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Ingemar Cressey from Cresseyssurfacademy.com enjoying Abs) Thank you mate Ingemar
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harveywallbanger Feb 14, 2010 Rating: 0
As it's breaking on the tip of the last ones whitewater I'd say it's prob a set but not the biggest of the day. Around 5 foot but 6 on the biggest sets.
avanlocal Feb 13, 2010 Rating: 0
soooooooo many gay comments its unreal. hands down one of the best shots taken at the av. 3 - 4 foot ????? grow up!!!!!!!!!
moonyface Feb 13, 2010 Rating: 0
lets just call it overhead
rockinnonstoppin Feb 12, 2010 Rating: 2
you lot are Aberavon a larf
Kaptain Kook Feb 12, 2010 Rating: -2
Should have gone right.
CaptainGoodVibes-SuperPig Feb 12, 2010 Rating: 0
Yo boy. Nice one there the boys. I hope he made the most of that shoulder. He`s crouched low and that makes it look bigger. Modern groms would call it 5 to 7 feet. It`s a good 6 in the peak but who gives a fekk about what size we call it if we weren`t there?
creature Feb 12, 2010 Rating: 1
creature has never yet seen one surf the back of a wave.....creature has tried surfing the back of a wave but never finds as much satisfaction as surfing the front..
CaptainGoodVibes-SuperPig Feb 12, 2010 Rating: -1
I think the bogsquatBoy was surfin the wave`s back.
Barry bog squat Feb 11, 2010 Rating: 0
6-8 foot???? your avin a larrrrrf!! Either way you look at it, it's 4 foot.
Francois Bouwer Mar 21, 2010 Rating: 1
4ft my arse, it's 6ft at least, maby 6.5ft, but 8 is pushing it.
Tex Feb 11, 2010 Rating: 0
youre being generous, reckon its more likely pushing 3 1/2 if we're honest...
boona Feb 11, 2010 Rating: 0
Looks like some kind of wedge - its head and half in the pit - head high on the shoulder
Cresseyssurfacademy.com Feb 11, 2010 Rating: 2
Hey , that's me on that wave , my friend George took some extra ones ,they should be up soon ,was like only 3 of us out all day ,I am from South Africa and live here in Wales now , but as a South African i would say thats probably about 5 feet , i know you measure differently here, you like big ones , check the ones of me in Madeira on my profile , my wife took em
moonyface Feb 11, 2010 Rating: 2
measure your willys to solve this debate
moonyface Feb 13, 2010 Rating: -1
Wreck suits mine just like my teeth
the vanity project Feb 12, 2010 Rating: 0
Good system Moony. Compared to my mighty winky, this wave is definitely bigger (I measured from both the back and front to be sure)…….the vanity project is unhappy to report that this wave also appears to be a good deal cleaner too…..and as valentines day is looming and I don't have a date, I may also have to add the "unridden†tag. While I'm at it, after some objective surveying of the old chap, "comedy†and "abstract†seem to fit the bill too.
Surf seeker Feb 11, 2010 Rating: 1
4 foot my ass rest bay was 6to 8 this is easily the same ;)great shot
soutie Feb 11, 2010 Rating: 3
i'd say 8 if i surfed it, 6 to 8 looking at it here.
Barry bog squat Feb 11, 2010 Rating: -4
Nice wave but it's definitley only 4 foot my friend.
swwl Feb 11, 2010 Rating: 4
because barry took off late of the wave of the day air dropped to flats and was unlucky to bog in then the lip crashed onto his head.... just ... and barry is 4ft tall! on Holiday in Hawaii he is two foot tall and sometimes cant reach up to mail his postcards home....
nelch Feb 11, 2010 Rating: 2
how is that 4 ft? he's easily 2 ft kneeling
Barry bog squat Feb 10, 2010 Rating: -2
Nice shot but you're getting a bit excited there boys....it's only 4 foot and you're making out it's macking Mavericks!
nelch Feb 10, 2010 Rating: -1
fair bit bigger than 4 ft consistently on this day. and i hate to open up a can of euphoniums here, but size isn't everything, was a quality day, even if i only managed to get out once...
coastroad Feb 10, 2010 Rating: -1
There's some top quality stuff from the UK on here lately.
Andy James Feb 9, 2010 Rating: 1
Great shot,great angle its a 5 from me!!!!
jf_photography Feb 9, 2010 Rating: 1
shit the bed!! thats a sizey abo! bet he took a beating
Spongerdudette Feb 11, 2010 Rating: -1
nelch Feb 10, 2010 Rating: 1
yeah, but aberavon girls don't mind to be honest...
swwl Feb 10, 2010 Rating: -1
get the impression he's quick to run also!
Spongerdudette Feb 10, 2010 Rating: -1
Hahahaha swwl, she would run so fast you would barely be able to see her.
swwl Feb 10, 2010 Rating: 2
Haha like it although i hope you have never scored a hot hot women and reacted the same way when her kit came off?
Chris88 Feb 8, 2010 Rating: -1
This is awesome. Really shows how big it was...good shot. Do you have any other photos from between 11.30 and 1.30ish?


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For what its worth, I like
Superman III
. No, it isn't a good movie, but it suffers from the goofy comedy bits that really don't work that well. The plot is kinda neat and I really like the "evil Superman". Also, the junkyard fight is fantastic. I guess the film is just a lot of lost potential.
Superman IV
, on the other hand, is terrible all around. Its like they were not even trying. I'm surprised people like it better than
. If
Superman IV
did anything good, it was that it led to Margot Kidder's hilarious interview on Letterman where she subtly badmouthed the film.
Superman IV had crappy effects, and a silly plot overall. It makes me wonder though, Superman I and II had IMO effects that compare well even today. The junkyard fight was good, but it made me laugh both Clark Kent and evil Superman thought any of the things they used to hurt each other actually would. The only thing would be Kryptonite, but even then that is harmful to both of them.
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A nasal mask includes a shell forming a chamber having an inlet and at least one outlet and a seal. The seal is disposed proximate the outlet for contacting and sealing with external skin proximate at least one naris at a base of a nose of a user donning the mask. Substantially all of the sealing occurs between the seal and the external skin.
1. A seal for use with a nasal mask, the seal comprising a bladder filled with a molded material in a predetermined configuration, the material having a durometer value less than about ten on a Shore OOO scale, wherein the seal is configured to seal against external skin proximate at least one naris at a base of a nose of a user.
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The present invention relates to respiratory apparatus and more specifically to a nasal mask useful for providing pressurized air or therapeutic gas to a patient suffering from an airflow limitation or other respiratory ailment.
Patients suffering from a variety of medical conditions often require supplementary respiratory support. Depending on the nature and severity of the condition, this respiratory support can range from providing an elevated oxygen concentration cloud to the vicinity of the nose and mouth, to forcing ventilation of the lungs by intubating the trachea. In general, a supply of pressurized air or therapeutic gas is provided by a tube or conduit to a delivery apparatus designed to conform to particular body structure.
One style of delivery apparatus is a mask which provides the gas to a nasal area of the patient. Nasal masks are often employed in the treatment of sleep apnea syndrome, characterized by intermittent upper airway obstruction during sleep. Due to the resulting blood oxygen desaturation and frequent arousals from sleep, persons suffering from this condition are often unable to achieve deep sleep for extended periods, are chronically tired, and are physically compromised.
Because nasal masks are often worn by persons in unmonitored environments for extended periods, such as in the home during sleep, the nasal mask should be comfortable to wear and conform well to the nasal area. If the mask is deemed too bulky, too heavy, or to fit poorly, the patient will either not wear the mask, wear the mask improperly, or only wear the mask occasionally when the discomfort associated with the respiratory condition exceeds the discomfort of wearing the mask.
One problem associated with nasal masks relates to the conformance of the mask to the nasal area, which is complexly contoured and differs from patient to patient. Customized masks manufactured to suit particular patients tend to be costly; therefore, masks for general use are typically made in several generic sizes, each size designed to accommodate a range of patients. If the mask does not form a good seal around the patient's nose, leakage can occur, reducing the effectiveness of the treatment. When poorly fitting masks are used with variably regulated air supply systems responsive to patient breathing, such as those developed for treating sleep apnea, mask leakage can induce improper system response which may exacerbate the patient's condition. Regulated air supply systems and delivery apparatus for treatment of sleep apnea are disclosed in Patent Cooperation Treaty international application number PCT/US93/05095, published on Dec. 9, 1993, as international publication number WO 93/24169; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/184,976 filed Jan. 24, 1994; U.S. Pat. No. 5,199,424; U.S. Pat. No. 5,245,995; U.S. Pat. No. 5,522,382; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/741,524 filed Oct. 31, 1996; U.S. Pat. No. 5,645,054; and U.S. Des. Pat. No. D398,987, the disclosures of all of which are herein incorporated by reference.
One method of reducing leakage is to provide a compliant sealing flange or surface around a perimeter of the mask in combination with a strap to bias the mask into sealing engagement with the nasal contour of the patient. Typically, the greater the retention force applied by the strap, the better the seal; however, both the strap and the mask can cause excessive pressure on delicate areas, resulting in irritation and patient discomfort.
The retention force required to prevent leakage is also a function of forces and torques induced in the mask. For example, the weight of the conduit supplying air or gas to the mask tends to pull the mask downward, away from the patient's nasal area, when the patient is sitting. Additionally, any movement of the head from side-to-side or up and down can cause lifting of an edge or sliding of the mask and strap. The more rapid the movement, the more pronounced the effect. Mask slippage and displacement are exacerbated in masks employing large diameter, heavy, or stiff tubes which deliver relatively large volumetric flow rates of air, such as those employed in sleep apnea treatment systems.
For nasal masks used by patients when sleeping, the strap and seal arrangement should also accommodate unconscious or reflexive head and body movements. The discomfort associated with masks which apply too much pressure to the head, neck, or nasal area discourage use of the mask during sleep when it is most needed. As a result, treatment is compromised and the patient is ill served by the apparatus.
Accordingly, there exists a need to overcome the limitations of known designs by providing an improved nasal mask which provides a consistent, reliable nasal area seal while being comfortable to wear. Other desirable features would include ease of manufacture and low cost.
Devices of the present invention allow for comfortable delivery of a breathable gas to a user. More particularly, devices of the invention seal with the external skin surrounding the nares at the base of the nose and/or along the inner rim of the nares of a user. The seal is both comfortable for the patient and reliable. Both the softness of a gel seal according to the invention and the design of devices according to the invention which invite minimal contact between the user's epidermal areas and the device, combine to create this comfortable and reliable seal about the user's nares.
In one aspect of the invention a nasal mask includes a shell and a first seal. The shell forms a chamber having an inlet and at least one outlet. The first seal is disposed proximate the outlet for contacting and sealing with external skin proximate at least one naris at a base of a nose of a user donning the mask. Substantially all of the sealing occurs between the seal and the external skin.
Certain embodiments of this aspect of the invention may include any or all of the following features. A nasal mask can include both a second seal and a second outlet. The first seal can be integral with the second seal. The nasal mask also can include a malleable element disposed within the shell. Additionally, a seal of a nasal mask can include a bladder. The bladder can be filled with silicone gel, molded in a predetermined configuration, and/or bonded to the shell.
A conduit can be attached to the inlet of a nasal mask. The conduit can include an angled portion, a rotary connection, and/or a ball and socket connection. Additionally, the conduit can have a side wall defining a lumen within the side wall. The side wall can contain at least one opening in communication with the lumen.
A headgear apparatus can be attached to the mask for retaining the mask on a user. A retainer can be disposed about the inlet and cooperate with the headgear apparatus to retain the mask on a user. One or more connectors can attach the headgear apparatus to the mask. One or more of the connectors can attach to the retainer.
Another aspect of the invention includes a system for treating a respiratory ailment in a recumbent or sleeping user. The system includes a nasal mask as described above connected to a controlled, breathable gas source with a conduit. The nasal mask may include any of the features described above.
Another aspect of the invention comprises a seal for use with a nasal mask including a bladder filled with a molded material in a predetermined configuration. The material has a durometer value less than about ten on a Shore OOO scale. The seal is configured typically with a slight crown to seal against external skin proximate at least one naris at a base of a nose of a user. The material can be silicone.
The bladder can have at least one protrusion on a side thereof for contacting the external skin proximate at least one naris at a base of a nose of a user and/or can be substantially planar on a side thereof for contacting a shell of the nasal mask. The seal can have a thickness and can form at least one aperture therethrough disposable proximate a naris. A thickness of the bladder proximate the aperture can be less than a thickness of the seal remote therefrom.
The invention, in accordance with preferred and exemplary embodiments, together with further advantages thereof, is more particularly described in the following detailed description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
In the drawings, like reference characters generally refer to the same parts throughout the different views. Also, the drawings are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead generally being placed upon illustrating principles of the invention.
The present invention provides a comfortable, reliably sealing nasal mask for delivering a breathable gas to a user. In particular a seal bonded to a shell of the nasal mask is particularly soft. This seal rests comfortably on the external skin surrounding the nares at the base of the nose and/or along the inner rim of the nares of a user.
The design of nasal masks according to this invention provides solutions to several common problems with current designs. First, the nasal mask's contact with the user's face is minimal compared with current masks. Second, the seal distributes contact pressure, unlike many current masks. Third, the design allows the user to comfortably lie in almost any position. Fourth, the design provides a comfortable fit and a reliable seal for a wide range of the population compared with many current masks which either must be stocked in multiple sizes or simply do not properly fit on users with faces of a certain shape.
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The upper shell 6 is contoured such that two outlets 34, 36 protrude from it symmetrically along its mid-line. The malleable element 4 has holes in it that correspond to and are disposed around the outlets 34, 36 in the upper shell 6. The lower portion of a shell 8 is affixed to the upper portion of the shell 6. The two portions of the shell, for example, but without limitation, can be heated and welded together, welded together with a solvent and/or bonded together with a bonding agent. The shell portions 6, 8 typically, are manufactured from a flexible material, for example, but without limitation, by a molding process using a compliant polymer. Each of the two portions of the shell, for example, but without limitation, can be manufactured from a thermopolymer elastomer. A flange 42 seats the upper shell 6 securely on the lower shell 8 and allows for a larger surface area for affixing the upper shell 6 to the lower shell 8. The combination of the upper and lower shells 6, 8 produces a chamber 30. When in communication with a source of breathable gas, this chamber 30 contains the breathable gas. The gas in the chamber 30 is available to the user donning the nasal mask, and the gas, typically, is pressurized such that the gas is forced into the user's airway, holding open the airway. The chamber 30 is substantially leakage-free due to the bond between the seal 2 and the upper shell 6 (or other attachment methods) and the compliance of the seal 2 against a user's skin
The malleable element 4 is a double ring of a soft metal. Alternatively, the malleable element 4 can be constructed from any material that is formable and is capable of retaining the shape into which it is formed against the force of, for example, the flexible shell portions 6, 8 trying to regain their memory shape. The combination of the compliant and resilient shell portions 6, 8 and the malleable element 4 with sufficient rigidity to hold the shell portions 6, 8 in a selected configuration produces a "custom-fit" as desired by a particular user. Because the shell portions 6, 8 are resilient, the shell portions 6, 8 can be reformed any number of times as desired by a particular user. Typically, a user will adjust the fit of nasal mask 1 by bending the nasal mask 1 along its mid-line and the mid-line of the malleable element 4 contained within the nasal mask 1 into a "V" shape, as shown for example, in
The nasal mask 1 includes an inlet 32 into which a swivel connector 12 fits. The swivel connector 12 has a slightly concave shape on the end that fits into the inlet 32. A conduit elbow 14 fits onto the swivel connector 12 over a flange 28 on the swivel connector 12. The connection between the inlet 32 and the swivel connector 12 and/or the connection between the swivel connector 12 and the conduit elbow 14 can be a permanent and inseparable connection or the connection can be a selectively removable connection. The swivel connector 12 produces a swivel mount connection between the conduit elbow 14 and the inlet 32. In this type of connection, the conduit elbow 14 is capable of being rotated 360 degrees about an axis extending through the center of the inlet 32. In an alternative embodiment, the connection is characterized by a ball and socket connection. In this alternative type of connection, the conduit elbow has a second angular degree of freedom in addition to the single rotational degree of freedom of the swivel mount connection. The conduit elbow 14 may be manufactured from, for example, but without limitation to, polycarbonate. The swivel connector 12 also can be manufactured from, for example, but without limitation, polypropylene.
The conduit elbow 14 is shown with an angled portion of about ninety degrees, as well as apertures 20 as seen in
In addition, a retainer 10 is disposed about the inlet 32. Two tabs 22, 22′ included on the inlet 32 mate with two slots 24, 26, respectively, and hold the retainer 10 in a particular angular orientation. The retainer 10 has four connection points, two lower connection points 18, 18′ and two upper connection points 16, 16′. Typically, the tabs 22, 22′ hold the retainer 10 in an orientation such that the upper connection points 16, 16′ are above the lower connection points 18, 18′. These connection points 16, 16′, 18, 18′ allow for connection between the retainer 10 and a headgear apparatus. The retainer 10 can be constructed from, for example, but without limitation, a polycarbonate. Alternative embodiments may have a different number of connection points and/or may have a mechanically different method of fastening a headgear apparatus to a nasal mask. Fastening devices such as, but without limitation, snaps, hook and eye closures, hook and loop fasteners, or the like, may be used.
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The headgear apparatus 48 is connected to the retainer 10. Specifically, the headgear apparatus 48 includes two upper retention straps 44, only one upper retention strap is shown, the other being hidden from view, and two lower retention straps 46, only one lower retention strap is shown, the other being hidden from view, each of which is attached to a corresponding one of two upper connection points 16, 16′, only one upper connection point 16 is shown, the other 16′ being hidden from view, or two lower connection points 18, 18′ only one lower connection point 18 is shown, the other 18′ being hidden from view, respectively. The connection points 16, 16′, 18, 18′ are a unitary part of the retainer 10. Modes of construction other than unitary construction will be appreciated by those skilled in the art.
This four point restraining system allows for the nasal mask 1 to be securely positioned against the nares of a user. The lower connection points 18, 18′, in concert with the lower retention straps 46, generally maintain the nasal mask 1 against a user's face. The seal 2 rests against the external skin at the base of a user's nose and/or along the rim of the nares (the "naric area"). The upper connection points 16, 16′ in concert with the upper retention straps 44 provide additional retention force on the upper portion of the nasal mask 1, closest to a user's eyes. This additional force retains the nasal mask 1 securely against the external skin surrounding the nares at the base of a user's nose and/or along the rim of a user's nares. The upper retention straps 44 do not block the vision of a user.
In use, a user would loop each of the lower and upper retention straps 44, 46 through each of the lower and upper connection points 16, 16′, 18, 18′, respectively. A hook and loop system can be used to maintain the straps 44, 46 at a desired adjustment. The loops are located along the majority of the straps 44, 46 but not at a distal tip portion of the straps 44, 46. Hooks are located on the distal tip portion such that when the distal tip of a strap is passed through a connector, the strap folds over on itself and the hooks engage the loops. Alternatively, the correct length of a strap can be adjusted and a snap on the distal tip can engage with a clip along the strap. Thus, a user only has to adjust a strap once rather than adjusting the straps each time a user dons the nasal mask.
The properly adjusted retention straps 44, 46 of the headgear apparatus 48 secure proper contact between the seal 2 and the naric area. The additional force provided by the upper connection points 16, 16′ and the upper retention straps 44 ensures that the nasal mask 1 rests securely against a user's naric area during a wide range of sleeping behaviors such as entering and maintaining a preferred sleeping position or performing involuntary movements during sleep.
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As stated hereinabove, according to one embodiment, the seal fill material has a durometer value of less than about ten on the Shore or Type OOO scale. Such low durometer values on this scale can be measured using apparatus and test methodology generally in accordance with Type A, B, C, D, DO, O, OO durometer test method of American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Designation D 2240-97ε1: Standard Test Method for Rubber Property—Durometer Hardness, approved Feb. 10, 1997, and revised editorially in February 1999. As is known by those skilled in the art of testing the durometer of ultrasoft gels and sponge rubber on the Shore OOO scale, a 0.5 inch hemispherical end indentor shape is used in combination with a 113 gram-force main spring.
According to this test method, the procedure for obtaining measurements of a specimen's durometer is stated as follows:
When the durometer measurement is made as stated, while maintaining sufficient pressure to maintain contact, but without permitting the presser foot of the measuring apparatus to compress the silicone gel specimen, thereby forcing a portion of the specimen into the aperture formed about the indentor and binding the indentor, reliable, repeatable readings on the Shore OOO scale can be recorded.
Furthermore, the aforementioned test method states:
Although readings below 10 on the Shore scale are not considered reliable by ASTM, the Shore OOO scale is the lowest scale for durometer by Shore readings. In effect, the aforementioned seal fill material is too soft for measurement by ASTM approved Shore durometer test methods. However, a reference of below ten on the Shore OOO scale measured as described hereinabove is Applicant's preferred method for characterization of the seal softness in accordance with the invention. Further, this methodology is generally known by those skilled in the art and represents industry accepted measurement standards.
The bladder itself, typically, is made from a thermopolymer material. The bladder can be formed from, for example, but not limited to, a urethane film or a polyurethane film. Urethane films are commercially available, for example, from Deerfield Urethane, Inc., Deerfield, Mass., and polyurethane films are commercially available, for example, from Elf Atochem S.A. Paris, France. The film forming the bladder can be thicker in some portions relative to other portions. For example,
Now referring to
The seal 2 is about 0.225 inches thick, not including the area in which the two domes 38, 40 are located, and the seal 2 has a substantially planar side, typically the side that contacts the upper shell 6. The domes 38, 40 protrude about 0.225 inches above the surface of the seal 2. The seal 2 has a generally oval shape with two rounded portions 56, 58 on either side of the seal 2. The seal 2 also has an area 78 where the shape is concave instead of a smooth, convex arc. This concave area 78 can better accommodate the contours of the face of a user between the upper lip and the base of the nose. This slightly concave portion is reflected in other components of certain embodiments. For example, referring to
Now referring to
The retainer 210 is disposed about the inlet 232 to facilitate retention of the mask 201 on a user. Two tabs 222, 222′ included on the inlet 232 mate with two slots 226, 224 formed in the retainer 210 in a particular angular orientation. The retainer 210 has three connection points disposed remotely from the inlet 232, two lower connection points 218, 218′ and one upper connection point 216. The nasal mask 201 is substantially symmetrical, as best seen in
The connection points 216, 218, 218′ form slots which allow for connection of the retainer 210 with straps of a headgear apparatus below. A three point restraining system permits the nasal mask 201 to be securely and gently biased against the nares of a user. The lower connection points 218, 218′ in concert with retention straps, generally maintain the nasal mask 201 against a user's face. The seal 202 rests against the external skin at the base of a user's nose and/or along the rim of the nares (the "naric area"). The upper connection point 216 in concert with an upper retention strap provides additional retention force on the upper portion of the nasal mask 201, closest to a user's eyes. This additional force retains the nasal mask 201 securely against the external skin surrounding the nares at the base of a user's nose and/or along the rim of a user's nares. The upper retention strap passes slidably through the upper connection point 216, best seen in
In use, a user loops each of the lower retention straps through respective slots in each of the lower connection points 218, 218′. A hook and loop fastener system can be used to maintain the straps at a desired adjustment. The loops may be located along the majority of the lengths of the straps to provide a wide range of adjustment, with the hooks being located on the distal tip portions of the straps, such that when the distal tip of a strap is passed through a slot in a connector, the strap folds over on itself and the hooks engage the loops. Once the straps are adjusted, a user can slip the pre-formed loop into and out of the lower connection points 218, 218′ at a notch that is cut into an edge of each of the lower connections points 218, 218′. The notch typically is removed from a portion of the lower connection points 218, 218′ towards the centerline of the nasal mask 201 (line B—B in
Variations, modifications, and other implementations of what is described herein will occur to those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit and the scope of the invention as claimed. Accordingly, the invention is to be defined not by the preceding illustrative description, but instead by the spirit and scope of the following claims.
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I have a library that can be compiled as a shared library (or DLL in Windows). It has a class that is derived from another class in another library. The base class has some virtual methods and my class overrides a few of them. For example:
class Base {
virtual void method1();
virtual void method2();
virtual void method3();
class Derived: public Base {
virtual void method2();
Now I figured out that one of the virtual methods doesn't quite work for my class. Currently it doesn't override this method, so I want to override it too to fix its behavior:
class Derived: public Base {
virtual void method2();
virtual void method3();
Will this break binary compatibility with older versions of my library?
As far as I understand it, it is different from just adding virtual functions, as the number and the order of virtual methods in the vtable stays the same. The only difference is that a particular entry in the vtable for my class will now contain a different value. Is this correct?
I'm also quite sure that none of the applications currently using my library use that method, since it is completely broken and never works. So I'm not worrying about breaking existing calls to the base method implementation. I just want to make sure that I won't break anything else.


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Choice Proof 1914 Indian Quarter Eagle1914 $2 1/2 PR64 NGC. After the final-year 1915, the 1914 boasts the lowest mintage (117 pieces) among proof Quarter Eagles of the Indian type. All were struck with a coarse, sandblast finish (per Breen, 1988), and the typical color is well represented by this olive-gold specimen. This coin is devoid of bothersome incompleteness of strike, and the surfaces are also remarkably abrasion-free even for the PR64 level of preservation. In fact, the outward appearance is suggestive of a Gem designation, although close inspection under a loupe reveals a few miniscule planchet flaws (as struck) in the left obverse field. Nevertheless, this is an attractive representative of an issue with an extant population of perhaps only 60-70 pieces. (NGC ID# 289N, PCGS# 7963)
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Archive: April, 2012
Hey, remember the Far Side cartoon about the boneless chicken ranch? That was really funny. You know what's not so funny? Eyeless crabs:
Gulf of Mexico fishermen, scientists and seafood processors have told Al Jazeera they are finding disturbing numbers of mutated shrimp, crab and fish that they believe are deformed by chemicals released during BP's 2010 oil disaster.
Can't decide if this is a real photo or if Vincent Van Gogh was sketching the Flyers' game yesterday -- very impressionistic. Plus, in the spirit of VVG, I'm also surprised that no one's ear was sliced off.
I'm off to New York City for the next day and a half to attend -- some of you may find this kind of funny -- a symposium on thje future of journalism, led by the Columbia Journalism School and reform gurus like Clay Shirky. I hope to convince them that the future lies in blog posts about penguins and in posting pictures of Tom Corbett in a cowboy hat.
Apparently every penguin is a cheap shot artist these days:
ST. LOUIS — At least one penguin at the St. Louis Zoo appears to be a feisty opponent of Newt Gingrich.
Last week, two well-known figures in the conservative media world -- Roger Ailes, who made the Fox News Channel what it is today, and bow-tied jack-of-all-right-wing-reporting trades Tucker Carlson -- both gave speeches to young journalists on the state of the profession. Although they took place one day and a couple of hundred miles apart, the common message to young people thinking about becoming journalists was strikingly similar. Don't learn too much, and it might be best if you stay away altogether. Especially if you want to make the world a better place.
Carlson, who now runs the occasionally outrageous (not always intentionally) website The Daily Caller after he was bounced from various cable shows, went first, addressing aspiring journalists at the Cato Institute think tank in Washington, D.C. The graduate of Trinity College in Hartford told the future scribes that going to college is an expensive sinkhole (news, no doubt, to some of the top scholars who work at Cato) and advised them not to waste time in "some 'government-subsidized college course' or 'underwater basket-weaving for feminists or whatever'they talk about in class."
WASHINGTON -- Poor women who stay at home to raise their children should be given federal assistance for child care so that they can enter the job market and "have the dignity of work," Mitt Romney said in January, undercutting the sense of extreme umbrage he showed when Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen quipped last week that Ann Romney had not "worked a day in her life."
I've been blogging regularly since 2004, and anyone who's ever blogged before knows it's hard to sustain the same level of enthusuasm day in and day out. The reason that compelled you to start doing it in the first place (in my case, the media's shameful failure to challenge Bush's immoral, lie-laden invasion of Iraq) fades, and new causes rise and fall. Sometimes I think about folks who a) blog full-time and b) have been doing for even longer -- like my friend here in Philadelphia, Duncan Black (Atrios), who's marking his 10th anniversary of blogging this month.
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Tina Dupuy: But this is the solution the NRA offers: Too many shootings requires more people armed and able to shoot. The problem AND the cure are basically the same: lots of guns.
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Looks like Willam wasn't the only rulebreaker this season. After last night's episode, everyone's dying to know who won Drag Race, as, for the first time ever, Ru asked the audience to weigh in. And what does the audience say?
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Pierre Bertrand (cardinal)
Pierre Bertrand (1280 – 1348 or 1349) was a French Cardinal, theologian, and canonist.[1]
Pierre Bertrand was born at Annonay in Vivarais. His noble parentage is known to us through the manuscript memoir of Grasset, a Celestine monk of the seventeenth century (Discours généalogique de la noble maison de Bertrand et de leur alliance avec celle de Colombier). The legal profession seems to have been the first aim of his education He successively studied and taught law in the Universities of Avignon, Montpellier, Orléans, and Paris.
Prized as one of the best law-regents of his day, he soon reached high positions in the Parliament of Paris, the King's Council, and the Queen's Chancery. His definite calling lay, however, in another direction, and he became a priest.
His priestly career was no less brilliant than his legal success. We find him in rapid succession Dean of Puy-en-Valais, Bishop of Nevers, Bishop of Autun. In 1331 Pope John XXII made him a cardinal for his many services rendered to the Church. Among these services are to be reckoned several charitable institutions founded at Annonay, and the Collège d'Autun, or Collège Cardinal, established in Paris on behalf of fifteen poor students, five for theology, five for law, and five for the fine arts.
Bertrand's best title to recognition is, however, his defence of the rights of the Church both by word of mouth and also with his pen. Fournier, in his "Officialitiés du moyen-âge" (Paris, 1880), points out, at the beginning of the Valois dynasty, a strong tendency of the State towards curtailing the Church's traditional rights. In 1329 took place the famous Conférence de Vincennes, where Pierre de Cugnieres, speaking for Philippe de Valois, bitterly complained of undue extension of ecclesiastical privileges (e.g., ordaining clerics for the sole purpose of enjoying the privilegium fori; causes des veuves, or widow's causes drawn to ecclesiastical courts; the free use of censures to enforce the Church's privileges; appeals to the Church from the decision of civil courts, etc.).
Pierre Bertrand, then Bishop of Autun, was the principal spokesman of the clergy. He replied in a spirit of conciliation to all charges bearing on minor points, but strongly upheld what he considered the essential rights of the Church. Following on the lines of the Bull Unam Sanctam of Boniface VIII, he summed up his plea in four statements:
- the secular power is from God;
- yet, it is not by itself enough for the government of the people, for which spiritual jurisdiction is also required;
- although nothing prevents the two powers from being in the same hands; # still, whether in the same or different hands, they stand in a certain relation of subordination, the spiritual power being the higher of the two.
His views are to be found in Libellus adversus Petrum de Cugneriis and De origine et usu jurisdictionum published in Paris in 1495 and 1584 respectively, and later inserted in volume XIV of the Magna Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum (Cologne, 1618).
Many other writings of Cardinal Bertrand (apologetical, canonical, pastoral) have not been published and are reported to be in the Vatican Library.
Bertrand died at the Priory of Montaud, near Avignon.
- ^ Pierre Bertrand (cardinal) - Catholic Encyclopedia article
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.


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What Makes A Great Image?
A few editors of National Geographic sat down to talk about a few of their favorite images. What is it that makes an image memorable and interesting? Most everyone said it was something they have never seen before. Some fields of photography don't have to be ground breaking but if you want to take your own images to the next level try to imagine shooting something you have never seen published before. I'm afraid too many photographers get wrapped up in the lighting, gear, location, and very picky details. Before you even pull out your camera, think to yourself, "what have I not seen done before?" Obviously this video applies mainly to naturally occurring events in nature but I think the same principles can be applied to planned shoots. What do you guys think?


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Star Wars: Empire at War - ModLauncherMay 8, 2015 Installer Tool 8 comments
The newest mod launcher for 'Star Wars: Empire at War' and it's Addon 'Forces of Corruption'. Currently the only ModLauncher that works with the STEAM...
Set a few years before the events of Episode IV A New Hope, Empire at War lets players rewrite history as well as experience the aftermath of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, the creation of the Rebel Alliance, and Darth Vader's rise to power.
3 comments by Craftan99 on Nov 4th, 2012
Hello Everyone!
Craftan99 here to bring you the good news.
Chapter II is about to be rendered as soon as we get the Commander Gree voices from my Sound Artist.
Thanks to him you get to hear some awesome sounds, made by him too.
Thanks to every other voice actor who helped us give a wide collection of voices to work with.
The video is about 10-11 minutes long featuring the events after the destruction of the CIS Battlecore.
The newest mod launcher for 'Star Wars: Empire at War' and it's Addon 'Forces of Corruption'. Currently the only ModLauncher that works with the STEAM...
Useful scripts when creating textures for Empire at War/FOC or any other alamo engine in Quixel Suite. Installation instructions inside.
This file contains the Squadron Mod within a .zip. Please refer to the installation guide in our summary page of this mod.
Mods makes some changes to balace. Mainly in Space Battle.
EMPIRE TOTAL WAR 3.0 Known Bug is when you're a pirate and you are attacked in a ground battle,only when you are attacked you must to play this fight...
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Where can I get the Imperial Assault 2 mod?
Imperial Assault 2 was "cancelled" in a way, but parts of it were put into both Republic at War and Thrawn's Revenge.
Imperial assault i dont know but its almost the same as republic at war, you should try it
can someone post a link please to where i can start making my own models for this game? i wanna start modding, and i want to make models, make my own ships as my first step.
you should go to everythingeaw.com (i think thats it, either that or some name close to that) it has some info about those stuff
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I'm having a bit of trouble with a mod (FOC Alliance 4.2). It is a superb mod that is not causing much trouble with anyone - yet whenever I play it, the AI merely sit there without doing anything (Attacking, taking planets, raising military, etc.). Has anyone experienced something like this before? If so, is there a way to fix this problem? Thanks in advance.
go into their forums and ask about it
I am looking for talented guys with a little bit of experience in modding Star Wars Jedi Knight Jedi Academy. I need men to help me complete an epic mod for JA (I'm looking especially for scripters but if you can handle texturing or anything else assigned to modding you're welcome). So if you think you've got the experience and talent and if you are really willing to help PM me as soon as possible. If you think you fit in the lines above or if you know someone else who fits them PM me. I would like you, readers, as well to give this message forward to your friends, or to groups you are in. I'm counting on you guys and I hope that I will be PM-ed soon. Thank you very much for having time to read this.
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Does anyone know of a mod that controls Empire fighter & bomber deployment? I'm sick of loading onto a space battle map where my tie fighters and bombers deploy right away, only to get immediately wiped out by Rebel gunships. It would be nice to have them remain in the launch bays until I click a button to bring them out when I want to...
I believe Fate of the Galaxy on Filefront has that on all imperial ships.
there are some mods that do that
look for then
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The game is a fairly nice game, not too hard in any way. I think its kinda fun controlling your troops rather than playing as one man. It's not a new game, so it doesn't have that good of graphics, but i think you should get it if your into real-time strategy games.
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Manga | The Naruto spinoff Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring, which is running simultaneously in the Japanese and American versions of Shonen Jump, will end in the July 6 issue. [Anime News Network]
Fandom | Rob Salkowitz presents results of a recent survey of convention-goers conducted by the online ticket platform Eventbrite. Interestingly, they found almost complete gender parity (48.9 percent female, 48.7 percent male, and 3.1 percent non-binary/other) among convention-goers in general but much bigger skews in individual categories: "Comics, toys and gaming are predominantly male, while media, anime/manga and sci-fi/fantasy fandom are predominantly female." A typical con-goer spends between $100 an $500, with comics fans being the biggest spenders and prints and original art the most popular thing to buy. There's a lot more detail in the article about what people like and don't like (biggest beef: lack of wi-fi an connectivity in convention centers). The survey updates and expands on a similar survey conducted last year. [ICv2]
Although the book was teased in Drawn & Quarterly's Free Comic Book Day listing, the publisher has now officially announced the September release of Kate Beaton's Step Aside, Pops, the follow-up to her bestselling 2011 collection Hark! A Vagrant.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the 160-page book will combine new material with strips from Beaton's wildly popular webcomic, including her "Broadside Ballads" series. The cartoonist talks briefly with the newspaper about Hark! A Vagrant, its historical and literary influences, and how she settles upon topics.
"Kate's wit is sharper than ever in Step Aside, Pops," acquiring editor Tom Devlin said in a statement. "She's found the perfect way to explore her love of history, while effortlessly deflating the pompous, self-righteous figures of authority we were taught to respect in school. Her restlessness has made her drawings even funnier."
Beaton, who's been producing her webcomic since 2007, has won four Harvey Awards for her work. The 2011 collection of Hark! A Vagrant spent five months on The New York Times graphic books bestsellers list.
Step Aside, Pops will be previewed along with Jillian Tamaki's SuperMutant Magic Academy in Drawn & Quarterly's FCBD offering.
Crime | Artist Josh C. Lyman reports that thieves broke into his car sometime on Monday or Tuesday and stole about 40 pieces of original art (some of it commissioned), 1,200 prints, plus convention setup materials, art supplies and clothes. "I'm more devastated in the fact my originals are all gone … some of my better non-commissioned work of the last 3 years … along with all of my tools I have earned and acquired during the aforementioned periods. Tshirts and the like I can slowly replace … but it's the matter of having all this potential art for shows gone; along with all the posters I had left," he writes. Lyman contacted police and has notified local comic shops to keep an eye out for the missing work, and he has posted images of the stolen art. [Facebook, via Bleeding Cool]
Censorship | Rachael Jolley takes a long and wide view of the pressures that political cartoonists are subject to, looking at several recent attempts to suppress editorial cartoonists as well as the history of tensions between creators of political cartoons and those they portray; the article also includes comments from Neil Gaiman on the topic of censorship. [The New Statesman]
Kate Beaton remains one of the most recognizable names in webcomics. Hark! A Vagrant began as humorous doodles posted to LiveJournal but has since become one of the most-loved webcomics in the world. It's been nominated for several awards, winning the Harvey twice for Best Online Comic. In 2011, Time named Beaton's collection (published by Drawn & Quarterly) one of the Top 10 fiction books of the year.
It's not difficult to see why Beaton's comics are popular: Her style is unmistakable; it's loose and deceptively simple, as if she just had a funny notion only seconds ago, and yet manages to be successfully comedic with its goofiness, bug-eyed faces and rubbery body language. Her love of history helps, too (she has a bachelor's degree in history and anthropology from Mount Allison University). There's a lot of life that goes into both the caricatures of royal dead dudes and the attention to detail on the period costumes. And then Beaton has them act and talk like a bunch of teens. It's a magical formula that combines goofiness with an air of respectability… like, say, a classy Victorian lady smoking a cigarette and talking like an urban tough guy. It's the sort of thing that gets her invited to participate in a diverse array of projects, from Marvel's non-canon superhero anthology Strange Tales to the notoriously sophisticated (and sometimes inscrutable) pages of The New Yorker.
Auctions | A rare copy of The Beano #1 from July 1938 — only about 25 copies are believed to exist — is being auctioned on eBay by Seaford, England, dealer Phil Shrimpton. With just four days remaining, the opening bid of £3,499 (about $5,875 U.S.) has yet to be met. As you can see on the website, the copy certainly isn't in the best shape. The issue, which sold a reported 442,963 copies when it was released, introduced such characters as original cover star Big Eggo the ostrich, Lord Snooty, Wee Peem and Ping the Elastic Man (the racist caricature in the magazine's logo is Little Peanut, who stuck around on the cover until 1947, when he was replaced by Big Eggo). "Every year or so another one seems to emerge – often found in someone's attic," Shrimpton says. "People didn't really look at comics as collector's items until the sixties and seventies, so lots of them got destroyed. Also a lot of the comics were destroyed during the war as people were more conscious about recycling the old issues." [The Argus]
The mission statement for Stripped!, a documentary by Dave Kellett (Sheldon) and Frederick Schroeder, is about forging a common history between webcomics and newspaper funnies. Not comic books, interestingly. I suppose that makes sense, as the most popular webcomics (xkcd, The Oatmeal and Penny Arcade) most closely resemble the four-panel forebears. It's starting to become standard practice, by the way, to refer these sort of webcomics as "gag-a-day" or "short-form."
Still, it's a delight to explore this oft-neglected corner in the world of sequential art. The days of the celebrity cartoonists like Milton Caniff and Al Capp are long past, as depicted in archival footage where they were treated as major celebrities on early TV shows. However, the list of interviewees for Stripped! are still recognizable industry titans: Lynn Johnston. Jeff Smith. Greg Evans. Jim Davis. Mort Walker. Cathy Guisewite, who hilariously has the letters "AACK" hanging in her home. And one name that brings the directors to the point of fanboy glee, Bill Watterson … the first time he's allowed his voice to be recorded. (Charles Schulz may no longer be with us, but his influential presence looms over the entire documentary.) It's wonderful seeing the faces of the creators behind so many iconic characters. They gather here to reminisce, sharing crude doodles drawn as a child, their cherished influences, and the highs and lows of working under the syndicate system.
Welcome to Best of 7, where we talk about "The best in comics from the last seven days" — which could be anything from an exciting piece of news to a cool publisher's announcement to an awesome comic that came out.
This week is pretty packed, as we have news, reviews, a con recap and a whole year's worth of announcements from one publisher. So buckle your seat belts and hold on tight as we aim our DeLorean at the last seven days …
Retailing | Hastings Entertainment, which operates a chain of 149 stores that sells books, comics, video games and more, has announced a $21.4 million agreement to merge with two companies owned by Joel Weinshanker, president and sole shareholder of Wizkids parent National Entertainment Collectibles Association; Weinshanker already holds 12 percent of Hastings' outstanding shares.
"NECA is a significant supplier of movie, book and video game merchandise and collectibles to the Hastings superstores, and we've had a close and growing business relationship with Mr. Weinshanker over the last decade," John H. Marmaduke, Hastings' chairman and CEO, said in a statement. "Mr. Weinshanker, through his affiliation with the estates of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali, and his company's management of Graceland, is one of the leading drivers of the lifestyle industry, and we believe Hastings' business will continue to benefit from our relationship with him and NECA." Marmaduke will retire with a $1.5 million cash payout once the merger is approved. The announcement was followed by press releases from two New York City law firms that say they're investigating the plan on behalf of Hastings shareholders. [press release]
On an Internet whisker-deep in cat photos, cat videos and cat memes, Grumpy Cat is the indisputable king — or, rather, queen, as the peevish feline is actually a female named Tardar Sauce. She has her own meme manager, her own book, her own book tour, a litter-pan full of web awards, a movie deal and a company valued at $1 million.
Out of all of that, strangely enough, "meme manager" may give the most pause. (Or is that paws?) Ben Lashes, former frontman for the band Lashes, is profiled, along with his client, in the latest issue of New York magazine, where we learn how he transformed Grumpy Cat from a single link into a furry little industry. (Did we mention the Friskies deal, the coffee line, the plush toys and the T-shirts?)
Among the most popular shirts, Gawker points out, is one that combines a photo of Grumpy Cat with the caption "I HAD FUN ONCE/IT WAS AWFUL," which, after a stop off at Reddit, where it became attached to the feline, actually originated with cartoonist Kate Beaton's popular webcomic Hark! A Vagrant! Gawker, which concluded that the best way to get rich from memes is to "steal other memes," contacted Beaton for her take.
"No, I never authorized anything. And some people will argue that I never wrote the joke, that it's 'been around forever,' she tells the website. "But I made a comic, and one panel became a meme, and that's fine. The nature of a joke is to take on a life of its own. At some point, the meme was applied to Grumpy Cat, where it fit well. It is only how Grumpy Cat is aggressive about protecting their brand with that joke as part of it that has ever rubbed me the wrong way."
Indeed, the New York article makes a point of how diligently the people making money from Grumpy Cat police uses of her likeness. "No one's a chump," Lashes tells the magazine. "We've got a saying over here in team meme: 'Respect the cat.' "
There are few webcomics as popular or influential as Hark! A Vagrant, but news of Kate Beaton's latest project arrived from a fairly unexpected source, the science fiction blog io9. She's illustrating a young-adult book, The Well's End, by debut novelist Seth Fishman.
UPDATED (11:48 a.m.): Fishman has written to clarify that, unfortunately, Beaton isn't illustrating the novel, but rather created some exclusive art for the unveiling of the cover.
The summary from publisher Putnam makes it sound like quite a cracking yarn, too — the kind of thing that gets optioned quickly by Hollywood:
A childhood accident, a bizarre outbreak, and an impossible discovery…
Mia Kish is afraid of the dark. And for good reason. When she was a toddler she fell deep into her backyard well only to be rescued to great fanfare and celebrity. In fact, she is small-town Fenton,Colorado's walking claim to fame. Not like that helps her status at Westbrook Academy, the nearby uber-ritzy boarding school she attends. A townie is a townie. Being nationally ranked as a swimmer doesn't matter a lick. But even the rarefied world of Westbrook is threated when emergency sirens start blaring and the school is put on lockdown, quarantined and surrounded by soldiers who seem to shoot first and ask questions later. Only when confronted by a frightening virus that ages its victims to death in a manner of hours does Mia realize she may only just be beginning to discover what makes Fenton special.
The answer is behind the walls of the Cave, aka Fenton Electronics. Mia's dad, the director of Fenton Electronics, has always been secretive about his work. But unless Mia is willing to let her classmates succumb to the strange illness, she and her friends have got to break quarantine, escape the school grounds, and outsmart armed soldiers to uncover the truth about where the virus comes from and what happened down that well. The answers they find just might be more impossible than the virus they are fleeing.
Beaton has an amazing capacity for portraying subtle emotions and character with a few deft pen strokes. She's an inspired choice for an assignment in this genre. The 352-page novel will be released Feb. 25, 2014. Continue Reading »
Kate Beaton has contributed plenty of art to Canada's Walrus magazine and the publication is continuing the association by re-releasing a limited edition tote bag featuring Beaton's work. "Last time the beauty was available, the stylish, high-demand tote sold out in a single day," Walrus reminds. "We're now making it available with a special bonus for the holidays: buy the Beaton tote, get a ten issue subscription absolutely free." The bag costs $25.
As I'm typing this on Sunday night, there are still some available, but act fast if you want one. The bags start shipping Dec. 10.
Ryan North's (Dinosaur Comics, Adventure Time) Kickstarter for his illustrated prose book, To Be or Not To Be is way past being fully funded with 24 days still to go, so this isn't a plea for action so much as it is a public service announcement. Because, dude …
North is putting together something that he can't call Choose-Your-Own-Adventure for legal reasons, but totally is, only it's for grown-ups, based on Hamlet, allows you to play as various characters including the ghost, and is illustrated by an insane line-up of artists like Kate Beaton, Chip Zdarsky, Chris Hastings, David Malki, Dustin Harbin, Jim Zubkavich, Kazu Kibuishi, Ray Fawkes, Vera Brosgol. … Seriously, I'm going to embarrass myself by leaving someone awesome out and the list is loooong. Check out the Kickstarter page for the full scoop.
$15 gets you a PDF copy, but $20 gets U.S. residents the PDF and a paperback copy too. Backers outside the U.S. are asked for a $30 pledge to cover shipping costs. And of course there are other goodies for pledging more.
Hello and welcome to What Are You Reading? Today our special guests are Gardner Linn and Dave Lentz, the creative team behind the webcomic Registered Weapon — "the internet's only webcomic starring a robotic cash register who fights crime." They just kicked off their latest story, Case 006, on Nov. 12, and you can also download the first ten pages from their site if you prefer to read in bigger chunks.
To see what Gardner, Dave and the Robot 6 crew have been reading, click below …
If you need a Kate Beaton sketchbook to go with that copy of Hark! A Vagrant and are one of the first 500 people to act, TopatoCo (an online distributor for merchandise by indie cartoonists) has you covered. There's also a supply at Desert Island Comics in Brooklyn, which I guess means that less than 500 are available for online orders. The book was put together from scans of Beaton's actual sketchbook. "Some are doodles, some are research," TopatoCo writes. "You know how it goes with sketchbooks. We're keeping the run small to make this a special thing, for fans who want something a little different and personal."
Graphic novels | The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has written to the Enfield, Connecticut, school district to ask that Matthew Loux's SideScrollers be reinstated to its summer reading list and to point out that the district did not follow its own procedures when it removed the book last month after the mother of a ninth-grader complained about the graphic novel's profanity and sexual references. [CBLDF]
Digital comics | Digital distributor iVerse has unveiled a new deal to sell foreign-language translations of Marvel and Archie comics worldwide. iVerse will have exclusive global rights to Marvel's foreign-language comics, both floppies and trades, while for Archie they will create apps in different languages for different countries, starting with Japan, China, and India. iVerse CEO Michael Murphy says that 50 percent to 65 percent of the company's digital sales are to international customers (including Canada). Nonetheless, the comics will be "platform-independent": iVerse will provide translation (through a combination of machine translation and human editors) and distribution, so the comics will be available through their Comics + app but also through other channels, such as Amazon or iBooks. [Publishers Weekly]


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Paradis du peuple - Chinese restaurant (1987)
I put it here since it is a restaurant I discovered while travelling with my uncle in Toamasina.
Well, my uncle is a kind of adventurer in life. I saw and made with him things I would have never done with my quite conventional Dad and Mum. And this travel with him was really different from my Toamasina trips with my parents.
As for restaurant, he took me once to a hidden restaurant in Toamasina city. From the street, I only saw a simple portal, quite modest. We entered, I was a bit reluctant and excited at same time but said nothing... Just wanted to discover though! Surprise!
I discovered a place like a huge hub with beams and many tables. Airy and shadowy light atmosphere though it was daylight outside. With "businessmen" (rather say "crooks", according from what I heard here and there) hanging around. In fact, this used to be a cheap place for authentic and yummy Chinese food. Clientele is mostly employees who like to eat cheap, simple but tasty.
Really different from my upmarket hotels and restaurants. Just for that, I would like to return there. But also, as far as I can remember, Chinese food was great there (soups, fried rices of all kind, nem, stuffed crab...)
It seems that the restaurant is still alive (at least, I saw it on the net) but I don't know the address... This is one reason why I put it here... Nice memories of that trip with my uncle.
Sep. 03: I was told how to go there. Stroll along boulevard Joffre till you reach its end (pass Hotel Joffre). Then take your right. Pass BMOI bank and ARO Insurance bulding... it's in this street.
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Sleeping in a terrasse at night (1987)
This happened during a trip I made with my uncle. Well, you may have read somewhere in my Toamasina page about this uncle. A quite adventurous and cool guy. Doing things with him just leads through off the beaten tracks.
For this trip, we arrived at night in Taxi-brousse area since we travelled via public taxi-brousse (travel in a sedan car with 8 other passengers). It was dark and we had to join a place where we could spend few nights.
We arrived at a studio in a spot I was not used to. Well, I was young and a bit narrow-minded. I didn't say nothing but he noticed I was not that comfortable with this tiny place, I guess lended by one of those myriads of girlfriends. He put on music and we unpacked quite quickly. I wanted to sleep because I was tired. I took a shower and when I went out from the showerbox, I noticed my uncle was not there. I was a bit afraid, thinking of staying alone in a house I don't know, in a strange corner.
In fact, my uncle carried out the matress and bed sheets and here it is: a night in a terrasse.
I was afraid since in my hometown, we are not used to do that, for safety purpose. But in Toamasina, it was possible. I spent a quiet night, heard the noise of waves crashing down shore. And in the morning, I was waken up by noises from the street, pousses- pousses passing by as the mattress was just at pavement level. We were just hidden by a fence made of crossed wood lumbs... through which we could see passengers.
One of those experiences you just learn from... This stay with my uncle was an unusual one...
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- Romantic Travel and Honeymoons
"Tamatave" by Chris Rea
Well, sounds strange... This city inspired Chris Rea. One of his songs, "Tamatave", talks about Tamatave (Toamasina French name) and the spell Toamasina put on him...
This is probably one of rare songs where you can here him sing in French as well...
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- Romantic Travel and Honeymoons
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10 mn sudden sunny rain...
Well, this typical weather in Toamasina. While walking in the streets, you will be soaking wet since a "flash" rain just pours during 10 minutes. Strangest thing is that while it's raining cats and dogs, you won't hear any storm neither thunder and it's sunny, hot... Really weird for me.
Anyway, your clothes will dry while walking in the streets...
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Londoners were treated to a stunning light show last night as an electrical storm hit the city.
TfL urged to make it easier for commuters to reclaim their cash
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A new pop-up is showing that size does matter by offering all items on the menu in small, medium and large portions.
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The English National Opera burns brightly with a new take on an old favourite
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London's very own lighthouse at King's Cross is about to get a spruce-up at the hands of developer Nick Capstick-Dale's UK Real Estate. Most historians think the 1875 landmark was built as an elaborate advertisement for Netten's Oyster Bar, which occupied the ground floor when oysters were much less of a delicacy.
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London bus passengers today became the first in any major city to use revolutionary "wave and pay" plastic cards on public transport.
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Turnout at some sites in single digits
CORPUS CHRISTI - When District 5 City Council candidate Kendra Kinnison showed up at church the day after Saturday's runoff, a fellow churchgoer approached her and promised his vote.
He didn't realize she had been defeated the night before.
Kinnison said the man's comments are indicative of a pattern citywide -- a minority of the voters are making the majority of the decisions.
"I think that the previous council did too good of a job," she said. "The trash gets picked up, their toilets flush and for the most part, life is good. They don't perceive city government as having an impact on their lives and they don't make it a priority to vote."
With almost 14 percent voter turnout in Saturdays runoff, District 4 had the highest turnout of the three districts that had runoffs because no candidate got more than 50 percent of the vote during the April 14 election. District 5, in which Kinnison ran, had an almost 11 percent turnout, while District 3 saw a less than 7 percent turnout.
Of 36,696 registered voters in District 5, 3,991 voted in the council election. Of those, 54.9 percent chose former Corpus Christi Independent School District trustee Larry Elizondo over Kinnison, an accountant and businesswoman. Elizondo took the majority of votes in all but four of 15 precincts. District 5's turnout ranged from slightly less than 7 percent of registered voters at one precinct to 26.7 percent at London School, where the school district also was holding a bond election for facility improvements.
In District 3, where Priscilla Leals 27-vote margin won the race against three-term incumbent Jesse Noyola, 2,039 voters cast ballots in the council race -- 6.4 percent of 31,785 registered voters.
Noyola beat Leal in 13 of 20 precincts, but the margins were slim, often a difference of fewer than 10 votes. A contributor to Leals win was her victory in Precinct 71 at Lexington Elementary, where she took 125 of 152 votes.
Noyola said Monday that he is in the process of doing a precinct-by-precinct analysis to determine whether he will seek a recount.
Leal said she just did a better job of getting her supporters to the polls.
"I won because I went to the people and they have already told me that they wanted change, that things were not happening in District 3," she said. "I had a lot of first time voters and they called me when they went to vote and they told me how proud they were to cast their first vote ever for me."
Turnout in District 3 has fallen in recent elections, and this time was no exception, said Nueces County Clerk Diana Barrera. In some precincts, turnout fell below 3 percent of registered voters.
"It was a very low-key election," Barrera said. "I would venture to say that the areas where you would have higher population such as Molina (neighborhood) would have had higher turnout, but it was only 8.56 (percent) and Precinct 80 (another high-population area) was only 6.91 percent."
District 4, where development was a key campaign issue, saw the heaviest turnout Saturday.
The district had a 13.77 percent turnout, with 5,448 of 39,568 registered voters casting ballots in the city election, 59.64 percent of which were for Dr. Mike McCutchon in his race against small-businessman James Duerr.
Two precincts in the district toed the 30 percent turnout mark -- Precinct 42, which is near Leming Avenue and Santa Fe Street, and Precinct 64 at Wilson Elementary School. The precincts serving Ocean Drive also boasted turnout of more than 20 percent, Barrera said, as did Padre Island precincts 40 and 81, with 21.9 percent and 20.8 percent, respectively.
McCutchon beat Duerr in all 18 precincts, taking as much as 80 percent of the vote in Precinct 117, Flour Bluff High School.
McCutchon was the front man for a group that successfully opposed closing 7,200 feet of Padre Island beach to vehicle traffic, something a developer said was necessary to bring in a $1.5 billion development. McCutchon successfully fended off the notion that he is anti-development with a sound victory in island territory -- he received 58.5 percent of the vote in Precinct 81 and 50.15 percent in Precinct 40, according to complete, unofficial returns.
With the elections over, the council will have five new members -- Leal, McCutchon, Elizondo and at-large council members-elect Nelda Martinez and Mike Hummell. Mayor Henry Garrett said he plans to meet with each individually before they start work May 22.
"I feel really positive about it and I think we will get a fresh look at the issues facing the city," Garrett said.
The City Council also will hold a retreat June 5 to prioritize the city's issues, he said.
"We are going to look at the goals for the next two years and at the same time goals for five and 10 years from now," Garrett said. "We are going to try to have a positive outlook. The campaign is behind us and I think we are going to roll up our sleeves and get to work."
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A teenager narrowly escaped death after her car was hit by a tank in Germany.
Heidi Klum and thousands of others were evacuated from the live televised finale of "Germany's Next TopModel" after a bomb threat was made against the show.
A hard-hitting video campaign has been launched by Swiss officials to prevent young people from getting killed while distracted by their cellphones.
Tons of German's Opa's Schnitzel Haus in Wichita Falls cheered on Germany in the world cup finals.
World War II Veteran receives Purple Heart earned during his service in Germany.
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A US airman from Wichita Falls was injured in the March 2 shooting at the Frankfurt Airport.
Tonight we conclude our two-part target three special report: "Journey of Hope."
"When I was a prisoner, I prayed every evening & every morning." "What did you pray for?" "To get home again. And for the Lord to help my people at home. And all those poor, poor guys around me."
We now begin the first segment of our two-part Target Three Special Report -- called "Journey of Hope."
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Foreword by Kiko Bracker, DVM, DACVECC
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Stephanie M. Hopkins conducts author interviews and helps promote the B.R.A.G. Medallion and its honorees. Click here to read Stephanie's interview of author Jane Hanser, June 16, 2015.
"You don't have to be a dog lover to fall in love with Joey. Just spend a day by his side—running through snowy woods; plotting escape from a fenced-in yard; searching for new friends, new adventures, new possibilities for mischief . . . . In Dogs Don't Look Both Ways, Jane Hanser gives us a fascinating glimpse into the world that she and her husband share with their chocolate Labrador—and it's a world so filled with love and hope and high spirits that you may never want to leave."
Pesi Dinnerstein, Author of A Cluttered Life: Searching for God, Serenity, and My Missing Keys
The Midwest Book Review, July 2014
Don't Look Both Ways: A Primer on Unintended Consequences is based on the personal memories of
a husband, wife, and their beloved chocolate Labrador Joey; some names
have been changed to protect individual privacy, and the colorful storytelling
might best be dubbed "reality-based fiction". The exuberant, loving
and trusting personality of Joey shines through, as Dogs Don't Look
Both Ways is narrated from his canine perspective. Dog lovers everywhere
will see a little bit of Joey in their own pets and their daily lives,
in this wonderful and heartfelt reminiscence."
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Hanser is a very handsome Labrador Retriever who has endless amounts
of energy and curiosity. His need to explore outside his boundaries
offered him opportunities to meet new friends (and get treats!), but
it also led to a horrible accident...an accident that could have had
a sad ending. But with Joey's determination and the love and support
of his parents, Joey learns that maybe, just maybe, some of those rules
are important and if the rules are broken, then there are consequences.
All dogs need rules and boundaries set early in their life, but sometimes whether it is because of the breed or just plain stubbornness, those rules get ignored by our pets. This book really is a primer on a dog's life and what happens when they don't listen to their parents rules. If dogs could read, then this book should be mandatory for them. For the parents of dogs, this is also a must read! It is very inspiring and also very insightful!
This was such an awesome book! It was a pure joy to get a glimpse of Joey's world and his endless curiosity of the world around him. Written from Joey's point of view provided a very unique reading experience that was both fun and insightful. Joey's words and thoughts are exactly what I think my pets would say if they could talk to me. I want to give Joey's parents kudos for being so patient with him and understanding of his need to explore the world around him and I also want to give kudos for them being there for Joey when his explorations went horribly bad. Joey is an awesome dog and everyone should read his story. I don't normally give spoilers, but this one does have a happy ending, so no tissues are necessary! So go ahead and grab this beautifully written book, get comfortable and enjoy a few hours in Joey's world. You will not be disappointed!"
Connie Cronim, Variety is the Spice of Life
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about animals there is always that slight apprehension that 'This is
not going to end well!' As a dog and cat lover I have read books in
the past and have had to buy in boxes of tissues and chocolate to
get to the end.. I am delighted to say that those extreme measures
are not required for this book.. All the chocolate that you need is
Joey himself who is of the Labrador variety….
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