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This project used recycled soda bottles as a canopy under which a small park is created. An intriguing environment is created where one can explore the surface qualities of the bottles at eye level. Additionally, this project sought to stimulate creative alternatives for recycling and reusing materials. (POP)culture used over 1500 recycled plastic soda bottles.
(POP)culture was designed and fabricated by students from the University of Nebraska Lincoln.
(POP)culture was originally designed as an installation for Lincoln PARK(ing) Day in Lincoln, Nebraska. PARK(ing) DAY was under the direction of Peter Olshavsky, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and made possible by support from the Fulbright Canada-RBC Eco-Leadership Program.
Designer: Garth Britzman
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What is progressive wave,wavelength,frequency and amplitude?
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We will start by first defining waves, and then move on to other terms referred in the question, which refer to different characteristics of waves.
Waves is a kind of movement of energy through matter without movement of matter it self. For example, we see that waves in a see exert a force in the direction of movement of waves, making clear that energy is being carried forward with the movement of sea waves. It appears to us that water is also moving forward along with waves. But in reality the water is not moving forward it is just oscillating up and down in vertical direction.
The waves are generated on or inside some material. This material is called the medium. Medium of sea waves, which travel on surface of the medium is sea water, and medium of seismic waves which travel within the medium is the earth. There are many other types of waves which impact our lives. For example the sounds we hear are because of waves which occur in air. Light and all other electromagnetic radiations are also waves. But these waves travel in vacuum. Such waves travelling in vacuum are assumed to travel in a hypothetical medium called ether.
The speed with which the waves travel, which is same as the speed with which the energy in the waves travels, the speed with which the the waves apparently travels depends only on the characteristics of the medium through which it travels.
Having covered the basics of waves, we will now move to describing the terms in the question.
The waves create a pattern of oscillating upward and downward movement in the medium. Some type of waves create a pattern of expansion and compression of the medium. In such up and down movement of medium the highest point reached is called the crest, and the lowest point reached is called trough. The wavelength is the distance between to immediately following crests or troughs.
Frequency of wave is the number of times a particle in the medium completes the cycle of its movement from crest to trough and back to crest. Incidentally, for a given type medium, wavelength multiplied by frequency is constant and is equal to speed of the wave.
In general terms amplitude is like height of waves. It is defined as the distance between mean position of a particle in the medium and its crest or trough.
Progressive waves:
in most of the waves the medium appears to move forward in the direction of the waves. These are called progressive waves or travelling waves. In another kind of waves the energy of the waves is restricted to a small section of the medium. For example when the string of a musical instrument is plucked, the waves generated within the string are confined to the two fixed end of the string. Waves of this kind are called standing waves.
Wave is a sort of disturbance.The propagation of disturbance from a region to another region in a medium is called wave motion. A wave which travels continuously in a medium is called a progressive wave,
Wave length is the distance between the two consecutive particles in the medium which are in the same state of vibration.
Frequency of a wave is the number of oscillations executed by a particle of the medium in one second.
Amplitude of a wave is the maximum displacement of a particle of the medium from its equilibrium postion.
Frequency f of the wave , the wave lenth L and the velocity c of the wave are related by the relation: f=c/L

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Accession Number : AD0643737
Title : GLASS.
Corporate Author : FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIV WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OHIO
Personal Author(s) : Vargin,V. V. ; Veinberg,T. I. ; Stepanov,S. A.
Report Date : 12 SEP 1966
Pagination or Media Count : 4
Abstract : The object of the invention is a glass based on SiO2, B2O3, ZnO2, CdO and BaO is different in that, to give it the property of rotating the plane of polarization of light in a magnetic field, the stated components enter its composition in the following molar percents: SiO2, 20 - 35; B2O3, 20 - 40; ZnO, up to 10; CdO, up to 10; BaO, up to 20; and, furthermore, 10 -32.5% of Tb2O3 is also inserted. (Author)
Descriptors : (*GLASS, POLARIZATION), MAGNETIC PROPERTIES, USSR, PATENTS, SILICON COMPOUNDS, OXIDES, BORON COMPOUNDS, ZINC COMPOUNDS, CADMIUM COMPOUNDS, BARIUM COMPOUNDS, ROTATION, TERBIUM, MAGNETIC FIELDS
Subject Categories : Ceramics, Refractories and Glass
Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE


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|By Fuat Kircaali
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|May 16, 2010 10:15 AM EDT
A few minutes ago I received an email questionnaire informing me that "The Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) has once again partnered with George P. Johnson Experience Marketing to conduct this essential and timely research. This year's study is being co-produced with The Jordan Edmiston Group, Inc. and with support from the Event Marketing Institute."
The first question of this survey is:
Which one of the following best describes the role of "digital marketing" when you are planning an event?
a) A leading tactic
b) A vital component of the plan
c) Taken under consideration with other mediums
d) Usually an afterthought
e) Don't really consider it
I was shocked to see this question and equally shocked to read the selection of possible answers!
First, allow me to present the facts, which reflect the reality of the media business in 2010, the decade we just entered, as it relates to the facts of our company.
SYS-CON Media executed a five-year transition plan from January 2004 through December 2008. We transformed our company into a pure "new media" business in five years, which is now owned and operated by Ulitzer, Inc. The last print magazine published by SYS-CON Publications, Inc. was in December 2008. Ulitzer.com was launched about a year ago with more than 500 micro sites including the 16 year-old www.sys-con.com brand, which is now a property of Ulitzer, Inc.
Ulitzer.com offers roughly 1.4 million articles, including the online libraries of all SYS-CON print magazines from the past 16 years.
Ulitzer.com is also the world's first and only revolutionary new media platform designed for original content on any subject in any language.
For example, Dmitriy Stepanov who joined Ulitzer earlier today is the 9,875th Ulitzer author on our new media platform.
The largest new technology event in the world, Cloud Expo, is the first conference to be born, produced and presented completely on the Ulitzer platform.
The Cloud Expo home page updates automatically around the clock, with the most recent feature stories, articles, product reviews, news and blogs posted by the world's most influential authors on their subject matters! You may find all faculty members and speakers from Cloud Expo conferences on Ulitzer pages.
Ulitzer will eventually replace all media on all subjects you can think of in any language around the world.
Question: Are You Planning "Digital Marketing" When You Are Planning an Event?
Here are my thoughts on this question. At this very moment, some people on planet Earth are switching from gas to electricity, some people are printing technology magazines and mailing them through the post office, some people are reading the New York Times with their Sunday bagels.
As far as we are concerned, traditional media tools are long gone; our company began this transition 6 years ago and completed it a year and a half ago.
If I were asked this question and expected to give an answer, my reply would be:
f) none of the above
Let's take "Cloud Expo" for example. The most popular technology conference of the new decade was born on "digital media" and produced and presented using "digital media" assets.
I can't comprehend that any event producer anywhere in the world today would answer this question by picking any one of the five available options presented. "A leading tool?" What do you mean by "a leading tool?" What other tools would you possibly have in this day and age? This question, the survey itself and its participants belong to the last decade.
I personally don't use email anymore; I communicate through "Twitter."\
We don't do press releases unless we have to; we tweet stories to our roughly 12,000 followers in 8 channels. The news gets amplified to hundreds of thousands instantly.
Even during Cloud Expo, we reach more people by Twitter than the announcements we make through loudspeakers in the convention centers.
I would love to contact the people who are conducting this survey and ask them if any company answered their first question as "don't really consider it."
In an age where I personally hail a cab at an airport through Twitter, I can't possibly comprehend which century bubble those people might be living in.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Carl J. Levine, Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1, will objectively discuss how DNS is used to solve Digital Transformation challenges in large SaaS applications, CDNs, AdTech platforms, and other demanding use cases. Carl J. Levine is the Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1. A veteran of the Internet Infrastructure space, he has over a decade of experience with startups, networking protocols and Internet infrastructure, combined with the unique ability to it...
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"There's plenty of bandwidth out there but it's never in the right place. So what Cedexis does is uses data to work out the best pathways to get data from the origin to the person who wants to get it," explained Simon Jones, Evangelist and Head of Marketing at Cedexis, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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"Cloud Academy is an enterprise training platform for the cloud, specifically public clouds. We offer guided learning experiences on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and all the surrounding methodologies and technologies that you need to know and your teams need to know in order to leverage the full benefits of the cloud," explained Alex Brower, VP of Marketing at Cloud Academy, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clar...
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Large industrial manufacturing organizations are adopting the agile principles of cloud software companies. The industrial manufacturing development process has not scaled over time. Now that design CAD teams are geographically distributed, centralizing their work is key. With large multi-gigabyte projects, outdated tools have stifled industrial team agility, time-to-market milestones, and impacted P&L stakeholders.
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Gemini is Yahoo's native and search advertising platform. To ensure the quality of a complex distributed system that spans multiple products and components and across various desktop websites and mobile app and web experiences – both Yahoo owned and operated and third-party syndication (supply), with complex interaction with more than a billion users and numerous advertisers globally (demand) – it becomes imperative to automate a set of end-to-end tests 24x7 to detect bugs and regression. In th...
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"Akvelon is a software development company and we also provide consultancy services to folks who are looking to scale or accelerate their engineering roadmaps," explained Jeremiah Mothersell, Marketing Manager at Akvelon, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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"MobiDev is a software development company and we do complex, custom software development for everybody from entrepreneurs to large enterprises," explained Alan Winters, U.S. Head of Business Development at MobiDev, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that CrowdReviews.com has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 22nd International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 5–7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. CrowdReviews.com is a transparent online platform for determining which products and services are the best based on the opinion of the crowd. The crowd consists of Internet users that have experienced products and services first-hand and have an interest in letting other potential buye...
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"IBM is really all in on blockchain. We take a look at sort of the history of blockchain ledger technologies. It started out with bitcoin, Ethereum, and IBM evaluated these particular blockchain technologies and found they were anonymous and permissionless and that many companies were looking for permissioned blockchain," stated René Bostic, Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Conventi...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Telecom Reseller has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 22nd International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Telecom Reseller reports on Unified Communications, UCaaS, BPaaS for enterprise and SMBs. They report extensively on both customer premises based solutions such as IP-PBX as well as cloud based and hosted platforms.
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"Space Monkey by Vivent Smart Home is a product that is a distributed cloud-based edge storage network. Vivent Smart Home, our parent company, is a smart home provider that places a lot of hard drives across homes in North America," explained JT Olds, Director of Engineering, and Brandon Crowfeather, Product Manager, at Vivint Smart Home, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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Coca-Cola's Google powered digital signage system lays the groundwork for a more valuable connection between Coke and its customers. Digital signs pair software with high-resolution displays so that a message can be changed instantly based on what the operator wants to communicate or sell. In their Day 3 Keynote at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Chambers, Global Group Director, Digital Innovation, Coca-Cola, and Vidya Nagarajan, a Senior Product Manager at Google, discussed how from store operations and ...
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It is of utmost importance for the future success of WebRTC to ensure that interoperability is operational between web browsers and any WebRTC-compliant client. To be guaranteed as operational and effective, interoperability must be tested extensively by establishing WebRTC data and media connections between different web browsers running on different devices and operating systems. In his session at WebRTC Summit at @ThingsExpo, Dr. Alex Gouaillard, CEO and Founder of CoSMo Software, presented ...
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WebRTC is great technology to build your own communication tools. It will be even more exciting experience it with advanced devices, such as a 360 Camera, 360 microphone, and a depth sensor camera. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Masashi Ganeko, a manager at INFOCOM Corporation, introduced two experimental projects from his team and what they learned from them. "Shotoku Tamago" uses the robot audition software HARK to track speakers in 360 video of a remote party. "Virtual Teleport" uses a multip...
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A strange thing is happening along the way to the Internet of Things, namely far too many devices to work with and manage. It has become clear that we'll need much higher efficiency user experiences that can allow us to more easily and scalably work with the thousands of devices that will soon be in each of our lives. Enter the conversational interface revolution, combining bots we can literally talk with, gesture to, and even direct with our thoughts, with embedded artificial intelligence, whic...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Evatronix will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Evatronix SA offers comprehensive solutions in the design and implementation of electronic systems, in CAD / CAM deployment, and also is a designer and manufacturer of advanced 3D scanners for professional applications.
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Leading companies, from the Global Fortune 500 to the smallest companies, are adopting hybrid cloud as the path to business advantage. Hybrid cloud depends on cloud services and on-premises infrastructure working in unison. Successful implementations require new levels of data mobility, enabled by an automated and seamless flow across on-premises and cloud resources. In his general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Tevis, an IBM Storage Software Technical Strategist and Customer Solution Architec...
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To get the most out of their data, successful companies are not focusing on queries and data lakes, they are actively integrating analytics into their operations with a data-first application development approach. Real-time adjustments to improve revenues, reduce costs, or mitigate risk rely on applications that minimize latency on a variety of data sources. In his session at @BigDataExpo, Jack Norris, Senior Vice President, Data and Applications at MapR Technologies, reviewed best practices to ...
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An increasing number of companies are creating products that combine data with analytical capabilities. Running interactive queries on Big Data requires complex architectures to store and query data effectively, typically involving data streams, an choosing efficient file format/database and multiple independent systems that are tied together through custom-engineered pipelines. In his session at @BigDataExpo at @ThingsExpo, Tomer Levi, a senior software engineer at Intel's Advanced Analytics gr...
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When talking IoT we often focus on the devices, the sensors, the hardware itself. The new smart appliances, the new smart or self-driving cars (which are amalgamations of many 'things'). When we are looking at the world of IoT, we should take a step back, look at the big picture. What value are these devices providing? IoT is not about the devices, it's about the data consumed and generated. The devices are tools, mechanisms, conduits. In his session at Internet of Things at Cloud Expo | DXWor...
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The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong
(Cover picture courtesy of Atom Books.)
My name is Chloe Saunders. I'm fifteen, and I would love to be normal.
But normal is one thing I'm not.
To start with, I'm having these feelings for a certain antisocial werewolf and his sweet-tempered brother—who just happens to be a sorcerer—but, between you and me, I'm leaning toward the werewolf.
Not normal.
My friends and I are also on the run from an evil corporation that wants to get rid of us—permanently.
Definitely not normal.
And finally, I'm a genetically altered necromancer who can raise the dead, rotting corpses and all, without even trying.
As far away from normal as it gets.
Just like The Hunger Games, I wish The Summoning had been a stand-alone novel. It wasn't, so I was stuck reading The Reckoning, a terrible end to what had potential to be an amazing series. Alas, Kelley Armstrong did not take the series to the next level.
My main problem is the cliché factor. Necromancers are definitely new in the YA scene as they don't have that vampire appeal, but that's not what I have a problem with. But the rest of the book? Well, it's pretty cliché. Like a lot of YA books, it involves a huge love triangle, but for whatever reason it just doesn't work. Some books can pull off love triangles very well, but this is not one of those books. It really ends up making Chloe into a Mary Sue, which is kind of is anyway, even without the love triangle. Not only are the character clichéd, but the whole evil-corporation-genetically-engineers-people-then-wants-to-kill-them premise is old and utterly predictable.
The plot of The Reckoning just drags on and on, as if Kelley Armstrong suddenly had the urge to describe all of the corpses Chloe raises in mind-numbing detail. I have a pretty strong stomach when it comes to gore (or else I would never, ever look up things like this for fun), but I did notice my appetite disappeared after reading this book. This is a YA book, but it is not for the sensitive.
I give this book 2/5 stars.


text: I hope this is the right place to put this thread...I was asked to write down my HK shopping haunts, so I hope some of you find this useful. These are IMO the best of the best places to find great stuff for less in HK. 1. Milan Station (no suprises here...we talk about it all the time! A second-hand bag shop that generally has most of the latest styles, but where you can also find great bargains on older style designer bags. The price IS negotiable, so make sure to ask for the "best" price.) 2. Peddar Building (located on Peddar St. in Central HK, this building has about 7 floors of independant shops. Many sell clothes that were originally intended for the U.S., but have somehow made their way to HK instead. You can find BCBG, cashmere, designer jeans, etc... Also, on the 3rd floor there are a couple of consignment shops that have designer clothes and bags. Again, you would ask for a discount) 3. South Horizon Plaza in Ap Lei Chau ( 27 floors of shopping. Mostly furniture and antiques and goodies for the home, BUT...there is a Lane Crawfor outlet and a Joyce outlet, which are both very high-end clothing stores here in HK. There are fabulous bargains to behold...think 90% off of retail sometimes!!! 4. Fai Yuen Street in Mong Kok ( 2 blocks of factory outlet stores with a market that runs up the middle. A total scavenger hunt, but so fun...and SO CHEAP!!! Kids clothes galore, as well as men's and women's. A ton of major brands from the U.S. can be found here. That is all that my brain can think of so early in the morning, but I will add more as they come to mind!!!


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BOLTON boss Sam Allardyce accused referee Olegario Benquerenca of bottling the big decisions after his side were denied two penalties.
Even visiting coach Jean Fernandez admitted defender Frederic Dehu handled Jay-Jay Okocha's cross just before the break, while Fabien Barthez was fortunate to get away with flattening Kevin Davies when the former Manchester United man missed the ball completely as he attempted to punch clear.
With Dehu also getting away with a sly elbow in the face of Stelios Giannakopoulos as Marseille attempted to run the clock down, it was easy to see why Allardyce was so annoyed.
"It appeared the referee did not want to give anything controversial no matter what," fumed Allardyce. "The handball was an absolute definite, a screamer, a 120 per cent penalty. The lad swung his arm out and took it off Jared Borgetti's head.
"From the referee's position, there was no chance he was obscured by any player and I cannot understand why he didn't give it.
"There was another one on Kevin Davies when Barthez came out and missed the ball completely. If that had been a defender, it would definitely have been a penalty but goalkeepers seem to get away with it.
"It also looked like the elbow was blatant too, so all in all, we are very disappointed."
Fernandez tempered his assessment of Dehu's handball by claiming the defender had been shoved in the back.
The Marseille coach also condemned the referee for his 'strict' handling of the game which saw five visiting players booked, including Bostjan Cesar, who will miss next week's second leg, but none from the hosts.
"It was a combative game but apart from the first 15 minutes and in the final moments, we matched Bolton physically and tactically," said Fernandez.
"There was a handball but the player who did it was pushed."
"We had a chance to win it at the end and 1-0 would have been a major result for us," added Allardyce.
"As it is, it is going to be very difficult for us. If we can nick a goal I would fancy our chances but we'll have to weather the storm."


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Hi ladies! First things first, I really don't have the words (odd, for a writer) to explain how much your comments, emails and tweets have saved me. It's quite a thing, to be so impacted by women you don't even know. And the fact that you think I'm at all inspiring…especially when I'm at my ickiest…is truly a gift. I want to French kiss each and every one of you. Here's hoping I remember how.
And now, let's have some beauty, shall we? So, yesterday I had the wires removed and I'm back to normal (save for two gnarly cuts on each side of my face)!! But here's the thing. I wasn't really allowed to properly wash my face for a week. And my skin is super-dry, so left to its own devices, it gets super-flaky, especially around my nose where I stay sunburned, all summer. In short, I have serious face dandruff.
Enter Malin + Goetz Jojoba Face Scrub ($38), the sexiest, most genius facial exfoliator I've tried in ages. It's a cleansing scrub, so it washes while it exfoliates dead skin cells (I use it in place of my beloved cleansing wipes). It's chock full of natural jojoba meal, which buffs my skin to a glorious glow without scraping it to death or drying it out even further. And the fresh, citrusy scent makes me so happy.
After scrubbing, it's all about my new favorite multi-tasker, Josie Maran Argan Mini Moisturizing Stick ($14). This itty-bitty, thumb sized stick is basically 100% pure argan oil, which means it's loaded with antioxidants, vitamin E, and essential fatty acids. I rub it around my nose, and on my cheeks, forehead and chin, then massage it into my skin. Luxurious. Oh…I also carry an extra in my purse at all times for quick fixes for chapped lips, dry cuticles, frizzy hair and ashy Bobina knees. I want to be buried with this stuff. You'll love!!
xoxo, Tia


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DALLAS -- Two dating websites are being sued for allegedly using a fallen soldier's photo in their ads "Military Men Searching for Love."
The parents of Army Lt. Peter Burks have sued PlentyofFish.com and True.com. They say his photo was used in ads without their permission.
Neither website immediately returned calls seeking comment Monday.
The parents' attorney says Burks' photo was taken days before he was killed in Iraq in 2007. It's on another website that provides supplies to troops.
Burks' photo apparently was removed from the dating ads recently. But the lawsuit says the companies misled customers and commercially benefitted while hurting his family.
Burks' parents filed the lawsuit Monday in Dallas. That's where True Beginnings, the parent company of True.com, is based. PlentyofFish Media is based in Vancouver.
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text: The Effects of Preseason Trunk Muscle Training on Low-Back Pain Occurrence in Women Collegiate GymnastsDurall, Christopher J1; Udermann, Brian E2; Johansen, Dana R2; Gibson, Barbara2; Reineke, David M3; Reuteman, Paul4The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research: January 2009 - Volume 23 - Issue 1 - p 86-92 doi: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e31818b93ac Original Research Abstract Author Information Durall, CJ, Udermann, BE, Johansen, DR, Gibson, B, Reineke, DM, and Reuteman, P. The effects of preseason trunk muscle training on low-back pain occurrence in women collegiate gymnasts. J Strength Cond Res 23(1): 86-92, 2009-Low-back pain (LBP) in women gymnasts is relatively common. This investigation was performed to evaluate the effects of a preseason training program for the trunk extensor, lateral flexor, and flexor muscles on LBP occurrence during the subsequent competitive season. The training group consisted of 15 collegiate women gymnasts. The control group consisted of 15 nonathlete collegiate women. Pre- and posttesting for all participants consisted of static endurance tests for the trunk extensors, lateral flexors, and flexors. After pretesting, the training group completed 10 weeks of biweekly training consisting of non-foot-supported back extensions and side bridges, in addition to their usual trunk flexor exercises. The control group did not perform any specialized trunk muscle training. Mean improvements in trunk endurance, based on multivariate analysis of variance at the 5% level of significance, were significantly greater in the training group than in the control group. Mean improvements in endurance in the training group were 47 seconds for the lateral trunk flexors, 34 seconds for the trunk extensors, and 80 seconds for the trunk flexors. During the subsequent gymnastics season, none of the gymnasts reported new episodes of LBP. One gymnast with chronic LBP reported a recurrence of LBP during the season. None of the gymnasts reported that the training program adversely affected their gymnastic performance. These data suggest that training the trunk musculature twice per week during a 10-week period with a relatively simple floor exercise protocol was an effective stimulus to improve trunk endurance measures. It is encouraging that none of the gymnasts reported new episodes of LBP during the subsequent competitive gymnastics season. 1Student Health Center, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin; 2Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin; 3Mathematics Department, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin; and 4Physical Therapy Program, Health Science Center, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin Address correspondence to Christopher J. Durall, email@example.com. © 2009 National Strength and Conditioning Association


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American Horror Story: Coven is approaching its endgame and show creator Ryan Murphy is already casting his gaze towards the fourth season of this phenomenal show.
Although Murphy doesn't want to give a whole heap of plot details away, he has revealed in which year the action takes place and the special accent that Jessica Lange is already starting to perfect:
It's set in 1950. If you look historically what happened in the year 1950, there's some more clues in that year. It's a period piece. We try and do the opposite of what we've done before. Jessica Lange has already started practicing her German accent so I'm very excited!
So, a German living in 1950s America. We've already had the Nazi fugitive storyline in Asylum with Dr. Arthur Arden, so I doubt the writers would want to tread the same ground again. Perhaps we could be getting a take on McCarthyism in suburbia, except, you know, with loads more aliens, monsters serial killers and possessed nuns.
What do you think Moviepiloters? Hit me up below or over on Twitter.
(Source: EW)


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I'm very pleased to announce that Drunken Cat Comics is now an award-winning webcomic!
Derek and I were very honored to receive an award for our little webcomic this past April at SPACE. When we revamped the website last year one of our many goals was to improve the quality of the comics we were putting up. It was this goal that led to us closing down our current webcomics (Daily Shots and Mixed Drink Wednesday) and creating a new update schedule that was less monumental than our previous daily update schedule. An update schedule that we're proud to say we've been able to keep for well over a year now.
We'd like to thank Bob Corby and the other judges of the SPACE Prize for this honor.
Some of Our Personal Favorite Comics
In an effort to make your lives easier, Derek and I have compiled a list of some of our personal favorite comics from 2015 that we feel may have been responsible for this award… or not. Regardless, these are some of our favs.
You may also want to check out our list of Most Popular Comics from 2015. This list is based on which comics got the most views.
What all this mean for you the reader?
For those of you who have been reading our comics for a while, now you can tell your friends that you read an award-winning webcomic. For those of you who have never read our webcomic… I don't know… I guess you're missing out on some awesome webcomics;)


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Image & Form Links
Hi there, I'm new to this forum and very new to WordPress, but I love it already.
The current layout I have on my blog has my links in a form – drop down list – but I am changing them over in WordPress to become image links. Because I have so many links though I don't want a break between each link, rather I would just like a space between them. I have tried to put in each of these fields:
Before Link:
Between Link and Description:
After Link:
but with no success! It still puts a break in between each image. Can anyone tell me how to fix this so there is just a space? Or alternatively is there a way to keep my links in a drop down list, but still create this in link manager?
(I don't ask much do I??)
Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
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This HD trailers thing is a cool little toy. One thing that bothers me is that you create an exclusions.xml file next to exe. Which isn't the proper place for configuration data (except for the static .config).
Hi Brian,
Perhaps into SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData. The main reason is of course security and good practice. Imagine you want to run in with unprivileged account that shouldn't have access to store the settings into the folder where exe resides (i.e. no application
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Although keeping all of the files in a single folder is easy, it is best to use a folder that doesn't require special permissions. I willt ry to implement this in the new version.
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In November 2008, less than one week after winning the votes of city dwellers by a margin of 28 points, President-elect Barack Obama announced he would reward them by creating the first-ever "White House Office of Urban Policy." Like other new aspects of Obama's executive branch, appointing a city czar was intended to fast-track communications among city governments, federal agencies and the White House. With great fanfare, Obama dispatched his friend and fellow Chicagoan Valerie Jarrett to tell America that he was making good on his campaign pledge to "stop seeing cities as the problem and start seeing them as the solution."


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"Your self-talk creates your reality."
― Abhishek Kumar
I ran into a childhood friend recently who I haven't seen for quite some time now so I wasn't really surprised by his reaction in terms of how I look now and how I was when he last saw me.
"You gained weight bro!" he said (Ouch!)
"Well thank you jerk!" I replied sarcastically.
"I guess you don't play anymore. You should come with us on Saturday nights and shed some of those "baby fat" he said with a playful tone.
"We'll see. Been busy lately but I will surely text you if I can come." I said as we shook hands and said our goodbyes.
I do miss playing hoops. It's my first love but with family and work at my disposal, I couldn't find time for it anymore although sometimes I feel like I'm just making an excuse to avoid physical activity.
I was in second grade when I became a fan of the sport. My dad bought me a basketball ring and board that I would hang through a nail at the back of our main door and I would shoot hoops all day.
I got my first taste of real competition when I was in sixth grade when my friends and I joined the thirteen-and-under league where we won third place but my most memorable experience came during my freshman year in highschool.
It was 1991 and this was the year I won my only MVP award and it all came down the wire in dramatic fashion.
We got to the finals and we faced the team who beat us twice during the double-round elimination but unlike the previous games against them, we were able to stand toe-to-toe with them this time.
It was action-packed until the final buzzer. I was fouled with the one second remaining on the clock and the score was tied. It was the most tense moment of my life because I had to shoot free throws and at least make one to win the game.
The crowd was on its feet. I heard a lot of cheers but also received a lot of boos from the opposing team's supporters. Some of them even howled rude remarks towards me as I stood in front of the free throw line while waiting for the referee to hand me the ball.
The feeling was indescribable. It was a mix of pure excitement and unbelievable tension. I felt like I was going to faint at one point. It's like you see the goal, you see the crowd but you hear nothing despite the loud environment.
I dribbled the ball twice but before I can take the shot, the referee blew his whistle to stop me from shooting because some of the fans of the other team are already under the goal waving their white towels as a form of distraction. I took the shot anyway as the referee forced them to move back.
The referee gave me the ball again. I dribbled twice, took a deep breath and before I took the shot, I told myself "you can do this" repeatedly for so many times.
I released the ball, it bounced twice in front of the rim before finally going in.
It didn't sink in that we've already won until my teammates mobbed me in the middle of the court. We had one big "group hug" and I was so happy at that time, it brought me to tears.
Looking back, I think I never would have made that shot without that moment of positive self-talk. Those encouraging words gave me the confidence. It pumped me up and made me believe that I can actually make that shot.
The things we tell ourselves has a profound effect in our lives. Like the human body that requires food, the mind needs to be fed too. You have to feed it with positive thoughts if you want to see positive results. There's a lot of benefits in practicing positive self-talk and here are some of them:
It builds confidence
The purpose of having cheerleaders is for a team to have the confidence to play hard and win. It's a different high if you have a throng of supporters right behind you, supporting you but no bigger cheerleader is there other than your self.
You have to be your own biggest fan because family and friend support wouldn't mean anything if you yourself don't believe in your own capabilities.
"I can do this"
"I can survive this"
"I won't quit"
These are empowering words that you should be telling yourself everytime you face adversity or when you are in a tight situation.
It gives you hope
Hope is one of the most important feeling everyone should have. Without hope, you're done. It is that fuel that keeps your engine going despite the obstacles you run into.
As the old saying goes, when there's life, there's hope.
Always believe that no matter how bad your circumstances are that there is a way out of it. That it would all come to pass soon.
"This too shall pass"
"This would all be over soon"
This is one of the reasons why I love listening to Dave Ramsey's radio program. I love it when people come to him to do their "debt-free scream". These are people who defied enormous adds by living within their means and making huge amounts of sacrifice to pay off their mounting debts.
Some of them had debts that amounted to more than a hundred thousand dollars that took them years to pay off. These people proved what others thought would be impossible and I would love to be in their shoes soon.
It relieves stress
As an employee, we all experience stress albeit in different levels that's why everyone appreciates a company that promotes work-life balance but what if you work for one that doesn't? What if you need the job and you're unable to transfer because none of your active applications got back to you?
Some will prefer to get depressed and stay there for as long as they can complaining everyday and believe me, there are many of them.
"I'm lucky to have this job"
"It's better than having no job at all"
"This is only temporary and that break I am waiting for will come soon"
It improves your performance
I have a friend back in highschool whose competitive spirit I really admire. He was tenacious and he didn't accept defeat that easily.
One time he scored low on a quiz and he just couldn't shake it off. He told me he will redeem himself over and over and I even saw these same words written in one of the pages of his notebook.
I can just imagine what was going on in that brain of his. He must have told himself "I will get back stronger" or "I will do better next time" or "this will never happen again".
The great thing was, it actually produced better results for him. He got high scores for the succeeding quizzes and examinations after that experience.
It brought out the best in him.
This is exactly how we all should treat obstacles and failures. Instead of wallowing in self-pity, challenge yourself to rise to the occasion by never accepting defeat and using it as motivation to do better next time.
Over to you
Do you engage in positive self-talk? What do you usually tell yourself during the tough times?
I would love to hear from you. Feel free to leave a comment below or share some of your stories.
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Any time a vendor provides goods or services to a business that has been working in a regulated environment, it has to keep a certain level of quality to fulfill all the industry requirements. The businesses that acquire those products need to monitor all of the suppliers who are compliant with all the quality specifications. This can be a difficult process to accomplish by hand, and that's why many of those firms are employing supplier relationship management software.
This type of regulatory compliance software is an effective program that will help make organizations much more effective with their daily procedures. In basic terms, this software was made to automate supplier management methods so that even if the number of vendors or materials grows, a company can quickly revise their approved vendors list (AVL) and ensure the whole business is ordering from the proper distributors.
Supplier relationship management software makes it easy for companies to automatically track and store details about those suppliers, meaning that all the necessary records will be kept in a centralized place where it can be easily accessible by every department in the company. This may also make company audits far more effective and efficient.
Frequently, this sort of supplier management solution is part of an overall quality management system software package that includes a variety of other resources that companies may use to reach and retain compliance with any industry regulations. Organizations like the FDA and ISO have a lot of really strict requirements, and this kind of software may help companies keep everything running efficiently.
A software solution for quality management should include a variety of features and alternatives. At the minimum, it must have supplier relationship management software in addition to solutions for managing customer complaints, initiating CAPAs, performing audits, and managing documents and change control.
Many solutions include electronic document management software as a way to manage and store all the essential files in a safe and centralized place. Any time software such as this has been used; it'll be simple for people to access information anytime they want it. These kinds of options also promote knowledge-sharing through shared documents, and staff can even set the levels of control so that only approved individuals can make changes.
When you are doing work in a regulated industry, you should know that it is not simply your business that should maintain compliance. If you're handling a number of providers, and especially if you are constantly adding new vendors, it'll very quickly become a difficult task to maintain an up-to-date approved vendor list. If the quality of that list begins to slide, you might start employing vendors that do not fulfill the quality specifications, which will result in difficulties in the future.
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Chesapeake To Cut Rig Count, Bring Fewer Wells To Production
Aug 3 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp beat quarterly profit estimates, but said it planned to cut its rig count and bring fewer wells into production this year.
The company, which operates in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas, the Utica Shale in Ohio and the Anadarko Basin in northwestern Oklahoma among others, said it would run 14 rigs by the end of 2017, down from 18 rigs now.
"We suspect Chesapeake may cut back activity in the relatively gassy North Eastern Appalachia, Haynesville and (to a lesser extent) Midcontinent regions," Barclays analysts wrote in a note.
Last month, oilfield services provider Halliburton Co warned growth in North American rig count was "showing signs of plateauing".
U.S. energy companies added 10 rigs in July, the fewest in any month since May 2016. Oil prices have fallen 7.3 percent so far this year, slowing the pace of a 14-month drilling recovery.
Chesapeake said it expected to bring about 250 wells to sale in the second half of 2017 - 10 less than it had earlier projected.
The company may also deploy less capital to rigs in 2018, while spending more on other assets, CEO Doug Lawler said.
Like many other oil producers, Chesapeake is working towards reducing expenses, while using new technology to improve production. "We expect to exceed our goal of 100,000 barrels of oil per day prior to (the) year-end," CEO Doug Lawler said. The company had earlier expected to just hit the target.
The company produced about 88,400 barrels of oil per day in the quarter, up 6 percent from the preceding quarter.
Excluding items, the company earned 18 cents per share in the reported quarter, higher than analysts' expectation of 14 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Total revenue for the Oklahoma City-based company jumped 41 percent to $2.28 billion.
Separately, Chesapeake said the U.S. Department of Justice was closing its investigation into its accounting methodology.
Shares of the company fell as much as 2.5 percent to $4.50 in late morning trading on Thursday.
(Reporting by Yashaswini Swamynathan and Nivedita Bhattacharjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta and Arun Koyyur)
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Chitrangda did green at the Golden Petal awards pairing it with a heavy kundan choker style necklace and red lips. We like that Chitrangda did a change of makeup with red lips. Alas, with the heavy choker, it felt too busy. Wish she had done one or the other.
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Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. James 1:3
"My brethren," says the apostle in the preceding verse, "count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations." At first view, this may appear a strange direction; seeing most temptations are "for the present not joyous, but grievous." Nevertheless you know by your awn experience, that "the trial of your faith worketh patience"; and if "patience have its perfect work, ye shall be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."
It is not to any particular person, or church, that the apostle gives this instruction; but to all who are partakers of like precious faith, and are seeking after that common salvation. For as long as any of us are upon earth, we are in the region of temptation. He who came into the world to save his people from their sins, did not come to save them from temptation. He himself "knew no sin"; yet while he was in this vale of tears, "he suffered being tempted"; and herein also "left us an example, that we should tread in his steps."
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Characteristics: The "Galápagos LEGEND" is a 300 feet cruise ship that provides all the facilities and services to make the cruise around the Galapagos Islands enjoyable and comfortable. Yet the Galapagos Legend is small enough for that intimate experience with nature that brings you to the Galápagos Islands. All the fully carpeted luxurious and ample cabins have ocean views, excepting the interior cabins. Features aboard include among others swimming pool, outside pool bar, an inside… Continue reading »


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This is unnecessary. Back in the caveman days, as I said in an earlier opinion, we didn't shave or even trim. We just mated and fucked like animals and enjoyed all that hair. By the way, newsflash (for some folks): we ARE animals.
So really, guys SHOULD like hairy girls. The media has conditioned us to not find that attractive, and unfortunately, even I am by default now attarcted to hairless girls, but we SHOULDN'T be like that. That's why I personally would like to try being intimate with a hairy girl and see how that feels. I think I might end up fieeling and looking at her hairy arms, legs, and body really hot.
Now there even exist girls who don't like hairy guys. Again, it's likely due to conditioning where even the model men are now being portrayed with little hair and only muscle and height.
My question is: why did the media have to unnecessarily condition the population to like hairless people?
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For money. Women weren't expected to shave until razor companies decided they were basically missing out on 50% of their potential population and developed razors for women, meaning that women were then expected to be shaved.10|10|0
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I don't understand the whole movement of "The media forces us to like this". That's simply not how media works. Media puts in front of you what you will consume, because that's the only way they make money. You have a mind of your own, and you still like hairless women, it's not because of the media, it's simply because hairless women are thought of as more attractive by most people.
Hair's only purpose in the times you are describing was to keep you warm, and as a slight bit of protection. Other than those reasons it was cosmetic, and is now solely cosmetic since modern day clothing has replaced the need for excess protection/warmth.
Even in the time you describe humans have cut their hair and shaves their faces. Shaving of legs and other regions of your body became popular once technology made it more feasible. If you look throughout history you'll see it is even normal hundreds of years ago for men to shave their legs in some societies.
Humans just generally prefer less hair than they do more hair (especially on women). body hair gives a rugged look, and women are less attractive to men the more rugged they look. It has nothing to do with the media and everything to do with general human preference. Whether a women likes hairless or hair is pretty much a toss up, but for men it's about 90% of us prefer hairless.00|00|0


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Feedback – Breakfast of Champions? Really?
About 20 years ago, I was asked to facilitate a 360 feedback program for what was then Centura Bank here in N.C. Over the next year, I coached individuals as they received feedback from people all around them: direct reports, peers, bosses, themselves! In many instances, it was an emotional event that even brought tears.
People care deeply what others think.
And yet we know we have blind spots. Everyone does. And only someone with enough grit to tell you the truth can make you aware. Trust needs to be there–you know they have your back.
We know what we know; we know what we don't know and rarely do we not know what we don't know or don't know what we know. It is the gift of feedback that opens our eyes in awareness so we can change.
So how did the session go?
The two being "focused on" video taped themselves and combined that with all the various feedback from the content of what they said to the way they said it to even the way they were dressed! It was a lot of information!
But these brave professionals took the top three items that would make the biggest difference and are working to address them now.
We're thinking of anothergroup for the "after"!
I said feedback is for champions because it takes guts to hear what's not working for others about you. Our egos can get in the way and we could begin to justify our behaviors or discount the value of the feedback. But those who look it straight in the eye are the ones who WIN and win big. They put that ego aside and focus in on being their absolute best professionally, knowing that others' perceptions ARE their reality!


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Developing the Leader Within You is Dr. Maxwells first and most enduring leadership book, having sold more than one million copies. In this Christian Leaders Series edition of this Maxwell classic, you will discover the biblical foundation for leadership that John Maxwell has used as a pastor and business leader for more than forty years. These same principles and practices are available for everyday leaders in every walk of life. It is a lofty calling to lead a groupa family, a church, a nonprofi t, a businessand the timeless principles in this book will bring positive change in your life and in the lives of those around you.
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Boy time flies by! I was supposed to have had a couple of postings up by now! This year's been a frantic one so far, having already been to France, America and the Canary Islands, and it's still only March! After a 10-year absence I finally got to go back to Angoulême, Europe's largest comics festival, in January. It was interesting to see how little had changed in the town, and felt at home straight away. Crowds were slow on the first day thanks to a national strike stopping all the trains, but things picked up as we moved into the weekend. I was there to promote the launch of Erotic Comics Volume 1 in French, published by Tabou Editions. My publisher, Thierry, was a nervous—but congenial—host as he had never exhibited at the show before and was concerned what the reaction would be.
Erotic BD creator Xavier Duvet (left) and Tabou publisher Thierry Plee (right)
He needn't have worried, as the books sold well enough for him to return next year. The stand had a whole host of erotic comic creators including Frenchmen Xavier Duvet and the completely insane NevraX, Italian artist Giuseppe Manuta and Spaniard, Atilio Gambedotti. Best of all I got to meet one of my favourite artists, the master of bondage comics, Franco Saudelli.
Thierry gave all the artists a copy of Erotic Comics as a thank you present for all the hard signing, and Franco signed a copy of his latest edition of The Blonde for me, which was nice.
Caught up with lots of old comic-related friends and made lots of new ones. Had a lovely lunch with French creator Tanitoc (who I hadn't seen for nearly 10 years, and he has a new book—all about John Wilkes Booth—due soon from First Second); fellow comics historians Paul Gravett and Jean-Paul Jennequin; Lost Girls artist Melinda Gebbie and artist, colourist and general "man about town", Jose Villarrubia.
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Of the UK gang who were over it was great, as always, to catch-up with Sean Phillips, Charlie Adlard, Eisner winner Nick Abadzis, Yishan Li and John and Patrice Aggs. Plus, Simon Fraser was over from New York and I hadn't seen him in a donkey's age (however long that is). Also got to meet a lot of interesting comics scholars such as my old pal Fredrik Strömberg (who's writing a fantastic book on Comic Art Propaganda coming soon from Ilex), Harry Morgan, Matteo Stefanelli, Jim Wheelock and the charming Peter Maresca of Sunday Press (who I caught up with later in New York). Lovely, knowledgeable chaps all.
Bryan Talbot (middle) talks me (left) and Sue (right) though his latest book, Grandville, while some nice Scandinavians look on! (Photo: Fredrik Strömberg)
Bryan Talbot was showing his latest book, Grandville, which is a action-packed, not-so-funny-animal/steampunk thriller. That's being slightly disingenuous to it, but it is beautiful and packed full of hidden jokes and some of the worst/best puns I've ever read! Should be out this October from Jonathan Cape. I should be posting a review here shortly.
Popped into the awards ceremony for just enough time to see Bridgette Fontaine perform the opening act, and to see legendary mangaka Hiroshi Harata tell an amusing anecdote in Japanese, which was then translated into French (I don't speak either language) and everyone (except me) laughed. The hosts, Depuy and Berbian co-presented the awards and there was a moving eulogy to Claude Moliterni, who died this year. Moliterni was one of the trio who helped set up Angouleme 35 years ago and the tribute to him by his remaining co-founders Francis Groux and Jean Mardikian was very moving (even with my meagre French).
Laff-riot gagster and wacky prankster Chris Ware yuks it up for the crowds in Angouleme.
Over all it was a great time and I'd forgotten how lovely the festival and the town are. I look forward to going back next year to promote Erotic Comics: Volume 2!
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text: Darrin invited his Nana to go along to the county fair with him and easy child. We headed out after lunch. It was already 86 degrees outside and HIGH humidity. Darrin, being your typical 4 yr old, is super duper excited. He's only been waiting for the fair to come all summer long. We have a festival earlier in the year, but ours has become so pathetic that easy child wouldn't take him, told him they were waiting for Fair Week. Of course, being a county fair we had to park out in the middle of no man's land. easy child and I are dreading the walk to the fair proper. Sun is scorching, air so thick you can almost breathe. Next thing we know a tractor pulls up with a long trailor asking if we'd like a ride. I thought Darrin would pop at the seams. He has the exact same tractor and trailor set up at my house in toy form, I gave it to him for xmas. lol Cost a small fortune to get in. Sooooo we procede to the rides. One nice thing about our fair is you pay for a 5 dollar ticket for rides per person and you can ride as much as you want. Don't ask the admission fee though, I think you'd have a heart attack. Darrin of course hit the motorcycle/car ride first, then the teacup ride (which Nana couldn't resist showing him how to spin lol), the elephant ride, the enormous slide.........On to cotton candy........water please, Mommy, no pop...........back to teacup ride (Mommy this time), slide, found some shade before we passed out............inside to view the model trains and get easy child's address changed so she can vote.......On to play the carnival games.......(kids always win at ours) ............He played the ducky game first. Darrin thought you had to match them like his duck game at home we had a hard time convincing him to just pick one........But Nana, that's not the rules ........So he won at the duckie game and at toddler fishing. And then he declares he's hot and tired and please could we go home and come back later. This evening he'll be going back with his parents for more rides, games, and the demolition derby. In the morning he decided we're taking Aubrey with us to ride the rides and see the animals. Nichole can stay home if she doesn't want to go. Ought to be even more interesting tomorrow with the dynamic duo together. But it sure was fun this afternoon. Oh........and on the way out Darrin kept explaining to easy child that we had to wait for the tractor to take us to the car. Right in the middle of easy child attempting (and failing) to explain that there wouldn't be one, a lady stops with a golf cart and asks if we'd like a ride to the car. See?? I told you Mommy! Tractor rides/golf cart rides are being provided by local area clubs due to the heat.


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The Rocketeer is the 1980s Dave Stevens eight issue comic book that was turned into the 1991 Walt Disney movie. The premise should be well-known at this point: a late 1930s stunt pilot stumbles upon a prototype jetpack. Hijinks ensue. This is, of course, not to be confused with racketeering, which is another thing entirely. But we know that racketeering is illegal. Is "rocketeering"?
It turns out that the plot of the comic book and the movie diverge widely, so this time we're going to be talking about the comic book. Specifically, we're going to take a look at two issues, one of which we've touched on before: air traffic control and receiving stolen property.
I. Air Traffic Control
Perhaps the most obvious legal issue here is the fact that the Rocketeer is using an experimental flying machine, and flying machines of all sorts are subject to the regulative authority of the Federal Aviation Administration. We talked about this issue in a two post series back in December 2010. In that post we had a discussion about whether something like a jet pack would be considered an "experimental" device and thus subject to lighter regulation. In this case, we can categorically say that the Rocketeer's jet pack would not fall into this FAA category. Why? Because the FAA didn't exist until 1958.
This is not to say that there was no federal regulation of US airspace before then. The Air Commerce Act (May 20, 1926, ch. 344, 44 Stat. 568) was enacted over a decade before the events in the story, set in 1938. The ACA of 1926 empowered the Department of Commerce to regulate US airspace and air transportation generally, but it took quite a few decades before our current system would emerge. Indeed, air traffic control didn't even exist as late as the mid 1930s, and when the Bureau of Air Commerce—the renamed Aeronautics Branch, still part of Commerce—took over air traffic control operations in 1936, there were only three ATC operations in the country, presumably near major airports. Remember, radar was still in the process of being invented. The Civil Aeronautics Act was passed in 1938—the year of the story—which further increased the government's regulatory authority. But the full panoply of FAA regulations would not really come about for decades. So while the Rocketeer might have been violating a few aviation regulations, one gets the impression that the aviation regulatory regime was still in its infancy, and there was a lot of unregulated activity going on. As an exhaustive accounting of the state of such regulation in the late 1930s is more the subject for a scholarly article than a blog post, we'll leave it at that.
II. Receiving Stolen Property
The other issue is the legal status of Secord's possession of the jet pack. The question is whether there could be any additional offenses beyond the old common law receiving stolen property, which the story recognizes as being applicable. Here we run into some of the same issues as with aviation regulations: the law in 1938 was significantly different, and less extensive, than it is today. What is currently the foundation of federal criminal law and procedure, Pub. L. No. 80-775, 62 Stat. 683 was only passed in 1948. Legal research websites are very careful to show only the latest, amended versions of laws currently in force, so laying hands on a copy of the US Code current through 1938 is kind of difficult. Luckily, we don't have to go quite that far.
It's fairly safe to assume that some version of 18 U.S.C. § 641, which criminalizes receiving stolen property belonging to the federal government, existed in 1938. But 18 U.S.C. § 793 on "gathering, transmitting, or losing defense information"? Which makes it a crime to be in the unauthorized possession of any "instrument" "relating to the national defense" and "willfully retains it"? Turns out that that is merely a recodification of a provision which is part of the Espionage Act of 1917, Pub.L. 65-24, 40 Stat. 217. So because Secord knows that the jet pack "relates to national defense," knows he isn't supposed to have it, and doesn't surrender it to government officials—either on his own or when asked—he's in violation of the Espionage Act. That's good for a $10,000 fine and two years in the federal pen. And since the two crimes each have an element lacking in the other, neither is a "lesser included offense," which means Secord could do the full time for both offenses. Now we're talking a $10,000 fine, plus the value of the jet pack (which may be a lot higher than that), plus three years in prison.
And that's just for those two. A US Attorney in the late 1930s would undoubtedly have been able to come up with a few more, just for good measure, to say nothing of whatever state laws Secord may have broken.
III. Conclusion
So the most significant legal issue in the Rocketeer isn't actually one of substantive law, but of legal research: it's very, very important to know when something occurred, because the law changes, and usually not retroactively. Sometimes a little, e.g., many of the same criminal offenses in play today were present in some form in 1938. Sometimes a lot, e.g., even the precursors to modern FAA regulations didn't exist in 1925. Sometimes this change is slow, e.g., the espionage offense discussed here uses the same language as was in force in 1917, and sometimes rapidly, e.g., an entirely new area of federal regulation springing into existence overnight in 1926. But a lawyer—or citizen!—that assumes that they know what the law is because they know what the law was may be in for a nasty surprise.
That's about it for the comic book of The Rocketeer. We'll be back for the movie in a bit!