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There exists a passionate band of action figure anthropologists who are quite certain that the Big Bang for super hero parumplasticus populus [Latin: little plastic people] occurred in 1984. It isn't that articulated super heroes (albeit more primitive) did not exist prior to the emergence of the Super Powers. They did. {see Kingdom: MEGO, Species, World's Greatest Super Heroes} But through natural selection Super Powers quickly became the dominant species. And that legacy endures. It has taken almost 30 years for a population with an appropriate level of inherited traits to surface that distinguishes itself as the clear descendant of the Super Powers family. That new species is Mattel's DC Universe Classics. Let's compare…
Parumplacticus poplulus anthropologists, Cantina-Dan and xrmc20, have collaborated to present this entry into the Action Figure Insider Observer's Field Guide.
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DC | Phylum | DC
Little Plastic People | Class | Little Plastic People
Articulated | Order | Articulated
Kenner | Family | Mattel
Four Inch | Genus | Six Inch
Super Powers | Species | DC Universe Classics
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nice pictures and article. the pics prove that dc classics is the super powers line reborn. with the figures and characters from the original line upgraded in size plus also mattel doing the characters who were suppose to be in the line like blue devil and never happen in the original.
Yes, such a bummer that the "Fourth Wave" and beyond never made it. Yet another line to die an untimely death! Blue Devil! 🙁
The Mattel Clark Kent is tres lanky. With a pinhead. Not a wonderful execution.
Mirum blog. Amor imagines istorum comparationes.
Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam comment, Professor Vader.
As I looked back through the pics, I tried to pick my favorite character based on the sum total of pure toy badassedness across both lines. I'm going with Steppenwolf. While I prefer the original Kirby design of him, and love that they made that version too, the SP-design of Steppenwolf is just a badass dude in both SP and DCUC. Spikes! Electro-Axe! Fu Manchu! Mean looking SOB. Name with "wolf" in it. STEPPENWOLF!
Yeah, that's tricky. Having had a chance to really examine each figure for this photo shoot I think I got most excited about the Super Powers Red Tornado. Just a cool looking figure. Good thing I stole yours.
🙂 Yes, the SP Red Tornado is great. But the problem here is that I was talking about the total coolness of a character if you take the coolness of the fig from each line and combine it into one total cool factor, and in this case, the DCUC Red Tornado has some issues. The way they did the paint on his collar, the stiffness of the cape, the wide stance. I wouldn't mind a re-do on him actually, although I'm sure that would annoy everyone else. 🙂
Well, excuse freaking me for playing fast and loose with your TCF (Total Coolness Factor). I obviously overlooked the "Total" part of that equation. Yes, you did explain to me the blunders on the DCUC Red Tornado. So I'll apply for a do-over. IMHO, TCF winner goes to Hawkman. First of all, because he was one of the handful of SP figs I had as a kid. Still have him, in fact. Guess I've always like the color combinations of his costume. He's got wings and a mace. Ya know, I'd like to see him in a fist fight with Steppenpuppy. Finally, the modern version of Hawkman is one of the few DCUC figures I own. See: http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/blog/cantinadan/short-tale-of-a-geeky-coincidence/
I have to agree that Hawkman has a very high TCF.
Great work you guys. Darwin must be smiling somewhere right now.
Perhaps, but that's because I've slaughtered his beautiful theory for the sake of an action figure blog! (Well worth it, IMHO.)
Man, what an awesome trip through memory lane. I love the comparisons, though some are streching(Mr. Freeze,Kalibak), but that is no fault of yours. I agree that the Clark DC superheroes is pretty lackluster and needs to be redone. I would like a Bruce WayneClark Kent two pack, but with the new reboot line coming I really doubt we will get them.
Yeah, I know this kind'uv comparison has been discussed ad infinitum, but since I don't collect either line I haven't been paying as close attention. (Not to say I don't LOVE both lines. I do. Really.) But as I was photographing this series, those were the two I had the hardest time with. Oh, and Orion. Had trouble deciding whether or not to include the DCUC harness. On this topic, in the spirit of full disclosure, the only bit of photo manipulation I did was to retouch out Mr. Freeze's big red gun.
When was Clark kent offered?
Like a lot of toys up there, that Clark Kent is not from the DCUC line, but rather from the DC SuperHeros line that preceeded it. The Clark Kent figure was in a 2-pack with Superman very early on in the DCSH line. The suited buck was later re-used for Two-Face and Riddler.
It's part of a 2-pack under the older DCSH line:
I can live with the Freeze repaint, but we have to have an SP Kalibak and Orion for it to truly be a complete Super Powers redux. Their current looks are just too comic-accurate to display with Super Powers figures. I can't do it! 🙂
This makes me happy to look at.
w00t, the boss is happy! Is it time to ask for that raise? Seriously, though, I love the dedication so many here at AFi have to the Super Powers line. Although I only have a few figures, I've really come to appreciate just how rad it really is!
Being a lover of vintage everything with a general belief that o.g. always rules, I was fully prepared to comment that the vintage figures were better than the new guys but alas, I couldnt. The new Robin, complete with a neck, is way tougher looking than his older, Donny Osmond looking friend. Green Arrow, old and new, looks like he should be the cover model for Out Magazines Super Hero issue. Old Penguin, however, WAY WAY cooler than the new one that looks like he had lap band surgery.
Nice work fellas.
ROTFL. Thanks for the observations, Miss Pretticute. Its sad that in a line of 34 figures only one is female: Wonder Woman. But like a girl on an action figure collecting message board, she was prolly pretty popular!
Wheres the "like" button on this thing??
I need this set up as a poster.
Someday (hopefully soon) we'll be able to do this with Kenner's Star Wars line.
Yes, super close now. Are you in the camp that says we still need a Sy Snootles?
Winner: Super Powers
I love Super Powers so damn much.
I wish someone on this website would write a full-fledged, now-it-can-be-told retrospective on Super Powers figures. I mean, just go all out and do a full-fledged investigation. Interview sculptors, designers, and everyone involved with the creation and marketing of the line.
I just can't get enough Super Powers. When I am 80 years old, I'll still love Super Powers.
I love Super Powers.
So, Matt, are you saying that, in general, you're a fan of Super Powers? Of course, there's lots of great info collected in AFi's Super Powers Blog: http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/super-powers/
I think that's a fair thing to say, yes. 🙂
I really appreciate this blog, and that there are others out there who love SP as much as I.
I know my son and I do…I had a couple when I was a kid but, with his Young Justice craze he loves the older fellas too which I've been scooping, and fit in nicely.lol
Oh and I don't think the new Young Justice line is too much of a butchery…first near acurate Hall Of Justice…Just a Prop tho…Still…displays his
SuperPowers pretty well.
No doubt about it, SUPER POWERS is superior in sculpting and overall quality. Mattel's are more articulated, of course, but the larger size makes
the articulated joints too obvious and sort of goofy looking. Mattel's are also not well proportioned and in some cases, like their Clark Kent, way out of scale. Not only is he a pin-head, but his arms are waaay too long like some circus freak. Someday, I hope someone brings back SUPER POWERS in the ORIGINAL scale and quality that Kenner had in the mid 1980's.
I'm also not a fan of articulation that detracts from the aesthetics of a figure. I think the 4H are doing the best they can. Lord knows, DCUC looks a million times better than Marvel Legends! Totally agree that Super Powers are the bomb.
I think Mattel and the Horsemen deserve a huge amount of credit for trying to give us back a version of the toys we loved as kids.
And maybe our kids will look back in 20 years and these will be their "Super Powers" memories…
Let's hear it for the Four Horsemen!
I love this article because I truly love SP and the Horsemen's versions as well. But there is a tiny mistake in the pics. The Kenner Mr. Freeze is wearing the clear Toy Biz Super Heroes dome instead of the colored dome that actually came with the Kenner Super Powers version. Sorry to be the jerk that had to point it out, but I thought you would want to know so it could be fixed. It really is a great assortment of pics.
Thanks very much for pointing that out, Brad! You're not being a jerk at all. Glad you brought it to our attention.
Yeah, I'm glad you pointed that out. Now please mail me a real SP helmet for him. 🙂
Great comparison pictures! What an accomplishment by Mattel and the Four Horsemen to get through every single Super Powers character in the DCSH/DCUC line. It's been a lot of fun to collect and watch this come together.
Thanks, Z! It was really fun to do this blog. Trying to get each pairing set up so that they were in almost identical poses was sometimes challenging. But, hey, what is this if not an excuse to PLAY with our toys, hehe.
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I don't think there are many tangible, real objects I love more than Super Powers. The funny thing is, I didn't "just discover" SP one day as an adult fanboy–I have loved this line since Day One as a 10 year old and my love for these toys has never abated.
Not to get too obsessive here, but like a good stable marriage my love for SP has evolved over the years. I loved SP as a kid in part because obviously they were the only DC figures around at the time which allowed my friends and I to create our own "super friends" style adventures. But even back then I appreciated the craftmanship in the sculpting. I remember having discussions with my friends about the perfectly detailed costumes and how awesome that was. I am not kidding when I say that the very first time I saw the Green Lantern figure hanging on the peg, it was as if it had come straight from my imagination (fueled by the GL comics I was obsessed with) and willed into hard reality…
Today I still love GL and each and every one of the other "33." In the twenty five years since SP, I have seen many toy lines come and go but none, IMO, have recaptured the magic and fun of SP.
DCUC is great, no doubt about it. And I certainly meant no disrespect to those who love that line. I get it. It's just that, in my HUMBLE opinion, I don't really see a "toy" when I look at a DCUC sculpt. In most cases, I see them as beautifully realized statues for fanboys that just don't resonate the same way SP does (at least for me).
I guess to sum all this up…when I was a kid I thought SP were "awesome." Today, as an adult, they're simply adorable, loveable toys.
Thanks for your comments, Matt! I really enjoy hearing your childhood Super Powers reminiscences. I'm a lover of the "toy quality" of vintage, myself. Hope my Green Lantern photo captured some of the magic!
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He was kissing me, in a way so tender and passionate, that I melted. I love him so much, to let go was no a possibility. Then, just when I was completely dazzled, when I reached the point where I felt like I could no longer breathe, he floated away from me and dissolved. Panic ensued; tears started trickling down my cheeks.
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I walked in front of my full length mirror and took in my appearance. I looked like a full grown woman but in all reality I was born just 15 years ago. My hair was a coppery tone, just like my dad's. Every strand was a perfect curl and fell in elegant streams just past my shoulders; I didn't want my hair any longer because it always interfered with the hunt. My eyes, brown and wide like my mom's and Grandpa Charlie's, looked like I just woke up.
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Ryan Samuel Carr is a native artist/illustrator of Ventura, California. Ryan's beautiful line work and dreamy figurative elements remain a constant reoccurring theme throughout his extensive body of work. When I look at Ryan's work, even if the subject matter is just the roots in a pile of weeds he always seems to capture a rare and very sincere moment only hinting at whatever secrets the particular root, or bed of flowers have to say. Ryan's unique line work evokes so much feeling and emotional manifestations. Ryan shares a bit of his mark making process in this direct quote from the talented young artist himself:
"I think a lot about the 'immediacy' of drawing (with ink and pencils), and the individual mark in a moment of time; what that all says…it's very mystical and meditative for me."


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Justin Bieber Fans Keep Feeding the Troll That Is Drake Bell, This Time at LAX [VIDEO]
Drake Bell is grasping at the last straws of relevance by trolling Justin Bieber fans on Twitter and flopping off of a diving board and at life, and it all came to a head at LAX last night.
Bell foolishly launched a microblogging war with Beliebers, who are notoriously more rabid than most feral raccoons, and at one point invited them to visit him at LAX. (That tweet has since been deleted, because hindsight is 20/20.)
The Beliebers showed up to confront Bell, and based on the video above, weren't all that belligerent, save for playing 'Baby' ad nauseam and asking the erstwhile Nickelodeon star exactly why he beefs with the Canadian heartthrob so much.
Bell, for his part, appeared sheepish and relatively polite. In part because, well, you need to keep your cool around anyone unstable enough to stalk a troll at an airport.
The Beliebers were heartfelt in their mission to quell the drama. Check out one attendee's bizarrely warm missive. We've edited it for clarity, because apparently lurking at LAX means either missing or not focusing in English class:
This is a group of random passerbys, Beliebers, media, and Drake Bell fans.
I am a Belieber and I never went to LAX with intention to hurt Drake. We wanted to show him that Beliebers would show up and would confront him. This is by no means all of what happened and more was said off-camera. Don't assume this is all that occurred.
We told him to stop hating on Justin and his Beliebers. We were also being sarcastic a lot. We were trying to make light of a situation. We weren't going to harass and yell at him. That would only fuel the fire. We wanted to end the feud. Hate needs to stop in both directions.
I love you Justin and I hope my actions made you proud or you at least found them acceptable. I truly hope that Drake stops and I hope he thinks about what he says now that he has heard directly from your fans.
We're pretty sure Bieber is too busy counting his money to care about any of this.


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DAC Collection Artist Information
Hendrick Avercamp
Dutch painter
Brief biography, in most instances from the Union List of Artist Names® Online:
Dutch painter who is the best-known exponent of the winter landscape. His lively paintings and drawings were enormously popular. Avercamp was hearing-impaired.
Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®: ULAN 500030575.
The ULAN link above leads to a cataloging authority record at the Getty Research Institute.
Objects related to Hendrick Avercamp:
|Cornelis Ploos van Amstel after Hendrick Avercamp
|King of Bohemia on the Ice, 1766
|Color etching
ULAN biographical content is displayed with permission of the Getty Research Institute. Some ULAN content in some DAC artist records has been lightly edited. Content from the Getty Research Institute is © 2019 The J. Paul Getty Trust. All rights reserved.


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|Winnebago County Sheriff's PoliceNews Media Release
|News Release Number2008- 050
|Information: 2007 Crime Rate Comparisons
|Date: November 19,2008
|Time: 1200
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RELEASE FROM SHERIFF RICHARD MEYERS: The State of Illinois released it 2007 Crime Rate Comparisons for the State of Illinois to include Winnebago County. It is important to point out that Winnebago County is defined by all eleven (11) municipalities, one of which is the City of Rockford. There are 64,092 persons in the unincorporated areas of the County that are serviced by the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office and this population is treated as one of the eleven municipalities for crime reporting purposes. The Crime Rate decrease from 2007 over 2006 for all of Winnebago County to include its eleven municipalities and the unincorporated areas is down 12.8%. The Crime Rate comparison sheet for Winnebago County is broken down by each individual municipality to include the Sheriff's Office. A culmination of each municipality's contribution to the increase/decrease of the crime rate resulted in the overall 12.8% reduction. For example, the Sheriff's Office showed a decrease in crime of 16.9%. The city of Rockford showed a decrease of 14.4%, while Durand showed a decrease of 13.5% and so forth. It is important for the community to recognize that not any one municipality can be credited or blamed for either a decrease or increase in crime. The current trends are nation-wide and can be seen in laws enforcement agencies across the country, each with their own unique crime fighting methods and ideologies. Fighting crime successfully in our local communities has always depended upon the team work and contributions made by each municipality within jurisdictional or county boundaries. The overall 12.8% decrease in crime is a result of the efforts of all eleven municipalities and is something we can celebrate together.


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Gallery 1988 was the first gallery to really understand that not all galleries need to be full of artwork that nobody understands, but they pretend to so as not to look like an idiot in front of other people doing the same. Pop culture has had a major influence on me throughout my entire life, so when Gallery 1988 came around, I knew I wanted to be a part of it. The new show is entitled "We Made Them Do It" and it's a nod to the fact that the success of Gallery 1988 has inspired many others to follow suit and do themed shows based off of various pop culture icons. But what about those shows, or movies that never really quite rose to the level they deserved. Why does a show like Breaking Bad get it's own gallery show, but Walker Texas Ranger only lives on in the mind of Chuck Norris? Well, now 1988 has a solution.
"We Made Them Do It" gives a voice to all of those beloved yet unrepresented classics.
When I was told about the show, I immediately knew what I wanted to do. Saved By The Bell was one of the staples of my childhood. I wanted to be friends with Zack Morris, I thought AC Slater was so cool with the way he would sit backwards on chairs, and Kelly Kapowski was like a beautiful dream. I decided that it was only fitting to create an album for one of the greatest bands in the history of television; The Zack Attack!!
Along with pretty much every kid growing up in the late 80's and early 90's, I loved Saved By The Bell. What I loved about Saved By The Bell, or SBTB as i'll refer to it from here on out because it takes too long to type, was that Zack Morris was the popular kid, but he was friends with everyone. In real life, a kid like Screech and Slater would have never hung out because jocks and geeks just don't do that. And then there were the ladies. Lisa Turtle was way too uptight for my liking, but Kelly Kapowski and Jessie Spano were sweet, kind, and wholesome. I don't know if there are any shows on the air currently that have followed in the footsteps of Bayside High, but if there isn't, it's a damn shame because there should be. There always should be a show like this on for young teens because high-school can be terrifying. This show was special, and made something that haunts every 8th grader into something to look forward to.
A limited amount of signed/numbered prints will be available through the gallery. I'll post a link here when they go on sale online.
For each gallery show I create a one-of-a-kind framed album. The records included with the artwork always relate somehow to the subject matter:
Sadly, The Zack Attack never released a vinyl record, so I got my hands on the Pointer Sisters "I'm So Excited". Any SBTB fan will instantly know why I chose this record:
You may be thinking to yourself "But Joey, Jessie Spano wasn't in The Zack Attack" and you'd be correct. I don't know why she wasn't in that episode. In order to stay faithful to the show, I wasn't going to include Jessie, but my wife insisted she join the band. Kristin, I dedicate this artwork to you, and the 11 year old girl that used to seal her fan letters to Mark-Paul Gossellar with a kiss.
I wanted to stay true to the spirit of the show and so for the record label I painfully reproduced some early 90's design. I was going to use comic-sans but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Instead I found a font similar to the one Stussy used on it's clothing... Early 90's design was so ugly. Computers finally found their way into the hands of graphic designers and everyone lost their minds (and design sense apparently).
So sit back, relax, press play, and enjoy the soothing sounds of Zack Morris, AC Slater, Screech Powers, Kelly Kapowski, and Lisa Turtle. Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present "Friends Forever":
"We Made Them Do It" at Gallery 1988 West
Opening Friday July 26th 7-10pm
Gallery 1988
7308 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90046


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FAIRFAX, VA – The York College women's indoor track & field team had an outstanding day at the inaugural Capital Athletic Conference championship meet at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA on Sunday. The Spartans finished second at the seven-team event.
The Spartans accumulated 120 team points, finishing behind team champion Salisbury who had 188 points. Mary Washington placed third with 76 points followed by Frostburg State (35 points), Hood (32 points), Stevenson (10 points), and Wesley (1 point).
Spartan head coach Erick Camodeca was happy with the performance of his women's squad.
"I am extremely pleased with the women's performance today. We knew it was going to be tough to catch Salisbury, but we went out there competed and scored more points that we initially thought. These women are driven by the common goal of winning a championship. It is very encouraging to see the progress occurring around us with such a young squad."
The Spartans were paced by the efforts of sophomore Laura Rowlands and freshman Jasmine Smith. Rowlands picked up right were she left off last spring when she earned the CAC Rookie-of-the-Year for the 2011 outdoor season. Rowlands recorded a pair of first place finishes and one second place finish in today's indoor championship.
Rowlands won the high jump with a height of 1.67 meters (5'5.75") which is also good enough for an NCAA provisional cut. Rowlands must wait to find out if that height is good enough to earn a berth in the NCAA National Championships in Grinnel, Iowa on March 9 & 10. Rowlands also won the triple jump, recording a distance of 11.7 meters (36'4") for the victory. She posted a second-place finish in the long jump as she posted a distance of 5.14 meters (16'10.5").
"Laura continues to shine for this program," stated Camodeca. "She is one of the most competitive athletes out there. She measures her success in championships. Her second place performance in the long jump was a personal best for her. Going into the final jump in the triple Laura was in second place after a major adjustment in her steps and approach she knocked off Salisbury for the win. Her performance of the day came in the high jump. After securing the victory at 5'2 she went all in and put her self in position to qualify for nationals by raising the bar to 1.67 and clearing it."
Smith was fantastic in her first championship meet for York. The freshman earned a win in the long jump, covering a distance of 5.33 meters (17'6") for the victory. She earned two runner-up finishes at the championship as she placed second in the 60-meter dash and the 200 meter dash. Her time in the 60 was 7.99 while her 200 time was 27.21. Both times established new school records for the freshman.
"Jasmine solidified herself as one of the best athletes in the conference today," stated Camodeca. "Her second place finish in the 60m and 200m set school records and came against an experienced and talented field. Her dominance in the long jump as she increased her school record and brought home the top spot in the event. She also ran a solid anchor leg in the 4x400 relay."
The Spartans also received a first place finish from the distance medley relay team as Misty Parshall, Anna Spaniol, Megan Phillips, and Emily Abel combined to record a time of 12:46.14, good for a new school record in the event.
Freshman Jess Miller earned one of York's four second place finishes as she was a runner-up in the 5,000 meter run. Miller picked up a time of 19:37.75.
"Jess really upset the 5K field with her tactical and well run race," said Camodeca.
Spaniol recorded a pair of third place finishes for the Spartans as the senior was fantastic in the 800 meter run and the one mile run. Spaniol notched a time of 2:28.60 in the 800 and then set a school-record in the mile with a time of 5:30.52.
"Anna really led the way for our group of distance runners," said coach Camodeca. "She brought home to third place finished in the 800 and mile, and broke the school record in the mile with an outstanding kick at the end. She also was a member of the distance medley relay team that brought home first team honors and broke the school record in the process."
Junior Dana Mangano made her season debut in the high jump and finished third with a best height of 1.47 meters (4'9.75"). Freshman Ashley Razzano picked up another third-place finish for the Spartans in the pole vault, besting a height of 2.75 meters (9' 0.25"). York's 4x400 relay team earned a third-place finish with a time of 4:24.38.
Mandy Parshall and Hannah Ritzman each recorded fourth place finishes for the Spartans. Parshall was fourth in the mile run with a time of 5:31.52. Ritzman finished fourth in the 400 meter dash, recording a school-record time of 1:02.45.
"Hannah gives this team everything she has every time she lines up" said Camodeca. "She also just missed finals in the 60m dash, and ran a great lead off leg in the 4x400."
The Spartans return to action next Sunday when they travel to Virginia Tech to participate in the VT Last Chance Meet in Blacksburg, VA.


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The project DLM Crew tests exactly how rebuildable Howe's precision max A-Frame really is.
For those of you that have followed Project Dirt Late Model over the years know that we have often used the car to test different ideas, setups, and new products our advertisers bring to market. When we test these new products, we like to inform you of how well they perform and if they do what they claim. These tests are being conducted in the real world, on the track and often time during actual races. However, during these events we purposely try not to test the, uh, shall we say durability of these products.
With all of this being said, we recently tested the claims and strength of a quality product. Back in the March '12 issue we told you about a great new design that Howe Racing Products has, the Precision Max A-Frame. In that story, we mentioned that Howe claims bind-free movement under severe braking conditions, and bind-free even if it becomes damaged. We also talked about the fact that they're rebuildable.
Well, a few weeks ago while racing a series race, at our local track we tested these claims–although not intentionally. It was a racing deal, everyone trying to get in the A-main, a car spun in front of us and, with no place to go, we wrecked bad. Once back at the hauler, we saw that the left upper A-frame cross-shaft was badly bent. We knew that Howe claims bind free operation even if it was damaged, but we had bent it so badly that we knew there was no way it would still move and our night was over–or so we thought. When we removed the upper shock bolt to inspect the damage further we were pleasantly surprised to find that the upper A-frame moved totally bind-free just as Howe said it would. Smiles across our faces we quickly mounted the shock back in place and went out to run the B-main.
After the racing was over for that night, we pulled the A-frame off and straightened the cross-shaft for the next night. Turns out that was a mistake. Howe does not recommend doing this because once the aluminum cross-shaft is bent, and you bend it back, it becomes brittle and weak at the bend point. A couple of races later, we took a minor hit to the left front wheel and sure enough the cross-shaft snapped exactly where it had originally bent and where we straightened it. Lesson learned.
So we contacted the guys at Howe and had them send us a new cross-shaft. In the conversation about the wreck, they asked if we bent any of our ball joints. Not being sure, they told us about a great little tool they have to check ball joints, which they sent along with the parts to rebuild the Precision Max A-Frame. Now, check out how easy this is.


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Travel Consultant - East Sheen
- Recruiter
- Location
- Richmond upon Thames
- Salary
- £20,000 - £28,000 per annum + uncapped earnings & benefits
- Posted
- 02 Oct 2017
- Closing date
- 01 Nov 2017
- Ref
- 494114
- Contact
- Flight Centre UK Ltd
- Industry
- Travel & transport, Airline, General, Logistics, Tourism
- Job function
- Sales
- Job level
- Experienced (non manager)
- Hours
- Full time
- Contract
- Permanent
- Listing type
- Job vacancy
Become a Travel Consultant for Flight Centre, earn £20,000 PLUS uncapped bonuses (OTE is £28,000) and open up the world!
Flight Centre is a world-leading award-winning travel experience selling company, with stores in 14 countries throughout the globe - it's pretty awesome! Due to our success and growth, we are looking for an enthusiastic travel consultant (travel agent) in our popular East Sheen store. If you would love to start a career in travel sales, this could be the job you've been looking for!
✓ Learn about a diverse range of countries, including a focus on Australia (where Flight Centre was founded!)
✓ Earn excellent incentives in addition to a high base salary of £20,000 (OTE of £28K)
✓ Fantastic store environment
✓ Great travel opportunities
✓ Award-winning benefits
Do you want to:
✓ Work in a successful travel sales environment?
✓ Sell amazing travel experiences?
✓ Build a customer portfolio?
✓ Develop a career within travel?
✓ Be rewarded for your hard work with a great salary?
If so, this is the role for you. With outstanding training, Flight Centre literally offers you the world and opens doors to its management pathway.
What we are looking for:
- An appetite for sales
- Passion for travel (first-hand travel outside of Europe)
- Outstanding people skills to warm our customers
- High level of education (degree preferred)
As our stores are open on the weekend and this can be the most popular time for our customers to visit, you'll need to be prepared to work 3 out of 4 weekends (although you will only work 5 days a week).
Our fantastic benefits include:
- Travel Consultant Apprenticeship Standard Level 3 training and certification
- Dedicated in-house travel team for incredibly discounted trips
- Awesome social events including summer ball, awards ceremonies
- Dedicated in-house health and fitness team with free health screenings
- Free financial consultations
- Free health cash plan
- Employer-matched pension scheme
- Annual leave entitlement increase after 1 year
- Opportunity to take 4-week travel leave every 2 years
- Opportunity to take 3-month sabbatical
- Tax-free bike scheme
We're proud to have recently received the accolade of being listed in the top 25 'Great Place to Work® - Best Workplaces 2017'.
Join us in our success and start selling incredible travel experiences!
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Sheet music downloads have become the preferred method of acquiring classical music repertoire. Created by professional musicians, EveryNote.com presents classical sheet music download of over 20.000 popular and hard-to-find music scores over 1000 composers. A major Internet provider of classical sheet music files download online, EveryNote.com offers the largest and most complete digital sheet music download library on the Web in the world. Instantly download, view and print your favorite classical music score. Everynote.com currently offers thousands of classical music compositions for Piano, Violin, Cello, Flute, Clarinet, Classical Guitar, Voice, Chamber and Choral music.Many more instruments, composers, genres added every day! EveryNote.com has been featured in The New York Times, Globe and Mail, Musical America and many other publications.
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A noted Italian composer, violinist, and organist, Giovanni Battista Bassani studied in Venice under Daniele Castrovillari and in Ferrara under Giovanni Legrenzi. Bassani was appointed organist at the Accademia della Morte in Ferrara. Bassani later became maestro di cappella at the court of Duke Alessandro II della Mirandola and was appointed principe at the Accademica Filarmonica in Bologna. Bassani became director of music at S. Maria Maggiore in Bergamo. A celebrated violinist, Giovanni Battista Bassani wrote trio sonatas that are still performed.
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Dead bombing suspect boxed in Lowell Golden Gloves
LOWELL, Mass. -- The Boston Marathon suspect who died in a gunfight early Friday morning is a Lowell Golden Gloves boxer who told The Sun in 2004, "I like the USA," after winning his first fight here.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was reportedly chased down by officials in a massive manhunt and killed. His brother, Dzhokhar, 19, is still on the run.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev grew up in Grozny, Chechnya, the capital city of the Chechen Republic. Much of Grozny was destroyed during the Russia-Chechen conflict, and Tsarnaev and his family moved to the United States in 2003 in hopes of starting a new life, according to a Sun article from January 2004.
Tsarnaev fought in the Lowell Sun Charities Golden Gloves Tournament in 2010 in the 178-pound novice class and won his fight.
"I wanted to fight in the Gloves to see how I would do," Tsarnaev told The Sun that night. "So far, so good."
He also said: "I like the USA ... America has a lot of jobs. That's something Russia doesn't have. You have a chance to make money here if you are willing to work."
Tsarnaev said his first love was music. He said he studied music at a school in Russia and played the piano and violin.
Tsarnaev later represented Team New England in the National Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions in 2009 and 2010.
Tommy Lee, president of the South Boston Boxing League, said Tsarnaev came to his gym in 2010 and 2011. He wasn't a daily boxer, but still a "phenomenal athlete," Lee said.
"He had great hand speed, great hand-eye coordination. Just everything you want in a boxer," Lee said. "He was very, very respectful, very courteous. He seemed like a very normal young man. There was no anger whatsoever."
Lee received a text Friday morning from one of the gym regulars, saying that Tsarnaev was the bomber and had died in a gunfight.
Lee said he responded with "haha."
"I thought he was joking. There was no way," Lee said. "Then I saw the most recent photograph, and my heart sunk."
Dr. Joseph Downes of Downes Chiropractic in Lowell presented Tsarnaev with a trophy at the Lowell tournament in 2010.
"I only got to meet him minutes here and there, but I recall him listening to his coach in the corner and doing what most fighters do," Downes said. "He would listen to his coaches and try to make himself better and more effective.
"When I heard, it was shocking because Lowell boxing helps them along in life," he added. "Unfortunately, some kids get left of center and get themselves in problems."


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Adults came out to the multiplex in droves this weekend, as two R-rated films —"Ted"and"Magic Mike"— dominated ticket sales.
The weekend winner was "Ted," "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane's raunchy comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and a talking, potty-mouthed teddy bear. The movie collected a robust $54.1 million upon its debut, while Steven Soderbergh's "Magic Mike" started off with $39.2 million. The latter film, which stars Channing Tatum, is loosely based on the actor's brief stint as a stripper at age 18.
Tyler Perry's "Madea's Witness Protection," meanwhile, opened with a solid $26.4 million — slightly ahead of the $25 million the director-actor-writer's last "Madea" film debuted with last summer. The only flop of the weekend was "People Like Us," an adult drama that launched with just $4.3 million and failed to connect with an older audience.
For more on the weekend's hits and misses, check out the latest box office video report.
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A singer/songwriter and poet, Rupert Holmes has performed and written for many music legends, and gained fame on his own with a series of successful pop singles during the 1970s and '80s. Although a reserved playwright and book writer, his contributions to the rock music industry and Broadway have been numerous. Holmes was born in England because of his father's involvement in the U.S. Air Force. After the family moved to New York, Holmes developed an interest in music. He attended the Manhattan School of Music and, after graduation, began seriously considering a career as a songwriter. He played piano with the Cuff Links and the Buoys in the '70s, also arranging and composing songs for Gene Pitney, the Platters, the Drifters, and the Partridge Family. In 1971, at the age of 24, Holmes gained a hit on both the American and U.K. charts with "Timothy."
After this first hit, Holmes decided to pursue a singing career of his own. He released his first album, Widescreen, in 1974, and then produced albums for Barbra Streisand, Sparks, and Sailor. He released several more albums in the '70s, including Rupert Holmes, Singles, and Pursuit of Happiness. The '80s took Holmes into a new realm of success. Although known as a singer/songwriter, he acquired international fame with "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" and "Him," which placed on both the U.K. and American charts. It only added to the success of the albums Partners in Crime, Adventure, and Full Circle.
Holmes later turned his attention to Broadway, and became a playwright. His 1986 Broadway musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, was the recipient of five Tony Awards. (Two awards, Best Book of a Musical and Original Score, were given to Holmes himself.) He also recorded the theme for the AMC film channel's original series, Remember WENN. Holmes also began work on another musical, The Picture of Dorian Gray, based on the Oscar Wilde book of the same name. - Kim Summers


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The good news is that the program is a marked improvement over New.FamilySearch.org.The bad news is that some of the messed up family connections from New FamilySearch are carried over to Family Tree. Presently, there is no way to edit the faulty family relationships and so any meaningful work in cleaning up the database will have to be postponed until further editing features are implemented.
Interestingly, the pedigree chart showing the relationships carried over are mostly correct. But the Family Members shown on the individual's page is a conglomeration of all of the worst of the data over from New FamilySearch. So, if you had problems with New FamilySearch, be prepared to see the some of the same issues with the new program, at least at first. For example, they have my Great-great-grandfather, Sidney Tanner, married to his mother, with his grandfather as his father, with his father married to his grandmother and so forth. It boggles the mind to even imagine how people got this absolutely settled pedigree so messed up!
I am beginning to suspect that the task of straightening out the pedigrees is going to be monumental. It looks like the procedure will be essentially as follows:
- Find and merge all the duplicates.
- Unlink any unrelated individuals.
- Search again for duplicates and do another merge.
- Add individuals to the families, one by one, checking at each addition for duplicates in the file.
- Reordering the children chronologically.
- Adding sources for each individual.
- Reviewing the work periodically to make sure there have been no incorrect changes.
There may need to be additional steps in the future, but following this order will begin to cut down the number of duplicates and begin to correct all of the errors in the program. It would be helpful if the program has some automatic way of searching for duplicates combined with a merge function. Maybe that is coming?
It is too bad that they imported so much of the messed up information from New FamilySearch.


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International Energy Agency released its annual Medium-Term Oil Market Report
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Oil is way to cheap right now. We get told since decades that the black stuff is running out. Petrol hasn't been that cheap in a long time, making electric cars uninteresting. A high oil price would increase the pressure …


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kalcidis wrote:That Pauline with Dambala 12" is a real treat. Found it in a store here in Stockholm some time last year and it totally blew my mind. It was rather cheap so I picked it thinking and hoping it would be a nice slice of lovers rock -- wasn't prepared for the ethereal deep roots vibe of it. I love the arrangement which isn't a lazy two chord roots song in any way, and the mix is just stellar interstellar if that says anything...
Mark T wrote:Nice one Marc, I'd like a copy of that Barry Brown/Ranking Joe tune, had it on an old Rodigan tape - I haven't been lucky enough to see it anywhere for that price.
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kalcidis wrote:Nice haul BMC. I'm a bit curious about that Bunny Lie Lie LP. From what I recall it's the same as his Bunny Lie Lie in Africa -- Give Me Love (SW&K LP). But the track listing might differ a little. If that's the case I'm curious if this LP also has the same volume problems. I think it's on the song »Come On Youthman« that this is noticeable. A great album!
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Reader Comments (143)
Maybe the cake was for Yoda. :)
LMAO, I'd be disappointed with that measly old cake after 60 miles of anything. Make me laugh you did.
did yoda order this cake? it sounds like he talks.
When did Yoda start doing cake decorating?!
poor raspberry, it is.
Yoda cakes are fun, even in pink.
Is the decorater from the Degoba system?
Unless it was Yoda talking.. then cake this good would be...
AND let me tell you.. if 60 miles you did.. dissappointed are you!!
This is such a pathetic cake it almost makes me want to cry...
Make more sense it would, if Master Yoda on the cake, he was.
A cake for Yoda this is!
Did Yoda make this cake?
It looks like it might be pretty yummy though.
giggled I did. funny that cake is. good one!
For Jar Jar Binks this cake was made thinks I.
Tammy R.
Used the force, this wreckerator should have.
Yoda says, "Cake, eat it I will"
The economy is so bad that Yoda has begun an apprenticeship as a cake decorator.
The line, "Do or do not. There is no try," comes to mind. And? "That is why you fail."
By the way, it says "congraDulations" (I suppose. This baker should take the alineation classes from older posts).
A lonely nipple perhaps??
Sad that cake looks.
Hmmm. I wonder if this was supposed to be a "boob" cake?
as an English major and editor, one of my biggest pet peeves is when people spell it "congradulations" and not with the correct "t." UGH!
Laughing I am.
oh now that is the best one I've seen in a long time. that lonely little berry in the middle just cracks me up!
I'm glad you mentioned that was a raspberry (raspberry?) I thought it was a prune. Gave a whole different mind visual of 60 miles.
WV-crablesq: artificial crabmeat
;^) Jan the Gryphon
Amateur this one must be
"Well, yes I was watching Star Wars while decorating this. How did you know?"
It sounds like Yoda is getting into cake decoration. Decorating I am, yes
:) Leah
If Yoda ordered this cake, then I can understand...
From the Yoda/Dr. Suess bakery it is, yes.
wv..gramest..is when your gramma is the best she's the gramest gramma there is.
60 miles? Breast cancer walk, maybe? Would give that lone raspberry some meaning, anyway... ;)
Love it!!! Your commentary always makes me laugh.
Did Yoda commission this cake?
Sickened also am I. For what she did 60 miles wonders I?
Okay this is making my head hurt, it's like translating Spanish!
You must get rid of the flying ad!
Did this person walk the Breast Cancer 3-Day? 60 miles in 3 days to raise money for the CURE?? I do the 3-Day each year in memory of my Mom and am wondering if that's what this cake is for. If so, after sleeping in a pink tent for two days and peeing in a porta-potty every 3 miles, this cake would bring a few laughs! p.s. Love your site! And so do all my friends!
I have to wonder if this was a cake made for someone who completed the 3-Day breast cancer walk... that might explain the lonely little raspberry, and add a whole other level of wreckiness to it... :-)
Did Yoda make this!?
Channeling Yoda maybe they were. Poor sad cake it is.
That's a very sad cake...
maybe it was for yoda? :)
talk like yoda, this is.
Wow, bad grammar combined with bad spelling...what a terrible combo!
I actually like how this is worded. It's an ugly cake, though.
So Yoda did 60 miles of what?
Monique D.
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Like Yoda, we speak.
Maybe it's because I'm allergic to it, but that raspberry looks extremely threatening for some reason. It's like he doesn't care that he's the only one on that cake... he's not afraid to be seen, upside down, without any friends. Personally, I think that raspberry might be trying to take over the world.
and I think Yoda might be kinda mad that we are ripping off his language... just sayin
Sounds like Yoda was the wreckerator here.