State. After a robbery turned murder occurred, a time-lapse recorder and VHS videotape was able to capture these events. The detectives were able to retrieve both the time-lapse recorder and the VHS videotape to put into evidence and analyze. The detectives then had these recordings transferred from analogue format to digital format. This allowed for the digital images to be made into…
ignites one’s imagination. When I was a toddler, my family and I frequented the Lewis A. Ray library of Smyrna so that I could temporarily satisfy my insatiable craving for knowledge. While there, I never missed the opportunity to seize my two favorite VHS tapes whenever available: Popular Mechanics for Kids: Rip Roaring Roller Coasters and NOVA: Roller Coaster!. These videos…
Campaign To Oppose Abortion, 1987-1991 | Global Nonviolent Action Database") OR organized 188 nonviolent clinic blockades in 188, which is the same year that Dirty Dancing was released to VHS, becoming a home entertainment blockbuster. “Although not initially a big screen hit, Dirty Dancing was the first massive VHS success. It was the first film to sell more than a million copies on home video and Swayze was suddenly a megastar.” ("Patrick Swayze Profile: Dirty…
Silent but deadly. It might be too late to save the aquatic animals in the Great Lakes from migrant species that have come to take over, and make a new home. Shipping vessels coming from other waters carry many unwanted guests, known as invasive species, to make home in our waters in the United States. Invasive species hiding in the ballast of ships entering the Great Lakes damage the Great Lakes’ ecosystem. Invasive species enter the Great Lakes in the ballasts of shipping vessels. Shipping…
1. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the colonial concerns with birth rates and childbirth conditions were increasing. Specifically, the colonial sympathizers were concerned with maternal and infant mortality rates (Van Hollen, 36). India, along with several other colonial areas, feared the growing trend of “depopulation,” and sought to combat it in the interest of capitalism. While colonists and nationalists argued on the causes of their substandard childbirth conditions,…
We have already come so far. We have come from a time where film cameras and VHS tapes were the latest items. We have very much gone above and beyond what some ever thought possible. The technology we have now surpasses what we once thought scientists could do. Technology has made it possible to communicate with loved ones from miles away, and just by a swipe of a screen. There have been so many fun items that have come from technology, such as film cameras to digital cameras. The advancements…
Please accept my most personal regards and deepest sympathy of the recent loss of your mother, Staff Sergeant Stephanie Wilomena Plank, a Noncommissioned Officer and loving mother. We cannot describe to you the impact this has taken on those who had the honor of being within her presence. Staff Sergeant Plank was one of the best Section Sergeants mobilized to the National Training Center with 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division. On May 31, 2013 Stephanie was with her troops on a weapons…
Throughout the development of corporate culture, and the rapid erections of motley businesses and business categories, it is acknowledged that the corporate entities of an age that both recognize and exploit the nature of contemporaneous culture, and the major trends thereof, become the supreme corporations of their time, the titans, perhaps, of the selected era. Upon this regard, the fundamental global culture of the twenty-first century can be described as one that assigns superior value and…
English -they were not too keen to teach it behind the iron curtain ;) with Hungarian subtitles. (A language he did not understand at all.) That's how deep his interest and enthusiasm went. Something he passed on to me and my younger sister. The first VHS we bought after the wall had come down and we had bought the proper equipment, was StarWars...and subsequently, we also bought some books that supposedly continued the saga. It was Timothy Zahn's brilliant…
Flag football is one of the fastest growing sports in America. The soft feel of the grass, the smell of the field, and a love for the game have helped make it so. According to the International Federation of American Football, the governing body whose duty is to grow the game, 2.4 million kids under 17 play organized flag football in the United States. CEO and Executive Director of USA Football Scott Hallenbeck spoke about the sport's growth. He feels flag football is paving the way for girls…