooms.
In Hudson County, most of the hotels are concentrated in Jersey City, Secaucus, and North Bergen, with one in Weehawken and one in Hoboken.
Despite the fact that some tourists may stay in New York City, which welcomed an estimated 50 million visitors in 2011 and $48 billion in spending, Hudson County destinations will be much closer to MetLife Stadium and provide less expensive alternatives, some with Manhattan skyline views.
Game attendees will have to compete for rooms with private companies, media outlets, and sports travel companies that arrange for accommodations as part of their travel packages. The NFL also books rooms for their teams, media, support staff, officials, and other professionals.
Rates going up
While some hotels in the area are unlikely to start taking reservations until February 2013, some are already sold out for 2014. The Sheraton Lincoln Harbor in Weehawken and the Westin Jersey City, which are part of the Starwood Hotels brand, are sold out for the week ending Sunday, Feb. 2, according to the reservation agents handling their calls.
Meanwhile, the W Hotel in Hoboken, an upscale Starwood Hotel, has a few rooms available starting at $619 during Super Bowl week, triple the rate for the same time period in 2013 when a room is available starting at $206 a night.
Places like the Hyatt in Jersey City, Extended Stay America, La Quinta Inn, and Embassy Suites in Secaucus said they are not taking individual reservations for the Super Bowl yet – and may not do so until a year before the event.
"Reservations are typically open to the public 365 days in advance; however, group and special project bookings are often made earlier," said Mark Mahoney, vice president of sales for Extended Stay America. Their Secaucus hotel recently underwent upgrades. "We expect all Extended Stay America area hotels to be filled throughout the big weekend, with overflow stretching to Ramsey, Newark, Elizabeth, and beyond. Guests that normally stay in Secaucus for business will expand further from the area to find accommodations."
Mahoney added that it's too soon to state what the rates will be for Super Bowl 2014, but that they will be affordable.
La Quinta Inn's current rates for 2013 end of January are around $144 and Embassy Suites has rooms available at $213, but the prices may increase for the event.
Secaucus hotels are often in excess of 80 percent occupancy regardless of the time of year.
Regarding the likely rate increases, "That happens everywhere," said Jim Kirkos, president of the Meadowlands Liberty Convention and Visitors Bureau (MLCVB), last month. He has anticipated that it will likely be very difficult to get a hotel anywhere in northern New Jersey.
"With demand always comes price," he said. "This is likely to be the most expensive Super Bowl in history from the ticket price to a hotel room."
"Regardless of what the [hotel] rate is, we will benefit from the taxes," said LaRosa. Some local municipalities like Secaucus collect 3 percent of a 6 percent state hotel tax.
Some local residents are advertising rooms in their apartments and condos during that period (see sidebar), boasting of a James Bond-like kitchen and Manhattan views.
But most visitors will likely stay in hotels.
LaRosa anticipates that hotel overflow will cause people to stay in clusters at places that provide ease of transportation to the game, such as the Newark airport area, Route 17 in Bergen County, and other parts of New Jersey within a half hour drive.
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With the possibility that hotels will be booked solid during the Super Bowl 2014, some local residents are offering up their apartments, or rooms in their apartments, through web sites like AirBnB.com.
A search of that site for the period of Jan. 20, 2014 to Feb. 4, 2014 revealed a number of listings in the area.
One Weehawken dweller lists a private room with NYC skyline views for $59 a night.
A Jersey City resident offers to share a sunny two-bedroom apartment for $170 a night, but the individual must like cats, because the host has one named Tyson.
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Tickets to the Big Game
The greatest number of tickets to the 2014 Super Bowl will be made available to the teams participating in the game, as well as sponsors, broadcasters, and other business partners.
"If someone really, really wants to go they will find a way to get the ticket," noted Bill LaRosa from the Hudson County Tourism Office.
NFL fans may buy tickets at a hefty price from tour operators or ticket company vendors once they become available. For example, 2013 Super Bowl tickets for New Orleans range in price at online vendors from $2,500 to more than $9,000 and even higher for premium tickets at web sites like stubhub.com.


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For a party or special occasion, I would let the simple yet elegant silhouette shine, and just add some strappy heels and a necklace to fill in bare chest space. A neutral or cognac brown sandal would work fine, but I loved how these bright ones brought out the neon in the print. I look forward to wearing this outfit to a hot-weathered wedding later on.
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Sometimes, the game must go on.
Especially in the NFL, where the games always seem to go on.
The assassination of President Kennedy a half century ago didn't stop the NFL from playing games barely two days later. The tragedy that unfolded Saturday in Kansas City won't stop the Chiefs from taking the field Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium against the Carolina Panthers, either.
A young woman is dead, killed in a shooting that left a 3-month-old baby without a mother. Her killer is dead, too. Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot himself in front of his coach and general manager outside the Chiefs' practice facility.
There's no way to make sense of it all.
But a football will sail into the air and reality will be suspended for a few hours. The Chiefs will find a way to play through their shock and grief.
It seems too soon, yes. It surely is for coach Romeo Crennel.
One day he watches in horror as one of his players commits suicide in front of him — but not before thanking Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli for all they've done for him. The next, Crennel is on the sideline trying desperately to find a way for his underachieving team to win a game they likely have no desire to play.
There's no playbook for this kind of thing, though the initial outcry on social media was for the game to be postponed. But the mayor of Kansas City said it was important for the team to carry on and by the time it was announced the game was a go, the charter carrying the Panthers had already headed west.
As painful as Sunday will be, the NFL got it right. The game itself is about as meaningless as they come, pitting a home team with just one win against a Carolina team going nowhere at 3-8, but it was a game that had to be played.
There will be tears in the stands, hugs on the sidelines. Teammates will grieve and so will fans. No doubt there will be a moment of silence for Belcher and 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins, the mother of their child.
Maybe fans will look at their heroes on the field and realize that they are human, too. Maybe it will put a face on the epidemic that is domestic violence and might somehow help prevent even more tragedies in the future.
How Crennel or Pioli will get through it, I can't imagine. More than likely they will still be in shock from what they witnessed, something so awful that it will surely scar them for life. They weren't harmed, but in some way they're victims, too.
Football is by its nature a violent game, something those involved in the NFL understand all so well. But it's a controlled violence with people watching to make sure rules are enforced and limits aren't violated.
That two people died in a murder-suicide involving a current player isn't an indictment of the NFL because the same kind of crime happens in neighborhoods around the country on an all too regular basis. And there's no empirical evidence to suggest that NFL players are more prone to hurt people than anyone else.
By all accounts, Belcher was a quiet fourth-year player who graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in child development and won a starting spot in the NFL through hard work despite not being drafted.
"He was a good, good person ... a family man. A loving guy," said family friend Ruben Marshall, who said he coached Belcher in youth football on Long Island. "You couldn't be around a better person."
Pictures on Perkins' Facebook page show a seemingly happy couple cuddling their infant daughter.
But things aren't always as they seem, especially in the NFL. We see the players making big checks and driving big cars, but it's a tough job to get and a brutal one to keep.
The pressures to perform are immense, the contracts never really guaranteed. A player like Belcher is always one bad game away from getting the ax and being forced to find a new career.
And we haven't even begun to explore the possibility of brain injury. Too many former NFL players have done too many irrational things for it not to be raised as a question. Belcher was listed in a 2009 injury report as being limited in practice because of a head injury but not much else is known.
There are no easy answers.
So they will play a game Sunday. As difficult as it will be for the Chiefs, it won't be easy for the Panthers, either, playing through a delicate situation they never could have imagined.
The fans will come to cheer, but hopefully they also come to reflect, too.
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A member of the University of Pennsylvania's 1979 Final Four team was fatally stabbed by his wife, who told police she had caught him looking at child pornography, according to court documents.
Matthew White was found stabbed in the neck around 12:45 p.m. Monday in bed at his home, police said, and was pronounced dead a short time later. An officer responding to the home for a report of a stabbing found White's wife, Maria Rey Garcia-Pellon, as she pulled into the driveway, authorities said. As she was being taken into custody, according to a police affidavit, she said, "I caught him looking at pornography, young girls. I love kids. I had to do it."
White was the starting center on the Penn team that went to the 1979 semifinals before losing 101-67 to eventual national champion Michigan State, led by Magic Johnson. White went on to be drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers and also played in Europe.
Garcia-Pellon, 52, was in custody, and a telephone message left at her home was not immediately returned. It could not immediately be determined if she had an attorney.
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While being interviewed by police, authorities said, Garcia-Pellon said that between midnight and 1 a.m. Monday she went to the kitchen, had a glass of water and grabbed two knives before returning to the couple's bedroom and concealing the knives under her side of the bed.
After her husband had fallen asleep, police said, she grabbed a knife and stabbed him in the neck. When he awoke, the two struggled, and the victim collapsed on the bed after saying "I'm dying, I'm dying," police said. Garcia-Pellon then allegedly changed her clothing and left the home.
White remains Penn's all-time leader in field goal percentage for players with a minimum of 200 made baskets, shooting 59.1 percent from 1977-1979.
"We are greatly saddened to hear about the death of Matt White, and shocked by the details emerging about his death," Penn athletic director Steve Bilsky said in a statement. "For Penn fans, Matt is a reminder of some of the greatest days of our historic men's basketball program, the 1979 run to the NCAA Tournament Final Four, and he was a beloved member of the Penn men's basketball family right up until his death."
Bob Weinhauer, White's coach on the 1979 Penn team, said in a statement that his thoughts and prayers go out to White's two children. He said White continued to stay connected with Penn, even as he was recovering from a stroke.
"It was an honor to have been his coach at Penn and to see him develop into a great defensive player and an important member of the 1979 Final Four team," Weinhauer said. "Obviously this is a very difficult time for all who knew Matt, but I prefer to remember his playing the piano in hotels we stayed in on the road or assisting me in coaching the alumni game last year at Penn ... Matt will always be remembered as a true supporter of Penn Athletics. I am very sad that he has left us so soon."
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by Chris Braithwaite
copyright the Chronicle June 23, 2010
NEWPORT — George St. Francis wants to get out from under the control of his guardian and take over his own life.
Meanwhile, he faces a court process that could severely limit the freedoms he currently enjoys. He could be returned to the control of a state guardian and be subjected to 24-hour arm's length supervision, something like a prison without walls.
Which way his life will go is up to Judge Walter Morris, who had been conducting a series of Family Court hearings into his case.
A motion seeking Mr. St. Francis' emancipation as a competent adult has been filed by his attorney, Susan Davis.
If he were to grant the motion, Judge Morris would essentially end any state or court supervision of Mr. St. Francis.
And it would leave unresolved a question that clearly worries the judge, and other state and mental health practitioners who have dealt with him: Is he a potential sex offender, and as such a threat to public safety?
As he sat on the bench Thursday, June 17, at the latest of a long series of hearings on Mr. St. Francis, Judge Morris faced two radically different views of the man.
His lawyer and his advocates, his wife and his friends, see him as a victim of a system that exaggerated both his disability and his potential to harm others. As a result, they said, Mr. St. Francis spent 14 years in a system that confined him, humiliated him, over-medicated him with psychiatric drugs, and kept him far away from "normal" people and relationships.
On Thursday his lawyer, Susan Davis, went a step further and maintained that her client is not mentally retarded. It was that diagnosis, accepted by a Superior Court judge in 1996, that cost Mr. St. Francis his freedom and put him in the hands of a program that tried to help him while, at the same time, protect the public from him.
On the other hand, Judge Morris must consider a file on Mr. St. Francis that runs to 1,100 pages, and apparently contains allegations and evaluations which raise the alarming possibility that, left to his own devices, he could become a sex offender. Although the Chronicle has been granted limited access to the Family Court proceedings, which are normally held behind closed doors, the newspaper is not privy to the documents which support this view of Mr. St. Francis.
A year ago his problems seemed close to resolution. Judge Morris' predecessor in the case, Judge Robert Bent, had agreed that Mr. St. Francis should be released from the control of his state guardian. She was replaced by Janet Reed of Albany, an advocate for Mr. St. Francis and a determined foe of the program, Safe Choices, that controlled his life for years.
Run by Northeast Kingdom Human Services, the local community mental health agency, Safe Choices was created to deal with sex offenders who are so mentally handicapped that, as a constitutional matter, they cannot be tried for their crimes.
Mr. St. Francis does not fit that description. He is one of several men who were sent to Safe Choices because a guardian or family member was worried about their sexual behavior.
And far from being too mentally disabled to stand trial, Mr. St. Francis has on at least three occasions been the subject of minor criminal charges brought by his keepers in Safe Choices.
On the day she took over as Mr. St. Francis' guardian, in late July last year, Ms. Reed permitted him to marry Kathy McCammon, a woman who, state officials have repeatedly asserted, abused him in 2003 by sleeping with him while serving as his caregiver. That allegation has been investigated, but never proven, and both Ms. McCammon and Mr. St. Francis deny it.
Under a carefully negotiated court order, Mr. St. Francis was to be treated by Sterling Area Services, a mental health agency based in Morrisville, and to live under the close supervision of a couple in Northfield.
When Mr. St. Francis failed to keep an appointment with a Sterling therapist and moved in with his new wife, the agency terminated its treatment.
Judge Morris ruled in May that Ms. Reed violated the court order when she permitted her ward to marry and change his residence. Among the possible consequences for her, the judge wrote, could be a finding of contempt of court.
Among the consequences for Mr. St. Francis, he said, could be a return to state guardianship.
But in court last week a spokesman for the state resisted that possibility.
Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Myka was there to represent the Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living (DAIL), which oversees the state guardian system.
"It would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the department to take over Mr. St. Francis," she told Judge Morris.
Given all that's happened between the personalities involved, she said, "I just cannot see how we can interject ourselves in this… in a way that would be productive."
Nor did Sterling Services show any appetite to resume treatment of Mr. St. Francis. "Sterling doesn't believe it can get involved at this time," said its attorney, Robert Halpert.
The private guardianship has failed, Judge Morris said in obvious frustration. "The question is, what are we going to do?"
If he ordered another risk assessment of Mr. St. Francis, the judge asked, "can the department be of any assistance?""
"Certainly, the department could arrange for another assessment," Ms. Myka replied.
Mr. St. Francis' attorney, Ms. Davis, tried to shape the nature of any further evaluation of Mr. St. Francis.
"It's not the evaluation per se we're concerned about," she told the judge. "The prior evaluation was based on tons and tons of records. Many were exaggerated or false."
A new evaluation should be done without reference to those records, she argued.
But without them, Judge Morris replied, "How could it be a competent evaluation?"
In the end, Judge Morris ordered a new assessment that would include a "psycho-sexual" evaluation. He asked Ms. Myka to arrange for a specialist for the job, after consulting with Ms. Davis and Trudy Miller, the attorney for Ms. Reed.
Ms. Davis could obtain independent evaluations, he noted, and present those to the court. She and Ms. Miller could also challenge the findings of the court-ordered evaluation, he added.
He set the next hearing on the matter for early August.
In the lengthy motion she filed to terminate the guardianship altogether, Ms. Davis wrote that "two separate and independent psychologists have determined George St. Francis to NOT be mentally retarded."
Until September 2009, Ms. Davis said, the people in charge of Mr. St. Francis medicated him with Prozac, lithium carbonate, Topamax and Seroquel. "He was taking ALL of these, concurrently, and has been for years," she wrote.
"Side effects of these medications include drowsiness, dizziness, fatigue/insomnia, and headaches. Side effects of the lithium include blackouts, seizures, slurred speech and confusion. Side effects of Topamax include mental and physical slowing and delays, coordination problems, confusion, difficulty with concentration and attention."
"Today," Ms. Davis wrote, "clear of thought and medication, with a home, a wife, a life on the farm and the security that that brings, he no longer wants a guardianship of any kind."
Though he has attended the hearings on his fate, Mr. St. Francis has never had an opportunity to testify. On Thursday, waiting in the corridor for proceedings to start, Mr. St. Francis chatted with his guardian's husband, Alan Reed, who seems to be a particular friend.
Mr. St. Francis, a large man with a quick smile and a keen sense of humor, sought detailed advice from Mr. Reed on how to deal with a tractor that had broken down on his wife's farm.


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Electronic structure calculations play a major role in science and engineering, providing valuable information about molecular structure, thermodynamic and spectroscopic properties, and for modeling chemical reactivity and catalysis. The teaching of electronic structure theory at the undergraduate level is a common activity in chemistry departments (usually as part of a physical chemistry curriculum that is taught to junior-level students), and often some of the students are from engineering. Traditionally the material covered in such courses emphasizes fundamental concepts, such as the postulates of quantum mechanics, and simple applications, such as the particle in box, harmonic oscillator, and the hydrogen atom. Sometimes there is a computational component in which an electronic structure code is used to study small molecule properties. Such material is reasonable for chemistry majors, but does not serve engineering students very well.
At Northwestern University we have developed curricular materials for teaching junior-level engineering students that include projects with an engineering emphasis. These projects use the NUITNS program package at nanoHUB.org, which is an integrated package for electronic structure computation and molecular property visualization. NUITNS provides a user environment where the interface for defining the nature of the calculations and for visualizing the results is straightforward enough that the students can focus on the physical content of their calculations, basically making quantum mechanics "come alive" for solving problems that have real-world connections.
NUITNS includes the following components:
* QC-Lab : electronic structure calculations based on the GAMESS electronic structure program (also includes the MacMolPlt and Molden programs for building and display of molecules)
* CNDO/INDO : electronic structure calculations based on semiempirical methods
* UV-Spec : electronic structure and the prediction of electronic spectra based on semi-empirical methods
* MolST Molecular Structure Tracer: visualization of molecular structure
* TEDVis Theoretical Visualization of Electron Density: visualization of electron density
Among these components, QC-Lab provides the most extensive functionality for doing electronic structure calculations. The figure below shows a snapshot of the QC-Lab interface, which includes facilities for inputting or building molecular structures, defining parameters for using a variety of electronic structure methods and basis functions, and selecting many different properties to calculate. The output from such calculations can be used (via the MacMolPlt and Molden programs) to display molecular orbitals, electron densities, vibrational normal modes, various kinds of spectra, and many other properties. QC-Lab can accommodate density functional and wave function-based electronic structure theories, as well as semiempirical calculations based on methods like PM3. The CNDO/INDO and UV-Spec codes provide additional functionality for doing semiempirical calculations based on methods like INDO/S that are relevant to the determination of electronic spectra.
We have developed five assignments in which students can use various components of NUITNS in applications that show the capabilities, and occasionally failures, of quantum mechanics to describe real-world problems. These include:
a) The thermodynamics and thermochemistry associated with methanol, including studies of solvation effects and combustion modeling,
b) The optical and chemical properties of doped nanodiamonds (substitutional and endohedral doping effects for diamondoid structures)
c) Retinal isomerization (calculating isomerization energies for chomophores involved in vision),
d) The structures and optical properties of silver nanoparticles (calculating electronic spectra of gold clusters as models of nanoparticles),
e) Carbon nanotube mechanical properties (determining stress-strain behavior of individual carbon nanotubes).
The first two of these assignments are described in a paper by T. Simeon, C. Aikens, B. Tejerina and G. C. Schatz (J. Chem. Ed", submitted, 2010'). The other three assignments are presented in files that are linked below. These assignments provide opportunities for the students to gain experience in building molecules, testing different electronic structure models and basis sets, calculating thermodynamic, mechanical and spectroscopic properties, making comparisons with experiment, and ultimately to assess the quality of the results.
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Endometrium cancer occurs in women who are of 50 years of age and above and usually caused by hormonal imbalance, which is having excessive estrogen hormone and low progesterone hormone in the body. These hormones thicken and contract the uterus. With the hormonal imbalance, the endometrium gets thicker and thicker, and if this trend continues and stays in that state, the cancerous cells start to grow.
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Action Comics #862
Gender, Inanimate, Size, Animal
===Animal=== This issue continues Chameleon Girl facing Earth Man. (Spoiler Text) ===Inanimate=== The Legion send in reinforcements, in the form of the Legion of Substitute-Heroes. One of their members is Dag Wentim of the planet Zwen, Stone Boy. (Spoiler Text) ===Gender/Size=== The
Action League Now! episode Fatter.
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Adventure Time with Finn and Jake
Age, Inanimate, Size
Size (Jake's Shapeshifting), Inanimate (Magic Man episode), Age (Lich episode) Cartoon Network presents a new hit cartoon called Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, most commonly called Adventure Time! Finn the Human lives with his buddy Jake, a shapeshifting dog in a magical land called Ooo i
The Adventures of Gulliver episode The Forbidden Pool
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"Adventures of Shrinkman" by R. L. Stine
Danny is obsessed with the movie character Shrinkman. At the premiere of the new Shrinkman movie, Danny drinks some Shrinkman cola and stands in the projector's light for a moment; shortly afterwards, he starts to shrink. His parents and his doctor think there's no cure for his constant dwindling.
Ala... Dina!
Animal, Female, Gender, Inanimate, Male, Size, Were, Age
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The All New Atom #16
Gender, Mechanical, Size, Age
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Animaniacs, Episode 75
Race, Size
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The Ant Bully
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Arthur and the Invisibles
Size, Mythical
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Arthur episode "Buster's Best Behavior"
Male, Size, Gender
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Size, Size
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Part of Disney Channel's Freaky Freakend. Dez buys a magic typewriter that falls into the wrong hands. Body swaps occur between Ally & Trish and Dez & Austin. Then Dez swaps with Ally. Later, Dez is transformed into a cactus, a goldfish, and Ally's father in a chicken suit and during Ally's speech,
The Avengers episode Unknown
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Bad Channels
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Bart Simpson Comics #40
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks
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Bibi Blocksberg und das Geheimnis der Blauen Eulen (2004)
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C. S. Lewis book The Great Divorce
This book tells the story of some citizens of Hell who are given the opportunity to visit Heaven. In one tale, a man visits his wife (who went to Heaven on her death). The man is portrayed as a dwarf leading a life-size mannequin on a chain. The dwarf is the man; the mannequin is the phony, manipula
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This commercial has a man wrestling with a huge green ogre, representing his credit card bills. "You've been feeding on high interest rates haven't you?" he says. The ogre throws him across the room. Before the ogre can get to him again the wife comes and jump kicks him. She tells her husband about
Captain Planet and the Planeteers episode Frog Day Afternoon.
Linka and Wheeler are struck by a shrinking formula by the villainous Doctor Blight. To get to it (they may redirect you to their home page), click TV Shows (left menu), 90s (Beavis and Butthead -_-), Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Frog Day Afternoon. I recall that episode primarily for Linka
Captain Simian and The Space Monkeys episode Gormongus
Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys is an animated series about a crew of anthropomorphic primates who travel through space battling the evil rhesus 2. The gorilla of the group, named Gor is turned into a large hulking monster named Gormongus after being subjected to an isotope, and this i
Cardcaptors episode No Problem Too Small
Maddison comes over to get the measurments for a new costume for Sakura. Kero and Sakura sense a clow card, so she rushes to find it. She walks into her dad's room and finds the little card, but before she can catch it she is shrunken and left only a quater of an inch tall!
Cardcaptors/Card Captor Sakura episode Sakura in Wonderland
When Eriol places a spell on Sakura's book, you guessed it, Alice in Wonderland she ends up in the world of that book. When she meet up with the Mad Hatter, Touya/Tori, he offers her tea and Sakura shrinks again like in "No Problem too Small/Sakura's Little Adventure." After Tweedle Dee and Dum, L
In the 'Freak Show' level, you have to fight a monster which is composed of the top halves of two men, sewn together at the waist. According to the docs, they were two acrobats who were kidnapped by a mad scientist, altered, and lobotomized. The last monster in the 'Freak Show' level is Junior, a
Carnival commercial Mountain Dew Code Red
A guy wins a shoot-the-clown-in-the-mouth game at a carnival.The carnie doesn't want to give up his Mountain Dew as a prize. The two face off in a duel, shooting water in each others mouths until both of their heads inflates. Click here to watch Mountain Dew - Carnival
Cartoon Network Action Pack issue Running with the Big Dog
A comic about Juniper Lee. Ray Ray was trying to make a potion to make a lizard grow to a giant size, but Monroe got in the way and he slowly grows to a giant size (most of it was fat) and fills up the house. He does manage to shrink back to his normal size by the end of the comic.
Cataclysm The Ultimates Last Stand #5
To prevent Galactus from consuming the world Kitty Pryde is injected with the Giant-Man serum and becomes a towering giantess. The two titans engage in combat while Kitty also uses her phasing abilities to destroy the machine that Galactus uses to convert planets into energy that he can absorb.
Celebrity Deathmatch: Barry v. Bud
In the new episode Barry Bonds took on MLB Comminisher Bud Selig. Most of the match Bonds was easily defeating Selig until he accidently throws him in his gym bag that is filled with a dozen or so needles filled with Steroids. Selig is then accidently injected with then and grows to a giant.
Challengers of the Unknown #7
The Challengers are in pursuit of a criminal who uses a dead scientist's inventions to commit fantastic robberies. The criminal uses a reducing ray to shrink them to doll-size and imprisons them in a bird cage. The Challs' ally June frees them and uses the ray to restore them to normal.
Charles De Lint book The Little Country
The novel is broken into two stories. In one, the curious Jodi is shrunken down to the size of a mouse by a witch. She must then survive the witch's plans for her. An excellent novel.
The Charmings episode Unknown
In this short-lived comedy/fantasy series focusing on Snow White and Prince Charming awakening to find themselves in modern LA, Snow's evil witch stepmother cooks up a reducing potion designed to make her wealthy as a weight-loss guru, only to have it shrink Charming to about six inches in height.
Check 'n' Go commercial Unknown
Series of commercials for a "payday loan" company (you write them a check today and they give you money, then they hold the check for a couple of weeks or until your next pay day.) Commercials dramatized the pressures of Christmas shopping by showing a person shrunk to about an inch in height trying
Monster, Size, Were, Furry
Claymore, the anime series, is based upon this manga series. The yomas, claymores, awakened beings, and demons of the abyss are capable of partially or completely transforming to human or monstrous forms. In some cases, the transformations are irreversible. (Spoiler Text)
Club Dread
In the film a murderer stalks the Staff of a Resort Island, one of the staff is a guy named Lars, a chunky guy who has a knowledge of Asian accupressure techniques. As he and his wouldbe girlfriend are chased by the killer they try to crawl under a bed but he is too fat. Suddenly he begins to concen
Dice.com Being IT
Size, Inanimate
Countdown #28
In this series, the innocent Mary Marvel has lost her powers from the wizard Shazam!, and was left on her own after recovering from a fall (caused by her power failure). She later takes on the powers of Black Adam, and begins to be tempted and corrupted by Eclipso. In this issue, she uses her b
Countdown to Adventure #4
The backup tale of this book continues from the previous issue. Forerunner is now fighting Dark Angel. To one up Forerunner, Dark Angel grows in size to crush her. (Spoiler Text)
A webcomic about a class of gifted kids.
Age, Animal, Inanimate, Size, Mythical
A "wild west" fantasy webcomic loosely based on Native American mythology mixed with supernatural/spiritual elements from multiple religions. Characters undergo many supernatural transformations into animals or monsters, or cause other characters or inanimate objects to transform. (Spoiler Te


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All about rosacea. National Rosacea Society website. Available at: https://www.rosacea.org/patients/allaboutrosacea.php. Accessed December 27, 2017.
Rosacea. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T116224/Rosacea . Updated June 8, 2017. Accessed December 27, 2017.
Tips for talking to your doctor. Family Doctor—American Academy of Family Physicians website. Available at: https://familydoctor.org/tips-for-talking-to-your-doctor. Updated May 2014. Accessed December 27, 2017.
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Incredible Dash Cam Video Shows Head-On Collision With Rolling Cement Truck
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Lo and behold, the new puzzle season has begun! And beginnings are critical. Sentences begin with capital letters, albums begin with hit songs, and the first in a movie trilogy is always the best. This, however, is something we don't always seem to realize.
You're probably like me in that you remember the ninth inning home runs and forget the second inning ones. Each run scored is worth the same, though, isn't it? And one might even argue that runs scored in the early innings are often more significant because the game is less likely decided at that point. Regardless of such logic, most people, including myself, continue to put a disproportionate amount of focus on the end.
However, I urge you to remember one thing. Each inning carries equal weight.
Leadoff hitting is what you should focus on. Each inning's leadoff hitter is the most important, whether the first or the ninth inning. Don't ask me to quote the source, but a team is something like 3 times more likely to score in any inning if they get the leadoff man on than if they don't.
Take a second to think about that. Early, middle, or late innings, it's the first guy up that really matters. After the leadoff guy, the difference the following folks make is significantly diminished. Maybe that means we can ignore everything past the leadoff hitter?
I'll leave it at that, as I know there's a puzzle to get to. Now, with no further ado, here's the part we've been waiting for:
Read the following poem:
I've read it now countless times.
Still, I find nothing.
Hint (11:07am PT): The opening text is relevant for more than one reason.
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FR Doc E9-24382[Federal Register: October 9, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 195)]
[Page 52190-52192]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
Notice of Intent, Pursuant to the Authority in Section 2(h)(7) of
the Commodity Exchange Act and Commission Rule 36.3(c)(3), To Undertake
a Determination Whether the Dominion-South Financial Basis Contract,
Offered for Trading on the IntercontinentalExchange, Inc., Performs a
Significant Price Discovery Function
AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
ACTION: Notice of action and request for comment.
SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'' or
``Commission'') is undertaking a review to determine whether the
Dominion-South Financial Basis contract (``DOM''), offered for trading
on the IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (``ICE''), an exempt commercial
market (``ECM'') under sections 2(h)(3)-(5) of the Commodity Exchange
Act (``CEA'' or the ``Act''), performs a significant price discovery
function. Authority for this action is found in section 2(h)(7) of the
CEA and Commission rule 36.3(c) promulgated thereunder. In connection
with this evaluation, the Commission invites comment from interested
DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 26, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted by any of the following methods:
Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Federal
eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
E-mail: [email protected]. Include Dominion-South
Financial Basis Contract (DOM) in the subject line of the message.
Fax: (202) 418-5521.
Mail: Send to David A. Stawick, Secretary, Commodity
Futures Trading
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Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, NW., Washington,
Courier: Same as mail above.
All comments received will be posted without change to http://
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gregory K. Price, Industry Economist,
Division of Market Oversight, Commodity Futures Trading Commission,
Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581.
Telephone: (202) 418-5515. E-mail: [email protected]; or Susan Nathan,
Senior Special Counsel, Division of Market Oversight, same address.
Telephone: (202) 418-5133. E-mail: [email protected].
I. Introduction
On March 16, 2009, the CFTC promulgated final rules implementing
provisions of the CFTC Reauthorization Act of 2008 (``Reauthorization
Act'') \1\ which subjects ECMs with significant price discovery
contracts (``SPDCs'') to self-regulatory and reporting requirements, as
well as certain Commission oversight authorities, with respect to those
contracts. Among other things, these rules and rule amendments revise
the information-submission requirements applicable to ECMs, establish
procedures and standards by which the Commission will determine whether
an ECM contract performs a significant price discovery function, and
provide guidance with respect to compliance with nine statutory core
principles applicable to ECMs with SPDCs. These rules became effective
on April 22, 2009.
\1\ 74 FR 12178 (Mar. 23, 2009); these rules became effective on
April 22, 2009.
In determining whether an ECM's contract is or is not a SPDC, the
Commission will evaluate the contract's material liquidity, price
linkage to other contracts, potential for arbitrage with other
contracts traded on designated contract markets or derivatives
transaction execution facilities, use of the ECM contract's prices to
execute or settle other transactions, and other factors.
In order to facilitate the Commission's identification of possible
SPDCs, Commission rule 36.3(c)(2) requires that an ECM operating in
reliance on section 2(h)(3) promptly notify the Commission and provide
supporting information or data concerning any contract: (i) That
averaged five trades per day or more over the most recent calendar
quarter; and (ii) (A) for which the ECM sells price information
regarding the contract to market participants or industry publications;
or (B) whose daily closing or settlement prices on 95 percent or more
of the days in the most recent quarter were within 2.5 percent of the
contemporaneously determined closing, settlement, or other daily price
of another agreement.
II. Determination of a SPDC
A. The SPDC Determination Process
Commission rule 36.3(c)(3) establishes the procedures by which the
Commission makes and announces its determination on whether a specific
ECM contract serves a significant price discovery function. Under those
procedures, the Commission will publish a notice in the Federal
Register that it intends to undertake a determination as to whether the
specified agreement, contract, or transaction performs a significant
price discovery function and to receive written data, views, and
arguments relevant to its determination from the ECM and other
interested persons.\2\ After prompt consideration of all relevant
information,\3\ the Commission will, within a reasonable period of time
after the close of the comment period, issue an order explaining its
determination. Following the issuance of an order by the Commission
that the ECM executes or trades an agreement, contract, or transaction
that performs a significant price discovery function, the ECM must
demonstrate, with respect to that agreement, contract, or transaction,
compliance with the core principles under section 2(h)(7)(C) of the CEA
\4\ and the applicable provisions of part 36. If the Commission's order
represents the first time it has determined that one of the ECM's
contracts performs a significant price discovery function, the ECM must
submit a written demonstration of its compliance with the core
principles within 90 calendar days of the date of the Commission's
order. For each subsequent determination by the Commission that the ECM
has an additional SPDC, the ECM must submit a written demonstration of
its compliance with the core principles within 30 calendar days of the
Commission's order.
\2\ The Commission may commence this process on its own
initiative or on the basis of information provided to it by an ECM
pursuant to the notification provisions of Commission rule
\3\ Where appropriate, the Commission may choose to interview
market participants regarding their impressions of a particular
contract. Further, while they may not provide direct evidentiary
support with respect to a particular contract, the Commission may
rely for background and context on resources such as its October
2007 Report on the Oversight of Trading on Regulated Futures
Exchanges and Exempt Commercial Markets (``ECM Study''). http://
\4\ 7 U.S.C. 2(h)(7)(C).
B. Dominion-South Financial Basis Contract
The DOM contract is cash settled based on the difference between
the bidweek price index for a particular calendar month at the Dominion
Transmission, Inc.'s, Appalachia hub, as published by Platts in its
Inside FERC's Gas Market Report, and the final settlement price of the
New York Mercantile Exchange's (NYMEX's) physically-delivered Henry Hub
natural gas futures contract for the same calendar month. The Platts
bidweek price is computed from fixed-price, bilateral transactions
executed during the last five business days of a given month, where the
transactions specify the delivery of natural gas during the following
calendar month. The price index is computed as the volume-weighted
average of the applicable natural gas transactions. Bidweek prices are
published on the first business day of the month in which the gas
flows. The size of the DOM contract is 2,500 mm Btu, and the unit of
trading is any multiple of 2,500 mm Btu. The DOM contract is listed for
up to 72 consecutive calendar months.
Based upon a required quarterly notification filed on July 27, 2009
(mandatory under Rule 36.3(c)(2)), the ICE reported that, with respect
to its DOM contract, the total number of trades was 347 in the second
quarter of 2009, resulting in a daily average of 5.4 trades. During the
same period, the DOM contract had a total trading volume of 38,872
contracts and an average daily trading volume of 607.4 contracts.
Moreover, the open interest as of June 30, 2009, was 97,240 contracts.
It appears that the DOM contract may satisfy the material
liquidity, price linkage, and material price reference factors for SPDC
determination. With respect to material liquidity, trading in the DOM
contract averaged more than 600 contracts on a daily basis, with more
than 5 separate transactions each day. In addition, the open interest
in the subject contract was large. In regard to price linkage, the
final settlement of the DOM contract is based, in part, on the final
settlement price of the NYMEX's physically-delivered natural gas
contract, where the NYMEX is registered with the Commission as a
designated contract market (``DCM''). In terms of material price
reference, while it did not specify which contracts served a
significant price discovery
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function or reference this particular contract, the Commission's ECM
Study stated that, in general, market participants view the ICE as a
price discovery market for certain natural gas contracts. Natural gas
contracts based on actively-traded hubs are transacted heavily on the
ICE's electronic trading platform, with the remainder being completed
over-the-counter and potentially submitted for clearing by voice
brokers. In addition, ICE sells its price data to market participants
in a number of different packages which vary in terms of the hubs
covered, time periods, and whether the data are daily only or
historical. For example, the ICE offers ``West Gas End of Day'' and
``OTC Gas End of Day'' data packages with access to all price data or
just 12, 24, 36, or 48 months of historical data.
III. Request for Comment
In evaluating whether an ECM's agreement, contract, or transaction
performs a significant price discovery function, section 2(h)(7) of the
CEA directs the Commission to consider, as appropriate, four specific
criteria: price linkage, arbitrage, material price reference, and
material liquidity. As it explained in Appendix A to the part 36
rules,\5\ the Commission, in making SPDC determinations, will apply and
weigh each factor, as appropriate, to the specific contract and
circumstances under consideration.
\5\ 17 CFR 36, Appendix A.
As part of its evaluation, the Commission will consider the written
data, views, and arguments from any ECM that lists the potential SPDC
and from any other interested parties. Accordingly, the Commission
requests comment on whether the ICE's DOM contract performs a
significant price discovery function. Commenters' attention is directed
particularly to Appendix A of the Commission's part 36 rules for a
detailed discussion of the factors relevant to a SPDC determination.
The Commission notes that comments which analyze the contracts in terms
of these factors will be especially helpful to the determination
process. In order to determine the relevance of comments received, the
Commission requests that commenters explain in what capacity are they
knowledgeable about the subject contract.
IV. Related Matters
A. Paperwork Reduction Act
The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (``PRA'') \6\ imposes certain
requirements on Federal agencies, including the Commission, in
connection with their conducting or sponsoring any collection of
information, as defined by the PRA. Certain provisions of final
Commission rule 36.3 impose new regulatory and reporting requirements
on ECMs, resulting in information collection requirements within the
meaning of the PRA; OMB previously has approved and assigned OMB
control number 3038-0060 to this collection of information.
\6\ 44 U.S.C. 3507(d).
B. Cost-Benefit Analysis
Section 15(a) of the CEA \7\ requires the Commission to consider
the costs and benefits of its actions before issuing an order under the
Act. By its terms, section 15(a) does not require the Commission to
quantify the costs and benefits of such an order or to determine
whether the benefits of such an order outweigh its costs; rather, it
requires that the Commission ``consider'' the costs and benefits of its
action. Section 15(a) further specifies that the costs and benefits
shall be evaluated in light of five broad areas of market and public
concern: (1) Protection of market participants and the public; (2)
efficiency, competitiveness, and financial integrity of futures
markets; (3) price discovery; (4) sound risk management practices; and
(5) other public interest considerations.
\7\ 7 U.S.C. 19(a).
The bulk of the costs imposed by the requirements of Commission
Rule 36.3 relate to significant and increased information-submission
and reporting requirements adopted in response to the Reauthorization
Act's directive that the Commission take an active role in determining
whether contracts listed by ECMs qualify as SPDCs. The enhanced
requirements for ECMs will permit the Commission to acquire the
information it needs to discharge its newly-mandated responsibilities
and to ensure that ECMs with SPDCs are identified as entities with the
elevated status of registered entity under the CEA and are in
compliance with the statutory terms of the core principles of section
2(h)(7)(C) of the Act. The primary benefit to the public is to enable
the Commission to discharge its statutory obligation to monitor for the
presence of SPDCs and extend its oversight to the trading of SPDCs.
Issued in Washington, DC, on October 5, 2009 by the Commission.
David A. Stawick,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. E9-24382 Filed 10-8-09; 8:45 am]
Last Updated: October 9, 2009