For anyone who wants more information about the show, they are now on the web. You can visit the site at: http://www.longbeachshow.com/
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Free Admission
Date: Sunday, June 7, 1998
Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Place: Ramada Hotel 1677 Wilson Ave. Toronto
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Just one look is all it takes to see the wondrous imagination of Schomburgs masterful rendering and attention to detail. At first glance we see a dazzling beauty suspended and bonded with chains over a rack of sharp steel blades in the foreground. One throned hooded evil and demonic figure seems to be directing this terror filled moment as our innocent victim is lowered to her torturous death before him. Henchmen wielding machine guns, pistols, even swords take aim at the attempted rescue. Our heroes seem to be no match for the onslaught of villains surrounding this intensely horrid scenario. So much going on and so tremendously detailed by Alex Schomburg!
This classic cover is regarded as one of the more violent and controversial images to hit the news stands in this time period. Even so, Terrific Comics #5 was published in September of 1944 at the height of WWII, and any depiction of our country standing up to such acts of torture was acceptable to the general public. No doubt, if this appeared in general view today, this image would be rapidly subject to censorship. The original actual comic is extremely scarce as estimates have only about 20 copies that exist at all!
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The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said the Federal Communications Commission, which established the rate, had not sufficiently justified its decision.
The court left the 28 cent rate in place for the time being but said if the FCC decides to lower the rate, the agency may require pay phone operators to make refunds.
Until last year, pay phone operators were prohibited from charging callers who made ``coinless'' calls using a toll-free 800-number, a credit card or other means. But the 1996 Telecommunications Act required the FCC to ensure that pay phone operators would be ``fairly compensated'' for all calls.
In September 1996, the agency said operators could charge up to 35 cents for all calls, made either with or without coins. The decision was based on a market survey of pay phone rates in places where rates were not regulated.
The appeals court rejected that decision last year, concluding that fair compensation for the two types of calls was significantly different.
So last October, the FCC established a 28 cent rate for coinless calls by calculating that the cost to pay phone operators for such calls was about seven cents less than for calls made with coins.
In Friday's opinion, the court criticized the FCC for subtracting the cost of a coinless call from the market rate of a coin call.
``If costs and rates depend on different factors, as they sometimes do, then this procedure would resemble subtracting apples from oranges,'' the court wrote.
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From: Ginnie Katchur
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Alan
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