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I've just returned from the Amusement Expo in Las Vegas. This event has replaced the annual trade shows long held by the Amusement and Music Operators Association and the American Amusement Machine Association. This year, for the first time, the National Bulk Vendors Association staged its annual convention and trade show in conjunction with the Amusement Expo, too. Exhibitors and operators seemed pleased with this arrangement. I found the mood at the show upbeat, and I believe that we all can benefit from shows that address the entire market.
I'm sure not everyone will agree with this optimistic assessment. Several people for whom I have the highest regard believe the consolidation of our shows is a symptom of decay, a loss of enthusiasm on the part of operators and of interest among the manufacturers.
But it also can be seen as another lament for the good old days, the passing of a Golden Age. An industry historian with whom I have the pleasure to work often tells me that those good old days were seldom as rosy as they may appear in retrospect. Billy Joel summarized this in his song "Keeping the Faith" --
The good old days weren't always good
And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
There is a famous book by the celebrated archivist Otto Bettmann (The Good Old Days - They Were Terrible!) which illustrates the squalor and brutality experienced by most people at the end of the 19th Century. Bettmann compiled it as a corrective to the nostalgic glow that infuses false memories -- and leads people to complain about the depersonalized, mass-market present. Matters could be much worse, and they have been.
Of course, one can't live in the future either. Much opinion today is entirely uncompromising, holding that there is one Next Big Thing, and anything else is doomed. This is as unhelpful and destructive as wistful nostalgia. Trade shows go through cycles; the 1980s and '90s were, in retrospect, their high point. The amusement and music, vending and coffee service industry is by no means the only one to witness consolidation and contraction of these events. They probably will experience an upturn, when prospective exhibitors come to terms with the "new media" and rediscover the importance of face-to-face selling. A robust economic recovery wouldn't hurt, either.
Meanwhile, the industry is undergoing many changes that also are provoking laments from people in all segment of the business: consolidation, new forms of competition, dishonest rivals are threatening the independent operator, or broker, or specialist supplier. And they are right to complain about this; the difficulty is in knowing what to do about it.
We are presented with new forms of communication, new financial reporting demands, the erosion of traditional compartments between business types, and changes of all kinds. There is little point in saying that things might have been different. Perhaps they might have; we will never know. The question is, what do we do next?
The whole point is that the evolution we are now experiencing should lead to a more flexible, mix-and-match environment in which everyone enjoys a wider range of options.
The three-tiered model of operator, distributor/broker and manufacturer/supplier has real advantages, and they remain valid today. That does not mean that other models cannot emerge or will not work. It should be remembered that specialist operators and distributors scarcely existed at all until the end of World War II, and brokers, until the 1970s. All of these groups formed in response to changes that presented new opportunities and created different demands. Many of these changes seemed alarming at the time, and indeed they were. Organizations that could not adapt vanished. Those that did adapt, and new ones that formed to meet the new demands, often survived.
Our industry, and all its various segments, are said to be "mature." This often is said sadly by people mourning the loss of the pioneering spirit of the bold innovators who brought entirely new products and services to undeveloped, eager markets. It wasn't always quite like that, of course, but there is a core of truth. Today, the lament goes, prospects only care about price ... my historian comrade observes that people have been saying that for as long as he can remember, which extends back to the late 1960s.
There's another way to define maturity that I think is more useful: a recognition of all the things one does not know, a willingness to keep on learning, growing and adapting to new surroundings. Let's focus our energy on looking for the opportunities presented by our changing environment (changing environments always create new demands), and above all, let's not allow a remembered past to stand in our way.
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BOCA RATON, Fla. — The timing of the New Year and Easter holidays negatively affected Office Depot's first quarter sales which declined 5% to $2.7 billion and led to a $17 million loss compared to a profit of $41 million in the first quarter of 2012.
Sales for the first quarter ended March 30 at Office Depot's North American retail division declined 6% to $1.1 billion and same-store sales declined 5%. According to the company the decline was mainly driven by technology peripherals and by the consumer demand shift out of laptops and into tablets, which have a lower average selling price and lower basket attachment. Sales in Copy and Print Depot and cleaning and breakroom supplies increased, while supplies and furniture sales were down year-over-year. Average order value was down slightly in the first quarter and customer transaction counts declined approximately 5% compared to the same period last year.
First quarter results come just a little more than a week after Office Depot's largest stockholder, investment firm Starboard Value, expressed "strong disappointment at the board's failure to work constructively with Starboard to reconstitute the board." In March, Starboard nominated six candidates, including former Home Depot chief Robert Nardelli, to Office Depot's board in an effort to strengthen the company's direction.
First quarter of 2013 results included approximately $25 million of pre-tax charges, comprised primarily of merger-related costs associated with the company's plan to merge with OfficeMax, restructuring activities and approximately $5 million related to non-cash store asset impairment charges in the North American Retail Division.
"Although our first quarter results were heavily impacted by the holiday timing, we saw a modest improvement in trends late in the period, which gives us confidence going into the second quarter and, ultimately, in achieving our full-year targets," said Neil Austrian, chairman and CEO of Office Depot. "I'm also very pleased with the progress we have made on the merger over the past two months, especially the selection of Mike Newman, CFO of Office Depot, and Bruce Besanko, CFO of OfficeMax, to lead the integration efforts for the two companies."
On February 20, the company entered into a merger agreement with rival OfficeMax, which would combine the two companies in an all-stock merger transaction. Office Depot has stated its plans to hold a special meeting of shareholders to approve the merger with OfficeMax as soon as possible, following the completion of the SEC's staff review of the registration statement and joint proxy statement. Not fast enough for Starboard, which said that, because "it has become clear that the company has no intention of holding the 2013 Annual Meeting of stockholders in a timely manner," it had no choice but to "seek to bypass the ineffectiveness of the current board" by launching a consent solicitation that would let shareholders vote on the new slate of directors immediately.
The Office Depot board of directors has since appointed Nigel Travis, Tom Colligan and Marty Evans to serve along with OfficeMax board members Jim Marino, Rakesh Gangwal and Francesca Ruiz de Luzuriaga on a CEO selection committee for the combined company. The committee will oversee a comprehensive search process that will consider both incumbent CEOs — Neil Austrian, chairman and CEO of Office Depot and Ravi Saligram, president and CEO of OfficeMax — as well as external candidates. The committee will proceed with the objective of selecting the CEO for the combined company at or prior to the closing of the transaction.

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The first international trick scooter rider champion is a 14 year-old boy from Skipton.
Jay Harrison, a pupil at Aireville School, Skipton, beat off 60 other competitors, some arriving from as far as Europe and Australia, to take the top place and the trophy at the inaugural International Scooter Association Championship at Deeside Leisure Centre.
Jay of Pine Close, Skipton, who honed his skills at Skipton Skate Park, where he still practices and also performs at The Works in Leeds, has been involved in the sport for about two years.
His flips, somersaults and other amazing tricks convinced the judges he was the best in the competition.
The riders are judged on the level of their acrobatics, their technical ability and consistency.
"I was really happy to qualify top in the last ten to take part in the final. The competition level was high because there were some really good people. I got more points because I used all of the ramps,"said Jay.
The competition was over four rounds with the first two single runs involving all the competitors and the final two runs exclusively for the top ten. Jay is sponsored by the Harrogate-based Rigg My Roll.
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The National Museum of Women in the Arts opened its doors in 1987, and immediately the issues tumbled out: Would the former Masonic temple (turned kung fu movie house) be an all-important "room of one's own" for women artists? Or a ghetto? Would it correct a record dominated by the muscular heroics of Michelangelo, Picasso and Pollock, or push women further to the margins of that narrative?
Would separate be equal or would it further institutionalize inequality? What's more, wouldn't the success of the Women's Museum -- full footing for women artists in terms of space, money and acclaim -- by definition entail its obsolescence?
It's a measure of feminism's gains that those questions can now be seen as presenting false choices. As the Women's Museum itself stands to remind us, reality is all in the framing. I'm reminded of what may have been the best advice Gloria Steinem ever gave me, when I was a young would-be writer at Ms. magazine facing some now-forgotten irreconcilable choice. "You know what I always say," she told me, with characteristic mordant wit and blinding clarity. "When you have a choice between two things, take both."
That was just a year or two before Ms., in its unsigned review of the opening show at the Women's Museum (the NMWA trademarked that name), summed up so many feminists' anxieties about an institution many regarded as elitist and disempowering. After chastising the museum for lacking critical and curatorial edge, for marginalizing great women artists and patronizing mediocre ones, the anonymous reviewer ended on a defeatist note: "For now, artists are caught in a double bind. Damned if they do enter the collection, and damned if they don't."
Damned if you do, or take both? That might sum up the cognitive dissonance of the generations, not just of artists but of all women who have come of age in the past 20 years. It certainly seems to fit an art world that has seen huge strides made by women during those years, but whose parameters have changed little since curator, critic and historian Linda Nochlin wrote a seminal (ovulual?) essay in ARTnews.
Published in 1971, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" radically reframed the notion of artistic genius, not as some supernatural "golden kernel" of inherent greatness but as the result of intention and ambition on the part of the artist and a conspiracy of cultivation from an entire range of supporters and institutions, from ambitious parents (usually fathers) to teachers (usually male) to spouses (usually wives), not to mention collectors, curators and critics.
In other words, artistic genius is as much socially constructed as mystically imbued. Which might have been one but not the only reason why, until 1986, no female artists were included in H.W. Janson's standard art history textbook, 95 percent of the artworks exhibited in American museums were by men (even though women accounted for 38 percent of working artists), and few if any major museums saw fit to give female artists solo shows. (It bears noting that the National Gallery of Art presented one-person exhibitions of Berthe Morisot and Georgia O'Keeffe the year the Women's Museum opened, perhaps confirming its potential as a source of tacit pressure.)
Those numbers have increased. And a walk through the hushed, genteel galleries of the Women's Museum today reveal a still-young collection, modest in scale and scope, that proves there's nothing thematically monolithic or aesthetically unifying or morally distinct about art made by women, but that there's something potent about considering their work in social and historical context. In fact, its very gentility and modesty make the Women's Museum's collection an inadvertent expression of women's foreclosed potential through the ages. Part of what makes the museum invaluable is its reminder to today's aspiring female art stars that, notwithstanding the feminist victories they now take for granted, 'twasn't always thus.
And clearly things have improved, as this year's feminist shows, spaces and symposia attest to. As Nochlin herself said in a recent issue of ARTnews -- which first published her seismic article and which 36 years later announced that feminist art is the "Next Wave" -- "We've made a lot of progress."
But is that progress structural and enduring, or just another form of marketing hype? As Ben Davis, associate editor of the online journal Artnet, wrote last month, the numbers still don't line up. Women make up more than half the students in art schools, he noted, while only one-third of the solo shows in Chelsea have exclusively featured women artists.
The art world is awash in mad amounts of cash right now, but "What is deemed 'hot' new art must factor in what piques the interest of playboy European heirs, Japanese capitalists, newly rich Russian robber barons, American i-bankers and the like," Davis wrote, "all of whom are predominantly male, and arguably less prone to buy overtly 'feminine,' let alone feminist, work, or take women seriously."
We have made progress, as Nochlin observes. But it's all in the framing: Progress can mean not only more female art stars (a Yuskavage here, a Whiteread there), but entire communities of female artists surrounded by squads of supportive teachers, mentors, collectors and, above all, spouses willing to cook, parent, clean and perform those myriad thankless tasks that make genius possible.
Progress can mean not only that emerging women artists transcend reductionist labels when they don't identify themselves as feminists or women, but that they won't be punished or marginalized if they do.
Progress can mean not that NMWA becomes obsolete ("Hey, half the Hirshhorn's collection is now by women -- we can all go home!"), but that it becomes simply another venue for excellence in Washington, becoming not an annex to, but a crucial part of, the larger cultural landscape. The greatness of a museum, after all, lies not in its organizing principle, but in its curatorial vision.
And progress can mean not just looking critically at the notion of a Women's Museum but looking critically at the far bigger and better endowed National Museums of White Men in the Arts that outnumber it. Progress can and should mean that male administrators, collectors and critics finally see their collections and canons as half-empty when women are missing or not considered.
Of course, that's another framing issue. On my way out of the Women's Museum recently, I happened upon a young woman nursing her baby on the first floor, calmly gazing into the middle distance, looking for all the world like a Mary Cassatt painting two floors up. Was she bathed in the soft sentimental glow of iconic motherhood? Or did she simply embody women's practical -- and, thanks to feminism, inherently political -- capacity for getting on with things?
I'd say both.
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I have a website which is 2 months old, and since I've created it I decided to become an active member with more than 10 forums. The very 1st that I did was to follow all of those forum guideline to make sure that my posts meet their guidelines.
The advantage of forum posting is that your links will get found and indexed by search way much quicker. Which in turn will result in higher ranking. I've been quite aggressive in doing forum posting and I plan to continue to do so. Right now my site is ranked number 6 and 7 for two very competitive keywords.
My plan is to keep doing forum posting until I reach the 1st position. Forum posting really works and I hope everyone include it in their methods of building high quality back-links.
Sounds like you are a spammer to me. You won't last long on reputable forums unless your posts are genuine replies to genuine questions.
Depending on the forum, some links may not be valued as quickly as others. Also, I do not believe forums are always crawled and indexed as fast as article pages. I have never seen a search engine state this fact, but from my experience it seems like they do not crawled as often. Once again it depends on the forum.
Forums are a good way to build up trust and authority in yourself and website if you are providing valuable answers and input.
No, I am not a spammer when making a post I check my email to see if there is no response. It's very simple all you have to do it to use your free time to get it done. To be honest with you all of those forums are reputable forums and I've been a member with them for more than 6 months.
Yes, but the way you set up your initial proposition makes it sound like you are posting for the purpose of getting links to your site(s) into your posts, which is illegal, basically, unless there's a very clear rationale for it. So be careful with this strategy.
If you think it's ok to link to your site randomly here, you haven't actually read the guidelines fully.
The thing you need to know is most thread page that you are going to provide valuable answers to have already been indexed. That is the advantage. After posting a response it may take you a couple day for your links to show up. Otherwise, you can ping that thread url so that search engine can come and crawl that page. Base on my experience forum thread always get indexed almost immediately.
I understand that articles often get indexed as long they become live, but at the same time there are lots of articles that just never get indexed at all. Currently, I find myself struggling to get some of my articles indexed.
I don't see what you are talking about in the guidelines. Look, even though you are trying to be helpful to others in a forum, but at the same time you can't ignore the fact that can be part of your back-links strategy.
This line is important:
That's really the only excuse for linking to your site.
Forums simply are not a place for back-link strategy. People don't come here to follow anyone's self-promotional links. So you risk being banned if you ignore that principle.
Stick to promoting your sites via your signature, as you have done—while remembering that these are no-follow links.
Well, that is something that I've never done to link my sites which are unrelated to the nature of the post within the post body. Most forums that I use are do-follow forums. I always keep my links in the signature area. I don't think I violate that particular guideline because the signature area is provided in case you have a website.
actually...i think it is okay as long as you are giving genuine answers and questions. ain't it?
When you participate in niche forums(Forums related to your product/service) you are not only gaining links but also generating traffic while building your brand.
I completely agree with you, as long you are not trying to spam those forums by posting answers that are irrelevant. Or you are posting links within your post body that may be promotional in nature.
I think there is some confusion here.
@greatar4 - are you talking about signature links.
If so then you are right to an extent but also wrong! Your signature links are "Oil paintings art" and "Canvas art print". Now when Google visits this page it sees that these links are not related to the subject being discussed so it gives the links very little weight.
Now if you had the same signature links on an art or paintings forum they would carry much more weight as they match the overall content of the page.
If your signature links are off topic then your success in the SERPs is down to something else...
It gives them no weight, because signature links are "no follow" here.
Forum posting is a great method to build traffic than its SEO benefit. I am a member of some reputed forums and get huge traffic from forums.
You should be an active member and should make a great contribution if you want traffic from forums.
Forum is a great place to build online reputation. So your post should help to increase your image.
Look even though my links may not be related to the theme of this forum, but at the end of the day a link is a link. It's going to have some impact on my ranking.
Well, most forums that I am an active member with are do-follow. That's why I can see result when it comes down to ranking.
Posting in forums that are not in your niche cannot give you quality back links, however, it can still drive traffic to your site if there are members in the forum who are interested in what you do, then those members would like to link to you. And I believe that when you said "links", you were referring to the signature links that we can add at the bottom of our posts. On the other hand, your quality link building will only deem useless when a particular forum site is using the rel=nofollow tag for the signatures.
Well, people often keep saying that posting in forums that are not in your niche can't give you quality back-links. I don't think that make sense at all. I understand that Google recommends it, but links that are not "relevant" also count.
What if I come out with something that becomes viral and I have hundreds or thousands of sites link to me. Wouldn't those links be quality link. No matter what your site theme may be you can link to any Seo forums that is out there because that's where you can broaden your knowledge and share what you've learned with others about search engine optimization.
As a Mentor here I may be a bit biased, but if I ever see a link posted I check it for its relevance. If it is irrelevant then it is reported and later removed from the post. This is also done for those who are keen to orchestrate situations in which they can post their links, although I am more inclined to just give my opinion on that link rather than to report it.
Thankfully, on this forum the staff members all work hard and any posts that shouldn't exist are swiftly dealt with. I know this for a fact because every morning before I start work I use snap links to open up every new post made since I last checked and check for rule breaking. Snap links and Firefox shortcuts make checking for spam a three minute job (Ctrl+W, End, Page Up, repeat).
As far as I see it, if you're using a forum to push your own links then you are a spammer. Anyone with half a brain knows the difference between members looking to be a part of the community and members who want to push links, and in my eyes there are few things more pathetic than spamming a forum with your own, barely relevant links.


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Oh and George Hill should have to manually donate 1000 backpacks carrying them all himself for that air-ball free throw.
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Oh and George Hill should have to manually donate 1000 backpacks carrying them all himself for that air-ball free throw.
"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."
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LeBron on Roy: "He takes a lot of teams out of their games... They allow him to use his verticality more than any other player in league,"— Ethan J. Skolnick (@EthanJSkolnick) December 11, 2013
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with 10-15 seconds to go in game, all Heat players stated see you next week as they were dribbling out the clock. It was not said in a friendly manner.
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Sort of. Roy built a reputation off of not fouling, and most of the time he doesn't. The refs are just calling the game right. Stop whining Lebron.
Petal ? lmao really?
what kind of petal would that be good sir? a rose ? tulip?
heh I'm just yankin your chain..
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I think that is wrong. The refs don't ALLOW Roy to use his verticality more than any player in the league. Roy simply KNOWS HOW to use his verticality better than any player in the league.
Big roy is also the most vertical player in the league. Sure he gets favorable calls, but he gets them because he built a reputation. its the exact same logic as superstars getting superstar calls.
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I'd say he probably gets away with one obvious foul a game.
The non obvious fouls? Well..everyone commits them and the refs can't call all of them.
I also really have an issue with Lebron complaining about players getting favorable calls.
we cant have Roy out with broken nose. if we see Lamacus Aldridge .... we know how that's gonna go.
Hibbert gets away with a lot. So do other players that are the best at their position. So do you, Lebron. Just how it is.
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if Oden can do verticality. so be it. and I will mention Oden because Heat fans hail him as the Savior vs the Pacers.
Until I hear P4E state Oden is not a concern,, Oden could be a difference.
oh yeah, just cuz I love it so much
We held the most evolved offense to 54 points in the last 36 minutes of the game.
No offense to p4e, but do we really need him to state that Oden is not going to be a concern? The guy hasn't played in years, he has gotten no run in the regular season (to my knowledge), and he is only going to play very limited minutes when he does see the court.
We just passed the 4 year anniversary of Greg Oden playing an NBA regular season minute. So, I mean, good luck and all to Oden, I hope he can walk when he's 40. But I'm not too concerned.
not trying to offend.
If Oden plays one series it will be vs the Pacers. I wouldn't expect him to play any sooner except in practice.
Oden can barely walk. He will be nothing other than a big body.
Do you got a source. I haven't seen the guy play in some time.


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Far too often, an actor or actress falls into a rut and becomes not only typecast , but also stereotyped. So has been the on-screen life of TV-star turned mediocre Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston. Since her departure from Friends in 2004, she's continued her act as beautiful to look at (all the time), happy and chipper (most of the time), and disgruntled and annoyed (when necessary) in every role she's undertaken.
Thus, fans who pick up the recently released romantic comedy The Switch won't be too surprised when they find out Aniston is once again all beautiful smiles and giggly fun as Kassie Larson, a woman who decides it's time to finally have a baby...without a hubby or boyfriend.
While Kassie's somewhat crazy best friend Wally (a hilarious Jason Bateman) thinks her decision rash, she's determined to make it happen thanks to a very unique sperm donor Roland (an awesome role played by Patrick Wilson). However, not everything goes as planned after a crazy night of drinking and a chill pill finds Wally switching his own "deposit" with that of Roland's...and, with so much alcohol in his blood, poor Wally doesn't remember a thing the next day...or for the next seven years.
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While the storyline of The Switch is fairly unique, the characters, relationships and formula is standard for a romantic comedy of this sort. That said, thanks to solid supporting cast - Bateman, Wilson, and Robinson - the film actually delivers some great comedy. While there are much better and more original romantic comedies out there, The Switch does a great job of giving rom-com movie lovers what they love: decent acting, quick witty humor, and a good amount of laughs.
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The Ben 10 Ultimate Alien 4 inch figures are packaged in identical bubble/cards. The overall look is brighter than previous Ben 10 products, a trend that will continue when the line changes up again later this year. Both bubble and card have a distinct angled top, making the figures easy to spot in the toy aisle. The Ben 10 figures are clearly visible in the plastic, along with any accessories and the included alien discs. At the bottom of the bubble is an insert with character art and the figures name, while at the top of the card is the Ben 10 Ultimate Alien logo and an image of Ben.
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The alien collection line is mainly targeted at kids, though animation fans and toy collectors alike enjoy it too. Since the focus is on making the figures look like they do in the cartoon, they generally have bold colors and sculpts that highlight their main features, with enough articulation to make them fun to play with. NRG is stocky and thick, like a furnace with limbs. Hes got some great variations in his sculpt from the central bodys smooth armor to the bulbous shoulders and studded wrist and knee-bands. The harness around his torso is thick and solid, and theres even a sculpted (though non-functioning) hinge on the back. Ultimate Cannonbolt takes the original forms sculpt and builds on it. With a wide body, huge shoulders and arms, tiny legs, and a big face on his chest, Cannonbolt is pretty unique already. The Ultimate version adds blunted spikes to the panels on his legs, arms, and shoulders along with segmented studded armor plates on his back! Some of the surface details have changed as well; Ultimate Cannonbolt has a slightly different shaped mouth, loses the full-length central stripe, and instead of a regular Omnitrix symbol on the forehead he has an activated Ultimatrix on his belly.
Ultimate Spidermonkey is an all-new sculpt with tons of character. The central monkey body is round and stout with tiny legs and elongated arms. The aliens face has a huge smile decorated with jutting tusks, while four additional tiny eyes dot its forehead. Meanwhile, four huge spider legs erupt from the monkeys sides, each with sculpted segments of their own. Finally, theres an activated Ultimatrix symbol on his chest.
Along with their unique appearances, each Ben 10 alien has its own distinct color palette, and thats captured in the toys just like in the show. NRG is green upon green in two different alternating shades that add to his industrial look, and the bright green of the Ultimatrix logo and the red of his eye vents are very eye-catching against the drab background. Ultimate Cannonbolt trades in the basic white and yellow for a two-toned blue steel look thats lighter on his underbelly and darker on the armored plates and spines. Black divides the sections and shows up on his wicked claws while the Ultimatrix and his eyes glow bright green. Ultimate Spidermonkey also differs from his original forms colors (mainly light blue) with an overall black and purple palette. The ubiquitous green eyes (all six of them!) and Ultimatrix are there as well, and white pops up on the aliens tusks. All three look very show accurate and will be immediately recognizable to viewers.
As toys directed mainly at kids, the Ben 10 figures dont often sport a ton of articulation, but they certainly get the job done in the most important departments of standing up on their own and play. Articulation is also frequently at the mercy of the unique alien designs. For instance, NRG is basically a furnace with limbs, so its not surprising that theres no neck or waist movement. This alien does have joints at the shoulders, elbows, hips, and knees. Ultimate Cannonbolt is the least articulated of the bunch with only biceps and hip joints, but at least these let you turn his arms to show off the spines or claws, and he can sit down better than most. Ultimate Spidermonkey has great articulation with joints at the neck, shoulders, elbows, hips, and all four spider legs!
You can find all three of these (and many more) Ben 10 Ultimate Alien figures on store shelves everywhere. If you know a kid between the ages of 5 and 15 youre probably familiar with the show, and plenty of adults watch too. The figures are great miniature versions of the cool aliens on the show, really capturing their different and distinct looks. While they may not be the most poseable toys out there, theyre sturdy and full of play and display value. Each figure in this and previous Ultimate Alien waves comes with a pop up alien disc that works with the Disc Alien Ultimatrix (see our review HERE), another fun toy for kids. Stick around for more Ben 10 reviews coming soon!
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Goff Beese, 86, became a Grafton parish councillor in 1978, a year after moving from Kimpton where he was chairman of the parish council for 14 years.
He retired last year and on Sunday a bench was presented to him at St Nicholas Church, featuring a plaque which reads: "Goff Beese. In gratitude for a lifetime of service to the parish."
Mr Beese said: "It was a complete surprise.
"I was told to go to church and we had a service, and then the congregation headed down to the car park and I was going to slip off home. Then Peter Lemon started giving a speech about my time as a councillor and I looked behind me and there was the bench. It's a lovely quality bench.
"It was a shock because I don't have a very high opinion of myself, so it was nice to see all the congregation there in my honour."
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No. How's that for a clear-cut response?
If you don't want to participate in understanding the perception issue, or if you think this has no value, or if you think you already know the answers, that's OK. I realize plenty of people have one (or more) of those opinions. You don't have to help if you don't want to, but please don't tell others not to try.
> If you don't want to participate in understanding the perception issue.
Whether I want to participate or not is irrelevant. When Gabor started Padre he didn't say "I want to participate in making an great IDE". He simply wanted a great IDE, and he knew that to achieve that he needed to recruit people better than him at producing what he wanted.
Go watch his talk. His attitude there is what has made him such a good project leader for Padre.
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OK, now I better understand what you're saying. However, what I'm saying is that we need information and we're the domain experts in the problems we're trying to solve. I also have said several times that we're not qualified to do the actual research. We're qualified to figure out our own goals and contribute expert knowledge on what we might need to make those goals happen. I thought I made that clear a few times, particularly when I wrote [perl.org]:
I doubt many of us are experts in market research but maybe someone is and is willing to volunteer services? Maybe we can team up with another open-source group to facilitate this? Maybe we can find a university teaching marketing and propose an interesting research project and domain expertise? Do we have contacts for any of this?
I've done enough research into this to know that it's unlikely that we can do this ourselves, but we certainly need to be involved in the process.
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I believe the entire point of my post was that nobody in the conversation so far has the answers.
I know that. I've made that clear, over and over again, that we don't know the answers and we don't even properly understand the questions. When people say "we just need to evangelize X" or "we need more Perl programmers", that's going entirely against what I'm trying to do. I don't want to make a wild guess. I want to:
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Chemotherapy - Chemotherapy refers to drugs that are used to kill microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi) and cancer cells. Most commonly the term is used to refer to "cancer-fighting" drugs. Chemotherapy, as it refers to cancer treatment, is a generic term and includes many different drugs with a wide variety and severity of side effects. Generalizations regarding specific side effects and toxicities are difficult to make. Cancer chemotherapy kills or arrests the growth of cancer cells by targeting specific parts of the cell growth cycle. However, normal healthy cells share some of these pathways and thus are also injured or killed by chemotherapy. This is what causes most side effects from chemotherapy. Chemotherapy usually targets rapidly dividing cells. Some normal cells -- including blood cells, hair, and cells lining the gastrointestinal tract -- are also rapidly dividing and thus these are the normal cells most likely to be damaged. Newer cancer therapies, some of which have already been approved by the FDA, are more specifically targeted at growth pathways that are only found in cancer cells. Thus, these drugs may be more effective while also being less toxic.
Lobectomy - The right lung has three lobes, and the left lung has two lobes. A lobectomy removes an entire lobe of lung containing the cancer (tumor).
Local Control - Eradication of cancer from a specific area (by surgical resection or radiation).
Local Therapy - Treatment done to treat only specific areas of the body. These treatments include surgical resection (removal) of a cancer and radiation therapy.
Mediastinoscopy - A procedure that can help show whether the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes in the chest. Using a lighted viewing instrument, called a scope, the doctor examines the center of the chest (mediastinum) and nearby lymph nodes. In mediastinoscopy, the scope is inserted through a small incision in the neck; in mediastinotomy, the incision is made in the chest. In either procedure, the scope is also used to remove a tissue sample.
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Systemic Therapy - Treatment that treats the whole body system. These treatments include chemotherapy and cancer vaccines.
Thoracoscopy - Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), also called thoracoscopy, may be done as an independent procedure, or before a thoracotomy. This procedure involves inserting a long, thin, fiber-optic scope with a camera attached and instruments into the chest through small incisions made between the ribs. A VATS procedure may be used to confirm the diagnosis of lung cancer or other chest diseases. It also can be used to biopsy lymph nodes in the center part of the chest (mediastinum). Recent advances have allowed surgeons to apply the VATS approach to lobectomy for local control in small stage I lung cancers. Many smaller chest procedures may be performed using VATS, rather than a standard thoracotomy.
Thoracotomy - A standard chest incision, typically to enter the chest along the side under the arm going between the ribs. Surgery using this approach avoids areas in the chest containing the heart and the spinal cord.
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For long-time SoonerScoop.com readers the terms 'star ranking', 'Rivals100' or 'early offers' are accepted parts of the vernacular. For those just acquainting themselves with the recruiting chaos of Rivals.com and, in particular, SoonerScoop.com we offer you 'Trail of Talent' a brief guide to give you an idea just what Oklahoma's commitments means to the Sooner coaches and program.
The first time the SoonerScoop.com staff saw Tulsa Union wide receiver Jeffery Mead the two thoughts were the same as most everyone's.
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To say that it wasn't quite clear what to make of the then 6-foot-4, 155-pound Mead was an understatement. He was tall, clearly had good hands, and more ability than one might think for a player that could quite excusably still be regaining coordination after a presumed growth spurt.
However, going into his junior year no one seemed quite certain if he was set to break out or just break down.
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Mead, who also stars in basketball for the Redskins, started to pick up offers and then took a trip to Norman at the request of Jay Norvell and came away with a Sooners offer - the first of many elite offers he'd pick up over the next few months.
"I went into Bob Stoops' office and they let me know that they wanted to offer me," Mead recalled. "It kind of surprised me, my coach (Kirk Fridrich) talked to me about them, I kind of had an idea. I didn't think I was going to get an offer, I mean I knew they liked me but I didn't think they would get me an offer today.
"It was kind of special, my mom and my dad are big Oklahoma fans, so they kind of enjoyed it. They enjoyed it, my dad is a huge OU fan, he was having a ball in Bob's office."
From that point on Mead picked up offers from California, Arkansas, Nebraska, TCU, and Texas A&M amongst several others. In spite of his family's connection to Oklahoma Mead maintained throughout the spring that while he also liked Oklahoma his fandom would have no bearing on his ultimate decision and he began to speak more and more with other programs as more schools took notice of his ability.
Just after his own offer Mead showed up at the Dallas Rivals Camp Series event and put on a strong showing against elite defensive backs like Jamal Adams, Verkedric Vaughns, and Dylan Harding.
A few months after his own offer, the Sooners chose to offer his friend, and teammate, Carson Meier. After the late May offer Meier committed to Oklahoma just a few days later. SCOOP HD was there on the day and had time to talk with Mead about what it would mean to his recruitment to have his friend headed to Norman.
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And it certainly couldn't have been easy for author David Legge, who conducted more than 300 interviews over the last couple of years. The list includes friends and foes of the legendary coach and Legge talked to most of the 10 No. 1 players Bollettieri has coached at some point in their careers. He also contacted most of the movers and shakers in the game, names synonymous with the game of tennis.
And, of course, there are those eight wives — seven of whom probably parted ways on less than amicable terms.
Bollettieri agreed from the start of the project to give up the right to review or edit the content of the manuscript. And this week the 81-year old tennis dynamo insisted that he still has not seen the completed book, and doesn't know exactly what might be in it.
"I swear to God I haven't seen anything, except for the front and back covers," Bollettieri claims. "It is the unedited life of Nick."
Nothing, Bollettieri insists, was off limits.
"Whatever questions he asked me, I answered," Bollettieri explained. And anyone who knows Bollettieri knows there is rarely any filter between his brain and his mouth.
What Nick believes, Nick says, no matter whose toes gets stepped on. On the other hand, there are plenty of people who probably have waited a long time to take a shot at Bollettieri and maybe this was the opportunity.
Nervous? Nah. Mad? Maybe. Afraid?
"It's too late to be afraid," he quipped.
The tale travels the road Bollettieri has followed from his birth in North Pelham, N. Y., through his 80th birthday, which he celebrated by sky-diving with the Army Black Knights at West Point before traveling to Ethiopia to arrange for the adoption of the second of two children he and his wife, Cindi, have fostered from the same orphanage.
Jim Courier wrote the forward to the book, which recounts those early days teaching tennis when his pro shop was a cooler and his price $1.50 an hour. It visits the Rockefeller Resort in Puerto Rico, where Bollettieri cultivated friendships among the rich and famous, some who would bankroll Bollettieri's endeavors — including the land purchase and the building of his tennis academy in Bradenton, a facility that has grown into the IMG Academy.
Bollettieri is excited about the book and is busy contacting area tennis clubs to set dates for book signings.
"I thought it would be nice to go right to the clubs," Bollettieri said.
Never nervous, no matter how he is portrayed.
Music to their ears
The Bryan brothers are bringing more than their tennis talent to the Sarasota Bath and Racquet on Dec. 15 for the 2012 Bryan Brothers Shootout Exhibition at the Sarasota Bath and Racquet Club.
The twins are also bringing their father, Wayne, who will join them in a performance of the Bryan Bros. Band.
Their father will emcee the day's activities, which will include a doubles match exhibition against Max Mirnyi and Horia Tecau in a battle of four players who recently competed at the ATP World Tour Finals doubles championship in London.
There will also be a Pro-Am. A junior exhibition featuring two of the top 12-year-old female players in the country, a live auction and a VIP dinner party, where the band will play.
The junior exhibition match will feature Abigail Desiatnikov, the USTA's No. 1-ranked 12-under player against Amanda Anisimova, the USTA's No. 5 ranked 12-under player.
The Bryan brothers, who have won 12 Grand Slam tennis titles, are the all-time winningest doubles team in professional tennis. They are the reigning U.S. Open doubles team and won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London.
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Fred Drilling and High Thompson joined up to beat Joe Bachmann and Larry Turville 2-6, 6-4, 10-8 in an exciting match to win the National Senior Doubles Championship, opening the new season of the Totally Tennis Exhibition Series.
The series continues at the Payne Park Tennis Center in Sarasota on Dec. 9 with Sarasota's Battle of the Sexes, a match pitting 49-year old Erik Luxembourg against 19-year-old Chloe Murphy, the No. 1 player for the State College of Florida tennis team.
The third match of the season will be held Jan. 13. The "Battle for Sarasota's #1 Singles Title" will be between Ty Braswell and Hugo Armando.
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My Ideal WWE Title Situation
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Hello everyone. This blog is going to be about what I think would be an ideal Championship situation in WWE, and by that I mean what titles do I think they should have, rather than the current setup.
Undisputed WWE Heavyweight Championship
This is the big one, I think we need one world champion. The World Heavyweight Championship has lost a lot of its prestige, and the brand extension is practically non-existent at this point. I personally have no problem with wrestlers appearing on both shows, but if that's the case I feel there should be just one world title. I would have the titles unified at Wrestlemania 30. I don't care who does it, but I think Punk or Cena probably deserve to do it more than anyone else on the roster, as they work the hardest in my opinion. In a perfect world, the design of the belt would be the World Heavyweight Championship design, but it seems like WWE wants their logo front and center on the belt, so we would most likely be stuck with the current design, which isn't THAT bad, but also isn't that good.
WWE Intercontinental Championship
To me the Intercontinental Championship is the definitive mid-card title. It should be around forever, and I'm a big fan of the current design that Cody Rhodes brought back. One big decision is that I would unify the United States Championship with the Intercontinental Championship, so that the Intercontinental Title would be the only Heavyweight mid-card championship. You might see where I'm going with this...
WWE Cruiserweight Championship
I would love to have the Cruiserweight division revived. There are currently 20 members of the WWE roster that weigh in at 220 pounds or less. There wouldn't have to be completely separate divisions or anything, but if you were under the 220 pound limit you could challenge for the Cruiserweight title. I would love to see guys like Seth Rollins or Tyson Kidd win this title. And if the WWE decides to make The Shield the dominant stable that it has potential to be, Roman Reigns would win the Intercontinental Championship, Seth or Dean could be Cruiserweight Champion, and Seth AND Dean could hold the Tag Team Titles. I'm just spit-balling ideas here, but you get my main point: bring back the Cruiserweights!
WWE Tag Team Championships
I don't really have much to say here, except please get rid of those God-awful, hideous, rusty-penny belts. And WWE needs to revive the entire tag-team division. Stop throwing random wrestlers into makeshift teams. I love Rhodes-Scholars, but the tag team killed Sandow's momentum as a singles wrestler. They need to go their separate ways, maybe even having one of them turn face and they could feud for the Intercontinental Title, bringing prestige back to it.
WWE Women's Championship
Please stop referring to the roster as Superstars and Divas...they're wrestlers. At least, most of them are. There are definitely some current females on the roster, like Alicia Fox, who have no business even being with the company. Please for the love of GOD bring back the WOMEN'S Championship and get rid of the tramp-stamp belt. Then get women who can actually wrestle and give them enough time to SHOW us that they can wrestle. You made RAW three hours long, stop showing us Touts and recaps and let the women have a match.
Well there you have it. I know plenty of people will probably disagree with my decisions, but I think my plan could easily work if it was handled right. Mind you, I'm no businessman, and I don't pretend to be. I don't know how to run a company. But as a fan, I know I would definitely enjoy seeing this sort of championship heirarchy.


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Humber feeling good after simulated game
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Astros pitcher Philip Humber, who appears to be a near lock to grab a spot in the starting rotation to begin the year, threw 73 pitches during a simulated game at the team's Minor League complex on Monday morning.
The Astros had an off-day Monday, but manager Bo Porter, pitching coach Doug Brocail and bullpen coach Dennis Martinez watched Humber throw four innings.
"The ball was coming out of my hand good today, and my breaking ball was better than it has been," Humber said. "I felt good about that. It was a good day of work."
Humber, 30, went 5-5 with a 6.44 ERA in 26 games (16 starts) for the White Sox in 2012 before the Astros claimed him on waivers in November. Houston signed him to a one-year deal that includes a club option for 2014 ($3 million with a $50,000 buyout).
Humber's performance this spring has been stellar, and it certainly has put him in prime position to open the season as one of the club's five starters.
"I feel like I'm where I need to be," Humber said. "I can't ask for things to have gone any better. I feel healthy and I'm excited about the season."
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I didn't even catch until today that they'd disappeared as an announcement.
Turns out, unless you tell it otherwise, an announcement expires after a month. I set the new expiration to sometime in the year 2035.
Luckily they get PMed to every new registered member, but all the same I wanted to put them back up.
While doing so, I went ahead and revised them as well, so be sure to check them out.


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Two people died early Saturday morning in a fire at a trailer house in northeast Nebraska, leading to the arrest of a 33-year-old man.
As the officers approached the area of the initial call, dispatch informed them the Ewing Fire Department was responding to a 911 call of a fire in the vicinity -- a mile and three-quarters east of Ewing on County Road 857.
Upon arrival there, deputies found a trailer home engulfed in flames.
Deputies were told by a man who escaped the home that two people may still be inside. Once the fire was extinguished, two bodies were found in a bedroom in the southwest corner of the residence. The man who escaped the fire was uninjured and released after questioning.
Around 1 a.m., Holt and Antelope County deputies went to rural Ewing home and arrested Matthew Hinrichsen, 33, Ewing into custody for questioning in connection with the fire and deaths in the trailer home.
Hinrichsen is in custody at the Madison County Jail without bond, Collins said Saturday afternoon.
The bodies of the victims were taken to St. Lukes Medical Center in Sioux City, Iowa. The names of the victims are not released, pending autopsy results, positive identification and notification of relatives.
The investigation is ongoing. The Nebraska State Patrol is assisting the Antelope County Attorney, the Antelope and Holt County sheriffs offices and the State Fire Marshal in the investigation, Collins said.
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text: We all know that the lighting conditions under which a print is viewed has a great effect on the appearance of that print. I only print B & W and usually judge my prints by holding them next to a window but out of direct sunlight but our house is small with small windows and when I move even a couple of feet away from the window the effect of the print changes. So how do you judge your prints when printing? What light source do you use and do you use more than one? When do you decide the print is right?


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I know what Steve Jobs would have done if David Einhorn had published a press release criticizing him for Apple's (AAPL) capital allocation strategy. He would have told Einhorn to pound sand.
But Apple didn't do that to Einhorn Thursday. Instead, it told the world that they would carefully study his suggestions.
This was an odd response since, according to Einhorn's press release on Thursday, his firm (Greenlight) had had several conversations with Apple since September around the issue of whether or not it was right for Apple to not eliminate its ability to issue preferred stock in the future. According to Einhorn, Apple had basically turned up its nose at his arguments against getting rid of this ability.
Yet after Greenlight's actions Thursday, which included the press release, Greenlight suing Apple and Einhorn going on CNBC to tell the world he thought Apple had a "depression-era mentality" of hoarding cash to the extreme, Apple seemed to blink.
Who's right? Apple or Einhorn? I would argue that it's the Apple shareholder.
Apple's stock ended up 3% Thursday, largely because it communicated that it was taking Einhorn's suggestions seriously.
Why didn't Apple do this in private with Einhorn? It ends up looking like it's reacting to the public pressure instead of doing what was right by its own volition ahead of time without the public ever knowing about Einhorn's demands. It's not very regal.
In the short term, any additional steps to return capital to shareholders is likely going to be very welcome by Wall Street. Many people piled into the stock last year on the expectation that they were going to be getting more access to this growing cash. It didn't happen and it partly led to the pulling out of capital we've seen in the stock since September.
But all the regular criticisms against Apple that we're used to hearing -- "They can't innovate anymore" and "Steve Jobs isn't alive anymore" -- will still exist after any change in capital allocation policy. It will still hang over the stock until the company delivers some really cool stuff that no one expects.
But will any shareholder care in the meantime? Not in the least. The stock likely can pop back up over $500 and get closer to $550 just on hopes of more cash coming back.
Where will the blame for this lie if Apple does cave to David Einhorn after blowing him off? Peter Oppenheimer seems to be on the hook for that one. He's recently asked Tim Cook permission to change the way he reports some of the financial data to Wall Street that produced some grumblings after the last call. He also declared that Apple would become more realistic in how it reports future earnings expectations.
Oppenheimer's decided to stretch to do things the way he's always wanted, a way he likely wasn't allowed to under Steve Jobs. Tim Cook's given him the rope to do things his way. So far, Oppenheimer hasn't shone.
But shareholders don't care and neither does David Einhorn.


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A 911 call released by police reveals Jovan Belcher's mother begging her son's dying girlfriend to stay alive moments after the Kansas City Chiefs linebacker shot her. All the while, the couple's infant daughter wails in the background.
Belcher already had fled to the Chiefs' practice facility when his mother, Cheryl Shepherd, called 911 on Saturday morning. A wounded 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins struggled to breathe on the bedroom floor of their home.
MORE: Memorial service | Belcher's remorseful goodbye | Chiefs grapple with emotions
On the Kansas City Fire Department recordings, Shepherd yells at Perkins: "Stay with me, the ambulance is on the way. Stay with me."
Shepherd tells the dispatcher that Perkins is "just barely" breathing and that she is bleeding. Belcher's mother also says her son and Perkins were arguing and that he had left the house.
Police say they found Perkins body on the bedroom floor with multiple gunshot wounds.
PHOTOS: Jovan Belcher tragedy makes for emotional game day in Kansas City
According to a report Tuesday in the The Kansas City Star, Belcher leaned over to say he was sorry and kissed Perkins on the forehead after shooting her.
More details continue to emerge in the aftermath of Saturday's events, which ended with the Chiefs linebacker taking his own life in the Arrowhead Stadium parking lot as general manager Scott Pioli, head coach Romeo Crennel and linebackers coach Gary Gibbs looked on.
MORE: Who was Jovan Belcher? | Incomprehensible acts | Chiefs win vs. Panthers
Police say the Chiefs had been providing counseling to Belcher and his girlfriend. Police Sgt. Richard Sharp told The Star that the couple had been arguing over relationship and financial issues for months and that the team had been "bending over backward" trying to help them.
Police spokesman Darin Snapp said Monday that Belcher's mother, who had been staying with the couple, was given temporary custody of the couple's daughter. But, he said, it was unclear Monday if the grandmother and baby were still in the Kansas City area or if they had returned to Belcher's home in West Babylon, N.Y. Perkins was from the Austin, Texas, area.
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A HUGE sculpture that has become a familiar sight to the people of Amesbury could be rented out for festivals and events.
The Ancestor, a 22ft, sheet metal giant is currently undergoing anti-rust treatment but he is on the lookout for a new home.
The sculpture's outstretched arms have been welcoming people to Amesbury from his vantage point at the side of the A303 for the last two years.
But Andy Rawlings, who created the six tonne sculpture with artist Michelle Topps, says he needs financial support to ensure the Ancestor can be enjoyed by more people in the future.
"We're looking at all options just to cover the costs," he said. "One idea is to rent him out for festivals such as Glastonbury and we are putting together a brochure. We know he gets a great reaction wherever he goes – his appearance at the summer solstice and Hudson's Field in the summer proved that.
"The Ancestor could go on tour around lots of different events but it costs several hundred pounds to move him each time ,so we would need the organisers to meet that cost."
Mr Rawlings is also hoping that funding will be found to move the Ancestor back into Amesbury.
"He could move back to outside the Holiday Inn, which has been a great location, or elsewhere in the town if a large enough site can be found," he said. "However the issue, again, is the cost."
Since the Ancestor was removed from the town for the anti -rust treatment, residents have raised concerns about his whereabouts.
A campaign to keep the Ancestor in Amesbury has been launched and it is hoped he will play a part in attracting more tourists to the town.
Schoolchildren have created crowns and flags to surround the sculpture and the artists say he has strong local support.
But the town council has so far been unable to offer funding to relocate the sculpture and does not have funds to buy it.
Last year the artists put the sculpture up for sale on eBay for £50,000 but no buyer could be found.
"This is terribly disappointing as we believe he has so much to offer the town," said Mr Rawlings.
"We are very happy to speak to anyone about a fundraising initiative and are happy for him to return to Amesbury as he can be rented from there.
"Rental isn't permanent, but it might give Amesbury time to catch up with us."


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Contrary to popular assumption, the biggest west coast auto show is not the one held in Los Angeles. This honor actually goes to the annually held, Las Vegas-based, Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) trade show. The most recent SEMA show took place at the Las Vegas Convention Center this past November, and featured over 2,000 auto parts and equipment companies, and more than 125,000 attendees on hand during the four-day show.
The SEMA show has come a long way since its inception in January of 1967, when it was held under the grandstands of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, CA. The event originally featured 98 booths and approximately 3,000 attendees; that's not even a drop in a bucket compared to the global attendance that the show has created during the past 42 years of its existence! The show has anything and everything that you could ever imagine needing within the automotive world. SEMA serves the industry's top designers well, as they get the chance to bust out their latest creations and merchandise, while receiving direct feedback from auto enthusiasts.
We were happy to help represent our Lowrider genre at this show, and we worked hard to ensure that every step of the process was done efficiently, and with the utmost care. We attacked the show in full business mode, as we set up our booth upon arrival. Aztec served as our calling card, as we featured three of the nation's top rides. The first hauled up to Vegas from Chino, California, was Tomas Vasquez' latest addition to his Impala collection. He brought up "El Patron," a '59 Impala, formerly owned by Joe Esparza. The '59 had everyone talking, as the former cover car was immaculate, and featured items that you would typically find at the show as well.
Vegas local Michael Grey, of UCE car club, also represented our community, with his classic ride "Sin Sixty." The fire engine-red convertible left people reminiscing about the classic that they used to own in the past. Hector Leyva's '82 Cadillac Brougham showed the luxurious side of Lowriding, as the candy red cruiser exhibited its fine wine sense of taste, as well as the fine pinstripe lines that accent and define this Pearled-out Caddy.
The show had a few Lowriders that were spread throughout the event space, one of them was a boldly painted Monte on display at the House of Kolors of booth, a first for the Valspar company. Another first for House of Kolors was the invitation of the legendary artist, OG Abel, who hung out with the industry's best and showed off his paint and design skills. Abel created some classy airbrush panels, using all the newest-to-code HOK paints. The Ford Company had a Lowrider Flex built for the show, proving that Lowriders have been accepted by big corporations, as well as mainstream America.
The attendees highly anticipated the debut of the 2010 Camaro, which was one of the show's biggest models on display throughout the week. With that said, LS technology really stepped their game up. We saw items that included all new wiring harnesses, and computers from manufacturers like Holley. Turbonetics, a company that was previously mostly import based in nature, has now jumped into the LS motors as well. March Performance stepped to the plate with LS brackets, and also currently offers some of their products fully chrome plated, so as to cater to the Lowrider market. Dakota Digital had their best new products out as well, exhibiting cutting edge technology for today's modern consumer.
Some cars have turned into kit cars, including Cars Inc's '57 Bel Air convertible, and the first generation Camaros. GM developed a new crate engine system, designed to help the owners of these types of vehicles pass even the strictest of smog laws, including California's. The LS3 is going to come with catalytic converters, and a canister, both necessary for the modern engine to pass the smog laws, while ensuring a smooth ride in your classic.
There were several other items that were new and hot, including a regulator system for your electric fuel pump. This is available from Professional Products, and it will help to regulate the fuel flow to your carburetor, or your fuel injection system. MSD also introduced their line of coil packs for the GM's LS engines. Be Cool introduced their new line of level entry aluminum radiators, hoping to fill the needs within that market. If you're getting into metal fabricating, then the Miller Plasma that was introduced at the show is a must-have product for you. This compact cutter is perfect for the casual enthusiast, and it can be used at the professional level as well.
It feels like just yesterday that we were at the Las Vegas SEMA show, but before we know it, we'll be preparing for next year's show as well. This show keeps getting bigger and if you stop going for a while, you'll find yourself behind the curve, having missed out on catching the latest products available to help you build the perfect Lowrider. Now take a look at a few of the things that caught our attention.