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One of my favorite quotes from the late Peter Drucker is "You cannot manage what you do not measure." There are dozens, if not hundreds, of business organizations in our industry that still do not understand this basic theorem. These companies exist on what I call situational inertia. Many of these dealers continue to do well in spite of not measuring or managing their departmental performance. In many cases, these enterprises succeed due to having the right mix of people, infrastructure and tools in order to keep customers happy, and keep the business going. They are successful only by their own definition of success. This is why I don't like the term success. It's self-defined, and many times it's a moving target. I prefer to focus instead on optimizing resources. Optimization is much more measurable and static. It answers the looming question:
How good could it be?
Many of us remember the boom years of the late 1990s. New equipment sales were breaking records, and OEM's were struggling to increase their manufacturing
There are times when the pace of the market actually blows an organization toward the success that they never saw coming, and never really planned for. This is the inertia I referred to earlier. The sad and sobering news however demonstrates time and again, that our market is cyclical. The winds of economic growth will not carry us forever. When the wind stops blowing, and the customers are no longer expanding, or replacing their fleet, your organization has to adapt to the changing landscape.
In order to actually chart a course forward, instead of simply hoping for the best, it is important to pinpoint exactly where you are on the map. You cannot simply set goals based on industry standards and practices. Your plan has to uniquely apply to you. Yes, there are industry benchmarks that apply to many of the standard metrics used to run a dealership, but every business operates a little differently. Planning for success cannot be done with a one-size-fits-all formula.
There are three steps to measuring and managing your departments to optimum performance. The first is assessment. You have to know what is, if you want to know what can be. The second step is proper goal setting. The third step is to develop action plans and initiatives to move you toward those goals.
Using these three steps to chart the course answers the three questions that all of your managers and your employees instinctively want to know:
Where are we? (Assessments)
Where are we going? (Goalsetting)
How are we going to get there? (Action plans and initiatives)
In this article I will discuss the first portion of this process -Where are we? It's important to know how and what to assess as you search for optimization. In subsequent issues, I will touch on goalsetting, action plans and initiatives.
Where are we?
Measurement is the first step in any assessment of a dealerships business operations. The key to success in measurement is to find the things that are really worth measuring. Even more importantly, and more difficult, is to find the actual key metrics to measure. Not every measurement will provide the proper insight.
We live in the information age. We have all come to believe in the adage that knowledge is power. Just look at the news media. 24-hour news cycles shovel information at us so fast, our brains can hardly assimilate the deluge. Should we listen to the broadcaster or read the crawling message at the bottom of the screen? Perhaps there is better data on the website, so we open the laptop or turn on the tablet to navigate the web's version of the latest event. If there is a word we don't understand, or information we need that will give us context, it's ultimately simple to just grab our favorite device and asking Siri (or Cortana, or Alexa) to inform us on the population of Syria, or the location of the Caspian Sea, or the meaning of the word vituperative.
Data…at our fingertips. This has become the standard of our time. Data is widely available. There is a preponderance of data about your business that can and should be used to establish where you are, and help you chart a course for where you want to go. The difficult task of assessing data is comprised in these two questions:
- Is the data that I am using accurate?
- Is the data, after confirming accuracy, meaningful?
We live in a constantly changing world of aftermarket data points. Here are just a few:
- Sales revenue
- Cost of goods sold
- Gross profit
- Direct expenses
- Allocated expenses
- Net operating profit
- Absorption rate
- Labor efficiency rate
- Overtime/double-time
- Billing efficiency rate
- Internal labor ratio
- Number of PM's
- Response time
- First time fix ratio
- Inventory turns (warehouse)
- Inventory turns (service vans)
- Stock order ratio
- Dollars per parts order
- Profit per parts order
- Average daily parts billing
I could list another 40 or 50 bullet points here, but I think we all get the picture. There is an enormous amount of data available to measure. In this regard, I think it's vitally important to focus on collecting and using data points that can be:
- Measured from multiple viewpoints - i.e. amount produced/percentage/ growth
- Tied to performance of the department (specific)
- Tied to a hard target goal that is widely understood by the majority of the staff (especially departmentally).
For instance, we can measure our total revenues in the parts department. But if we do, we must understand that this measurement may need to be broken down into smaller pieces in order to tie it to performance and goals. To be meaningful revenues may have to be broken down and segmented as follows:
- Counter revenues
- Shop revenues
- Service van revenues
- Revenues per counterperson
- Revenues per billing day
- Revenues per product line
I have attended countless forecasting sessions, where parts managers looked at their annual numbers and simply tacked on 5% for next year. The thought process was fairly cursory. Most suppliers will increase their prices 2% across the board, and we can expect growth at around 3% for the coming year.
Other than the impact of inflation, in general, revenues don't grow themselves. Growth doesn't just happen. Managing what you have measured takes a plan of action. The component pieces that make up a total revenue forecast are more important than the revenue target itself. It helps you with the ever present question of how are we going to do that? The steps you take are enacted by your people and governed by your processes, but you cannot start to make a real plan without the breakdown.
The six breakdown assessments listed above can be accurately measured, and can have their own line-item targets for improvement that are consolidated into a tangible plan of action that can be executed, re-measured, altered if needed, and managed once again.
So if you don't already follow this plan of measuring, targeting, and then managing the results, give it a try on just one or two of the data points on which you can trust. Just remember that every major line on your operating statement that you use to truly manage your business needs to be broken down into actionable pieces in order to be significant.
After you choose the measurements, and establish where you are we can begin the practice of setting appropriate targets. But that is the subject of the next aftermarket column!
Dave Baiocchi is the president of Resonant Dealer Services LLC. He has spent 33 years in the equipment business as a sales manager, aftermarket director and dealer principal. Dave now consults with dealerships nationwide to establish and enhance best practices, especially in the area of aftermarket development and performance. E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com to contact Dave.
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WITH a fervor not seen in a decade, newspapers and magazines are moving onto the merge lane of the information superhighway. That emerging network, publishers say, isn't just for zapping sound and images around the globe.
``Everyone talks about the electronic age as being the death of newspapers,'' says William Allman, senior writer at U.S. News & World Report. ``I think it's going to be, in some ways, the revitalization.''
Mr. Allman is a system operator - or ``sysop'' - for the magazine's new on-line service. Since Nov. 29, subscribers to the popular CompuServe electronic network have been able to view each edition of the newsweekly, print out its cover photo, send letters to the writers, or search for articles in previous editions. Plenty of other magazines and newspapers are doing the same thing.
Time magazine has hooked up with the America On-line electronic network, which also sports The Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic, the Chicago Tribune, and the San Jose Mercury News. Newspapers on-line
Last week, the Vienna, Va., company announced that it will have the New York Times on-line in the first quarter of 1994. The Times will also become available next year on Dow Jones's electronic service, which already provides access to the Wall Street Journal.
The other major on-line company, Prodigy, has signed deals to bring several newspapers on-line, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Los Angeles Times, and Newsday.
Still others are trailblazing new paths into the electronic ether. The Washington Post expects to have its own on-line service running by next summer.
In all, some 15 newspapers are already on-line and many more deals are in the works, according to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). This move is part of a much larger push into nontraditional offerings, from audio-text (where subscribers can phone in to find sports scores, for example) to faxed editions. The NAA estimates that newspapers in the United States offer some 500 to 600 such services.
Newspapers are eager to experiment for two reasons:
* First, the growth in advertising revenues has declined sharply from the trend set in the 1980s.
``The last three years were a clarion call to editors and publishers to understand the changing economics of the marketplace,'' says NAA President Cathleen Black. ``That tremendous jolt has encouraged people to expand and explore because the old way of doing business ... is not enough.''
* The second factor is the threat that the print media will see new competitors encroach on their traditional turf, especially classified advertising. ``Untold number of electronic competitors -
from tiny start-ups to on-line services, RBOCS [the Baby Bells] and cable companies - are attempting to cherry-pick newspaperdom's most-lucrative franchise,'' warns a Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. report issued last month. Newspapers are still safe from meaningful competition for at least another two years, the report concludes. Still, their electronic experiments are important, says Mary Dedinsky, associate dean of Northwestern University's Medill Journalism School. ``The newspapers must be there to protect themselves.''
The experiments now under way are a far cry from failed attempts a decade ago to create ``electronic newspapers.''
``The big companies who played in the early '80s were doing it out of legitimate research purposes,'' says Gary Arlen, a Bethesda, Md., analyst specializing in interactive electronic media. ``It was a flop. And they validated it was a flop.''
This time, the experiments are much less costly, he points out, and newspapers should be able to cover their costs with the on-line services. But he is skeptical they will create important new revenues in the next several years.
Other observers are more sanguine. They point out that computers are much more pervasive in homes than 10 years ago. And publishers are no longer merely slapping their printed editions onto a computer screen.
``Nobody wants to read a newspaper on a screen,'' says Randolph Charles, director of marketing and new business development for Newsday. Instead, Newsday and other publishers are looking to provide access to their archives and other offerings. Newsday is already doing this with a telephone service. On this year's anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, it supplemented its newspaper coverage with historical recordings of radio reports made that day. Some 7,000 subscribers called in.
The electronic version of U.S. News & World Report is an experiment, says Kevin Knott, director of product marketing for CompuServe. The newsmagazine has decided to let readers view the current edition without the usual surcharge for CompuServe's on-line magazines.
One of the big challenges will be finding the right mix of electronic services to attract a big audience. Not counting Internet, the world's largest network of computer networks, today's electronic services reach some 4 million homes, Mr. Arlen estimates, which is not yet a mass market. The numbers of on-line subscribers is mushrooming. CompuServe, with 1.5 million users worldwide, has added nearly 500,000 net new users this year. America On-line is also growing rapidly. Future uncertain
No one knows whether these electronic services represent the future of printed news. One problem is that they are slow. It can take two minutes or more to download the cover of U.S. News & World Report, even with a speedy modem.
CompuServe is testing a program that links up its Exeter, N.H., subscribers through much faster cable-television lines operated by Continental Cablevision.
One way or another, the print media are moving to ensure they won't get bypassed when the information superhighway comes through town.
``Every little bit helps to figure out what the electronic newspaper is going to look like,'' Arlen says. But ``this is a long-term evolutionary process.... People are shocked when I say there will be a daily paper - on paper - in 50 years.''


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If you've ever tried a Paleo diet, or taken a course of antibiotics after a nasty encounter with Bolivian water, you may be curious as to what microbes live in your body, or lived until you killed them with antibiotics.
Today the founder of uBiome, a startup that allows you to discover your microbiome, was named as the leader of one of Indigogo's hottest campaigns led by women. Jessica Richman raised $351,193 back in November for her world first citizen research campaign to sequence the human microbiome, triple her initial goal.
So what is your microbiome exactly? It's the collection of trillions of bacteria that live on you and inside of you, a balanced ecosystem that keeps potential pathogens in check and regulates your immune system.
Studies have linked the microbiome to human mood and behavior, as well as many gut disorders, eczema, and chronic sinusitis.
I gave up meat for 5 years, and I've noticed that when I try to eat it now, I can't digest it properly. Since microbes help us to digest food and synthesize vitamins, maybe my microbiome is lacking key elements to digest meat properly.
By using a uBiome kit, you can understand how your microbiome compares to cutting-edge scientific research, see what's happening internally when you are sick, or trying an intervention, or just find out about other people with a similar microbiome to you.
The process is painless - you swipe a cotton swab across the area you want to sequence, either your mouth, nose, genitals, skin or gut, using the kit from uBiome. You also need to fill in a survey. And be patient. You might be waiting months for them to sequence your data and represent it in an engaging and useful format.
I'm super pumped about the possibilities this opens up. A fan of understanding what foods I'm allergic to, with uBiome I will be able to take swabs at 5 distinct time points to see how foods interfere and interact with my microbiome, as well as see what other people similar to me have already discovered about their intolerances.
So far 3,000 people have signed up to get tested, and about a third have sent back samples to be included in the project. It's just $89 to get your microbiome sequenced, and you can do so here.
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Culturing gut microbial samples would probably interconnect with every degenerative health condition, making uBiome a necessary standard for pooled data.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's former economy minister and vice president, Amado Boudou, was freed from jail on Friday after an appeals court ruled that he was unlikely to interfere in a corruption case against him.
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DENISE DIAZ, 42, lives in Des Moines, Iowa.
She is an owner of The Ritual Cafe in downtown Des Moines, located at 1301 Locust Street.
The Ritual has been there for three and a half years.
A staple of the cafe is regular life music.
The New American Dream Trivia Question:
To win a round button that says, "Bush Is Lying About What He Knew," be the first one to correctly answer the following.
Denise Diaz would rather be ....
a. Somewhere in Dubuque b. At Spaghetti Works c. Cooking on TV d. Trying out for American Idol e. In Cicily, Alaska f. Washing dishes, away from the crowd
NAD: Denise, hello, thank you for taking the time for this.
How does an oatmeal, hemp granola, yogurt, yogurt w/hemp granola cafe go over in downtown Des Moines?
It requires a lot of explaining on our part.
Once we explain that hemp food contains no THC, people lose interest even though it is healthy food for them.
NAD: Where are you from? What were you doing before the Ritual?
I was born here in Des Moines and raised in Valley Junction in West Des Moines.
Before the ritual I was roasting and managing Java Joes Coffee house downtown Des Moines.
NAD: Which came first, the music or the omelette?
NAD: Would you like to choose one of these to answer, elaborate on?
I don't ask this to make fun. I ask because I really seek the answers.
— Are UFOs real?
— Did we land on the moon in 1968?
— Did Bush knock down the towers?
— Was Paul Wellstone's death an accident?
— The Oklahoma City bombing? Wasn't that just another U.S. government terrorist exercise? Or not.
— Waco. We burned kids, right? You can see flames shooting out of the tanks. Or not.
— Is Bigfoot real?
— Is there a God?
... What makes you think that?
Are you setting me up?
I do believe UFOs are real.
How do you think all these aliens got here anyway?
NAD: How did you survive the Bush years?
Xanax, red wine and a lot of political dissent.
What is most important to
me is ending the wars.
NAD: Do you anticipate having to survive the Obama years, struggle through — or do you have hopes for something better?
What do you think about the election of Obama?
Do you have high hopes?
Hopes at all?
Why? Why not?
To me, it always a struggle ...
However, I am pleased with the election of Obama.
I hope Obama will lead us to a peaceful place.
What is most important to me is ending the wars.
Restoring faith and trust in our relationships with other countries.
Yeah, I have real high hopes ....
NAD: Please tell us more about yourself, the things you have done, what you would like to do, what you did today.
What did you absolutely have to get done by noon today?
How about by Christmas 2009?
Today I had the day off so I slept in.
Got up made a cup of wonderful ritual coffee and soaked in the wonderful aromas.
I am getting ready to take my dog, Sasha, for a walk in the woods ...
NAD: What does the "Ritual" in Ritual Cafe mean?
Instead of a routine, make it a ritual.
Make it holy... Do what you do with intent.
Every moment is a celebration of life.
NAD: Are you making a political statement through your presence?
Hell yes.
NAD: Are you having fun?
Hell yes.
NADD: What else would you like to add? What else should I have asked?
Peace, love the American Dream!!!!!
NAD: Please insert a link here to something you would like linked to, with a brief tag re: where that link goes:
www.ritualcafe.com (hippest coffeeshop on the planet)
www.iknowimnotalone.com (a musicians search for the human cost of war)
www.theunapologeticmexican.org (radical blog from some crazy chicano with brilliant insight)
If you search the archives below, you will find, in a sort of order [last to first], interviews with:
Deanna Taylor, Green Party activist, teacher, in Salt Lake City
Rossie Indira-Vltchek, writer, filmmaker in Jarkarta, Indonesia
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Pacifica reporter in Gaza
Delaney Bruce, Friends of Peltier
Keith McHenry, co-founder of Food Not Bombs
Michael Sprong, South Dakota Catholic Worker
Brian Terrell, Des Moines Catholic Worker
Bob Graf, One of the Milwaukee 14
Loren Coleman, Bigfoot researcher
Monty Borror, Sci-Fi artist from Virginia
David Ray, Great American Poet
Jack Blood, radio show host, in Austin, Texas
Danny Schechter, A Real Reporter
Bob Kincaid, host, Head-On Radio Show
Tony Packes, Animal Farm Radio Host, Keeping An Eye on Big Brother
Richard Flamer, Working With the Poor in Chiapas
David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Truth activist author
Barry Crimmins, U.S. comedian, author, social activist
Bret Hayworth, political reporter for the Sioux City [IA] Journal
Lisa Casey, publisher of website All Hat No Cattle
Joe & Elaine Mayer, activist couple in Rochester, Minnesota
Fr. Darrell Rupiper, U.S. priest revolutionary
Whitney Trettien, MIT student, Green Party activist
Meria Heller, radio show host
Phil Hey, professor, poet
John Crawford, book publisher
Steve Moon, Iowa Bigfoot researcher
Carol Brouillet, California social activist, 9/11 Truth
Russell Brutsche, Santa Cruz artist
Kevin Barrett, professor, radio show host, 9/11 Truth activist
A'Jamal Rashad Byndon, social activist in Omaha
Chris Rooney, Vancouver, Canada Catholic Worker, website publisher
Marc Estrin, political novelist, from the left
Peter Dale Scott, poet, professor, author, activist
Anthony Rayson, anarchist zine publisher, works with prisoners
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With all of this cooler weather that we've been having I've been craving soup off and on. I love soup! There are so many different kinds of soup you can enjoy and they are so easy to customize to your taste. One of my favorite soups is a baked potato soup from one of my Gooseberry Patch cookbooks.
This soup is so good and it's fairly easy to prepare from scratch. There is one thing that I do differently to make this soup come together even quicker. Instead of baking the potatoes in the oven, I "bake" them in my potato bag in the microwave. Potato bags make perfect baked potatoes every time. They also make perfect baked potato soup too!
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3: Nazi's came and took some Jews and killed some Jews. They burned them and shot everyone. It was chaos and so many innocent people were dying for no reason. They died because of their race :(.
4: They took the Jews to a concentration camp. The Jews thought it was some other place they could live and lay their heads. Nazi's took the men,women,and children apart,everyone was scared.
5: The soldiers chose people they want and shot and burned anyone they didn't want. Jewish people were slaves in this camp. They were nothing to the Germans. Nazi's took them to the shower and cleaned them. Then they put on some baggy clothes and got put to work.
6: It was horrible already. If people stopped working they would get killed or hanged. A lot of people got killed on the first day. The son Eliezer and his father were working as hard they could so they wouldn't die.
7: They ate their bread and soup and went to sleep on these hard barracks. The next day they had to do the same routine. Many more Jews had gotten killed that day.
8: When everyone was working a little boy and two men were being put on three chairs and were about to be hanged. People started praying because a young child was going to die.
9: Now everyone was questioning if there is a god because the boy was still alive trying to breathe but he died a few minutes later. After the whole incident the Jews went back to work.
10: A couple days later more Jews died. They either got cremated or gassed. Eliezer was scared and so was his father. His father had gotten beaten and he couldn't do anything about it because he didn't want to get killed.
11: Eliezer and his dad were tired and exhausted from working. They had a doctors exam to see if some people are sick and healthy. Eliezer,his dad,and his friends all passed the exams.
12: A lot of Jews were sick ands tired. They got shot or cremated. The air smelled of burning flesh. Everyone thought it was snowing but it really was burning ash.
13: The season became Winter and it was so cold. Jews had to go to the doctors and get checked out, especially Eliezer. The sole of his foot had pus in it and the surgeon had to remove the sack. He had surgery awake.
14: The soldiers made them run in the blistering cold. People passed out and died. Eliezer's friend died of stomach cramps. His dad became very ill when they got to the camp. They were all on top of each other and some of them were smothered.
15: After they ate and went to the barracks, Eliezer's dad wasn't feeling so good. Blood and saliva were coming out of his mouth. A soldier came in and told him that his father wasn't going to make it and he needs to stop thinking about others and start thinking about himself.
16: Eliezer's dad passed away and everything was different. He stopped thinking about his father and his mother. The concentration camp changed his life forever.
17: Other soldiers came and freed the Jews. The Jews didn't have anywhere else to go. They needed to find food,shelter,and water. Eliezer kept thinking about all the Jews that have died. He is very grateful that he is still alive.
18: Eliezer stood in the mirror and saw a corpse. He just looked at it and then it disappeared.


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Bergamot Upside Down Cake
1 bergamot orange, sliced into slices no more than 1mm thick, pips (seeds) removed (save the ends to squeeze juice out of for cake part of the recipe, then blend up the rinds to make more bergamot sugar)
6 tablespoons each: butter, dark brown sugar
heaping 1 1/2 cups cake flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup butter, room temperature
2/3 cups bergamot sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon-ish bergamot juice
1/2 cup sour cream
candied oranges from above
In a skillet over medium-low heat, melt butter and sugar. When melted, stir until sugar is somewhat (mostly) dissolved. Add orange slices and cook for 20 minutes, decreasing heat if needed. Make sure you move them about periodically so the sugar doesn't burn (or for the rinds to get too tough). Transfer contents of skillet to baking pan, as below.
Heat oven to 350F. In an 8x8" cake pan, pour candied oranges (and the butter/sugar) and arrange somewhat neatly around the pan. Mix flour, baking powder and salt then set aside. Cream the butter, then add sugar and cream again. Then add egg and bergamot juice and mix well. Add in half the flour mixture and mix well, then add in the sour cream, mixing well once again. Add and mix in the remaining half of the flour mixture, then spread into cake pan on top of oranges (this mixture is very thick, somewhat like frosting). Bake 40-50 minutes. Remove from oven, let stand 5-10 minutes and flip over onto a plate.
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Now, THIS would have been a nice time to have pictures... :-PReplyDelete
Every bergamot post you have makes me want to try and find them! But I have enough food-stuff convincing of my fiance to tackle, I don't need to add another. (He doesn't really approve of storing foods in bulk in a pantry... I'm working on this.)
Here you go, DC! Sorry about the crappiness of that photo. It was a last minute thing and I forgot to fix it and put it up. :)ReplyDelete
You could use sweet oranges for this, or the usually easy to find Seville oranges in this, and it should be just fine too.
You know, it's been my experience that the men-folk never understand food storage. Up until it's needed. Then it makes perfect sense to them. Though I have to wonder if the women-folk of storage-loving men have the same issues until it really is needed.


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The Characters:
Godzilla - King of monsters, forced to do the Kilaaks' dirty work and not happy about it.
Anguirus - Still a feisty little guy, though he is the unfortunate volunteer to do an impromptu presentation about gravity. Sir Isaac Newton should be glad it was only raining apples that fateful day.
Rodan - Friendly enough in his roost on Ogasawara, we even see him fishing (for porpoises) at one point.
Ghidrah - Summoned by the Kilaaks to defeat Earth's monsters, but the home team puts a serious hurting on him.
Manda - While under alien control he crunches a few cities, that's about it for Manda.
Mothra - In caterpillar form the giant insect is forced to destroy sections of China.
Gorosaurus - Impressive in the battle against Ghidrah, his lethal jump kick even made me say ouch.
Baragon, Spiga, Varan, Minya - Along for the ride, though I believe Baragon did assist in the destruction of Paris. Either that or whoever did the American dub just did not care.
Katsuo - Heroic captain of the rocketship SY-3.
Kyoko - Katsuo's love interest whose mind is controlled by the Kilaaks for a time.
Dr. Yoshida - Spokesman and scientist, obviously chosen for his public speaking skills.
The Kilaaks - Evil alien race intent on enslaving mankind, too bad they turn into lumps of rock at room temperature.
The Plot:
In 1999 the world's monsters have been captured and contained on Ogasawara Island, where they may be studied in a safe environment. Safe as anyone can be trying to check the body temperature of a radioactive reptile taller than most buildings (hope they were not using a rectal device). I was very amused with the Godzilla repellent, now there is something worthy of a Nobel Prize.
When not coming up with things to annoy the KCLU (Kaiju Civil Liberties Union) scientists have developed advanced rockets which make spaceflight routine, the crowning achievement is the SY-3. At some point a horrible accident killed the team assigned to create a practical spacesuit and the brave intersolar pioneers are forced to wear demeaning yellow slickers.
Shortly after Kyoko arrives to join the Ogasawara Island researchers everyone is overcome by a mysterious gas. As the United Nations tries to establish communications with the remote island reports flood in of the monsters attacking major cities. After losing a few million constituents the politicians are really interested in what the heck is going on. Katsuo and his crew are directed to investigate. They find that the Kilaaks have taken control of the island, it's monsters, and even the researchers! Escaping an ambush they flee, but Kyoko disappears during the fighting.
With the monsters destroying everything in sight and the Kilaaks' base guarded by Godzilla a desperate plan is hatched to find and destroy the alien's moon base. Using the rocketship, and it's heavily armed groundcar, Katsuo again defeats the Kilaaks and returns with their master control device. It is um, very cool, yeah.
King Ghidrah is the alien's final line of defense against Earth's monsters, thereby setting the stage for a melee never seen before. No less than eleven kaiju make appearances in this film, I get a head rush just thinking about it.
Things I Learned From This Movie:
Rodan eats only tuna safe dolphin, hehehe!
If you see noxious gases coming from under a door then you probably should not open it.
Rain slickers and silver tape do not a spacesuit make.
Getting shot in the forehead will make you belch.
Godzilla makes an impressive guard dog.
Some buildings in Japan have rocket launchers built into them.
High voltage power lines should not be made from flammable materials.
Stuff To Watch For:
1 min - It is 1999 and not a Prince song in sight, this is pure (and lovely) fantasy.
8 mins - Does Godzilla have gas?
11 mins - Right about now the French are wondering if giant monsters understand white flags.
21 mins - Yes, they are called asteroids.
29 mins - It was embedded in his head, of course it is not a hearing aide.
44 mins - I didn't think those earrings matched either, but wasn't that a little extreme?
70 mins - The Kilaaks only live in temperatures of several thousands of degrees? Then how were those humans standing next to them?
83 mins - Somehow the Earth forces have a video feed from inside of the Kilaaks' base...
News Anchorman: "The major cities in the world are being destroyed, one by one, by the monsters. Moscow by Rodan, Peking by Mothra, and London by Manda."
Katsuo: "Hold on a minute, that's a UFO out there."
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Starving actors speak out
Narrator: "All of the Earth's monsters have been collected and are living together in a place called 'Monsterland.'"
News Anchorman: "Here's a special news bulletin, Godzilla is now in New York City."
Katsuo: "All right, let's go! Time is running out for the human race!"
Radio Operator: "This is the moonbase, go ahead."
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Ghidrah rolled on in and was talking all sorts of trash, but now G and his crew is putting the smack dab down on him (see how silly that sounds).
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Reply #9.
Posted on December 27, 2000, 05:35:38 PM by Chadzilla
Ah, sweet excess! This one is just a blast, there is not a single reason to not see it.
Destroy All Monsters
Reply #10.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Cham
In no way a good movie, but I love it. So many monsters. THey don't get enough screen time, but what they do get is worth it. I give it 4/5.
Destroy All Monsters
Reply #11.
Posted on January 22, 2001, 02:46:10 AM by MegaZeo
One of the best G-Films ever! Who could ask for more in a Godzilla film (monster-wise, anyway). Though I was hoping they got into the worldwide destruction a bit more, the attack on Tokyo from Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, and Manda, as well as the battle-royale at Mt. Fuji more than made up for it. Man, seeing Godzilla, Gorosaurus, Angilas, Rodan, Mothra, Spiega, and Minya all going at King Ghidorah like that! Wow! One of the best G-films from the 1960s.
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Reply #12.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Cant blame the WANG!
Ready for yet another qik review-once again I say-GO Godzilla!!For once,there are some good lookin' alienbabes(esp. the Head Kilaak)The pluses in this flick:opening volcanic/gas attack on monster island;the SY-3EVERYtime it takes off;Godzilla/Rodan guarding alien base & airspace;the all-SO-familiar attack of Tokyo;the takedown of alien moonbase(to me-that scene's enuf to make a badmovie good!}and the final fight goes w/o saying.Do I have to point out the minuses in here?How about varan sharing a lil'more cinema spotlight(eh,Toho boys?)No offense but allowing Ghidrah to get SPANKed sumptin' awful the minute Gorosaur doubleheels him in the back is something I'll never forget..(I'm still lookin for the other mothra twin-see ya!)
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Reply #13.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by el_vinee
This is simply the most fun a kid can have! I saw it when I was about 10, and now 34, after watching it on sci-fi channel, I still love this movie. All the Toho monsters in one movie, and seeing Ghidra get his butt kicked WWF style rules! Got it taped for my son who's a huge Godzilla fan like I was at his age. This is the kind of entertainment I wish more of today's kids could experience. Great site by the way...
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Reply #14.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by That guy
How come the alien base on earth resembles the "bat cave" from Batman? The begging of this movie was brought to you by Toho construction paper Ltd.
Destroy All Monsters
Reply #15.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by Samzilla
This was one of the first Godzilla movies I ever saw and It just totally rocks, which is quite a surprise for a godzilla film of the showa series which is saying a lot because I am a fan of the more darker serious heisei series.
The one thing that bugged me though was the fact that there was no explanation to why baby godzilla had not matured at all since "son of godzilla"
Destroy All Monsters
Reply #16.
Posted on February 03, 2002, 06:08:32 PM by Ian Knox
I just bought this moive today and I love it. The best thing about this G film is that there is no stock fotage. So far, this is my second Godzilla moive(my first one was Godzilla 1956). If you love big monsters and one heack of a fight, get this one.
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The 'double entry' method of accounting was invented in the 15th century. A man named Benedikt Kotruljević first wrote about double-entry accounting in 'Book on the Art of Trade' in 1458 and then Luca Pacioli who was Franciscan monk in Milan wrote the 'Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita' in 1494.
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In this study, patients treated with a 240 mg three-times-daily dose of BG-12 showed a reduction in the number of new Gd+ lesions by 69 percent at weeks 12 to 24, compared to treatment with placebo (p<0.0001). The data also showed a 53 percent reduction in T1-hypointense lesions and a 44 percent reduction in cumulative new Gd+ lesions in patients treated with BG-12 compared to treatment with placebo. An ad hoc analysis demonstrated a reduced probability of the conversion of Gd+ lesions into T1-hypointense lesions, suggesting the possibility of additional neuroprotective benefits as observed in an earlier pilot study of ten patients with MS receiving oral fumaric acid ester therapy.
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Though the study was not adequately powered to evaluate relapse endpoints, relapse rates in all BG-12 treatment groups decreased between the first and the second part of the study, which may indicate a delayed and increasing effect of BG-12 over time.
The most common, non-MS related adverse events that occurred more frequently in patients receiving BG-12 240 mg three times daily than those receiving placebo included flushing, headache, nausea, diarrhea, upper abdominal pain, hot flush, and abdominal pain. Flushing and gastrointestinal-related events decreased during the course of BG-12, especially during the first one-to-two months of treatment. Frequency of infection was low in all treatment groups and did not differ from that of the placebo group.
Data from this Phase IIb study lead the company to further pursue the development of BG-12. Two Phase III trials, DEFINE and CONFIRM, are currently underway evaluating the effect of BG-12 on measurements of clinical relapse, the progression of disability, and various MRI measures. BG-12 was granted Fast Track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this year.
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In this Phase IIb randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-ranging study, patients (n= 257), aged 18-55 years, with relapsing-remitting MS were randomly assigned to receive one of the following treatment regimens for 24 weeks: 120 mg of BG-12 once daily, 120 mg three times daily, 240 mg three times daily or placebo. The initial treatment period was followed by an extension period of 24 weeks for safety assessment, during which patients in the placebo group received BG-12 at 240 mg three times daily. The primary endpoint for the study was the total number of Gd+ lesions on brain MRI scans at weeks 12, 16, 18 and 24. Additional endpoints included cumulative number of new Gd+ lesions, new or enlarging T2-hyperintense lesions, new T1-hypointense lesions and annualized relapse rate. Safety and tolerability were also assessed. Results show that BG-12 met all of the study endpoints when given at the dose of 240 mg three times daily. -Offspring PR


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Cowboy dreams, A Holiday with Henriette, Once Upon a time, Twilight Tales, Naughty Amelia Jane, Enid Blyton's Brer Rabbit Book, A surprise for Teddy Tar, Teddy Tar and the Big Family Teddy Tar goes to sea, Teddy Tar meets the black bears, Goldilocks and the three bears, Mick the disobedient puppy and Billie Bouncer's Half Holidays are now sold, thank you for your interest.
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Cowboy dreams, A Holiday with Henriette, Once Upon a time, Twilight Tales, Naughty Amelia Jane, Enid Blyton's Brer Rabbit Book, A surprise for Teddy Tar, Teddy Tar and the Big Family Teddy Tar goes to sea, Teddy Tar meets the black bears, Goldilocks and the three bears, Mick the disobedient puppy and Billie Bouncer's Half Holidays are now sold, thank you for your interest.
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These are gorgeous Barbara! It's lovely to read how much you enjoy working with them too.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Lindsay! I am really lucky because books are my passion as well as my livelihood!Delete
Oh Barbara! My favorite is the TWILIGHT TALES! And Mick the Disobedient Puppy is just my style! teehehehehehhee - they are all scrumptuous and would make an evening of reading a fun return to the innocent days. How lovely is your taste and collection! HAPPY DAY! AnitaReplyDeleteReplies
Dear Anita, you have wonderful taste! The cover of Twilight tales is incredibly pretty and Mike the disobedient puppy is gorgeous. I have had a happy day, thank you. I hope you have too! Barbara xDelete
Hello Barbara! These covers are wonderful!!! My favorites: Billie Bouncer's Half Holidays (I didn't know it, it made me remember Humpty Dumpty...), Adventures of the Wishing Chair and Twilight Tales. Animals, fairies, elves...all of them are so nice but I definitely love vintage illustrations of children, they seem so "formal" now...fantastic!ReplyDelete
So cute your hare spying between the books haha.Replies
Hello Silvina, I'm so pleased with the March House Hare I just had to get him in somewhere! :) Billie Bouncer does look like Humpty Dumpty – I thought the exact same thing. I know what you mean about the children, they are always in their 'Sunday best'.Delete
Oh that 'Cowboy Dreams' is just a real treat amongst so many yummy ones. Glad you had fun cataloguing them, Barbara. I sure did have a grand time looking through them!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hello Claudine, Cowboy Dreams is on the way to a little boy in Australia his daddy used to be a rodeo rider. How perfect is that? Thank you for coming to visit today. xDelete
This is just the sweetest kind of book delivery a seller can imagine. Hope the little boy loves 'Cowboy Dreams!' Thanks for popping over and telling me about your current reads, Barbara. I'll check out 'When God Was A Rabbit' and 'The Forgotten Garden.' Straightaway, the latter's title has me. :) Happy reading!Delete
I've got that exact same Brer Rabbit book! I was my favourite book. My brother & I would have my Dad tongue twisted as he read it to us at bedtime. Then I would read the stories myself, time and time again. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
What lovely memories, thank you for sharing them with us. xxDelete
It's so true no words are required, your blog is a collection of books showing their glossary, Writer and the illustrator's talents to the highest standard. I really enjoyed it.ReplyDelete
The bluebell fairy
and I agree a nicer post,
we've yet to see.
Well done Bab's.Replies
Hello Agman, a collection of books showing their glossary is such a perfect way of putting it. I'm going to remember that and try to use it in a future post! I always look forward to your comments; you have such a way with words.Delete
That is such a visual delight, I love them all. xxReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Suzy, I thought you would like them.Delete
I love them all. They are indeed beautiful covers. But if I had to choose only one favorite, it would be that 'Once Upon a Time' cover. They all look so happy and content.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Donna, did you notice the leprechaun dressed in yellow is smoking a pipe? It's such a happy, bright illustration, but I don't think a publisher would use it today. It's such a shame.Delete
Such wonderful book covers. I really liked Cowboy Dreams. No wonder it sold so quickly.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Darlene, I was sad to say good-bye to Cowboy Dreams, but it's on the way to a new home and a little boy who is going to love it.Delete
What a gorgeous collection of treasures!ReplyDelete
The Twilight Tales and Amelia Jane covers are my favourites xxReplies
Thanks Yvonne, I keep changing my mind about my favourites! I think I will settle on them all being favourites!Delete
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Happy to make you smile :) !Delete
Oh my goodness, The Wishing Chair and Amelia Jane, two of my favourite childhood books.ReplyDeleteReplies
It's amazing just how popular both of those were and still are. Thanks for calling in.Delete
All covers are lovely , I loved the cover of" Once upon a time most ."Great job Barbara :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Aunt Mary, glad you like them.Delete
These look absolutely beautiful. I can tell you have been having fun with these! Naughty Amelia Jane and Twilight Tales both call to me. :) But honestly- they are all such beautiful covers I have examined them three times each!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing!Replies
Hi Stephanie, that's exactly how I felt when I was cataloguing them. I almost want to hug them – they are all so gorgeousDelete
Gorgeous treasures! Love the artwork on Twilight Tales!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Diane, I think so too!Delete
What a wonderful collection of books, those are real treasures. The covers are all gorgeous :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Hilde, I thought you would like them. (o;Delete
Loved these Barbara - but as you already know this is right up my alley! I had a quick look at the annuals section on your website (how many memories did that spark!!) Have you ever had a copy of the 'Treasure Book of Princess Marigold'? I'm thinking of doing a post on Princess Marigold next and your post made me wonder about that book again! (It was an annual from Treasure magazine)ReplyDeleteReplies
I love looking at annuals they are just so colourful and (as you say) full of memories. I've never had a copy of the Princess Marigold book, but I see there are a couple on Amazon and ABE books. I've just been reading your lovely post about Princess Marigold. I was a teenager when the magazines were first published so rather missed out on those. It was all boys and Beatles during those years!!!Delete
Looking at the cover, I'm sure I had that exact copy of Brér Rabbit when I was little, but I can't quite remember! I also just asked my mum and she vaguely remembers it as well, but again, not for certain. I think I'm going to have to do some further research!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing these, Barbara - they're lovely!Replies
Hi Sophie,Delete
Perhaps it's in the loft? My heart drops when I arrive at a house to buy books and am told they are in the loft. I have a dread of spiders and dark places, so I'm never keen on getting them down. I used to oblige the owners by clambering up and fetching them, but I plead advanced old age now and say I will pass on the books!!


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I've been driving through downtown Baltimore a lot lately. I am perfectly capable of losing my own gas cap, but am quite sure it was stolen from the top of my car while I was prepaying for gas at a Hess station in an inner city neighborhood.
My payment was made to a small, dark-skinned, probably Middle Eastern man, balding and with a white beard on his chin and jaw. I could barely see him through the filthy, grill-covered payment window, and, not surprisingly, he didn't see anything.
Imagine spending your days in that squalid little room, taking money, peering out of the dirty window and waiting for trouble. It made me think of a diving bell and looking out through the porthole at the alien creatures surrounding you.
I had already been looking at my surroundings during my trips. I saw, sometimes daily, on Edmondson Avenue and Mulberry Street, and Orleans Street probably a hundred vacant and derelict houses, sometimes blocks of 10 beautiful, historic row houses, with only two or three occupied.
I became familiar with the homeless man who daily works the drivers at the corner of Edmondson and Martin Luther King Boulevard for money. Sometimes there's another person there selling cold drinks, but deference is given to the homeless man. Clearly, it is his corner.
I've observed the young people, testing fate by crossing the street in front of traffic, disheveled and smoking on porches, dressed up in exotic, tight fitting clothes.
Part of the neighborhood is divided in half by a wide stretch of land holding a short freeway leading to downtown. I'm sure that didn't help what neighborhood existed when it was built. I wonder if traffic then justified the expense. It certainly doesn't now.
There's some redevelopment, too, with new, smaller, unimpressive row houses, complete with signs, "Private," "No Dogs Allowed in Development," window bars and graffiti.
Baltimore has suffered, along with St Louis, Philadelphia and Detroit, the largest city population loss in the United States. Loss of manufacturing, which provided jobs with middle class wages for many people without a lot of education or skills, has struck a huge blow over the last four decades. The population, which peaked in the 1970s, was almost 800,000 in 1982, and 620,961 and still dropping in 2010
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Back on Edmonson Avenue, the view along the street is of substantial, early 20th century row houses, and then late 19th century brick row houses. The further you drive, the more derelict buildings. There are blue, flashing lights on high poles, which are cameras monitoring neighborhood activities. Every shop window is covered with strong bars of grillwork, and, looking inside open doors, one can see more grills and bullet proof glass through which your take-out food is served.
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Englewood Goes Live – Tune-in to Council Meetings, be informed and participate.
I announced today the creation of web live streaming for all Council meetings. It will pave the way for the City to launch the initial broadcast at the Council Meeting on December 7th. The live broadcast can be seen on the Bergen Record's website at www.northjersey.com and Englewood One's website, thereafter the Council would have to vote to allow transparency into council meetings to fund true open government at a nominal cost.
Stayed tuned, the next step to open the doors of City government will be the creation of a new collaboration with our high school children and cable TV to televise Council meetings. This will be an extraordinary opportunity for our children to simultaneously learn the skills of broadcasting and the workings of our city government.
It is obvious that we are in trying economic times and faced with many challenges in the upcoming year. Since taking office, I have said time after time that government must change and needs to be more accessible and transparent to its residents. The key to a great City lies in its people and the amount of resident's participation and communication with their government officials. But what is needed first is access to information about the inner workings of the City so that they can effectively participate and communicate to their elected officials.
In my first few months of taking office, I launched this website, Englewood One Community, for the purpose of making government more transparent, accessible, and understandable to the ordinary resident. Englewood One Community is Englewood's first online community for residents to connect and share information about City Government. Live streaming of council meetings is the next step of sharing information and further opens the doors to City Government so that all can be informed, educated and be encouraged to participate in City government.
With today's technology, there is simply no excuse as to why we cannot have access to City government in our own homes. Thus, I believe that our Council Meetings should be streamed live so that our residents can tune in, participate in government, and stay informed on issues that are affecting our City. Streaming this footage is especially advantageous to those individuals who cannot always make it out to a Council Meeting.
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Many speak about open government and transparency; it is time for all elected officials to put words into action. Let's open the doors and go live in downtown Englewood.
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