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"She would kill to be famous." 29 July 2014 Horror 98 mins
A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.
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Last week, Apple released public betas of its highly anticipated operating system (OS) updates: iOS 10 and macOS Sierra. Available through the Apple Beta Software Program, each public beta comes with a built-in Feedback Assistant to provide feedback to Apple.
VMware AirWatch is working to support the new features in Apple iOS 10 and macOS Sierra, ensuring that all our productivity applications are compatible with the OS updates. Our customers can read more about our support, compatibility and current known issues in myAirWatch for both the iOS 10 and macOS Sierra beta. We have these resources available to you to help your organization prepare for the upcoming releases:
- myAirWatch: Getting Ready for iOS 10
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- Blog post: Major Mobile Updates from the Apple WWDC 2016
- Apple microsite: More resources on support for iOS and macOS
Before the release of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra, we encourage our customers to test compatibility with critical applications (including AirWatch apps), especially as updated beta versions are released. If you encounter any issues, work with your app vendor to identify and fix the issue prior to the commercial releases.
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Visit beta.apple.com for more information and register to participate. You can also check out WWDC session replays to learn more about the upcoming releases.
Keep in mind that beta software is not commercially released software, and there may be errors or things that do not function as well as released versions. Before participating in the beta, make sure you back up iOS and macOS devices. We also recommend that you install any betas on a secondary device or partition.
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|HAL Laboratory
|Virtual Boy
|Release Date(s)
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August 14, 1995
|1 player
|Age Rating(s)
|2D Platformer
|Kirby series
|Media Included
|Game Cartidge
Kirby's Virtual Land (or also known as Virtual Boy Kirby of the Stars) is a game for the Virtual Boy, made by Hal Laboratory and published by Nintendo. This is the only Kirby game to be on the system. Kirby's Virtual Land is meant to be a sequel to Kirby's Dream Land 3 that would link to Kirby 64: The Crsytal Shards, however the game gots its own plot, ignoring the events of Dream Land 3, and the game served as a prequel to The Crystal Shards.
Kirby's Virtual Land serves as the pack-in game for European and Australian Virtual Boys, the game sold poorly, mainy because the Virtual Boy's limited pallete color making everything more hard to see. Virtual Land had several unique features that weren't implemented in time, such as Animal Friends returning and multiplayer with playable King Dedede and Waddle Dee, but those ideas were used in later Kirby games, with Dream Land 3 returning the Animal Friends and Kirby's Return to Dream Land having both King Dedede and Waddle Dee as playable characters.
The game holds a 65% Metacritic score, with many critics praising the new game's mechanics but critizing the game's short legnth. At the end of the game, Ribbon makes a cameo saying "See you next time!"
A mysterious mechincal device appears in Kirby's house, Kirby turned on the mechine and suddenly got inside a video game called "Virtual Land", he discovers that the characters from Virtual Land where turned into Dedede's slaves after Dedede and his army attacked the game! Now Kirby must defeat King Dedede and his army once again!
Kirby's Virtual Land plays similar to Kirby's Dream Land and Kirby's Adventure, being a 2D platformer where the players take control of Kirby trying to reach the end of the level. Kirby can jump, slide, float and swallow enemies to either eat them or throw them as projectiles, eating certain enemies gives Kirby a copy abilitiy, which allows Kirby to use the enemies' ability. Similar to Virtual Boy Wario Land, Kirby can travel through background and foreground, by getting into a pipe. The game also contains hidden chests, similar to The Great Cave Offensive, if the player gets them all, they will gain the mysterious Star Rocket allowing them to fight the true final boss. After beating a level, the player have to play a minigame called Kirby's Star Throw, which is a third-person shooter game, where Kirby must shoot Brunto Burts using Stars, if the player defeats them all, the player will gain a 1-Up.
There's two unique features in this game, Game Breaking and Last Resort. Game Breaking is where the player finds the "Engine Modifier" items on the levels, allowing to change something in the game, such as gravity, enemy behaivor and more. Last Resort is when the player is on lowhealth allowing them to use a overpowered attack based on the ability they are using, giving a huge damage to enemies. The consquences are that Kirby loses the ability after using the Last Resort, and can only use it once per level.
- King Dedede
- Waddle Dee
- Glitched Nightmare
Sweet Forest
The first level in the game, being a forest. The forest will change depending of Kirby's ability, if it is Fire, the forest will be burning, if it is Ice, the forest will be frozen, if it is a different ability that is not either Fire or Ice, the forest will be normal.
- Mid-boss: Poppy Bros. Sr
- Boss: Whispy Woods
Mole Underground
The second level in the game, being the underground of the Sweet Forest. Sometimes the cave will be dark, the player will have to use the Fire ability to light things up.
- Mid-boss: Meta Waddle Dee
- Boss: Heavy Mole
Tropical Resort
The third level in the game, being a tropical resort, obviously. There's no special gimick in this level.
Blazing Volcano
The fourth level in the game, the first part of the level takes place outside the mountain, with the player trying to reach the top, the second part takes place inside the volcano.
Meta Fortress
The fifth level in the game, taking place inside the Meta Knight's fortress. Here, the player fights tougher versions of the enemies from the previous levels plus a mid-boss rush.
- Mid-boss: Meta Knights
- Boss: Meta Knight
Cloudy Way
The sixth level in the game, taking place on the skies. Sometimes wind will get stronger and abilites such as Float can't be used.
- Mid-boss: Kracko Jr.
- Boss: Kracko
Cold Bridge
The seventh level in the game, taking place on the frozen bridge to Dedede's fortress. The stage is slippery and cannot be unfrozen by using the Fire ability.
- Mid-boss: Ice Dragon
- Boss: Lololo and Lalala
Dedede's Fortress
The last/penultimate level, taking place inside King Dedede's fortress. The level is just a big boss rush between the bosses you already fought (except for Meta Knight, who is replaced by Meta Waddle Dee) and then fightning against King Dedede.
- Mid-boss: All the bosses that the player has fighted so far.
- Boss: King Dedede
Glitched Dimension
The true last level in the game, which is unlocked after getting all the chests from the previous levels. The level itself is very short with only three rooms, the first one having healing items, the second having a mid-boss encounter and the final one, having the final boss fight against Glitched Nightmare.
- Mid-boss: Glitched Dedede
- Boss: Glitched Nightmare
All the abilities from Kirby's Adventure are back, excluding Light, Throw and Star Rod.
- Backdrop (incorrectly named Throw, in-game)
- Ball
- Beam
- Burning
- Crash
- Cutter
- Fire
- Freeze
- Hammer
- Hi-Jump
- Ice
- Laser
- Mike
- Needle
- Sleep
- Spark
- Stone
- Sword
- Tornado
- Wheel
- Mix
- 1UP: Gives an extra life.
- Food: Heals a bit.
- Invincibility Candy: Turns Kirby invincibility.
- Maxim Tomato: Recovers all Kirby's energy.
- Pep Brew: Heals two energy bits.
- Treasure Chest: Holds a hidden treasure.
Beta Elements
The game got into a long development process, started on the Game Boy, then the Super Nintendo and then the Virtual Boy. A lot of things were changed and most of the changes were used in other Kirby games.


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Interesting note: Mets are the first team in NY to draw 3 million tickets sold
even though it is largely biased towards the Mets, it is an interesting look into the history of the cross-town rivalry. a little long but a good read
Yankees, Mets coexist despite their differences
By John Helyar
The Yankees and Mets have a few things in common besides their New York domiciles. They've both had Casey Stengel and Joe Torre as managers. They've both had Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry as reclamation projects. They're both getting sweetheart deals from New York to build new ballparks. They reap the biggest revenues in their respective leagues.
But otherwise these two teams, girding for interleague battle this weekend, are profoundly different. The Yankees play in the storied "House That Ruth Built." A sign on its edifice boasts of the team's 26 world championships. So, at the slightest provocation, do Yankees fans. They believe in a divine right to yet more championships, and they believe these grounds are sacred -- even the otherwise profane "bleacher creatures" in Section 39.
Shea Stadium
The new Mets ballpark will be adjacent to Shea Stadium and open in 2009.
The Mets play in the charmless Shea Stadium, named for a corporate lawyer. It is located atop a former landfill, beneath the LaGuardia Airport flight path, and adjacent to the finest collection of chop shops in the tristate area.
Oh, Shea has seen some glory. There were the amazin' championships of 1969 and 1986, and let's not forget the Beatles concert of 1965. But compared to Yankee Stadium's aura of glorious history, Shea's legacy is far more imbued with futility. One need look no further than the two park's respective center-field fences. Behind the one in the Bronx is Monument Park, which pays tribute to Yankee legends. Behind the one in Queens is a cheesy, outsized apple, which rises into view when the home team hits a homer. Mets fans are not insatiable triumphalists; they are indefatigable loyalists.
The games at Shea this weekend will crackle with intensity not just because they're a test of the resurgent Mets against the redoubtable Yankees. This interborough rivalry is also a profound, often profane cultural conflict.
Mets fans are descendants of jilted Dodgers and Giants fans, who wanted National League baseball back in the worst way and got just that, in the form of the 1962 Mets (40-120). William Shea, the lawyer, secured the expansion franchise, first by threatening to create a whole new league to compete with Major League Baseball, then by promising that New York would build the stadium that bears his name. It was christened in 1964 with Dodgers "holy water" (from Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn) and "Giants holy water" (from the Harlem River where it passed the Polo Grounds).
On the walls of the Pine Restaurant, across Grand Central Parkway from Shea, Mets memorabilia shares wall space with Dodgers-Giants totems, including a Duke Snider warm-up jacket and a bat signed by Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca. Formerly known as Bobby V's Sports Bar & Restaurant, when Bobby Valentine owned it during his tenure as Mets manager, it's the closest place for Mets fans to cry in their beer after games.
"The Mets replaced something that was lost, and there's been something lovable about them going back to Casey Stengel," says Chuck Rose, the restaurant's current owner and the son of a loyal Giants fan. "There's no sense of entitlement, like with the Yankees."
The Mets' new park will underscore the team's roots as Shea's generic design never did -- with an entry rotunda reminiscent of Ebbets Field. Owner Fred Wilpon is especially partial to the Brooklyn side of the Mets' ancestry, as a son of Flatbush and a batting-practice pitcher for the Dodgers in his youth. He took great pride in restoring professional baseball to the borough in the form of the Brooklyn Cyclones, a Mets farm team.
Today's Mets crowds will never be confused with the banner-bearing, happy-go-lucky ones of the early years. (Well, except for the "Let's Go Mets" chants, which have lasted through the ages.) The Mets' fan base skews suburban -- primarily Long Island, where 26 percent of it resides, according to a 1998 New York City government report. Until recently, the fan base also skewed hugely white.
Things have started changing since the Latinization of the team under general manager Omar Minaya. Greater numbers of Hispanics now disembark at the No. 7 train's Shea Stadium stop, especially for Pedro Martinez's starts. But the tableau in the Shea parking lot is still predominantly middle-class and working-class New York: families tumbling out of Chevy Suburbans, guys tailgating out of their plumber vans.
"Our image is more blue-collar," says David Howard, the Mets' business operations chief, "as opposed to the more corporate or Wall Street image the Yankees have."
When you take a step back and survey the whole New York sports scene, the contrast between the Mets and Yankees can be seen in a broader context. As Frank Vuono, a sports business maven and partner at 16W Marketing in Rutherford, N.J., puts it: "A Yankees fan is a Giants fan is a Rangers fan. A Mets fan is a Jets fan is an Islanders fan. It's the old establishment versus the outsiders. It's teams with lots of history versus the younger, less traditional ones."
In a sense, casting the Mets as lunch-pail clock punchers stretches credulity. Blue-collar? Blue bloods such as Joan Whitney Payson and Nelson Doubleday have owned the franchise for most of its existence. Wilpon, who bought out Doubleday's 50 percent share and took control of the club in 2002, doesn't come from old money but, as a very private real estate magnate, he might as well.
But perception is more important than reality here, and spinning is a key part of branding. If the Mets can't be top dog in this town, they might as well be an appealing underdog.
"I think the Mets connect more with the typical New Yorker," Howard says. "We have challenges; we have ups and downs; there's a sense of persevering. I think that appeals to the everyday New Yorker, the people who are out there trying to make things better for themselves and their families."
To cite the Mets' "ups and downs" as part of their appeal is to make a virtue of mismanagement. The team was "up" in the late '60s and early '70s, when it pulled off the 1969 miracle and the "You gotta believe" pennant of 1973. The Yankees were then struggling through their post-dynasty Horace Clarke era. Then, in a fit of pique and cheap, the Mets traded away Tom Seaver in 1977 and fell back into a succession of dreadful "down" seasons.
The Amazins were back "up" by the mid-1980s, winning the fabled Buckner-aided championship of 1986 and contending for others. From 1984 to 1992, the Mets outdrew the Yankees, then in a 14-year postseason draught. Again the Mets dissipated their advantage. High-flying stars such as Gooden and Strawberry were laid low by substance abuse. High-priced free agents such as Bobby Bonilla and Eddie Murray laid eggs.
Meanwhile, George Steinbrenner got a lot smarter about his affairs. He started leaving more of the baseball decisions to his baseball people, and the Yankees' farm system yielded young stars such as Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. He started pressing the Yankees' business advantages and widening the financial gap between his franchise and the rest of baseball.
Yankee Stadium
Yankee Stadium, one of baseball's grandest cathedrals since 1923, will be replaced by a newer version in 2009.
Steinbrenner negotiated a 12-year, $486 million contract with Madison Square Garden Network in 1988, tripling his team's TV money. He did a 10-year licensing deal with adidas in 1997, reaping $95 million for the Yankees and infuriating other owners. They temporarily kicked Steinbrenner off MLB's executive council. The Boss accumulated the swag to have a virtually unlimited payroll -- and, from 1996 to 2000, the Yankees swaggered to four championships.
The Mets had some highs during that stretch, too, notably in reaching the 2000 Subway Series. But the Amazins weren't nearly as adept at the business of baseball as the Yankees. Steinbrenner was able to pull off the 1988 MSG deal because he'd negotiated an out from his old TV contract. The Mets did not and were locked into Cablevision on a long-term basis.
Then, as the 12-year MSG contract was expiring, Steinbrenner conjured up a regional cable TV outlet, the YES Network. That launched in 2002 and has created a double windfall for the Yankees. They get MLB's biggest local broadcast revenues ($62 million a year, according to Forbes) and, along with three YES Network co-investors, they get a stake in America's biggest regional sports network. The Mets, in partnership with Comcast and Time Warner, launched their own cable network this year, called SportsNet New York. But they've spotted the Yankees a four-year head start and have a long way to go to develop programming beyond the team's games.
The Mets, however, have shown a new aggression since Wilpon became sole owner. He launched the Mets' salsa turn by hiring general manager Omar Minaya, who's given the club an edge in signing Hispanic stars and relating to Hispanic fans. Jeff Wilpon, the owner's son and the club's chief operating officer, maintains there's no master strategy. The Mets have a diversity-driven marketing approach that includes courtship of 15 ethnic groups.
"There was never a point when we said, 'Let's go after these Latin guys,'" he says. "Pedro [Martinez] was the best player available at the time and a rock star. The next marquee free agent was [Carlos] Beltran. But when we needed a catcher, we traded for Paul Lo Duca and left Bengie Molina on the sidelines. And David Wright is as All-American as you can get."
Nonetheless, the Mets stand to pick up a windfall of fans from New York's burgeoning Hispanic population, and nobody else thinks it's by accident. It's just good business.
Nor did the Mets just fall into a new stadium. They've been pressing for one since 1998, when Wilpon unveiled the original proposal for one with a retractable roof. Then he waited patiently for years, while Steinbrenner huffed and puffed about his need for a new stadium. For as long as he threatened to decamp for New Jersey and for as long as rabid Yankees fan Rudy Giuliani was in office, Steinbrenner seemed to get all the attention, even as Shea Stadium continued to fall down around the Mets.
This continues a rich tradition of New York city government supporting its richest ballclub, according to Neil Sullivan, author of "The Dodgers Move West" and "The Diamond in the Bronx." Particularly in their dynastic periods, he says, "The feeling at City Hall has always been, 'Go with the Yankees; their glory will rub off.'"
Even as New York lurched toward fiscal crisis in the 1970s, then-Mayor John Lindsay championed a costly renovation of Yankee Stadium, which is owned by the city. By contrast, when the Brooklyn Dodgers' Walter O'Malley looked to the city for help in assembling land parcels in that borough to build a new stadium in the 1950s, he got the brush-off, according to Sullivan: "Brooklyn was considered the poor relation in town."
The Mets inherited that legacy, along with the Dodgers fans. During the Giuliani administration, the Yankee Stadium owners box was like a city hall annex. Even now, the city's former deputy mayor, Randy Levine, is the Yankees' president.
Jeff Wilpon maintains his club wasn't being dissed by city officials; it was just applying less heat to them.
"Giuliani's big push was to make sure that he wasn't the mayor who let [the Yankees] leave the city," he says. "We've never threatened to leave; we felt we'd be able to work something out."
In December 2001, just before leaving office, Giuliani made a magnanimous nonpartisan gesture. He agreed to back new $800 million stadiums for both clubs.
Incoming Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has no evident rooting interest in either team, put the kibosh to that. But when City Hall needed to generate a new stadium to make a plausible bid for the 2012 Olympics last year, the Mets' dormant plans were suddenly a "go." Bloomberg was getting nowhere with a proposed West Side stadium, in the face of stiff opposition, and the Queens venue presented no such problems. He gave his blessing to an Olympic stadium there, to be converted to a Mets stadium. The city lost its Olympic bid, but Fred Wilpon gained his long-awaited stadium. The Yankees subsequently secured city approval for their new stadium, which, as with the Mets, will be adjacent to the club's current home. They're on parallel tracks to open the new parks in 2009.
Though city and club officials have touted the facilities as privately financed, it's not quite that simple. The Yankees and Mets can defray costs (a budgeted $800 million and $550 million, respectively) by financing through government-issued municipal bonds. That's a $276 million subsidy over the life of the bonds for each team, according to the city's Independent Budget Office. Between the two clubs, the city will also spring for $254 million in infrastructure and other improvements to the areas surrounding the ballparks. Both the Yankees and Mets can also use their stadium construction costs to reduce their revenue-sharing obligations to small-market clubs.
Clearly, the Mets have the most to gain here. The Yankees can't draw much more -- if any more -- than the four million they packed into the stadium last year. The Mets, on the other hand, could do a lot better than last year's 2.8 million gate in a new park. The team's season-ticket base currently hovers between 17,000 and 18,000, according to Dave Howard, because that's about the extent of high-quality seats at Shea. The new park will have a lower capacity (45,000 versus 57,000) but, says Howard, "I dare say there will be 35,000 great seats."
The Mets have had a tough time competing with the Yankees for the corporate crowd, not just because of the pinstripes' superior cachet but because of Shea's inferior suites. The Mets have 45 of them for lease, but they're in distant locations down the left-field and right-field lines.
"When companies are entertaining clients, they don't want to be out in the outfield," Howard says. "They want to be in a premium, prime location. We think there's a great opportunity there."
Expect the Mets to add $10 million a year in revenue for naming rights -- the going major-market rate for major corporations to put their name on a stadium. Don't expect the Yankees to similarly cash in. If Steinbrenner accepted 20 pieces of silver to call the place Citigroup Field, he'd have finally gone over the line.
Sparkling new facilities also will enhance the Mets' ability to attract families, which the team's suits already consider a strong point. In comparison to Yankee Stadium, it is family friendly. Shea Stadium surely can get rowdy (ask John Rocker). But on a game-to-game basis, nothing at Shea compares to Yankee Stadium's bleacher creatures, who issue obscene chants from Section 39 for the rest of the fans' listening pleasure.
Shea Stadium has a mascot, the bloated baseball head Mr. Met, whom the kids adore. Yankee Stadium has no mascot, unless you count Giuliani. Shea Stadium has the Pepsi Party Patrol, which shoots T-shirts into the seats between innings. Yankee Stadium's idea of between-innings entertainment is the grounds crew's interpretation of "YMCA" as it rakes the infield in the middle of the fifth. The Shea Stadium anthem, "Meet The Mets," exhorts fans to "bring your kiddies, bring your wife, guaranteed to have the time of your life." The Yankee Stadium anthem, "New York, New York," is an ode to ambition: "I want to wake up in a city that doesn't sleep, and find I'm king of the hill, top of the heap."
Not wishing to provide incendiary quotes for the Yankees' clubhouse bulletin board, Jeff Wilpon carefully opines of his rivals: "They don't have the mascot; they don't shoot T-shirts; they have their own traditions and that's the way they like to do it. There's no right or wrong; we just think our fan base is different."
Yankees president Randy Levine insists, "We're very family-oriented," noting the club couldn't have drawn 4 million fans last year without appealing to them. "All you have to do is see how we price our tickets," says Levine, also citing a plethora of "Bat Days" and other youth-oriented promotions by the clubs.
The Yankees should be even more appealing to the masses in a new park, he argues, with wider concourses, better concessions and an improved seating configuration. The current stadium has about 20,000 seats in the lower bowl and 30,000 in the upper deck. Those numbers will be reversed in the new stadium, which will also more than triple the number of suites (to 60) in the current facility.
"It will be a combination of our traditions and new amenities," says Levine, adding that the new park will actually restore features of the original Yankee Stadium that were lost in the 1970s remodeling. The exterior facade will be restored, for instance, with its grand cathedral windows.
Still, some feel the Yankees are risking bad karma by pulling up stakes and moving ... even if ever so slightly.
"A new curse of the Bambino will be visited on them for moving those monuments," says Jim Bouton, the one-time Yankee pitcher and "Ball Four" author. "It was a less hallowed place after the remodeling, but they're going to undo whatever 'hallow' is still left."
Current-day Yankee Alex Rodriguez shrugs off that notion.
"We'll definitely miss it because the history is second to none. But you look forward to moving into a new building, like we did at Safeco Field in Seattle. The amenities are better for everyone, players and fans. You lose the mystique [of the old stadium], but I think the mystique will always be with the pinstripes."
Alex Rodriguez
"We'll definitely miss it because the history is second to none," he says, surveying the field before a recent game. "But you look forward to moving into a new building, like we did at Safeco Field in Seattle. The amenities are better for everyone, players and fans. You lose the mystique [of the old stadium], but I think the mystique will always be with the pinstripes."
Certainly a change in venue won't alter how Mets fans feel about their rivals. They hate the blanking Yankees, just about as much as Red Sox fans hate the blanking Yankees. Maybe even more, at this point, since they haven't had the cathartic experience of coming back from a 3-0 deficit to beat the blanking Yankees in the postseason. Mets bloggers -- and there are many -- take as much delight in venting their spleens at the Yankees as they do at celebrating or disparaging their Amazins.
Somehow, except for these two intense interleague series each year, the rival factions manage to live relatively peacefully in the same metropolitan area. It helps that they largely migrate to different suburbs. According to the 1998 city-government survey, 22 percent of the Yankees' fan base lives in New Jersey, 11 percent in Westchester/Rockland counties.
Another reason for the peaceable coexistence is that the teams' fans tend to travel in different circles, both vocationally (Yankees fans occupy executive suites, Mets fans work back in IT) and socially. In Cornwall, N.Y., it's generally understood that Tom's Tavern is the Mets' bar and the Shamrock Tavern is the Yankees' bar. Only those who can't resist a good taunt after a few belts broach the enemy's lair.
The third reason: A lot more passion emanates from one camp than the other these days. Many Yankees fans have become merely dismissive. It's the cruelest cut of all for Mets fans: unrequited hatred.
"Mets fans are wannabes," says Bob Cerullo as he awaits the start of a recent game at the stadium. Like a lot of Yankees fans, he wonders: Why do people hate us for our devotion to excellence and tradition?
And: The Yankees aren't about families? Sez who? Cerullo recalls his all-time favorite Yankee moment, "when we won the World Series in 1996 and my kids were crying. I knew I'd raised them right. I bleed pinstripes."
The Mets may not be that far away from achieving a greater state of parity and getting Yankees fans to declare them worthy foes. The season is young yet, but the Mets seem to be coming on and the Yankees seem to be getting older (hello, Randy Johnson) and frailer (goodbye, Hideki Matsui). Last year, the Yankees' TV audience was more than double that of Mets games, but the Nielsen ratings gap has narrowed to a more competitive 4.1 to 2.5 so far in 2006. Between the new cable TV network and the new stadium, the Mets' long-standing deficit in financial firepower will narrow. (Wilpon's club is generally estimated to have 60 percent to 80 percent of the financial firepower of Steinbrenner's. Forbes, for instance, recently valued the Mets' worth at $604 million, the Yankees at $1 billion.)
If Omar Minaya marshals those resources well -- continuing to invest in players like Carlos Delgado instead of Mo Vaughn -- the team could become enough of a threat that Yankees fans extend it their ultimate compliment: a reciprocal sentiment of loathing and a rousing cry of "Mets suck."
John Helyar is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. He previously covered the business of sports for The Wall Street Journal and Fortune magazine and is the author of "Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball."
Interesting note: Mets are the first team in NY to draw 3 million tickets sold
Originally Posted by pauliec
Great article...I think it describes what being a Met fan is all about to a tee.
i respect met fans but get that f"n pedro throwing zimmer on the floor of your sig..if you think thats cool your a moron..pedro is the biggest pus i ever met...Originally Posted by Kingofqueens718
Guess I'm a moron then!Originally Posted by adione718
thats a total loser pick dude..and trust me im not trying to be a dick by calling you a moron...but that pedro thing is the only reason i dont respect him...he had a 70 year old guy again 70 yr old coming at him and he couldnt just move out the way...total loser...Originally Posted by Kingofqueens718
zim would've taken his head off!!!!!!!Originally Posted by adione718
lolOriginally Posted by jvill 51
What pic would you rather me post? Clemens beaning Piazza or throwing the splintered bat at him?Originally Posted by adione718
Geez...Yankee fans are never satisfied.
at least piazza and clemons are closer in age and if they did fight it would have been two men fighting...not a man and somebody"s grandfather...and the piazza and clemons thing piazza was pus any other hard nose baseball player would have charged the mound but he was scared to death to come at clemons...Originally Posted by Kingofqueens718
There is no "rivalry". In order for a rivalry to exist, both teams and both teams' fans need to be seeking the same goal and passionately dislike each other.
The Yankees seek Championships. The Mets seek a winning record.
The Yankees are respected. The Mets seek respect.
Yankee fans sleep well every night. Mets fans toss and turn in their own misery.
Yankee fans are bored with success. Mets fans don't know what success is.
Above all else, the Yankee fan cares only about the success of the Yankees and not the failure of another team; the Mets fan cares more about the Yankees failures then their own team's success.
Ironically, the one thing we do have in common is that we're both obsessed with the Yankees. Thanks for the compliment.
lol you always come up with the best posts...bravo...lolOriginally Posted by SAR I
I see SAR I hangs out with TX a lot.
I could care less what pic you post but I think maybe a picture of your favorite team would be better... You know, like a picture involving the Mets... Just my feeling on the matter though. I guess I just think it's weird to be so obsessed about a team that your not a fan of.Originally Posted by Kingofqueens718
Both of them are the two most realistic fans on this site.Originally Posted by Ikeyman3
Not all of them but yeah, it certainly seems that way. Definitely true with KingofQueens.Originally Posted by SAR I
SAR I realistic?Originally Posted by Jack Straw
I want the Yanks to lose, but I am not obsessed with them.Originally Posted by JeffWeaverFan
If the Mets lost to any MLB team like that it would hurt as much.
LOL.Originally Posted by Ikeyman3
He's realistic when it comes to football, although I completely disagree with his assessment of Matt Leinart.
Division champs next year, realistic?Originally Posted by Jack Straw


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Unanswered: Migrating away from OpenIngres 1.2
We currently have OpenIngres 1.2 running on a Solaris 2.5.1 box.
We need to upgrade that Solaris server as it will no longer be supported by Sun soon. We would like to upgrade it to a newer version of the Solaris Operating system.
I have heard that OpenIngres 1.2 will not run on newer version of Solaris.
Is there a newer version of OpenIngres that would not be too much trouble to migrate over to, that would run on a newer version of Solaris?
If not, any alternative DBMS software that anyone could recommend that could be easy to migrate to?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi, Have you looked at Ingres II?
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Ingres II is the current software version, which is in fact a re-packaging of OpenIngres 2.0. Migration should be fairly straightforward, worst case is a unload/reload of your databases. I did a migration from 6.4 to Ingres II between different platforms and it went trouble-free.


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|Troubled times for Asia-Europe carriers
|Friday, 19 June 2015 08:48
Lloyds 15/6/15
Analysts warn of difficult months ahead as spot rates plunge to new lows
With Asia-north Europe freight rates at an all-time low, analysts have been
quick to highlight what promises to be an uncertain few months for carriers
operating in the vital east-west trade.
Shipping lines will be pinning their hopes on their next round of general rate
increases announced for July 1.
However Drewry's director of container research, Neil Dekker, told
Containerisation International that there are no immediate signs to suggest
these proposed price hikes will not follow the same fate as June's failures.
"The current rates are unsustainable and are well below breakeven levels, but
there are no immediate levers in sight to help the lines carry through a
successful GRI in July," he said.
"A peak season of sorts is expected during the usual summer months, but it is
unclear if the cargo spike will be enough to lift load factors and aid a full
rate recovery."
Mr Dekker noted how much of the recent rate declines has been largely
attributed to the weakness of demand and the steady delivery of newbuildings, and it may
come as a surprise therefore that during this period load factors haven't
fallen drastically, with utilisation levels on the headhaul trade hovering round the
85% mark since the turn of the year.
He said with ships relatively full, there should not have been such dramatic
rate erosion.
Since mid-February, Asia-north Europe rates on the Shanghai Containerized
Freight Index have fallen by more than 70% from $1,003 per teu to $284 per teu.
"The 'normal' market dynamics are out of sync and there is no doubt that all
lines are simply pushing the rates down every week since they are all so scared
of losing any base cargo from volume shippers," he said.
While the collapse of the market to Russia has not helped the dynamics and
aggressive forwarders have also helped to drive the market downwards, he
explained "make no mistake — this is another rate war".
Spot rates, of course, represent only a small percentage of the market, with
the large majority of cargo agreed as part of longer term contracts, typically
three, six or 12 months' duration.
However, these are usually negotiated taking into account the current state of
the spot market, and as Mr Dekker points out, those that agreed annual
contracts back in January of between $1,600 and $1,700 per feu or higher will have felt
pretty aggrieved.
Some have since been allowed to move cargo at prevailing spot market levels, he
With the spot market in freefall, the question that remains is what options do
carriers have?
Denmark-based analyst SeaIntel believes that unless there is a sudden surge in
demand for Asia imports, one of two scenarios can be expected.
Firstly, carriers will initiate further capacity reductions to offset the
influx of larger vessels being rolled out on the Asia-Europe trade in the form of
outright service cancellation, service downgrading or an extensive blank
sailings programme.
If carriers choose to close entire strings, however, the vessels that operated
these services will have to be deployed elsewhere and this extra capacity could
prove even more problematic on other trades, making the decision quite
complicated for the carriers, said SeaIntel.
The second scenario, according to SeaIntel, is that carriers choose not to make
such drastic capacity reductions.
This would mean that rates would come under even more pressure than they
already are, with the potential of sending many carriers into the red for the majority
of 2015.
Yet there is a third option, mirroring the drastic action taking by carriers
between 2008 and 2009 during the global financial crisis, when a significant
amount of capacity was laid up.
"The challenge to this option is that the carriers laying up vessels would bear
the entire financial burden of doing so, while those that do not would also
reap the benefit," said Seaintel.
"Further, some of the largest carriers with the greatest flexibility in their
fleets to engage in large scale lay-ups, eg Maersk Line and CMA CGM, have
outperformed the industry in recent years, and it is doubtful that they would
be inclined to 'bail out' the rest of industry in these tough times."


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Nationalism, Feminism, and Humanism: Competing Choices in Toni Morrison's Paradise,Carolyn Denard, Associate Professor,20th Century American Literature, African-American Literature, and CulturalStudies, (April 3, 2003).
The Debt: What America Owes Blacks? Randal Robinson (November 6, 2001).
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When History Sleeps: On the Poetics of Black Social Movements, Robin Kelly, Professor of History and African Studies at New York University (February 24, 2000)
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Class and Social Isolation in the Inner City, William Julius Wilson, University of Chicago Sociologist (February 20, 1990).
"Race," and Ideologies and Practices based on "Race," are Modern Constructs, Cornell West, Professor of Religion and Afro-American Studies, Harvard University (February 26, 1996).
America's Promises, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Chairperson, NAACP. "The more we know about each other — our hopes, dreams, and values — the more likely we will have a diverse society."
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It's hard to really note what has changed but every day and every activity has presented a new physical, mental, or emotional challenge. Every challenge is an opportunity to conquer a fear I've had. Every turbulent palm-soaking shake of the plane allows me to confront my intense fear of flying and in turn, of death. I've never been so happy and so positively challenged in my life so consistently. I am a little apprehensive about coming back to the States (and excited to catch up on my TV shows). And I'm really excited to see my grandparents.
Jan. 7, 2008
I spent most of my 4 days in LA with my grandparents playing mah jong (I ended up $2 up over two days), eating, organizing my photos and updating my blog. I had a very hard time forcing myself to throw the toilet paper into the toilet instead of into a nearby wastebasket. Ahh...western living. Back to Oz to pick up my worldly possessions and see good friends!