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Bucking the ethno-chic, thatch-roof trend, the Cayo District's 15-room Ka'ana is best suited to guests who want to check their outdoorsy personae before entry. Though endless adventures lie close at handamong them, the caves of Jaguar Paw and ruins of Xunantunicha return to the room signals a farewell to anything even vaguely Indiana Jonesian. Here you'll find perhaps the highest thread counts, cushiest beds, and iciest air conditioners in all of mainland Belize. Not that nature is shunned: The grounds are essentially a well-groomed, bougainvillea-centric little Eden. And the welcome-to-paradise theme is interpreted particularly deftly by the spa's lead therapist (try the papaya citrus smoothie body scrub), and the kitchen's executive chef (ingredients from the resort's organic garden turn up in just about everything, but the tortilla soup is one of their best outlets).

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RED LAKE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a northern Arizona couple has been arrested for allegedly stealing jewelry from friends' homes and selling them.
Coconino County Sheriff's officials said Monday that 58-year-old Steven Melvin and his 50-year-old wife Kathryn were taken into custody after deputies served a search warrant at their home in Red Lake.
They say the couple allegedly stole items while house-sitting for other residents of the Red Lake area.
According to the victims, Steven Melvin later returned fives watches that belonged to them but didn't say how he got them items.
Authorities say Steven Melvin allegedly pawned two stolen items at an area pawn shop.
They say he's being held on felony trafficking in stolen property and misdemeanor theft while Kathryn Melvin is being held on felony theft and felony drug possession.


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They called it The Great War, and they were right about that. They also called it The War to End All Wars, and about that ... well, they were wrong.
Laurence Stallings, a U.S. Marine captain who lost a leg in the Belleau Wood fighting in 1918, got straight to it with his pictoral history The First World War -- published in 1933, six full years before the horror would erupt again and plunge the globe back into even worse carnage.
Stallings selected photographs -- mostly from the Western Front in France and Flanders -- that run the gamut from pathetic to patriotic to poignant to appalling. The idea, he said in the preface, was that someone would eventually make sense out of the chaos, but he really held out little hope for that: The title was deliberately chosen to suggest there would be a Second World War.
The names, the faces, that show up in Stallings' book and others are memorable for being published. But countless men exist only in battalion photos hanging in Legion halls or in faded black-and-white portraits stuck among the personal effects of great-grandparents. Some -- many -- simply disappeared as if they'd never lived, their bodies lying under "Known Unto God" markers in vast cemeteries around France and Flanders or so completely obliterated that they have no burial place.
The statistics Stallings cites are of their time and necessarily incomplete in a country-by-country breakdown of casualties. But still ... ten million known dead soldiers from all sides of the conflict. The numbers are simply too large to make much sense of. It somehow becomes necessary to put them into human perspective.
Take one campaign. On the first day at the Somme offensive, July 1, 1916, British Field Marshal Douglas Haig sent 750,000 troops over the top straight into massed German machine-guns, artillery and barbed wire. That morning, 20,000 of those men were killed, another 40,000 were wounded or missing. Leading from the rear, Haig didn't call off the attempt to break through the German trenches until mid-November. It was the death of a generation.
But it's still too many to understand.
Canadian Expeditionary Force entering Mons Nov. 11, 1918
Take one country: Canada. The population when the war broke out in 1914 was between seven and eight million. More than 600,000 men enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force over the next four years; more than 65,000 of them would be killed and more than 170,000 wounded. (Today, with Canada's population hovering around 33 million, that would mean an army of 2.5 million, with 250,000 dead and 700,000 wounded.) Into the stone of the Vimy Ridge Memorial in France and the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, are carved the names of more than 18,000 dead Canadians who have no known graves.
But those kinds of numbers are still incomprehensible.
Caribou insignia of the Newfoundland Regiment
Take one battalion: The Newfoundland Regiment, from England's oldest and poorest overseas colony. Of the 801 men from The Rock who left their trenches at Beaumont-Hamel just after nine the first morning of the Somme, only 69 returned to answer the roll. The dead numbered 255. Another 386 were wounded and 91 were missing. It devastated every city and outport fishing hamlet on the island, stripping it in one morning of its best. It has been said that the island, now Canada's tenth province, never really recovered.
Even that is too big to take in.
French counterattack during Verdun battles
Take one company of men. At bloody Verdun, where hundreds of thousands of French and German soldiers were slaughtered, there is a carefully preserved area where muzzles of rifles and rusted bayonets stick out of the dirt. Underneath each one is the body of a French poilu of the understrength 3rd Company of the 137th Infantry Regiment, entombed by shellbursts on June 11-12, 1916. No one knows exactly what happened, if they suffocated or were killed by concussion while awaiting an assault. In the Trench of Bayonets, they were obedient to the order "Ils ne passeront pas", and they remain on guard still.
And now we're closer to the reality.
Take one man. George Dundas was born near a tiny fishing village on Lake Erie on Oct. 27, 1890, the son of William James and Jemima Dundas. He attended elementary school in the village, later graduating from Albert College, Belleville, and Victoria College, University of Toronto. Fatefully, he also took the Canadian Officer Training Course and served in the militia.
On Feb. 10, 1915, George Dundas enlisted in the ranks of the privately raised Eaton Machinegun Battery in Toronto. He was later commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery in England and promoted to captain.
In March 1916, he joined the 161st Brigade of the British Expeditionary Force in France, and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry during fighting on the Somme.
In August 1917, he was gassed and hospitalized in England, but on April 10, 1918, he went back to war. He was slightly wounded two days later, and at some point over the next few months, he was awarded a Bar to his Military Cross, again for gallantry in the face of the enemy.
George Dundas made the last entry in his diary on Aug. 21, 1918, early in the advance from Amiens to Mons that brought the war to a halt. He was probably wounded the next day and died on Sept. 2 at age 27. He is buried in a cemetery in Daours, a village in the Department of the Somme, far from that tiny Lake Erie fishing village, far from a life that might have been, far from the promise of a future.
First World War cemetery, France
And that's finally the truth and the tragedy of those numbers: It all becomes personal. Family, friends, lovers, back home in world capitals like Berlin, Paris, London, Washington, Delhi, Moscow -- and even in tiny fishing villages -- all heartbroken and grieving the loss of one man.
Multiplied ten million times.
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
Although you died back in Nineteen-Sixteen,
To that loyal heart are you forever nineteen?..."
(Note: This appeared in somewhat different form on an otherwise excellent website called The Deepening, the history section of which is overseen by author Celia Hayes -- Open Salon's Sgt. Mom.)
Scanner, thanks. There's so much good stuff on Nov. 11 out there, I doubt this'll get noticed.
Pro, it was no easier on the other side of the trenchline, that's for certain. The appalling waste....
Scanner is right.
Very well done sir, unfortunately, every 15-20 years or so, politicians wanting to be the next FDR take the nation to war. It is mostly over money, oil, stupidity, like this one, and about men who fear assassination at the hands of the Military Industrial Complex as was JFK, who resisted the war, and Johnson who did not want to die at the hands of an assassin and wanted badly to be his mentor FDR, Now it is just fools like Bush and "Obama-The Great Disappointer"
Definitely an EP...
As Stalin pointed out: "One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic."
It's easy for me, a Jew born in 1950 with the benefit of absolute hindsight, to condemn them for their folly and its devastating results, but I have never seen an entire generation lost to war, Viet Nam or or other recent conflicts notwithstanding. It also makes me appreciate Churchill all the more since he had lived through the same horrors, but still knew that giving into Hitler wouldn't prevent further conflict.
Coyote, I don't know how anyone could make that decision. I couldn't.
MaryJoan, thank you.
Stellaa, they still beat the drums and wave the flags and, yes, still they march.
Prof, that must be some monument. Belleau Wood was a wretched business.
Nikki, Phil Ochs said it best: It's always the old who lead us to the wars/Always the young who fall./Now look at all we've won /with a sabre and a gun/Tell me was it worth it all....
Chuck, you are correct. I'm involved in a research project here in this little town to collect bios of the men whose names are on the local Cenotaph. They'll be available in the Legion branch and are being serially published in the local daily. We don't want anyone to forget.
Kathy, thanks: It was important to me to write this.
And you're welcome, John. It's hard to believe what those men went through. It's a wonder any of them made it.
Jeff, about the only good that came from Munich was the chance to re-arm. It did nothing to slow the catastrophe that was unfolding in Europe.
And if you want a real weeper, try Bringing Buddy Home by John McDermott:
A wonderful tribute indeed.
Last year I wrote about the WWI cemeteries I visited in Belgium. And the remaining trenches. I recommend going to Ypres in Belgium to see the scars that remain, and the many graves. You will never forget.
Linda, Prince Charles was at the Cenotaph in Ottawa today, along with Camilla, wearing a Canadian Army uniform. I could see from his eyes he was thinking what you -- and I -- also think.
Lea, I've never been to a First War cemetery, although I went to several Second War sites with veterans. I've never forgotten it. The one that sticks in my memory is outside the French coastal city of Dieppe, where the Second Canadian Division died in August 1942. Unlike every other Commonwealth War Grave cemetery, the bodies are laid head-to-head, in German military fashion, because it was the Germans who buried more than 900 of them after the raid went horribly wrong.
My hat is off to you, and all those who have died in vain.
Emma, thank you for what you said. Indeed, it's the old lie -- dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Wilfred Owen was right, but the beat goes on.
A Tink pick? I am not worthy. You brighten my day, chum.
Exactly what I was thinking. Thank you for so engagingly educating me. I ache as I read of real lives and the devastation of entire communities. You are a brilliant writer, historian and heartfelt communicator. Honored to be here.
"ten million known dead soldiers from all sides of the conflict. The numbers are simply too large to make much sense of. "
I really can't even imagine.
That 10 million was a rounded number c 1933. Truth is ... there were more.


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Well, I've not had a particularly spectacular day or anything but one incident has pissed me off so I'm going to vent now!
Basically, the background to this is - I was with my girlfriend for 2 years, we live together and recently split up but are still living together. We are avioding each other at the moment - mainly by her never being here. Suits me though since she ended the relationship.
Wow, I can't believe I've not been on here for nearly 2 years! Oasis used to be my lifeline! And it is where I tend to come back to for support, it's such a great community!
So whats been happening... well since I was last on I had a nearly 2 year long relationship. We broke up a couple of weeks ago and she's moving out from our flat soon. I was pretty gutted but it's getting better now. Think I still have a way to go before I'm over her but I'm going to work in (mainland) Europe for summer so that should give me some space and distance.
well ive moved into my new flat and after a week and a half without internet im relieved that the guy came round to install the cable for it today. its proving difficult to set up though. ive managed to get it onto the internet somehow but it wont install all the virgin media stuff and im not even going to attempt setting up the wireless yet.
hmmm been working lots. today was day 5 of 10 days of work i have in a row. i didnt really mean to have 10 in a row - i was meant to have one of those off but one of my jobs needed someone to cover so i said i would.
i want your opinions on something...
ive never had anything pierced and i decided a while ago i wanted to get something done. i was originally thinking of getting my belly button pierced but i decided against that, then i thought cartilage but i also decided against that. i want something that will heal quickly as it is my frist piercing.
so polling is now officially closed... i want to know who won the election but it wont be annonced til tomorrow morning, plus i dont have a TV so i'll have to try and find time to look it up online. hope everyone voted!
well we cant beat americas awful choice anyway, i dont think that possible! sorry guys but why...
so ive got exams starting on thursday. its starting to really stress me out. ive done lots of work for them but still have lots i want to do and i just cant seem to make myself concentrate. im going to go and do a bunch soon though.
so i havent posted a journal in about 9 or 10 months but i came on yesterday to post a discussion topic and decided to give you all an update.
not sure if anyone will actually remember me. i used to be quite an active member when i was still at school. im 18 now, living in edinburgh scotland and at uni.
as promised, i will tell you all how my prom went.
first a brief explanation - i was taking this girl as a date. we had once been sort of dating but then it kinda stopped and by the point of the prom i didnt know at all where we stood. so we were slightly more than friends. hmmm.
so we went together and it was a fun night.
the music was ok, the food was rubbish and they wouldnt sell any alcohol - even to the 18 and overs. tsssskkk, stupid school. they only did 3 scottish ceildh dances though, which wasnt enough. really it wasnt set to be a great night, but surprisingly it was alright - a chance to see everyone who we might not see very much now we have finished school.
i cant wait until sunday - its our school leavers ball ("prom" to all the americans in the audience :P)
my friend/ more is going with me as my date - although i dont know where thats going. we've kissed and been on a few dates but i dont know if she wants more. ill cross that bridge when i get there. my mum is letting her stay over after - thats a big step for my mother! :)
im really excited but i also know im the first girl to take a girl and i think the boys in the year below me might cause some trouble - they like to do that to me. ill let you all know how it goes!
heya all, anyone remember me?
maybe not. i used to post here quite a lot but eventually felt i didnt need oasis so much, once i started to be more comfortable with myself. i just thought id check in though and see how all my friends were doing.
ive been having a great time. ive got some really close supportive friends now and ive been accepted to the universities i wanted. ive officially finished school and just have to sit my exams now, then im free all summer. ive dated 2 girls since i last posted, both times ending with me getting hurt, but ive gotten more confident and learnt things about myself so all is good.
im gradually coming on oasis less and less - mainly i just dont feel i need it so much. ive sorted my sexuality out in my head and in my life. everything isnt perfect, but im such a different, stronger person than when i first joined. i finally feel relaxed with myself. im making my life work out and im going to get somewhere. ive got into uni and im determined to work hard and be happy. i know ive still got things to face, parts of myself i havent explored and things ive not come to terms with, but i feel ready to live my life. so i guess what im saying is, bye oasis. i wont be on very much, but you can still message me - ill be in now and again to leave the odd comment and reply to messages. good luck and be happy!
...for anyone who has asked me in the past to add me on their msn messenger - mine wasnt working for over 6 months but ive got it working again so anyone who wanted to or wants to speak to me just drop me a message on here and we can arrange it...speak to my friends soon xxxx yey finally after long term message correspondance this feels weird.


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Life for the main protagonists have never been smooth and easy in the daily soaps as they struggle to survive the odds always stacked against them in one form or the other as shown by the makers from time to time. Director's Kut show "Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai" is one such show which has always highlighted the day to day issues being faced by the families.
The upcoming episodes of the show once again focus on these very issues wherein the viewers will witness the celebrations being planned by the family for Akshara's (Hina Khan) birthday at one moment and at the other moment there happiness coming crashing down with the sudden turn of events.
The sequence will unfold with the entire Singhania family planning to leave for Mumbai to celebrate the birthday of Akshara. But they will in for a shock as some unexpected guests in form of IT officials arrive at their residence to conduct a raid. And as if this was not enough, there will be more trouble on Chikki's front as she will get attracted to her coaching teacher who has been sending her gifts and cards much to the ire of Naitik and Akshara.


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The latest leak from Privaledge's upcoming "JoeWorld Too" project, produced by Herb Beats.
Stream Who Cares (Prod. By Herb Beats), the newest drop from Privaledge. The cut was released on Tuesday, October 15th, 2013. Privaledge continues to impress with each new leak, and Who Cares (Prod. By Herb Beats) is no exception. It's strengthens Privaledge's already impressive body of work, which has seen positive change over the years. We're most definitely anticipating Privaledge's next offering.
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Leeds-Bradford to get Pakistan link
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Shaheen Air has announced it is to begin flying on a new route between Leeds-Bradford Airport and the city of Islamabad in Pakistan next month.
The twice-weekly service will take off for the first time on February 7th and return tickets will be available from £460, including all taxes.
John Parkin, the airport's chief executive, said the new service represented the first time people have been able to travel directly from Yorkshire to Pakistan.
He added: "Whether it's for business or pleasure we are sure that this service will be extremely popular and we also look forward to welcoming passengers from Pakistan to Yorkshire."
Earlier in the week Thomas Cook Holidays announced an expansion of its services from Leeds Bradford Airport.
New holiday destinations in its winter 2008-09 schedule include Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Lanzarote. Its existing summer 2008 programme includes holiday flights to Portugal, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey and Malta.


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A second term and a Twitter record - with much to celebrate, a picture of an intimate embrace with his wife Michelle has become President Barack Obama's most popular tweet ever with over half a million retweets and counting.
Just moments after his dream of a second term was realised, the president shared the celebratory tweet, accompanied by the words "Four more years", with his 22.5 million followers, leading to speculation it could be the most shared tweet in the history of Twitter.
Prior to this, Mr Obama sent out words of thanks via the social networking site to those who voted for him, in what had to have been one of the first things he did on realising the election's outcome.
It is appropriate the president took to Twitter so soon after his and Mitt Romney's fates were sealed, as the website has been heavily utilised in both candidates' campaigns.
A seismic shift in political debate and conversation was clearly marked on Tuesday as Twitter registered 31 million tweets - up from 1.8 million tweets on election day in 2008.
Mr Obama's Twitter feed was active with advice to voters on Tuesday, with tweets including: "If you're in line when the polls close, stay in line to vote. It could help make the difference."
Tweets were also aimed at specific states, such as this one: "Nevada, pass it on: Polls close at 7pm PT. You can vote as long as you're in line before then. #StayInLine"
Romney's Twitter feed included a similar series of tweets throughout the day, as the Republicans ensured their campaign used every resource available.
It was not just the candidates and their campaigners tweeting - with the website registering 31 million tweets a significant audience of people expressing their personal opinions was to be reached.
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Light fixtures at the jail were replaced with LED lights that will consume 83 percent less energy & save taxpayers $178,000 a year.
Allegheny County was among nearly a dozen county governments around the country selected as a success story at the National Association of Counties Forum on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in early 2011.
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The conference and the video focus on energy efficiency measures, renewable energy and distribution of the federal stimulus grant funds received by these counties under the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program.
Improving Energy Efficiency in County Buildings
Saving on energy consumed, utility costs, and the associated carbon footprint moved into high gear with the start of Allegheny County's energy savings initiative project. Led by the County's Department of Public Works under Deputy Director of Administration/ Operations, Philip LaMay, the project entails reviewing energy and water usage; identifying conservation strategies and opportunities; and implementing selected improvements at 19 of the largest county-owned buildings. The projected carbon savings that the improvements will trigger is a projected 6,000 tons of eCO2 emissions annually.
LaMay said, "The primary benefit (of the program) will be the reduction in energy use across the County. Where the County uses fewer energy resources, this will translate into dollars," LaMay said. So, what will Allegheny County do with the extra savings from the program? LaMay explained the desired plan for the 2.3 million dollars in annual savings. "We hope to split the savings and put 1.5 million toward paying the debt service on financing the project and then use the remaining balance for the Allegheny County General Fund," he said. Allegheny County's energy savings project employs a special financing model available only to schools and government entities under state law; this model is known as a Guaranteed Energy Savings Agreement, which helps the county to make capital investments and pay for them through the energy savings achieved.
To help to achieve this objective, the County will be rolling out an employee education program through the expertise of Northeast Energy Savings Company, Inc. (NORESCO), the company that won the County's contract for the energy savings project through a competitive bidding process. NORESCO's team of experts includes a group that will conduct a baseline survey of employee energy and sustainability awareness, conduct a county-wide training program challenging employees to form new habits and then measure behavioral impact. The training program is slated to begin in the summer of 2010.
LaMay and the project team are sowing seeds for a hoped-for a second or third phase of this program that will look into renewable energy sources with two separate renewable energy pilot projects: one putting solar hot water on the roof of the County jail and the other adopting geo-thermal cooling at the Kane Regional Center in Ross Township. LaMay believes that areas of more space, like the Kane Regional Centers, could use solar panels as an alternate energy source. "In order to make this happen with renewable, we must couple the program with the pursuit of grant funding because the cost of these sources is still very high and the County's savings would be long-term. Grants make renewable energy more realistic," LaMay said. The two current projects are indeed assisted by grants – a Pennsylvania Solar Energy Program grant of $154,000 and a Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority grant for geothermal energy for $250,000.
With the current energy savings program and hopes for expanded renewable energy, Allegheny County is taking major steps to reduce their carbon footprint and to save money. The County's future looks very "green" indeed.


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I am updating the title and purpose of this particular thread. We have gone far beyond the "Market Research" phase to the point that a new business/supply venture has been created. I have more or less preserved the content of the original post for those who deem the information as valuable.
Posts #1 - #512 Tell the story that led to the creation of Model Plane Foam Inc. Posts #513 onward the discussion turns to the availability and review of the product. Link to purchase product is here Model Plane Foam My orginal desire was that we could get the R. L. Adams Co. to begin selling a material more suitable for FFF users. Well they did, but not without somebody to step in and handle product development, marketing, and distribution. I have seen the business opportunity for some time now and never thought that Springer (Mike), Bz1sfb (Don), and Dz1sfb (Ken - myself) would be the ones to do it. I really want to take the moment to thank Don and Mike for their willing committment to see this thing through. While all three of us have worked in the corporate world, it is another thing to step into it as owners. Don't know how I have the time for all this, but its supposed to be for "fun". Our goals are to serve the need for this gap in the product market for ourselves and our modelling friends with a value priced product, and come out on the other side as friends inspite of whatever happens. This means that while we have the utmost customer satisfaction in mind, we still have families, friends, and extended community that also have a place in our lives. I am encouraging my partners and myself to not let this venture consume our otherwise precious time from these other necessary elements of life (weekends off for fun and otherwise). A special thanks to all who have participated in the survey and contributed to this thread. Some have provided extensive help in getting us off and running. I want to thank R. L. Adams as well, which without their desire to help this would not have gone past the idea stage. We received an email that was very encouraging and supportive. Again, thank you! Don (bz1mcr) Mike (springer) Ken (dz1sfb) Partners in Model Plane Foam Inc. Fan Fold Foam Market Research "to all Foamie RCGroupers, I want to make you aware of an opportunity that you would not want to pass by. The R. L. Adams Co., the people who manufacture Readiboard, Dow, and Owens Corning FFF material (XPS Foam) are interesting in know what kind of market demand this part of our hobby might generate. Given enough demand they would make there material available through an online ordering system. I am taking it upon myself to conduct some informal research. I am especially interested in foam kit cutters, however, if you are a high volume builder please contribute. Currently Depron and Depron Aero are to my knowledge imported materials from Europe. This material is desirable in that it is smooth, flat, and white (meaning it paints well). The only drawback is that it is quite brittle, with the Aero variety being the exception. The Aero material is almost identical to FFF in density and flexibilty. Both of these materials are XPS (extruded Polystyrene) as is FFF. Just the diffferent density gives the various properties. R. L. Adams can manufacture to whatever spec's are desired. They can make it white, or other colors, and thicknesses, as well as skin on one or both sides, or no skin at all. I have just started using a Dow product called High Performance Underlayment (lay flat fan fold). It is the same thickness as Protecion Board III, but is skinned on both sides, smooth, and very flat. Along with no printing directly on the foam. It is also cut instead of folded. This is very high quality material, and is considered a premium product at Allied Building Supply. A single 200 sq. ft. bundle is $50, with a price break for quantity down to about $46 a bundle. The only improvement that I would make to this product is that it would come in white. This material is manufactered by Adams as well. What I would like an idea of is what quantity you consume on an annual basis. Then a price that would be good for you. I don't want to entertain any comments about being free. If you get some foam for free that is a blessing, but I need a reliable source, and want the properties of Depron Aero with a local manufacturer. I am currently consuming about 16 bundles in 12 months. I don't mind paying $50 a bundle, but would like to get the cost down to $40 or less for a premium product for my kits. Thanks for helping on this idea, Ken " |
Nov 03, 2011, 11:45 AM | |
Two more suggestions for a purpose-made foam board from RLAdams: have them turn off the process steps that add the perforations and the waves.(both of which are added for the insulation/underlay functionality, and I assume add cost.
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bring on the white waveless foam... $50 a bundle still beats depron USA
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Nov 04, 2011, 09:03 AM | |
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You know my opinion on this one Ken.
I would LOVE to have some decent quality white foam. I can live with perforations, i can live with a "little" waviness. As long as the material is consistent. I hated the bundles we got that had the hue waves where the thickness varied up to 1mm! This last batch of foam you have is definitely the best so far. If it was white it would be literally perfect!! I am not sure really how many bundles i use. I know that i buy at least 2 bundles a year for my internal prototyping of kits. How many of your 12 go to my stuff? I would guess this past year at least 3. When it comes to kitting, cost is definitely an issue. In order for a kit to be "worth" buying for a customer it has to be relatively cheap. When prices start hitting $50 a lot of people decide that it is not worth it. It is the main reason i can't offer my Enterprise and stuff in White foam. It is just too much money. I am sure at that $40 that i sell my kits that many people decide that it is not worth it. I know that i would. I have never bought a kit that cost more than $20. A that point i usually decide that my desgining and building skill is enough that i can do the thing on my own. Now if we could get good foam at a nice price that just means that everyone wins! |
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So a dollar for a sheet of 8 square feet??? Looking at the high price of Depron there's a huge middle ground to be had for the foam manufacturer who wants to commit. Let me add my two cents. It's ridiculous that Depron has to be shipped in from overseas. Especially when industries in this country can make the product right here. The new product should shoot right at Depron's bulls eye. One problem with the current fan fold product is it needs to be in single sheets and boxed. We hobbiest's are not insulating basements or outside walls where imperfections do not really affect the functionality. In this case we want a flat, unmarred, defect free product. This requires a box. The new product should be white and not have anything applied to the surfaces in the form of a wrapper. The 24" by 48" dimension is OK but maybe it could be bumped up to 30" by 48". That form factor would go head to head with Depron's best. I also think I'd go metric in the thickness. The current 3/16in. fanfold (0.1875in.) is probably too thick for the indoor flyers, but is too thin when trying to embed a carbide rod. The next step up 3/8in. (0.375in.) is actually a bit too thick for regular applications. The three metric dimensions gives you the best of all worlds: First...3mm. (0.1181in.) is good for lighter planes especially indoor flyers. Secondly...6mm. (0.2362in.) is the sweet spot. You can make good stiff wings by sandwiching a 3mm. carbide rod between two sheets. And finally...9mm. (0.354in.) is for more strength. From a pricing perspective(retail), here's what full cases of 48"x30" Depron cost as shipped from RCFoam in Colorado Springs to Columbus, OH. 3mm...40 sheets(400sq.ft.)......est. 14 lbs shipping weight......$185 +$39 shipping......Total $224. 6mm...20 sheets(200sq.ft.)......est. 14 lbs shipping weight......$165 + $39 shipping......Total $204. 9mm...no full case availability. This leaves a huge opening for aggressive pricing. By the way I worked out Fedex shipping on 14lbs. which should have been $17.80...not $39.00. I would be thrilled to see the following FULL CASE retail pricing of "A NEW DEPRON EQUIVALENT": 3mm...40 sheets(400sq.ft.)......est. 14 lbs shipping weight......$90 + $18 shipping......Total $108. 6mm...20 sheets(200sq.ft.)......est. 14 lbs shipping weight......$80 + $18 shipping......Total $98. 9mm...12 sheets(120sq.ft.)......est. 14 lbs shipping weight......$70 + $18 shipping......Total $88. I would also like to see the new product be available at retail in HALF CASES without breaking open full cases. You could even jack the price up a bit (an extra $5.00). I think the half-case availability is very important. It would drive a lot of foam sales. For some hobbiests, full cases are just a little bit too much material...thus...to much money. Here would be an acceptable HALF CASE pricing. 3mm...20 sheets(200sq.ft.)......est. 9 lbs shipping weight......$50 + $15 shipping......Total $65. 6mm...10 sheets(100sq.ft.)......est. 9 lbs shipping weight......$45 + $15 shipping......Total $60. 9mm...6 sheets(60sq.ft.).........est. 9 lbs shipping weight......$40 + $15 shipping......Total $55. Wholesale pricing for hobby shops or commercial foamy builders could be 30-35% off retail. That would bring the FULL CASE PRICES of the foam down into the $50 to $60 range...that is, before the costs of shipping...which would be unaffected. Getting wholesale quantity $50 bundles down to $40...and yet having them still in bundles...held together with strapps...boxless...wavy...with dog-earred corners......to me that's no bargain. I'd rather pay a $20 premium over the $40 to $50 dollars bundle cost...and get something that's actually flat and defect free...something decent...protected in a box. |
Nov 17, 2011, 03:39 AM | |
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Foam Use and pricing
I consume around 4 bundles per month and would get more if the high quality stuff was available around here (NH). I, like you cut a great deal of inexpensive kits for the local groups as well as quite a few 3D puzzles that I market at fairs and such. The latest batches of FFF that I have been able to get, even after hand picking, have been the worst I have seen since I started cutting kits. I would be very interested in a bulk purchase of the good stuff or something better. The color and printing on the product is what makes it difficult to sell. I too would love to get the price down around $40.00 a bundle. I seem to be getting killed in shipping like others so that would have to be dealt with as well. It is not worth getting the bundle for 40 and then pay another 20 or so for shipping. Keep me up to date with your negotiations and if they or you would like any further input, let me know. Ross |
Nov 17, 2011, 07:25 AM | |
My initial contact was for 5mm foam in white, no film, no waves, or pick marks, in 23" x 48" sheets cut not folded. We may not all agree on sheet sizes, but you are right on with hitting the Depron bullseye. Though I am pretty sure they will be reluctant to investing in the whole boxing idea. That might be more suitable for a distribution company. I believe that will be the weak link for them. Some of my FB's have expressed an interest in wharehousing and distributing this product. Power67, Your first paragraph expresses my experience also with the quality of FFF. I appreciate all the indepth comments. I am going to direct the R. L. Adams rep to this webpage for market analysis information. Ken |
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FAIRPORT, N.Y., Jan 11, 2010 — PAETEC Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: PAET), which provides data, voice, and Internet solutions to business-class customers nationwide, announced that it will standardize on Cisco(R) Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network edge and core platforms. As a result, PAETEC will continue to increase the availability and reliability of its existing MPLS-VPN, IP trunking, hosted firewall and dedicated Internet services while accelerating deployment of emerging next-generation collaboration services.
"Over the past ten years, PAETEC has been an industry leader in delivering voice and data services to the enterprise customer base, as well as leading the transformation of such services to IP next-generation network platforms," said Sanjay Hiranandani, PAETEC's senior vice president of engineering. "By standardizing with Cisco throughout our IP routing platform, PAETEC can now rapidly deploy customer solutions with a high degree of consistency and reliability. Additionally, by continuing to deploy leading-edge IP NGN technologies in our edge network, we're supporting a wide range of emerging products and services such as online collaboration, Cisco TelePresence and other applications requiring high-bandwidth and real-time response."
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As the 2012 Covers MMVA winner, Tyler Shaw not only gets to work with Sony Music to launch a digital single and film a music video, but he is also invited to take the stage in front of 20,000 amazing youth to perform at this year's We Day celebrations. Tyler got We Day Toronto started this morning by wowing the crowd with a performance of his amazing debut single, Kiss Goodnight.
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Hollywood takes the spotlight itself on Sunday for the 84th annual Academy Awards, the world's most prominent celebration of film.
Final preparations for Tinseltown's biggest night have progressed throughout the weekend at the Hollywood & Highland Center (formerly known as the Kodak Theatre) in Los Angeles.
Outside, the red carpet has been uncovered by a team of workers on Saturday, while international media crews staked out their locations. Inside, jeans-clad stars including Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep took part in rehearsals. Other presenters will include Tom Cruise, Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie and Michael Douglas.
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Before the show, Sacha Baron Cohen is expected to make a splash after the Hugo co-star vowed to walk the red carpet in character as a faux, Middle Eastern despot — a stunt for his upcoming film The Dictator that the British comedian and actor previously used for films such as Borat and Bruno.
Crystal is emceeing the awards for a ninth time, deciding to step in with Grazer and Mischer in late 2011 after the exit of original show producer Brett Ratner and host Eddie Murphy.
Martin Scorsese's 3D children's tale Hugo and the black-and-white silent film homage The Artist, which as dominated the film awards season, are the top contenders heading into Sunday's gala, with 11 and 10 nominations, respectively.
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Other Canadians vying for an Academy Award include:
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After the breakup, Beatles fans expected major statements from the three chief songwriters in the Fab Four. John and George fulfilled those expectations -- Lennon with his lacerating, confessional John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Harrison with his triple-LP All Things Must Pass -- but Paul McCartney certainly didn't, turning toward the modest charms of McCartney, and then crediting his wife Linda as a full-fledged collaborator on its 1971 follow-up, Ram. Where McCartney was homemade, sounding deliberately ragged in parts, Ram had a fuller production yet retained that ramshackle feel, sounding as if it were recorded in a shack out back, not far from the farm where the cover photo of Paul holding the ram by the horns was taken. It's filled with songs that feel tossed off, filled with songs that are cheerfully, incessantly melodic; it turns the monumental symphonic sweep of Abbey Road into a cheeky slice of whimsy on the two-part suite "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey." All this made Ram an object of scorn and derision upon its release (and for years afterward, in fact), but in retrospect it looks like nothing so much as the first indie pop album, a record that celebrates small pleasures with big melodies, a record that's guileless and unembarrassed to be cutesy. But McCartney never was quite the sap of his reputation, and even here, on possibly his most precious record, there's some ripping rock & roll in the mock-apocalyptic goof "Monkberry Moon Delight," the joyfully noisy "Smile Away," where his feet can be smelled a mile away, and "Eat at Home," a rollicking, winking sex song. All three of these are songs filled with good humor, and their foundation in old-time rock & roll makes it easy to overlook how inventive these productions are, but on the more obviously tuneful and gentle numbers -- the ones that are more quintessentially McCartney-esque -- it's plain to see how imaginative and gorgeous the arrangements are, especially on the sad, soaring finale, "Back Seat of My Car," but even on its humble opposite, the sweet "Heart of the Country." These songs may not be self-styled major statements, but they are endearing and enduring, as is Ram itself, which seems like a more unique, exquisite pleasure with each passing year. [The two-disc version of the 2012 reissue of Ram offers a second disc of non-LP bonus material, which includes not only the "Another Day"/"Oh Woman, Oh Why" single and the B-side "Little Woman Love" but also these unreleased cuts: the terrific little pop tune "A Love for You," the charming ditty "Hey Diddle," the ramshackle blues instrumental "Great ****** and Seagull Race," the pummeling hard rocker "Rode All Night" that stretches out for eight minutes, and the pretty instrumental "Sunshine Sometime."] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
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Can someone please explain to me how the current transfer station policy is saving money?! The "cost saving" method has been in place for a few years, and it's a total bust. Why are we paying for a county employee to sit/guard the transfer station when it's closed?
And why is it closed?! Things worked pretty well when it was always open, and a local guy was paid (I'm sure) minimum wage to lock/unlock the gates, and he was way more helpful than the county folks, who admittedly earn lots more money!
Please, Billy (Kenoi) and others involved, give us back our transfer stations and let us manage them for the benefit of all. Goodwill's gone, and now we need a place to share our extras with other neighbors. Get out of the way, and save some taxpayer dollars, too!
And, yes, I am a resident who received a warning from our trash task force to not leave any trash outside the gate at Kalapana. Do we really pay folks to sort through our trash? Surely, there are better uses for their skills.
Mary Blair
Puna Palisades
Inferior bags
I am sick of dealing with inferior quality paper bags at the market. They tear when you try to pick them up, and they fall apart when they have frozen or cold foods in them. They are awkward to carry — especially for the elderly and disabled.
I am told that Safeway has better-quality bags with handles on them, which is a much better alternative. I feel we should be given a choice between paper and plastic bags even if there is a small fee.
Diana Allegra
Stop paying?
Here we are, folks. The County Council, in all of their wisdom, has decided not to tackle the problem of delinquent property taxes. Combined with the state Legislature's recent foreclosure law changes, we will now have a population not making mortgage payments or property tax payments and living in their homes for free. Should we all stop all payments and live for free ?
Wonder why the county wants to raise taxes, for those of us that pay them.
Bob Dukat


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Momoe Yamaguchi 山口 百恵 | |
Born | Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan | 17 January 1959
Occupation | Singer, actress |
Years active | 1973 | –1980
Spouse(s) | Tomokazu Miura (1980–present) |
Momoe Yamaguchi 山口 百恵 | |
Born | Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan | 17 January 1959
Occupation | Singer, actress |
Years active | 1973 | –1980
Spouse(s) | Tomokazu Miura (1980–present) |
Momoe Yamaguchi (Japanese: 山口 百恵 Hepburn: Yamaguchi Momoe?, born 17 January 1959) is a Japanese former singer, actress, and idol whose career lasted from 1972 to 1980. Often simply referred to by her given name, "Momoe", Yamaguchi was one of the most successful singers in Japanese music in her day, releasing 32 singles, including three number one hits, and 21 albums. She also starred in 15 feature films and several serial dramas on television. At 21, Yamaguchi retired at the height of her popularity to marry her frequent costar, Tomokazu Miura; she has never performed or made a public appearance since.[1]
Momoe Yamaguchi was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1959. Not long afterwards she was left in the care of her maternal grandparents. At around four, she was returned to her parents and the family then moved to Yokohama. Her father, who was already married to another women with children, and never married to her mother. The family moved once again to Yokosuka. Her mother raised Momoe and her younger sister Toshie by herself.[2]
Yamaguchi began a career in show business while she was still a student in junior high school. At the end of 1972, at the age of 13, Yamaguchi, along with many of her schoolmates, applied by postcard to appear on the idol talent search television show Star Tanjō!. After a series of successful preliminary auditions, she appeared on the show covering a hit song "Kaiten Mokuba",[n 1] by Yumi Makiba[n 2] earlier that year. Though she finished second, Yamaguchi received offers from several music producers, and signed with Hori Productions.[2] Her family moved to Tokyo. Yamaguchi transferred to Shinagawa Joshi Gakuin, and then attended Hinode Joshi Gakuin High School, a school which allows its students to carry on careers in show business.
Initially she was promoted together with two other singers, Junko Sakurada and Masako Mori, as the Hana no Chūsan Torio (meaning "The lovely trio of third-year middle school students") since they were all in the third year of middle school (chūsan).[3]
Her first single, "Toshigoro", coupled with her first movie of the same title, did not fare well in the charts, peaking at 37 on the Oricon singles chart. But her second single "Aoi Kajitsu" peaked at number 9. Japanese pop culture historians[who?][3] have credited its success to its suggestive lyrics. The chorus goes "You can do what ever you want with me; it's OK if rumors spread that I'm a bad girl".[n 3]
Her early songs, including the ones with suggestive lyrics, were written for her by the Hori Productions songwriting team of composer Shunichi Tokura and lyricist Kazuya Senge.[2] One of her biggest hits was her 5th single "Hito natsu no Keiken" ("an experience one summer"), which includes lyrics like "I'll give you the most precious thing a girl has".[n 4] and "Everyone experiences it at least once, the sweet trap of seduction".[n 5] The suggestive lyrics attracted widespread press interest. The young singer was frequently asked salacious questions such as "What do you think a girl's most precious thing is?", to which she replied magokoro ("her devotion").[2]
By the end of 1974, her phenomenal popularity was demonstrated by her being invited to be the opening female singer for the 25th Kōhaku Uta Gassen, Japan's most popular musical show, with the song Hito Natsu No Keiken. She would continue to appear in this show every year until her retirement.
But what really launched Momoe to stardom and signaled the second stage of her career were the songs written for her by husband-wife team of lyricist Yoko Agi and composer Ryudo Usaki. These so-called "punk" (tsuppari) songs, including "Yokosuka Story" and "Playback Part 2," proclaimed that Momoe was no longer a girl who could be used by men, but a woman ready to stand on her own two feet and take charge of her own life. Initially Momoe's agency and record company had opposed using this pair, saying that their music didn't fit her image, but she had insisted- and changed her image instead.[3]
With her increasing popularity, Yamaguchi gained more control over her career and was able to select her own songwriters. One of her choices was Ryudo Uzaki. She chose him because she liked his song "Secret Love", recorded by the Down Town Boogie Woogie Band.[2] Their first collaboration resulted in the single "Yokosuka Story" in 1976, written by Uzaki with lyrics by his wife, Yoko Aki. Aki was inspired to write the song because both she and Yamaguchi, whom she had never met when the song was originally ordered, had both lived in Yokosuka. "Yokosuka Story" was Yamaguchi's biggest hit, selling more than 600,000 copies, and peaked at number one on the charts. This was the beginning of a collaboration with the husband and wife songwriting team which only ended with Yamaguchi's retirement.[4] Songs were also written for her by writers such as Masashi Sada, who wrote one of her most popular hits, "Cosmos".
Her popularity as a singer was paralleled by rising success in a series of films and television programs. Her second film, Izu no Odoriko, paired her with actor Tomokazu Miura, chosen because he had previously done a commercial for Glico with her.[5] Though Yamaguchi was just 14, and Miura was 22, they had great screen chemistry, and became known as the Momoe-Tomokazu "golden combi".[n 6] They starred together in a total of 14 of her 17 movies, one every winter and summer.
As she became popular, her father, Kubo,[n 7] decided to cash in on her success. He held bogus "press conferences" unauthorized by either Yamaguchi or her management company, and in various ways disrupted her career. Since Yamaguchi was still a minor, he sued for the right of parental authority.[n 8] The court case ended in a victory for her mother. Yamaguchi declared in her autobiographical book that she ended her relationship with her father, and would never acknowledge his existence again. She also expressed the regret that if she had not become famous, this would not have happened.[2]
By the end of her career, Yamaguchi's music became more sophisticated. Her 12th and 18th albums, Golden Flight and L.A. Blue, were recorded in London and Los Angeles respectively, using local musicians and production staff. Her 21st album, Phoenix Densetsu, was written as a rock opera. Because she wanted to make a rock song before she ended her career, Uzaki and Aki wrote "Rock 'n Roll Widow" for her, which was included on the concept album Moebius's Game.
When her television series were broadcast in China in the 1980s, she also became hugely popular as an actress there, with the Akai series of television dramas achieving viewing figures of 100% on Chinese television at the time.[6] In China she is known as 山口百惠 (the final character is slightly different from that used in Japan), pronounced "Shan Kou Bai Hui". According to a 2000 poll by the "News Station" news magazine programme, she was the Japanese person known most widely among the Chinese.[citation needed]
With the on-screen romances between Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura, an off-screen romance grew.[2] During a trip to Hawaii in early 1979, Miura proposed to Yamaguchi. She accepted, and she also said that she would retire from entertainment to marry him. Yamaguchi announced their relationship at a concert in October 1979, and the announcement about their marriage date and her retirement was made in March 1980. She performed a farewell concert at the Nippon Budokan on 5 October 1980, released her last album This is my trial on 21 October 1980, and released her last single "Ichie" on 19 November 1980. She also wrote the lyrics to this song under the pen name "Kei Yokosuka", and continued to write a few songs for a while after retirement, such as Ann Lewis's La Saison from 1982.[7]
In her autobiographical book, Aoi Toki, she said that she disliked repeatedly singing the same songs.[2] She also stated that she wanted to stop working to devote all her time to the wellbeing of her husband.[2] She also said in an interview at the time of retirement that she did not want to continue working as a singer or an actress.[8][9]
On 15 October 1980, Yamaguchi officially retired from show business, and on 19 November 1980, the pair were married. Despite several rumors of her comeback, she has devoted herself to being a homemaker and mother to two sons. Her husband, Tomokazu Miura, continued to work as an actor, even though his career up to then had mostly consisted of playing romantic leads in her films and television series.[10]
In the early years after her retirement at the age of twenty, few details of her daily existence as wife of actor Tomokazu Miura were too mundane for the mags' Momoe watchers to miss. Her son's postpartum homecoming, nursery school graduation ceremony, and first day at elementary school rated cover headlines- simply because Mom happened to be in the picture.[3]
In 1981, she wrote a book of autobiographical essays called Aoi Toki, which sold over a million copies in its first month of publication.[11]
Despite her retirement, she is a regular feature in weekly entertainment magazines. Her family suffered considerable difficulty in attending school events due to television crews and photographers, who sometimes used deception to gain access.[12] Fans have frequently been found hanging around her residence, and in at least one case a fan even broke in.[12] In 1999, her husband, Tomokazu Miura, wrote a part-autobiography Hishatai detailing the problems the couple had faced.[12]
Her two sons, Yūtarō and Takahiro Miura, both also entered careers in entertainment. Yūtarō entered the music business under the pseudonym "Yū" in a now-defunct group called "Peaky Salt". Initially it was not known that he was Momoe and Tomokazu's son. Takahiro is an actor who has appeared in several films and television programs.
Yamaguchi's hobby is quilt making, and she exhibits her quilts under her married name, "Momoe Miura".[13] In 2011, she was selected in a poll as "The ideal mother".[14]
New musical products continue to go on sale, such as a boxed DVD set of her appearances on television program Yoru No Hitto Sutajio ("Evening Hit Studio") in 2010. In a November 2011 television interview, Ryudo Uzaki said that she still receives a healthy income from record royalties.[15] Her television dramas continue to be available on DVD, and from 2010 have been repeated daily on the TBS Channel cable television station.
In 2011, Tomokazu Miura wrote a book entitled "Aishō" (compatibility) explaining the secret of their happy marriage.[5] In 2012, the couple came first for the seventh consecutive year in a poll by the Meiji Yasuda life insurance company to find "the ideal celebrity couple" as considered by married people in their 20s to 50s.[16]
The following list gives the studio albums recorded during her career.[17] Several live albums as well as many compilations have also been released.
Romanized title | Original title (if not romanized) | Translation or note on title | Date of release |
Yamaguchi Momoe Fāsuto Arubamu Toshigoro | 山口百恵ファーストアルバム としごろ | Momoe Yamaguchi's first album "Toshigoro" (adolescence) | 21 August 1973 |
Yamaguchi Momoe Sekando Arubamu "Aoi Kajitsu" / "Kinjirareta Asobi" | 山口百恵セカンドアルバム 青い果実/禁じられた遊び | Momoe Yamaguchi's second album "Unripe fruit" / "Forbidden play" | 21 December 1973 |
15-sai no Tēma Momoe no Kisetsu | 15才のテーマ 百恵の季節 | Theme for a 15-year-old The season of Momoe | 21 April 1974 |
15-sai no Tēma Hito Natsu no Keiken | 15才のテーマ ひと夏の経験 | Theme for a 15-year-old An experience one summer | 1 August 1974 |
15-sai | 15才 | Fifteen years old | 10 December 1974 |
16-sai no Tēma | 16才のテーマ | Theme for a sixteen-year-old | 1 May 1975 |
Sasayaka na Yokubō | ささやかな欲望 | Modest desire | 5 December 1975 |
17 sai no teema | 17才のテーマ | Theme for a seventeen-year-old | 21 April 1976 |
Yokosuka Sutōrī | 横須賀ストーリー | Yokosuka story | 1 August 1976 |
Pāru-karā ni Yurete | パールカラーにゆれて | In pearl colours | 5 December 1976 |
Momoe Hakusho | 百恵白書 | Momoe's white paper | 21 May 1977 |
Golden Flight | 21 August 1977 | ||
Hana Zakari | 花ざかり | A flower in bloom | 5 December 1977 |
Cosmos / Uchū | COSMOS/宇宙 | Although the song is about a flower, this puns the meaning with uchū (the universe) | 1 May 1978 |
Doramachikku | ドラマチック | Dramatic | 1 September 1978 |
Hatachi no Kinenbei Manjushaka | 二十歳の記念碑 曼珠沙華 | A monument for a twenty-year-old: Manjushaka | 21 December 1978 |
A Face in a Vision | 1 April 1979 | ||
L. A. Blue | 1 August 1979 | ||
Harutsugedori | 春告鳥 | Bird of spring | 1 February 1980 |
Möbius's Game | メビウス・ゲーム | (The romanization is as written on the album.) | 21 May 1980 |
Fenikkusu Densetsu | 不死鳥伝説 | Legend of the Phoenix | 21 August 1980 |
This is My Trial | 21 October 1980 |
Yamaguchi released 31 singles during her career.[17]
Her songs are regularly covered by other performers. Ayako Fuji released an "enka" version of her hit Manjushaka in 2003. Cosmos has been covered by many artists, including its creator, Masashi Sada, as well as Akina Nakamori. Imitation Gold was covered by Tak Matsumoto with Mai Kuraki in 2003. In 2004, a tribute album Yamaguchi Momoe Toribyuto Thank You For ... appeared of Yamaguchi covers by singers such as Masaharu Fukuyama, Sowelu, and Hiromi Iwasaki. A second volume, Yamaguchi Momoe Toribyuto Thank You For ... Part 2, with more covers, came out in 2005.
In the 1980s, Chinese-language versions of some of her songs, such as "Manjushaka" (曼珠沙華) as 蔓珠莎華, or "Rock'n'Roll Widow" as "冰山大火" were released by Hong Kong singer Anita Mui.[citation needed]
In English, in 1991 The Nolans released an album of songs entitled "Playback Part 2" containing well-known Yamaguchi songs with English lyrics.[18] (The lyrics are largely newly written rather than translations of the originals, although some of the English parts of the originals are preserved.) This was re-issued as "The Nolans Sing Momoe 2005" in 2005.[19] These albums were released only in Japan.
Apart from her first film Toshigoro and two concert films, all of Yamaguchi's films, from Izu no odiroko on, were romantic stories costarring Tomokazu Miura. Many of them were directed by Katsumi Nishikawa and were remakes of the director's own films. Except for White Love (set in Spain) and Furimukeba Ai (set in San Francisco), almost all of the romantic films with Miura were based on Japanese literary works.
On television, most of Yamaguchi's appearances were in a series of dramas with Ken Utsui. Each of these dramas went on for about twenty-six episodes, or half a year. Starting with Kao de waratte and going on to the so-called Akai Series, in each serial drama she and Utsui played a different father and daughter. Echoing Yamaguchi's real-life family issues, all of the Akai series consisted of complex, melodramatic family circumstances such as hidden adoption (Akai Meiro, Akai Giwaku, Akai Kizuna), mistaken identity (Akai Unmei), murder (Akai Meiro, Akai Unmei) or illness (leukemia via radiation poisoning in Akai Giwaku, paralysis via an accidental shooting in Akai Shogeki).
Some of the serial dramas in the Akai series did not feature Yamaguchi, such as Akai Gekiryu starring Yutaka Mizutani, in which she made a guest appearance in the first episode. Each of the Akai series which she appeared in, except Akai Meiro, featured a title song sung by Yamaguchi herself.
The final Akai program, Akai Shisen, was a two-part story starring her and Tomokazu Miura based on Deadline at Dawn, a novel by William Irish whose Japanese title is Akatsuki no shisen (暁の死線). For the first time Ken Utsui appeared in it not as the father of Yamaguchi's character, but instead in a small part as a carjacking victim and pilot. It also featured cameos from Rentarō Mikuni and Gin Maeda who had starred in Akai Unmei.


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I'm looking for information about the following people as well as their ANCESTORS.William Hartwell BLOOD, dod 1898, married Mary THOMAS. Their children were Martin Blood and Gene Hartwell Blood.Amos L. DAWLEY married Francis Earl Blood, 1894-1919. Children were Jean Leslie Dawley (adopted as Gene Leslie Goff upon the death of Frances Blood) and Carrie Marie Dawley (adopted as Carrie MARIE Fletcher upon the death of Frances Blood)Nelson EARL married Ann Eliza SHULTERS. Children were Agnes Della Earl 1862-1938, Frances Earl 1871-1945, Kathryn Earl 1876-1965, Edward Earl 1879-1946.William NUNEMAKER 1829-1897 married Sarah PYE. Children are William Grant Nunemaker 1864-1931 and John Nunemaker.Samuel ENSMINGER 1826-1899 married Magdalena 1824-1895. Children are John Ensminger married to Maria KOON, child, Mary Catherine Ensminger.The geographical areas include New York, Pennsylvania and possibly Massachusetts and Rhode Island. |
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BUSH v. GORE....This is weird. Via Unfogged, here's a chart showing that the fatter you are the more likely you were to vote for Bush in 2000. What's more, aside from a set of outliers in the mountain states (which is peculiar all by itself) the correlation looks pretty good for a set of social science data.
Yes, yes, I know there's an underlying cause. Probably income, or socioeconomic level, or something. But still. Weird.


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Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party
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Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party (MVMCP) is a great way to celebrate the holidays at Walt Disney World. Starting in November, on selected nights, Mickey invites you to join him and party in the Magic Kingdom Disney style.
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During the night complimentary at several Magic Kingdom restaurants, cocoa and cookies are served to all guests. Special holiday shows occur all around the park, and yes, it even snows on Main Street.
It's a great party.
Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party
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When does it happen?
The 2014 dates are;
- November - 7, 10, 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 30
- December - 2,4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19
The Castle Stage Show
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Advanced Purchase Tickets for most dates are available for $67 for adults and $62 for children ages 3 to 9. Day of the event tickets are an extra $5. December 5, 12 and 18 cost $5 extra (and are very likely to sell out.) The December 19 party costs $74 for adults and $69 for children.
Prices do not include tax.
Discounts are available for Annual Pass and Disney Vacation Club members for select dates. There is a substantial Military discount for the November parties.
The party starts at 7:00 and lasts until midnight. However, if you have a party ticket, you will be admitted to the park as early as 4:00.
Dad's Magic Kingdom page
Snow on Main Street
Photo by Disney Photo Snapper
Crowd Factor
Disney doesn't publish the exact number of tickets sold, but it's estimated that 20,000 tickets are available for each party. Some nights sell out early, but some nights the crowds are very light.
How does Disney get everyone out of the park? After 7:00 only guests with Party tickets will be allowed on the rides. (Yes, over the last couple of years it has be reported that there are cheaters.)
Dad's Disney World Crowds page
Open Attractions
Most of the Magic Kingdom's Attractions are open during the Party.
Liberty Square
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Mickey and Minnie
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Restaurants open
The Table Service Restaurants close during the party, but most of the Quick Service Restaurants stay open. Here is the list of restaurants that are open:
There are also a few snack options available:
- Main Street Sweets
- Westward Ho
- Turkey Leg Cart
- Frontierland Churros and Pretzels
- Storybook Treats
- The Lunching Pad at Rockettower Plaza
Amazing Fireworks
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What makes it special
There's magic in the air during Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party. It comes from the extras that are part of the party.
- Holiday Wishes - A special version of the nightly fireworks show that featuring holiday music.
- Cocoa and Cookies - Cocoa and cookies are available (for free) at
- Diamond Horseshoe in Frontierland
- Tomorrowland Terrace Noodle Station in Tomorrowland
- Scuttle's Landing in Fantasyland
- Columbia Harbor House in Liberty Square
- Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas Time Parade - A special Christmas parade with the big guy himself.
- Mickey's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas Show - A "Mickey" version of the story.
- Celebrate the Season - A big Christmas Extravaganza on the Castle Forecourt Stage.
- Belle's Enchanted Christmas Story - Belle invites children on to the stage and tells Christmas stories.
Yes, I know, you can see most of these things on a regular night. But the cookies and cocoa bring a warmth to the festivities. You also get a complimentary photo taken with a holiday background. (Complimentary if you don't count the cost of tickets to the party.)
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Ask Dad
Dad answers all kinds of questions and has answered a bunch of questions about MVMCP. Check out a few of the best.
- What are the crowds like?
- What is the typical weather in December?
- Will the Pop Warner Championships affect the party?
These are just a few of the questions Dad has answered about the party. If you have any questions, why not Ask Dad. Dad knows Disney World. Trust Me.
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Dad's Bottom Line
Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party is one of Dad's favorite things at Walt Disney World. Is it worth the price? That's another story. We like to do this on our first day when we arrive in Orlando. A day when we wouldn't normally visit a park so we're not paying double for tickets.


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