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August 10, 2007
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DIECAST Collectible Model Cars And More

Item#	Description	Stock Status
1838BU	Sun Star - Pontiac GTO Hard Top (1964, 1:18, Blue) 1838BU	New
1839YL	Sun Star - Pontiac GTO Hard Top (1964, 1:18, Yellow) 1839YL	New
2401BK	Sun Star - Horch 855 Roadster Convertible (1939, 1:18, Black) 2401BK	New
M4707A	Mattel Hot Wheels - Ferrari Racer Assortment (2.75", Asstd. A) M4707A	New
6080D	Vintage Aircraft (4.75", Asstd.) 6080D	Restock
9531/4	Construction Trucks (4.5") 9531/4	Restock
9665D	Farm Tractor (4.25", Asstd.) 9665D	Restock
9669D	Super Lawn Tractor (4", Asstd.) 9669D	Restock
9811D	Classic City Bus (5.75", Asstd.) 9811D	Restock
9838D	City Pick-Up Trucks (4.5", Asstd.) 9838D	Restock
9912/3D	Superior - Super Transporter w/ Decal (5.5", Asstd.) 9912/3D	Restock
9921/4D	Fire Engine (4.75", Asstd.) 9921/4D	Restock
9931D	Power Steam Locomotive (5", Asstd.) 9931D	Restock
9985/4D	Police Series (5", Asstd.) 9985/4D	Restock
9998D	Super Bike (4", Asstd.) 9998D	Restock
8882/3D	Super Tank Team (6.5", Asstd.) 8882/3D	Restock
9994SD	Supersonic Fighters w/ Sounds & Lights (7.5", Asstd.) 9994SD	Restock
34089	Maisto - Chevrolet Camaro SS Convertible (1968, 1:24, Asstd.) 34089	Restock
34263/4d	Maisto - Dodge Challenger R/T Coupe Hard Top/ Convertible (1970, 1:24, Asstd.) 34263/4D	Restock
34997	Maisto - Ford Mustang GT Coupe Hard Top (2006, 1:24, Asstd.) 34997	Restock
18040H	Signature Models - Ford Mustang Hood Ornament (1965, Silver) 18040H	New
18121R	Signature Models - Aston Martin Le Mans (1934, 1:18, Red) 18121R	New
30098BU	Yatming Shyne Rodz - Chevy Coupe Hard Top (1939, 1:18, Blue) 30098BU	New
30098R	Yatming Shyne Rodz - Chevy Coupe Hard Top (1939, 1:18, Red) 30098R	New
31117R	Maisto - Chevy Corvette C6 Coupe Hard Top (2005, 1:18, Red) 31117R	Restock
31117SV	Maisto - Chevrolet Corvette Coupe Hard Top (2005, 1:18, Silver) 31117SV	Restock
31117YL	Maisto - Chevrolet Corvette Hard Top (2005, 1:18, Yellow) 31117YL	New
31142BK	Maisto - Shelby Series 1 Convertible (1999, 1:18, Black) 31142BK	New
31142R	Maisto - Shelby Series 1 Convertible (1999, 1:18, Red) 31142R	New
92088BU	Yatming - Chevy Nomad (1957, 1:18, Blue) 92088BU	Restock
92129BU	Yatming - Chevy Bel Air Hard Top (1956, 1:18, Blue) 92129BU	Restock
92138BK	Yatming - Ford Crown Victoria Hard Top (1955, 1:18, Black/Red) 92138BK	Restock
92168BU	Yatming Road Signature - Shelby GT-500KR Hard Top (1968, 1:18, Blue) 92168BU	New
92198GN	Yatming Road Signature - Volkswagen Karmann - Ghia Hard Top (1966, 1:18, Green) 92198GN	New
92208YL	Yatming - Ford Ranchero Pickup (1957, 1:18, Yellow) 92208YL	Restock
92318R	Yatming - Ford F-250 Pick-Up (1959, 1:18, Red) 92318R	Restock
18410C	Garage Accessory Set - Garage/Repair shop theme (1:24) 18410C	Restock
18262D	Tin's Metal - Hummer H2 SUV w/ Spinning (1:32, Asstd.) 18262D	Restock
18409	Tins' Toys - Authentic Gas Pump Island Set with Accessories (1950's, 1:24, White) 18409	Restock
90540KN	Jada Toys Dub City Bigtime Muscle - Shelby Cobra 427 S/C Convertible (1965, 1:24, Asstd.) 90540KN	Restock
91298PD	Jada Toys Dub City - Ford Econoline Van (1965, 1:24, Asstd.) 91298PD	Restock
90342/12	Jada Toys Bigtime Muscle - Chevy Nova SS Hard Top (1967, 1:24, Asstd.) 90342/12	New
91278	Jada Toys Road Rigz - Peterbilt 387 Car Carrier Truck (1:64, Black) 91278	New
91491	Jada Toys United States Postal Service Road Rigz - Peterbilt 387 Tractor Trailer Truck (1:32, White) 91491	New
90327R	Jada Toys Bigtime Muscle - Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Hard Top (1963, 1:18, Red) 90327R	New
90345	Jada Toys Dub City Bigtime Muscle - Chevy Corvette Stingray Hard Top (1963, 1:24, Asstd.) 90345	New
91502	Jada Toys Dub City Kustoms - Chevy Camaro Concept Hard Top (2006, 1:24, Asstd.) 91502	New
92598R	Yatming - Buick Electra 225 Convertible (1959, 1:18 , Rose) 92598R	Restock
31010BK	Maisto All Stars - Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz Convertible (1959, 1:18, Black) 31010BK	New
31010SV	Maisto All Stars - Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz Convertible (1959, 1:18, Silver) 31010SV	New
31063BK	Maisto Pro Rodz - Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 Hard Top (1971, 1:18, Black) 31063BK	New
31063G	Maisto Pro Rodz - Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 Hard Top (1971, 1:18, Gold) 31063G	New
31083R	Maisto Pro Rodz - Chevrolet Nova SS Coupe Hard Top (1970, 1:18, Red) 31083R	New
31083SV	Maisto Pro Rodz - Chevrolet Nova SS Coupe Hard Top (1970, 1:18, Silver) 31083SV	New
31320SV	Maisto Pro Rodz - Dodge Challenger Concept Hard Top (2006, 1:18, Silver) 31320SV	New
98661	Yatming - Digital Gas Pump Pontiac Service (1:18, Red) 98661	New
98672	Yatming - Cylinder Gas Pump Chevrolet Corvette (1:18, White) 98672	New
98701	Yatming - Digital Gas Pump Oldsmobile Service (1:18, Blue) 98701	New
DC64000B	Shelby - Shelby Collection Series 2 (1:64, Asstd.) DC64000B	New
DC64500E	Shelby - Shelby GT 500E Eleanor Hard Top (1967, 1:64, Grey) DC64500E	New
92758BU	Yatming - Oldsmobile Super 88 Convertible (1957, 1:18, Blue) 92758BU	Restock
92768BU	Yatming Road Signature - Lotus Elite Hard Top (1960, 1:18, Blue) 92768BU	New
92768W	Yatming Road Signature - Lotus Elite Hard Top (1960, 1:18, White) 92768W	New
92769R	Yatming Road Signature - Lotus Elite Hard Top (1960, 1:18, Red) 92769R	New
92769YL	Yatming Road Signature - Lotus Elite Hard Top (1960, 1:18, Yellow) 92769YL	New
4103/4	Superior - Big Wheel Roader w/ decals (Asstd.) 4103/4	Restock
4362D	Superior - Scooter (Asstd.) 4362D	Restock
4725/26	Superior - Classic Car (Asstd.) 4725/26	Restock
5308D	Superior - Beach Roadster (Asstd.) 5308D	Restock
5605D	Superior - Chevrolet Cameo Pickup (1957, 1:38, Asstd.) 5605D	Restock
5740D	Superior - Ford Deluxe 5-Window Coupe (1940, 1:34, Asstd.) 5740D	Restock
5752D	Superior - Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder Convertible (1:32, Asstd.) 5752D	New
5854	Superior - Classic Double Decker Bus (Asstd.) 5854	Restock
6710D	Superior - Cadillac Series 62 (1959, 1:34, Asstd.) 6710D	Restock

Toys

Item#	Description	Stock Status
601	Flying Pig 601	Restock

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The Art of Diversion with Words
By Lu Su

As I read opinion, news, and sports articles, I have noticed that many publications employ this powerful tool of associating a face with their words. I too will now implement such a clever technique. No longer do you have to ponder what I look like. No longer do you need to ponder on my existence. One customer replied after reading my first article, “Hey you really do exist!”. So here I am, live and in person. I speak, therefore I am.

So I thought all week long on what picture of myself I should use. Since most of the readership has never met me and with a name like Lu Su, I thought that perhaps I could get away with a picture of a voluptuous female -after all most of the readership is male. If all the major car manufacturers employ beautiful models to entice men to buy their cars, perhaps I could do the same with my cars. But I decided to go another route and I wanted to go with a face that expressed honesty, thoughtfulness, sincerely, and determination. So obviously I could NOT use a picture of myself. My real face would never draw that type of inspiration. So whose face could I use to divert the readers attention?

Then I thought of an acquaintance of mine John Szuch who left his high paying Wall Street job to create a record label Deep Elm Records to produce musical artists. He too desired to associate a face with his name so on his fax cover sheet he had a very muscular (Fabio-like) shirtless man reclining on a couch. He would sign his name across the picture and fire off that cover page to his existing and prospective clients. I can only imagine the perplexed expression on their faces. These young hopeful artists, hoping to get their very first album produced and distributed get a fax from a Fabio-like character. Which reminds me of an anecdote that involved Fabio and me.

One winter, my son came down with an ear infection, so there we were sitting in the pediatrician’s waiting room. The waiting room was crowded and a young mother with her 5 or 6-year-old son was sitting across from me. Both were perusing magazines when suddenly her son came across a picture of Fabio. For those of you who do not know who Fabio is, Fabio is a very muscular male fashion model that had appeared on the cover of hundreds of romance novels throughout the 1980s and 90s. This young boy suddenly screams out “Oh Fabio, Oh Fabio, I love you, I love you, I love you”. He is screaming this loud enough that every head in that waiting room turns to see what the commotion is all about. In his excitement in finding a picture of Fabio and screaming “I love you, I love you, “ he proceeded to kiss his picture profusely. I remember this boy’s face was in the magazine while his mother with two hands was trying to wrestle the magazine from her son’s lips and hands. I know it probably was not appropriate for me to laugh at that moment, but I could not hold it in and just bursted out with laughter.

If I had used a picture of Fabio, I thought to myself that I would probably be the only one that got some sort of twisted amusement out of it. And probably six months from now would be served papers demanding royalties. So the male fashion model did not seem the proper route to take. Then I concluded that a youthful picture was in order. And it does match the one on my home page. If the greats like Ann Landers and Dear Abby can divert their readers into thinking they are spry and youthful, why can’t I?

So now that I have diverted your attention long enough with my words, I thought I would get to the subject at hand which I have titled the Art of Diversion with Words.

I like to give you some examples on how the power of some simple Words can cause some great Diversions. I will illustrate this technique with a cheap motel room, politics, culture, and business. Surely one or more of these impacts you on a daily basis (and hopefully not the first).

One day you, me, and a friend are on this road trip. It is late and snow begins to come down. We decide to do the wise thing and pull over for the night. We pull into a motel and inquire about the room rate. “Thirty bucks”, replies a burly desk clerk. In this story we are poor college students, so we barely scrap up enough funds to cover the rent for one room. Since there is three of us, we each fork over $10.00 and draw straws on who gets the rollaway cot. We enter the room and just get settled into the luxurous appointed accomodations when thre is a knock at our door. The clerk wheels in a cot and announces that he forgot to give us the weekday rate and that we are entitled to a $5.00 discount. He returns $5.00 back to us. We are very impressed by this act, so we give the clerk a $2.00 tip. The clerk leaves, and each of us get a $1.00 back. So if we each get a $1.00 back, this means we each paid a total of $9.00 correct? Now for some simple math: If we each paid $9.00 that means we paid a total of $27.00 (3 people x $9.00) add the $2.00 tip that we gave and it only totals $29.00. Where did the remaining dollar go? Wow, with the power of words, I am able to make money disappear –amazing eh? Perhaps if we put our heads together we can re-tell the story in a way to may our obligations to Uncle Sam disappear a $1.00 at a time.

In politics, when you hear rhetroic, claiming that support for such a tax break will just benefit the wealthly, you need to exersize caution here. Often the line that soon follow is “the rich just get richer and the poor poorer”. Again words are being used here to create a diversion. Understand this, in growing (expanding) economies the rich getting richer and the poor poorer is NORMAL. Case and point: If you invest one hundred dollars and I have zero dollars and both of us invest it into a savings account, in about one year’s time you will have earned a whooping $1.00 in interest and I will have earned $0.00 dollars; so at this point the disparity between rich and poor is widening. The following year the gap will certainly be even wider, being that you now have $101 dollars to invest and I still have $0.00. If some sort of tax break is given, that tax break would certainly benefit you more than me.

In our culture, the pro-life and pro-choice advocates seem to be on very opposite sides on this very devisive issue. But why? The specific words here pro-life and pro-choice are NOT mutually exclusive terms. For those of you whom forgotten your geometry, picture two circles that do not overlap each other; this is a picture of something that is mutually exclusive because they do not share anything. This is an Either Or type of logic. You are either one of the other. You are either pregnant or you are not. When two circles overlap each other (remember shading in the part that they share in 4th grade?). These overlapping circles are not mutually exclusive, because they share something. From my perspective, the subject of pro-life and pro-choice are mutually exclusive issues. But something has gone awry with the terms (words) here, because one could be pro-life and at the same time pro-choice right? A person could cherish life and at the same time cherish the freedom choice our fore-fathers worked so hard to provide us correct? Words are at work here in causing a diversion. For the terms to be mutually exlusive we should either say pro-life versus pro-death or pro-choice versus pro-no choice. For those who are pro-life, the subject is all about life and death. For those who are pro-life the subject is not over freedom of choice or the tyranny of no choice. In our country we have much freedom. But freedom of choice does not mean that we are free to do whatever we want. When people do whatever they want to whoever they want whenever they want, we do not call this freedom of choice; we call this anarchy. A clever diversion has been created in our culture with a small change in words.

In business, I frequently hear the words profit margin, rate of return, keystone, growth rate, and commission rate. Without a doubt, these percentages are important tools and their ratios are key indicators in guiding us in running our business. But frequently, I see these ratios used extensively. Probably the bigger the company the more frequent they get used. Use and blind adherence to these ratios has gotten many businesses in trouble because the focus has gone awry. The last time I was at the bank, I had to deposit dollar bills. The teller was not willing to accept keystones, profit margins, and other ratios. Given another time, I would like to show how these tools have gotten many businesses in a heap of trouble.