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The CV axle is a drive axle located between the drive wheels. Its role is to deliver consistent power to the wheels as they traverse various types of terrain. The CV axle is attached to the wheels by CV joints. The inner CV joints connect the transmission to the CV axle while the outer CV joints connect the CV axle to the wheels. The CV joints connect the CV axle to the wheels, and deliver power while maintaining a constant velocity. The CV axle assembly—the axle shaft, CV joints, and CV boots—is designed to deliver flexible power to the wheels. This means that the axle is able to transmit required levels of torque to the wheels regardless of the angle of the axle. At first, CV axles were commonly used in front-wheel drive vehicles, but today CV axles are also common in rear-wheel drive vehicles.
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Top 5 Posts of 2008
Which posts got the most readers in 2008, that were Stumbled Upon, commented on, and (hopefully) bookmarked for repeated future visits?
1. Dragonfruit - In January, my post on this spindly magenta tropical fruit attracted my single all-time highest readership in one day. "How could you not be curious about a fruit that looks like a blowfish mated with a Venus fly trap?" How indeed.
2. Black Cherry Iced Tea - Mmm. Just looking at the photo again makes me itch for summer.
3. Eating Fried Balloons - My odd little video (with big fried balloons and freaky chicken statues) was actually shot and posted in 2007. It became somewhat viral in 2008. Thanks, Stumblers!
4. 100 Chinese Foods to Try Before You Die - Needs no explaination.
5. Guide to Wrapping and Pan-Frying Dumplings - This pictoral dumpling how-to became your 2nd favorite recipe this year.
Top 5 Food Moments Outside My Kitchen
1. In September, desperate for a break from Beijing, I bought an overpriced same-day plane ticket southward because of uncontrollable cravings for wonton noodle soup and Hong Kong milk tea.
2. On the same trip, I encountered the best softshell crab ever.
3. This glorious brunch at the Westin in Beijing was very memorable post-birthday gift.
4. This roast suckling pig at Fernando's in Macau was worth the winding mini-bus trip from city center.
5. And I can't forget the many months of teaching Chinese cooking at The Hutong.
Top 5 Food Resolutions for 2009
1. Spend less $ for meals out - I love dining out as much as the next food blogger, but this next year is going to hurt financially. That $26 for a steak should would be better off in the proverbial piggy bank. Besides, there are taco truck vendors and congee hut owners who could use my money more than, say, Thomas Keller.
2. Make better use of leftovers
3. Use a less pungent fish sauce - The last bottle I had, a Chinese brand, was apparently so offensive Jacob had to wrap it thrice in plastic. From now on, fear of waste will not prevent me from tossing out full bottles of something that stinks up the house.
4. Cook more Vietnamese and Thai - This goes in line with #3.
5. Make Appetite for China even better!
So now, dear reader, help me achieve #5. What is one recipe or food that you haven't seen on the site yet, but should be?
2009 is the year of the ox. Maybe I should consider more beef recipes.


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March 15, 2013Gasconade County Body Shop Owner Charged with Tax Evasion
JEFFERSON CITY - An investigation by the Missouri Department of Revenue found that Christopher L. Ahring, president of Lowder Auto Body Inc. in Gasconade County, failed to file 33 sales tax returns and five withholding tax returns, and failed to remit more than $37,000 in collected sales tax and more than $12,000 in withholding taxes.
Ahring has been arrested on four felony charges of failing to file sales and withholding tax returns, and failing to pay sales and withholding taxes.
The Missouri Department of Revenue is now on Twitter! To follow the Department's Twitter account, go to http://twitter.com/MoRevenue.


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This past week, we saw our future in a world of more extreme weather as Super Typhoon Haiyan tore apart homes and cities and thousands of lives across the Philippines.
Scientists have been warning for years that a warming planet will bring increasingly extreme and devastating weather. Scientific certainty has brought climate change over the planning horizon, and the impact is now unfurling before our eyes. This level of damage, with millions of people affected, will become more frequent unless we do something about it – fast.
Negotiators from around the world are here in Warsaw for the UN climate conference to work on drivers that can spur that action on a global scale.
It is not overly complicated. We need to get the prices right, get finance flowing, and work where it matters most. But, each of these will take political will to right-size our collective ambition – for ourselves and for the people of the Philippines and the Pacific Islands and the low-lying coasts of Africa and the Caribbean who are directly in harm's way.
The investment needs for greener, low-carbon growth are substantial, especially in the fast-growing cities of developing countries. It is vital that finance flows to build low-carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure that can stand up to more extreme weather and climate impacts. We must mobilize investment for projects that will improve livability and lower greenhouse gas emissions, such as low-carbon transport, energy efficient buildings and clean energy.
Public money alone will never be enough to meet these needs, but public funding can play two critical roles: first, in crowding in private investments, and, second, in going to places and investing in projects that the private sector will not do alone.
Several climate funds are already proving climate finance, showing how these roles can work, and innovating as they go. The Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), for example, have committed $7.6 billion for 48 countries and leveraged almost $50 billion in investment from other sources, demonstrating how minimum concessional finance can catalyze transformational climate investments. The World Bank Group is in the process of designing a pay-for-performance auction facility for methane reduction that will test approaches for mobilizing finance, including using auctions to allocate its resources, with the potential for to scale across mitigation finance. The multilateral development banks have also harmonized a framework to track and report climate finance and provide increasing transparency on finance flows and have agreed shared guidelines on deploying concessional funds to the private sector.
The success of the climate negotiations rests heavily on climate finance pledges coming through and finance flowing to where it is needed most. We know that public climate finance is precious, not only as a signal of commitment to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and to the common cause the UNFCCC stands for, but also because it will be produced at a time of economic hardship in many of the countries that will provide it, and, importantly, because it can be used flexibly to do things that other finance may not do.
Public finance can maximize the mobilization of other forms of finance through the astute development of the Green Climate Fund and through the use of the balance sheets, organizational capacity, and technical knowledge of the multilateral development banks and bilateral development financial institutions. The prize – the leveraging of institutional investors, sovereign funds, and pension funds, climate capital markets, and others – has proven difficult at a time when global financial markets retreat from risk. But by matching the specific financial fiduciary and risk/reward needs of investors with projects and project portfolios, and using public climate finance to develop new products and test their introduction, we can do this. Certainly at the World Bank Group, we will redouble our efforts.
But, while we can use climate finance smartly, governments will also need to send clear policy signals to redirect foreign and domestic investment into green and inclusive growth and low-carbon development. A robust price on carbon and moving away from harmful fossil fuel subsidies that do little to efficiently protect the vulnerable from price shocks are two important steps. Also important are supervision and regulations that supports investment in clean and resilient development and raise questions about the wisdom of long-term investments in a carbon-intense economy.
As we try, with others, to support efforts to speed and scale mitigation action and investment in resilience, we will need a disciplined focus on getting prices right, getting finance flowing, and investing where it matters most.
Rachel Kyte
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This is a very thought provoking and hard hitting article. I do hope the leaders at the UN Climate Conference understand the urgency to move fast from words to action to results.
As a first mover, private sector investor in clean energy projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, we have experienced these issues first hand, of course, from the other side of the table.
We are currently in the the process of implementing our first 5 MW solar power plant in rural Tanzania - to displace existing expensive fossil fuel generation which burns 21,000 liters of diesel a day!
While we appreciate the "building blocks" being set up by the World Bank in terms of government policy and regulations to promote sustainable development, unfortunately by themselves, they are not enough.
If the need of the hour is to speed and scale up, getting prices right and making finance available by themselves will not deliver results. You need the involvement of the private sector. They will be happy to share what has worked and what needs attention. Why - because they've been there and are anxious to make this work.
We will be happy to set time to share our experience.
Mayank Bhargava
NextGen Solar
This is a great admission. Although Ottmar Edenhofer admitted in an interview a couple of years ago this is not about the environment but economic redistribution it was not shared widely so kept within a very small group of those interested. But this article says it loud and clear. Give us your money and we'll stop your house from burning down.
Who said the Mafia are only in Italy? That's the purest protection racket besides pay me a fiver and I'll look after your parked car. I will be sharing this page far and wide on my fraud sites, written to expose the level and scope of fraud across world governments and this has saved me trying for years to convince trusting people yes, the governments really want your money, it's only a really, really good excuse to make you offer them as much as they want and even more. Any remaining gaps and doubts around the genuine aims of the climate movement should now be gone, as you have now made it 100% clear you want our money and you can save the planet if we just give, give, give. We'll never know if it worked as the 2C point isn't expected to be anywhere before 2100 so it's a double shuffle to make any accountability totally impossible. Yes, of course we looked after your car/house/business, it's still there and hasn't burnt down.
I accept you are top of the pyramid and as such unable to be scrutinised and policed by anyone above you, but by exposing yourselves as only after people's money as 'insurance' many will realise that is your only interest and agenda, and will vote with their own new awareness and gradually inch out parties who promote this way of destroying our economies and standards of living. Thanks again for this article, no third party could ever have written anything exposing exactly how you operate as well as you have yourselves.
Yet another attempt to link typhoons to climate change. Why would you state something that is so easy to refute, doesn't that just undermine your argument? Scientists have not warned of more severe or more frequent storms because there is no evidence of a link. If the frequency of typhoons and hurricanes was to increase, that might bring them somewhat up to the normal level, but is is quite obvious that hurricane and cyclone frequency is decreasing. See this chart:
If you are not prepared to tell the truth, what reason would anyone have to trust what you are doing? Where are you getting your disinformation?
Scientists have been clear in their expectation that extreme weather events will be more intense as climates warm. The report Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience, available online from the link below, has more details. The research in that report and others extends beyond a single region for a global perspective on climate change and its impact.http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17862361/turn-down-hea...
Developing countries need to built awareness on this climate change NOW, not only awareness to decision maker but most importantly the communities. Agree technology requires money and a lot of funding but developing countries should start from community levels. Communities can play important role in reducing carbon emmision in their day to day lifestyle. This requires mind set change, and if everyone participate, it will contribute to positive change. We, in Iskandar Malaysia an economic region in Malaysia - is doing just that, its a long way but YES, WE HAVE TO START NOW.
Oh... Your disinformation comes from a green pressure group. That explains it. Their future depends on alarming pronouncements from models that haven't been validated. Bjørn Lomborg reminds us that 2013 is the 40th anniversary of the Limits to Growth, which used state of the art computer models that were not validated to predict that humanity faced a devastating collapse from the lack of food, oil, other commodities, etc. Now I see we are using unvalidated computer models to project "climate extremes" and other horror stories to prop up a failing theory of the catastrophic effects of fossil fuel use. Too bad the earth isn't cooperating. You will have to find another scare story to replace the last two that failed. Ocean acidification anyone?...
Even the IPCC, widely regarded as an unbiased source of information :-) knows this.
Here are a few excerpts from the IPCC AR5 WG1 chapter 2: (taken from Roger Pielke's testimony to the Senate)
"Overall, the most robust global changes in climate extremes are seen in measures of daily temperature, including to some extent, heat waves. Precipitation extremes also appear to be increasing, but there is large spatial variability"
"There is limited evidence of changes in extremes associated with other climate variables since the mid-20th century"
"Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century … No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin"
"In summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale"
"In summary, there is low confidence in observed trends in small-scale severe weather phenomena such as hail and thunderstorms because of historical data inhomogeneities and inadequacies in monitoring systems"
"In summary, the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century due to lack of direct observations, geographical inconsistencies in the trends, and dependencies of inferred trends on the index choice. Based on updated studies, AR4 conclusions regarding global increasing trends in drought since the 1970s were probably overstated. However, it is likely that the frequency and intensity of drought has increased in the Mediterranean and West Africa and decreased in central North America and north-west Australia since 1950"
"In summary, confidence in large scale changes in the intensity of extreme extratropical cyclones since 1900 is low"
Roger: "There is really not much more to be said here -- the data says what it says, and what it says is so unavoidably obvious that the IPCC has recognized it in its consensus".
I'm sure thankful the data doesn't match the models. Now can you guys find something productive to do with your money that will actually help humanity?


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The Xbox One will go head to head with the PS4 this Christmas in the games console battle of the century. This is your one stop shop for the Xbox One release date, pre-order, specs, price, features, functionality and more.
See also: Xbox One launch: as it happened.
Xbox One release date: when is the new Xbox out?
Get your Christmas list ready becuase Microsoft has confirmed that the Xbox One will be released in time for the festive season. The Xbox One will be released on 22 November in the UK.
See also: PS4 vs Xbox One games console comparison review.
How to Pre-order the Xbox One
The Xbox One is set to be a popular product this Christmas so you'll probably want to pre-order it to avoid any disappointment. You can head over to the official Xbox site for a list of retailers (the device is out of stock on the Microsoft Store at the time of writing).
See also: Xbox One pre-order prices to find out more.
Xbox One specs
- 8 Core x86 AMD CPU
- 8 GB System Memory
- Blu-ray Drive
- 802.11n Wireless with Wi-Fi direct
- Gigabit Ethernet
- HDMI in/Out, 1080p, 4K support, Optical out
Xbox One Price in the UK
The price of a new Xbox One in the UK is £429 which is £80 more than its Sony rival, the PS4. Although it's more expensive, your money will get you an Xbox One console, Kinect sensor, commemorative controller, exclusive achievement, HDMI Cable.
The price of the PS4 doesn't include a PlayStation Eye camera, the equivalent to the Kinect.
To add some perspective to this price, when the Xbox 360 launched back in 2005 its initial price was £279. For those math junkies out there, that's a £150 and 53.7 percent increase.
Will the Xbox One be backwards compatible with Xbox 360 games?
At the moment, the situation is that the Xbox One will not be compatible with older Xbox 360 games. However, Microsoft has hinted that this feature may still be on the way.
"That's one of the things that makes [the cloud] at the same time both totally interesting and hard to describe to people. Because what the cloud can do is sort of hard to pin … Using our Azure cloud servers, sometimes it's things like voice processing. It could be more complicated things like rendering full games like a Gaikai and delivering it to the box. We just have to figure out how, over time, how much does that cost to deliver, how good is the experience," said Microsoft Senior Director Albert Penello.
"The power of the cloud brings many possibilities on Xbox One. Albert was speaking theoretically about backwards compatibility as an example of the features the cloud could enable in the future," clarified Microsoft in a follow up statement.
Will GTA 5 be out on Xbox One?
Rockstar, the developer of GTA 5, hasn't made a formal announcement on next-generation support for its blockbuster title. However, it seems likely that the game will be released on the Xbox One after a note to investors stated that a further release of GTA 5 would "help extend the value of the franchise".
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Concealed weapons permits up 44 percent in Washington
Many cite desire to protect family
SEABECK -- In Julian Piercy's mind, the small bulge in his shirt near his lower back is a way of "leveling a situation."
The clip that he fastens to his waistband before leaving the house isn't just another accessory. It gives him an option, he said, when all others are off the table and a life is on the line.
When he feels the pressure of metal on his back, it gives him confidence that he has a chance of protecting those he cares about most.
"As a parent, I am the first line of defense for my children," he said. "Not the police."
Piercy, a nursing student at Olympic College, lifts his shirt to reveal a .45-caliber Springfield XD, a black semiautomatic handgun that weighs about 30 ounces when loaded. He carries it constantly with a few exceptions, mostly when he's on campus and prohibited from doing so.
Having carried a gun in his younger days because, frankly, he could, Piercy, 38, has once more obtained a license for a concealed weapon and is getting used to the feel of carrying again.
"The gun doesn't make me invincible, smarter or tougher than anyone else," he said. "It's merely there as a tool."
Spurred by fear of a violent attack or because they have actually survived one, more Washingtonians are getting a concealed pistol license. The license, or CPL, allows them to travel with a hidden gun among an unknowing public. License holders jumped from about 179,000 to 258,000, or 44 percent, between 2003 and 2007. The state Department of Licensing says permit applications in Kitsap County jumped from 1,587 in 2004 to 3,339 in 2007.
Federal buildings, courthouses, military installations, bars, schools and airports are off-limits to concealed weapons, but they are allowed in most other public areas.
In fact, Washington's constitution permits its residents to "open carry" a gun on their hip in public, but many gun owners choose to apply for the CPL and keep their weapon hidden.
"Nobody knows," said Jim Wamsher, 52, of Port Orchard, who carries a Kimber 1911 on his hip.
"And that's the whole idea."
Wamsher believes he has a "moral obligation" to protect his family and the community. But he acknowledges that carrying also gives him an obligation to be well-trained with his weapon.
There is no training requirement to get a concealed pistol license, however. To be eligible in Washington, residents must have no felony or domestic violence misdemeanor convictions, nor any warrants for their arrest.
They must pass national and local criminal background checks. But they don't have to state a reason for getting a license.
But many who do subscribe to the mantra: "When seconds count, the police are just minutes away."
"It's like a seat belt," said April Borbon, 41, a business owner in Central Kitsap. "Hopefully I'll never need it. And if I do, it'll be a life-or-death situation."
Eugene Volokh, a law professor at UCLA, said those considering carrying concealed weapons are not necessarily analyzing the crime rate when they decide to apply for a license.
Aggravated assaults in Kitsap County did increase from 655 to 743 between 2006 and 2007, according to the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, but Volokh said that may not be the deciding factor for CPL holders.
"I think (CPL holders) ask themselves, 'What's the cost of this to me and what's the benefit to me,' " he said. "It's very little cost to them, but they feel very comfortable with guns, and carrying one gives them confidence."
But do concealed pistol holders actually make society safer, a kind of armed public service?
Mark Duncan, deputy police chief on Bainbridge Island, said that's a difficult question to answer. An easier question for him is whether they make society more dangerous. His answer is no.
"The cases of someone misusing their concealed pistol license are virtually unheard of," he said.
Dean Byrd, chief deputy with the Mason County Sheriff's Office, went further.
"Sometimes that's what people have to rely on," Byrd said of CPL holders in rural parts of the county he patrols, "because law enforcement may be a long ways away."
Duncan, who added that he carries "everywhere I go," including when he's off duty, said those who get a concealed pistol license see themselves as having a "sacred responsibility."
Volokh said he believes there is a deterrent effect with having a population that carries concealed pistols.
"Rapists aren't the most rational creatures," he said. "But if they think, 'Maybe I'll be shot dead if I do this,' they'll probably think twice about it."
Kristen Comer, executive director for Washington Ceasefire, a gun control advocacy group, questions whether having more people carrying concealed pistols results in greater public safety.
But she does concede that it might be true among weapons carriers who are trained and know the "gravity" of their undertaking. She cites a Texas law that requires concealed license holders to go through two days of training.
But that training shouldn't be limited to target practice, she said. If one pulls his weapon and shoots, "You have to be willing to live with whatever consequence follows," she said.
Reserving the use of a gun for life-and-death situations and spotting them is what Marcus Carter, executive officer at the Kitsap Rifle and Revolver Club, attempts to instill in everyone he teaches.
Carter's classes include instruction on the legalities of carrying. He can cite from memory numerous articles of the Constitution, both the U.S. and Washington's version. Their amendments on the right to bear arms come most easily to his mind.
But just as he believes in guns, he believes in gun safety. He snagged the domain name "gunsafety.org" for the club's Web site several years ago.
"If you're going to carry a firearm, you have a responsibility to train with it," he said.
Doug Hartley, 52, agrees.
"I'm not a vigilante, and I don't want to chase down robbers," he said. "The idea is to never have to use it."
Hartley is a Bainbridge resident and high school teacher who carries away from school and belongs to the Kitsap Rifle and Revolver Club. "You're better off running away if you can avoid the situation," he said.
But Hartley believes that those with CPLs who are well-trained can help keep crime rates and incidents of violence down.
"I think as a whole, society is safer," he said. "If people have the weapons and use them responsibly, and the criminals know that, they'll do less of this stupid stuff."
Carter, too, sees an upswing in the numbers coming to the club for training. He points to many reasons -- a slumping economy or an upcoming election with fewer "pro-gun" candidates, for example -- that prompt people to take their Second Amendment rights more seriously.
He said there's been a steady influx of women, who typically are outnumbered by their male counterparts in gun use, at the club. In Kitsap County, home to a large and often out-to-sea naval population, those women left behind are apt to get trained with a firearm.
The most heated issue recently concerning carrying concealed weapons occurred in the Legislature this past session with the introduction of two bills.
Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, tried to ban guns from any campus that hosts high school students, such as at Olympic College, which hosts the Running Start program for high school juniors and seniors. Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, introduced a bill aimed at prohibiting colleges and universities from banning CPL holders from carrying on campus. There is no state law -- only college policy -- keeping weapons off campus.
Olympic College, with its campuses in Bremerton, Poulsbo and Shelton, bans all weapons and explosives from being carried on campus, according to Richard MacLennan, the vice president of student services.
Roach, who herself has a concealed-weapons permit, said she supports having carriers on campus because the mentality of a shooter "is to home in on places that people are the most defenseless."
"The reality is these scenarios are never good ones," she said. "But potentially we have 258,000 people out there who can save people from dying. The issue is how many lives can be saved."
Two common factors triggered the CPL holders interviewed for this story to get their licenses: They had familiarity with firearms, either from their upbringing or in their profession; or they'd either been frightened by or experienced a violent situation.
South Kitsap resident Bill Williams' home had been burglarized twice before a group of crooks invaded his home and robbed him in 2000.
It was "an attack on my person by some people that thought they had a right to take my car and property just because there were more of them than me," he said. "They wanted to get the easy way what I worked hard for."
That was the last straw for Williams, who now carries inside a belt or shoulder holster various guns, from a small revolver to a .45-caliber automatic Colt pistol.
"Mike" in North Kitsap, who asked that his name not be used because many of his relatives would disapprove of his gun ownership, cites violent outbursts around the country as his rationale to carry.
Mike got his concealed pistol license about four years ago and carries a .45-caliber Glock. He has a smaller 9-mm for when he's wearing lighter clothes or is with "anti-gun" relatives. He carried intermittently until the Virginia Tech massacre in April 2007.
"It was then that I realized that you can't count on help being there when you need it.
"You're only guaranteed a chance when you are able to defend yourself," he said.


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In the teens and twenties, cartooning was a burgeoning field. Every newspaper and magazine employed a crew of artists to fill their pages with topical one panel cartoons and comic strips. Schools were not yet teaching the trade, so several artists took it upon themselves to create mail order cartooning courses.
Here a promotional brochure advertising the W. L. Evans Course in Caricature and Cartooning. Shaped like a miniature artist's portfolio, and packed with great vintage cartoons and sales information, this brochure outlines why students should take up the noble art of cartooning.
Promotional Brochure
A cartoonist is a power. His audience is the boundless public. He is talked about. His work is admired in society. He meets the most prominent people, and becomes personally acquainted with them. He is a critic of the world's happenings.
And he receives a large salary for his work.
In 1913, Elzie Segar, aged 18 began a correspondence course headed up by the Cleveland Leader cartoonist, W. L. Evans. The course cost a dollar per lesson and it took Segar a year and a half to complete the 20 lessons. By 1917, he had landed a job penning the "Charlie Chaplin Comic Capers" and "Looping the Loop" strips. In the ad above, Segar is quoted as saying, "I'm getting along fine, and it's all your fault."
Decades later, Segar made mention of his early education in his strip, Thimble Theater. In 1934, his character, Sappo took the W. L. Evans Cartooning Course and delighted readers with cartoon drawings made from letters of the alphabet. Segar wasn't the only cartoonist who got his start with this course. Chester Gould of Dick Tracy fame was a graduate of the W. L. Evans course, as was Dennis the Menace creator, Hank Ketcham.
Here are the first two lessons that got these great cartoonists started on their career path. If there is interest, I will post more of this landmark course.
Lesson Two
STUDENTS: Print this stuff out and USE IT!
Stephen Worth
Animation Resources
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