Model Train Magazine Knowledge Base
What is the difference between a BELT line and a TRUNK line? I was flipping through some old Model Train magazines, and I came across an article about how this guy made a layout where there was an interchange between a City Belt Line and a Trunk Line. I get that a Belt line connects the different railroads in the city to each other (Like the Belt Railway of Chicago, or the Indiana Harbor Belt) but I dont know what a TRUNK line really is (like the Grand Trunk Western). Can someone explain to me what one is? I would rather appreciate it. =]
can I still get in absolute perfect shape before summer? Okay if I watch my calorie intake,cut out sugars and soda,do cardio 3-5 times a week 30 min each time, and weight train 2-3 days a week for 30 brisk minutes each time would I be able to get in perfect (magazine model) shape my the middle of june? is a month and a half enough time? i'm 5'6'' and 125 pounds and i'm 16 so do you think I have a chance.
How do I get money for being a male model? And how much pay should a male model expect on average? I am a poor college student around the Chicago area and I need to make some money. I know that people make good money modeling for all kinds of things and that good models are not a dime-a-dozen. I don't mean this to be vain, but I think I do have a body that is suited for modeling. Even compared to models that I see in magazines I think I have a comparable body. I am about 5'11'' 185, muscle everywhere, low body fat, ripped abs etc... (drug-free bodybuilder type) again, I don't mean to sound vain, I just want to know how I can cash in on my body type, which I consider to be a rare commodity. I never intended to try and look good to become a model, my body is just a result of my years of training as a fighter, but I know that I can also get paid for how I look. All I need to know is how?? I have tried to research it myself but I don't have any money for an agent or anything, I have no money to invest in it, that's the whole reason I want to do this, to MAKE money. I also don't have time to do this like a career. I am a busy guy as it is, and to be honest I am not the least bit interested in becoming a professional model. If such a place exists that I can just show up, get my picture taken and take home some cash for it, that would be great! Can somebody help me out? There has got to be places that are looking for people like me without making me invest before I get paid... right? HELP ME YAHOO ANSWER PEOPLE!!
Is anyone here,an enterprising or work for ebony/Jet magazine? I'm am 14 years old and I'm interested in being a business manager for performers or Athletes. I also want to be an publisher for Ebony/Jet magazine,Vibe, Crisis,Sister 2 Sister, or The source . I'm writing a Dream Job essay at my high school[Business, Computer Applications And Entrepreneurship Magnet H.S] an I have to interveiw somebody who works in the feild I want to work in. 1. What are the Qualifications - including training, special skills or experience? 2.What is the working environment while on the job? 3.What are the educational requirements? 4. How much would you make in a year? 5. Are you really passionate about this career?If so why? 6.On your first interview how, did you feel. And what where some of the questions they ask? 7.What was best moment in your life that stand out for you as Buisnesswoman or man? 8. Who is your role model?[my role model is John H.Johnson. Because he came from provety to the founder of Ebony/Jet Magazine] Thank for your time
Is anyone here works in the field of enterprising or work for a magazine company? I'm am 14 years old and I'm interested in being a business manager for performers or Athletes. I also want to be an publisher for Ebony/Jet magazine,Vibe, Crisis,Sister 2 Sister, or The source . I'm writing a Dream Job essay at my high school[Business, Computer Applications And Entrepreneurship Magnet H.S] an I have to interveiw somebody who works in the feild I want to work in. 1. What are the Qualifications - including training, special skills or experience? 2.What is the working environment while on the job? 3.What are the educational requirements? 4. How much would you make in a year? 5. Are you really passionate about this career?If so why? 6.On your first interview how, did you feel. And what where some of the questions they ask? 7.What was best moment in your life that stand out for you as Buisnesswoman or man? 8. Who is your role model?[my role model is John H.Johnson. Because he came from provety to the founder of Ebony/Jet Magazine] Thank for your tim
HELP! I need to know if this is a modeling scam? Hey I was recently contacted by someone off of modelmayhem.com I am a professional runway and print model for the Seattle,WA market. Can you guys help me out by reading the e-mails he sent me and let me know what you think. I have been scammed before and told myself it was never going to happen again to me, let me know your honest opinion. Thanks! Hello, My name is Yanpes Scott.. I am freelance modeling agent working for Complex Magazine in conjunction with Caribbean Magazine as a colabo-or in New York. We shall be recruiting models for a 2009 Launching of a new magazine which you can also get the details on this website listed here www.youtube.com. Currently the company needs models for the new millennium lunching of a colabor-or special edition of a 20 magazines.I saw your profile and i appreciate them we are happy to inform you that you are one of the few Models chosen out of the screening exercise performed Model Mayhem as directed by the modeling Agency. and I would like us to do some work together.I presently have a good offer for you. I want to know if you are interested in modeling because I need pictures of a good looking Model who will be on the magazine cover for the Millennium lunching edition.Please let me know if you are interested in the Job. You stand a chance of making a reasonable $400 as a welcome assignment compensation fee from this deal to start,and even a noticeable fame. Let me know if you are interested by mailing me in my offer and I would give you further details.Please get back to me asap.You can as well visit complex magazine website inclusive www.complex.com. I will be glad if you can still get me more models. Warmest Regards, Yanpes Scott Top Girls: Mila Kunis | Olivia Munn | Kim Kardashian | Rachelle Leah | Kristen Bell | Fergie | Alicia Keys | Katrina Bowden | Cassie | Rihanna | Heather Graham | Paula Patton Features: Complex Video | Celebrities | Style | Product Guide | Gear | Girls | Sneakers | Hot Complex | Complex Women | Movies | Music | Video Games | Win Stuff | Events Local Guides: Atlanta | Boston | Chicago | Las Vegas | Los Angeles | Miami | New York | Philadelphia | San Diego | Honolulu | San Francisco | Seattle | Buenos Aires | Montreal Than I sent him a response e-mail saying I was interested and he sent me this back. Hello, Thanks for your response and interest.The taken pictures will be used for the magazine cover which our website is www.complex.com. The name of the company is Complex Magazine. It has just been established in United Kingdom also.Presently the company needs a Model for Next month edition and am giving you the offer.Your Jobs will be exhibited on our website and also after the first set of picture are being sent. We are seeking a good looking model/talents that are dependable and willing to work in and apart of a team. We want good people to represent our company as well as themselves. We are accepting new upcoming female and Male models & talent to be trained. If you feel you have what it takes then please submit a full body photographs along with a resume or brief bio about you to us. Our magazines will be sent to you in order for you to know about the company. Subsequently depending on how best this suits. You could be invited over to the company to sign a contract with us.The location of the shoots will be somewhere close to where you are located..There is an assigned make-up artist wardrobe Artist for the project.As soon as we agree, the make-up artist and the photographer will get in touch with you to agree on the location, date and time of the shoots. As written in my previous mail, you will get $400 i.e 10% out of your pay to start which will be sent to you immediately. After payment has been received, the photo shoots will be taken and sent to the company.There will be a pre-arranged hair/ make up artist that will be coming over to you for the shoots.They will be contacting you for proper arrangement of time and location after payments has been made. Guess the arrangement is understood. In order for payment to be made to you, provide me with the following details so we can mail you the payment:Moreover there will be no nudity or implied nudity involved. REQUIREMENTS: • Model• Must be btw 1 year old & above with a valid id. • Best reachable time • Best contact number to reached • Submit photos along with a bio or resume • E-mail us photos of professional Photo's u have taken with the Studio name you took it from Complex Magazine Model & Talent Management EMAIL: complexmodels@yahoo.com Subject Line "Interested In Modeling" Check Us Out At These Websites: www.complex.com YOUR FULL NAME: YOUR FULL MAILING ADDRESS (PO Boxes NOT ALLOWED) : CITY: STATE: ZIP CODE: PHONE: AGE: SEX: Regards Management What do you guys think?
Is it possible to flatten your belly without diet but only doing workouts regularly? Ok here's my scenario , I am 19 years old and my belly is around 34 . My goal is two loose two inches of my belly or even better just have a 4 packs (not even a 6 pack) . To be honest I cannot follow those "super" diets recommended by those Men's magazine but what I can guarantee is that i can avoid alcohol in parties . Also i exercise almost 6 times a day (3 times 45 min. of cardio w/ push-ups and crunches and 2 times 20 min cardio w/ weight training which includes a whole body split workout) . My goal is to have a almost modeled type bod. Do you think i am doing the right things and is it possible for me to achieve my goals tnxxxxx .
Where can I find good modeling jobs? I have done training through Barbizon but ICE is really bad at finding jobs where can I find good listings for local modeling jobs in Ohio the newspaper, magazine, online what websites please help I am lost
they just asked me to be a hollister model ? some guy instant messaged me, saying this, i think its a fraud, what do you think? because if its true, i just blocked him and just lost an opportunity. HOLLISTERCO TALENT DIRECTOR ID #315A said: Hello my name is Danielle Puder, I was browsing your profile on the social networking site toospoiled.com and I was wondering are you currently intersted in modeling and are you a fan of Hollister clothing TM. tati
How do i put the bolt back in my romanian training rifle? I have a rimfire .22 bolt action model 1976 Romanian training rifle. I know quite abit about rifles but for some reason this thing has me stumped. it almost looks as the the magazine well is blocking it from reinsertion. any comments would be appreciated thank you tried that, its not working its stuck on the body of the the magazinewell. the rimfire firing pin is getn stuck on the sheet metal well i took it to an old vintage arms guy. he simply said that some how the bolt itself twisted into the locked and loaded position upon sliding it out of the action. all fixed now, thanks for the info guys
what's the most unusual thing you saw anyone do in public? For me today i was on the train and this one guy was looking at a playboy magazine with a big picture of a hot model and he had his right hand in his pants doing well you can imagine. Everybody moved away from that guy. Come on in PUBLIC on the train doing that on the train? that was the weirdest most unusual thing i ever saw anyone do in public. What about you, what unusually weird things have you seen people do?
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can you check if there is any mistake?? thank you!? Beauty is in the eye of beholder is an unknown proverb nowadays. It is only a simple sentence that does not make any sense anymore. Some women think social interaction and personal success are depending on physical attraction. Being perfect is a common issue but when this issue becomes obsession it can become more serious mental illness. Plastic surgery is a huge obsession among all peoples including teens, preteens, and adolescents. It is not mostly personal choice; it is the choice that peoples gets from all those models in the magazines articles. Plastic surgery can be the biggest risk in life. It is not healthy way to look perfect. Plastic surgery can affect person physical, socially and mentally abilities. Plastic surgery cause many types of side effects. It is painful procedure that can even lead to death too. A young mother, dehlmalyz Rios who was 26 years old had a surgery. Two days after the surgery her body rejected the fat that was deposits in her calves. She died by leaving two children behind her. It can spoils somebody life too. Some side effects are so everlasting that can affect some body’s life through all years. No matter how well the surgeons are it is still a medical procedure that effect person health and well being. Plastic surgery includes cutting, bending, stretching and other method to manipulate body structure in order to get desired shape. This is a reason of stress on body result to pain, discomfort, and swelling in body. Plastic surgery caused depression because of frustration of all different kind of medication. Also it caused a person to lying in bed for long period and restricted too many activities. It is very hard for a person to accept new look and reaction of their friends for this look and guilt of having plastic surgery caused a person to get depressed. Cosmetic surgery is something that depends on doctor qualification too. When a doctor performs surgery it is up to him more than a god to save a human being life. Doctor who claimed to offer surgery for low prices is all over in the place. Most of these doctors are untrained they attend a seminar in hotel and learned how to perform surgery within few hours. Doctor who do not have license shows the simple way to get surgery. Acc to an issue in Miami, a doctor named reinaldo slivestre practiced his surgeons out of small office. He had only little medical training. One of his patients named Alexandra Baez claimed that he gave him breast implants instead of more muscular chest he wanted. Many doctors who performed surgery are not licensed by American board of plastic surgeons and also testing is not performed on these surgeons’ tools. Dirty tools are the main cause infection in body and sometime death too. For these kind of untrained doctors patient are just source of money. Cosmetic surgery is not a cup of everybody tea. Some people try to hard to get plastic surgery. Plastic surgery contains thousands of dollars and peoples expensive time. Some peoples avoid their basic needs in life to just get plastic surgery. Plastic surgery should not be allowed for changing appearance. Wealth is an important aspect of life without wealth there is nothing in life. for instance if somebody see a person who looks like Michael Jackson after surgery than chances are that he or she will say something funny about him. But because of his money when he walks in the street everybody just dying to see his one sight. If a person gets negative result of plastic surgery and he is not rich, chances are that he won’t get wealth in his life. What about people who do not get positive result after surgery? Surgeons just say one word sorry and walk away without caring about anybody feelings. So basically peoples and surgeons are both equally responsible for negative affect of surgery. There is some good effect of cosmetic surgery too. Cosmetic surgery is something that can give you close to something too wants. An improved appearance has a positive effect on person self-confidence, which is an affects emotional and physical well-being.But it is a risk that depends on negative and positive effects. Being perfect is something can not everybody achieve. There are some people who are happy about plastic surgery but there are many peoples who are crying over what they did. Plastic surgery can give you pleasure in society but it cost lots of psychological pain.
what is barmuda triangle and where it is situated? is it mistry of this world http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl The Bermuda Triangle (also known as Devil's Triangle) is a nearly half-million square-mile (1.2 million km2) area of ocean roughly defined by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and the southernmost tip of Florida. The Bermuda Triangle has become popular through representation by the mass media, in which it is a paranormal site in which the known laws of physics are either violated, altered, or both. http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl While there is a common belief that a number of ships and airplanes have disappeared under highly unusual circumstances in this region, the United States Coast Guard and others disagree with that assessment, citing statistics demonstrating that the number of incidents involving lost ships and aircraft is no larger than that of any other heavily traveled region of the world. Many of the alleged mysteries have proven not so mysterious or unusual upon close examination, with inaccuracies and misinformation about the cases often circulating and recirculating over the decades. http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl The triangle is an arbitrary shape, crudely marking out a corridor of the Atlantic, stretching northward from the West Indies, along the North American seaboard, as far as the Carolinas. In the Age of Sail, ships returning to Europe from parts south would sail north to the Carolinas, then turn east for Europe, taking advantage of the prevailing wind direction across the North Atlantic. Even with the development of steam and internal-combustion engines, a great deal more shipping traffic was (and still is) found nearer the US coastline than towards the empty centre of the Atlantic. The Triangle also loosely conforms with the course of the Gulf Stream as it leaves the West Indies, and has always been an area of volatile weather. The combination of distinctly heavy maritime traffic and tempestuous weather meant that a certain, also distinctly large, number of vessels would flounder in storms. Given the historical limitations of communications technology, most of those ships that sank without survivors would disappear without a trace. The advent of wireless communications, radar, and satellite navigation meant that the unexplained disappearances largely ceased at some point in the 20th Century. The occasional vessel still sinks, but rarely without a trace. It should be noted that both the concept and the name of the Bermuda Triangle date only to the 1960s, and were the products of an American journalist. http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl Other areas often purported to possess unusual characteristics are the Devil's Sea, located near Japan, and the Marysburgh Vortex or the Great Lakes Triangle, located in eastern Lake Ontario. Map of the popularly-held dimensions of the Bermuda Triangle; recent claims by researchers alude to a more "trapezium" shape, extending back into the Gulf of Mexico and down into the Caribbean Sea.Contents History The cover of the 1977 Panther paperback edition of Berlitz's The Bermuda Triangle First citations The first mention of disappearances in the area was made in 1950 by E.V.W. Jones as a sidebar on the Associated Press wire service regarding recent ship losses. Jones' article notes the "mysterious disappearances" of ships, airplanes and small boats in the region, and ascribes it the name "The Devil's Triangle". It was next mentioned in 1952 in a Fate Magazine article by George X. Sand, who outlined several "strange marine disappearances". The term "Bermuda Triangle" was popularized by Vincent Gaddis in a 1964 Argosy feature. http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl Popularized by Berlitz The area achieved its current fame largely through the efforts of Charles Berlitz in his 1974 book The Bermuda Triangle (right) and its subsequent film adaptation. The book recounts a long series of mysterious disappearances of ships and aircraft, in particular the December 1945 loss of five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bombers in the infamous Flight 19 incident. The book was a bestseller and included several theories about the cause of the disappearances, including accidents due to high traffic volumes; natural storms; "temporal holes"; the lost empire of Atlantis; transportation by extraterrestrial technology; and other natural or supernatural causes. Skeptical responses The marine insurer Lloyd's of London has determined the "triangle" to be no more dangerous than any other area of ocean, and does not charge unusual rates for passage through the region. Coast Guard records confirm their conclusion. http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl Skeptics comment that the disappearance of a train between two stops would be more convincing evidence of paranormal activity, and the fact that such things do not occur suggests that paranormal explanations are not needed for the disappearance of ships and airplanes in the far less predictable open ocean. http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl Kusche's research Intrigued by the number of students coming to him looking for information about the Bermuda Triangle, Lawrence Kusche, a reference librarian with Arizona State University at the time of the Flight 19 incident, began an exhaustive follow-up investigation of the original reports. His findings were eventually published in 1975 as The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved. http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl Kusche's research revealed a number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies between Berlitz's accounts and statements from eyewitnesses, participants and others involved in the initial incidents. He noted cases where pertinent information went unreported, such as the disappearance of round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst which Berlitz had presented as a mystery, despite clear evidence that Crowhurst had fabricated the accounts of his voyage and had probably committed suicide. Another example was the ore-carrier Berlitz recounted as lost without trace three days out of an Atlantic port when it had been lost three days out of a port with the same name in the Pacific Ocean. Kusche also argued that a large percentage of the incidents attributed to the Bermuda Triangle's mysterious influence actually occurred well outside it. Kusche came to several conclusions: The number of ships and airplanes reported missing in the area was not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than any other part of the ocean. In an area frequented by tropical storms, the number of disappearances that did occur was neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious. The numbers themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat listed as missing would be reported, but not necessarily its eventual, if belated, return to port. The circumstances of confirmed disappearances were frequently misreported in Berlitz's accounts. The numbers of ships disappearing in supposedly calm weather, for instance, did not tally with weather reports published at the time. Methane hydrates Main article: Methane clathrate An explanation for some of the disappearances focuses on the presence of vast fields of methane hydrates on the continental shelves. A paper was published in 1981 by the United States Geological Survey about the appearance of hydrates in the Blake Ridge area, off the southeastern United States coast. Periodic methane eruptions may produce regions of frothy water that are no longer capable of providing adequate buoyancy for ships. If this were the case, such an area forming around a ship could cause it to sink very rapidly and without warning. Laboratory experiments have proven that bubbles can, indeed, sink a scale model ship by decreasing the density of the water. Hypothetically, methane gas might also be involved in airplane crashes, as it is not as dense as normal air and thus would not generate the amount of lift required to keep the airplane flying. Methane can cut out an aircraft engine with very little levels of it in the atmosphere. Tidal waves Main article: Freak wave Research has shown that tidal, freak, or rogue waves can reach up to 30 m (100 feet) in height and are capable of sinking large ships within moments. Although these are very rare, in some areas ocean currents mean they happen more often than the normal. Such waves have now been hypothesized as a cause for many unexplained shipping losses over the years. Some research suggests that some of these waves are caused by giant bubbles of methane rising to the surface. These giant bubbles are created when methane vents at the ocean bottom become clogged; then pressure builds up and eventually the gas bursts out and rises rapidly to the surface thus generating the wave. Research has shown that such bubbles are able to sink scale sized ships with great ease and speed. Famous incidents Flight 19 Main article: Flight 19 One of the known Bermuda Triangle incidents concerns the loss of Flight 19, a squadron of five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger torpedo bombers on a training flight out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on December 5, 1945. According to Berlitz, the flight consisted of expert Marine Corps aviators who, after reporting a number of odd visual effects, simply disappeared, an account which isn't entirely true. Furthermore, Berlitz claims that because the TBM Avenger bombers were built to float for long periods, they should have been found the next day considering what were reported as calm seas and a clear sky. However, not only were they never found, a Navy search and rescue seaplane that went after them was also lost. Adding to the intrigue is that the Navy's report of the accident was ascribed to "causes or reasons unknown". While the basic facts of Berlitz's version of the story are essentially accurate, some important details are missing. The image of a squadron of seasoned combat aviators disappearing on a sunny afternoon is inaccurate. Rather, it was a squadron of lost, inexperienced flight trainees forced to ditch their out-of-fuel airplanes into unknown stormy waters in the dark of night. As for the Navy's report, it is claimed that the original report blamed the accident on the commander's confusion (Lt. Taylor abandoned his airplanes twice in the Pacific after getting lost returning to his carrier), but the wording was changed in deference to the wishes of his family. Another factor to consider is that the TBM Avenger Aircraft were never designed for crash-landing into water. Wartime experience in the Pacific showed that an Avenger aircraft would sink very quickly if landed on the water. Especially with novice pilots at the helm - an Avenger would be very difficult to land on calm water - let alone the perilous rough seas in the Bermuda Triangle. Star Tiger If the disappearance of Flight 19 had been an isolated incident, it would have remained one of the great mysteries of modern aviation. However, aircraft disappearances continued to be reported near the same location, some accompanied by equally extended and confusing radio traffic, including that of a four-engine Tudor IV airliner named Star Tiger, in the predawn hours of January 31, 1948. Piloted by Captain B. W. McMillan, the airliner, which carried twenty-nine passengers and crew on board, had left hours earlier from Santa Maria, Azores, one of numerous scheduled fuel stopover points on its route from London, England to Havana, Cuba. While approaching Bermuda, McMillan made the expected contact with Kindley Field, the next stopover, requesting a radio bearing to calibrate his navigation systems and ensure he remained on course. With the response indicating that the plane was slightly off course, its position was corrected after Bermuda relayed a first-class bearing of 72 degrees from the island. At this point, with Star Tiger less than two hours flight away, McMillan gave confirmation of an ETA of 05:00 hours, an hour late due to strong headwinds; no further transmission from the aircraft was ever received. Armed with precise reports of the plane's last known position, rescue operations were launched after the craft was determined overdue for arrival; but no trace of the aircraft was ever found. In the report issued soon thereafter by the Civil Air Ministry, numerous hypotheses as to what might have occurred during the flight's final two hours are given, before each being subsequently rejected: "There would accordingly be no grounds for supposing that Star Tiger fell into the sea in consequence of having been deprived of her radio, having failed to find her destination, and having exhausted her fuel." "There is good reason to suppose that no distress message was transmitted from the aircraft, for there were many radio receiving stations listening on the aircraft's frequencies, and none reported such a message." "...The weather was stable, there were no atmospheric disturbances of a serious kind which might cause structural damage to the aircraft, and there were no electrical storms." It was ruled that the aircraft could not have gone off course, as the broadcast bearing from Bermuda, with winds prevailing, would have brought it within thirty miles of the island: "The aircraft could hardly have failed to find the island in a short time, in the conditions of visibility which prevailed." Engine difficulty was ruled out as a likely cause, since at such late stage in the flight, without the added weight of extra fuel aboard, the aircraft might have been flown safely on three, or even two, engines instead of the four it had. The probability of the aircraft entirely losing three engines in the course of under two hours was considered absurd. Faced with the accumulation of evidence, or perhaps lack thereof, the board of investigation addressed the loss of the Star Tiger with remarked eloquence: "In closing this report it may truly be said that no more baffling problem has ever been presented for investigation. In the complete absence of any reliable evidence as to either the nature or the cause of the accident of Star Tiger the Court has not been able to do more than suggest possibilities, none of which reaches the level even of probability. Into all activities which involve the co-operation of man and machine two elements enter of a very diverse chaarcter [sic?]. There is an incalculable element of the human equation dependent upon imperfectly known factors; and there is the mechanical element subject to quite different laws. A breakdown may occur in either separately or in both in conjunction. Or some external cause may overwhelm both man and machine. What happened in this case will never be known and the fate of Star Tiger must remain an unsolved mystery." 2 years ago http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl
What are my chances of getting into Columbia ? U of Chicago? Georgetown? School Very Prestigious Private School GPA 3.9 out of 4 SAT Haven't taken yet Co-currics Varsity Baseball team Play guitar (5 years of private lessons and play at school concerts) 10 years of Saturday morning Polish School Columnist for school magazine Recreational Badminton team Member of Science Club Member of World Affairs CLub Model UN club Member of Weight-training club Comm Service Worked at healthcare centre Head of Communications at an International Science Fair Canvasser for local Politician Extra-co-currics Saturday Morning Polish School (STudent for 13 years) I take the IB diploma (basically its extra-extra-AP)
What are my chances at uPenn ? MIT ? Chicago? Field Economics and Financial Engineering School Very Prestigious Private School in Canada GPA Dunno , but my average is 90% and I take the IB diploma , which is extremely demanding and academic SAT Haven't taken yet , but lets assume 2 000 or so Co-currics Varsity Baseball team Play guitar (7 years of private lessons and play at school concerts) 10 years of Saturday morning Polish School Columnist for school magazine Recreational Badminton team Member of Science Club Member of World Affairs CLub Model UN club Member of Weight-training club Member of French Debate Team Member of English Debate Team Comm Service Worked at healthcare centre Head of Communications at an International Science Fair Canvasser for local Politician My school doesnt really handout positions of leadership in clubs , but i do plan on running for School Officer
What are my chances at Brown or Georgetown ? and if not , whats the highest I can reach? School Very Prestigious Private School in Canada GPA Dunno , but my average is 90% and I take the IB diploma , which is extremely demanding and academic SAT Haven't taken yet , but lets assume 2 000 Co-currics Varsity Baseball team Play guitar (7 years of private lessons and play at school concerts) 10 years of Saturday morning Polish School Columnist for school magazine Recreational Badminton team Member of Science Club Member of World Affairs CLub Model UN club Member of Weight-training club Comm Service Worked at healthcare centre Head of Communications at an International Science Fair Canvasser for local Politician Extra-co-currics Saturday Morning Polish School (STudent for 13 years) My school doesnt really handout positions of leadership in clubs , but i don plan on running for School Officer but i do plan on running *
Do you like my idea for a Sims 2 expansion pack? Sims 2 Celebrities You can be a singer, dancer, actor, or supermodel. (I need more!) Start from being a child. Once your child gains enough gossip from magazines (a magazine rack will be in the items. the gossip will work as skills do), they will be able to have another aspiration: celebrity. Teens and Adults may have this aspiration, too. Go on the computer, and choose the option "Get agency newsletters by e-mail". They will automatically popup whenever one comes. The newsletter works like the newspaper. You can choose what you want to be (singer, dancer, etc). Once you choose, you will have to move out (if you're a Child or a Teen, move out with parents) to Sim Angeles. Singer - Meet your voice coach. They will train your voice, and this will count as a skill. Once your voice is good, they will hook you up with a record. Once your first record is out, you start performing, making more records, etc! Dancer - Meet with dance trainer. They will teach you to dance, and this counts as a skill. Once you're good enough, your trainer will hook you up to movies, tv shows, and performances. Actor - Meet with your acting coach. He will teach you to act, and this counts as a skill. Once you're good enough, he will hook you up with movies and tv shows. Supermodel - Meet your runway trainer. He will teach you how to model, and this will count as a skill. Once you're good enough, he will hook you up with an agency. After your first fashion show, you will start doing more fashion shows, commercials, and photo shoots. Once you become Famous, you can choose huge mansions and expensive clothes. You can walk down the red carpet and do interviews. Will you succeed as a celebrity, or be flushed down the toilet? Do you like? I really like the idea!
Dumb Criminals. Star If You Like? DUMB CRIMINALS Real Crimes Committed By Dumb Criminals Chicago: A man was wanted for throwing bricks through jewelry store windows and making off with the loot. He was arrested last night after throwing a brick into a Plexiglas window...the brick bounced back, hit him in the head and knocked him cold until the police got there. Portsmouth, RI: Police charged Gregory Rosa, 25, with a string of vending machine robberies in January when he: 1. fled from police inexplicably when they spotted him loitering around a vending machine and 2. later tried to post his $400 bail in coins. When Stan Caddell wanted to wash his Chevrolet, he backed the car into a foot of water in the Mississippi River at Hannibal, Missouri. When he got out to clean the car, it floated away. Police were able to retrieve the vehicle some distance downstream. According to an officer on the scene, no action would be taken against the driver because "you can't ticket a guy for being stupid..." Kentucky: Two men tried to pull the front off a cash machine by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of their pickup truck. Instead of pulling the front panel off the machine, though, they pulled the bumper off their truck. Scared, they left the scene and drove home. With the chain still attached to the machine. With their bumper still attached to the chain. With their vehicle's license plate still attached to the bumper. A bank robber in Bumpus, Tenn., handed a teller the following note: "Watch out. This is a rubbery. I hav an oozy traned on your but. Dump the in a sack, this one. No die packkets or other triks or I will tare you a new naval. No kwarter with red stuff on them, too." Dr. Creon V.B. Smyk of the Ohio Valley Educational Council says such notes are, lamentably, the rule. "Right across the board, we see poor pre-writing skills, problems with omissions, tense, agreement, spelling and clarity," he moaned. Smyk believes that the quality of robbery notes could be improved if criminals could be taught to plan before writing. "We have to stress organization: Make an outline of your robbery note before you write it," he said. "Some of the notes get totally sidetracked on issues like the make, model and caliber of the gun, number of bullets, etc., until one loses sight of the main idea -- the robbery." A lawyer defending a man accused of burglary tried this creative defense: "My client merely inserted his arm into the window and removed a few trifling articles. His arm is not himself, and I fail to see how you can punish the whole individual for an offense committed by his limb." "Well put," the judge replied. "Using your logic, I sentence the defendant's arm to one year's imprisonment. He can accompany it or not, as he chooses." The defendant smiled. With his lawyer's assistance he detached his artificial limb, laid it on the bench, and walked out. A man in Orange County Municipal Court had been ticketed for driving alone in the carpool lane. He claimed that the four frozen cadavers in the mortuary van he was driving should be counted. The judged ruled that passengers must be alive to qualify. A man was arrested for stealing a car. When he was taken to court for his arraignment the judge asked, how do you plead? Instead of saying guilty or not guilty the man said: "Before we go any further, judge, let me explain why I stole the car." The judge ruled in record time. A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers. The first one shouted, "Nobody move!" When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him. After drinking a little too much, Stewart Butcher went to sleep on a West Virginia railroad track. A while later, something woke him-- a 15 car coal train. "I raised up," said Stewart, "and it knocked me out..." An Australian man accused of murdering his wife can't seem to get his story straight. June Mathew, John Rushton's second wife, testified that Rushton told her his first wife died of a heart attack, ran off with a Baptist minister after committing 55 acts of adultery, and drowned after being washed overboard. Rushton also claimed he was a nuclear physicist, a naval commander, and had been knighted for saving the Queen's life. Mathew, who was married to Rushton for five years, believed him because he was a "good talker..." but those pesky microtremors finally gave him away... An off-duty police officer in Newark, NJ, had a pistol-shaped cigarette lighter, which he had been using all night while drinking at a local tavern. After many hours and drinks, he apparently mistook his 32 revolver for the lighter. When he went to light his cigarette, he shot and killed John Fazzola, who was seated 5 stools away at the bar... An unidentified man in Buenos Aires pushed his wife out of an eighth-floor window but his plan to kill her failed when she became entangled in some power cables below. Seeing she was still alive, the man jumped and tried to land on top of her. He missed... Ann Arbor: The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 7:50am, flashed a gun and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away. Arizona: A company called "Guns For Hire" stages gunfights for Western movies, etc. One day, they received a call from a 47-year-old woman, who wanted to have her husband killed. She got 4-1/2 years in jail. Arkansas: Seems this guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. Seems the liquor store window was made of Plexi-Glass. The whole event was caught on videotape. Baggy clothes may save your life: a 13-year-old boy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia fell 130 feet from his hi-rise apartment and survived with only minor injuries. Witnesses said Daniel Gurgus' baggy sweater caught tree branches on the way down... remember, kids, just say no to Spandex... Burglars in Larch Barrens, Md., tried to cut through a safe using a Laser Tag gun. Carlos Diaz of New York got 18 years to life for committing a series of robberies by pretending a zucchini hidden under his jacket was a gun... England: A German "tourist," supposedly on a golf holiday, shows up at customs with his golf bag. While making idle chatter about golf, the customs official realizes that the tourist does not know what a "handicap" is. The customs official asks the tourist to demonstrate his swing, which he does--backward! A substantial amount of narcotics was found in the golf bag. Germany: Oil of Olay no longer turning the trick for her, a woman decided that she would bathe in the milk of a camel (a modern-day Cleopatra). So she stole a camel from the local zoo (where *else* can you find a camel when you need one?) and transported it back to her house--where she realized that the camel's name was "Otto." (Editor's Note 2: She might not have gotten much milk from Otto, but she probably made a friend for life while trying to ...) In Bent Forks, Ill., kidnapers of ice-cube magnate Worth Bohnke sent a photograph of their captive to Bohnke's family. Bohnke was seen holding up a newspaper. It was not that day's edition and, in fact, bore a prominent headline relating to Nixon's trip to China. This was pointed out to the kidnapers in a subsequent phone call. They responded by sending a new photograph showing an up-to-date newspaper. Bohnke, however, did not appear in the picture. When this, too, was refused, the kidnapers became peevish and insisted that a photograph be sent to them showing all the people over at Bohnke's house holding different issues of _Success_ magazine. They provided a mailing address and were immediately apprehended. They later admitted to FBI agents they did not understand the principle involved in the photograph/newspaper concept. "We thought it was just some kind of tradition," said one. Educators agree that such mix-ups point to poor reasoning and comprehension skills, ignorance of current events, and failure to complete work in the time allotted. Indiana: A man walked up to a cashier at a grocery store and demanded all the money in the register. When the cashier handed him the loot, he fled--leaving his wallet on the counter. Industrial thieves broke into the Bilgetek plant in Canasta, Wash., by crossing a metal catwalk and then blew it up, having forgotten it was their only means of escape. Joseph Owens of Mount Pleasant, Michigan, didn't think police were listening to his complaints that someone was harassing him, so he came up with a brilliant plan. Owens convinced his friend to shoot him in the shoulder with a shotgun so police would take him seriously. After a trip to the emergency room, Owens faces up to four years in prison for filing a false police report...next time, a little higher and to the left... Lake City, Florida: Karen Lee Joachimi, 20, was arrested for robbery of a Howard Johnson's motel. She was armed with only an electric chainsaw, which was not plugged in. New York: As a female shopper exited a convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police had apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the cruiser and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes Officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from." Newark: A woman was reporting her car as stolen, and mentioned that there was a car phone in it. The policeman taking the report called the phone, and told the guy that answered that he had read the ad in the newspaper and wanted to buy the car. They arranged to meet, and the thief was arrested. Rustlers in Spavin, N.D., made off with three Saint Bernard dogs, a stationary bicycle and the visiting in-laws of a farmer, after having failed to correctly identify the valuable cattle on the premises.
any career recommendations? I decided to make a list of all the careers I've ever considered and see what kind of pattern it might make, but as far as I can tell it amounts to...well...Barbie, lol. Since that's not a viable career option, I thought I'd show you all the list, and see if maybe you can figure it out... kidnegarten teacher fire fighter veterinarian motivational speaker sailor paralegal accountant missionary wanderer(yes, glorified hobo, haha) tobacco farmer(hey, I was 7. The leaves looked cool.) Self-sustaining farmer political office(President maybe) model makeup artist real estate agent Navy Seal(even though they don't let women in, I still wanted to, lol) aviation construction or mechanics archeologist peace corps Stock broker Magazine reporter business owner stand-up comic singer dancer chiropractor pharmacy technician(but NOT the pharmacist) wedding coordinator professor of either health or theatre professional clown(yes, seriously) EMT nutiritional consultant florist environmental activist/researcher geologist(earthquakes n weather n such) Train conductor Anything to do with the public water system park ranger linguist yes yes, I know, it's all over the map...that's why I can't see any viable pattern. Based on this, what kind of career do you think would suit me best? Any suggestions?
read this, say something.? How I feel,and how it is: I am 43. boyfriend of 10 years is 51. we have a 7year old daughter. she is hard to handle. won't listen,talks back. we just bought a house. then he gets a heart attack. he's not taking care of himself. not eating right. his friends are over here ALL the time. so much that I don't have any privacy. nothing works,talking to him. yelling,nicely,not nicely. nothing gets through. so i'm losing my battles. this has been going on the whole 10 years. all his friends work,and are pretty good people. there is just to many of his childhood friends. so, it's not easy for me to be to demanding. no, he doesn't change. since I had our daughter I've been a "stay-at home mom". boy, I hate that saying." stay-at-home-mom". but,it's what it is. for 7 years i've been out of work. it went by so fast. I can't believe my age now. bam!! it flew by. so,I can't even comprehend that i'm almost a 45 year old woman. I kinda laugh when I say that. I don't feel it,don't look it. people don't believe me. maybe cuz i don't act it. whatever. so,I live in arizona I was born in california. grew up in upstate n.y. in the country. my grandparents raised me. they are good people g-pa died in 2003 now the family has changed. completely. my boyfriend,(we are married,without papers) I didn't marry,for my own reasons. nobody knows we're not. it is the best,this way. I never thought having a child was this hard. oh, yes i did,i waited until 36 yrs old. not planned. but wanted.i love her. I used to travel alot. I always had money. I (hate to say it) used to model. commericials. spuds mac kenzie girl. miss rochester. new times. all kinds of different things. i was always say "discovered" never went and did it. i'd get "discovered" anywhere. plane,walking,at the lake,through co-workers. wierd.it always stumped me. people would pay to have their picture taken with me. totally wierd. now,i'm left behind. and treated like shit. I used to date a famous race car driver. a air force pilot. a playgirl man of the year. hated him.carried that dam magazine EVERYWHERE. a navy guy he was so handsome. boy was i dumb. dumb,dumb,dumb. enough of that. dumb,dumb,dumb, so here i am. 43. ump. now what? I worked since I was 18. always went to the top. I was a hairstyist. a secretary. a night supervisor. transferred with major company here. paid. I welded,mig,tig hard to weld with men. they hate when women weld. especially better. I was going to go to holland to train people. they ruined it for me,behind my back. I was paid good,but way less. i was there 6 years. good thing i didn't know for 5. long story short,I ended up quiting. very sad for me,it was like a 2nd home. then I worked for a weld co. the boss made me a deal. sleep w/ him he'd pay off all my bills. I couldn't do it. i was 31 at the time. almost tempting,but not me. if I did,I would feel degraded. smart,smart,smart. maybe. so he felt bad my boss. he still paid off some c-cards. I told him i'd pay him back someday. i haven't,but i will. because,that's me. I quit that place then i met boyfriend had baby here i am he's out,it's midnight. she is sick. coughing,but won't take her medicine. little brat. I called him,for orange juice on his was home, no answer. i feel totally drained. I want to go home now.
I did this paper and looked over it can somoene check it again for me? The period from the 1870’s to the 1890’s is often referred to as the gilded age rich vulgar, and corrupt this was the era of America’s natural adolescence. The U.S made its 1st forays into international affairs and empire building however, the excesses of this time gave rise to a popular movement for reform progressivism. The progressives were a varied group from many social economic and political backgrounds. Yet despite the differences they were able to unite around several common themes not the least of which were rights for women, growth pf progressivism, and social; welfare. Women's struggle for suffrage took many years. Women were not allowed to vote in the United States until the required number of states ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920. But women had sought the right to vote for much of the 1800's. Pioneers such as Susan B. Anthony continued the push for women's voting rights through the end the century, and women such as Martha Carey Thomas continued the struggle into the 1900's. One of the first public appeals for woman suffrage came in 1848. Two reformers, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, called a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., where Stanton lived. The men and women at the convention adopted a Declaration of Sentiments that called for women to have equal rights in education, property, voting, and other matters. The declaration, which used the Declaration of Independence as a model, said, "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Equally significant to progressive-era reform were the crusading journalists, known as muckrakers. These journalists revealed to middle class readers the evils of economic privilege, political corruption, and social injustice. Their articles appeared in McClure’s Magazine and other reform periodicals. Some muckrakers focused on corporate abuses. Ida Tarbell, for instance, exposed the activities of the Standard Oil Company. In The Shame of the Cities ,Lincoln Steffens dissected corruption in city government. In Following the Color Line ,Ray Stannard Baker criticized race relations. Other muckrakers assailed the Senate, railroad practices, insurance companies, and fraud in patent medicine. Novelists, too, revealed corporate injustices. Theodore Dreiser drew harsh portraits of a type of ruthless businessman in The Financier and The Titan. In The Jungle Socialist Upton Sinclair repelled readers with descriptions of Chicago’s meatpacking plants, and his work led to support for remedial legislation. Leading intellectuals also shaped the progressive mentality. In The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen attacked the “conspicuous consumption” of the wealthy. Educator John Dewey emphasized a child-centered philosophy of pedagogy, known as progressive education, which affected schoolrooms for three generations. Social Welfare in the late 19th Century was altering during the years and these are significant procedures that took place during the years .The Salvation Army is founded in the United States after William Booth established it in London in 1878.Clara Barton organizes the American Asso¬ciation of the Red Cross, which is renamed the American National Red Cross in 1893 and the American Red Cross in 1978.Booker T Washington founds the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, a leading black educational institution that emphasizes industrial training as a means to self-respect and economic independence for African Americans. The Federal Civil Service Commission is established. Germany under Bismarck, inaugurates accident, sickness, and old age insurance for work¬ers, influencing future U.S. worker demands for social welfare measures. The first special class for "mentally defi¬cient" people in an American public school is established in Providence, Rhode Island volunteers of America are founded. The first state hospital for crippled chil¬dren is founded in Minnesota. The first social work training school is established as an annual summer course for agency workers by the New York Charity Organiza¬tion Society, which in 1904 becomes the New York School of Philanthropy (and later the Columbia University School of Social Work .The National Federation of Day Nurseries is organized. The first US juvenile court is established in June as part of the Circuit Court of Chicago. All of these aspects effected the maturation of the United States. If anyone of the instances had not occurred the United States would be an altered and chaotic place. More than likely would resemble that of a third world country such as Iraq in which the government has its hands in everything. Which would probably have changed the world as we know it? Imagine women in the United States had to wear cloth over there face which could have been possible if suffrage had not taken place. Children my age working 20 hour jobs because there was no Child labor laws created. Finally think of working people dying of meat poising and families living in houses built for 1 person and bosses not caring about employees. This would have been reality if there was no Gilded Age or rise of Progressivism.
WARNING :Diamond Productions, Inc. aka Diamond Productions Talent Booking aka Commercial Cast (http://www.comm STAY AWAY FROM THIS SO CALL MODELING AGENCY. THEY SCAM BOTH ME AND MY SON.PLEASE READ BELOW Easy Background Check Diamond Productions, Inc. aka Diamond Productions Talent Booking aka Commercial Cast (http://www.commercialcast.org/) by Christina Aston Superb "Magazine"; Animations "International" March 15, 2005 [Last Updated: September 13, 2005] Addresses 5602 Baltimore National Pike Suite 200 Catonsville, MD 21228 3500 Dolfield Ave. Box 68012 Baltimore, MD 21215 2226 MADISON AVENUE BALTIMORE, MD 21217 Inquiries Several people, both parents and aspiring models and actors, have asked about Diamond Productions, wanting to know if it is legit. The following information was developed in response to public interest. Report March 15, 2005 [Last Updated: September 13, 2005] Ownership/Leadership Diamond Productions Talent Booking is owned and operated by Christina Aston, an aspiring actress in Baltimore, MD. Website The Diamond Productions website is not www.diamondproductions.com, but www.commercialcast.org. Licensing/Bonding It was confirmed in March 2005 by the Maryland Department of Labor that Diamond Productions does not need a license (state licensing requirement was repealed in April 2003), but it does have to pay a surety bond in the amount of $7,000, and it has paid this fee. Diamond Productions, therefore, can do business as a modeling and talent agency in Maryland. However, one of the prohibited acts under the employment law for talent agencies is charging registration fees or advance fees: "An employment agency may not. . . . charge a client a registration fee or collect in advance from a client a payment for service to be performed for the client to obtain employment." Consumer Comments Consumers have reported Diamond Productions asked them to pay a registration fee in the amount of $75.00. This was called a job guarantee fee. BBB The Better Business Bureau (at the time of writing) received complaints, but it has no unresolved complaints. However, the BBB also noted Diamond Productions has not been forthcoming about basic business information: "The Bureau has requested basic information from this company. The Bureau has not received a response." Comments Before doing business or giving money away, consumers should ask Diamond Productions what information they refused to give the BBB and why. The BBB's standard request for information is not invasive and only intended to protect the public, and most companies provide the requested information. Background Diamond Productions claims it has been in business for 10 years (http://commercialcast.org/sys-tmpl/faqaboutus/) [March 15, 2005]. The website of the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation, however, records it was registered in 1998: "Date of Formation or Registration: 09/10/1998." The record also showed DP's status was "Forfeited," which means "its existence has been ended by the State for some delinquency." The details for DP: "THE ENTITY WAS FORFEITED FOR FAILURE TO FILE PROPERTY RETURN FOR 1999." "Good standing": "No." References All of the references or "Testimonials" DP provided on its website were html text which could not be verified. You cannot tell if they were made up. The About Us page did not provide the names and testimony of any industry leaders or major clients recommending CommercialCast and its unusual practices. Unusual Practices Diamond Productions aka CommercialCast is not your typical modeling and talent agency. In fact, after reviewing many different modeling companies, it is fair to say there is nothing like Diamond Productions. It is quite unusual, and not in an obviously good way. For example, DP says it is not an agency (even though the Maryland law defines an agency as a company that "provides a client with information to enable the client to obtain employment"), but it has paid the surety bond, which is required of every employment (modeling/talent) agency. A model on one modeling website, CurvyChick.com, sarcastically called Diamond Productions a "'non-agent' agency." It is also called Diamond Productions Talent Booking, according to the BBB. Booking agencies for modeling and acting jobs typically charge no fees for anything before talent works. DP charges a registration fee and charges talent for several extra services. Typically modeling agencies always take a commission, usually 20%; whereas DP says it does not collect any commission. DP says it also does "a phone audition service which guarantees talent participation in on-the-spot auditions." (http://commercialcast.org/sys-tmpl/animationsinternational/) [March 15, 2005]. This is highly unusual. Unknown talent receive notices of guaranteed bookings or "Booking Confirmations" for commercials, etc., when they have never even met with the client. Normally, talent goes to an audition or more than one audition, actually speaks in front of the client or casting director, who can evaluate their look and discern their talent. You have to wonder what kind of clients book talent they have never met. Telephone calls are no substitute for meeting one-on-one. Fees, Fees, and More Fees Diamond Productions charges talent advance fees. After they are "booked," they are asked to pay a $75.00 "job guarantee" fee. > I recently replied by sending a head shot and resume for a casting call > to a website called www.commercialcast.org. I received a response stating > that I had been selected to appear in a television ad for XXXX. A speaking > role for a spec commercial. It seems pretty detailed with an address, the > amount of pay and shooting date. They do however require a $75.00 job > guarantee fee. Here is all the information that was emailed to me. I am > supposed to pay and respond by XX-XX so if you have any information it > would be greatly appreciated. This socalled job guarantee fee is not common of modeling/talent agencies and it is widely regarded as unethical to charge talent any registration fees, no matter what terms, phrases, or words are used to conceal or blur the fact they are registration fees. Talent, further, are asked to pay audition fees. "To participate in the current auditions, you will need to pay a one-time access fee of $60 to Diamond Productions to obtain full access for a period of one year." Reputable modeling and talent agencies do not charge audition fees. (http://commercialcast.org/sys-tmpl/animationsinternational/) [March 15, 2005]. Diamond Productions has devised as many ways as possible to take your money before you work. For an internet "marketing tool" or scrapbook, called a "magazine," you must pay $25. You can pay even more if you want to be featured on their website: SUPERB MAGAZINE IS AN ONLINE MAGAZINE TO BE VIEWED BY SUBSCRIPTION HOLDERS ONLY. TO BECOME A SUBSCRIPTION HOLDER, YOU MAY RECEIVE ONLINE COPIES OF EACH MONTHLY ISSUE FOR THE AMOUNT OF $25 FOR 6 MONTHS. . . . 1 MONTH APPEARANCE FEE = $50.00. (http://commercialcast.org/sys-tmpl/scrapbook/) [March 15, 2005]. Consumers also report they were asked to pay DP for classes by video. This was highly unusual and self-serving, because the talent had apparently already been booked--before the training! Why would an agent book talent if it had not been trained or it felt that training was needed? Obviously it normally would not do this, but in the DP case, it gets paid a nice chunk of change. > I am an aspiring actress and had submitted to this company who now > says it will book me in a commercial for XXXXX. All I need to do > is come up for a preparation workshop to guarantee my spot. They > sent me an email with a contract that looks very good. Please let > me know about this as I have to sign up by XXXXX to reserve my > spot. DP's commercialcast website indicates they book talent in California: Commercialcast New York is our Talent Booking Division for New York based talent. This division handles talent to be cast in the New York, New Jersey and the Washington, DC areas. A wide rangs [sic] of bookings are handled in the Los Angeles area of California as well. (http://www.commercialcast.org/sys-tmpl/door/) [March 15, 2005]. California law, however, is extremely strict with respect to advance fees charged to talent. Labor Code 1700, for example, prohibits talent agencies from charging any fees for anything before talent gets work. Talent agencies are not even allowed to collect fees, even if they keep none of them for themselves. The law is set like that because so many scams charged talent advance fees. How the scheme works Since DP is uncommon in its fee schedule, not charging commissions, you have wonder why. The only rational explanation is DP thinks or knows it can make more money from charging talent fees instead of getting commissions. What other explanation is there? There is not enough information available yet to call DP a scam, even though it charges advance fees for registration and classes like many modeling scams, but there is an obvious scheme. The scheme is designed to get talent to pay them before they work and even if they don't work. The lure is very strong when talent receives a "Booking Confirmation" notice. This makes it appear as if talent has already got a job. Excitement takes over. It appears as if they are so close to working as an actor or model, the hardest part is complete. Now all they have to do is show up or pay a little fee to guarantee a job. The fee seems so trivial in comparison to the mega bucks they could earn; it seems worth it. This has the effect of stringing talent along. Then they are told about the acting seminar or video. Less than $200? Nothing compared to the big bucks they'll earn from commercials and residuals, right? Not so fast! The fact that DP does not take commissions could mislead talent into thinking they are getting a deal, i.e., after they work, they keep all the money, nothing gets cut for the agency. If the payout, however, is very small, because the job was very minor, it does not help talent, and it is certainly not a "deal." Money Back If you want your money back, know that DP paid $7,000 into an "insurance" fund for those who feel they were misled, and you could make a claim for a portion of this money. (First-come, first-served
Is It Time to Believe Now? October 26, 2006, 9:28 a.m. Funeral for a Tyrant A morally disorienting gathering in Havana. By Otto J. Reich This time the rumors are real: Castro is dying of stomach cancer. He may have already died, even before the funeral preparations were finished, so the news is not out. Confirmation of the terminal illness comes from the usual sources but in a non-conventional manner. The Cuban government has been summoning to Havana representatives of the major international media to negotiate the best seats, camera angles, and interviews with the despot’s political survivors, and to inform them of the ground rules for coverage of the state funeral. The foreign media are being told that the model for Castro’s funeral is that of Pope John Paul II a year ago. The Cubans actually believe — or pretend — that the death of a tyrant deserves the same attention as that of the world’s great men of peace. This is one of Castro’s lasting legacies to his countrymen: moral disorientation. The Cuban ruling class has been so isolated from reality for so long by fear and Castro’s airtight press control that they equate the burial of a mass murderer with that of a prince of the Church. No doubt there will be “dignitaries” at the funeral: fellow revolutionary leaders from the last repressive regimes on Earth: Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Sudan, for example; and leaders of failed states like Zimbabwe and Bolivia; and representatives of the world’s resentful Left and the Hollywood Left (pardon the redundancy). Some examples of distinguished invitees will include terrorists whose organizations once instilled panic in entire populations but are now forgotten except to their victims. Many of them were trained in Cuban camps back when Castro called for world revolution and predicted he would outlive capitalism: Argentine Montoneros, Uruguayan Tupamaros, Nicaraguan Sandinistas, Salvadorean FMLN, Colombian ELN, MIR, FARC, and others; Chileans, Brazilians, Guatemalans, Angolans, Ethiopians, Palestinians, Syrians, even Vietnamese. The list is virtually endless. Not long ago, Castro himself admitted publicly to having “supported wars of national liberation in every country in this hemisphere with the exception of Mexico”. I believe everything except the exception; his hand has been present in much of Mexico’s violence as well. One security problem the Cubans will face is that some of the “revolutionaries” who they trained in techniques of assassination, torture, kidnapping, bank robbery, explosives, and other tricks of the trade now hate each other and may use the occasion to settle old debts. The explosions heard in Havana may come not only from ceremonial cannons. The guests will have to be carefully screened for poisoned-tipped umbrellas and other Cold War artifacts. Among the guests coming to Havana for the Third-World Burial of the Century will be Western capitalists anxious to see how they can exploit Cuban workers, who are assigned to the employer by a Cuban state entity which then collects the salary and delivers five percent — yes, five percent — to the worker and keeps the rest to pay for the expenses incurred by the generous socialist state. There will be the bottom feeders of the capitalist world willing to go anywhere or do anything for the Almighty euro or peso. You know the ones, those who have given capitalism a bad name, the exploitation of man by man, and whose example is in turn used by the revolutionaries against the good capitalists. There will recognizable faces of American and other TV, oblivious to the irony of “covering” a press event orchestrated by a government which has not allowed a single free or independent newspaper, magazine, radio or television station for almost five decades. Caught up in the spectacle of the funeral, the smiley faces of the free world’s morning shows, the “serious” news readers of evening newscasts, of 24-hour news channels and “prestige press” will unlikely mention the “Ley Mordaza” (literally muzzle law), law number 88 of 1998, which calls for penalties of up to 30 years in prison for any Cuban caught telling the foreign press of any flaw in Cuba’s economic or human-rights record. It is unlikely they will ask to interview the prisoners who have violated Castro’s Orwellian laws and are serving terms of as much as 27 years for committing journalism without a license or stating that the economy does not produce enough to feed the people. There may be international labor leaders in attendance, who will equally disregard the absence of any but the official Cuban Communist labor organization. Not wishing to offend their hosts, they will not mention the Castro law which condemns to eight years in prison anyone guilty of even attempting to establish a non-government labor union. On second thought: Why should they mention it now, when they have been silent for so many decades? Some of those leaders present may even be government officials from democratic states, having been elected in free elections such as the ones which disappeared in Cuba half a century ago. That irony will escape them also. Then there will be some genuinely elected Christian or social democrats, from Europe and Latin America. Those who have been silent about, and therefore complicit in, the longest dictatorship in this hemisphere’s history. A wise man once said that “All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” The history of Cuba in the past 50 years proves him right.
americas top models? where are they now? Have you seen any of them in magazines? newspapers? .. on billboards? on advertisements in train stations, bus stations, airports, etc? doesn't take much to go through "$100,000.00" prize. Looks like after "Cover Girl" the fifteen minutes of fame are about over.
More Random facts? • Steve Austin is a big time antiques collector! • One of the band members who did DeGeneration X's theme song if Triple H's real life brother. • Test (Andrew Martin) was trained by Bret "The Hitman" Hart. • Brian Christopher and Scott Taylor were scheduled to have a gay marriage as a part of a storyline at a PPV, but Jerry Lawler, Brian Christopher's father strongly objected. • Kane (Glen Jacobs) was born in Madrid, Spain. • Edge (Adam Copeland) is actually engaged to Val Venis's sister. • Kane (Glen Jacobs) has a degree in English and Teaching. • Former WWF superstar, Tito Santana owns a hair salon in Roxbury, New Jersey. • Prior to joining the WWF, Hardcore Holly (Robert Howard) worked as a full-time welder. • Bret "The Hitman" Hart owns a professional hockey team known as The Calgary Hitmen. • Shane Douglas and Headbanger Mosh have licenses to teach! • Jerry Lawler and The Honky Tonk Man are cousins! • Shawn Michaels is a huge fan of country singer, Garth Brooks! • Bradshaw used to compete in the NFL, but had to retire due to a knee injury. • Rocky Maivia is a skilled light tackle salt water fisherman. • Along with Chyna and Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Perry Saturn was also trained by Killer Kowalski. • Jimmy Hart composes most of the WCW stars' entrance theme songs. • Colonel Robert Parker (Tennessee Lee in the WWF) used to wrestle under the name of Robert Fuller before retiring and becoming a manager. • D-Lo Brown is a Certified Public Accountant! • Vader knows how to play the piano! • The Bushwhackers own a restaurant and it's called "The Bushwhackers Down Under!" It's located in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. • Jerry "The King" Lawler is a die hard Cleveland Indians fan! • Marc Mero won three New York State golden gloves in boxing before entering pro wrestling. • Ahmed Johnson used to play football for the Dallas Cowboys. • Chris Chetti was the first man to graduate from ECW's School of Hardcore. • Kevin Nash played Super Shredder in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2" the movie. • X-Pac is a computer whiz! • Duke "The Dumpster" Droese loves to do imitations and his best one is none other than Vince McMahon! • Steve Austin is also good at doing impressions. His best is none other than Eric Bischoff! • Brian Pillman played two years of football for The Cincinatti Bengals! • Before entering the WWF, Rena Mero was a model for Guess Jeans wear. • Before she married Brian Pillman, Melanie Pillman went out with Jim Hellwig (The Ultimate Warrior). • Brian Lee (Chainz) was the best man at Mark Callaway's (The Undertaker) wedding. • Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, Marty Jannetty, and Blitzkreig have all used The Hollywood Blondes' theme music. • Scott Hall agreed to be the best man at Justin Credible's wedding but failed to contact him in the weeks before the ceremony and ultimately no-showed. • Roddy Piper announced that his last wrestling match would be at WrestleMania III against Adrian Adonis. • Terry Funk first announced his retirement in 1983. • In 1995, Marcus Bagwell had calf implants which leaked and he had them removed. • Vince McMahon, Jr. wanted to become a wrestler, but his father, the late Vince McMahon Sr. strictly forbid him in doing so. • Before breaking into wrestling, Jerome Young (New Jack) worked as a bounty hunter. • Tom "Dynamite Kid" Billington despises his cousin Davey Boy Smith so much, he can't bring himself to say his name. • During one drinking session, Andre The Giant downed 119 bottles of beer. • Barry Windham's father, Blackjack Mulligan served time for counterfeiting. • Cactus Jack & Terry Funk were originally scheduled to face the New Age Outlaws in a Barbed Wire Match at WrestleMania XIV, but the PPV people forbid them to do it, hence the Dumpster Match. • Back when the ECW/WWF angle was going on, the WWF was going to hold a live Raw from the ECW Arena, despite it's size. This idea was nixed however. • Back in the 1980's Hulk Hogan's opponents were banned from mentioning his receding hair line in interviews. • Stan Lane was once billed as Stan Flair because people thought he resembled Ric Flair. • All Japan Pro Wrestling hasn't fed it's fans a count-out or a disqualification in over five years. • Shawn Michaels is married to former Nitro Girl, Whisper! • Marc Mero didn't leave WCW over money issues. He left because of the angle he was in where he was involved with another man's wife. • Larry Zbyszko is a licensed pilot. • Sid once backed down from a fight with Brian Pillman in a hotel bar, retreated to his car to arm himself with a weapon with which to defend himself and returned clutching a squeegee. • Ted Dibase was once the Mid-South North American Heavyweight Champion. • World Championship Wrestling was once called Georgia Championship Wrestling. • In many of his WrestleMania matches Randy Savage would foreshadow the result of his bout by the color hat he wore to the ring. Two examples: 1 when he wrestled the Ultimate Warrior at WMVII as a heel and left as a babyface, he entered the ring wearing a white hat. 2. when he defeated Ric Flair at WMVIII to take the WWF strap, he wore a gold costume. • Hulk Hogan agreed to drop the world title to the Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania VI because he was planning on retiring and wanted to pass the torch on to his babyface successor so he wouldn't have to come back and get "revenge" on a heel for his fans.*Hogan forced McMahon to give him the strap at the end of WMIX by threatening to no-show his tag earlier on the show with Brutus Beefcake against IRS & Ted Dibiase. • WrestleMania VII was moved from the Rose Bowl to the Sports Arena in Los Angeles because Vince McMahon feared a sniper might try and take out lead heel Sgt. Slaughter, playing the role of a Iraqi sympathizer during the Gulf War. • Apparently feeling he had nothing to lose, Sid Justice doublecrossed Vince McMahon by kicking out of Hogan's legdrop at WMVIII. Sid had been caught cheating on a drug test a few weeks earlier and was going to be suspended. Sid's manager, Harvey Whippleman (who is said to have supplied Sid with the false urine sample that WWF official Dave Hebner found Sid carrying in a vile) reacted quickly, jumping into the ring and getting his man disqualified before all hell broke loose. • McMahon wanted a Flair-Hogan main event for WMVIII, but before Flair surprisingly was unable to re-up on a contract with WCW, McMahon signed Sid with the promise he would wrestle Hogan at the next WM. So, McMahon went with a double main event of Hogan-Sid and Flair-Savage. • Prior to WMX, McMahon had Lex Luger come out with the world belt for a television taping, scheduled to air after the pay-per-view. Either planning a swerve all along or changing his mind after word got out, McMahon had Bret Hart win the three-way tournament between Hart, Luger and Yokozuna. • In 1994, WCW used to hire paid models and actors to sit in the audience to cheer and boo their wrestlers because the audience was usually dead for their shows. • When WCW did the World Wide show, they used to have a monitor to tell the audience who to cheer and who to boo. One one occasion when Rick Rude and the Equalizer (the "heels") came out, the audience accidentally cheered for them and WCW had to reshoot their entrance over again. • When Shawn Michaels was attacked outside of a nightclub by approximately 10 "thugs" (actually it was by a marine group), Shawn was accompanied by Davey Boy Smith and Sean Waltman (1-2-3 Kid). Shawn tried to be the brave one and he ended up suffering for it. • The WWF says that the Dynamite Kid left the WWF and retired because of an injury. Actually, the Kid still wrestles in England and the real reason he left was because of a locker room fight with him and Jacques Rougeau. The Bulldog opted to keep contact with the WWF and because of that and other reasons, the Bulldog and the Dynamite Kid haven't spoken in years. • On May 11, 1987, Kevin Von Erich collapsed in the middle of the ring during an eight-man bout pitting him, The Fantastics, and Bruiser Brody against Brian Adias, Black Bart, Al Madril, and Al Perez. Fantastic Tommy Rogers, seeing Von Erich turning blue, administers cardiopulmonary resuscitation. • Bam Bam Bigelow was chosen as the opponent for Lawrence Taylor at WMXI because he was the WWF's best big man worker. Bigelow says that as payment for doing the job he was promised a big babyface push down the road. That didn't happen as The Cliq (not fans of Bam Bam) began gaining political power, and Bigelow wasn't with the company very much longer. • The Undertaker is undefeated at WrestleMania's. His record as of right now is 9-0. • Prior to entering the squared circle, Steve Corino worked in a milk processing plant in Philadelphia. • Elektra was once married to Big Dick Dudley. • Washington Redskins head coach George Allen once offered Andre the Giant a contract to play professional football. • Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair's first match took place in October 1991 with the "Nature Boy" winning the contest. • J.J. Dillon thought of the Model gimmick for Rick Martel. • Rick Martel is a gourmet chef. • The Warlord (real name Terry Szopinski) was forced to retire following a 1996 car accident involving a Pizza Hut delivery carrier. A lawsuit is depending. • DDP credits Bobby "The Brain" Heenen for coming up with the name Diamond cutter. • Spike Dudley is a former third grade teacher from Rhode Island before getting into the wrestling business. • Kurt Angle's wife is a former stripper. • In the summer of 1995, Kurt Angle failed in a tryout to make the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. • Al Snow is well trained in martial arts, mat grappling, free style, hardcore, and shoot-fight wrestling. • Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty won the WWF tag team title from Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart in October of 1990 at a taping for Saturday Night's Main Event. Neidhart had been fired and was filling contractual obligations, which including jobbing the tag titles to another team. In what should have been a minor point, the top rope broke at one point during the match. The Rockers defended the titles for a week after that, but then Neidhart was re-hired by the WWF, and Vince McMahon decided that the title change never actually happened, in one of the goofier decisions of the 90s, and one of many to affect the careers of Shawn and Bret. As an explanation, a story was sent to Pro Wrestling Illustrated about the rope break causing an "unfair working environment" for both teams, and hence the title reign was annulled. This was simply to cover up for the fact that they reported the title change as fact a week prior and needed a reason to no longer report it as such. The title change was edited out of the Main Event broadcast, and thus went down in history that the Rockers never had the belt. • From 1986-1989 Ric Flair averaged 34 minutes per-match. In that span he had 19 matches that lasted longer than 50 minutes. • The Rock's wife Dany is the Associate Vice President of Merrill Lynch. • Leatherface caused the scar on Mick Foley's left arm. • Hulk Hogan earned 1.8 million dollars with his match up against Randy Macho Man Savage at Wrestlemania 5. • Buff Bagwell, before becoming a wrestler was a model, exotic dancer and acted in a few Soft Porn flicks. • The Peoples Eyebrow was first named the "Heat Brow". The Rock called it that in college, but he changed the name do to the fact that the name didn't catch on. • D'Lo Brown began his career as the "head of security" for the Gangstas in Smokey Mountain Wrestling. He later debuted in the WWF as one of the many members of Faarooq's Nation of Domination entourage. • Former Nitro Girl Fyre (Teri Byrne) attended Arizona State University, and used to be a mortgage home broker. • Rick Rude was trained by Eddie Sharkey, who also trained the Road Warriors, Barry Darsow, and Nikita Koloff. • The British Bulldog (Davey Boy Smith) paid the WWF $100,000 to get out of his contract to leave for WCW. • The orginial Midnight Express was a six man tag team in Alabama, consisting of Dennis Condrey, Randy Rose, and Norvell Austin. • Mark Henry and Pittsburgh Steeler Kevin Henry are cousins. • Jerry Jarrett brought Rick Rude to Memphis, and gave him the nickname "Ravishing." • ECW's Dawn Marie appeared in the original Austin Powers MTV special as one of the go-go dancers and actually had a couple of speaking lines. • Gorgeous George, real name Stephanie Bellars, spent jail time as a teenager for burglaziring a home and slashing a girl's face with a broken beer bottle. • "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan got the idea of bringing a 2x4 to the ring from the movie, "Walking Tall." • Jim Hellwig (The Warrior) studied to be a chiropractor in Atlanta. • Demolition Ax (Bill Eadie) is a former school teacher. • Two days before WrestleMania 9, Hogan was injured in a jet-ski accident. That explains the shiner he had when he wrestled at WrestleMania 9. • Roddy Piper was Ric Flair's best man. • Before becoming a wrestler, Val Venis used to race motocross. • The Big Bossman was a prison guard in Georgia. • Randy Savage was trained by his father, Angelo Poffo. • Dusty Rhodes played college football at West Texas. • Verne Gagne trained Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat. • Lex Luger played college football at Penn State. • Meng once wrestled as jobbber Larry Hurst. • Johnny Ace once dated former adult film star Seka. • Madusa is an accomplished singer. • The original idea for UPN's Smackdown! was for an all women wrestling show. • Kevin Nash was a doorman/bouncer at a Michigan night club before entering the wrestling business. • Disco Inferno was released from his WCW contract in '97 after refusing to do the job for Jacquelyn (now Jacky in the WWF). He returned to the promotion later in the year only after agreeing to wrestle her. However, Ted Turner had a 'no man against woman violence' clause on his networks. So Disco had to avoid making physical contact with her throughout the entire match. • Linda McMahon is a laywer. • Bad News Brown used the name "The Ultimate Warrior" before Jim Hellwig. • "Sweet" Stan Lane is the only wrestler ever trained by Ric Flair. • Del Wilkes sold the rights to the Patriot gimmick to Tom Brandi. • Simon Diamond was a catcher on the Virginia Commonwealth baseball team for three years but then he got hurt and that ended his baseball career. He did eventually go back to college and get his degree in English. • Bruce Hart gave Wayne Farris The Honkey Tonk Man name. • Chyna is fully licensed to compete in boxing. • The WWF considered giving Dustin Rhodes a "Gunslinger" gimmick, before coming up with Goldust. • Rikishi has a brother that wrestles as Fatu in Japan. • Jimmy Hart thought of the 3 Count gimmick. • Jimmy Hart and Jerry Lawler attended the same high school in Memphis (not at the same time). • Prior to WrestleMania IV, USA Today got a copy of the post-WrestleMania WWF Magazine which listed Randy Savage as champion before the tournament (where Savage beat Dibiase in the finals) took place. McMahon publicly referred to it as a coincidence. • The Ultimate Warrior left the WWF in 1991 because he and Vince McMahon did not come to terms on his future role...Warrior wanted to be in the title situation but the WWF saw differently...in 1992, the Warrior disappeared again because he did not want to get involved in a second-rate feud with Nailz. • In 1991, Ric Flair was fired/quit WCW. He showed up in the WWF soon thereafter holding the WCW title and claimed to be the "Real World's champion." The reason he was able to leave the company with the title is because he owned that title. WCW later bought it back from Flair for reportedly $75,000. • On May 26, 1987, Hacksaw Jim Duggan and the Iron Sheik were arrested by N.J. State police. Duggan was charged with possession of marijuana and drinking alcohol while driving. Sheik was charged with possession of marijuana and cocaine. Duggan received a conditional discharge and Sheik received one year probation. • On July 4, 1989, Davey Boy Smith, Jason the Terrible, and Chris Benoit were injured in a head-on automobile accident in Jasper, Alberta. Smith suffered a cracked vertebrae in his back and needed a hundred stitches in his head after being thrown through the windshield of the car. Jason suffers 2 fractures in his left leg. Benoit suffers an injured right knee. That before Mark Henry joined the WWE ,he was actually sponsored by Titan Sports during the 1996 Olympic's in which he compeated in the sport of weight lifting Mark Henry and Pittsburgh Steeler Kevin Henry are cousins Gorgeous George (real name Stephanie Ballars) ,spent jail time as a teenager for burglaziring a home and slashing a girl's face with a broken beer bottle. Eddie Guerrero's father Gori invented the camel clutch. Terry Funk is Jason Harvey's Godfather. Ryan Shamrock's real name is Alesha Webb and she is a top less dancer form Houston ,Texas The WWE's first pick for the Mr Perfect gimmick was Terry Tayor Former Freebird Jimmy Garvin is now an airline pilot. D'Lo Brown began his career as "the head of security" for the gangstas in the smoke mountain wrestling.He later made his debut in the WWE as a member of the nation of Domination. Nitro Girl Fyre attended Arizona State University and used to be a mortgage home broker. The Warlord (real name Terry Szopinski) was force to retire from wrestling following a car accident in 1996 ECW'S Dawn Marie appeared in the original Austin Powers MTV sepecial as one of the go-go dancers and actually had a couple of speaking lines. Chris Chetti was the first man to graduate from ECW's House of Hardcore wrestling school Taz and Chris Chetti are cousins. Paul Wight played college basketball at Wichita State Nicole Bass's married name is Fuchs. Jerry Jarrett brought Rick Rude to Memphis and give him the nickname "Ravishing" Rick Rude still held half of the NWA Tag team title when he signed with the WWE (The NWA later claimed that The Rock 'n' Roll Express won back thous titles in a match that never took place) Rick Rude was for a short time managed by his sister Raven. Rude was the only foreign talent to make the finals of G-1 Tournament in Japan. That before Mark Henry joined the WWE ,he was actually sponsored by Titan Sports during the 1996 Olympic's in which he compeated in the sport of weight lifting Mark Henry and Pittsburgh Steeler Kevin Henry are cousins Gorgeous George (real name Stephanie Ballars) ,spent jail time as a teenager for burglaziring a home and slashing a girl's face with a broken beer bottle. Eddie Guerrero's father Gori invented the camel clutch. Terry Funk is Jason Harvey's Godfather. Ryan Shamrock's real name is Alesha Webb and she is a top less dancer form Houston ,Texas The WWE's first pick for the Mr Perfect gimmick was Terry Tayor Former Freebird Jimmy Garvin is now an airline pilot. D'Lo Brown began his career as "the head of security" for the gangstas in the smoke mountain wrestling.He later made his debut in the WWE as a member of the nation of Domination. Nitro Girl Fyre attended Arizona State University and used to be a mortgage home broker. The Warlord (real name Terry Szopinski) was force to retire from wrestling following a car accident in 1996 ECW'S Dawn Marie appeared in the original Austin Powers MTV sepecial as one of the go-go dancers and actually had a couple of speaking lines. Chris Chetti was the first man to graduate from ECW's House of Hardcore wrestling school Taz and Chris Chetti are cousins. Paul Wight played college basketball at Wichita State Nicole Bass's married name is Fuchs. Jerry Jarrett brought Rick Rude to Memphis and give him the nickname "Ravishing" Rick Rude still held half of the NWA Tag team title when he signed with the WWE (The NWA later claimed that The Rock 'n' Roll Express won back thous titles in a match that never took place) Rick Rude was for a short time managed by his sister Raven. Rude was the only foreign talent to make the finals of G-1 Tournament in Japan. some facts are wrong! im sorry dude im not this geeky i always copy crap !!!! doesn't every one!
What is the colonized mindset? The colonised mindset: The enemy within the African communities. SendMeYourNews Jul 23, 2006 07:12 PDT =+= Get on TheBlackList: http://www.topica.com/lists/TheBlackList "Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences", Marcus Garvey. =+= ----- Original Message ----- From: Cheryl Sanchez mailto:sanchez-@hotmail.com To: sendmey-@earthlink.net Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 8:48 AM The colonised mindset: The enemy within the African communities. The writer is going to put forward an argument that unless the slave/colonial mindset is recognised as the active enemy, within the African communities world-wide, attempts to understand the social and economic problems will be useless. This mindset has been affecting the individual/family /organisations/community and nations alike. From an early age, adults have been referring to people as having "being colonial or slave minded" in a most benign way. It as if having this mindset is like having a flue. You treat the symptoms and eventually, it should go away, if the immune system is acute and alert. In reality, it is the most virulent psychological condition prevalent amongst African communities. The damage is too enormous to consider in this essay. It has and is still destroying from individuals to revolutions to states eg Patrice Lumumba-Congo, Thomas Sankara-Bukina Faso, Walter Rodney-Guyana, Cabral, Malcolm X and Bantu S Biko to name a few. When foreign money, the lust for power and the colonial mindset met-destruction is sure to follow. Mineral rich DRC remains the most tragic example today. Also Angola before the timely death of Savimbi, " Washington's kept man". Failure to confront and systematically deal with this enemy is equivalent to failure to live and or thrive. HISTORY The disastrous effects of slavery and colonialism on the physical aspect of the Africans in the Americas, the Caribbean and on mainland Africa have been well documented by a host of European and African-American historians including Basil D Davidson, Walter Rodney and Professor Jeffries. Few writers have focused on the debilitating effects of the mindset on the emotions and the psychology as Carter G Woodson( 1875-1950)was probably a pioneer when he addressed this condition in his book - The Mis-Education of the Negro. Later, Dr Na'im Akbar painstakingly outlined the psychological effects in his book- Chains and Images of psychological slavery. Professor Joy Leary recently attempted to put the psychological trauma concept in the public domain during a recent lecture tour in London but, few Africans wanted to even contemplate this concept as an explanation for some of their behaviour towards each other. It is of paramount importance to understand the disastrous reality of the sate accurately described by Woodson and take action to treat it. "When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand there or go yonder. He or she will find his "proper place" and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary". Woodson showed a lot of foresight in his early detection of the destructive side of the slave/colonial mindset. It is a pity that, most Pastors and self-appointed "community" leaders do not recommend this book to the many families who come through their doors. They do not even bothered with a plan of action to treat this mindset. Examples This mindset certainly has a blindfolding effect eg African girls aspiring to be like their "blonde Barbie dolls". African men dream of marrying "a Barbie doll" type of woman as soon as they arrive in Europe and or UK/USA/Canada, so as not to have "too black" children. Michael Jackson's obsession with his costly body- altering project. It also causes US Africans/Afrikans to focus on the body, material gadgets, short cuts. The physical environment of the homes is often out of balance with the people who inhabit the space. Their homes always have a blonde type Jesus on the walls but no other famous Africans like Bantu Biko, Thomas Sankara etc. The African educationalist and parents both on the mainland, Caribbean and the Americas have avoided including or making the early and middle years curricula more relevant to our developmental needs. This opportunity to change our course of history is missed again and again. At organisational level, colonise minded but the super qualified committee members are often afraid to put decolonisation strategy and or Pan-Africanism into the constitution of their organisation. This also affects the type of name or identity they take on. Eg the NAACP-The National Association for the Advancement of "Coloured" people. One would have thought that aparthedist South-Africa racial policies would have caused this organisation to re-think it's chosen but, they not change from NAACP to NAAAP. One could only guess when you start your organisation with white liberals/ or jews in leadership roles, the de-colonisation agenda never became a priority for this organisation. The OAS/AU is no different. It has been in existence for over 50 years and still cannot bring itself to be known as a Pan-Africanist organisation thus, it remains a toothless nationalistic organisation. Even when organisations put Pan-Africanism at the forefront eg PAC in South-African, the de-colonisation process and project, which is necessary for health and longevity of the organisation is not a priority either. Well meaning or naïve activists continue to take a gamble by hoping against hope that, a few committed and reliable people could suddenly change 400 years of psychological damage facing the African worldwide. Things could have been different if, the PAC was able to capture the interest and support of the majority of the 24 million native South-Africans and their rands, to keep the movement financially buoyant and turn it into a political powerful force in South-African society. The mindset nutures self-hating , self- destruction and confidence lowering . This is evident in the practice of self- harming through bleaching the skin, straigthening the hair and looking to Europe and European institutions as saviours. It also makes killing each other almost acceptable. The eminent African-American Bobby E Wright (1984) explained in his book "we have never been trained to kill Europeans" but, we seem to be able kill each other (black on black) violence instinctively. It also makes us have a warped and unrealistic view of our reality. It may cause some, like Dr Kenneth B Clarke to say," race is irrelevant". Even African-America Dr Alvin Poussant, who used his qualification avoid addressing the current colonisation condition. He used his stint in Ebony Magazine to deal with the a few middles class anxieties. What a shame! The Slave/Colonial mindset-the Trojan Horse The Europeans understand how important the psychological warfare project is to their continued hold on Africa, which is why they got their missionaries to influences chiefs and other leaders in Africa, to send their young children to their missionary schools. At these missionary/faith-based schools, young children were indoctrinated on a grand scale. These young children come from cultures where, almost all adults are feared and or certainly not questioned, made the work of the European teachers easier. This is why it should not alarm us or surprise us that, Mobutu, Savimbi and their cronies behaved in the way they did to their own people and their own resources. The mindset, the lust for power and foreign money-from the USA mainly kept them destroying their respective countries, in the name of capitalism and the other G6 powers. The USA officials who paid Savimbi through Mobutu millions and millions of American tax-payers money to literally destroy a revolution and 2 countries, have never been brought to justice. If both of these colonial minded individuals did not die, they would be still destroying the country and squandering their resources for self-aggrandisement, with Washington's approval. The foreign powers/handlers knew millions of people were being tortured, kill, maimed, punished and starved of food and other life necessities, in their interest. Whilst all this was happening in full view of other Africans, many of them in the Caribbean and continued going to the states" to make it". Meanwhile Africans affected by these individuals and American money and foreign policy, eventually started heading for the UK and the USA seeking "refuge". It should not surprise us at the way the Europeans view certain individuals. The American state had to get rid of Malcolm X by any means necessary. The Belgian/USA/UK governments saw Patrice Lumumba as an uncompromising character when it came to his understanding of independence. France could not stomach an independent minded Thomas Sankara who wanted to transform Bukina Faso in the interest of it's people. The apartheid South-Africa did not dare allow Bantu Stephen Biko to live-he was too clear about his position and his understanding of the social/economic/political situation. He wanted all or nothing. Walter Rodney exposed the hypocrisy of Europe's role in Africa-it became a real annoyance in European academic circles. The under-development was the strategy and the means to achieving this outcome was to nurture their own "loyal Africans". Off course the "loyal Africans" are another name for the colonial minded. Rich men and women often have their "kept women" Well, so to rich Europe has their "kept men". France has Francoise Compoare of Bukina Faso. The USA has theirs in the form of Paul Kagame. Spain/USA has Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea- Africa third largest producer of oil. Shell and the UK and other oil companies operating in Nigeria have been keeping the Hausa dominated army and government since 1970. The CIA/USA/France had army man Hissen Habre- a man who was less than friendly to USA's imagined enemy Gadaffi. Chadian named him, "Africa's Pinochet". USA supported the Duvalier family for 30 years and off course Savimbi in Angola. See William Blum(2001) Rogue State. Chapter 17. The Consequences If African thinkers and educationalists alike continue to neglect the content of early and middle years curricula, they would be fighting a losing battle against the slave/colonial mindset, capitalism, fashion and mass-media. The same way, one cannot expect to put new wine in an old wineskin so to, one cannot expect the slave/colonial minded to suddenly change his or her learnt behaviour. This behaviour has been around for the last 350 years. It might have started as, a means of coping in strange and often hostile societies in the Caribbean and America in the late 17th century. Joy Leary would argue African communities must admit the existence of post traumatic syndrome before, the treatment could be sought. No admission means that, this major debilitating psychological condition would linger and fester away. Off course when a few like, Thiongo'o(1938-) changed his behaviour in his adulthood, by going back to his Gikuyu name and writing in his own language rather than English only, is inspirational to rest who remain in this regressive state of mind. He used his book-Decolonising the mind: the politics of language in African literature(1986) as a platform to encourage African challenged about their attitude towards Africa and or NJAC. Ngugi wa writers to write in their own language to make their books more meaningful to Africans on the continent. It is not only about writing in one's own language although, that is a positive start. It is about having a core teaching curricula that could be used world-wide. Even if people write in their own indigenous language but continue to see Europe as the solution to their problems-the colonised mind remains untouched. The writer applauds the work of Haki Madibuti and Dr Karenga and Molefi Asante. The African need more people like the above, if we are to be taken seriously. Why are members of NJAC( National Joint Action committee) and their 36 year old organisation in Trinidad, still viewed as not worthy of support from the majority of African-Trinidadians? The slave/colonial mindset, which makes people ridicule members for re-claiming their African heritage via taking on African names. One can often hear African-Trinidadians and other Africans born abroad saying in a most offensive voice, "I am not African" when asked about their identity. Thai is the colonial mindset expressing their ignorance. What do we begin? The logical place for decolonisation to begin is in the home, with parents taking the lead. The early years 0-11 is the crucial time to inculcate the Afrocentric values. It means that, we have to be prepared to build our own nurseries and create our own culturally inclusive and sensitive curricula. The parents must be re-educated. It is almost pointless waiting until a child becomes an adult, when he may or may not be exposed to Pan-Africanism. All the research available would agree that, the pre-natal and early years are the most important educating years. Ideally, the decolonisation ideals should be embedded in the early years curricula, The Community leaders and families should make attempts to discuss post trauma syndrome and it's effects openly and proactively put into place some short term and long term remedies. 3 African American writers who wrote the The Black Parenting Book did not pursue the de-colonisation project in their book either. There are 17 chapters in this book yet, Pan-Africanism and or the issue of the slave/colonial mindset were not addressed in a very active way. There chapters on Family Traditions and Spirituality without making mention of the importance of Kwanzaa. There was a chapter on " Black and Proud" not African and proud. There should have a chapter on how and why Africans came to self hate and hate all things African. Where did it all begin? The book tackled particular parenting approach, which was used by African American parents but, they did not attempt to give the psychological or economic reasons why most African parents worldwide use the authoritarian model rather than the authoritative model. Authoritarian- powerful, assertive/aggressive (verbally or physically adult leads or makes all the decisions, which are imposed on child. May be highly critical. Parents may be likely to use shouting and hitting. Parents may even talk about "I want you to fear me". Authoritative- Parents use reciprocity and a democratic style, which allows child to lead but establishes safe limits and boundaries. Parents are likely to use encouragement, provide choices and highlight consequences and positive feedback and use time-out and put penalities in place, as part of their disciplining package. It might have been helpful to explain why some African parents use the former than the latter? It would have been more useful to write the book in some African languages and use a work -book with exercises to involve all members of the family. This book could be described as the product of a well meaning qualified but, obviously apolitical professionals. The writers tackled all the symptoms but never ventured near the core causes. They missed an opportunity to focus on the link between the type of the society, which produces such parents focusing on a post-colonial/slave/capitalist, racist society such as the USA. Conclusion. The Decolonisation project and treating post trauma syndrome are as necessary to Africans, as oxygen and water are to humankind existence. Neither can be avoided any longer due to it being "too sensitive" an issue. The message to all the Pan-Africanists/Humanist individuals, families and organisations , which are always short of committed, reliable and discipline foot soldiers is this, put some of your efforts and money into the 0-11 years olds and an African Parenting project, based on an Afrocentric model and treatment for psychological trauma and other self-harming behaviour. If any individual/family or organisation is interested ion the guture well being of Africans- the aforementioned approaches are vital. Otherwise, a plethora of colonial minded and dishonest Pastors from diverse Christian sects, the mass-media, fashion, cars and short term attractions and whatever other European cultural left-overs would grab the minds of the majority of Africans. The slave/colonial mind is dangerous to Pan-Africanist and African humanist alike. Those African "kept men" or Europe's trojan horses will continue the pauperization policies of a very rich continent. They will repeat policies and slogans without even analysing them. They will like the major obstacle to progress, changes, self-empowerment and unification of African peoples. Instead of enabling and building capacities and re-skilling people, they will disable, de-skill and pauperize people. The colonial minded knows nothing else. The Europeans using their white skins as authority continue to pamper and encourage their "kept men" to the detriment of the majority of Africans, who continue to suffer and to be killed with the weapons made in the USA/UK/Israel and other European countries. References: Akbar Na'im(1992) Chain and Images of psychological slavery- Winston-Derek, Nashville, TN Blumm W (2003) Rogue State: Chapter 17. Zed Books London UK Brittain V (1998) Death and Dignity: Angola's Civil War. Chapter 2. Pluto Books. London UK Woodson C.G (1937) The Mis-education of the negro. Africa World Press NJ USA Wright B.E (1984) The psychopathic racial personality and other essays. Third World Press Chicago, Ilinois USA
Will I see result fast if I stick to my diet workout program? I am in okay shape. 5'5" 107lb. I am not interested in losing weight. assuming I stick with the following program: Eating 1500 - 1600 calories per day. (4 small meals a day high in protein, low in carb, and fat) workout 90 minutes a day (6 days a week) (40 minutes cardio workout, 50 minutes weight training different body parts on different day) (got this workout program on a magazine) If I stick with it without fail, can I see DRAMATIC result in 90 days (13 week) What kind of result do I expect? (assuming I stick with the program without fail) I want to see dramatic result, will I look like some enter level fitness model? Thank you
I want a online game like habbo.com i don't want any of these? Spineworld Claim your character and explore, travel and chat! RuneScape An adventure with monsters to kill, quests to complete, and treasures to win! Very popular. Mini Match Create your minizen and start playing games with others! DressUpChallenge PG-13 Use the Makeover Creator to do dress ups and makeovers, enter challenges and vote on makeovers others have done. Lots of fun! Stardoll MeDoll Create your own MeDoll (to look like you or someone else), go shopping for clothes and accessories and meet friends. Crash Village PG-13 Sign up your own character and help Crash Bandicoot fight evil villains! Habbo PG-13 A virtual world where you can hang out in the cafes, restaurants, swimming pools and games rooms. Or create private rooms and your own party. Also Canadian and UK versions. Chapatiz Create you own cute boy or girl Chapati, chat and make silly faces! goSupermodel Requires registration Java Applet Design your own super model look, go on photo shoots and score points for jobs well done. MinyanLand Requires registration Play games and hang out while you learn to manage money. But be careful, just like in real life you can run out! Fashion Fantasy Requires registration Design your own line of clothes or be an owner of a fashion store! Doll War Requires registration Create a doll, go shopping for clothes and have fashion battles with other dolls to determine who has the better sense of fashion! Dizzywood Recommended Requires registration Create a character, walk around Dizzywood, collect coins to buy clothes and other items, play games, chat and have fun! Now all DressUpGames.com users can have their own fashion cameras! MyMiniLife PG-13 Create your MiniMe and your MiniHome, visit other people's MiniHomes, chat and have fun! Starfever Agency Requires registration R Be an agent to the stars! You have to be 17 or over to register. Fantage Recommended Requires registration Set in the future when everybody travels on hover boards! You can play games, earn stars, go shopping and chat! Millsberry.com Requires registration A virtual city game where you can create your own character and explore Millsberry town through his or her eyes. Build-A-Bearville Requires registration Build your human character and start exploring Bearville. You need to buy a bear for many of the activities, but not all. Groovy Girls Requires registration Dress her up, decorate her room and chat with friends. Club Penguin Requires registration A kid-friendly virtual world where you, as a penguin, can waddle around and interact with other players. The game is free, but the dress-up feature is only for paid members. MechQuest Requires registration PG-13 Fantasy mecha (giant robots) role playing game, start by creating your character and choose the color of your mecha! Trollz.com Requires registration Make your your Troll, then go spend your trollars (troll dollars) at the mall! Tibia Requires registration Be an adventurer in a a huge realm of magic and mystery and make friends with people from all over the world. Poptropica Recommended Requires registration Virtual fun town to explore! To customize your character make sure to click on "change character" after your character is born. Zanpo Virtual Cities Requires registration 3d multi player virtual cities where you can explore, become a citizen, build your own home, and even become mayor of your own city. Club Marian recommended New and improved Marian, customize your character, run, drive and chat. The best part? You don't need to register! Urbaniacs Requires registration Create and control super heroes who live in Urbanville. Chamber of Chat Requires registration A Harry Potter interactive adventure game with customizable avatars! Whyville Requires registration A virtual town for boys and girls to explore, learn, create, and have fun. Seventeen Magazine Editor's Assistant Find out what it's like to be an assistant at a fashion magazine. Start the day with deciding what to wear! I-Dressup iLook Requires registration Recommended Make your own avatars, select ready made outfits or make your own, talk to friends, write blogs and vote for other members. I-Dressup iToon Requires registration Recommended Same features as above, but here you can create an avatar that is more anime/cartoon version of you. Dubit Requires registration For UK youth with real time 3D chat, blogs, message boards, games, and more. GalaXseeds Requires registration Create your own seedizen and go on to help save the galaxy from evil! Playdo Requires registration Create your own citizen, play games and meet friends. Barbie Girls Requires registration Recommended Design your character and your own room, invite friends over and go shopping at the mall! Warbears Requires registration Create your character, earn credits for solving missions, buy stuff for your house and chat with friends. Stunt Bike Island Customize the girl and her bike (three possible outfits) and go for a ride. Gaia Online Requires registration Anime role playing community. Dress up your own avatar, chat, role play and earn gold through games with other players in an interactive world. GirlSense Requires registration Recommended A large website with lots of fun dress-up and makeover activities to do, I recommend starting with exploring "E-Boutiques", "Fashion" and "Salon"! Faketown Requires registration PG-16 Online chat game allowing users to interact with one another and buy virtual houses and virtual credits. Nicktropolis Requires registration Recommended Style your NickSelf, create your own room and chat with friends. Kupika Requires registration A pen pal community where you can create your own character to represent you. Mokitown : home of the Mobile Kids Requires registration A City for kids. Chat, meet friends, play a tons of games and have fun! Dragon Fable Requires registration Build your character and battle monsters, find treasure, and much more. Girl Stuff/Boy Stuff Create an avatar, edit your bedroom, and hang out in the GSBS world. CokeStudios Requires registration Meet friends, make music, perform. Show Jumping Choose a color for the horse and clothes for the jockey, then start your training! Student Survivor Recommended Two games where your goal is to create a student and keep him or her alive and happy! You have to register if you want to save your game. AWOLnow Requires registration A chat world where you can dress up or avatar and hang out. 45 day free trial. The N Requires registration Avatar mall, high-school, prom and more.
what are some fun websites?? i already know of: MyMiniLife NEW! Create your MiniMe and your MiniHome, visit other people's MiniHomes, chat and have fun! Starfever Agency R Be an agent to the stars! You have to be 17 or over to register. Fantage Set in the future when everybody travels on hover boards! You can play games, earn stars, go shopping and chat! Millsberry.com A virtual city game where you can create your own character and explore Millsberry town through his or her eyes. Dizzywood Start by creating a character, walk around Dizzywood, collect coins to buy clothes and other items, play games, chat and have fun! Build-A-Bearville Build your human character and start exploring Bearville. You need to buy a bear for many of the activities, but not all. Groovy Girls Dress her up, decorate her room and chat with friends. Club Penguin A kid-friendly virtual world where you, as a penguin, can waddle around and interact with other players. The game is free, but the dress-up feature is only for paid members. MechQuest PG-13 Fantasy mecha (giant robots) role playing game, start by creating your character and choose the color of your mecha! Trollz.com Make your your Troll, then go spend your trollars (troll dollars) at the mall! Tibia Be an adventurer in a a huge realm of magic and mystery and make friends with people from all over the world. Poptropica Virtual fun town to explore! To customize your character make sure to click on "change character" after your character is born. Zanpo Virtual Cities 3d multi player virtual cities where you can explore, become a citizen, build your own home, and even become mayor of your own city. Club Marian New and improved Marian, customize your character, run, drive and chat. The best part? You don't need to register! Urbaniacs Create and control super heroes who live in Urbanville. Chamber of Chat A Harry Potter interactive adventure game with customizable avatars! Whyville A virtual town for boys and girls to explore, learn, create, and have fun. Seventeen Magazine Editor's Assistant Find out what it's like to be an assistant at a fashion magazine. Start the day with deciding what to wear! I-Dressup iLook Make your own avatars, select ready made outfits or make your own, talk to friends, write blogs and vote for other members. I-Dressup iToon Same features as above, but here you can create an avatar that is more anime/cartoon version of you. Dubit For UK youth with real time 3D chat, blogs, message boards, games, and more. GalaXseeds Create your own seedizen and go on to help save the galaxy from evil! Playdo Create your own citizen, play games and meet friends. Barbie Girls Design your character and your own room, invite friends over and go shopping at the mall! Warbears Create your character, earn credits for solving missions, buy stuff for your house and chat with friends. Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom An online version of Disney Theme Parks. Multi player games, chat and more! Stunt Bike Island Customize the girl and her bike (three possible outfits) and go for a ride. Gaia Online Anime role playing community. Dress up your own avatar, chat, role play and earn gold through games with other players in an interactive world. GirlSense A large website with lots of fun dress-up and makeover activities to do, I recommend starting with exploring "E-Boutiques", "Fashion" and "Salon"! Faketown PG-13 Online chat game allowing users to interact with one another and buy virtual houses and virtual credits. Nicktropolis Style your NickSelf, create your own room and chat with friends. Kupika A pen pal community where you can create your own character to represent you. Mokitown : home of the Mobile Kids A City for kids. Chat, meet friends, play a tons of games and have fun! Dragon Fable Build your character and battle monsters, find treasure, and much more. Girl Stuff/Boy Stuff Create an avatar, edit your bedroom, and hang out in the GSBS world. CokeStudios Meet friends, make music, perform. Show Jumping Choose a color for the horse and clothes for the jockey, then start your training! Student Survivor Two games where your goal is to create a student and keep him or her alive and happy! You have to register if you want to save your game. AWOLnow A chat world where you can dress up or avatar and hang out. 45 day free trial. PowerBabe is not working at the moment. The N Avatar mall, high-school, prom and more. RuneScape 3d multi player adventure, with monsters to kill, quests to complete, and treasure to win. Stardoll MeDoll Create your own MeDoll (to look like you or someone else), go shopping for clothes and accessories and meet friends. Big Fat Awesome House Party Build an imaginary friend and earn points by doing chores around the house. More points means more games to play. VERBNow.com Create a Virt, a virtual sidekick who is energized when you play sports and games. Big Mouth Life Grow a Big Mouth, customize, care and play with it. Earn points by taking good care of your Big Mouth and buy stuff for it. Habbo PG-13 A virtual world where you can hang out in the cafes, restaurants, swimming pools and games rooms. Or create private rooms and your own party. Also Canadian and UK versions. goSupermodel Java Applet Design your own super model look, go on photo shoots and score points for jobs well done. Doll War Create a doll, go shopping for clothes and have fashion battles with other dolls to determine who has the better sense of fashion! please i am sooo bord someone please anyone know anything else or even hoe i get too:.................the N where u can go to the: .....Avatar mall, high-school, prom.....and more. Is there any websites you guys know of tht u dont have to download does anyone know the website 4:the N?
Black people. Read and what are your thoughts? The implications of constant reinforcement of Euro-centric ideals of 'beauty' displayed in magazines, television, etc on the black African American women deeply scar their psyche from these images. Eurocentric ideals of beauty are ‘Euro’, being light-skinned, with straight light hair (preferably blonde), and light eyes (especially blue-eyed). African female features in particular are especially not celebrated to the extremes of Eurocentrism. Black women are the biggest consumers in the hair industry in the US, purchasing relaxing products, straightening creams, wigs and hair extensions. Although they make up only 10% of the market, these women are obliged to consume beyond the majority. What is the struggle between a Black woman and her hair? What creates this attitude? Black women do not believe their short ‘nappy’ coiled hair is attractive because no prominent black women wear their natural hair proudly (Neither do popular role models). As one gazes at the few promoted black women who are leading faces, there is an obvious trend amongst them all. In particular to the hair, none of which you may find is of their true human makeup. All of them either relax their hair (relaxer diminishes “frizz”), get weaves (human hair that is stitched into the scalp), or get hair extensions. Prime examples of this are model Tyra Banks, music stars Beyonce Knowles and Rihanna, television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, and many more, even the first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. Each of these women can only be seen with hair that is against their natural image. They are influential African-American female role models, and yet they are unable to project their true identity as natural black ambassadors and spokespeople to the wider fragile African-American community. Still today, fairer skin tones are promoted in all aspects of media.society that glamorizes the European standard of beauty, without ever proper representing the image of. In an image-conscious culture which stresses deep significance on appearance this is nothing but destructive. A society obsessed with looks trains females to think they have to mould into a certain image in order to become successful, accepted, and beautiful. To recycle European ideals of beauty in a multicultural society is past its time Eurocentric ideals of beauty has stretched its tentacles to the far reaches of the globe, strangling the self-esteem of females who physically conflict with these standards, and also affecting males who are coloured with the same notions in how they seek in a beautiful mate. African featured women in the media by far suffer the greatest from this often overlooked issue in today’s modern society. It is so deeply rooted that it goes unchecked by the majority of those who observe media. When images are constantly reinforced and regurgitated each day, one begins to believe solely in what they are shown. Don't take it too harshly. Black people and the community have a lot to deal with and they have to strengthen their own before anything will be resolved. What are your views? I sympathize with the black community. The black community needs to have pride in who they are and strengthen their fragile community. You are still misguided and shackled under the colonisers. This a serious question. Honest opinions. Please educational discussion. Tons of research and critical thinking, observation etc. Media/Communications studies student. Isn't it sad that this system has made the black community hate each other over small things? Blacks have still yet not been liberated. Yes Ms Trust I wrote this! These are form my essay. I actually wrote a college paper on this topic. I am very critical. It's my passion. PEOPLE PLEASE DON"T ATTEMPT TO ANSWER IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING INTELLIGENT TO REPLY WITH. WHO CARES IT"S JUST HAIR?? C'MON PLEASE> I notice black people do not help their cause. They push it off and make it look trivial. It is very deep psychological damage going on here. SPUDDY- I am actually not part if the African American community. I live in New Zealand so I am not making excuses for anyone. I am just clearly making an observational point. Isn't that F'D up though? This world is a very deranged world. The 'COLONISED' strive to be white and lighter and the whites want to tan and become BROWN?? The system is at fault. It was built on a colonial back, it was wrong from the beginning, is still wrong and will always be wrong.
What's your opinion on Ben Stein's last column? For many years Ben Stein has written a biweekly column called "Monday Night At Morton's." (Morton's is a famous chain of Steakhouses known to be frequented by movie stars and famous people from around the globe.) Now, Ben is terminating the column to move on to other things in his life. Reading his final column is worth a few minutes of your time. ============================================ How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World? As I begin to write this, I "slug" it, as we writers say, which means I put a heading on top of the document to identify it. This heading is "eonlineFINAL," and it gives me a shiver to write it. I have been doing this column for so long that I cannot even recall when I started. I loved writing this column so much for so long I came to believe it would never end. It worked well for a long time, but gradually, my changing as a person and the world's change have overtaken it. On a small scale, Morton's, while better than ever, no longer attracts as many stars as it used to. It still brings in the rich people in droves and definitely some stars. I saw Samuel L. Jackson there a few days ago, and we had a nice visit, and right before that, I saw and had a splendid talk with Warren Beatty in an elevator, in which we agreed that "Splendor in the Grass" was a super movie But Morton's is not the star galaxy it once was, though it probably will be again. Beyond that, a bigger change has happened. I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important . They are uniformly pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me better than I deserve to be treated. But a man or woman who makes a huge wage for memorizing lines and reciting them in front of a camera is no longer my idea of a shining star we should all look up to. How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today's world, if by a "star" we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model? Real stars are not riding around in the backs of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese girls do their nails. They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer. A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit, Iraq. He could have been met by a bomb or a hail of AK-47 bullets. Instead, he faced an abject Saddam Hussein and the gratitude of all of the decent people of the world. A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad. He approached it, and the bomb went off and killed him. A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad. The stars who deserve media attention are not the ones who have lavish weddings on TV but the ones who patrol the streets of Mosul even after two of their buddies were murdered and their bodies battered and stripped for the sin of trying to protect Iraqis from terrorists. We put couples with incomes of $100 million a year on the covers of our magazines. The noncoms and officers who barely scrape by on military pay but stand on guard in Afghanistan and Iraq and on ships and in submarines and near the Arctic Circle are anonymous as they live and die. I am no longer comfortable being a part of the system that has such poor values, and I do not want to perpetuate those values by pretending that who is eating at Morton's is a big subject. There are plenty of other stars in the American firmament...the policemen and women who go off on patrol in South Central and have no idea if they will return alive; the orderlies and paramedics who bring in people who have been in terrible accidents and prepare them for surgery; the teachers and nurses who throw their whole spirits into caring for autistic children; the kind men and women who work in hospices and in cancer wards. Think of each and every fireman who was running up the stairs at the World Trade Center as the towers began to collapse. Now you have my idea of a real hero. I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters. This is my highest and best use as a human. I can put it another way. Years ago, I realized I could never be as great an actor as Olivier or as good a comic as Steve Martin...or Martin Mull or Fred Willard--or as good an economist as Samuelson or Friedman or as good a writer as Fitzgerald. Or even remotely close to any of them. But I could be a devoted father to my son, husband to my wife and, above all, a good son to the parents who had done so much for me. This came to be my main task in life. I did it moderately well with my son, pretty well with my wife and well indeed with my parents (with my sister's help). I cared for and paid attention to them in their declining years. I stayed with my father as he got sick, went into extremis and then into a coma and then entered immortality with my sister and me reading him the Psalms. This was the only point at which my life touched the lives of the soldiers in Iraq or the firefighters in New York. I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty, in return for the lavish life God has devolved upon me, to help others He has placed in my path. This is my highest and best use as a human. Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. By Ben Stein "The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable." - Paul Tillich I like it very much, and I agree with him. I have a lot of respect for a man with good moral values, which is apparent with Ben Stein.
Are Proscout and John Robert Powers both a scam? What happens when you go to JRP? Is it like an audition where you memorize a monologue and present it in front of agents? I read online saying that it's a training school or something like that, but I'm not sure. People have been saying that it is a scam, but then there were others who really thought JRP was a one-way ticket to success. And I'm not sure about Proscout either, but I have gone to one of their interviews. And I know some of the actors and models we see on TV and magazines today did actually go to Proscout and got this famous. I'm just so confused and don't know if these are the right options for me to start. I really want to get into acting business. If not, are there other good agents in Illinois? Any advice? Thank you in advance! :)
how to get into modeling? me nd my frined think it would be fun to be in a shoot for a magazine we were wondering how to send them a email or somehting or if you need training thankyou!
Question! Would any ladies like me to rule the world if these were my rules? 1.Shopping would be considered an aerobic activity 2.Men would not be allowed to eat gas-producing foods within two hours of bedtime 3.All toilet seats would be nailed down 4.Men would pay as much attention to their woman as to their car 5.For basic training, soldiers would have to take care of a two-year old for six weeks 6.All men would be forced to spend one month in a PMS simulator 7.Singles bars would have metal detectors to weed out men hiding wedding rings in their pocket 8.TV news segments on sports would never run longer than 1 minute 9.A man would no longer be considered a "good catch" simply because he is breathing 10.Fewer women would be dieting because their ideal weight standard would increase by 30 pounds 11."Ms" Magazine would have an annual swimsuit issue featuring scantily clad male models 12.Men would bring drinks, chips and dip to women watching soap operas 13.Men would have to get Playboy for the articles because there would be no pictures 14.Men would get reputations for sleeping around 15.Men would learn phrases like: "I'm sorry" "I love you" "You're beautiful" "Of course you don't look fat in that outfit" 16.Men would be judged entirely by their looks, women by their accomplishments 17.Men would sit around and wonder what WE are thinking 18.During mid-life crisis, men would get hot-flushes and women would date 19-year-olds 19.Overweight men would have their weight brought to their attention constantly 20.After a baby is born, men would take a six-week paternity leave to wait on their wives hand and foot
Male Adolescents, i.e. between 10-19yrs please answer!? Hi there! We are conducting a study with adolescent males and would like your help. Please fill in all the answers honestly. There is no need to write your name on the questionnaire. All the information will be kept confidential and anonymous. Thank you. Age:______ Race: WhiteBlack Coloured Other 1.How often do you think about being more toned or having more defined muscles?________________________________________________ 2.Have you always dreamed of being big? Yes / No 3.Do you feel that you need to bulk up?Yes / No (Please motivate.) ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 4.Have you started to bulk up?Yes / No 5. At what age did you start?___________ 6. Why did you start?__________________________________________ 7. Did you experience any peer pressure to start?Yes / No 8. How did you start?__________________________________________ 9. Are you training according to a programme?Yes / No 10. Have you consulted a dietician?Yes / No 11. Have you consulted a personal trainer?Yes / No 12. Do you belong to a gym? Yes / No 13. Have you discussed this with anyone? For example your parents, or coach at school?Yes / No 14. Are you using any supplements, creatine or growth hormones?Yes / No 15. Do you think it is healthy and natural to bulk up?Yes / No 16. When will you be bulk enough?Yes / No 17. Do you think that males have always wanted to bulk up, or do you think that it is becoming more popular amongst males?_____________________________ 18. What TV programmes do you watch frequently?_______________________________________________________ 19. What magazines or newspapers do you enjoy reading?_________________________________________________________ 20. Rate your self-esteem on the scale below from 0-10 (10 being really good) 12345678910 21. Rate your physical appearance on the scale below 0-10 (10 being perfect) 12345678910 22. Who is your role model or hereo?__________________________________ 23. If you could be anyone for a day, who would it be and why?______________ ________________________________________________________________ 24. Do you wish you looked more like the men in the media?Yes / No 25. Are you concerned about the way you look?Yes / No 26. Are you concerned with what other people think about the way you look?Yes / No 27. Would you say that bulking up boosts your self- confidence?Yes / No 28. Do you think that males who bulk up receive more attention from girls?Yes / No 29. Do muscular men receive more respect than men with smaller statures?Yes / No (Please motivate)____________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ 30.What do you think or feel when looking at yourself in the mirror and why? ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ 31. Where do you get your supplements from? ____________________________________________________________ 32. What does your daily diet consist of? List briefly.___________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________
Read this and tell me what you think. I wote this 2 years ago? Ok where should I start? Well do you know what, all my life, well up until I was 13. I always thought ok was spell O-K. But in actuality it is spelled o-k-a-y. That is so weird. The American people are so lazy we can’t even spell out a whole word. Americans are so fat and lazy we can’t write to more letters. “ Oh no I can’t two letters because I might to take a break from watching T.V. and eating my Crispy Creams while sitting at Mcdonalds drinking my coffee to write four lousy letters. Do know that in a national survey that McDonalds is the number one place to buy coffee. McDonalds? I feel that McDonalds is barf in a bag on a tray Dunkin Doughnuts is 2nd. Because America drives to Dunkin Doughnuts. You have herd the slogan “America Runs on Dunkin’” It has the little businessman running holding a Dunkin Doughnuts coffee cup. I can’t recall the last time I saw some one running out side of gym class and still they aren’t running very long or fast. Ha and third is Starbucks. I herd today that people go to star bucks once keep the cup and then put cheaper coffee in there used coffee cup. How cheap are we America to use old cups with old coffee in it so we look cool? Ha. Personal I think coffee is gross and I’d rather drink coco. America is so cheap and stuff is so over priced that is sickens me. Milk is now going up to four dollars a gallon. That just makes me sick. Buying milk is going to put people into the poor house. But we will go to Starbucks buy one cup of coffee and reuse it with the McDonalds coffee. Do you know how bad the service in McDonalds is? We go there after church on Sundays and they are so slow. The way it is set up if order say a number 10 sandwiches they will give you the large meal. So you always order saying just the sandwich. They always pretend they didn’t hear you. They always forget to give you something. But they charge you for it. So when you go up and say that you forget it they get up all huffy with you. They always say you didn’t say that. But it was charged on the receipt. They feel who are we to ask a favor of some one who works at MCDONALDS. Like they are better than use. Oh ya Burger Flipin is a 10 on my list of success. America is obsessed with food. Have you ever been to the barfarossa. We go there sometimes on Sundays and watch the black ladies wear their elaborate hats. Yes I said BLACK ladies it doesn’t bother me much. Whoa got to slow down getten ahead of myself. But don’t worry know I will talk about that later just you wait. The food there is so gross. It is awful it is so greasy and fatting. It just makes me so sick. But we went their and there was an air bubble in the ice cream machine and it would make a loud pop and the fat black ladies would jump back screaming and hollering. It was so funny. I think I died laughing. Have you herd of the new diet ALI. The fat people of America think it is some miracle pill and they will just lose 100 lbs. What they don’t realize they have to get of there lazy butts and exercise. They are going to be so disappointed when it doesn’t work. I can’t wait to hear the fat people of America join arms to take down the ALI program. They will literaly stampede down the ALI company walls with tens of thousands upon thousands of pounds. Oh I can just see the law suite that will arise. I will laugh so hard. Now I am not saying am I’m a skinny minny but I am average. It seems that in America there is to types of people in the world extremely obese people and than people are so skinny that look more like poles than people. In all those magazines that are so skinny that they are nothing. Now men look at these women they think that’s what woman are supposed to look like. Well news flash we don’t. I know that woman like to eat desserts and chocolate is our favorite. So we are not going to look like that. Those models are like a machine a well-trained robot. They are programmed to throw up everything that they eat. They to eat chocolate and go through a bindge cycle. My grandmother had a magnet that said those indulge bulge. And that is so true. We can eat of sweets but it should be in small seizes. We don’t need to eat so much. We just want a small taste and that’s all that we need to eat. But I am no dietitian so don’t listen to me. America is obsessed with budding into every one else’s business. On the news today all you hear is Paris Hilton goes to prison. Paris Hilton out of jail. Paris Hilton lesbian lover in jail makes her origami. The night Paris got out of jail the only thing on the news was the footage of her walking out of jail. Then there’s her interview with Larry King. She was asked what she learned in jail that could better herself as a citizen and a human being. Do you know what her answer was do you now what she said? “ So like when I totally get PO my voice gets like totally like squeaky and I totally don’t think that’s its like ya know hot” OMG not about because she’s a cleb she should get special treatment. The whole thing just makes me so sick. And than when Anne Nichole died that’s all we herd. How did she die? Well I got your answers right here DRUGS. You saw that footage of the clown. She was in the clown makeup babysitting. Telling the camera that she is on a mushroom high. I want some real news. Something important it just bugs me so much. I want real news. I don’t care if you end up offending someone. I DON’T GIVE A CRAP!! It just bugs me so much. I could go on and on about this topic and I think I should start now. Political Correctness. Say those words to your self. Political Correctness. America is so afraid of offending anyone that we are losing a war because of it. Oh wait sorry we did not declare war. Do you know that in the schools we can’t talk about god, or the true meaning of Christmas? But we can talk about the meaning of Hanukah. I had a friend who is half Jewish half Catholic his Mom who is Jewish would come in every year and talk about the Jewish people and the eight nights and the oil. But if my Mom were to come in and talk about the baby Jesus they wouldn’t let her? 6 minutes ago
How to get a magazine cover model body quick!? Hi, I have just turned 14, play a lot of rugby at fly half and weigh in at approximately 8st3lbs. I am 5ft6in. I want you to give me a nutrition and exercise program which will convert me into looking like a magazine cover model. I don't want to be super huge, I just want good hard biceps, a great six pack, big chest, muscly thighs and calfs and just basically to look awesome. I am fed up of being Mr. Average! Now, as I am only 14, I don't have a huge amount of input on to what i eat for dinners so I need something cheap and available easily and I do go to school Mon-Fri 8:30-3:10 so I can't do exercise during lesson or eat during lessons. I go to rugby training every wednesday and sunday. I am not aloud supplements but I am aloud to do weights. I also love jogging.
Will you read this before you ask how to become a disney channel star?? No one on here knows you, your acting skills, your voice, your dance technique, your location, your appearance, your personality, or training, so no one is going to be able to tell you if you will be able to become a "Teen Star" or a "Disney Channel Star". Likely, No. To get on TV you need an agent. Disney rarely just holds open auditions, and when they do, they're not for kids to have their own TV shows. To get an agent, you usually need to be either really attractive or really talented, (often both). Look for agents in your area and send them your headshot and resume. You also MUST get involved in acting you can't expect to go from singing into a brush to singing in front of millions. 1. Take Classes-Try to get involved in as many acting, modeling, singing and dancing classes as you can. 2. Perform-Try out for school and community theatre and subscribe to a magazine like Backstage to look for auditions. So will you please stop asking this stupid question again and again??? I didn't really expect this to get the point across, I just wanted to rant a bit. :)
Read this and tell me what you think. I wrote this about a year ago.? Ok where should I start? Well do you know what, all my life, well up until I was 13. I always thought ok was spell O-K. But in actuality it is spelled o-k-a-y. That is so weird. The American people are so lazy we can’t even spell out a whole word. Americans are so fat and lazy we can’t write to more letters. “ Oh no I can’t two letters because I might to take a break from watching T.V. and eating my Crispy Creams while sitting at Mcdonalds drinking my coffee to write four lousy letters. Do know that in a national survey that McDonalds is the number one place to buy coffee. McDonalds? I feel that McDonalds is barf in a bag on a tray Dunkin Doughnuts is 2nd. Because America drives to Dunkin Doughnuts. You have herd the slogan “America Runs on Dunkin’” It has the little businessman running holding a Dunkin Doughnuts coffee cup. I can’t recall the last time I saw some one running out side of gym class and still they aren’t running very long or fast. Ha and third is Starbucks. I herd today that people go to star bucks once keep the cup and then put cheaper coffee in there used coffee cup. How cheap are we America to use old cups with old coffee in it so we look cool? Ha. Personal I think coffee is gross and I’d rather drink coco. America is so cheap and stuff is so over priced that is sickens me. Milk is now going up to four dollars a gallon. That just makes me sick. Buying milk is going to put people into the poor house. But we will go to Starbucks buy one cup of coffee and reuse it with the McDonalds coffee. Do you know how bad the service in McDonalds is? We go there after church on Sundays and they are so slow. The way it is set up if order say a number 10 sandwiches they will give you the large meal. So you always order saying just the sandwich. They always pretend they didn’t hear you. They always forget to give you something. But they charge you for it. So when you go up and say that you forget it they get up all huffy with you. They always say you didn’t say that. But it was charged on the receipt. They feel who are we to ask a favor of some one who works at MCDONALDS. Like they are better than use. Oh ya Burger Flipin is a 10 on my list of success. America is obsessed with food. Have you ever been to the barfarossa. We go there sometimes on Sundays and watch the black ladies wear their elaborate hats. Yes I said BLACK ladies it doesn’t bother me much. Whoa got to slow down getten ahead of myself. But don’t worry know I will talk about that later just you wait. The food there is so gross. It is awful it is so greasy and fatting. It just makes me so sick. But we went their and there was an air bubble in the ice cream machine and it would make a loud pop and the fat black ladies would jump back screaming and hollering. It was so funny. I think I died laughing. Have you herd of the new diet ALI. The fat people of America think it is some miracle pill and they will just lose 100 lbs. What they don’t realize they have to get of there lazy butts and exercise. They are going to be so disappointed when it doesn’t work. I can’t wait to hear the fat people of America join arms to take down the ALI program. They will literaly stampede down the ALI company walls with tens of thousands upon thousands of pounds. Oh I can just see the law suite that will arise. I will laugh so hard. Now I am not saying am I’m a skinny minny but I am average. It seems that in America there is to types of people in the world extremely obese people and than people are so skinny that look more like poles than people. In all those magazines that are so skinny that they are nothing. Now men look at these women they think that’s what woman are supposed to look like. Well news flash we don’t. I know that woman like to eat desserts and chocolate is our favorite. So we are not going to look like that. Those models are like a machine a well-trained robot. They are programmed to throw up everything that they eat. They to eat chocolate and go through a bindge cycle. My grandmother had a magnet that said those indulge bulge. And that is so true. We can eat of sweets but it should be in small seizes. We don’t need to eat so much. We just want a small taste and that’s all that we need to eat. But I am no dietitian so don’t listen to me. America is obsessed with budding into every one else’s business. On the news today all you hear is Paris Hilton goes to prison. Paris Hilton out of jail. Paris Hilton lesbian lover in jail makes her origami. The night Paris got out of jail the only thing on the news was the footage of her walking out of jail. Then there’s her interview with Larry King. She was asked what she learned in jail that could better herself as a citizen and a human being. Do you know what her answer was do you now what she said? “ So like when I totally get PO my voice gets like totally like squeaky and I totally don’t think that’s its like ya know hot” OMG not about because she’s a cleb she should get special treatment. The whole thing just makes me so sick. And than when Anne Nichole died that’s all we herd. How did she die? Well I got your answers right here DRUGS. You saw that footage of the clown. She was in the clown makeup babysitting. Telling the camera that she is on a mushroom high. I want some real news. Something important it just bugs me so much. I want real news. I don’t care if you end up offending someone. I DON’T GIVE A CRAP!! It just bugs me so much. I could go on and on about this topic and I think I should start now. Political Correctness. Say those words to your self. Political Correctness. America is so afraid of offending anyone that we are losing a war because of it. Oh wait sorry we did not declare war. Do you know that in the schools we can’t talk about god, or the true meaning of Christmas? But we can talk about the meaning of Hanukah. I had a friend who is half Jewish half Catholic his Mom who is Jewish would come in every year and talk about the Jewish people and the eight nights and the oil. But if my Mom were to come in and talk about the baby Jesus they wouldn’t let her? I do not i repeat do NOT hate america. It is a grand nation with sound vaules. I just have some problems with industries and global warming. I am very proud to be an american and am applying to West Point. If that dosn't work out I am going to join the army. GO ARMY SINK NAVY!!!
Where is the best information for Fitness and Clean Eating? Hello! I will be SO grateful if someone gives me advice on this, because I've been obsessively reading magazines as well as doing research on the Web and right now I am suffering from TMI overload; that's Too Much Information Overload!! I'm looking for one or at the most a couple of the best sources to follow as I try to get in great physical shape through weight training, cardio, and diet. (By sources I just mean magazines, books, websites...) I'm 38 and have four kids, ages 20 years (almost), down to 22 months! I've been interested in fitness and nutrition for a long time and used to be in great shape, even though I wasn't always following a totally strict diet; (I always drank lots of coffee and my fair share of alcohol, as well!) My weight now is pretty good but I haven't really been doing it a healthy way and I'm kind of depressed, very tired, etc. I'd like to do something healthy that will make life better for myself and in turn, my family. There is just so much information that I'm overwhelmed and I'm the type that wants to start NOW when I get set on something! I have the Winter '09 issue of Oxygen mag., it seeems very informative and also on the cover is a woman in INCREDIBLE shape who has six kids! I have also ordered three books on Clean Eating, (which I'm not really that familiar with) from an author named Tosca Reno who got great reviews. The cover model on the Oxygen mag. really inspires me but I have to wonder, can people really get stomachs that flat with no loose skin after having kids, especially that many? I don't mean this as a rude comment, I just want to know what I can realistically expect as I've had four kids and even in good shape my stomach has extra skin; I really want a tummy tuck but can't afford one right now. I've LOVE to be able to achieve that look on my own... Sorry this is so long, any help MUCH appreciated! I'm sorry to have to add to this already long question but this is important: I had surgery on my wrists for carpal tunnel in 1991, and I have one with calcific tendonitis in the rotator cuff, it's probably in both and I'm not supposed to do a lot of things as far as certain exercises, mostly use my bands, but I want to be able to follow the workout these women use or I won't get the same results! Would that be totally stupid?? I meant to say "one shoulder with calcific tendonitis."
Is my thesis not evident? This is a research paper for my 11th grade English class, and I can usually write wonderful papers. I'm in a college writing class and I receive A's on a majority of my papers. However, research papers are not my strongest point. Can someone help me incorporate a stronger thesis in my paper? Thank You! DNGRS OF TXT MSGS In 2006, 158 billion text messages were sent nationwide as stated by CTIA, the wireless association. Seventeen Magazine 1,000 sixteen and seventeen year olds and reported that 46% percent of them admit to text messaging while driving, and 51% admit to talking on their cell phone while driving. PRNewswire.com claims that “Recent teen driving tragedies involving text messaging while driving are evidence that driving distractions are becoming as prevalent as drinking and driving.” According to a national survey of more than 900 teens with driver’s licenses from 26 national high schools, 37% of teens rated text messaging “extremely” or “very” distracting while driving; others most likely are not admitting that it is a distraction. Teens claim that they “text-to-death”, but do they realize they are literally text messaging to their death? There is no statistic on how many deaths per year there are from text messaging distractions and 63% of teens do not admit that text messaging distracts them. A lot of teens have acquired the skill to text message without looking, which is not as harmful as long as they keep their eyes on the road. Rob Callender, trends director for Teenage Research Unlimited, stated, “It’s a form of silent communication; they can do it whenever, they can do it fairly secretively.” He added, in a recent study (May 20, 2007) TRU found text messaging the second most popular use for cell phones next to using them to check the time. Teens like to text message because it is secretive, parents cannot hear it, teachers cannot hear it and the messages sent are not shown up on bills. According to dailycommercial.com, Emilee Cox, a fourteen year old freshman holds the record for 35,463 text messages in one month. If young teens are text messaging that much it can only mean trouble for the future. If teens are not thinking clearly, they are bound to get on the road and text message, which will not be good for everyone else on the road. While some states are still allowing drivers of all ages use their cell phone while driving, other states have banned it. “California, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Washington are the only states that have bans on all drivers using hand-held phones.”, according to an article in Land Line Magazine. It goes on to say “With the exception of New York, each of these also prohibits text messaging. Alaska, Louisiana and Minnesota have their own text messaging bans. In addition the articles mentions, “17 states forbid young drivers to use phones while behind the wheel.”, although not mentioning which specific “17 states” forbid it. Driving behavior is not always a teen’s fault alone, they learn from their parents. 62% of teens admit that their parents talk on their cell phone while driving, 48% say their parents speed and 31% say their parents do not wear a seat belt (PRNewswire.com). Driving is a habit picked up just like any other habit. Parents are role models for their children and should try and set a better example while driving. Stricter consequences for their children to not use cell phones while driving should also be set. Although most teens have enough common sense to set their own rules and guidelines for driving, their parents should be the ones setting a prime example and enforcing strict rules with consequences following if the rules are broken. William Van Tassel, PhD, manager of AAA Driver Training states, “Motor vehicle crashes are the number one killer of teens claiming more than 6,000 fifteen to twenty year-olds each year. Inexperience behind the wheel coupled with poor decision making construct additional reasons for teens to stay focused while they are driving. Their attention should not be divided among phones, friends and the road.” (RISMedia). Text messaging is becoming a popular pastime and a dangerous one at that; many teens are driving around daily text messaging at the wheel and it is not safe. The statistics show that plenty of teens do it and that it is clearly an un-safe distraction. If bills to ban phone usage on the road are passed by more states, research shows the road will be a safer place.
Myspace please look at? is there a myspace survey loger then 200 ?'s that U mite no of? if so please let me have it. dont say the dont exsist. 1.What time is it? Personal 2.Do you want to answer these? 3.Name? 4.Name spelled backwards? 5.What is your quest? 6.Nickname? 7.Age? 8.Hometown? 9.What were you born in? 10.Where do you live now? 11.What state? 12.Ever going to move? 13.Would you rather live somewhere else? 14.Birthdate? 15.When do you blow out your candles? 16.Day you were born? 17.Zodiac sign? 18.Do you know what that is? 19.Sex? 20.Height? 21.Weight? 22.Eye color? 23.Hair color? 24.Any siblings? 25.Names and ages? 26.Do you get along with them? 27.Any pets? 28.Names? 29.Parents? 30.Names? 31.Do you get along with them? 32.Married or divorced? 33.How long? 34.Website? 35.Email? 36.AOL s/n? 37.Yahoo s/n? 38.ICQ? 39.MSN? 40.How many people are on your buddy list? 41.Phone number? 42.Personality? School 43. Do you want to answer these? 44.What school do you go to? 45.What year are you? 46.What are you? 47.Hardest class? 48.Easiest class? 49.Most fun class? 50.What day did school start? 51.Do you have classes with friends? 52.Do you have friends? 53.Do you go to school events? 54.What was the last event you went to? 55.Do you have school spirit? 56.Do you go to dances? 57.Stag or with someone? Relationships 58. Do you want to answer these? 59.Have a significant other? 60.What is their name? 61.How old are they? 62.How long have you been going out? 63.Have you been faithful? 64.Do you have a crush? 65.Who? 66.Do they know you like them? 67.You ever going to tell them? 68.Do you have an online crush? 69.Who? In the Past 24 Hours Have You? 70. Do you wonder why I'm asking these questions? 71.Had a serious talk? 72. Hugged someone? 73.Fought with a friend? 74.Cried? 75.Laughed? 76.Made someone laugh? 77.Bought something? 78.Cut your hair? 79.Felt stupid? 80.Talked to someone you love? 81.Missed someone? Have-you-ever ? 82. You want me to tell you? 83.Smoked? 84.Stolen something? 85.Done drugs? 86.Drank? 87.Gotten drunk? 88.Eaten an entire box of Oreos? 89.Been dumped? 90.Had someone be unfaithful to you? 91.Hiked up a mountain? 92. Stayed home on Saturday night, just because? 93.Been in love? 94.Seen the White House? 95.Seen the Eiffel Tower? 96.Try smoking? 97.Played monopoly? 98.Seen Titanic? 99.Kissed someone? 100.Tried a weight loss program? 101.Jumped on a trampoline? 102.Colored in a coloring book (and had fun)? 103.Had a bubble bath? 104.Been on a plane? 105.Been on a boat? 106.Been on a train? 107.Been in a car accident? 108.Ridden an elephant? 109.Made a web page? 110.Played with Barbies? 111.Stay up all night? 112.Shoved stuff under your bed to make your room look clean? 113.Called a psychic or sex hotline? 114.Watched Jerry Springer? 115.Gotten in trouble for talking in class? 116.Been afraid of the dark? 117.Been in the hospital (not visiting)? 118.Had stitches? 119.Dumped someone and regretted it? 120.Gone out with more than one person at a time? 121.Lied? 122.Been arrested? 123.Fallen asleep in class? 124.Gotten in trouble in class? 125.Used food for something other than to eat? 126.Met a celebrity? 127.Broken the law? 128.Ever loved someone so much it made you cry? 129.Hated yourself? 130.Been brokenhearted? 131.Broken someone's heart? 132.Are you a virgin? 133.Done something really stupid? 134.Been arrested? 135.Hurt a friend? 136.Broken a bone? 137.Ever had a crush on a teacher? Favorites 138. Why do you want to know? curious. 139.Guy name? 140.Girl name? 141.Nationality? 142.Color? 143.Holiday? 144.Day of the week? 145.Restaurant? 146.Fastfood restaurant? 147.Food? 148.Animal? 149.Pet? 150.Store? 151.Mall? 152.Clothes brand? 153.Soda? 154.Alcohol? 155.Instrument? 156.Season? 157.Number? 158.Radio station? 159.Song? 160.Sport? 161.Vacation spot? 162.State? 163.Country? 164.Flower? 165.Perfume? 166.Thing to do? 167.Actor? 168.Actress? 169.Saying? 170.Car? 171.Month? 172.Cartoon? 173.T.V.Show? 174.Website? 175.Book? 176.Quality about yourself? 177.Your best friend? 178.Your best guy friend? 179.Your best girl friend? 180.Fruit? . 181.Vegetable? 182.Meat? 183.Quote? 184.Saying? 185.Type of movie? 186.Candy? 187.Language? 188.Magazine? 189.CD? 190.Store? 191.Movie? 192.Day of the week? 193.Singer? 194.Band? Misc. 195.Why are you so curious? 196.Like to swim? 197.Like to dance? 198.Have a pool? 199.Have a car? 200.Going to get a car? 201.Your motto? 202.What do you look for in a friend? 203.What do you look for in the opposite sex? 204.Time you get up? 205.Time you go to bed? 206.What color are the sheets on your bed? 207.How many pillows? 208.Ever skip school? 209.Have you ever been convicted of a crime? 210.What did you eat for dinner? 211.What are you wearing? 212.What movie makes you cry? 213.What book makes you cry? 214.What song makes you cry? 215.What/Who makes you laugh so hard you cry? 216.What is your favorite possession? 217.What physical, tangible possession do you want most? 218.How badly do you want it? 219.Have you ever seen The Exorcist? 220.How long did it take you to understand why that question is here? 221.Does Christmas music played too far away from Christmas annoy you? 222.How old do you think you will be before you stop liking getting older? 223.What was the best Halloween costume you ever had? 224.What was the worst Halloween costume you ever had? 225.What holiday do you think has still managed to retain its original meaning? 226.There are currently no federal holidays during August-what should be put there? 227.How good is your short-term memory? 228.How good is your short-term memory? 229.(Not very good I see, I repeated that question, did you notice?) 230.How good is your long-term memory? 231.What is your earliest memory? 232.What is your happiest memory (other than receiving this survey)? 233.What is your strangest memory? 234.What is your worst memory? 235.What song, movie, etc. 236.What song, movie, etc. 237.What size are your feet? 238.If someone you had no interest in dating expressed interest in dating you, how would you feel? 239.Do you prefer getting to know someone first before dating them or going "blind"? 240.Could you carry on a relationship with someone with the same first name as a family member? 241.Have you ever wished it was more "socially acceptable" for a girl to ask a guy out? 242.What's your opinion on sex without emotional commitment? 243.Have you ever been romantically attracted to someone physically unattractive? 244.Do you think the opposite sex finds you good-looking? 245.Would you be willing to give up sex in exchange for an emotional commitment you knew would last? 246.Do you laugh when you hear or read the number 69? 247.Were you lying about your answer to the previous question? 248.Do you actually know your Social Security Number? 249.Do you actually know your IP address? 250.Do you know what an IP address is? 251.Do you know the four-character extension on your ZIP code? 252.Ever think there were too many numbers floating around in our lives? 253.Does your head begin to hurt when you think of infinity,imaginary numbers, irrational numbers, etc.? 254.What do you think of pi, you know, 3.14152967 etc..? 255.Do you have a driver's license? 256.Do you sometimes see a movie or watch a show just because a good-looking celebrity is in it? 257.What celebrity's autograph do you want most? 258.Have people ever said you looked like a celebrity, and if so, who? 259.If there was to be a movie about you, who do you think should play you (in personality, looks or both)? 260.Does it ever annoy you when you know someone is a celebrity but you can't remember who they are? 261.If you could enter any celebrity's mind like in "Being John Malkovich", whose would you enter? 262.Do you want to be John Malkovich? 263.Have you ever wished you could experience being the other gender? 264.What do you love most about the other gender? 265.What do you dislike most about the other gender? 266.What do you understand least about the other gender? 267.Mac or PC? 268.How much do you actually care about the inner workings of your computer or is it only as long as it works? 269.Do you ever begin preferring IMs to other forms of conversation? 270.Do you find you're different talking through IMs than face-to-face or on the telephone? 271.Have you ever bid on something on eBay and regretted it later? 272.If you had been born a member of the opposite sex, what would your name have been? 273.Would you name a child of yours after you? 274.If you had to switch first names with a friend of yours, who would you switch with? 275.What's the way people most often mispronounce any part of your name? . 276.If you were to become famous, would you drop your last name (like Madonna, Cher, Roseanne)? 277.Like to give hugs? 278.Like to walk in the rain? 279.Sleep with or without clothes on? 280.Prefer black or blue pens? 281.Dress up on Halloween? 282.Sleep on your side, tummy or back? 283.Think you're attractive? 284.Want to marry? 285.Have a goldfish? 286.Ever have the falling dream? 287.Have stuffed animals? 288.Do you believe in the traditional view of Heaven and Hell? 289.Do you think God has a gender? 290.Do you think science counteracts religion? 291.Do you believe in organized religion? 292.Where do you think we go when we die? 293.How easy is it to make you laugh? 295.Do you laugh at jokes you know you shouldn't? 296.Do you tell jokes you know you shouldn't? 297.What words instantly make you laugh or at least smile? 298.What do you think is the funniest thing you've ever said or written? 299.Do you ever dance to music when nobody's watching, when someone's watching? 300.What is/are the worst song(s) you have ever heard? 301.What song(s) do you wish you could understand a little better? 302.What song(s) are constantly in your head? 303.What song(s) do you think describe your personality best? 304.If you were to serenade the object of your affections, which song(s) would you use? 305.If the object of your affections were to serenade you, what song(s) would you hope he or she used? 306.What movie(s) do you love that nobody else seems to? 307.Do you agree with the idea that sequels are always worse than the original? 308.Who's your favorite Star Wars character? 309.What kind of movie do you think there should be more of? 310.What movie(s) do you simply not understand the appeal of? 311.When eating, are you more concerned with taste or healthiness? 312.What's your favorite kind of cheese? 313.What do you think your answer to the previous question reveals about your personality? 314.If you knew exactly what went into Chinese food,hamburger meat, etc., would you still eat it? 315.Do you ever feel guilty eating meat? Friends 316.What a unique category, don't you think? 317.Are you sure you have friends? 318.Best friend? 319.Second-best friend? 320.Email the most? 321.Call the most? 322.IM the most? 323.Best friend of the opposite sex? 324.Best offline friend? 325.Best online friend? 326.Which friend do you dislike the most? 327.Person you can always confide in? 328.Person that you can talk to for 12 hours straight and never get bored? 329.In a fight or annoyed? 330.Friend's house you sleep at the most? 331.Friend's house you wish you could sleep at but can't? 332.Who is the first number on your speed dial? 333.Who would you take away on a week vacation? 334.Craziest? 335.Weirdest? 336.Most fun? 337.Saddest? 338.Quietest? 339.Who knows you the best? 340.Who do you know the best? 341.Who do you like to shop with? 342.Talk with? 343.Trust the most? 344.Flirt with? 345.Laugh with? 346.Give advice to? 347.Who gives you advice? 348.Best singer? 349.Best athlete? 350.Who is the nicest? 351.Who is the meanest? 352.Best dancer? 353.Best writer? 354.Best smile? 355.Most creative? 356.Best dressed? 357.Best shoes? 358.Who doesn't care if they lie? 359.Who can't lie? 360.Most innocent? 361.Most innocent looking? 362.Rebel? 363.Moodiest? 364.Happiest? 365.Cutest? Do/Are/Who's? 366. It's because I'm bored, can't you figure that out? 367.Religious? 368.Try to be fashionable? 369.Think fashion is important? 370.Get along with your family? 371.Get along with your friends? 372.Get grounded? 373.Know any foreign languages? 374.Run into walls/doors? 375.Blonde? 376.Who do you talk to most online? 377.Who do you talk to most on the phone? 378.Are you a bum? 379.Do you get online a lot? 380.Do you shower? 381.Do you hate school? 382.Do you have a social life? 383.Do you trust people easily? 384.Have you ever lied to your best friend(s)? 385.Are you a dare devil? 386.Would you ever sky dive? 387.Do you like to dance? 388.Are you funny? 389.Are you a serious person? 390.Do you make friends easily? 391.Do you work out? 392.Do you like to work out? 393.How much can you bench press? 394.How much can you lift? 395.Are you a popular person? 396.Do you have plans for your future? 397.Do you plan to go to college? 398.Do you play sports? 399.Do you like sports? 400.Do you play an instrument? 401.Know what you want to be when you get older? 402.Ever been out of state? 403.Out of the country? 404.Do you like to travel? 405.What do YOU think of the way you look? 406.What do YOU think about your attitude? 407.What do you think about life after death? 408.What do you think about karma? 409.What do you think about love? 410.What do you think about fate? 411.What do you think about yourself? 412.What do you tell yourself if times get hard? 413.What would you give your life for? 414.What do you think about your first love? 415.What do you think about the first person that loved you? 416.What are you scared of? 417.Do you cry easily? 418.Who/What is something/someone that has touched you? 419.What was the saddest moment of your life? 420.What would life be without friends? 421.Without family? 422.Without you? 423.Are you deep? 424.Do you think love is once in a lifetime, or just chance? 425.Do you like your town? 426.Do you wanna get out of your town? 427.What design/logo is on your mouse pad? 428.What color is your mouse pad? 429.Drink a lot of water? 430.Have a cell phone/beeper/etc.? 431.Do you like amusement parks? 432.Have you ever been to 6 Flags? 433.What namebrand do you wear the most? 434.Do you like taking pictures? 435.Do you like getting your picture taken? 436.Do you have a tan? 437.Do you get annoyed easily? 438.What are you hobbies? 439.Do you have your own phone/phone line? 440.Do you have any posters/pinups on your bedroom walls? 441.Are you sick of this survey yet? 442.Do you get good grades in school? 443.How do you vent your anger? 444.Are you a role model? 445.Who do you look up to? 446.Who do you trust the most? 447.Do you have any piercings? 448.Do you have any tattoos? 449.Do you dream a lot? 450.Do you daydream a lot? 451.Have you had a nightmare lately? 452.Do you have any allergies? 453.Do you have any health problems? 454.Do you like animals? 455.Do you have any pets? 456.Do you like siblings? 457.Do you have glasses/contacts? 458.Do you have braces? 459.Do you have a job? 460.Have you ever been fired from a job? 461.Who did YOU want to be President? 462.Who would you vote for, if anyone, and why? 463.Do you have a curfew? 464.Are you a vegetarian? 465.Could you be a vegetarian? 466.Have you ever thought about suicide? . 467.Do you like coffee? 468.Do you have a sweet tooth? 469.Do you like horror movies? 470.Do you like to spend or save your money? 471.Do you keep your room clean? 472.Do yours well? 473.Do you eat vegetables? 474.Are you a flirt? 475.Are you good at flirting? 476.Do you like to go to parties? 477.Do you still go trick or treating? 478.Are you an angel or a little devil? 479.Do you get along with people? 480.Have you ever just started dancing/singing in the middle of somewhere? 481.Have you ever won anything? 482.Do you have a waterbed or a regular bed? 483.What size? 484.Do you get bored easily? 485.Do you play golf? 486.Do you play miniature golf? 487.Do you like tennis? 488.Are you flexible? 489.Are you a sweet heart? 490.Would you like to be cloned? 491.What are your opinions on cloning? 493.Scaramouche,scaramouche, will you do the fandango? 494.Did you like this survey? 495.Are you sorry you began filling it out? 496.What questions do you wish it had asked? 497.How would you have answered them? THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS 498.When was the last time you let the people you love/people who are important to you know you love them/that they are important to you? 499.What do you want the people who are reading this survey to know? 500.What time is it?
what your name say about you? i forgot CONAN smart super cool,,irresistible Daryle- ugly but hung like a horse, prone to belly button fluff. cade------ gay, but very unhappy. epdug-------good person to talk to when you have a problem - his is worse. mikoy-----Funny and sexy, everything a bloke wants in a woman. genie-----Likes Max power magazine, can't drive. Dominatrix Nova--Beautiful, power-crazy Colleen intelligent, funny and very talented when it comes to the naughty stuff. Anjan Very shy, nearly always seen with a bright red face Maren-Likes dancing, mainly the waltz. Dalton -only goes out with girls so that he can steal their clothes. Cory female -quiet, studious type, wears glasses, a tiger in bed male Kelly .the fat boy of the class, likes sweets and is full of *** Inga-Right wing Nazi tendencies, never smiles.
poll....What your name say about you? babygirl-Drives a Mustang, fights in pubs. just wondering--ugly shithead who everybody hates. neo complete loser, hated by his parents. ps is that neo the one SAMATHA --Drop dead gorgeous enters conan dreams at night hey i didnt write this John Paul.--wannabe sex machine. tends to kill small animals., Morgen--Drinks anything so long as it's got vodka in it. sorry for the re.re.repost but conan bored and im trying to fiinish my list so your names not there it will be ..
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The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu. Parthenogenesis is the term used to describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead". The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen. "Quisling" is the only word in the English language to start with "quis." All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel. Nepal is the only country without a rectangular flag (it looks like two pennants glued on on top of the other) Libya has the only flag which is all one color with no writing or decoration on it The only borough of New York City that isn't an island (or part of an island) is the Bronx. The 1957 Milwaukee Braves were the first baseball team to win the World Series after being relocated. The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield it's first consumable fruit. The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light. Linn's Stamp News is the world's largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors. Tennessee is bordered by more states than any other. The eight states are Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S The Western-most point in the contiguous United States is Cape Alava, Washington. There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard. The first fossilized specimen of Austalopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the palentologists' favorite song, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, by the Beatles. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head." The geographical center of North America is near Rugby, North Dakota. The infinity sign is called a lemniscate. Hacky-sack was invented in Turkey. If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long. There are six five words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate and duumvir, residuum. The "Calabash" pipe, most often associated with Sherlock Holmes, was not used by him until William Gillette (an American) portrayed Holmes onstage. 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The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels. The first Eagle Scout west of the Mississippi is buried in San Marcos, Texas. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. Roberta Flack wrote "Killing Me Softly" about singer Don McLean. The Greek version of the Old Testament is called the Septuagint. Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album All three major 1996 Presidential candidates, Clinton, Dole and Perot, are left-handed. The Madagascan Hissing Cockroach is one of the few insects who give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs. The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God. Sheriff came from Shire Reeve. During early years of feudal rule in England, each shire had a reeve who was the law for that shire. When the term was brought to the United States it was shortned to Sheriff. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic. 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The lot numbers for the cyanide-tainted Tylenol capsules scare back in 1982 were MC2880 and 1910MD. Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds. The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator. At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world. A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes. The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone. Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra. Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular rays. Very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds are called scuds. On a dewy morning, if you look at your shadow in the grass, the dew drops shine light back to your eye creating a halo called a heilgenschein (German for halo.) The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself." Giraffes have no vocal cords. 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This is "drachenfutter" or dragon's food. In Chinese, the words for crisis and opportunity are the same. No word in the English language rhymes with month. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." The poisonous copperhead smells likefresh cut cucumbers. In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.) The smallest mushroom's name is "Hop-low." Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand. Mustard gas was invented in the McKinley Building on the American University campus. Additionally, preliminary work on the Manhattan Project was done in that building. The government used the McKinley Building because of its unusual archticture. If there would be any type of large explosion inside the building, the building would implode onto itself, containing any lethal gas or nuclear material. The building now houses the Physics Department. 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Alaska was the only part of the United States that was invaded by the Japanese during WWII. The territory was the island of Adak in the Aleutian Chain. Woodward Ave in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere. Michigan was the first state to plow it's roads and the first to adopt a yellow dividing line. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119. The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept." Way back when they were using marble columns, the people selling the columns would carve out the centers and fill it with wax.So the people buying them started asking "Is it without wax?" Or in other words "Are you sincere?" Zaire is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world's cobalt supply. No modern language has a true concept of "I am." It is always used linked with are in reference of another verb. Little known Cathedral Caverns near Grant, Alabama has the world's largest cave opening, the largest stalagmite (Goliath), and the largest stalagmite forest in the World. The only person ever to decline a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Sinclair Lewis for his book Arrowsmith. Maine is the only state that borders on only one state. There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska. Kudzu is not indigenous to the South, but in that climate it can grow up to six inches a day. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.' The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.' Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz. Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes. Astronauts in the Space Shuttle are weightless not because there is no gravity in space, but because they are in free fall around the Earth. St. Augustine was the first major proponent of the "missionary" position. Lizzie Borden was acquitted. Alexander Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr in the groin. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize. A scholar who studies the Marquis de Sade is called a Sadian, not a Sadist (of course). Tribeca in Manhattan stands for TRIangle BElow CAnal street. Soho stands for SOuth of HOuston street. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church. Theworld's largest wine cask is in Heidleberg, Germany. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an aligator while he hosted "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom." Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. Seven Olympic gold medal winners eventually went on to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World Kerimski Church in Finland is world's biggest church made of wood.The St. Louis Gateway Arch had a projected death toll while it was being built. No one died. The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows. A cat has four rows of whiskers. Vincent Van Gogh comitted suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. Jelly Belly jelly beans were the first jelly beans in outer space when they went up with astronauts in the June 21, 1983 voyage of the space shuttle Challenger (the same voyage as the first American woman in space, Sally Ride). Baseballer Connie Mack's real name was Cornelius McGilicuddy. If you were standing in the northernmost point in the contiguous (48) states, you'd be standing in Minnesota. Only thirty percent of the famous Maryland blue crabs are actually from Maryland, the rest are from North Carolina and Virginia. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator. Not all of West Virginia voted to go with the North. When the State of West Virginia was formed from Virginia in 1863 the three western counties in Virginia voted to go with West Virginia, but West Virginia didn't take them because they were poor. Instead they took three counties that voted to stay with Virginia, because they were richer and they had the B&O railroad. Those counties since split and are 5 Jefferson, Hampshire, Berkley, Mineral, and Morgan. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines. The Dodge brothers Horace and John were Jewish, that's why the first Dodge emblem had a star of David in it. Studebaker was the only major car company to stop making cars while making a profit from them. Studebaker still exists, but is now called Worthington. Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star. On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10. The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and Algeria. (Cork comes from trees.) In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and the late M*A*S*H star McLean Stevenson were both once assistant football coaches at Northwestern University. The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three. All swans and all sturgeons in England are property of the Queen. Messing with them is a serious offense. Michael Di Lorenzo, who plays Eddie Torres on New York Undercover is one of the lead dancers in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video. Only two people signed the Decleration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on Augest 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 year later. October 4, 1957 is a historic date to be remembered, it is the day both "Leave it to Beaver" and the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 were launched. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot. The antifungal, nystatin, which is sometime used for treating thrush, is named after New York State Institute for Health (Acronym) QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is a (former) acronym, for Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service. The world's largest four-faced clock sits atop the Allen-Bradley plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Almonds are members of the peach family. The first video ever played on MTV Europe was "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits. If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050 The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a charming man named Thurl Ravenscroft. The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham-fisted operators", a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e. pounded their fists). While the Chinese invented gunpowder, they were not the first to develop firearms. Sam Colt invented the "revolving pistol." Therefore, all revolvers are correctly called pistols. A 12 gauge "rifled slug" does not spin, even though there are grooves on it's bearing surface. A slug actually travels like a dart. Revolvers cannot be silenced, due all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel. A bullet fired from the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge (also called the .308 Winchester) is still supersonic at 1000 yards. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." The home team must provide the referee with 24 footballs for each National Football League game. The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz. A flea expert is a pullicologist. A bear has 42 teeth. M&M's stands for the last names of Forrest Mars, Sr., then candymaker, and his associate Bruce Murrie. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 105.6 miles per hour. In Irian Jaya exists a tribe of tall, white people who use parrots as a warning sign against intruders. In the Dutch province of Twente people live on average half a year shorter than in the rest of the Netherlands. Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties in climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil. Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse." If the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT was a golf ball, to be the proportional size to hit it, you'd be two miles tall. On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot. The word "hangnail" comes from Middle English: ang- (painful) + nail. Nothing to do with hanging. Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs. Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of his life. Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again. Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albequerque. Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed Marilyn Monroe's first modelling agency. Ronald Regan sent out the army phoyographer who first discovered Marilyn Monroe. Carbonated water, with nothing else in it,can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda pop. Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T. The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91. The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes. South of Tucson, Arizona, all road signs are in the Metric System. In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes. The real name of Astro (the dog fromThe Jetsons) is "Tralfaz" -- his real owner appeared one day to claim him but wound up giving him back to the Jetsons. Charlie Brown's father was a barber. The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy." Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously When a film is in production, the last shot of the day is the "martini shot", the next to last one is the "Abby Singer". Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.) Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union. It is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly -- so says City Ordinance No. 352 in Pacific Grove, California. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life! What about milk, you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living! When Saigon fell the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio. The Fort George Point in Belize City was formed by the silt runoff of Hurricane Hattie. If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe. Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time. The expression "What in tarnation" comes from the original meaning: "What in eternal damnation" Gary Burgough who played Walter Radar O'Reily on M*A*S*H has a deformed left thumb. If you watch closely you will see that he never shows his left hand. Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean Ingrown toenails are hereditary. The Cincinnati Reds baseball team name was officially changed to the Redlegs during the anti-communist movement. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. "Xmas" does not begin with the Roman letter X. It begins with the Greek letter "chi," which was used in medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation for the word "Christ" (xus = christus, etc.) The ampersand (&) is actually a stylised version of the Latin word "et," meaning and." The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15. In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role. Only humans and horses have hymens. No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. (Texas Stadium, home of the Cowboys, is not a dome, there is a large hole in the roof.) The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". Wally and Beaver had a baby alligator which they kept in the toilet. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured The most eastern part of the western world is located in Ilomantsi, Finland. "Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting." The term the "Boogey Man will get you" comes from the Boogey people,who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today and attack ships that pass. Thus the term spread "if you don't watch out the Boogey man will get you." The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second. The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan. Race car is a palindrome. We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.) The Basset Horn, a kind of alto clarinet, was named after its inventor -- a man named Horn. "Basset" is from "Basetto," or "little bass" in Italian. There are more bald eagles in the province of British Columbia then there are in the whole United States. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son. The "second unit" films movie shots that do not require the presence of actors. Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries. The world's second largest pipe organ is located at the Organ Grinder on 82nd avenue in Portland, Oregon. Games Slayter, a Purdue graduate, invented fiberglass. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine. Olympic Badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers The music group Simply Red is named because of its love for the football team, Manchester United, who have a red home strip. In case you ever find yourself piloting a dogsled, shout "Jee!" to make the dogs turn left and "Ha!" to go right. Richard Nixon left instructions for "California, Here I Come" to be the last piece of music played at his funeral ("softly and slowly") were he to die in office. The earliest document in Latin in a woman's handwriting (it is from the first century A.D.) is an invitation to a birthday party. Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats. Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston. Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988 g/cc Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6 g/cc The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California... The movie "Paris, Texas" was banned in the city of Paris, Texas, shorty after its box office release. The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y". Pickled herrings were invented in 1375. The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827. Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child in the world. At McDonalds in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. A byte, in computer terms, means 8 bits. A nibble is half that: 4 bits. (Two nibbles make a byte!) A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. The airport in La Paz, Bolivia is the world's highest airport. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F. Chicago is closer to Moscow than to Rio de Janeiro. Original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram. Singpore is the only country with one train station. The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor. When measuring fonts 'point size' refers to the height of capital letters (one point being one 72nd of an inch). 'Pitch' is a horizontal measurement of the number of letters which can be printed in an inch. The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one endpoint is P. In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.' "Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when your talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil" Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital. (Its government offices are all in Yaren District, but there's no official capital.) South Africa is the only country with three official capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein. Lucy Ricardo's maiden name was McGillicudy. Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy. The red giant star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon wil be about three statute miles away. The one-hundred eleventh element is known as "unnilenilenium" The longest muscle name is the "levator labii superioris alaeque nasi" and Elvis popularized it with his lip motions. The longest time someone has typed on a typewriter continuously is 264 hrs., set by Violet Gibson Burns. The Dutch town of Leeuwarden can be spelled 225 different ways. There was once a town named "6" in West Virginia. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older A cat has 32 muscles in each ear An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. The oldest word in the English language is "town" The sea wasp is half an inch long at best and more poisonous than any other jellyfish known to man. Tigars have striped skin, not just striped fur. Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie Barbarella. There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo. After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came -- head to toe. Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian or some other Slavic tongue. A Laforte fracture is a fracture of all facial bones. It would allow one to pull on another face and remove it like a mask if not held on by skin. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T. Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were all cousins through one connection or another. (FDR and Eleanor were about five times removed.) The Earth-Moon size ratio is the largest in the our solar system, excepting Pluto-Charon. Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.) Most snakes have either only one lung, or in some cases, two, with one much reduced in size. This apparently serves to make room for other organs in the highly-elongated bodies of snakes. A twelve-foot anaconda can catch, kill, and eat a six-foot caiman, a close relative of crocodles and alligators. While these snakes are not usually considered to be the *longest* snake in the world, they are the heaviest, exceeding the reticulated python in girth. Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. Cinderella is known as Tuhkimo in Finland. If you come from Birmingham, you are a Brummie. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with, e.g. Asia, Europe. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility. The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia. According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go at the speed of light. In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono. Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo. The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover. In left hand drive countries, such as the UK, Ireland, Japan, and Australia, drivers sit on the right hand side of the car. Except for Sweden, where drivers sat on the left, as in North-America. Japan is the third most densely populated country in the world. First is the Netherlands, followed by Belgium. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. The "D" in D-day means "Day". The French term for "D-Day" is "J-jour". Female orcas live twice as long as male orcas. The larger numbers of female orcas in a pod are because of the female's longer lifespan, not because the males have collected a harem. Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is pronounced "A Rainy Day." The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin. Genghis Khan started out life as a goatherd. The type specimen for the human species is the skull of Edward Drinker Cope, an American paleontologist of the late 1800's. A type specimen is used in paleontology as the best example of that species. The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile". The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan" Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park. The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York are an engineering feat. The air circulators in the tunnels circulate fresh air completely every ninety seconds. The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the Burlington Path. The only social fraternity founded during the Civil War was Theta Xi fraternity, at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1864. The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending upon the tide. Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code! The World Trade Center has several. Lucifer is latin for "Light Bringer". It is a translation of the Hebrew name for Satan, Halael. Satan means "adversary", devil means "liar". A cat's jaws cannot move sideways. Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being. Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle. The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The smallest port in Canada is Port Williams, Nova Scotia. The Canadian province of Newfoundland has its own time zone, which is half an hour behind Atlantic standard time. Cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high probability of having six toes. The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism". Rats like boiled sweets better than they like cheese. Big Ben was slowed five minutes one day when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on the minute hand of the clock. The Velvet Underground was named after a book on the S&M culture. The Velvet Underground's first manager was Andy Warhol, who also produced their first album and designed the cover artwork. The cover artwork for the album (called "The Velvet Underground and Nico") featured a bright yellow banana that could be peeled off to reveal a bright pink banana underneath, with the label "Peel Slowly and See." "Peel Slowly and See" is the title of the Velvet Underground comprehensive boxed set, which is the only currently-available Velvet Underground recording to feature a peelable banana. The peelable banana caused substantial delays in the production of the VU's first album and contributed to Lou Reed's firing Andy Warhol as the group's manager. The "wild" horses of western North America are actually feral, not wild. Native speakers of Japanese learn Spanish much more easily than they learn English. Native speakers of English learn Spanish much more easily than they learn Japanese. New Zealand kiwis lay the largest eggs with respect to their body size of any bird. Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean. When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau." Sting got his name because of a yellow-and-black striped shirt he wore until it literally fell apart. Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton. The topknot that quails have is called a hmuh. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd." The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint -- no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips that line car windows. New Zealand is also the only country that contains every type of climate in the world. Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold. Ralph Kramden made 62 dollars a week. The only way to stop the pain of the flathead fish's sting is by rubbing the same fish's slime on the wound it gave you. Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth. Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement. Devo's original name was going to be De-evolution. They shortened it to Devo. Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'. Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman. Andy Warhol created the Rolling Stone's emblem depicting the big tongue. It first appeared on the cover of the 'Sticky Fingers' album. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles. Chris Ford scored the first ever NBA three-point shot. Of all the East Coast States, New Hampshire has the shortest coastline, about fourteen miles. New Hampshire is also the only State name the has four consecutive consonants in it (in the same word). Ontario is the only Canadian Province that borders the Great Lakes. Alaska has the longest border with Canada of all the fifty states. Montana has the longest border with Canada of the lower forty-eight States. Montana also borders the most Canadian Provinces of all the fifty states. It borders three of them. Arkansas is the only US State that begins with "a" but does not end with "a". All the other States that begin with "a", Arizona, Alabama and Alaska, also end with "a". Only three angels are mentioned by name in the Bible: Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer. Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice." Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker. Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons." The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should become a saint, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works. The term "Mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS), it comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me" Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 did start in a barn belonging to Patrick and Katherine O'Leary. The O'Leary's house was one of the few that survived the fire. The O'Leary's house had to be guarded by soldiers for weeks afterwards, however, because many enraged residents wanted to burn it down. The biggest bell is the "Tsar Kolokol" cast in the Kremlin in 1733. It weighs 216 tons, but alas, it is cracked and has never been rung. The bell was being stored in a Moscow shed which caught fire. To "save" it the caretakers decided to throw water on the bell. This did not succeed in -- the water hit the superheated metal and a giant piece immediately cracked off, destroying the bell forever. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. The smallest mountain range in the world is outside of Marysville, California and is named the Sutter Buttes. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. Many species of bird copulate in the air. In general, a couple will fly to a very high altitude, and then drop. During their descent, the birds mate. Sometimes the couple gets too involved and SPLAT! If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die because they need gravity to swallow. There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein. You would have to count to one thousand to use the letter "A" in the English language to spell a whole number. The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard. Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food. The letters H I O X in the latin alphabet is the only ones that look the same if you turn them upside down or see them from behind. The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator". When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city. In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott". Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp. The metal part at the end of a pencil is twenty percent sulfur. John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Vietnamese currency consists only of paper money; no coins. Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, Red Vineyard at Arles. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. Skin is thickest is at the back -- 1/6 of an inch. The most sensitive finger is the forefinger. Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state; it also has the highest latitude,the most eastern longitude and the most western longitude. Some of Beethoven's symphonies were performed in Kentucky before they were performed in Paris, France. The word denim comes from 'de Nimes', or from Nimes, a place in France. Dublin comes from the Irish Dubh Linn which means Blackpool Scottish is the language called Gaelic, whereas Irish is actually called Gaeilge. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life" A penguin only has sex twice a year. Mr. Spock's (of Star Trek) blood type was T-Negative The Dutch town of Abcoude is the only reasonably sized town/city in the world whose name begins with ABC. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country. Eleven square miles of southwest Kentucky (Fulton County) is cut off from the rest of the state by the Mississippi River. If you wish to travel from this cut off section to the rest of the state or vice-versa, you must first cross a bordering state. Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including Canadian and U.S. customs A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. The only city in the United States to celebrate Halloween on the October 30 instead of October 31 is Carson City, Nevada. October 31 is Nevada Day and is celebrated with a large stret party. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple. A peanut is not a nut; it is a legume. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. "Evian" spelled backvards is naive. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world. "Bookkeeper" and "bookkeeping" are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters. Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife. The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war. The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright. A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat. Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box. The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head. Welsh mercenary bowmen in the medieval period only wore one shoe at a time. On a trip to the South Sea islands, French painter Paul Gauguin stopped off briefly in Central America, where he worked as a laborer on the Panama Canal. The Ganges River in India boasts the only genuine fresh-water sharks in the entire world. The gene for the Siamese coloration in animals such as cats, rats or rabbits is heat sensitive. Warmth produces a lighter color than does cold. Putting tape temporarily on Siamese rabbit's ear will make the fur on that ear lighter than on the other one. There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet. Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts." The words 'sacrilegious' and 'religion' do not share the same etymological root. "John has a long moustache" was the coded-signal used by the French Resistance in WWII to mobilize their forces once the Allies had landed on the Normandy beaches. Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed. Brooklyn is the Dutch name for "broken valley" There are four states where the first letter of the capital city is the same letter as the first letter of the state: Dover, Delaware; Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill. Venetian blinds were invented in Japan. The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought at neighbouring Breed's Hill. Former US Senator Barry Goldwater attended the opening night ceremonies and festivities at Bugsy Siegel's famous Las Vegas casino. They left him out of the movie Bugsy. He is pissed. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute. ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.) The first electric Christmas lights were created by a telephone company PBX installer. Back in the old days, candles were used to decorate Christmas trees. This was obviously very dangerous. Telephone employees are trained to be safety concious. This installer took the lights from an old switchboard, connected them together, strung them on the tree, and hooked them to a battery. White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees) The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him. There is no such thing as naturally blue food, even blueberries are purple. In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time. Walt Disney had wooden teeth. The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue. Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off. The coast line around Lake Sakawea in North Dakota is longer than the California coastline along the Pacific Ocean Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes. The legbones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk. Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called Slaughter County, and the first hotel there was called the Slaughter House. Seattle, Washington, like Rome, was built on seven hills. Dinosaur droppings are called coprolites, and are actually fairly common. School busses in the United States are Chrome Yellow and used to be Omaha Orange. The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India. The tailless dinner jacket was invented in Tuxedo Park, New York. Thus it is called the "tuxedo dinner jacket" and is named after the town...not the other way around. The state of Maryland has no natural lakes. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The chemical formula
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