In the 2006 case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ballard v. Burton, Judge Carl E. Stewart writing for the Court held that an Alford guilty plea is a " variation of an ordinary guilty plea ".

J. G. Ballard wrote a dystopian take on a self-contained building that is much like an arcology in his 1975 novel High Rise.

Well-funded groups like Canada's Ballard Power Systems are also working to develop a " regenerative fuel cell ", a device that can generate hydrogen and oxygen when power is available, and combine these efficiently when power is needed.

It is instructive therefore to read some of what Ballard and Moorcock were writing that engendered such animosity from the established SF community.

** The wreck of the RMS Titanic ( 1912 ) in the North Atlantic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard ( WHOI ) and Jean-Louis Michel ( Ifremer ) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.

The Walker Delta is also known as the Ballard rosette, after A. H. Ballard's similar earlier work.

Although it is sometimes assumed that actress Alice Ghostley based her speech patterns and mannerisms on Lynde's, according to actress Kaye Ballard " it was Paul who was influenced by Alice ".

The Russian time machine was shown to be powered by a " Photon Reactor " that has a similar output to a hydrogen bomb ( according to Ballard ), something that Ballard is also working on.

Ballard is responsible for calibrating and maintaining the Spheres and keeping them active to allow for a quick Backstep if needed.

Fly Away Home is a 1996 drama and comedy family-oriented film directed by Carroll Ballard, the director of The Black Stallion ( 1979 ).

At the ball, Esther fills up a visiting girl's ( Lucille Ballard, played by June Lockhart ) dance card with losers because she thinks Lucille is a rival of Rose's.

Ballard County is a county located in west of the U. S. state of Kentucky.

It was created by the Kentucky State Legislature in 1842, and is named for Captain Bland Ballard, a soldier, statesman, and member of the Kentucky General Assembly.

Ballard is a prohibition or dry county.

Ballard County is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Axe Lake Swamp State Nature Preserve is a nature preserve located in Ballard County, in the Barlow Bottoms.

The purpose of the Ballard Nature Center is to provide high quality environmental education, and a place for the enjoyment of nature.

Ballard Nature Center receives no government funding, and is supported largely by donations and memberships.

Barlow is a city in Ballard County, Kentucky, United States.

Blandville is a city in Ballard County, Kentucky, United States.

Kevil is a city in Ballard County, Kentucky, United States.

La Center is a city in Ballard County, Kentucky, United States.

Wickliffe is a city in Ballard County, Kentucky, United States.

His grandson, M. Russell Ballard, was also ordained an apostle.

His namesake grandson, Bland Ballard, was appointed by Abraham Lincoln as a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky.

Brown, James E. Talmage, Melvin J. Ballard, and Bruce R. McConkie.

In 1938, LDS Apostle Melvin J. Ballard was sent to Thatcher to divide the growing St. Joseph Stake in two.

Melvin Russell Ballard, Jr. ( born October 8, 1928 ) is a religious leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Ballard was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Melvin Russell Ballard Sr. and his wife, Geraldine Smith Ballard.

Grant announced that Apostle Melvin J. Ballard and Seventy Rulon S. Wells would go with Pratt to establish the LDS Church in South America.

Melvin Joseph Ballard ( February 9, 1873 – July 30, 1939 ) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

Melvin Ballard attended Brigham Young College from which he graduated in 1884.

As he met with the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles to announce his decision, he found himself saying that the Lord wanted Melvin J. Ballard to serve instead.

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Others noted that almost all traits claimed to be uniquely cyberpunk could in fact be found in older writers ' works — often citing J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Stanisław Lem, Samuel R. Delany, and even William S. Burroughs.

Many of his sidemen and supporting players, such as Fred Wesley & The J. B .' s, Bobby Byrd, Lyn Collins, Vicki Anderson and Hank Ballard, released records on the People label, an imprint founded by Brown that was purchased by Polydor as part of Brown's new contract.

* Ballard, J. G., on Modernism.

The New Wave writers believed that the tropes of the pulp and Golden Age periods had become worn out, and should be abandonded: J. G. Ballard stated in 1962 that " science fiction should turn its back on space, on interstellar travel, extra-terrestrial life forms, ( and ) galactic wars ", and Brian Aldiss said in Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction that " the props of SF are few: rocket ships, telepathy, robots, time travel ... like coins, they become debased by over-circulation.

New Wave writers began to look outside the traditional scope of science fiction for influence, and many looked to the example of beat writer William S. Burroughs, to the point where New Wave authors Philip José Farmer and Barrington J. Bayley wrote pastiches of his work (" The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod " and " The Four Colour Problem ", respectively ) and J. G. Ballard published an admiring essay in an issue of New Worlds.

David Hartwell commenting on Algis J. Budrys writing in the review column of Galaxy magazine notes the " ringing scorn and righteous indignation " with which Budry's discussion vibrates in " one of the classic diatribes against Ballard and the new mode of SF then emergent ":

Critic John Clute wrote of M. John Harrison's early writing that it "... reveals its New-Wave provenance in narrative discontinuities and subheads after the fashion of J. G. Ballard ".

Tom Maddox has commented that Gibson " grew up in an America as disturbing and surreal as anything J. G. Ballard ever dreamed ".< ref name =" Virus 23 ">

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He was succeeded by James Turner, who expanded the company's range of authors to include such prominent science fiction and fantasy writers as Michael Bishop, Lucius Shepard, Bruce Sterling, James Tiptree, Jr., Michael Shea and J. G. Ballard, often publishing hardcover collections of shorter works.

The film begins with an overhead view of a man and woman picnicking in a park at the Chicago lakefront — a one-meter-square overhead image of the figures on a blanket surrounded by food and books they brought with them, one of them being The Voices of Time and Other Short Stories by J. G. Ballard.

Cabaret Voltaire took conceptual cues from Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Tristan Tzara.

During the Civil War, the Lenoirs supported the Confederacy, due in part to associations with Confederate-leaning business interests in Knoxville ( one of William Ballard Lenoir's sons was married to the daughter of Knoxville historian and banker, J. G. M. Ramsey, who was an ardent Confederate ).

* J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun ( 1984 )

* " Mobile ( short story )", a short story by J. G. Ballard, later renamed " Venus Smiles "

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* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun, and Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

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Other key figures in this version of the idea are Walter Benjamin, J. G. Ballard, and Nicholas Hawksmoor.

The 1974 novel Concrete Island by J. G. Ballard was set in a junction between the Westway and M4 Motorway.