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"exteriors and interiors of factory-made automobiles are transformed into expressions of individual ideas, values, beliefs and dreams. the cars range from imaginatively painted vehicles to extravagant fantasies whose original bodies are concealed beneath newly sculptured shells"

(from Petersen Automotive Museum's Spring 2003 Los Angeles, California exhibit Wild Wheels: Art for the Road Gallery Guide) (curated by Harrod Blank) The above is fair usage material from atwo-page ephemeral publication containing no copyright notice and distributed to attendees of the exhibition. Pedant 00:25, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Taxicabs
I've seen pictures of some pretty elaborately decorated taxis in South America and the Phillipines... anyone want to add something from there? Pedant 02:09, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

other art cars and artists
Robert "Rockette Bob" Van Keuren III, Philo Northrup, Rev. Charles Linville, Rebecca Caldwell, Tom Kennedy, Dennis Woodruff, Leonard Knight

I removed an entry that was clearly by someone trying to showcase their personal creation (they didn't even bother to alphebetize it - just stuck it up top). We don't have room to list every artcar in existance (there are hundreds if not thousands) and I think the cars section should be restricted to well-known artcars that either have a long history in the community, have creators with a long history, or have been featured prominently in the news or public displays. I say this as someone who owns an artcar and chooses not to list it here out of respect. Plymouths 01:29, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Please see WP:N, WP:NOT and WP:V for relevant criteria. In brief, the first guideline says that content must be notable (the subject of multiple non-trivial published works), the second policy says that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, and the third that new material should cite a reliable source, or it may be challenged or removed by any editor. Your actions are aligned with these guidelines and policies, in my opinion. Walter Siegmund (talk) 06:51, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

I had a chance to look through the entries further and removed a few more (like the one where the only contribution of the author to ALL of wikipedia appeared to be to list his own car). There are certainly others that could be added as well. To attempt to emphasize the fact that it should be famous and well-known artcars I renamed it "notable art cars". Hopefully people will get the idea. Plymouths 19:45, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

BMW art cars?
The BMW art cars are always what I've associated with the term. They don't really fit the definition in this page, though, since they're commissioned by BMW and done by professional artists (very famous ones at that). Any ideas on how to address them?

My thought is that the best method is to mention them here, but create a separate page in which to discuss them further. That would give the space to properly note the various cars, artists, etc. without cluttering up this page excessively. -- The BMW cars are of importance as they reflect one aspect of the spectrum- very famous professional artists have used art cars as a medium. Ideally the article should have illustrations from the entire spectrum for example- 1. truly visionary artcars (guys in the desert-religious folk) 2.Ordinary folk who have never thought of exhibiting the pre event artcar culture there are many of these.(my sticker car was pre event culture I had never been to or seen an event or an artcar ever...) 3.Cars designed at events (school project cars some very famous ones from houston) 4.Cars designed specifically to be exhibited never or rarely driven (aero car for example) 5. Cars desined by professional artists (Flutter Bug) 6. Cars desinged to sell things and for marketing (founding fathers car is designed to market a book by Dr. Bob Heronimous in Baltimore last year, A famous truck artcar was designed to sell artistic clocks in Baltimroe and others are designed to be sets to display and sell folk art.) Other cars are just seen on the streets and driver owners are told : he our car is art. So when the article is "art car" it should be inclusive and representative of the entire art car world. Complex but fun! I think this would aid the reader who wants to get a grasp of what the potentials are and to understand all which now fits under the heading "art car" in the world. This has evovled quite a bit over the past 50 years. Have fun! Conrad Jay Blade 14:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Tone?
I'm not sure about the tone of this article. It feels a bit value-laden and rambling -- particularly in slangy journalistic phrases such as "'Cartistry' truly attained unstoppable momentum as a social and artistic movement in the 1990s"

I'm not sure it would be improved by being made more formal, but I do get the feeling that it needs to be edited. It also appears to contradict itself in a few minor but irritating ways.

Any objections? Theoh 11:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Agreed. When I found it it was a real mess (lots of vanity entries and irrelevant garbage). I've been slowly working on bringing it back to some form of sanity but I wouldn't mind help. Incidentally I've been involved in the artcar community for about 7 years and I've never heard the terms "cartists" or "cartistry" used, nor have I seen it in any other article on the topic. Plymouths 15:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Ok first of all there should not be an "overview" section below the "contents" section - the section above "contents" is supposed to be the overview! And there's a LOT of overlap in what's said there, in the "artistic styles" section and in the "history" section (which isn't really history in the standard sense). Also OMG REFERENCES!! I don't know why the "articles without references" tag went away - it still doesn't have references. A lot of the links at the bottom could be turned into a references section but so far they're not. Plymouths 15:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Narrow View
At this time the article clearly favors the cars mentioned by only one author Harrod Blank. These are well known cars however the article is not entitled "well known art cars" it is Art Cars. There are other ways art cars can become well known for example: The cable television program Monster Garage featured all of my cars in an entire episode. Therefore the are "well known" the same is true of books. Three of my cars are in books (one is in one of Harrod's Books) that makes them well known. Another problem in this area is that the cars featured seem to be all from the West Coast. An important aspect of the recent development of the art car world (and it is not a movement which is a bit more formal) is that there are now many cars on the east coast. Something my cars illustrate. Another important aspect of the artcar world is that most of the art cars on the road today are ordinary i.e. not famous. Additionally most major festivals will accept any entry providing it is an art car. Houston prides itself on being "everyones artcar parade" Artscape in Baltimore also accepts every entry except last year when it did not accept gas powered vehicles. Therefore the article should recognize that the art car world is very much a world for every one and every car. The "important ones" are in the minority and not reflective of the entire artcar world. As this is an evolving and flexible medium I suggest that the article asks that photos of artcars be submitted and that they be inserted from time to time in rotation. There can be a section on "very well known artcars" and perhaps on "prize winners" but there should be a few of ordinary cars as well as truly visionary works which are out of the mainstream and as yet not recognized.....just a thought. I would think that if you don't wish to mention all of my cars....with the exception of the soul car are well known.....you should include the Handy car (Epicentral Shrine of the Helping Hand Vehicular) which has appeared on national television,local television features,local and national media, a book, voice of America television, news articles, and won first prize at houston in the daily driver category. You will find information and photos which you can use at: http://www.geocities.com/artcars/handyweb.html It is a difficult job but an article on Art Cars should reflect the wide range of Art Cars out there and not just famous ones. The reader should get a sense that the artcar world reflects a spectrum of purposes, interests and orientations which is open to all who create art cars. I appreciate your dedication to this article keep up the good work! Conrad Jay Blade 14:16, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

 * There are SEVERAL HUNDRED artcars that are prizewinners. We don't have room for all of them. Personally I'd like to entirely get rid of the "notable art cars" section - it junks up the article. When I first found this article it was a collection of vanity links - people who created wikipedia entries for the sole purpose of adding their cars to the list. Which is approximately what you did. And even if some of your cars are notable you don't get YOUR OWN SPECIAL SECTION. See What_Wikipedia_is_not Also, wikipedia discourages autobiography. Plymouths 14:38, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Good Point. This is one of the new aspects of the growing artcar world. When first there were a few then a book full then several books filled.....now thousands....I think the main point is to characterize the entire artcar world by citing an example of each major category. But simply citing lack of signifcance for removing is not appropriate as the cars added were significant. My position is that one car per category should be the limit. So why not remove all of them. We can all build some sort of case for significance. Also reference to individuals is also not really on topic. There are too many outstanding individuals these days too. As for the use of Harrod well I would say ok but only if the car is famous in three references in addition to Harrod's work. His is one view. Rotating images and citations may also be helpful in solving this. I think one thing that this article can do is help define the major categories of art car. They never will be exact or hard but they are a good way to describe a spectrum. Categrories should be found for:

1. Cartists: totally independent not formal (have to be told they are cartists)The most formal of Visionary artists.(out in the desert etc.... 2. Cartists that enter events that formalize their inclusion 3. Cartists that do not drive daily (artworks that are only exhibited that is never drove daily) 4. Cartists that design and build cars for purposes other than exhibition that is self marketing, to make money, to pay travel bils for vacations, to market products, to rent to movie makers. 5. Cartists who create a car as an event or educational mission

Actually maybe categories is not good maybe modes.....is better as cars can move from one to another.

Also- getting away from hero worship etc....cars should be described as reflections of techniques- glued on stuff, foam insulation, temporary, painted, interactive, totally transformed (say into a hippo)mosaic....(this lets the article have many examples of car images without being mini biographies of individuals)

In addition to technology and techniques purpose of the car- the mission statement -artistic:aesthetic -political or point of view -religious shrine -stage -humor -Project-group work (assignment) -fantasy

The categories are not complete but as an idea of what can be done.... One wa of handling indivdual artists is to link to their web page or transfer the information from this article to other articals about specific individuals....Probably a good idea as there are famous cartists just like people in other fields. This article could be linked to them....Harrod for example should have his own article.....that way information will be not lost and can be linked in.

A wonder! Conrad Jay Blade 15:18, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I did actually intend to make the "construction and decoration" techniques more full of examples, but I need more public domain pictures. I looked through my recent event pictures and didn't find any good ones. Plymouths 15:45, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

 * don't know about quality but I have probably too many on line feel free just cite source in small print etc...if convenient..... this is a start...http://www.geocities.com/artcars/hutmanartcars.html

-for temporary see magnet truck, for glued on handy, painted-someday the frogs will inherit the earth aka party car....all have brass instruments/music some have interactive dimension.....whatever...I would also try the orange show as they have photos of allmost all the participants I think I signed a waver so permission should be able to be obtained from the orange show foundation itself...doesnt hurt to ask... Conrad Jay Blade 17:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

The Term Cartist
The term Cartist has been used in the Art Car World for at least 20 years when it was used by Dave the first curator of the artscape artcar show to describe the artists. I have been doing artcars for 20 years now and I heard the word used before artscape. I have heard the term used at the Houston art car parade and festival all four times I attended. It is in fact a favorite term of several friends so I beleive it is in common usage. Again....diverse sources would help this article. Conrad Jay Blade 14:24, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Please provide at least two links to actual sources or it doesn't count as notable (see WP:notability). Plymouths 14:33, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok! Here is one: http://www.music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-announce/2004-May/000034.html

http://www.eastbayimprov.com/bios.htm (under Emily- a well known Cartist indeed)

http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea/dorkbotmtg11.shtml

Even a British Reference http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006480714,00.html

I used the term at the bottom of this page in 2003 http://www.bcpl.net/~cbladey/partycar2.html

from google link is broken but useage is evident Harrod's Profile - tribe.net A brilliant filmmaker, art cartist and master of the one-string guitar, he's also my favorite Burning Man campmate and always a pleasure to be around. ... people.tribe.net/harrodblank - 53k - Cached - Similar pages

Here is one from 2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/artcars/message/4322

A new usage but brilliant as it works in the place of three- cartist vs art car artist Conrad Jay Blade 14:59, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Ok, fine, so that merits a mention. It certainly does NOT merit referring to artists as "cartists" throughout the entire article. I will clean that up. Plymouths 15:27, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

 * sounds good to me variety is always good-Conrad Jay Blade 20:29, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Objectivitiy Edit-how to deal with history/examples
I would suggest that all references to individuals and individual cars be removed. Images should also be removed- Replace them to external links to web pages which have images in them that illustrate the history or technique maybe accomidate up to 6 links or so per illustration.

The history aspect is important but can be summed up. Again with links to examples on line. milestones in the history as follows....I may leave something out....

1. early decoration of vehicles- Baroque Coaches for royalty. 2. Ethnic non european or american- taptaps etc.... 3. Comercial painted vehicles- victorian trade signs on trucks elaborate painted texts advertizing businesses. 4.c. 20s I think visionaries- generally biblical references. 5. 40-s 50s elaborate cars of singers, film stars and notable persons 6. Hot rod movement Ross..... 7. California/west coast Rebecca Moon etc., still not considering themselves artists just decorators... 8. Proliferation of artcars in texas and LA. I think this is late 50s 60s surely achieved by 70s 9. Eccentric cars across the country here and there- the silver dollar man in DC 1960s and 70s-a few visonary folk working in isolation non artists (outsiders) 10.Rise of the artcar event, Blank, proliferation of events. More mainstream artists although visionaries and outsiders continue. 11.appearance of the project car (designed by groups, classes for events) 12."artist awareness movement" this might be c. 1995 or so....cartists as at least semi-professionals in need of recongition and payment for expenses allocation of funding for mileage etc.... 13. Non daily drivers appear- this may happen in a few stages. One recalls the commissioning of art cars that don't run from the impound lot at artscape. Then there are the floats etc...

This is an initial suggestion. Dates are broad estimates. The list may not be complete. But If one starts with it and goes one at a time including the stages once verified and one can provide examples then a chronology can be built and adjusted over time. Consider the stage find references and web pages that cover it or a car or a portion of it.

I would simply describe the phase or milestone. Provide the best date and find web pages to insert as examples- maybe 6 or so.

Ideally for example web pages one would collect as many as can be found store them and rotate them. Don't know but I have a java program somewhere which changes a line of type inserting a different one each time the page is loaded. That might work. In some cases there will be more web pages illustrating something than you wish to have together in one article- It is good to have several but not good to have a hundred yet one would like to give people equal coverage. If we keep a pool of links here for each topic to be illustrated we can change them. I wouldnt mind editors putting their favorite examples in just so the web page had content that applied. It does not matter which page is used which car but just not too many. Change is ok. That way we get out of quality issues. We dont need the best example we just need a few.

I don't think we need links to events other than Tim Klein's calendar already there. I do think we should describe events in terms of what happens at them who goes to them, types of honoraria,mileage,food, awards....something like: initial event opening gatherings, parked exhibits,artcar balls, communal dinners-artcars go out together, illuminated parades, informal parades, formal parades,make an artcar, artcar seminar, prize award events, children design mini artcars, school visits. Artcar only events, artcar events attached to larger events, small local gatherings down at the diner or country store.

As for sourceing I think much of this falls into common knowledge just keep the descriptions non judgemental...of course perhaps these things have web page references....
 One would mention artcar preservation efforts-Houston artcar museum and harrods new project out west.

Another thing to do would be to include artcar funerals, I had one for Sticker, the most famous one is the one in harrods movie cosmic ray deflection society I think....
 Thats the idea collection for now....I could edit it but will wait for concensus and then also let someone else do it.....but here is a start. -Conrad Jay Blade 20:29, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Are you in a snit because editors think your vanity article is too full of problems, so now you feel the need to go snip at other people's involvement with art cars? Wryspy 02:25, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I strongly disagree that all pictures should be removed - artcar is a highly visual medium and not having pictures will make the article much less useful to people. We can't rely on people to go to other pages. Also see WP:NOT. Most wikipedia articles have pictures associated with them. People have been generous enough to donate pictures to the cause (a couple are mine) and I think we should keep them. I also do agree with you (from a previous comment) that there should be some east-coast cars depicted and as such I asked user:Improbcat for some I could use since he is still on the coast. I have a couple but have not had a chance to upload them yet.
 * I also disagree with removing all names - people need to have a tie-in to their other knowledge base and including references to well known people like Andy Warhol and Janis Joplin gives them some way to relate the article to other things. Also a link to Harrod Blank will lead them to his books and movies where they can learn a lot more if they want to.
 * I agree with removing links to specific events - those links were all put in there prior to my working on the article and one of the things on my to-do list was to sort through the links, find which ones made good references, and delete the rest. You'll see I've made a start on this, but there's clearly more to do. Links to things like the art car agency should stay though because they're a good reference to go to to find out about a lot more cars than can be listed here.
 * I also agree that there should be some sort of an "artcar events" heading in general with two caveats. 1) is that it should be general and not start becoming a giant list of events - if people want to know more they can go to the artcar calendar and find more. 2) Is that it needs to be very clear that the artists who attend events are only a segment of the artcar community and one doesn't need to attend events to be considered an artcar artist.
 * Though I'd like to add that one reason I've been hesitating about creating that section is that I'm not sure it can be summarized well enough to be worth including - afterall artcar events covers a huge variety of things, from giant art experiences like BurningMan and its spinoffs to a bunch of car artists spontaneously gathering in a supermarket parkinglot. A whole lot of "sometimes and sometimes not" caveats is going to leave people completely mystified as to what the heck we're even talking about. 192.91.147.34 22:42, 27 January 2007 (UTC) Oops that was me - didn't realize I got logged out. Plymouths 22:43, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * As to things being "common knowledge" remember that what is common knowledge among artcar artists is entirely different from what is common knowledge among the general population. Imagine the person reading this article has never heard of artcars... or heard a passing mention of the word and wondered "what's that?" and came here to look it up. I strongly disagree that we can assume ANYTHING here is common knowledge other than the fact that cars exist and that sometimes people decorate them.
 * The "history" section needs a TON of work. There's a lot in there that's completely unverified but I didn't want to just remove it outright until someone could check on it. If you have references to anything in that timeline above feel free to contribute them.
 * I really don't want links and images to be rotating - that just makes things messy and hard to keep track of. We should pick things that are good illustrations of a concept and references to information and only change them if they go away or a better reference is found. No other wiki page that I know of works on a system of rotating links and images.
 * Plymouths 20:51, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

 * hard to deal with the fact that there are so many examples out there, people, events, cars.....someone is always going to feel left out and the selectivity of the editor will be something of wonder.....I would suggest that if an image is used there should be some justification for selection. For example- as a caption: "this car is an example of x using technology y. This gives a reason for the inclusion of the image. It puts the example in the one of many category....I would not say something like "this car is the best example of". When you deal with the east coast car example I would do the same. Choose an east coast car that is an example of something broader. It can still be in the east coast write up section but with a caption such as: "the plaid car is an example of a painted car which was created on the east coast.
 * Mentioning people.....dont really know how to solve this one. If you mention a specific individual you should perhaps have to spend time on justification which would get in the way. While involving people is interesting and makes things more readable I would stick to people who are significant because they did something, invented something significent for the main topic art car. I would identify the artist of cars in images. Authors and references should be in the reference section where they can be mentioned. History - hard to tell one can keep history general in the text putting in footnotes attached for example to "famous persons who drove artcars" footnote to reference of persons.....
 * I once maintained a list of links on my Irish pages and had people always asking me to add theirs and other links would be broken and the list grew to be unmanagable. One thing to do is to simply set up a google link taking the reader to google "artcar" "art car" I would have a link to each version-both are used. The google link would produce pages and pages of art cars. If one wanted to be more creative one could put a google link to the google blogs search. A link to google scholar with the same search terms would provide an extension of the article via a search of appearance of the terms in academic works. (note there is a way to have the link not just to google but to a specific google search)
 * with rotating links and text.....dont know if it hasnt been done but I have used an applet to do this. It lets you have a huge database and provide a random bit of it--dont know if it can be done on Wikipedia but lots of amazing things are done- just because it hasn't been done don't mean it isn't possible. This is just one way of getting around personal mention which imho should be avoided in the first place unless as above described. All for now! I am going out to do art for a change-the new paint on the new car (soul car) might just be hard enough to sandConrad Jay Blade 14:21, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * There are serveral pictures on the page now. In fact they are all labelled as you say (with the exception that artists names are not used when I did not know them). Do you object to any of the current labels?
 * If people feel "left out" then, geez, they can get a damned life. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a warm fuzzy generator to make everyone feel loved and validated. When I first found this article there were a crapload of total vanity entries by people adding their own cars to the page, a lot of those people having done NOTHING ELSE in wikipedia anywhere ever. I took them out. You'll notice my cars aren't there and I'm not crying.
 * Links to google searches are inappropriate see External_links Yes a guideline not a rule, but I think a good one.
 * I'm not saying rotating links is impossible - just that it's not part of the wikipedia style. Wikipedia is an ENCYCLOPEDIA, not a place for random hackery.
 * Plymouths 18:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * the best way to caption a photo here seems to me to be to indicate a technique or something that the car represents if you have done that it is fine. I think more examples of surface treatments and technologies could be useful. Names are appropriate but maybe in a reference citation style. So....let me see....if someone else inserts photos of my cars who is not me and ties them into the text for one reason or the other you will let them stay? I wonder....Not to say I dont have good faith but I wonder. I did not suggest changing links and citations for purposes of hackery I did it of course to improve things. It is a solution. A way to have a large number of cars and individuals represented without having mile long lists of them. The google ideas are also intended to serve the article. In this case maybe not a ordinary application but one that might improve things. There is a real problem that for reasons of asthetics generally....a larger number of artists can not be listed not even just the web pages....the google search would be a convenience that would benefit the reader. The reader of this article should have access to as many examples as artcar as possible it seems to me- if you dont want them all on the page the google answer seems perfect. Perhaps not a link then. Maybe provide search terms related to artcars and recommend that visitors search them in google and google scholar etc....Conrad Jay Blade 19:22, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * If anyone INCLUDING you inserts photos in good faith and ties them into the text I will leave them. If you insert images of your OWN cars I won't assume good faith - I'll assume self-promotion because that's what will be demonstrated. But I'm sure you have pictures of cars other than your own. As to google links - I think we can assume that readers know how to use google and that if they care to learn more they can go to google to do a search themselves. We don't need to hold their hand. A wiki article is supposed to be a starting point, not an indiscriminate collector of all possible information on a topic (see WP:NOT which I already linked to above). We find a dozen or so good examples of artcars we put them in. And people who cry because they got left out can GET A LIFE. Plymouths 19:34, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Donks
Although this has not been covered - in the past few years, there is a movement where GM B-bodies (1971-96) are customized with lifted suspensions and wild paint jobs. One who reads RIDES Magazine would notice that some of the cars (especially the Donks on the East Coast) have custom paint jobs much like the lowriders.
 * This would be good for addition or connection to the Lowrider article, but doesn't really connect directly to this article.Improbcat 19:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Changes Feb 3/07
fix the capitalization- I found two- Christmas and one of the captions does not begin in a cap Cbladey 14:22, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

you do not have an image of a real driving shrine-that is a religious one for prayer etc....I drive one but some inconsiderate individual as removed it. There are others-there is the chapel on wheels which was at avam once. Not the buddhist shrine pulled at houston it is a trailer. If you want a photo of the epicentral shrine of the helping hand I can I suppose go through all the trouble of uploading it. .... Cbladey 14:22, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Help Feb 4/07
I shall keep an eye out for the wallpaper and other spam. I just thought I would mention it before I removed it. Could we come up with a guideline....ie. no personal pages of images,or sites about one artist and then adverts? (If a link to a web page is needed because an individual comes up in the article text it is best to use the tags around the source or web page address and then put a references section in where the footnote will magicly appear ===References=== I will do one as an example-if you dont like it delete....Cbladey 13:29, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * That is in fact exactly what I had in mind for references - just that a lot of references still need to be found, especially the the history section (which I did not write so have no idea where the info came from). I fixed the reference to come after the quote though, rather than after the name "burning man" Plymouths 16:02, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Ant Farm
Earlier today someone added a link to Ant Farm (group) who, according to their wiki created several of the "cadillac ranch" sculptures. Those are fascinating sculptures involving cars but they are not "art cars" in the sense of being driveable road-worthy works of art. I would classify them as "car art" instead. Does anyone have any reasonable arguments as to why that should be included in the article? And even if it is I don't believe it merits being in the introduction.Plymouths 06:53, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Noone has justified it to me so I'm removing it.Plymouths 09:18, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Capitalization
Is there a consensus on how the term "art car" should be capitalized and whether it is one or two words?. Looking at the introduction, I see "art car" "artcar" and "Art Car" (there is also "Art car" but that seems to only come up when the phrase "art car" starts a sentence). I was going to standardize the capitalization, but I thought I should check to see what is preferred. It looks like "art car" is the most used version but the others appear throughout the article. --Dragonvpm 07:42, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I attempted to go through and put all of them in lowercase but I apparently missed some. No, it's not a proper noun. It should not be capitalized.Plymouths 09:19, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I just went through and standardized them all to "art car" (except where they start sentences, of course). Hornbreaker 00:52, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

art cars only done by owner/drivers
I changed "usually" to "often" on that one. This is true in some circles, and true in the cars that Harrod Blank has showcased, because that was one of his requirements. But there are a lot of art cars painted by artists for other people to drive. One artist in San Francisco, for example, painted three or four cars with stencils at an event in San Francisco in 1991 called "Carmanic Convergence"  Those cars were seen around San Francisco for years. Harrod Blank was there shooting for his film, but wasn't interested in anyone not painting their own car as their own self expressive ride. This article definitely needs to be expanded beyond the narrow view of "cartist" owner/drivers. I'm also confused by the inclusion of the commercial Oscar Meyer mobile, but not of custom cars in this article.Cleshne (talk) 09:09, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

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Carseldine railway station

Carseldine railway station is located on the North Coast line in Queensland, Australia. It serves the Brisbane suburb of Carseldine and Fitzgibbon

History
In September 1985, the Queensland Government provided funding to build Carseldine station in the state budget. The station was opened by the Minister for Transport Don Lane in June 1986. Lifts were installed in 1999. On 28 August 2000, a third platform opened as part of the addition of a third track from Northgate to Bald Hills.

Services
Carseldine is served by all Citytrain network services from Kippa-Ring to Central, many continuing to Springfield Central.

Transport links
Transport for Brisbane operates one bus route to and from Carseldine station:
 * 340: to Woolloongabba station

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Alice Brock

Alice May Brock (born February 28, 1941) is an American artist, occasional author and former restaurateur. A resident of Massachusetts for her entire adult life, Brock owned and operated three restaurants in the Berkshires—The Back Room, Take-Out Alice and Alice's at Avaloch—in succession between 1965 and 1979. The first of these inspired the title of Arlo Guthrie's 1967 song "Alice's Restaurant", which in turn inspired a 1969 film of the same name.

Early life
Brock was born Alice May Pelkey in Brooklyn, New York City. Her mother, Mary Pelkey, was a native of Brooklyn; her father was originally from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The Pelkey family was relatively well-to-do and often spent summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Mr. Pelkey sold artwork for Peter Hunt. Neither of her parents were religious, but her family had many connections to Jewish culture and she herself variously identifies as a Jew and as half-Jewish, telling The Forward (with which her family had a long association) "I feel Jewish." She has given mixed opinions about her early life and parents, crediting her mother for a love of cooking and her father with encouraging her love of art, while suggesting that her parents were not "good parents" and that her father was "a bully," reasoning that her attachment to them was borne more out of a people pleasing desire than familial love. She admitted being a difficult child who had never in her life been able to submit to authority. After a stint in reform school, she graduated from the public high school in White Plains, New York. She attended Sarah Lawrence College. By her teen years, she had taken an interest in left-wing politics, and was registered with the Socialist Workers Party along with membership in the Students for a Democratic Society (as a founding member of that organization) and Fair Play for Cuba Committee. She dropped out of college after her sophomore year.

After leaving college, she spent a short period of time in Greenwich Village, where in 1960 she met, then married in 1962, Ray Brock, a woodworker from Hartfield, Virginia who was over a decade older than Alice. Alarmed at the radicalized environment, both Ray Brock and Mary Pelkey urged Alice to leave the area, and the Brocks and Pelkeys moved to her father's hometown of Pittsfield, where Ray and Alice initially lived on Mary's property. By 1964, Mary had arranged for both to get hired at the Stockbridge School, with Ray working as a shop teacher and Alice as a librarian. With a gift from her mother, they purchased a deconsecrated church in Great Barrington, which the couple converted into a residence for themselves and a gathering place for friends and like-minded bohemians. She would later describe the choice of a church for the group as a form of sacrilege, using a symbol of tradition and established religion to further her counterculture values. In 1991, the long-neglected building was restored and transformed into The Guthrie Center at Old Trinity Church, an interfaith worship center and performance venue.

Littering incident
One of the Brocks' students at the Stockbridge School had been Arlo Guthrie, at the time an aspiring forester, a half-Jewish New York transplant like Brock, and the son of then-ailing folk icon Woody Guthrie. When Arlo Guthrie left Rocky Mountain College in Montana for Thanksgiving break in November 1965, he stayed at the Brocks' residence for their annual Thanksgiving dinner. The Brocks had largely only lived in a small corner of the bell tower, and thus large amounts of debris remained from the previous owners in the sanctuary that they had planned to use for the dinner; as a favor to the couple, Guthrie and his friend Richard Robbins agreed to dispose of the debris, not realizing that the local dump was closed for the holiday. Guthrie and Robbins dumped their load over a cliff on private property. When Stockbridge chief of police William "Obie" Obanhein was made aware of the illegal dumping, he arrested Guthrie and Robbins, holding them in the town jail. Alice bailed them out several hours later; her anger at the incident nearly prompted Obanhein to arrest her as well. (Brock was otherwise friendly with Obanhein, considering him "a very sweet man, and (...) a very good cop." The turning point in their relations came after they had made the film. ) In the end, Guthrie and Robbins were levied a small fine and picked up the garbage that weekend.

First restaurant
Brock was persuaded to open a restaurant by her mother, who saw the purchase as an opportunity for her daughter to become financially independent. She had already been doing a significant amount of cooking and housekeeping for her friends at the church, which frustrated her. Alice purchased an empty business space in the back of a row of stores on US 7 in Stockbridge and converted it into The Back Room in 1965, shortly before the Guthrie visit. There is some dispute over exactly when The Back Room opened; Brock would claim in 2008 that it was not until after the littering incident, but Guthrie's song about it implies the restaurant was already open by that time. At a jam session Guthrie had with the Brocks during his visit, he, Ray and Alice began formulating the basis for what would become the first half of "Alice's Restaurant". (The second half of the song would come later.)

Brock would reflect on this restaurant's opening as the breaking point in her marriage. According to her, because she was now living her life as an independent woman and needed her own transportation to work the restaurant, Ray no longer had financial control over her—prior to this he had only allotted her a small allowance—which increased tension between the two. Alice also admitted to not knowing much about either cooking at a professional level or business. Contrary to an implication made in the film about The Back Room, Alice says that she was faithful to Ray throughout the marriage and was not promiscuous; she did not sleep with Guthrie, for example. Guthrie also asserts that Alice was faithful to Ray in the final chorus of the song, noting a customer could "get anything you want...excepting Alice" at the restaurant, and his co-defendant, Richard Robbins, described the notion of Alice having affairs as being "complete bull."

Brock closed the restaurant in April 1966 and moved to the Boston area with friends, in addition to spending some time in Puerto Rico. She would return to Great Barrington and reconcile with Ray shortly thereafter, complete with a large hippie wedding that was written into the film, but the two would divorce permanently in 1968. According to her, Ray was "a bully, like my father." Ray returned to his home state of Virginia and died of a heart attack in 1979. Existing interviews have made no mention of any remarriages or children after her divorce from Ray Brock; she commented in 2020 that she had a dim view of the nuclear family because very few of those she knew had healthy, close-knit family lives. She did become a godmother to Richard Robbins's son Jesse.

Film
Brock agreed to participate in the production of the film Alice's Restaurant, including taking part in promotions and making cameo appearances in the film itself; unlike Guthrie and many other figures in the story, she declined an offer to portray herself in the film, and actress Pat Quinn played the role of Alice. Brock earned almost nothing from her promotional work and was dismayed after learning that Arthur Penn, the film's director and co-writer, inserted fictional material into the story that she felt "misrepresented me, embarrassed me, and made me into an object." She objected that "I wasn't sleeping with everybody in the world, for example—and not Arlo Guthrie! And I didn't know anybody who shot heroin." Additionally, the surprise success of the song and the film made Brock an unwilling celebrity. She specifically cited the film as the source of her unwanted fame and stated in hindsight shortly after it was released that she should have done everything in her power to prevent the film from being produced. Penn, who lived in Stockbridge, had heard of the story from Brock's father, who was on the board of directors at The Berkshire Playhouse, when the song was already out. Penn and co-writer Venable Herndon finished the screenplay in 1967 and the film was released in 1969. As of June 1970, Brock was living alone in a rented house in Lenox, Massachusetts, with plans to stay there long-term.

As a way to compensate Brock, one of the film's producers arranged for her to write a cookbook, The Alice's Restaurant Cookbook, published in 1969. Brock later admitted that many of the featured recipes were created by her and her mother specifically for the book, rather than having originated at the restaurant, and had not been tested before being published; she has made it a life philosophy to frequently experiment with new recipes. The book proved to be a moderate success and went through four printings.

Proposed restaurants
Brock attempted to start an Alice's Restaurant franchise in the late 1960s, but closed the first location in New York almost immediately when it failed a taste test. Brock also attempted to open another restaurant in partnership with Joan Woodruff in Lenox, Massachusetts. By June 1970, officials in Lenox had rejected the proposal, fearing that the fame behind the name would draw excessive numbers of hippies and disturb the peace. Brock—who blamed the film's portrayal of her for the town's decision while empathizing with their stance—pulled out, giving her menus and share in the proposed restaurant to Woodruff.

Second restaurant
The proceeds from the film and book sales (which netted $12,000 for her), coupled with her decision to sell the church in 1971, freed up Brock's financial situation enough that she bought a former beer and wine store on Route 183 in Housatonic and converted it into Take-Out Alice, a walk-up food stand that, according to her, operated on the principle of serving "slow food, cooked fast," while maintaining some alcohol sales to maintain the site's liquor license. Take-Out Alice was considered to be Brock's best and most well-received food service operation. After battling with town officials, in 1973 she was able to install seats in the facility, which she then renamed Alice's Restaurant in an effort to capitalize on her fame.

Third restaurant
As the popularity of the restaurant outgrew its location, she expanded into a much larger operation and bought an estate in Lenox, which she converted into her third and final restaurant, Alice's at Avaloch, in 1976. In contrast to her smaller, more intimate operations at the previous two restaurants, Alice's at Avaloch boasted a disco floor, swimming pool and a performance venue in addition to greatly increased seating. The location proved to be a major headache for Brock, as its infrastructure was not well-suited to an operation as large as the one she was running, at one point a severe snowstorm hit in the middle of spring, and she again ran afoul of local town officials. As was typical of her life philosophy, she often used the restaurant for charitable purposes, offering jobs to those in need. She closed the restaurant in 1979, allowing her lenders to foreclose upon the property. The loss of the property left her "bankrupt and shellshocked." The only remaining items she kept from her time in the Berkshires were a collection of quarters from the restaurant's vending machines (which she used to rent her next apartment) and the folding table on which Guthrie had written "Alice's Restaurant" As of 2022, the former Alice's at Avaloch facility is the Apple Tree Inn.

Retirement
Brock never intended to pursue a career in the restaurant business and always expressed more interest in art. She did a few printings for an exhibition shortly before leaving the Berkshires, and all of them sold, further encouraging her to pursue it more seriously. After the closure of Alice's at Avaloch, she relocated to Provincetown, where she set up an art studio. She spent most of the 1980s as a part-time prep cook for various restaurants in Provincetown before leaving the labor force in part because of a diagnosis of emphysema in the 1990s. A chronic cigarette smoker of up to three packs a day, she visited hypnotist Yefim Shubentsov in 1991, after which she never smoked again.

In 2014, Brock made a one-time appearance at the Dream Away Lodge in Becket, Massachusetts, where she and other chefs inspired by her prepared some of her old recipes. Brock's personal favorite medium is rock art, a medium that she practiced most of her adult life; she was an active and early participant in the movement of painting rocks and encouraging people to hide them in unusual places to be found and relocated, what came to be known as The Kindness Rocks Project after another Cape Cod resident came up with a similar idea. Her home art gallery was located on Commercial Street overlooking Cape Cod. She continues to host a Thanksgiving dinner with her friends, either on Cape Cod or, less commonly, the Berkshires. Her 2022 dinner was hosted at the home of Richard Robbins, who had helped Guthrie dispose Brock's garbage in 1965 and still lives in Housatonic; Guthrie visited the dinner, reuniting the three for their first Thanksgiving dinner together in 57 years.

In addition to the Cookbook, Brock has also authored two other books: her 1976 autobiography My Life as a Restaurant and a children's book, How to Massage Your Cat. She also illustrated another children's book, Mooses Come Walking, written by Arlo Guthrie.

Brock initially bristled at the fame that the song and film had brought upon her but later came to appreciate her role as an icon of the 1960s. Her current stance on her fame is that she neither openly advertises it nor hides from it; it was not until the 2000s that she became comfortable being associated with the song. She still resents how the film portrayed her but states that the joy people get when meeting her in person is an honor: "How can you resent that?" She recalled in 2022 feeling guilt at being upset at her association with the song after seeing how well she was respected by fans of the song: "What (...) is wrong with me? How lucky can I be?"

Brock's financial and physical health turned for the worse in the late 2010s. Declining artwork sales forced her to sell her home in 2017, after which she moved in with a friend who died shortly thereafter; worsening chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart disease forced her to enter a nursing home for much of 2018, while an essential tremor now prevents her from drawing the artwork that had been her primary source of income. Viki Merrick, a radio producer and former bartender at Alice's at Avaloch, serves as Brock's caretaker as of 2020. Dini Lamot and other friends in the music and arts communities organized fundraisers for her, in appreciation of her many years of support for local artists, musicians and the LGBTQ community, so that she can afford the approximately $60,000 per year she would need to remain in Provincetown. NPR reported on Brock's medical and financial problems in a feature on Thanksgiving Day 2020, prompting a flood of $125,000 in donations to the fundraiser. That same year, Brock recorded a custom series of introductions to "Alice's Restaurant" for stations that regularly play the song on Thanksgiving.

As of 2022, Brock lives in the West End of Provincetown.

Other/imitator
The Alice's Restaurant of Sky Londa, California has no association with Alice Brock. It was founded by Alice Taylor at the same time Brock opened up The Back Room, then converted into a tourist trap by subsequent owners capitalizing on the similarity in name (eventually adding a "Group W bench" in homage to the Guthrie song).

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Bald Hills railway station

Bald Hills railway station is located on the North Coast line in Queensland, Australia. It serves the Brisbane suburb of Bald Hills. On 28 August 2000, a third platform opened as part of the addition of a third track from Northgate.

Services
Bald Hills is served by all Citytrain network services from Kippa-Ring to Central, many continuing to Springfield Central.

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John Bradshaw (judge)

John Bradshaw (12 July 1602–31 October 1659) was an English jurist. He is most notable for his role as President of the High Court of Justice for the trial of King Charles I and as the first Lord President of the Council of State of the English Commonwealth.

Early life
John Bradshaw, the second son of Henry Bradshaw and Catherine Winnington, was born in 1602 probably at Wybersley (Wyberslegh) Hall in the village of High Lane near Stockport, Cheshire, or possibly at the nearby Peace Farm, Marple (his father farmed at both) and baptised on 10 December in Stockport Church. As a child he attended the free school at Stockport, as well as schools in Bunbury and Middleton. During his teenage years he also attended The King's School, Macclesfield. According to local tradition he wrote the following inscription on a gravestone at either Macclesfield or Bunbury:
 * "My brother Henry must heir the land,
 * My brother Frank must be at his command;
 * Whilst I, poor Jack, will do that
 * That all the world will wonder at!"

He was articled as clerk to an attorney in Congleton. The White Lion public house bears a blue plaque, placed by the Congleton Civic Society, which reads: "The White Lion, built 16–17th century. Said to have housed the attorney's office where John Bradshaw, regicide, served his articles."

After studying English law in London, he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn on 23 April 1627. He served on the provincial bar of Congleton until he became mayor in 1637. John Milton wrote highly of Bradshaw's aptitude during his public service, saying that "All his early life he was sedulously employed in making himself acquainted with the laws of the country; he then practised with singular success and reputation at the bar."

On 3 January 1638 he was married to Mary, a daughter of Thomas Marbury.

At some time between 1640 and 1643, Bradshaw moved from Congleton to Basinghall Street in London. In 1643, he was elected judge of the London sheriff's court. He maintained the post until his death. Following the death of the Earl of Essex in 1646, Parliament voted Somerhill House to Bradshaw. He was appointed a serjeant-at-law by Parliament and in 1648 Chief Justice of Chester and North Wales.

Trial of the King
In 1649, he was made president of the parliamentary commission to try the king. Other lawyers of greater prominence had refused the position.

Bradshaw was a controversial choice as Lord President, and opinions of his efficiency as a judge varied. Bulstrode Whitelocke believed that he was "learned in his profession," but Thomas Fuller dismissed him as a man "of execrable memory, of whom nothing good is remembered." The King himself, as well as much of the court, professed to having never heard of him.

Bradshaw himself did not attend court until the third session after his appointment, apologising on the grounds that he had been out of London and disavowed his ability to perform "so important a task." While he served as the Lord President, he was flanked by an impressive personal guard and carried a sword at his side. He wore scarlet robes and a "broad-brimmed, bullet-proof beaver hat, which he had covered over with velvet and lined it with steel and he also wore armour underneath his robes." King Charles refused to recognise the authority of the court and would not plead. After declaring Charles I guilty as a "Tyrant, Traitor, Murderer, and a public enemy," Bradshaw did not allow the king any final words. Under English law, a condemned prisoner was no longer alive and therefore did not have the right to speak, and Bradshaw followed this tradition strictly.

It is said that he dined at Odstone Hall in Leicestershire, then his property, after signing the warrant for the king's execution in 1649.

Commonwealth and Protectorate
On 12 March 1649, Bradshaw was elected President of the Council of State, which was to act as the Executive of the country's government in place of the King and the Privy Council. From 1 August 1649, Bradshaw also held the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. As Lord President he conducted trials of leading Royalists and condemned to death by beheading the Duke of Hamilton, Lord Capell, the Earl of Holland and Eusebius Andrews, for which he was well rewarded.

After wars in Scotland and Ireland, the Long Parliament had still not dissolved itself or called for re-elections. On 30 April 1653, Oliver Cromwell declared Parliament and the Council dissolved and soon assumed rule as Lord Protector calling elections for a new Parliament himself. After that date Bradshaw served as commissioner of the Duchy, jointly with Thomas Fell, until mounting differences with Cromwell culminated in his resignation in 1654.

Bradshaw, an ardent Republican, became an opponent of the Protectorate. In 1654, he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Stafford and Cheshire, but because he refused to sign the recognition pledge put on Members to declare their recognition of the new army-backed government, he took no seat for either constituency. In 1655, the Major-General in charge of Cheshire, Tobias Bridge, persuaded leading gentry not to enter Bradshaw as the county's parliamentary candidate at elections to the next parliament.

After Oliver Cromwell died in 1658, his son Richard succeeded him as Lord Protector and reinstated Bradshaw as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Bradshaw was elected MP for Cheshire in the Third Protectorate Parliament in 1659. During the same year, Bradshaw moved to Westminster after falling dangerously ill with a 'quartan ague' or malaria.

In October 1659, various subordinate members of the army sabotaged General Lambert's and General Ludlow's support of the Long Parliament. Colonel Morley, Major Grimes, and Colonel Sydenham eventually gained their points, and placed guards both by land and water, to hinder the members of Parliament from approaching the House. During these disorders, the Council of State still assembled at the usual place and the: "Lord President Bradshaw, who was present, though by long sickness very weak and much extenuated, yet animated by his ardent zeal and constant affection to the common cause, upon hearing Col Syndenham's justifications of the proceedings of the army in again disrupting parliament, stood up and interrupted him, declaring his abhorrence of that detestable action, and telling the council, that being now going to his God, he had not patience to sit there to hear his great name so openly blasphemed; and thereupon departed to his lodgings, and withdrew himself from public employment."

He died on 31 October 1659, aged 57. He was buried with great honours at Westminster Abbey. The eulogy was given by John Rowe. On his deathbed Bradshaw said that if called upon to try the King again he would be "the first man in England to do it".

Posthumous execution
Charles II returned to power in 1660. On 30 January 1661, the twelfth anniversary of the regicide, the bodies of Bradshaw, Cromwell and Henry Ireton were ordered to be exhumed and displayed in chains all day on the gallows at Tyburn. At sunset, the three bodies that had been displayed publicly as those of the three judges being executed posthumously were all beheaded. The bodies were thrown into a common pit and the heads displayed on pikes at Westminster Hall. Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary that he saw the heads there on 5 February. The body of Bradshaw's wife was also exhumed from Westminster Abbey and, along with the remains of other Parliamentarians buried at Westminster, reburied in a common pit at St Margaret's, Westminster.

Jamaica connection
Some sources claim that the body of Bradshaw had previously been removed by his son, James or John Bradshaw, who re-buried his father's remains on a hill near Martha's Brae on Jamaica and marked the spot with a cannon. A location now known as "Gun Hill" is 2.5 miles south-west of the northern port city of Falmouth, in Trelawny Parish. One of the three men had children who removed to Highland County, Virginia. James Bradshaw acquired the land in Jamaica where his father's remains were buried. Several sources recorded an inscription with the cannon found on Gun Hill, Jamaica, and attribute the quote Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God to John Bradshaw.

Legacy
While some political philosophers have defended Bradshaw, most legal authorities have taken the view expressed in 1999 by Michael Kirby (then a Justice of the High Court of Australia) that the High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I, of which Bradshaw was president, was illegal. However, in his 2005 book The Tyrannicide Brief (a biography of John Cook, the prosecutor at the trial), Geoffrey Robertson Q.C. put forward the argument that while the court was illegal due to the political settlement reached at the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the trial anticipated the developments in humanitarian law in the second half of the 20th century, and that the leading participants in the trial are to be admired rather than condemned.

Bradshaw in popular culture

 * Bradshaw was played by Stratford Johns in the 1970 historical drama film Cromwell.
 * Bradshaw appears in several short stories set in the alternate history 1632 Series. In that series, King Charles discovers his future fate by reading books brought to the past in the time-displaced town of Grantville and orders the arrest of execution of almost everyone who would later have been involved in his trial and execution. In one story, John Milton is told by his father that Bradshaw has been executed, but several other stories say that Bradshaw escaped from England and journeyed to Grantville, becoming one of the town's junior district attorneys, and becoming part of a government-in-exile that plots to overthrow Charles and his tyrannical ministers.

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Strathpine railway station

Strathpine railway station is located on the North Coast line in Queensland, Australia. It serves the suburb of Strathpine in the City of Moreton Bay. In 2001, a third platform opened as part of the addition of a third track from Bald Hills to Lawnton.

Services
Strathpine is served by all Citytrain network services from Kippa-Ring to Roma Street, many continuing to Springfield Central.

Transport links
Thompsons Bus Service operates one bus route via Strathpine station:
 * 670: Strathpine Centre to Warner

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Air-Sea War – Battle

Air-Sea War and Battle are two games that were released together as the fourth cartridge in the official Philips line of games for the Philips Videopac. In North America, the same game was released as 'Armored Encounter! / Subchase!' for the Magnavox Odyssey² console.

Air-Sea War
This was one of the more premium releases, along with Wall Street Fortune and Quest for the Rings, that was released with a Board, pawns, and a video cartridge in a video/board hybrid release. The board was not offered in the United States.

Air-Sea War is a two-player game with player one controlling an aeroplane which is constantly moving from the right to the left of the screen while trying to drop bombs onto a boat controlled by player two, which is moving from left to right, and trying to fire missiles up at the plane. Both the bombs and missiles can be controlled after firing. There are also two neutral craft in the water. A point is added for each hit on the enemy, and one is deducted for each hit on a neutral craft, although scores never go negative. The player with the most points at the end of three minutes is the winner.

Similar to RISK, a copyrighted board game, there was a board in the premium packaging that allowed tracking and movement as various lands were conquered;  countries were 'occupied', and conflicts 'settled' with the video screen battle of tank to tank, tank to sea, tank to air, air to tank, air to sea, or air to air.

Battle
Battle is also a two-player game, in which each player controls a tank around walls and mines, with the aim being to fire the most shots on your opponent's tank in three minutes while using a supply of 20 rounds. A point is deducted for hitting a mine, but scores never drop below zero. Multiple modes could be chosen with differing layouts of walls, the option of having mines or not and the option of being able to guide projectiles or not. Inspired by Atari's Combat.

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Sand Springs Range

The Sand Springs Range is a short mountain range located in western Nevada in the United States within the Great Basin. It is approximately 10 mi long and is in Churchill County. It separates Salt Wells (to the west) from Fairview Valley (to the east). To the north, it is separated from the Stillwater Range by Sand Springs Pass. To the south is Gabbs Valley.

The Sand Springs Range was the site of Project Shoal, an underground nuclear test conducted as part of the Vela Uniform program. Shoal was a 12 kiloton device which was detonated 1211 ft below ground on October 26, 1963. As the area experienced a series of large earthquakes in 1954, seismic traces for the events could be compared to help differentiate future Soviet underground nuclear tests from earthquakes. The site is unrestricted and unmarked. No surface crater was formed, and the casual observer will find little evidence that the event ever took place.

The Sand Springs Range also has several large military radar installations. These are associated with the bombing range in Fairview Valley, the electronic warfare range in Dixie Valley, and Naval Air Station Fallon.

The most prominent peak in the Sand Springs Range is Big Kasock Mountain at an elevation of 7150 ft.

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Bray Park railway station

Bray Park railway station is located on the North Coast line in Queensland, Australia. Despite the name, Bray Park railway station is located in the north of the suburb of Strathpine in the City of Moreton Bay (immediately to the south of the suburb of Bray Park). Strathpine railway station is in the south of Strathpine.

History
In September 1985, the Queensland Government provided funding to build Bray Park station in the state budget. In 2001, a third platform opened as part of the addition of a third track from Bald Hills to Lawnton.

Services
Bray Park is served by all Citytrain network services from Kippa-Ring to Central, many continuing to Springfield Central

Transport links
Thompsons Bus Service operate four bus routes via Bray Park station:
 * 671: Westfield Strathpine to Warner
 * 672: Westfield Strathpine to Warners Lake
 * 673: Westfield Strathpine to Joyner
 * 674: Westfield Strathpine to Warner Village

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