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Having already been familiar with and a great admirer of some of
Miyazaki's other Ghibli films, including Princess Mononoke, I turned to
Kiki's Delivery Service on the recommendation of someone who suggested
it as "light-hearted" fun. Being an eighteen-year-old male, I didn't
think it would be much more than thata guilty pleasure to indulge in
once in a while, something I could watch and then say, "Aw, what a cute
film!" But Kiki's Delivery Service is so much more than "light-hearted
fun." For one, it is a beautifully animated work of cinematic art, with
Miyazaki's usual flair for gorgeous landscapes and astonishing detail.
As in his recent films Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, Miyazaki's
brush paints a beautiful world.
There is not much to be said about the plot itself: Kiki is a 13-year-old witch who has just left home to begin a year of training on her own, and she moves to a seaside European town, befriends a husband and wife baker, and sets up a flying delivery service.
What sets Kiki's Delivery Service apart from many of Miyazaki's other works is the personal, rather than epic, nature of the story. It wonderfully captures the day-to-day life of an aspiring 13-year-old girl moving into the life of a bustling town. While there is plenty to please the thrill-seeking adventurous spirit, the film's real beauty lies in its ability to portray the more introverted aspects of life. Most Western animated cinema centers around loud, pop-influenced music and a bad-guy-fighting action-oriented plot, but Kiki's Delivery Service has a charming and understated musical score, and lacks a traditional antagonist. Life isn't all excitement and fighting bad guyssomething that this film seems to get across more than any Disney, Pixar, Fox, or other Western animated film I've ever seen. In fact, the doldrums of life are what form the heart of this film, as Kiki finds that she begins to lose her witch's abilities and can no longer fly.
Kiki's Delivery Service is a masterpiece, one of my all-time favorite films, and Kiki's search for the heart within herself is a tale that adults may appreciate more than their children. Indeed, Kiki is one of the most appealing characters that Miyazaki ever brought to life, which is certainly saying something. One of Miyazaki's great arts is in never talking down to his audience, and this fantastic story is no exception.
Kiki's Delivery Service is my favorite move. I have seen it at least 10
times and I laughed and cried each time. The animation by Hayao Miyazaki is
wonderful, as always. The flying scenes and scenery of the generic
city are totally convincing. I think I really got a feeling of what it
would be like to fly in on a broom over and through a European city. In
each city scene, I feel like it is some place I have visited in my trips to
What I really appreciate about this movie is the simplicity of the characters and the plot. There are no robots, no psychotic megalomaniacs, no monsters, no superheros, no bratty smarty kids that are smarter than adults, no evil moron adults, and no fight scenes. No one is kidnapped or seriously injured. Even though the movie a about a witch, the only supernatural acts in the movie are Kiki flying on a broom and talking to her cat.
The movie is about a young girl witch who leaves home with her cat Jiji, moves to a new town, and starts a delivery service. In her business she has some adventures and meets mostly nice people who help her out. In the process she meets a boy named Tombo. Tombo does not have any special powers. He is just a nerdy guy who is trying to build a bicycle that can fly. Tombo gets in to some trouble and Kiki helps him out.
That sounds very dull, but by avoiding the supernatural and monsters, the story is much more easy to relate to. It is a story about leaving home and starting anew, meeting people, helping people, and have people help you when you get into trouble. It is very upbeat, even when things look bleak, they work out with a little help from friends. I liked Tombo's problems trying to be friends with Kiki because they seem like the problems people really have. One of the most beautiful scenes in the movie is Tombo silently waiting in the rain for Kiki who never shows up.
This movie is full of silent beauty. When the baker's wife invites Kiki to move in above the bakery, you get the impression that the gruff but silent husband does not care for Kiki. But in a later scene you see that he has baked a loaf of bread shaped like a girl riding a broom and mounted it in the bakery window. Nothing is ever said about it, but you see how he appreciates her.
I have both the dubbed and subtitled version of the movie. They are both great. This movie is one of the best dubbed I have seen. The dubbed version has a lighter, funnier tone because of the wise-cracking Jiji. I felt I could appreciate the animation better in the dubbed version because I did not have to focus on reading the subtitles. In general the voice acting in the dubbed version is excellent. The subtitled version is also the letterbox version, so you get to see the full beauty of the animation. In some of the flying scenes, Jiji is humorously complaining about the flying conditions in the dubbed version, where the subtitled version lets you silently appreciate the beauty of flying. Due to licensing problems the dubbed and subtitled versions have different theme songs. I think both songs are great. I recommend getting both versions.
I kept hearing about how good this movie was, but I put off renting it for the longest time because I dismissed it as some dumb kid's film. Boy, was I wrong! This is a movie that appeals not only to kids, but to teens and adults as well. This is the kind of stuff Disney should be producing nowadays. I own my own copy now and whenever I pop it into my VCR, it always puts me in a good mood.
Another great Miyazaki film. A young witch, with a good heart, leaves
her mom and dad on her 13th birthday with her black cat, as all witches
are supposed to do to complete her training and make it on her own. She
looks for a city in need of a witch and finds a city near an ocean. She
meets some other good hearted people who help her along the way.
There really isn't a villain in the movie and it's mainly a slice of life type of film. In the end of the film it all comes together and she performs a heroic act.
I tried to watch the dubbed version. Dunst was fine, but I just couldn't stand Garofolo and Hartman. So set the DVD audio to the original Japanese soundtrack and used English subtitles.
If you watch the dubbed version. Turn on the subtitles and you will see all the additional dialog they added. They just couldn't help padding their roles, especially Hartman.
This ranks up there with Pinocchio as the greatest movie for children ever
made. One huge problem with most animated children's films are that the
plots are so conventional and often contain very 1950s ideals for society
that they become detrimental to society. One's childhood is the most
impressionable time in their life, so movies that are directed towards them
teach them what places different sorts of people play in society. There is a
very humorous, but also very serious bit of dialogue in a film called The
Last Days of Disco where characters discuss the effects Lady and the Tramp
could have on little girls, depicting a young female dog falling for a
vagabond Tramp. This, they muse, sets young women up to fall for rebellious
men later in life. This may seem like a humorous idea, but it's absolutely
true. Even good Disney movies give children these standards. As nice as The
Little Mermaid or Beauty and the Beast or Cinderella or Snow White and the
Seven Dwarves may be, they basically teach that it is the woman's place to
grow up and get married, prefereably to a handsome rich man (perhaps the
rich part is never said, but both the main male characters in these films do
happen to own castles). The writers of these films probably had no idea
that that is what they were doing, but it is.
That is why Pinocchio is the best Disney movie. It is probably the only Disney animated film that I can think of that actually concerns the predicament of its target audience: children. I can hardly think of a single (American) animated film besides it that has a child as its main character (oh, the Jungle Book, which is also excellent).
Then comes Kiki's Delivery Service. It is an absolutely perfect movie about a young girl out on her own trying to handle the responsibilities of life. It is, in my opinion, the best movie that a child can watch. And not only will it teach children, it is also marvelously animated, directed, and written. There is a plethora of great characters, exciting moments, and imaginative situations. It should also expand a child's mind, not only because of the imagination involved, which will help to break children away from conventions in their film experience, thus making them more intelligent, but because it comes from another culture. It doesn't overtly show its Japaneseness, unless you count the imagination involved (though you should count that as a credit towards Hayao Miyazaki, who is the greatest genius of animation as far as I'm concerned). But it may spark an interest in children old enough to understand that someone from another country made it. Also, for younger kids, Miyazaki's fantastic, equally good My Neighbor Totoro. 10/10
(ps: I have only seen the dubbed version of this film. I find it perfectly acceptable and great. Nothing made me cringe, anyway. I think Kirsten Dunst did a very good job characterizing Kiki, a much better job than Claire Danes did characterizing San from Princess Mononoke.)
This may seem a rehash of the previous comments, but I only now got to
see the Disney dubbed release.
I owned a bootleg copy of Kiki while it was still in Japanese theaters; I fell in love with the movie after first seeing the spectacle of the dirigible crash near the tail end. I learned to worship this movie because of the grandeur, because of the simplicity...
I lost my bootleg copy, and after the American release, began hunting down the laserdisc. A year of searching, I finally found it... was it worth the wait? Yes, with reservations...
I am (overly) familiar with the Japanese version, and did not want to be burdened with the "star" American voices; my wife doesn't like foreign-language film, though, so I needed the English version. With the LD, I got both benefits without having to purchase 2 VHS versions, and got to do some interesting side-by-side comparisons- switching between languages, watching the Japanese language version with the sub-titles for the English version, etc.
First off- this *is* Miyazaki, and *this* is animation. It is utterly beautiful, and the story is a wonderful one for both children and adults. There are very few people who will not be charmed by this... except maybe teenage boys, who don't want to be caught liking something so sweet. Otherwise, I can safely recommend any version to anybody.
Miyazaki films often prefer to paint a scene with pictures and music, not words. The English translation is an egregious offender here; what in the Japanese version are vignettes and scenes that are wordless become in the English version open chances for Phil Hartman and Kirsten Dunst to wisecrack, chat, or what-have-you. I feel that this is due to Disney's belief that children in America must be entertained for every second of a movie, lest their minds wander off.
Just as many people find Japanese dialogue to be grating on the ears, so do I find the English language voice actors to be grating. Actually, mainly just (the late) Phil Hartman. His nasal, loud voice just does not fit JiJi, a cute, diminutive cat. Kirsten does an okay job, although her voice sounds a wee bit older than Kiki's 13.
Already being familiar with the film, I have to admit being disappointed with the English version... it's a necessary evil, and I'm glad that my wife can enjoy the film now; but I feel that no matter how well-intentioned, Miyazaki's vision was dimmed somewhat in the Americanization. If the only version to come out had been an English version, I honestly would have rather imported a copy from Japan than support Disney.
All that being said, though, I would place the English-language Kiki far above most Disney efforts, and especially above Disney's modern efforts. I sincerely recommend that everyone watch Kiki once; if you like it, try the Japanese-language version (Buena Vista has released a VHS, widescreen, sub-titled Japanese version. Thank you, Disney!) And if you are a Disney film fan, you owe it to yourself to see what the Japanese can do.
First of all, 10 points to Ghibli for Variety. Producing this and
'Grave of the Fireflies' inside a year of each other would be like
Disney doing 'Mary Poppins' and 'Judgement at Nuremberg' back to back.
Words that spring to mind after watching Kiki include 'delightful', 'light', 'bouyant', and so forth. It's obvious Miyazaki has refined his craft considerably from the early movies, which somehow seemed a bit... I don't know - stuttery. Kiki, though just flows effortlessly. Combine this with the beautiful use of lighting and colour to produce that summertime, Mediterranean sort of feel, and Kiki is a movie that is just thoroughly uplifting, never getting bogged down in complexities or dark intrigues.
Unfortunately - and this is the only thing holding it back from 4 stars from me - what it does get slightly bogged down in, is its own lightness. There were just a few sections where the lack of a villain, of any real action, of anything other than people being nice to each other, took the top 10% off what was otherwise a masterful movie. I suppose there were a few other flaws, too: some characters and situations which came into it were just not developed at all. And there was one moment that teetered on real poignancy - the old dog with what he thought was a stuffed toy - but it sort of didn't happen. Also allowing the cat - sorry, forgotten his name - to drop out of proceedings for most of the latter half the film, definitely removed a spark from the film (I can't believe I just complained about the LACK of a comic sidekick)
BTW, as someone who lives in Tasmania, which is allegedly the inspiration for much of the setting of this film, please come here by all means, but don't expect it to look like that. The bakery in Ross (central Tasmania) which supposedly inspired the one in the film is in one of the few Tasmanian towns that you _can't_ see the ocean from, and the general look of the movie is distinctly southern European, though I guess some of the rural shots look a bit Tasmanian.
Whatever the case, Miyazaki's attention to detail is, as usual, stunning. The town may have been cobbled together from his favourite bits of Italy, France, Tasmania and wherever else, but its nothing less than a labour of love nonetheless.
Anyway, 8 out of 10.
i've only seen the dub, but I must say this movie is superb, fantastic, wonderful and worthy of all the praise it gets. it's heartfelt, funny, and all in all a wonderful movie. the plot, characters, everything about this movie is perfect. it makes me feel oh so good when i watch it. I honestly see nothing wrong with this movie, not a thing. it's quite possibly the greatest coming of age story ever. This movie is too damn good for a review written by me out of complete bordem, so i'll end it by saying if you can a copy, dub or subtitled, rent/buy/steal it. i don't think you'll be disaponited. So go on and get a copy before I beat you. GO NOW.
I've been a fan of the original "Majo no takkyubin" for a long time, and
I've been extremely pessimistic about American dubs of Japanese animation,
which have ranged from barely tolerable to scrape-it-off-your-shoe
When I heard Disney had bought distribution rights, I wondered whether a
big-name animation studio would do right by this film.
Well, I've now seen the Disney version and I'm a little disappointed. Like most other American studios, Disney assumes that anything animated must be aimed solely at children under five. Much of the charm and subtlety of the original film is lost in this dubbed version, and in a few places the translation just plain doesn't make sense. Phil Hartman is funny as the smart-alecky Jiji, and despite his frequent ad-libs, the part comes off reasonably well. But if you've seen and liked the Disney version of this film, do yourself a favor and dig up the original Japanese (subtitled) version. You'll see what Hayao Miyazaki really wanted you to see.
Though not as entertaining for real young children as Miyazaki's My Neighbor
Totoro, pre-teens with a long attention span (nearly two hours) and who
prefer pacing and atmosphere over flashing lights and singing characters
will likely love this movie. Though certainly not a feminist movie, KDS
provides a positive (if old-fashioned) role model for young women. Unlike
most American films, the movie shows a girl realizing her own power as a
person not chanting feel-good slogans ("I am not a victim" American Beauty)
but through hard work and being herself.
As part of her witch training, when Kiki turns thirteen she has to live away from home for a year. After some sweet (but not saccharine) scenes with the mother and father, Kiki flies off on her broom, careening off trees and bridges. She falls asleep in a train and finds herself near a town on the sea. Since there are no witches there, Kiki chooses the town. As it turns out, though, not everyone is fond of witches. Don't worry, this isn't Salem. They only do what Japanese tend to do with unwanted guests--they ignore her. After finding a foster home, Kiki decides to set up an air delivery service.
For the most part, the movie is only thinly plotted (or heavily plotted, depending on your view). The main focus is on Kiki's emotions, although to Americans they may seem rather subdued because they are not underlined (this is a Japanese movie, after all). In one of the more overtly emotional scenes, she sheds a couple of tears because of a mixture of happy and sad emotions and then suddenly smiles. Kiki does get overly excited at times, just like most girls her age, and in the Japanese version she continually says "taihen" ("tough" or "difficult") whenever she's running late or has trouble controlling her broom. Her less overt emotions are caught on closer inspection: watch for the bathroom scene, the "oh my god I almost died" scene, and the scene when she walks by a group of giggling girls.
Also, keep an eye out for references to The Wizard of Oz.
Kirstin Dunst as Kiki does a great job pretending that she's thirteen instead of about sixteen. And the sound technicians do a fantastic job varying the voice track so that it doesn't sound flat (I never knew what an important job sound technicians had until I watched the dubbed version of Ghost in the Shell and compared it to the original version). Phil Hartman (in his last role) does a very strange take on the normally high-pitched Jiji, Kiki's black cat. Matthew Lawrence as Kiki's boy friend isn't bad, and neither is Debbie Reynolds as an elderly client. Honestly, none of the dubbing is bad (except the never-seen father of a young boy, who is just over-the-top in a scene that was subdued and thoughtful in the Japanese version).
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Costume queen Katy Perry threw herself the ultimate Halloween birthday party!
The singer celebrated her Oct. 25 birthday – she's turning 28 – a bit early with a huge haunted-house themed fete at Magic Castle in LA on Oct. 19.
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Don Silvernell would love to see some of the federal stimulus money land at the Hernando County Airport. But even if it never comes, he's got big plans for improvements in 2009.
The airport director knows that the current sluggish economic conditions offer opportunities to beef up infrastructure at a bargain price.
Making the airport attractive is a keystone strategy in the county's efforts to lure new businesses and industries. Much of the business growth in recent years has been centered at the airport's industrial parks.
The new airport office off Spring Hill Drive was just completed a couple of months ago, and Silvernell and county business development director Mike McHugh have moved in. McHugh and his staff had been renting space in downtown Brooksville for the last few years.
During 2009, Silvernell said, the airport will add a new hangar that could house as many as 14 aircraft, and a corporate hangar could also be on the project list.
Also ahead is a large maintenance project to rehabilitate the roads in the original Airport Industrial Park, built in the 1980s. The roads will be widened a bit and the corners reworked to allow a larger turning radius for big vehicles.
Design work has been completed on the new industrial and business park spaces planned for the southwest portion of the airport property.
"Hopefully we'll see some funding'' through the stimulus package, Silvernell said. "It's set to go.''
There are approximately 175 acres in the area and 59 lots ranging from 1 1/2 to 2 acres in size. For potential tenants who need more space, the design allows for combining lots.
In the older industrial areas, the lots were slightly bigger. Silvernell said some potential businesses wanted to look at a smaller size, so that's why the new sites will be smaller.
In the existing industrial areas, Silvernell said, there are 95 industrial and commercial leases.
Some runway and taxiway maintenance is also in the airport plan for the coming year.
While it didn't make the priority list the county staff has prepared for stimulus money, a control tower planned at the airport would create good-paying jobs down the road, Silvernell said. The planning for the tower is still ongoing, though he said he did not expect to see that project happen this year.
"Right now is the time to do these infrastructure projects because the cost has gone way down,'' he said.
Silvernell pointed to recent road projects on the airport property that came in at $2.8 million when the estimate for the work had been $4.8 million, and a drainage project he thought would cost about $1 million that was completed for $660,000.
The Hernando County Airport is also getting a second fixed-base operator. The County Commission earlier this month approved a lease with Brooksville Air Center Inc., which will build its own facility on 11 acres. Part of the deal is that the business will pay to have water, sewer and a road built to the site, and in return get a break in its lease payment for a few years.
By extending the utilities and roadway, the business will be opening up more space for future businesses, Silvernell told commissioners. He noted that Brooksville Air Center will bring more competition to the airport. The business will provide full fixed-base operator services, including maintenance, fuel and pilot services.
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A public forum was held at the John McIntire Library in downtown over the weekend. All 14 candidates running for both Mayor and City Council seats were present to answer the public's questions and to hear their concerns.
Candidates for the 4th Ward City Council Seat include Democrat Sandy Gentry and Republican Scott Peterson. Peterson spoke on his goals to provide a stronger voice for the entire 4th Ward, uphold fiscal responsibility and clean-up surrounding neighborhoods. He encourages community involvement.
"To look for opportunities to make Zanesville a better place, to fix our problems, to look at our assets and celebrate those," emphasized Peterson. '"To make positive changes."
Peterson will go against current Council Member Sandy Gentry. Gentry spoke mainly on her efforts to work closely with 4th Ward neighbors and address concerns of safety in the neighborhoods. Gentry said through her 30-year experience working in the Zanesville City Schools she has had the opportunity to meet the families of the community.
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AN arts festival has been given further critical acclaim from a leading publication.
The Harwich Festival of the Arts was included in essential music magazine The Wire's Out There section, compiling the best festivals all over Europe.
Last week the Sunday Times listed the arts festival among the top 15 in the country.
This year's festival offer no fewer than six premieres of new music. For full listings and ticket prices go to harwichfestival.co.uk.


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A collection from Japan's Yohji Yamamoto that did not make us over examine the garments would scare me. While I would not consider every garment a first choice, the details are spectacular. The use of fabrics and textile is what keeps us looking. Like music which requires time to absorb, the Autumn/Winter Yamamoto collection requires the same patience. (lefigaro)
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Published: August 5th, 2010 | Tags: Adrian Peterson, Brett Favre, Minnesota Vikings
With reports swirling that the Minnesota Vikings would offer QB Brett Favre a financial enticement to return this season, RB Adrian Peterson has raised the idea that he, too, wouldn't mind a little something for the effort.
Peterson told KFAN-AM on Wednesday that he would to "at least talk about it", meaning a new contract. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported the running back will make $3.64 million this season and is entering the fourth year of his six-year, $40.5 million rookie contract.
Peterson, who has taken limited reps in camp due to sore legs, indicated that he doesn't want the topic to become a distraction.
And that's a good thing for the Vikings, who already have enough of those this summer.


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If you have ever seen an episode of "Regular Show," then you know something about why I love being in my 40s.
"Regular Show" is dumb. It's a primitive, lowbrow cartoon about a blue jay and a raccoon who are slacker groundskeepers at a rundown little park and the ludicrous adventures they have as they attempt to avoid responsibility and get along with their bizarre coworkers. Their boss is a mean-tempered gumball machine. One of their colleagues is a talking goat.
Y'all, it's just so, so dumb.
I never would have watched this show in a million years if I did not have two sons, ages 9 and 13, who think "Regular Show" is hysterical. Every Monday evening, we sit together and watch a new, dumb episode. It's so dumb that I cannot adequately describe its dumbness.
We love it. We laugh and laugh. The kids think it's hilarious that I think it's hilarious. They won't start watching it until I get there.
There was a time when I would have deemed this show too dumb to watch. I am, after all, a fully grown human with a pretty good education, a demanding job and an Outlook calendar full of conflicting, color-coded meetings and deadlines. But something wonderful has happened to me as I've eased out of my 30s and settled firmly into my 40s: I don't care.
I don't care that it's dumb, and that it's definitely too dumb for me to watch. Doesn't matter. I like it. The kids like it. It cracks us up, so we watch it - and then I write about it in the newspaper because that's how much I don't care. Not a bit. You can even think I'm dumb for watching it. I don't mind.
Life is both too short and too long to spend it worrying about whether something is too dumb to indulge. Life is both too short and too long to miss an opportunity to laugh at something dumb with my kids, who love nothing more than to see me laugh at something dumb. So I watch "Regular Show." Every single week. (My favorite episode is the transcendently ridiculous "Death Bear" if you want to look it up online.)
One of my dearest friends, whom I met when we were sweet, clueless college kids, recently turned 40. We had cake and hugs and sat around marveling that we've been friends for half our lives. And I told her something that might only start to make sense as she gets a handle on that new, round number: Sister, welcome to the height of your powers.
The truth about 40 is that it's the reward for surviving a couple of decades of very heavy lifting. My friends and I spent our 20s figuring out who we are and what matters to us. We spent our 30s using that information to build our careers and start our families. And now we know who we are, what we want and how to get it. We know how to be useful, how to be confident, how to find our way around strange cities in rental cars, how to negotiate the raises and promotions we've absolutely earned. We know what we're doing. And when we don't know, we know we can figure it out.
It takes a while to get here, to the middle of the middle - with good stuff behind us, even better stuff ahead and whole lot of important work that needs doing in the meantime. I guess some people pine for their 20s, look mistily back at their 30s. I honestly don't know what they're thinking. I wouldn't go backward for anything.
I'd hate to miss an episode of "Regular Show."
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The magazine, which is available for download (pdf, 7.9 mb, 51 pages), is organised in sections that deal with infrastructure solutions, electric machines (really!) and simulation.
It is revealing and somehow saddening to see that such a huge international corporation as Siemens, can still imagine future changes to be only driven by technological and engineering developments. Somehow this Epcot style utopian thinking, which feels very dated to me, must still be inspiring for lots of decision makers.


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FAIROAKS/MANHATTAN MANOR — Wrestling veteran Dusty Rhodes carefully watched Sheamus O'Shaunessy's every move earlier this week, looking for areas where the up-and-comer could improve. They were fine tuning and polishing for the big debut.
The Florida Championship Wrestling facility, at 4535 S Dale Mabry Highway, will open to the public Thursday. For months, wrestlers and trainers have used the warehouse space as their training ground. Superstars in the industry, like Rhodes, John Cena and Big Show, have come to offer advice. Come Thursday night, the facility will showcase its transformation from a hot box housing canned goods to a state-of-the-art entertainment venue complete with a full production crew.
Here, young wrestlers will hone their showmanship and athleticism in front of live audiences.
Aside from private training sessions for wrestlers, owner Steve Keirn plans to host live shows for the public that will be recorded and eventually aired on a local television network yet to be decided. About 12 matches will be showcased opening night.
"I'm sure we'll generate a lot of interest," Keirn said. "We're trying to re-establish a form of family entertainment that was here in the '60s, '70s and '80s."
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To most of the fresh graduates passing out from colleges, it's definitely a painful issue to pay back those hefty loans which they've taken to support their college/university studies. If you're one amongst them and paying multiple rates to multiple loan agencies, you definitely know how it feels. Did you know you can easily save thousands by consolidating your student loans? In fact, you can either go for private or federal student loan consolidation. Comparison of student loan consolidation programs is now easy as you can do that online on many websites.
Primarily, you must have a clear knowledge about the total loan amount and the accumulated interest. Now just add up everything and …..voila! You'll see before you a lifetime of debt. But there's no need to fear, as student loan consolidation is the best way to go and will come to your rescue! The final amount you have before your eyes is your starting point for choosing the best program for your needs. The monthly bill to be paid should never be more than 20 percent of your monthly earnings. You still have to live a decent life, don't you? Your primary focus should not be jus ton paying off your debts, but also to live a moderately comfortable life.
Loan agencies
There are many loan agencies that work in the US market. Federal loan consolidation is available to you from federal government. It doesn't need a co-signor or credit check because this consolidation program is protected by federal government.
Private student loan consolidation programs are offered by credit unions, banks and loan agencies. Depending upon the loan agencies, you might have to get your credit history check or provide a co-signer.
How they work?
Both these programs are highly useful as they are meant to combine your multiple loans into one single loan so that you can enjoy just one lower monthly payment at a lower interest rate. For federal student loan consolidation programs, you can only combine federal loans. But in case of private student loan consolidation, you can easily consolidate your student loans together along with your personal loans.
Besides that, when you're opting for federal student loan consolidation, you'll get lowest rates that will lock for the whole loan period. For private student loans, however, your rate might fluctuate at a market rate. You can also talk to the loan agency to look at the possibilities of getting the lowest possible rate.
Credit History for Student Loan Consolidation
Your credit history is important and with a student loan consolidation program you can easily add few extra points to your reputation. If you've a big loan and you are always late on your monthly payments, you know everything will be registered on your credit card.
With easy student loan consolidation, you'll be easily able to pay the full amount with just one monthly payment. You will also save good monthly and can also boost your credit score.
When you are comparing various student loan consolidation offers, try to pay some attention on the benefits as they can ease your life considerably. For instance, you can benefit from reduced interest rates for making regular payments, automatic debt repayments or online application filing. So it's up to you to decide on which of these benefits will help you with your financial issues.
As discussed above, you can also improve your credit score with student loan consolidation. This is so because with loan consolidation you're being seen as servicing one big loan instead of multiple loans.
Though you will get lower rates with federal student loan consolidation, but you can always negotiate with private agencies to see if there's some alternative available to you to get a better interest rate.


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"American Idol" sponsor AT&T has come under fire after it was revealed employees of the company handed out cell phones at Kris Allen parties in his home state of Arkansas and taught people how to cast blocks of votes.
AT&T confirmed the news, first reported by the New York Times, but said their employees handed out the phones after being swept up in the moment.
"Last week, countless parties were held in homes, bars, and other public places across America to watch the 'American Idol' finale. In Arkansas, a few local AT&T employees were invited to attend two local watch parties organized by the community," AT&T said in a statement. "Caught up in the enthusiasm of rooting for their hometown contestant, they brought a small number of demo phones with them and provided texting tutorials to those who were interested."
According to the NY Times, the AT&T employees gave instructions to partygoers on how to send "power texts" — at least 10 messages with just one click. Rules allow for only AT&T subscribers to text vote. Additionally, blocks of text votes can be tossed out per, "Idol" rules.
The paper reported that similar events were not held for Adam Lambert, who finished second.
AT&T said they do not believe the actions of their employees affected the outcome.
"Going forward, we will make sure our employees understand our sponsorship celebrates the competition, not individual contestants. That said, it's quite a leap to suggest that a few individuals could have impacted the final results," AT&T's statement concluded.
And in a joint statement, FOX and 19 Entertainment, the producers of the show, also said they do not believe the AT&T employees' actions affected the results of the show.
"FOX and the producers of 'American Idol' are absolutely certain that the results of this competition are fair, accurate and verified. Kris Allen is, without a doubt, the American Idol," the statement read. "We have an independent third-party monitoring procedure in place to ensure the integrity of the voting process. In no way did any individuals unfairly influence the outcome of the competition."


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Although many would like to, it is hard to forget Jerry Sandusky's crimes against children.
However, beyond the high-profile cases, U.S. Department of Human Services statistics show a child is abused every 10 seconds in America.
Senator Pat Toomey, Attorney General Kathleen Kane, and Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico met at PinnacleHealth System's Children's Resource Center in Harrisburg on Friday to discuss how best to protect children.
Kane expressed her fears as a mother of two boys who attend school most of the day between classes and extracurricular activities.
"I know that some days my kids are in school 12 hours," Kane said. "The teachers and everyone else in that school sometimes see them more than I do. I want to make sure that they are the safest that they can be in those schools."
Toomey said there is nothing more important than protecting children everywhere. He touted The Protecting Students From Sexual And Violent Predators Act, a bill he is co-sponsoring with Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV).
Toomey said the bill, which already passed the House of Representatives, should reach the Senate next week. It would require schools to use the same unified criminal background check on a periodical basis.
The Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative branch, released a report Thursday that exposes the need for federal agencies to crack down on child abuse in America's schools. The report pointed out only 46 states have some form of criminal background check requirement, yet not all use the same method. Toomey's bill would streamline the process.
The GOA revealed only 43 states require districts to report allegations of student sex abuse to law enforcement. Toomey's bill would require all schools to alert authorities, and would increase punishments and fines for failure to report.
Toomey's bill would also ban a practice where teachers accused of abuse are terminated or allowed to resign but are not reported to law enforcement, allowing them to quietly move
to another school district.
"There's a strict prohibition against what we call passing the trash," Toomey said. "The idea that you get rid of your problem and make it someone else's problem is a terrible idea."
Toomey's bill would require schools to alert
authorities if a convicted child molester applies for a job. He said fines levied for the crime would help fund child advocacy centers and groups.
Currently, the GAO shows only 18 states require mandatory sexual misconduct training for school employees.
"I really can't answer for states that haven't addressed this," Toomey said. "I don't know why you could, in this day and age, not have this legislation."
Pennsylvania Senator Anthony Williams (D-Philadelphia) is leading a similar bill, the Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct and Exploitation Act, in the state legislature.
Kane and Marsico agreed it is time for Pennsylvania to step up and protect students.


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Arlington schoolchildren suffering from norovirus en masse
A nasty strain of norovirus is making its way through an Arlington elementary school that kept a large number of students home on Friday.
In a letter sent home by Nottingham Elementary School officials, administrators told parents that the likely cause of the outbreak is norovirus. The highly-contagious stomach illness typically leads to serious nause and vomiting.
It was a confusing day at Nottingham for many students, including 4th grader Raquel Robinson, who along with her classmates were moved from trailers behind the school into a main building. She was one of the students who ended up falling ill.
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By Professor Francisco Szekely and Research Associate Heidi Strebel - June 2012
This week world leaders are convening in Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Conference "Rio+20" to discuss no less than, "how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet". As a range of stakeholders from civil society, academia, government and the private sector join the discussion, we would like to take stock of one dynamic area of action.
The idea of change for sustainability is gaining ground in the private sector. While it is not yet part of mainstream practice, a growing number of businesses understand the impacts on competitiveness and are beginning to integrate different elements into their core strategies. Going even further, companies are seizing the opportunities in strategic innovation for sustainability, as highlighted in the seminal article "Why Sustainability is Now the Key Driver for Innovation" from 2009, by Ram Nidumolu, C.K. Prahalad and M.R. Rangaswami.
Strategic innovation for sustainability can be defined as the creation of something new that improves performance in the three dimensions – social, environmental and economic – of sustainable development. Both in theory and in practice there is much debate and confusion about what such improvements in performance entail but there is now growing agreement that, as with conventional innovation, they are not restricted to technological change but also include change in processes, operating procedures and practices, business models, thinking and systems.
There is a wide gap between ideas and action in this emerging domain. A first step in bridging that gap is to understand the different types of innovation for sustainability. There are three major types along a spectrum from incremental to radical to game-changing systemic innovation.
Incremental innovation in products and services
In theory strategic innovation in products and services for sustainability, also referred to as "eco-design", encompasses a holistic view of product and service development, integrating environmental, social and economic considerations. In practice changes in products, services and internal processes have been largely path-dependent, incremental and biased towards environmental and economic considerations with much less emphasis on social considerations.
One of the main sub-types of incremental innovation for sustainability is "eco-efficiency". In many cases change is still limited to add-on or end-of-pipe improvements to existing technologies and reductions in resource inputs, materials and wastes, referred to as increases in eco-efficiency. Even when a completely new "clean" technology is introduced, it often addresses a single criterion of environmental performance such as SO₂ emissions or water use.
Examples of step-by-step innovation for sustainability abound in a range of industries – in electricity and heat generation, transportation, building and manufacturing. However, even with incremental improvements in material and energy efficiency, in many cases overall efficiencies remain relatively low. Take the automobile industry. In response to progressively stricter regulations, voluntary initiatives and industry competition, over the past 40 years automobile manufacturers have developed innovations for the internal combustion engine that have increased energy efficiency and reduced emissions of greenhouse and other toxic gases. However by the end of the 20th century, the gradual progression in technology had resulted in an internal combustion engine that still transmitted only 25% of energy input to the drive train.
Radical innovation in processes and value chains
An understanding of how dynamic systems interact is crucial to achieving the far-reaching novelty of radical innovation for sustainability. Often this involves a shift in thinking from analyses of separate parts and problems, to the perception of multiple interdependent wholes, feedback mechanisms and non-linear change.
One of the main sub-types of radical innovation for sustainability is the transformation of supply chains. This calls for a systems view of the impacts of a company's products and services, processes and operations, including social issues such as labor conditions, human health and gender equity, environmental issues such as sourcing of raw materials, manufacturing processes and end-of-life, and economic issues such as competitiveness and market share.
An example of radical innovation for sustainable agriculture is Unilever's transformation, initiated in 2007, of the supply chain for its Lipton brand to certified sustainable tea. The company entered into a partnership with the international NGO Rainforest Alliance (RfA) to work on the process of certifying supplies from both large estates and smallholder farmers in South America, East Africa and South Asia. RfA certification encompasses three main areas: employee welfare, including standards for working conditions and occupational health; farm management, including requirements for soil management and integrated crop management; and environmental protection, including targets in water conservation and wildlife protection. To ensure effective roll out in different countries, Unilever and RfA developed further partnerships with local organizations and adapted to varying conditions on the ground related to farm size, the knowledge and skills of tea farmers, and socio-cultural structures and norms.
Game-changing systemic innovation for sustainability
Beyond radical novelty lies game-changing innovation that is transforming the relationships and interactions between industry competitors, people's behaviors and lifestyles, and even the very aims of business.
Since the turn of the 21st century and in conjunction with the expansion of the Internet, there has been an escalation in sharing, borrowing and loaning around the world, a trend that has been described as the dawn of "the age of access" or "collaborative consumption", one sub-type of game-changing innovation for sustainability. Information technology has enabled a range of bartering, trading, swapping and sharing activities, which have in turn fostered an increase in offline sharing schemes. Those activities can be divided into three types: redistribution markets where consumers swap goods instead of discarding them; collaborative lifestyles according to which consumers lend and share money, skills and time; and use-oriented product-service systems in which the use of a product, rather than the product itself, is sold. The rise of collaborative consumption has the potential to completely disrupt and reshape consumer markets.
Car sharing is an example of a use-oriented service innovation that is attracting more and more attention. Individuals and businesses gain access to the use of vehicles through car sharing schemes without incurring the costs of private ownership. In addition to the economic benefits for customers from avoiding the costs of ownership, increased car sharing can, for a given population, decrease car ownership, vehicle kilometers traveled, polluting emissions, traffic congestion and the demand for parking lots. Ultimately car sharing services can encourage behavioral change for sustainability, reducing product ownership and consumption and increasing the use of public transport.
Another sub-type of game-changing systemic innovation for sustainability is social entrepreneurship, which challenges the very definition of business as an organization that maximizes profit for shareholders to one that creates innovative solutions for social challenges. The emphasis is not on quarterly or even yearly performance but on the longer term, on spreading value and finding creative ways of filling institutional gaps. Social entrepreneurship can also prove game changing when it acts to alter perceptions and social norms that often constitute the greatest barrier to sustainable development.
There are several prominent examples of game-changing social entrepreneurship. One is Grameen Bank, which launched the provision of micro-credit for the poor and led to a transformation in social and commercial institutions, norms and perceptions about women, first in Bangladesh and then in other poor regions of the globe. Another is Husk Power Systems, a social business that generates electricity from rice husks, a waste product in the state of Bihar in India. The business distributes that electricity to poor communities, not through centralized power grids but through village systems. This is an example of game-changing innovation in both the business model and the service provided.
Francisco Szekely is the Sandoz Family Foundation Professor of Leadership and Sustainability and Director of the Global Center for Sustainability Leadership (CSL) at IMD. He directs the One Planet Leader (OPL) program, which helps companies integrate sustainability across their business in order to drive value creation and benefit the planet.
Heidi Strebel is a research associate for IMD's Global Center for Sustainability Leadership.
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The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced it has extended its exclusive endorsement of Halogens Performance Management Software. Following the AHA Signature Due Diligence Process, AHA Solutions, a division of Health Forum, the strategic business enterprise of the American Hospital Association (AHA), awards the AHA Endorsement to products and services that help member hospitals and health care organizations achieve operational excellence.
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Too Human
Review by NinjaOtaku101
"Too Human Review"
Too Human
Norse mythology with a techno flair
Xbox 360
Played to completion with Defender class
Too Human is a game 9 years in the making. First concepted as a Playstation game in 1999, It's come a long way for a release on Microsofts Xbox 360. Is this first entry in the Too Human trilogy worth the wait?
Too Human starts with a rather stylish intro video that throws you into the tech flaired world of Too Human. You are Baldur, son of odin and resident of Asgard. As an Aesir it's your job to protect humanity from the machines that plague the modern world. Without much fanfare you are thrust into the first level of the game and meet your first machine.
The world of Too Human is extremly well realized. The blend of Norse mythology and Cyber technology is surprisingly well utilized and lends itself to the best part of game, the story. As Baldur you must hunt down the robot GRNDL. Of course the story doesn't end at GRNDL and soon begins to lead you toward your ultimate enemy Loki. Unfortunatly the story is just set up for the now defunct Too Human trilogy and thus feels like the opening to a story that will never be finished. In the end it is a well told story accompanied by stylish cutscenes and solid voice acting.
The meat of the game is of course the gameplay. You choose between 5 playable classes that each empasize a certain playstyle (i.e. rushing, tanking, healing, etc.) No matter what you choose you will end up using a combo of melee weapons and guns to dispatch your foes. Your melee weapon is assigned to the right stick which will be used to slide towards enemies for basic melee attacks or to pop them up for a quick air combo. The choice of the right stick as your melee simultainiously works well and frustrates. It seems somewhat randomly Baldur will not slide corrctly or will end up targeting an enemy you don't want it to. Guns will help you thin out the horde before they descend upon and do there job well, but once again you will encouter some fairly janky targeting that could leave you out in the cold. Also at your disposal are ruiners which are essentialy AoE power moves that are useful for getting out of a tight spot or taking out a large group of enemies. Too bad the level design and enemy types completly ruin the experience. Most of your battles consist of large waves of machines that can either be rushers or long range spammers. Enemies take a surprising amount of punishment and also frequently come with exploding, poison, and freezing death AoEs that can severly screw you up. It seems like the game sometimes sets you up for failure as when you die you just come back with all the enemies at the same health as they were before. The only punishment you get is an infuriating 20 second cutscene of a valkyrie descending from the heavens and carrying you up to valhalla. It's cool at first but after 2 or 3 deaths you'll switch from mild interest to anger. For a loot driven game its surprising that the developer would make the game so difficult. Loot driven games are known to be kind of mindless but in Too Human you die so frequently you start to lose interest. Not to mention you'll be wrestling the camera constantly. The only thing that make it bearable is the fact that left bumper will center the camera, expect to be hammering that alamost as much as your melee attacks.
Graphically, Too Human is the definition of mediocre and would probably fit in as an Xbox 360 launch title. On top of that the framerate is prone to chopiness and glitches are frequent. Sometimes enemies will suddenly stop moving or even become invisible. I personally lost about 10 minutes to an unopenable door which was only solved by reloading the game. Artistically the game remains consistent with it's sci-fi vibe with solid charecter design and and consistent enviorments.
Too Human is a flawed game that tried to create a new style loot grind and failed spectacularly. The only somewhat reedeming quality of the game is it's narrative and even that isn't specatcular, just well told. The game itself is a boring grind punctuated by an annoying death animation and absolutly absymal camera control. With only four levels and about 10 hours of gameplay in the main story the game will end fairly adbruptly and leave you hanging with only the grind of the same 4 levels for mostly useless loot to keep you going. When I finished this game I didn't feel any accomplishment, I only felt like I wasted 10 hours of my life.
Presentation: 7
Gameplay: 3
Value: 6
Overall: 5.1
Reviewer's Rating: 2.5 - Playable
Originally Posted: 05/02/11
Game Release: Too Human (US, 08/19/08)
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New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff
Jeremy Bento
Jeremy Bento joined us in 2010 with thirty years of accounting experience. His undergraduate is in Accounting and MBA is in Financial Management. Mr. Bento is a member of the National Association of Tax Professionals, Nonprofit Financial Managers, Financial Executive Networking Group, and the Institute of Management Accountants. His hobbies include appreciation of small stage theatre, reading, walking, volunteering and spending time with his family. Jeremy's genealogical interest lies in the family names of Bicknell, Chamberlain, Cutler, Eustis, Stone and Wheat. You can contact Jeremy by e-mail at email@example.com or by phone at 617-226-1264.
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Michelle Major became the Human Resources/ Account Receivables Coordinator in January of 2007. Her many years in non-profit include Retail Manager at the Bostonian Society and seventeen years at the Boston Museum of Science in many different functions. She received her degree in Business Management/ Human Resources Concentration from Marian Court College. Michelle enjoys camping, hiking, skiing, history, and generally spending time with her family. Michelle, her husband George, and her son George Jr. live in Swampscott. You can contact Michelle by e-mail at email@example.com.
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Michael joined the staff of New England Historic Genealogical Society in 2003. Michael worked for Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, in Boston for ten years before coming to NEHGS. He is a native of Boston and attended Bentley College in Waltham. You can email Michael at email@example.com or contact him by phone at 617-226-1254.
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I had moderate HIV facial wasting along with parentheses around my mouth that are genetic. I spent over $6000 in total and saw marginal results that didnt last. The Dr. kept saying "you need more".
The procedure itself is torturous, and afterwards that day, you are supposed to massage your face like 4 times. It is a nightmare. Your face will look puffy and better for a couple of days but soon it disipates. I felt the Dr is the only one benefiting from Sculptra. This product is making him rich.
Even with the free medication (patient assistence program), one procedure costs over $600. It isnt worth it.


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There's A National Clown Shortage – I Couldn't Be Happier
I was perusing the Internet this morning and discovered that there's a shortage of clowns in the United States these days. I actually gleefully sighed when I read it, not because I want to see clowns out of work, but because clowns are terrifying demon creatures.
I don't know where my clown fear began. I'm going to go ahead and blame it on the fact that I had a babysitter who let me watch Stephen King's "It" when I was probably a little too young for it. Whatever the reason, I don't like clowns. At all. Seeing them fills me with trepidation and anxiety and I can't possibly get away from them fast enough. I once had a cab driver tell me all about how his day job is actually being a clown at kids' birthday parties, and I wanted to jump out of the moving vehicle. Clowns are funny. Clowns are horrifying.
Enough about my fear, though. Why are there fewer clowns these days? Is clowning a dying medium. Are less people enrolling in clown college?
Well, according to CBS News, there are a combination of issues. Stephen King's "It" didn't help (see my story above), and serial killer John Wayne Gacy tarnished the good clown name when he performed as Pogo the clown. As it turns out, clowns don't get paid very well, either. Top performers at Cirque du Soleil can earn as much as $200,000, but most clowns in as little as $15 an hour at kids' birthday parties. The low pay and stigma associated with being a clown probably doesn't appeal to a lot of 20-somethings who are also working to pay off their student loans.
So, most of the clowning population (most of whom belong to The World Clown Association) are over 40 and many older, more experienced clowns are passing away.
While it's sad that clowning has taken this turn for those who enjoy it, I can't say that I'm surprised. Clowns these days aren't what we typically think of – there's no fuzzy red hair or gregarious outfits. There's housecoats and slippers and gray wigs. The only thing left from the clowns of yesteryear are the red noses and facepaint.
Clowns will always be around – you can't have a circus without them. But, don't expect to see many of them at kids' parties in the future.
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RESIDENTS are celebrating after a proposal to put up a phone mast in their part of Grays was rejected.
Phone operator EE applied to erect a mast in Lodge Lane, opposite Heath View Road, after it was asked to remove an existing mast at South Essex College due to redevelopment of the site.
Residents and local councillors objected to the plans, insisting the 11.5m mast was not in keeping with the area.
Joycelyn Redsell, a councillor for Little Thurrock Blackshots, said: "It was nearly 35ft high and I don't think they looked at other areas properly."
A total of 22 possible sites were considered for the mast.
Planning consultant Shaun Whyman, who spoke in favour of the mast at Thursday's meeting, said it was necessary to maintain the signal to Lodge Lane.
But the plan, which had been recommended for refusal by officers on the basis that maintenance vehicles could create an obstruction in the road, was rejected by councillors on the planning committee.


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Begging for Prince Tariq Shadad ibn Zachir's mercy is the last thing Faye wants to do. She hasn't seen Tariq for a whole year...since their ill-fated wedding. But as Faye's brother remains imprisoned in her husband's country of Jumar, she learns that only Tariq has the power to grant his freedom.
Faye expects her meeting with the man she married to be difficult, but Tariq's ultimatum takes her breath away: become his mistress and her brother will be released. As her decision takes her to the Middle East, her bitter feelings for Tariq begin to change, and she becomes more than just a mistress to this powerful Sheikh.


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hey friends – nathan michael here! so many good things are happening with instagram right now. In case you haven't heard, they just announced a version for the android will be coming out soon. So that means more of you sharing beautiful things for the world to see. ftw!
Here are a few of my favorite feeds this week. Who are you following that you just can't get enough of?
it truly blows my mind what people are doing with their phones these days. Fajar is one talented dude. based out of jakarta, indonesia; fajar creates these sweet collages completely from his iphone. it's like a color explosion! awesome, right?
Nicolle is an instagramer taking sweet little pics from the beloved city of Portland. She has a lot of retro inspired images that I just can't get enough of. And check out that pup…I just might have to steal him. Ok – that would be wrong, but I thought about it. A few times.
Let's all give a shout out to Dr. Smooth Death for having the coolest name on instagram. Beyond that, he has one of the most consistently awesome feeds. He is like the grim reaper for cool cars.
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