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The papier-mâché volcano is a real classic, but there are many other ways to make an even more exciting and interesting science project focused on volcanoes!
To get started on your own volcano-based science project, you will want to first have an understanding of how volcanoes form. This is related to tectonic plates. The entire outer shell of the Earth, known as the lithosphere, is made up of tectonic plates that are constantly moving. There are seven or eight large tectonic plates and many more minor ones. The low parts of the plates are beneath the world's oceans, and the high parts of the plates are landmasses. New plate material is generated at deep sea ocean ridges in a process called sea-floor spreading. Material from plates is also recycled at trenches, where dense, oceanic crust dives back underneath an adjacent plate towards the upper mantle. This subduction of one plate beneath another can provide the massive force to produce uplift of mountain ranges. Overall, where tectonic plates meet and bump together, it is common to find mountains, mid-ocean ridges, earthquakes, and volcanic activity. (What forms depends on how exactly the tectonic plates are moving against each other at the plate boundary.)
The theory of plate tectonics was actually long debated, and detailed mapping studies of cooled molten rocks helped clinch the case. Rocks containing magnetic material reveal the history of when and where they formed. As the molten rocks cooled, the magnetic particles aligned themselves with the Earth's magnetic field at that time. Armed with that information, geologists have been able to map the dates of origin of the oceanic crust, and to confirm that sea-floor spreading at suboceanic ridges and subduction at trenches is a constant process. Although the mechanism for the motion of the tectonic plates is still not well understood, it is thought that convection of heat from the Earth's core is somehow involved.
In this geology science project, you will investigate an aspect of volcanoes, such as by mapping volcanic activity, predicting volcanic eruptions, or developing a realistic volcano model. Which volcanoes are active volcanoes, and just how active are they? Where are the most dangerous volcanoes located? Does volcanic activity follow a certain pattern, such as based on time or location? Does this correlate with the presence of tectonic plates? Can you develop a more dynamic and accurate volcano model based on your understanding of how volcanoes function? You could do your science project on other parts of volcano-based science, such as eruption warning systems, volcanic minerals, and volcanic gases. What are the best monitoring strategies for predicting volcanic activity and developing a useful warning system? Which types of gases come out of a volcano? To find out more about volcanic activity, how to predict volcanic eruptions, and to view data about current and historical volcanic activity, you can visit the United States Geological Survey (USGS) website listed in the Bibliography in the Background tab.
- United States Geological Survey (USGS). (2012, September 18). U.S. Volcanoes and Current Activity Alerts. U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- Smithsonian Institution. (n.d.). Volcanoes of the World. Global Volcanism Program. Department of Mineral Sciences. National Museum of Natural History. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
- Oregon State University. (n.d.). Volcano World. Oregon Space Grant Consortium. Department of Geosciences. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
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CLEVELAND (Sept. 26, 2012) — Alcoa Inc. has released the findings of a peer-reviewed life cycle assessment (LCA), which it claims concludes Alcoa aluminum wheels substantially cut the carbon footprint of commercial vehicles.
In North America, the study found that substituting 18 conventional steel truck wheels with Alcoa aluminum wheels cut carbon emissions by 16.3 metric tons over the lifetime of the wheels. In Europe, replacing 12 steel wheels with aluminum cut 13.3 metric tons of carbon emissions. In addition, Alcoa said the study found the use of the company's forged aluminum wheels over steel wheels in the commercial vehicle sector "can be viewed as an active and highly efficient investment into the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions."
"As commercial vehicles face stricter regulations around reducing carbon emissions, this life cycle assessment confirms that Alcoa forged aluminum wheels support sustainable transportation and can help trucks and trailers to be greener," said Tim Myers, president, Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products. "Compared to steel, the lighter weight and infinite recyclability of Alcoa forged aluminum wheels support greener vehicles that cut down on fuel use and carbon emissions."
Dr. Christoph Koffler, technical director of PE International Inc. & Five Winds Strategic Consulting, which conducted the study, said "life cycle assessment is the universally accepted method to comprehensively assess the environmental impact of a product. Our findings are based on the full life cycle of Alcoa forged aluminum wheels—from the raw materials, through the production, distribution, use, disposal, and recycling of the product."
The latest analysis is, according to Alcoa, the most comprehensive and transparent comparative LCA ever conducted on aluminum and steel truck wheels. It analyzed the entire "cradle-to-grave" production process of commercial vehicle wheels—from bauxite mining to wheel manufacturing, through a truck wheel's use phase and end-of-life, including recycling and land filling.
The study incorporated the latest available information on energy and material consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental releases. Alcoa provided primary data for aluminum wheel production from five facilities: two in the U.S. (in Cleveland and Barberton, Ohio); one in Mexico; Hungary; and Japan. PE International provided upstream data for fuels, raw materials and steel wheel manufacturing processes, including primary metals and chemicals.
Cleveland-based Alcoa said the study conformed to ISO methodology and was peer reviewed by professionals in the LCA community, including experts from the world-renowned Technische Universitat Berlin and the University of Michigan.
Major findings of the study include:
- The 16.3 metric-ton savings of switching one 18 wheel truck from steel wheels to Alcoa forged aluminum wheels in North America equals the average annual carbon footprint of a four person American household.
- Alcoa wheels maintain their value throughout their lifetime and have an end-of-life scrap value that is nearly equal to that of primary aluminum.
- For volume restricted vehicles in North America that are unable to add additional payload, switching from steel to Alcoa forged aluminum truck wheels produces an average lifetime savings of more than 520 gallons of fuel. In Europe, these savings amount to more than 1,942 liters.
- For mass restricted vehicles in North America, where lighter weight aluminum wheels allow for additional payload, switching from steel to Alcoa forged aluminum truck wheels results in the ability to carry 414 lbs. of additional payload per haul with the same fuel consumption. In Europe, the amount totals 215 kg of additional payload per haul. This benefit reduces the fuel consumed per pound of cargo, thus increasing the efficiency of transport.
- While aluminum wheels require more energy to manufacture than steel wheels, the light weight and recyclability of aluminum allow for a net energy savings throughout the life cycle of an aluminum wheel. A truck with aluminum wheels can see a CO2 "break even mileage" as early as 205,000 miles, or about two years. Once this mileage is reached, all the travel on aluminum wheels produces CO2 and energy savings.
The study, "Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Aluminum and Steel Truck Wheels," is available at www.alcoawheels.com/LCA.


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The Child of Lov | 02/04/13
The Child Of Lov is to release Fly (DS067D1) as the next single from his forthcoming eponymous debut album. The single and album will both be available from 6th May 2013.
Fly is perhaps the crown jewel on the heavily gem encrusted The Child of Lov debut. Fly is modern soul music of epic proportions - a roaring, triumphant track that signals that this is just the beginning for one of the world's most exciting emerging talents. As with the previous two singles (Heal and Give Me), the production pays respects to America's south, with the result sounding something like the RZA producing for Muscle Shoals. Listen to Fly HERE.
The Child Of Lov will be playing his first ever live dates at this year's Glastonbury and Bestival.
The Child Of Lov recently picked up the Radar Award at this year's NME Awards, watch him collecting his prize HERE.


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Enjoy the two-week math challenge. Feel free to post *how many* numbers you can create, but just not specifics on which ones and with what expressions.
The question is ... how many numbers from 1 to 40 can you get using the digits 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 in that order along with the four arithmetic signs?
You can group digits with parentheses, as in the example. There are no tricks to this, though. It's a straightforward puzzle. How many numbers from 1 to 40 can you get — and, specifically, what number or numbers can you not get? Will Shortz will reveal his solution in two weeks.
Edit: A bit of a trick here. You can create 39 numbers, but not 39. :)
A: Without resorting to tricks, you can write expressions for all but number 39.


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How to Control Discussion Board Content (Moderating)
How to Control Discussion Board Content (Moderating)
As an online instructor, your role is to facilitate the conversation and exchange of ideas on the Discussion Board. You will need to ensure that students feel comfortable to share, while also monitoring responses and keeping everyone focused and on track. At the same time, you will want to be careful not to dominate or impede the flow of the discussion.
Occasionally, students may introduce material to the Discussion Board that is inappropriate for the class discussion. Depending on the maturity and the sensitivity of the students in your course, it can be important to review student posts for inappropriate content before sharing posts with the rest of the class.
In a discussion forum, you can assign a user the role of Moderator. A Moderator reviews posts before they are added to a thread and appear in the Discussion Board. The Moderator can be you or another responsible participant. To learn more, see How to Assign Discussion Forum Roles
When a moderated forum is created, all posts to the forum are added to a Moderation Queue. The Moderator reviews each post and does one of the following:
- Publishes the post.
- Returns the post to the sender without a message.
- Returns the post to the sender with a message.
The Moderator can delete, edit, and lock posts in a forum, even if the forum does not use the Moderation Queue. To learn more, see How to Delete Discussion Forums and Threads, How to Edit Discussion Threads, and How to Change the Status of a Thread in a Discussion Forum
You can choose to moderate a forum when creating it or by editing an existing forum. Only posts added after enabling forum moderation are available for review in the Moderation Queue. To learn more, see Creating Forums in the Discussion Board.
Note: If a Moderator is not assigned, the Manager must take responsibility for approving posts in a moderated forum.
Use the following steps to allow the moderation of posts in an existing forum.
- Access the Discussion Board and click a forum's Action Link ( ) to access the contextual menu.
- Select Edit.
- On the Edit Forum page, under Forum Settings, select the Force Moderation of Posts check box and click Submit.
Tip: When choosing a moderated forum, do not allow students to edit or delete posts. This ensures that the post approved is the one viewed by users.
- After posts have been submitted, access the forum. In the Moderator view, no posts appear because the messages are waiting approval. On the Action Bar, click Moderate Forum.
Note: The Moderate Forum function appears only to those users who have a forum role of Manager or Moderator. In the student view, the author can see the post in Tree View with a reminder it is in the Moderation Queue.
- On the Moderation Queue page, the posts appear in alphabetical order by title. Click the column title or caret to sort by post title, author, or date. To review a post, click Moderate.
- On the Moderate Post page, read the post and select the Publish or Return option. Published messages are immediately posted to the thread.
- Optionally, type feedback in the text box. You can use the Text Editor functions to format the text, link to files in Course Files or the Content Collection, and include web links, multimedia, and Mashups.
Note: Though feedback is optional, this is an opportunity to provide guidance, ask questions, redirect a student's focus, and explain why a post was returned.
- Click Submit.
Returned posts no longer appear in the Moderation Queue. Students see their returned posts in the forum. When returned posts are opened, students see an explanation, if feedback was included, and they can create new threads as needed.
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Mexicans Who Happen to be Living in America Demand Racial-Grievance
May 13th, 2011
Don Feder, GrassTopsUSA.com
Multiculturalism, which used to be merely noxious, has become a raging
infection which poses as much of a threat to America as the national debt or
terrorism — before Osama assumed room temperature.
Recently, a gang of ethnocentric thugs took over a meeting of the governing
board of the Tucson, Arizona, Unified School District, chaining themselves to
desks, screaming slogans, and chasing board members from the room.
They were enraged by an attempt to make a course that teaches history "from a
Mexican-American perspective" optional instead of a substitute for a required
course in U.S. history.
The Mexican American Studies Program incites approximately 1,700 middle-and
high-school students in the district annually.
After an investigation, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom
Horne determined that the basic theme of the curriculum (AKA: Raza — "the race"
— Studies) is that Hispanic students "were and continue to be victims of a
racist American society driven by the interests of middle- and upper-class
Classrooms in which this pedagogy is perpetrated are decorated with pictures
of such Latino "heroes" as Castro and Che Guevara.
Textbooks refer to citizens of this country as "Anglos" or "Euroamericans"
(rather than Americans) and include such gems as an essay by one Robert Jensen,
which claims Thanksgiving is a "white supremacist holiday" that should be
replaced by a "National Day of Atonement" for gringo sins against people of
The introductory chapter promises: "We will see how half of Mexico
(California, Texas and the Southwest) was ripped off by trickery and
violence. We will see how Chicanos became a colonized people. In the process of
being colonized, we were robbed of land and other resources." The nerve of those
Texans, tricking Santa Anna into attacking the Alamo and killing its
defenders to the last man.
In violation of a recently enacted Arizona law, the curriculum promotes the overthrow of the United States government and "resentment toward a race or class of people," is "designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group" and advocates "ethnic solidarity instead of treatment of pupils as individuals."
The multiculturalist assault on America is multifaceted.
In 2010, on Cinco de Mayo (which celebrates the Mexican army's 1862 victory
over the French – big whoopee), a group of patriotic students at the Live Oak
High School in Morgan Hill, California, were sent home for wearing American-flag
t-shirts. Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez is said to have….


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Written by Dave Pankew | Photos by Somya Siva
If you were ever curious about what three years and several hundred thousand dollars does to a project car, you don't have to look much further than this 350Z. Owned by car enthusiast, male model and TV personality Tyson Beckford, this Z33 has been under constant construction. Although we saw what looked like a complete and ready to roll 350Z at SEMA 2007, Tyson insisted that it was going back to shops across the country to take it to a new level.
"I went through a lot of hassle with this project," Tyson admits. "You see these nice shops with great shop cars and even they end up being not exactly as advertised. So after a few setbacks, I stepped it up and couldn't be happier with the partners I work with today."
The most striking feature of the car is the brilliant gold carbon fiber cladding. Many panels have been completely removed and designed in carbon fiber with Beckford's technology partner, Seibon. The carbon experts over at Seibon assembled a one-of-a-kind gold weave for his ride, now that's VIP. The hood and hatch are all carbon fiber as are all four fenders, which have been widened to increase the track of the Z a few inches.
To top it all off, a set of sculpted C-West sideskirts were painted a blazing red by Wet Works. The only other exterior item that isn't carbon clad is the roof and it wasn't available at the time.
When it came to selecting some sweet rollers for the project, Beckford wanted something that was simple, yet would stand out. He contacted his boys Carlos and Sergio over at Kinesis wheels for a set of Kinesis K58 wheels to die for. These 19-inch forged wheels feature a gold face with polished lip. Beckford wrapped the rare wheels in a set of Pirelli P Zeros, a 255 width of front and a 295 in the back for added grip. All of the suspension duties have been taken care of with TEIN Flex coilovers to achieve the right stance and an in-cabin EDFC controller to switch damper settings.
With all of the chassis taken care of, attention turned to the powerplant. Beckford had seen the countless forced induction systems options out there, but decided he would go Australian to make some of the most serious jam. He settled on the big power APS twin turbo kit, as it includes absolutely everything to make big, reliable power.
Beckford wasn't settling for a gutless low-end either, so he installed the Brian Crower 4.21L stroker kit. Tyson and Charlie at Diamond Motors in San Dimas, CA did all the grunt work, installing some low compression CP forged pistons into Darton sleeves and a custom stroker crankshaft found its way into the bottom end.The head was ported and polished, then filled with an upgraded Ferrea valvetrain before it was sealed all back up with ARP studs.
When the work was done, the car was hauled across the country to tune the HKS FCON VPro. Running pump gas, 93 Octane in New Jersey, the twin turbo mill pumped out a respectable 559whp with 540lb-ft of torque. Not bad… but Beckford isn't stopping there either and says by the time of publishing they should be nearing 1,000whp on race gas. The triple plate RPS clutch is ready for far more too, since it is custom built for this application. All of the power is channeled though a Cusco 1.5-way LSD to keep the back end in check.
Since Beckford actually drives this thing through the mean streets and traffic of NYC, he decided to include all of the creature comforts. He scooped a set of Sparco Milano recliners and fastened up a harness bar for the Sparco belts.
The clunky factory wheel was pulled in favor of a Nardi deep dish suede wheel. The audio system got a shot in the arm thanks to an Alpine LCD flip and navigation unit. The signals are fed to an MTX 4-channel amp and MTX components found inside the car. To drive the bass lines, an MTX mono amp drives a pair of MTX 12-inch Thunder subs mounted into the pair of suede enclosures found on either side of the trunk. Two of the video inputs come from front view and rearview cameras.
Now when it comes to celebrity car projects, they usually involve freebie parts and products, annoying PR people with hidden agendas and stars who don't know jack about the tuner scene. That's why you won't find those lame bolt-on features here in our magazine.
Take it from us, Mr. Beckford is a legit tuner and very hands on with his rides. He certainly has a lot of toys in his garage and is a true enthusiast who knows, buys and selects his own aftermarket parts. "My accountant told me to finish up this costly project by the end of the year and think about selling it," Tyson laughs. "After hearing that, I'm not sure how to tell him I went out and bought a new Nissan GT-R which I plan to do some really crazy stuff to… I'm looking to put together a JDM-style R35 that is daily-driven, but cranks around 600whp on pump gas."
From what we have seen in Tyson's collection, we're sure the R35 is going to be off the hook. Beckford says it is all going to be rare JDM parts and not like anything else out there. By staying tuned to PAS Magazine, you'll be the first to see it in action!
ESSENTIALS // Owner: Tyson Beckford | Location: New York City, NY | Vehicle: 2005 Nissan 350Z | Engine: Nissan 3.5L VQ35DE V6 | Power: 559whp with 540lb-ft.
ENGINE MODIFICATIONS // APS Twin Turbo kit | Brian Crower 4.21L stroker kit | CP forged pistons | Darton sleeves | Ferrea valvetrain | ARP studs | A'PEXi Titanium exhaust
ENGINE MANAGEMENT // HKS FCON VPro
DRIVELINE // RPS triple plate clutch| Cusco 1.5-way LSD
WHEELS, TIRES, BRAKES // Kinesis 19-inch K58 forged 2-piece wheels | Pirelli P Zero tires (255mm/295mm) | Brembo GT Brakes
SUSPENSION // TEIN Flex coilovers | TEIN EDFC controller
EXTERIOR // Seibon one-off gold weave carbon fiber hood, hatch, doors, widebody fenders | C-West sideskirts front and rear bumpers
INTERIOR // Sparco Milano seats | Sparco 5-point harnesses | Nardi deep-dish wheel | Auto Meter gauges: A/F, oil temp & boost | Auto Meter triple pod
AUDIO / MULTIMEDIA // Alpine IVA-D310 LCD flip-screen | MTX Mono amp | MTX 12-inch Thunder subs | MTX components | MTX 4-channel amps
SHOUTOUTS // Wet Works | Andy Rohas | Brian Bridges | Charlie Kim | Lucky Jay | Carmen | Mother's | MTX | Seibon | Cusco | A'PEXi| Ron Davis | Dimension Sign Works | Darton


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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Reconnaissance Mechwarrior Being Repaired (geek alert or wha Log in to check your private messages Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3 Next Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Reconnaissance Mechwarrior Being Repaired (geek alert or wha" burn0utmemberMember #Joined: 18 Apr 2000Posts: 1645Location: california Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 6:48 pm looks like a giant nut cracker too hehehe still it owns ------------------ -stephen Trial n Error. Back to top AliasMozememberMember #Joined: 24 Apr 2000Posts: 814Location: USA Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 11:52 pm Holy smokes! Nice image. I love all that I've seen from you so far. I like this image, though I think the mech should be more reflective in places. Nifty graphic. Looking forward to more Back to top spooge demonmemberMember #Joined: 15 Nov 1999Posts: 1475Location: Haiku, HI, USA Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 11:57 pm looks nice! Only thought would be back off on those blacks in the BG a little. Keep the mech dark, but what is behind it 3% brighter. Back to top burn0utmemberMember #Joined: 18 Apr 2000Posts: 1645Location: california Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 12:10 am Hey spooge i have no idea if youll read this, i was wondering whats with black? Just wondering so i guess ill stay away from it, is it always_ bad or what? im just not sure, does it give the picture less shape or depth, just curious ------------------ -stephen Trial n Error. Back to top Capt.FlushGardenmemberMember #Joined: 12 Sep 2000Posts: 737Location: Seattle, WA Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 12:28 am Hello everyoe! thanx for the crits, I haven't done that much but this is what I've done... Right now I'm studying at highschool (swedish Gymnasium), but after that I may start working as a Graphic Artist for a company that wants me, called Liquid media. This is 100% photoshop..I really want to learn painter, but it's so haard! [This message has been edited by Capt.FlushGarden (edited December 29, 2000).] Back to top JerrymemberMember #Joined: 28 Oct 2000Posts: 306Location: Canada, Ontario Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 12:29 am overall I think it's a good pic. The head looks to be too heavy for the legs to suppot... ------------------ -KARN- Forever. Die? Never KARN's Page Back to top JezebelmemberMember #Joined: 02 Nov 2000Posts: 1940Location: Mesquite, TX, US Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 12:34 am You know what my favorite part about this image is? That ladder in the back... it's perfect in every little way. It's so sharp it almost jumps off the page. Not that everything else in the image doesn't look badass. Good work! =) -Beth ------------------ Take off your clothes. It's OK - I'm an artist. [url=http://div.dyndns.org/FOO!]http://div.dyndns.org/FOO![/url] http://div.dyndns.org/beth/photography Back to top FlinthawkmemberMember #Joined: 14 Oct 2000Posts: 415Location: Los Angeles Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 12:44 am Wow, nice work you've got here. And you say this only took a couple hours? I love the details going on in this pic like the panel that the guy on the right is working on and the texture of the mech itself. Like Jezebel said, that ladder rocks...it looks so right. I don't have any critiques for this but you did mention that you'd like to bring out the engineers more. For that I'd either change their colors to something a bit brighter or add some bright details like white stripes or patches to their unifrom to define their forms better. Maybe change the hair color on some of them, too. Great work man, keep 'em coming! -Flinthawk Back to top spooge demonmemberMember #Joined: 15 Nov 1999Posts: 1475Location: Haiku, HI, USA Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 12:50 am Nothing wrong with black, in general, although "painterly" types like to stay away from it, preferring to go with a very dark saturated color instead. It is just a convention of industrial rendering, a cheap and very effective way of keeping your depths organized. oh here.. I don't think this helped much, but what I did was take out some of the contrast in the bg to make it stay back there a little more. This is not always desirable, depending on what you are after, but with straightforward naturalism like this it is basic. I tried to keep the blacks under the platform in the foreground, and removed them from behind the mech. Sometimes you might want a maximum contrast between a foreground object and BG, to create some attention and drama, but realize that in this kind of situation it brings the BG forward. I have huge gamma problems working on a mac and posting in a PC world, so forget subtlety, which is what this requires. edit- see, it went black anyway. NEVERMIND I never posted this:/ [This message has been edited by spooge demon (edited December 30, 2000).] Back to top jannememberMember #Joined: 27 May 2000Posts: 248Location: finland Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 12:55 am like your other images this one is also very, very good. quite spoogeistic style in a sense... janne Back to top BlitzmemberMember #Joined: 04 Oct 2000Posts: 752Location: Sedro-Woolley, WA Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 1:02 am Man I have a long way to go. I think I get what you are talking about Spooge. I may have to read it and disect it a couple of times to make sure. Im getting there though. This is a truly wonderfull pick. Man-o-Man. All I can say is keep going on cleaning up some of the lines down toward the bottum of the pic.(making them a bit sharper is what I mean ) I also think that the bright lights at the top could be a little smoother. Details details. Your good, real good. I think I should go back to my desk and start drawing somemore. Seeyas man Blitz Back to top CosmemberMember #Joined: 05 Mar 2000Posts: 1332Location: UK Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 1:03 am the backlights probly do make it look better. It is a class piece Captn.Flash, I can't beleieve you still in school man. One thing I thought could look better was the mech and some of the bg stuff look abit too soft. [This message has been edited by Cos (edited December 30, 2000).] Back to top spooge demonmemberMember #Joined: 15 Nov 1999Posts: 1475Location: Haiku, HI, USA Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 1:06 am Please forgive Cos.. Yes, I should say again that it is a great piece. YOur figures are nice too. I can't believe the images that are coming from young dudes like this. I work harder now. Back to top Snake GrungermemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2000Posts: 584Location: Montreal, Canada Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 1:18 am Captain : That is a very good picture! You just popped out of nowhere and demonstrate an enormous ammount of skill and patience. Another round of Capt.Flushgordon, hold the EviLToYLet ! Very good design and illustration. But, some perspective issues figure, like the metal bridge that is comming near us, one line is not drawn in the right direction. Here is what I am talking about: Spooge: PSSSSSSSSSSSST! Check your email.. Back to top ZosomemberMember #Joined: 23 Dec 2000Posts: 132Location: Stuttgart, Germany Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 2:03 am Good lord, this is simply stunning. The level of detail and believability of this is just incredible. I'm truly impressed with this work. I'm amazed this fellow hasn't popped up before now, and I'm sure that he'll get snatched up right quick by the gaming community. Back to top Capt.FlushGardenmemberMember #Joined: 12 Sep 2000Posts: 737Location: Seattle, WA Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 3:43 am Holy Crap!! You all saw it!! mr craig mullins himself actually painted on my pic! I'l never wash my hands again hhihihi... and yes, the bars are a bit corny, I wanted the perspective to be more, how shall I say this, kinda fish eye style? Dahm, I've learned alot from all of you guys, your crits are very helpful! Thank you very very much! Well, gotta go paint some more hahahaaa [This message has been edited by Capt.FlushGarden (edited December 30, 2000).] [This message has been edited by Capt.FlushGarden (edited December 30, 2000).] Back to top LeomemberMember #Joined: 24 Oct 1999Posts: 328Location: Russia Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 5:15 am Bah i've missed the party! Okei, this pic really strikes my eyes (like another one with the city). I saw Mechwarrior4 intro movie so your pic looks kinda addon shot. Great addon shot. The only thing i can crit is weapon. Where is weapon? Do you think this 20mm gun can really strikes mechas?! Nah. Also these bullet holes looks nice and adds some 'mood' but seems like a dude with AK47 or sniper rifle can asy hit the pilot... Anyway great sample man - u're now new rising forum star and yes, we need work harder now. btw, addenum to the 'black' discussion: Where is no clean black color in real life. Black = no light, no any color. -leo Back to top GeckomemberMember #Joined: 07 Mar 2000Posts: 876Location: Finland Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 5:35 am Ok that's it. I just noticed the "tre kronor" painted on the side of the mech. Painting my own mech already, thanks for the inspiration. :) And please, do wash your hands no matter what happened here today. ------------------ Gecko email@example.com GeckoArt.Net Back to top BinkememberMember #Joined: 27 Oct 1999Posts: 1194Location: Sweden Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 7:42 am men jäkla snubbe o kunna måla såhär, o bara gå i gymnasiet Jäkligt snyggt iaf. That is, nice work! ------------------ Art Dimensional Back to top Capt.FlushGardenmemberMember #Joined: 12 Sep 2000Posts: 737Location: Seattle, WA Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 1:35 pm man, Gecko has painted the mech that ruined my recon mech! By the way, I did'nt want to give this one any weapons, exept for that little cannon...I love aviation, and If you look at recon aircrafts, they never carry weapons, just chaff and flares, and maybe a cannon? hehe, I tried to fix the picture like craig mullins did, but all I could do was this! Back to top GeckomemberMember #Joined: 07 Mar 2000Posts: 876Location: Finland Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 1:59 pm Haha, sorry man but your pic is too inspiring. It still looks great, not many big changes done though.. I like the blow torch light, brings out the guy. ------------------ Gecko firstname.lastname@example.com GeckoArt.Net Back to top jcterminalmemberMember #Joined: 13 Nov 2000Posts: 316Location: Vault 13 Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 6:42 pm personally, i try to stay away from black, since it doesn't occur in nature, and subconciously, the mind knows that. so if you include perfect black into a piece that's supposedly 'real', the effect is ruined. but there's exceptions to every rule. :P and remember, if you ARE going to use lots of black, you need to understand white-space. i'd explain it in more detail, but i hardly understand it myself, it just works. ------------------ j.c.terminal mind body soul Back to top EviLToYLeTmemberMember #Joined: 09 Aug 2000Posts: 1216Location: CA, USA Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 7:10 pm Haha im confused. What's the hold the eviltoylet supposed to mean grunger? [This message has been edited by EviLToYLeT (edited December 30, 2000).] Back to top ZaphodmemberMember #Joined: 26 Jan 2000Posts: 81Location: Sweden, Göteborg, Partille, Sävedalen :p Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 7:47 pm Great work Captn.FlushGarden! Really luuuv the design of that mech. And the lightning! But I think you should edit the post where you say that the Swedish gymnasium is equal to highschool. Since it's not. It's equal to collage. You just made everyone belive you where about 14-15 yrs old . But you're not, 17-18 yrs old more likley, right? If you ask me, that would make you WERY talanted indeed. On the other side, they say that Picasso was an fully developed artist (if one can ever be that) when he was 15 (or was it 14) years old. /magnus Back to top Capt.FlushGardenmemberMember #Joined: 12 Sep 2000Posts: 737Location: Seattle, WA Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 3:13 am DOH!! Is that so??? Highschool equals 14-15 years old?? maan...no I'm not 14-15 ehe...I'm 19 yrs old....but I wish I was 14 Back to top FreddioAdministratorMember #Joined: 29 Dec 1999Posts: 2078Location: Australia Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 3:35 am im.. few you had us worried Back to top BlitzmemberMember #Joined: 04 Oct 2000Posts: 752Location: Sedro-Woolley, WA Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 4:25 am 19!!!! aw shit.. another 19 year old who not only kicks my ass. But is about 20 years better than me.. Im only 20 though. Tis good Flush. I like it alot. Now I know if I have a son or daughter and want them to be good artists I will have to move to Sweden. All you Sweden people Kick Ass. Ok I am having a problem with only one thing. Is the door at the end of the ladder a bit small for those guys. I know they are closer but they are not that much closer. Maybe Im just up to late 4:20am. Well looking forward to seeing more man. Blitz [This message has been edited by Blitz (edited December 31, 2000).] Back to top shardikmemberMember #Joined: 09 Apr 2000Posts: 494Location: Buffalo, NY Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 9:53 am I love this pic, i think the guy on the left is huge compared to the other guys... to have them stand out maybe they should be wearing some special brightly colored vest or something... something like what the guys on an aircraft carrier would wear. Back to top FrostmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 2662Location: Montréal, Canada Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 11:39 am 19?! Urgh... I quit. Back to top TheMilkManmemberMember #Joined: 04 Nov 2000Posts: 797Location: St.Louis Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 11:45 am Awsome pic Capt!!!!!! Anyways I am curious about what you do are you a game artist? 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The Roosevelt Island Youth Program, Beacon will host the New York Opera Forum in a free concert performance of Il Barbiere Di Siviglia by Gioacchino Rossini (The Barber Of Seville) Tuesday December 16 starting 6 PM at PS/IS 217's auditorium (645 Main Street)
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Seville. Count Almaviva comes in disguise to the house of Doctor Bartolo and serenades Rosina, whom Bartolo keeps confined to the house, beneath her balcony window. Figaro the barber, who knows all the town's secrets and scandals, arrives. He explains to Almaviva that Rosina is Bartolo's ward, not his daughter, and that the doctor intends to marry her. Figaro devises a plan: the count will disguise himself as a drunken soldier with orders to be quartered at Bartolo's house so that he may gain access to the girl. Almaviva is excited and Figaro looks forward to a nice cash pay-off....
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"I think that at some point in the future there will not be a distinction between a public or a private company," Barry Silbert told The Observer last Friday. Between how quickly the SecondMarket CEO and founder talks and the slight Georgia accent that softens his vowels, you can almost miss the grandiose nature of some of his pronouncements. "It will be a company that's traded on the New York Stock Exchange and a company that's traded on SecondMarket."
Here, Mr. Silbert straightened in his chair slightly and glanced out the glass partition that forms one of the walls of his office, down a curling hallway that leads to his start-up's trading floor, the unlikely focus of a great deal of media attention in the past few weeks. As a clearinghouse for securities that can't be sold on the open market like stock in private technology companies, the company has seen a recent outpouring of news related to its assets, and SecondMarket was also one of the many specialized trading firms that received an inquiry letter from the S.E.C. on the subject of "pre-IPO pooled investment vehicles."
The trading floor itself is exceedingly quiet, with bustling business-casual workers flitting from one multi-screened computer to another as CNBC plays muted in the background. It's especially quiet when compared to its apparent competitor, the NSYE, which is located some two blocks away.
Among other illiquid assets like CDOs and mortgage-backed securities, SecondMarket deals in shares of Facebook, LinkedIn, Zynga and Twitter. These companies, and similar ones all enjoy healthy stock business on SecondMarket and its handful of competitors despite the fact that they're all privately held and not subject to the financial disclosure requirements of a public company.
In 2009, SecondMarket did $100 million in private-company stock transactions, and last year that number rose to $400 million, with half of that attributable to Facebook stock trades.
But if Mr. Silbert is worried about the attention his firm has received over the notion of a "private IPO" for frothy select investors, he doesn't show it. He smiles frequently and his face is still smooth at 34.
"It's curious to me that people are somehow equating what's happening now with what happened in 2000, 2001," he said, folding his hands. "Because, yes, you have exciting companies whose valuation has gone up significantly in the past few years. But these are real businesses with real revenue and, in some cases, real profits."
Were this the late '90s, many of the companies traded on SecondMarket may well have been taken public, but the IPO environment has changed since then. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has made public accounting much more difficult; self-empowered Internet day traders have cut out brokers who may have been able to hype a stock pre-IPO; and high-frequency trading doesn't make for long-term investors. When Google went public in 2004, its stock was valued at a conservative $85.
When SecondMarket began as Restricted Stock Partners in 2005, the restricted securities market was estimated to be around $1.2 trillion. The idea for the company came to Mr. Silbert while he was working as an investment banker at Houlihan Lokey, restructuring Worldcom, Enron and other failed companies that, though defunct, had plenty of assets for which there was no proper marketplace. It began as a start-up without any technology, in a space off Union Square that Mr. Silbert describes as half the size of his current personal office, and with a five-person sales team hawking classes of stock in public companies that couldn't be sold on the public market.
"It was a big deal when someone signed up," he said of his first clients. He's particularly excitable when talking about the early days. "We used to have a form you would have to fill out. And when you got it, you'd ring a bell."
From there Mr. Silbert adapted his platform for other assets, like Lehman Brothers bankruptcy claims and the thornier real estate assets of the last bubble, and developed an online platform for the deals. A former Facebook employee approached the company in late 2008–he'd Googled them–wanting to sell his stock options to a third party, and SecondMarket was happy to put him in touch with their investors. Soon they were doing a healthy business in Facebook stock. They now trade some 40 private companies, most technology-based and all venture-backed.
"It's very much a caveat emptor situation," said Lawrence Lenihan, CEO and managing director of FirstMark Capital. After interviewing several businesses that provided similar services, he invested $3.8 million in SecondMarket in 2007 and now serves on the company's board. "But there's so much out there about these companies, and people know that."
And SecondMarket does what it can to protect investors. As if the average $2 million price for assets that sell through the platform wasn't a high enough barrier for entry, Mr. Silbert only sells to "sophisticated investors," a nebulous colloquial and legal term that generally refers to financial institutions and high-net-worth individuals.
"We actually do background checks," Mr. Silbert said. "There are these crazy lists like anti-terror, terrorist-watch lists; we have to make sure that they're not on that."
Mr. Silbert says that the next step is to build an environment so that less established companies can also defray costs and pacify investors by putting off their IPOs. "We are helping to create, I think, an entirely new investment class that's going to help even younger companies access capital," he said.
Hunch co-founder and angel investor Chris Dixon has a generally positive outlook on SecondMarket, but disagreed with that idea.
"I think a lot of the SecondMarket stuff is driven off employees leaving and wanting to get liquidity," he said. "If you're a company like Groupon wanting to raise an additional billion dollars, a lot of which might go toward current operations, it's probably a lot faster to go to these big funds than it is to go and do a, quote, offering on SecondMarket."
The news of Facebook's planned IPO must be bittersweet for Mr. Silbert. He is merely a broker, and if Facebook goes public, he'll be instantly cut out of a hot-ticket market. When asked how he feels about it, Mr. Silbert remained smiling.
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The Dow Jones industrial average edged up 16 points, or 0.1 percent, to close at 15,755 points.
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Even though children's nutrition has received lots of attention the past few years, you're still more likely to find chicken fingers and fries on kids' menus than wraps and salads.
Ninety-seven percent of major restaurant-chain children's meals were deemed unhealthful in a recent report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer-advocacy group.
"I think what most restaurants have done is just add one or two meals that meet nutrition standards and left the rest of the menu very unhealthy," said Margo Wootan, nutrition policy director for the Washington-based organization. "They're still serving up the same old junk they always have."
With Americans spending nearly half of their food budgets on eating out, restaurants have been under increasing pressure from government and health advocates to make meals more healthful, especially for youngsters. Restaurants say they are making steady progress.
But kids are growing out of these meals earlier, and many parents aren't exactly clamoring for fewer calories, less salt and more vegetables. And that's why many restaurants are making token changes rather than substantial ones, some experts say.
"There's always been this mentality that people don't go out to eat healthy," said Julie Casey, an Orlando consultant who helps restaurants make themselves more child-friendly.
Anna Hancy of Orlando agreed with that last week as her 3-year-old daughter, Henley, ate chicken nuggets and fries at Chick-fil-A.
"It's kind of a splurge," Hancy said. "It's not the most nutritious meal she'll eat this week. She's also 3 and very picky, and it's something she will eat."
Chick-fil-A offers a variety of sides for children, including applesauce and fresh fruit. Last year, it introduced grilled chicken nuggets.
But last week during lunchtime in an Orlando Chick-fil-A, children were eating fried nuggets, not grilled ones, which last year made up just one-half of a percent of the chain's overall sales.
The healthier nuggets were never meant to generate blockbuster sales, spokesman Mark Baldwin said in an email, but "we felt it was our responsibility to offer a grilled version of our nuggets as a healthier alternative for our nutrition-minded customers."
"[Restaurants] make more money selling junk food," said Marion Nestle, a New York University nutrition and public-health professor and author of "What to Eat," in an email. "Until that problem is addressed, I don't see things changing."
Wootan suggested chains should put more energy into making healthier fare "something more interesting than a plain grilled piece of chicken."
Her group's study looked at every combination of entrees, sides and drinks for America's biggest chains. One was based on how many met the standards established by a panel of nutritionists for the study. Another was based on how many met less-stringent standards in a restaurant-industry program called Kids LiveWell.
CSPI's criteria included having no more than 430 calories, 35 percent of them from fat, and 770 mg of salt. It also docked meal combinations with sugar-sweetened drinks. Kids LiveWell standards are similar but allow 600 calories.
Three percent of restaurants' meals met CSPI's standards. Fewer than one out of 10 met the KidsLive Well Standards.
McDonald's has cut the size of its french fries and now includes apples in all Happy Meals. Still, the report called out the fast-food giant, saying it was one of several chains having no meals that met even the restaurant industry's nutritional criteria.
Orlando-based Darden Restaurants' Olive Garden was in the middle of the pack, though the report noted it offers more-healthful whole-grain pasta. One percent of its meals met CSPI's standards, and 11 percent met those of Kids LiveWell.
Darden's Red Lobster was one of the highest-ranking, with only Subway and IHOP having a greater percentage of meals that got a CSPI thumbs-up. All of Subway's meals met the CSPI standards. At IHOP it was 31 percent and at Red Lobster, 28 percent.
"Americans are increasingly conscious of making healthy choices … and Darden wants to ensure that those who dine with us find the choices they desire," Darden said in a statement.
Nutritionists who work closely with the restaurant industry acknowledge changes may seem slow. But it takes time to test products, find sources of healthy foods at an affordable cost and even consider things such as the choking hazards of grapes, said Orlando dietitian Jo Lichten, who has worked with chains including Wendy's and Starbucks.
"I think we've come a long way," she said. "It is a lot slower than some of the health experts perhaps want."
It's slower than Cindy Waddell would like, too. The Orlando nurse practitioner tries steering her young sons toward healthful choices when they go out to eat but says it's not easy.
"They're mostly the same: burgers, hot dogs," she said. "I think it's tough on the restaurants to please as many kids as possible."
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•Subway's Roast Beef Sub, Apple Slices, and 1% Milk: 395 calories, 6 grams of fat, 590 mg of sodium.
•Olive Garden's Cheese Ravioli, Broccoli, and Orange Juice: 405 calories, 8 grams of fat, 480 mg of sodium.
•Chick-Fil-A's 4-Count Grilled Chicken Nuggets, Small Fruit Cup, Low Fat Milk: 220 calories, 3 grams of fat, 655 mg of sodium.
•Applebee's Grilled Cheese on Sourdough with Fries and 2 Percent Chocolate Milk: 1,210 calories, 62 grams of fat, 2,340 mg of sodium.
•Chili's Pepperoni Pizza with Homestyle Fries and Soda: 1,010 calories, 45 grams of fat, 2,020 mg of sodium.
•Denny's Jr. Cheeseburger and French Fries: 980 calories, 55 grams of fat, 1,110 mg of sodium.
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Jordy Mercer is back from paternity leave. To make room on the roster, Daniel McCutchen was optioned to AAA.
McCutchen faced two batters while he was up, surrendering a walk and a home run in Tuesday's loss. Mercer is hitting .212/.250/.404 over 56 plate appearances in his rookie year. He'll resume his role as back up middle infielder.
Kevin Correia returns to the bullpen as the Pirates go back to a five man rotation.
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Almost 25% of mothers stop breastfeeding within the first three months because it becomes too painful. A further 40% stop because of a decreased milk supply.
Philips explored the needs of mothers and babies to create a range that gave mothers the best experience, with the aim of helping them breastfeed their babies for longer. Research included a clinical study that confirmed the importance of comfort in helping mothers produce milk. See the backgrounder for more details.
"Ideally, we wanted a pump that would feel easier to work, and allow
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Dirk Brokken, development lead
Taking comfort as a starting point, we reshaped our breast pumps to make it possible for moms to sit back in a more relaxing position to express milk. Using ultrasound and MRI scanners, we studied how babies actually suckle and we mimicked that to stimulate more milk flow. And we changed the texture of the cushioned silicone funnel that cups the breast, giving it a silky feel that is warm and gentle against the skin.
Using the same insights we also created a new baby bottle, designed to tackle two things: teat acceptance (also known as 'latch on') and colic.
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It had been some years since my pevious visit to the Cosford Air Museum, and some very big changes had taken place since then, not least the construction of a massive new hall, this was so big that it was possible to have several aircraft hanging from its rafters, and still have masses of space left over for otehr displays. I no longer have my original write up about the visit, but hopefully the pictures will speak for themselves. Needless to say I spent a very enjoyable day there, and I would highly recommend a visit to anyone with an interest in military aircraft.


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Part 2 of Conversations with Harold Channer and Jon Hammond "The Global Village"…music as the Universal Language, music without words is the best way to effect global change, Jon's theory in action with a clip from Moscow Russia concert together with Russian tenor sax star Igor Butman, drummer Eduard Zizak and Jon at the organ doing the classic Jazz Ballad "Easy Living" from the John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman 'Ballads' album.
And wrap up conversation with Broadcaster, Philosopher Producer and World Traveler Harold Hudson Channer on Manhattan Neighborhood Network Channel 1 Public Access TV http://www.HammondCast.com
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Roy Clark Television Interview with Jon Hammond just before Roy appeared on the American Eagle Awards in Nashville Tennessee during Summer NAMM Show – Roy Clark an American Living Legend and long-time member of The Grand Ole Opry and The Country Music Hall of Fame – Roy's wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Clark
Roy Linwood Clark (born April 15, 1933) is an American country music musician and performer. He is best known for hosting Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 to 1992. Roy Clark has been an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and helping to popularize the genre.
During the 1970s, Clark frequently guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and enjoyed a 30-million viewership for Hee Haw. Clark is highly regarded and renowned as a guitarist and banjo player, and is also skilled on classical guitar and several other instruments. Although he has had hit songs as a pop vocalist (e.g., "Yesterday, When I Was Young" and "Thank God and Greyhound"), his instrumental skill has had an enormous effect on generations of bluegrass and country musicians. He has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry, since 1987[1][2] and The Country Music Hall of Fame. BIOGRAPHY: Born in Meherrin, Virginia, Clark lived as a teenager in southeast Washington, D.C., where his father worked at the Washington Navy Yard. At 14, Clark began playing banjo, guitar, and mandolin, and by age 15 he had already won two National Banjo Championships[3] and world banjo/guitar flatpick championships. He was simultaneously pursuing a sporting career, first as a baseball player and then as a boxer, before dedicating himself solely to music. At 17, he had his first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry.
At the age of 23, Clark obtained his pilot's license and then bought a 1953 Piper Tri-Pacer (N1132C), which he flew for many years. This plane was raffled off on December 17, 2012, to benefit the charity Wings of Hope.[4] He has owned other planes, including a Mitsubishi MU-2, Stearman PT-17[5] and Mitsubishi MU-300 Diamond 1A bizjet.[6]
By 1955, he was a regular on Jimmy Dean's Washington, D.C., television program. Dean, who valued punctuality among musicians in his band, the Texas Wildcats, fired Clark for habitual tardiness, telling him, "You're the most talented person I've ever fired." Clark married Barbara Joyce Rupard on August 31, 1957.[7] In 1960, Clark went out to Las Vegas, where he worked as a guitarist in a band led by former West Coast Western Swing bandleader-comedian Hank Penny. During the very early 1960s, he was also prominent in the backing band for Wanda Jackson—known as the Party Timers—during the latter part of her rockabilly period.[8]
When Dean was tapped to host The Tonight Show in the early 1960s, he asked Clark to appear, introducing him to a national audience for the first time. Subsequently, Clark appeared on The Beverly Hillbillies as a recurring character (actually two: he played businessman Roy Halsey and Roy's mother, Myrtle). Once, on an episode of the Sunday evening Jackie Gleason Show dedicated to country music, Clark played a blistering rendition of "Down Home". Later, he appeared on an episode of The Odd Couple wherein he played "Malagueña".[9]
In 1963, Clark signed to Capitol Records and had three top ten hits. He switched to Dot Records and again scored hits. He later recorded for ABC Records, which had acquired Dot, and MCA Records, which absorbed the ABC label.
Clark as "Myrtle Halsey" on The Beverly Hillbillies, 1968.
In the mid '60s, he co-hosted, along with Buck Owens, a weekday daytime country variety series for NBC entitled "Swingin' Country", which was cancelled after two seasons. In 1969, Clark and Buck Owens were the hosts of Hee Haw. The show was dropped by CBS Television in 1971 but continued to run in syndication for twenty-one more years. During its tenure, Clark was a member of the Million Dollar Band and participated in a host of comedy sketches. In 1983, Clark opened the Roy Clark Celebrity Theatre in Branson, Missouri, becoming the first country music star to have his own venue there, thus beginning a trend which led to Branson becoming a center of live music performance, as it is today. Many of the celebrities who play in Branson first performed at the Roy Clark Celebrity Theatre.
Clark frequently played in Branson during the 1980s and 1990s. He has since sold the venue (now owned by the Hughes Brothers and renamed the Hughes American Family Theatre) and gone back to a fairly light touring schedule, which usually includes a performance with Ramona Jones and the Jones Family Band at their annual tribute to Clark's old Hee Haw co-star Grandpa Jones in Mountain View, Arkansas.[citation needed]
In addition to his musical skill, Clark has often displayed his talents as a comedian and actor. During his years on Hee Haw, Clark entertained with numerous comedy sketches, including a recurring feature where he played the clerk of the "Empty Arms Hotel". Clark released several albums of his comedic performances, to varying critical acclaim and commercial success. Clark is one of the few surviving regular male cast members from the show.[citation needed]
Clark has endorsed Mosrite, Gretsch, and many other brands of guitars during his career. He currently endorses Heritage Guitars, which makes a Roy Clark model. On August 22, 1987, Clark was made a member of the Grand Ole Opry. He plays an annual benefit concert at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, the proceeds of which go to fund scholarships for aspiring musicians.[citation needed]
For many years Clark has made his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Roy Clark Elementary School in Tulsa's Union School District was named in his honor in 1978. Fellow Oklahoma resident Mickey Mantle arranged for Clark to sing "Yesterday When I Was Young" at his funeral (which Clark did in 1995).[10]
On May 17, 2009, Clark was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame along with Barbara Mandrell and Charlie McCoy. On September 23, 2010, Clark sang "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch at Dodger Stadium in a game featuring the Los Angeles Dodgers versus the San Diego Padres. On April 12, 2011, Clark was honored by the Oklahoma House of Representatives. He will be honored by the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame as Oklahoma's Music Ambassador for Children and will be presented with a commendation from Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin.
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I used to post here long ago but lost track of this website over the years
I'm a movement disorder patient with the conversion disorder label
which only means the neurologists can't figure out what's wrong
no weakness / all muscles work
but there are random movements (muscle tension) I can't control
usually low level
but lately over the years things have gotten noticeably worse
typing & handwriting are breaking down on me
I'm still working full time / with no usable diagnosis or treatment.
After all this time (17 years) I don't really care anymore
if the root cause is organic (physical) or psychological
with my luck it's probably a mix of both
so - my question:
Are there any Klonopin veterans out there
who successfully tried out herbal meds?
I had to be detoxed from Klonopin when it stopped working for me after being on it for 2 years.
& of course that is the only med that relieved the symptoms
no way I'll ever take that stuff again.
other meds I've tried / discarded are too numerous to list here.
Found a reference to Valerian Root yesterday
but the stuff I bought seems strong
But not as overpowering to me as the prescription muscle relaxers I've tried / discarded
just ordered a bottle of the same stuff at a lower dose.
I accidentally found this page listing some others here
but in all my travels to various doctors no one ever mentioned this.
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Recent genetic studies have traced the birth of HIV to the forbidding equatorial forests of Cameroon, where chimpanzees carried the virus for millennia without causing a major outbreak in humans. During the Scramble for Africa, colonial companies blazed new routes through the jungle in search of rubber and other riches, sending African porters into remote regions rarely traveled before. It was here that humans first contracted the strain of HIV that would eventually cause 99 percent of AIDS deaths around the world.
Western powers were key actors in turning a localized outbreak into a sprawling epidemic as bustling new trade routes, modern colonial cities, and the rise of prostitution sped the virus across Africa. Christian missionaries campaigned to suppress polygamy, but left in its place fractured sexual cultures that proved uncommonly vulnerable to HIV. Equally devastating was the gradual loss of the African ritual of male circumcision, which recent studies have shown offers significant protection against infection.
Timberg and Halperin argue that the same Western hubris that marked the colonial era has hamstrung the effort to fight HIV. From the United Nations AIDS program to the Bush administration's historic relief campaign, global health officials have favored well-meaning Western approaches--abstinence campaigns, condom promotion, HIV testing--that have proven ineffective in slowing the epidemic in Africa. Meanwhile they have overlooked homegrown African initiatives aimed squarely at the behaviors spreading the virus.
In a riveting narrative that stretches from colonial Leopoldville to 1980s San Francisco to South Africa today, Tinderbox reveals how human hands unleashed this epidemic and can now overcome it, if only we learn the lessons of the past.
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Over the past week a team of archaeologists from Avalon Archaeology, Denver University and Brown University have been surveying several African American homesteading sites in Southeastern Colorado. Settlers moved to this area, known as "the Dry" from neighboring states, hoping for opportunity to lay claim to their own piece of land. People began pouring in to the area around 1916, but many left by late 1930's – once the local irrigation system faltered and the Dust Bowl ravaged many homesteads. Some families did stay at the Dry, and several descendants still live in the area today. Through archaeology, archival research, and descendant oral history interviews, we hope to learn as much as possible about the African American homesteaders who made the Dry their home.
In order to publicize our project and get the word out about the Day of Archaeology, yesterday we held a program for local kids about the work of archaeologists. Children from Rocky Ford, La Junta, and Manzanola, Colorado came out to participate in a series of activities that taught them to think like archaeologists. They learned how to recognize patterns in a survey, how to interpret garbage, and how to excavate with careful notes.
Today our work began at 6:30 am. Because of the high temperatures and lack of shade on our site, we have been working from dawn until around noon every day. The task for this morning was to finish surveying a homestead owned by Harvey and Roland Craig, a couple of met at the Dry and lived on there from the 1920's until the 1970's. With such a long period of occupation, there was a large array of features and artifacts. Our four-person team spent the better part of the morning measuring features, counting surface artifacts, photographing objects, taking GPS coordinates (…and looking out for rattlesnakes).
This evening we held a community talk to discuss our project, field questions, and hear input. Three descendants of some of the first settlers spoke about their memories of "the Dry," and why they felt it was important for the stories of these settlers to be remembered for local, state, and national history. Even after the speakers finished, the crowd stayed around for another hour or so to talk with us and with the descendants. Some people even brought photographs or articles with them that related to the site, to help with the project! A day in the life of an archaeologist can vary greatly. We certainly don't all keep 9:00 – 5:00 hours, and we don't just spend our days digging. Sometimes we get information from things besides artifacts and features – sometimes our sources are people themselves!