Period might be the quintessential score to this flim-flam moment.
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For a limited time, all Flam products are slashed 50 percent off.
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I refer to SWOOP UP, STINT, FLAM, maybe a couple of others — ADAMANT?
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The AP charade was chump change compared to the FBI's next media flim-flam.
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This 215 mile stretch of coastline is unique to Mozambique, says marine biologist Anna Flam.
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If you've been to Stockholm, Flam or Copenhagen, hit me up with some travel tips!
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But Huckabee and company are relatively amateur and benign flim-flam men compared to their successor.
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But with so much flim-flam coming this rapidly, it's hard for news anchors to keep up.
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Mr. Flam said there were marks on the back of the painting where warehouse labels had been ripped off.
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"We want people to leave everything behind when they walk through the doors and enter a timeless place," Flam said.
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"We have received lots of solicitations, but much of it has been flim-flam, scamming, or otherwise fallen through," said Kelly.
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He's now unmasked for what he really is: a flim-flam artist who lies, makes threats and talks tough, but can't deliver.
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" He added that he believes it would be a mistake to fire Mueller, but said the "the basis of his investigation is flim-flam.
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"I think it would be a mistake to fire Mueller, but I also think the basis of his investigation is flim-flam," he said.
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I try to be a good person, so I'm not going to let them throw me off my game because they're flim-flam men.
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In a country long used to fibbing candidates and policy platforms constructed out of flim-flam and magic money, Mr Trump breaks new ground.
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Our balcony cabin for four people wound up costing a little over $3,000 for seven nights and stops in Geiranger, Flam, and Stavanger, Norway.
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A president who can't even follow his own flim-flam narratives naturally also can't track important policy debates or speak clearly about underlying concepts.
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By giving weighty intellectual backing to the White House's agenda, it can convince people like your blogger that the president's policies are more than just flim-flam.
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"Our business model emphasizes placing the value on the experience as a whole," said Jamie Flam, 42, who is co-artistic director along with Vanessa Ragland, 36.
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This gorgeous mountainscape is Flam, Norway, rated one of the best cruise ports in the world and the top-rated port in the Baltic and Scandinavia region.
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If there isn't some secret connection to those sickly sweet caramel candies, then it's just the futuristic flourish of a flim-flam man who flew too close to the sun.
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For answers, one might look further into the artist's stated views (as recorded in Matisse on Art, edited by Jack Flam, University of California Press, 1995), trying to tease out their implications.
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In addition to the 16-step sequencer there's now also a velocity-sensitive performance pad on the right side of the machine, allowing for punching in accent, flam, and velocity on the fly.
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I know this isn't really helpful to those of you who have or wish to buy the device when it drops on Tuesday, but don't worry, I can save you all of that flim flam.
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When Flam quit the Improv in early 2017 and began organizing a $100,000 crowdfunding campaign, he didn't know the Steve Allen Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, where Marc Maron had a recurring residency, would close that November.
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Now, the tables have been slightly rearranged as it's Haslam with a new original—an EP for NYC's The Bunker by the name of Scale No Flam—and the rest of the gang on remix duties.
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Guaranteeing health care for all, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and providing tuition-free college were, at best, empty promises with no hope of success and, at worst, they were deliberate flim-flam.
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Or the flim-flam career developer and failed casino operator who brags about grabbing women by their genitals and is now accused by two women of having an extramarital affair with them at the same time?
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"The main driver of the beat was solid performance in every region of the refining segment, but particular stand-outs were the Gulf Coast and North Atlantic regions," Simmons Energy analysts Blake Fernandez and Patrick Flam said.
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"Shopping in a French pharmacy is quite a different experience than that of U.S. drugstores," says Jacqueline Flam Stokes, vice president of retail marketing and sales at Avène and Klorane (two French brands available at U.S. drugstores).
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This is not in any way true, but in the era of the Bullshitter in chief in the White House it's natural that the flim-flam style of argumentation would come to increasingly dominate the entire conservative firmament.
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"In principle, I'm really for what" Ms. MacLear "is doing," said Jack Flam, president and chief executive of the Dedalus Foundation, which represents the work of Robert Motherwell and has been active recently in public discussions about copyright issues.
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Depp has frequently been accused of creating characters who are all outside flim-flam, with no soul, but his best work (including his first few Jack Sparrow performances) unites the outer shell with something bruised at the character's core.
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But Mr. Flam, an art historian, added that the current system still had a valuable role to play both in ensuring that the best images are used and in helping foundations and estates keep track of how those images are used.
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The work features a few mold stains that will be removed, but Jack Flam, the president of the foundation, said in an interview that it appeared to be in good shape and had been stored correctly, upright and wrapped in plastic.
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In a PEOPLE exclusive video ahead of the release of Knives Out, Collette, one of the film's stars, channels her inner Goop founder in a hilarious parody introducing Flam, a wellness and lifestyle website, through the eyes of Collette's character Joni Thrombey.
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After all, if you are taught to believe that the reigning scientific consensuses on evolution and climate change are lies, then you will lack the elementary logical skills that will set your alarm bells ringing when you hear a flim-flam artist like Trump.
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I booked separate small boat trips off the ship to see the world-famous Naeroyfjord out of Flam and the Lysefjord out of Stavanger, and each of those cruises cost about half of what I would have paid for similar excursions once on board.
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And it's worth noting that while the DBCFT failed because of a toxic brew of interest-group politics and partisanship, the rest of this stuff didn't happen because, despite the breathless coverage from credulous journalists, the Roadmap was flim-flam from beginning to end.
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For most hardcore fight fans, a return to business as usual will be welcome, but the way that this fight—which makes no real sense whatsoever—has caught the public attention proves that we still very much live in the age of flim-flam, ballyhoo, and spectacle.
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"We don't have time for charlatans and we don't have time for bigotry and we didn't have time for film-flam and we don't have the luxury of just popping off and saying whatever comes to the tops of our heads," Obama said during the Friday evening event, held for 3,000 supporters of Washington State Gov.
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Flam resides in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the father of comedian Aron Flam.
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Penny Dreadful is a 2006 American horror film directed by Richard Brandes and written by Diane Doniol-Valcroze, Arthur K. Flam (as Arthur Flam), and Richard Brandes. The story is from Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur K. Flam (as Arthur Flam). The film centers on a young woman, Penny, who has a phobia of cars and ends up stalked by a maniac hitchhiker preying on her fear. The film takes place almost entirely in a car, one-location.
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Harry Flam circa 1995. Harry Flam (born 1948) is a professor of international economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. During the years of 2004 and 2006, he was Dean of the School of Business at Stockholm University.Vitae - Harry Flam His main area of research is international trade and European economic integration.
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Tom R. Burns and Helena Flam (actor-system dynamics theory and social rule system theory),Burns, Tom R., and H. Flam. 1987. The Shaping of Social Organization: Social Rule System Theory with Applications. London: SAGE.Flam, Helena, and Marcus Carson, eds. 2008.
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That year he was ranked Number 5 in the US. In the 1956 Australian Championships, Flam beat Ashley Cooper before losing in the semifinals to Ken Rosewall. In September 1956 Flam won the singles title at the Pacific Southwest Championships, defeating Rosewall in the final in five sets. That year he was ranked Number 2 in the US. At the 1957 French championships Flam beat Mervyn Rose in a five-set semifinal before losing in straight sets to Sven Davidson in the final. At the U. S. championships, Flam beat Seixas before losing to Cooper in the semi finals.
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On September 26, 2007, while Abdallahi was at the United Nations in New York City, he met a delegation of the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLAM), a movement seeking the improvement of the conditions of black Mauritanians; this marked the first talks between a Mauritanian head of state and FLAM since it was banned in 1986."Mauritanie: les FLAM rencontrent le président, une première depuis 1986", AFP (Jeuneafrique.com), September 27, 2007 .
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The ferry appeared in background scenes of the 1967 Irvin Kershner film The Flim-Flam Man.
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Faye Flam (born c. 1964) is an American journalist. She has written for Science Magazine and wrote two weekly columns for The Philadelphia Inquirer, including one on sex and one on evolution. Flam wrote a book on the influence of sex on human evolution and society.
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Flam was born in the Solna Municipality of Stockholm to Harry Flam, a professor of economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University, and Eva Meyersohn. He is of Jewish origin and has spoken frequently on this in his stand-up comedy routines. Flam attended the prestigious Enskilda Gymnasiet in Stockholm, where he participated in the social science program. After high school, he attended Stockholm University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in film studies.
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The movie's title song "Flim Flam Man," written by Laura Nyro, later became a hit for Barbra Streisand.
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Thomas Y. Crowell. pp. 105-106. Randi, James. (1982). Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions. Prometheus Books.
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It is above all serious, and tries to stay away from the flim-flam of artworld tourism and junketing.
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The award was originally called the Uri trophy, after Uri Geller, and was first announced in the appendix of Randi's book Flim-Flam!. The 1982 edition lists the award's "recipients" in 1979, 1980 and 1981. In Flim-Flam!, Randi states: The bent spoon trophy is a reference to Geller's claimed spoon-bending abilities.
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Blinks and Flim Flam were the leading horse-rider pair on the United States' silver medal dressage team at the 2002 World Equestrian Games, topping their 1998 win. After his retirement in the summer of 2004, Flim Flam was relaxing in a field when he showed signs of colic. After his condition was noticed, he was taken to the Palm Beach Equine in Wellington, Florida. Flim Flam died October 28, 2004, of complications arising from colic surgery; his stomach burst, causing him to be euthanized on the operating table.
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In 2014, Flam received the Friend of Darwin award from the National Center for Science Education for her 2010-2012 The Philadelphia Inquirer column Planet of the Apes, for being "the only newspaper column dedicated to evolution". The award was presented April 26, 2014, at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia. Flam won 1st place in the Special Projects category of the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association's 2011 Keystone Press Awards for her article Faulting the Forensics. Flam has been nominated for a Pulitzer prize for work in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Following the coup d'état of Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall in August 2005, the transitional junta stated that the coming elected government would handle the question of resettlement of the refugees once in power. In anticipation of the promised changes, a reformist wing of the FLAM (FLAM-Renovation) split off from the main organization to participate in Mauritania's political transition. The main branch of FLAM has not returned to the country, awaiting settlement of outstanding issues which would, in its view, allow it to play a meaningful part in the political process.
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Magadini, Pete. April 2012. "Rudimental Symposium: The official 26 Polyrythym Rudiments— Part 1: Metered Rolls and Flam Variations". Modern Drummer MagazineMagadini,Peter.
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It's not just a bit of showroom flim-flam to fleece the Mondeo man who fantasises about getting the red-carpet treatment.
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It's not just a bit of showroom flim-flam to fleece the Mondeo man who fantasises about getting the red carpet treatment.
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Brass was recorded in New York by Grammy award participant Danny Flam (of Kanye West's "All of the lights" fame) and Ron Bertolet.
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Appian writes that it was Prusias who poisoned Hannibal. Pliny the ElderN.H. 5.43. and Plutarch, in his life of Flamininus,Plutarch, Flam. 20.
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Flim Flam was foaled in 1987, out of Cilia and by Wilhelm Tell I. He was a dark bay who stood at maturity. Flim Flam began training with rider Sue Blinks at two and a half years old. He was owned by Fritz Kundrun and Renate Kundrun, who bought him initially hoping he could be an approved Hanoverian breeding stallion as well as a dressage hopeful. However, after he placed third at the Bundeschampionate, Kundrun realized the horse could not be successful in dressage as a stallion, so Flim Flam was castrated and went on to succeed as a dressage horse.
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The horse was listed as being in the top half- dozen Grand Prix level dressage horses competing at the time. Flim Flam competed for the United States in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia with Blinks, winning 8th individually and taking the bronze team medal with fellow members Robert Dover, Guenter Seidel, and Christine Traurig. Jane Savoie was credited with coaching the pair; She had helped Blinks with Flim Flam since he was three years old. In 2001, Flim Flam won first place in the Dressage Special and second place in the Grand Prix dressage competition at the Devon Horse Show.
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Flim Flam (March 27, 1987-October 28, 2004) was a Hanoverian dressage horse who, along with rider Sue Blinks, competed for the United States at the 2000 Olympics. The pair was eighth in the individual competition and was part of the bronze medal-winning US team. Flim Flam was sired by the stallion Wilhelm Tell I, out of the mare, Cilia.
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That year he was ranked Number 2 in the United States. In 1951 he won the Ojai Tennis Tournament in men's singles. At Wimbledon 1951 Flam beat Frank Sedgman before losing to Dick Savitt in the semifinals. That year he was ranked Number 4 in the US. In 1952 Flam beat Mulloy and Vic Seixas before losing in the semis to Jaroslav Drobny.
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Leah Flam Zatzman. (Mrs. Aronson passed in 2011) In 2019, the Dartmouth Sportsplex was re-named the Zatzman Sportsplex in honour of Mayor Zatzman.
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Aron Flam also operates a stand-up club "Till slut kommer alla onekligen att skratta" ( "TSKAOS"), together with the comics Soran Ismail and Petter Bristav.
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For telepathy, see for example, Randi, James. Flim- Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions. Prometheus Books (June 1982) or Charpak, Georges and Henri Broch.
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The development of a more systematic conceptualization and theorizing about social rules and systems of social rules emerged in the late 1970s in the collaborative work of Thomas Baumgartner, Tom R. Burns, Philippe DeVille, and later Helena Flam, Reinier de Man, Atle Midttun, Anders Olsson, and others. Its formalization stemmed from a number of articles in the early 1980s.Burns et al. (1985) and Burns and Flam (1987), Machado (1998), Carson (2004), Flam and Carson (2008) Social theory concepts such as norm, value, belief, role, social relationship, and institution as well as game were shown to be definable in a uniform way in terms of rules and rule complexes.
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Chapter Off the Deep End in Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions. Prometheus Books. The physicist John Taylor gave The Metal Benders (1981) a negative review.
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Aron Flam (; born 12 June 1978) is a Swedish stand-up comedian, screenwriter, author, television host, podcaster, and actor. He started his career in stand- up comedy in his hometown of Stockholm in 2007. Flam was awarded the "Rookie of the Year" award in 2009 at the Swedish stand-up gala. He is a co-host of the podcast Till slut kommer någon att skratta alongside fellow Swedish comedians Soran Ismail and Petter Bristav.
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She, Fred, and Flim-Flam are once again pursued by the phantom car but are able to evade capture with the Misstery Machine's upgrades installed. Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby infiltrate the castle to help Van Ghoul and reunite with Flim-Flam, Velma, and Fred. They find Van Ghoul defeated. He reveals that Asmodeus is the demon form of his magically powerful ancestor Asomad Van Ghoul and thus blames the impending doom on himself.
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Leopold Flam (16 March 1912 - 29 September 1995) was a Belgian philosopher. Together with Alphonse De Waelhens, Chaïm Perelman and Rudolf Boehm, he was one of leading philosophers of Belgium from the 1960s until the 1980s. Born in Antwerp, Flam studied social sciences, political history, philosophy at the University of Ghent and obtained a PhD in history. During World War II he was imprisoned in the Dossin Barracks at Mechelen and in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
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Hit and Run (also known as Bumper or Hit and Run unrated) is a 2009 horror film directed by Enda McCallion and written by Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur K. Flam (as Arthur Flam). The film tells the story of a young woman who tries to cover up a deadly hit and run accident, only to have the supposedly dead victim come back to terrorize her. The movie has accumulated a modest cult following after its initial release.
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Flam's Planet of the Apes series drew criticism from Creationists. In an interview with Discover magazine, Flam indicated that the most intense criticism of her work came from coverage of climate change.
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Free- floating forms of the left and right arms exist, termed free left Alu monomers (FLAMs) and free right Alu monomers (FRAMs) respectively. A notable FLAM in primates is the BC200 lncRNA.
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It is highly probable that Abraham Dov was family to the Maggid of Lutzk Rabbi Shlomo Flam, the teacher of the Grand Rabbi of Belz and the student of the Maggid of Mezritch.
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Increasingly active as a journalist, he appeared regularly on radio and television. In 1983 he was a co-founder of the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLAM; Force pour la Liberation Africaine de Mauritanie), and in 1986 he was a communication specialist with FLAM when they published the second edition of the Manifesto of the oppressed black Mauritanian. Following this anti-racist publication, which highlighted racial and discriminatory practices by the Mauritanian government, many black leaders were arrested and thrown to jail.
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In spring 2010, he starred in Nyheter24's comedy program "Någonting annat" alongside Soran Ismail. Beside his stand-up career, Flam has also starred as an actor in the 2011 feature film Certain People by Levan Akin and Lisa Östberg and played Death in Michael Rendell's 2012 short film When the Man Comes Around. He has also played a coroner in an Italian thriller. Aron Flam is one of the writers for Kanal 5's Kristallen-winning program Betnér Direkt.
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He subsequently obtained a master's degree in financial economics at Stockholm University. Flam is together with his father also active in the reconstruction of the Jewish comedy scene in Sweden within the Israel Paideia framework.
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In October 2010, started Aron Flam podcast Till slut kommer någon att skratta (TSKNAS), along with comedian Soran Ismail and Petter Bristav. In January 2012, however, he left the podcast due to burnout, but later returned in March of the same year. In spring 2015, Flam formed a stand-up tour called SEMST of Comedy (Super Titan Epic Mega Sweet of Comedy), together with comic colleagues Jonatan Unge, Branislav Pavlovic and Ahmed Berhan. The tour started in Malmö on 9 April 2015 and concluded in Stockholm on 3 May 2015.
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Musink supports a number of marks and settings specific for drummers. These include sticking marks, ghost note brackets, flam-style gracenotes, and special notehead shapes. Layout settings for staves can also be switched to 'drum default' layout rules.
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Sven Viktor Davidson (13 July 1928 – 28 May 2008) was a Swedish tennis player who became the first Swede to win a Grand Slam title when he won the French Championships in 1957, beating Ashley Cooper and Herbert Flam.
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In 1958, the Circus company in Los Angeles published and distributed five reproductions of mounted 8x10 inch paintings. The paintings included the clowns Dilly, Flim, Flam, Helter and Skelter.Portraits of clowns [graphic]. 5 reproductions of paintings ; mounted 8 x 10 in.
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"Klotter, p. 286 He also trumpeted his own moral purity, claiming he "never smoked, chewed, drank, gamblednot even bet on an election." He promised, however, to protect horse-racing in the Commonwealth. In response, Sampson's opponents dubbed him "Flem-Flam Flem.
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Helena Flam (born 2 May 1951) is a Polish-born sociologist and Professor of Sociology at the University of Leipzig, Germany, known for her work on social organization,Ostrom, Elinor. Understanding institutional diversity. Princeton University Press, 2009. emotions and social movements.
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Flam published regular articles in the journal Science from February, 1991 until March, 1995. While her primary topics were described as particle physics and cosmology, she also covered news and events in astronomy, genetics, evolution, and medicine. While a science writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Flam wrote a regular column titled Carnal Knowledge, which ran from 2005 to 2008 and dealt with the science of sexuality, and with the evolution of sex. She then wrote a column on evolution, titled Planet Of The Apes, which ran from April, 2011 to October, 2012, when she left the Inquirer.
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Aron Flam debuted in 2007 as a stand-up comedian in the competition at the Stockholm Comedy Club, which he attended with his friend and colleague Jonatan Unge, with whom he had previously written the book Sista ordet: citat och fakta om döden. Flam won the competition and the following year, 2008, he won the award "Komikaze of the Year". The following year he became the winner in the category "Rookie of the Year" during the Swedish stand-up gala. He has performed at clubs including Stockholm Comedy Club, Norra Brunn, and the television show RAW.
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A regular legislative senate is a complex institutional arrangement. On meso- and macro- levels of analysis, social rule system theory is applied to the description and analysis of institutions such as bureaucracy, markets, political systems, and science – major orders in modern societies.(Burns and Flam, 1987; Carson, 2004; Flam and Carson, 2008; Machado, 1998) This entails more than a study of social structure, or a contribution to neo-institutionalism. It is a theory that analyses the links between social structure in the form of particular institutional arrangements including role relationships, on the one hand, and social action and social interaction, on the other.
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Richardson reached four Grand Slam singles semi finals. At the French championships in 1955, Richardson beat Herbert Flam before losing in the semi finals to Tony Trabert. In 1956 Richardson reached the Wimbledon semi finals (beating Neale Fraser before losing to Lew Hoad).
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After leaving Poland for Sweden in 1969, Flam studied sociology at Lund University, where she obtained a Filosofie kandidat (B.A.) degree in 1977. She then obtained an M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Columbia University's Department of Sociology in 1977, 1978 and 1982, respectively.
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Libyssa () or Libysa (Λίβισσα), was a town on the north coast of the Sinus Astacenus in ancient Bithynia, on the road from Nicaea to Chalcedon. It was celebrated in antiquity as the place containing the tomb of the great Hannibal.Plutarch, Flam. 20; Amm. Marc.
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Vice-Admiral James 'Johnny' Johnson (10 February 1918 - 2 October 1990) was a former Chief of the South African Navy (1 April 1972 to 30 September 1977).South African Defence Force Information website He was nicknamed "Flam" after his wartime red beard - "Vlambaard" in Afrikaans.
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Lugg, A. (1987). Bunkum, Flim-Flam and Quackery: Pseudoscience as a Philosophical Problem. Dialectica, 41(3), 221-230. Some psychotherapists and psychologists practicing various kinds of Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology have continued to use Reich's proposed emotional-release methods and character-analysis ideas.
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Rewenig's Hannert dem Atlantik appeared in 1985 and Manderscheid's childhood trilogy Schacko klak, De papagei um kâschtebam and Feier a flam in 1988.R. Muller, "Les débuts de la littérature luxembourgophone", Projet « Formatioun Lëtzebuergesch: ULG – Campus d'Arlon, 17 February 2007. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
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Kill by Inches is a 1999 independent film written and directed by Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur Flam. The film premiered September 12, 1999 at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Discovery section. It opened in New York City on October 26, 2001.
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The Flim-Flam Man (titled One Born Every Minute in some countries) is a 1967 American comedy film directed by Irvin Kershner, featuring George C. Scott, Michael Sarrazin, and Sue Lyon, based on the 1965 novel The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man by Guy Owen. The movie has well-known character actors in supporting roles, including Jack Albertson, Slim Pickens, Strother Martin, Harry Morgan, and Albert Salmi. The movie is set in the countryside and small towns of the American South, and it was filmed in the Anderson County, Kentucky, area. It is also noted for its folksy musical score by composer Jerry Goldsmith.
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The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man follows the comic adventures of an aging confidence man and his young AWOL sidekick in a thinly fictionalized Bladen County. Mordecai Jones and the guitar playing Curley Treadaway were to become two of Owen's favorite characters. The book was made into a movie in 1967 (The Flim-Flam Man) starring George C. Scott and Michael Sarrazin, and the characters reappeared in two more books to "con" the greedy and gullible who only get what they deserve. The 1970 novel Journey for Joedel won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for best work of fiction by a North Carolinian.
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He was inducted into the International Tennis Association Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1990, inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1992, and inducted into the University of California at Los Angeles Hall of Fame in 2006. Herb Flam Inducted Into UCLA Athletics Hall Of Fame In 2017, he was inducted into the Southern California Tennis Association Hall of Fame. He was born in New York City, and was Jewish. Flam reached his first Grand Slam final at the U.S. championships in 1950, beating Bill Talbert and Gardnar Mulloy before losing to Art Larsen.
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Faye Flam, "Formerly on Ice, Past Unearthed. The Icehouse Found in Philadelphia Gives Glimpse into Colonial History," The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 23, 2001. The project became highly controversial when it was revealed that Washington's slaves had been housed only feet from the planned LBC's main entrance.
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As a young man, Rodriguez worked under the stage name "Roudy" as an assistant to magician James Randi.The Faith Healers, by James Randi, Prometheus Books; 2nd edition (1989) p. 133.Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions, by James Randi. Prometheus Books (June 1982) , pp.
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The Iron Age finds from the large complex of Col de Flam a hill near Urtijëi, e.g. burial offerings from cremation graves, in particular fibulae, rings and iron lance heads, single glass beads and bronze pendants as well as various tools (400-15 B.C. Latène period).
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In 2005, Flam appeared in the TV3 program Rivalerna as one of the 12 participants. He dropped out immediately, however, because he felt that the program was an "incompetent production." He has also appeared in VAKNA! med The Voice and starred in the television program Grillad.
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Herbert Flam (November 7, 1928 – November 25, 1980) was an American tennis player who in 1957 was ranked by Lance Tingay as the World No. 4 amateur (and World No. 5 by Adrian Quist)."Times Have Changed, Says Adrian Quist", The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 October 1957.
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On the basis of ASD theory Burns and Dietz developed a non-biological theory of sociocultural evolution, which they called Social rule system theory. Social rule system theory was formulated in the 1980s by Burns and Helena Flam together with others was a contribution to the New Institutionalism.
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The two prevailing approaches explaining a country's economy focus on either the country's relative proportion of capital and other productive factorsE. Heckscher, B. Ohlin, Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Theory, H. Flam, M. Flanders, Eds. (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991). or on differences in technological capabilities and what underlies them.
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During the 1980s, the Goldsmiths Tavern hosted alternative cabaret nights, organised by Nikky Smedley. Playing host to fledgling acts including The Cholmondeleys, Julian Clary and Vic Reeves. Goldsmiths' Students' Union also had a reputation for putting on established and up and coming bands of the era including The B-52's, The Pogues, The Monochrome Set, Simply Red, Wet Wet Wet and Wild Willy Barrett.. The Irish owners of the Harp Club let The Flim Flam run a regular Friday night club there. The Flim Flam, with their wide music interest, recruited two DJs from Goldsmiths (Allison Webster and Mimi Kerns) to put on a punk and indie night on Saturdays A Million Rubber Bands (later "Totally Wired").
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Davidson also reached the French championships final in the two previous years. In 1955 he beat Budge Patty before losing to Tony Trabert. In 1956 he beat Flam and Cooper before losing to Lew Hoad. He also reached the Wimbledon semi finals in 1957 (beating Seixas before losing to Lew Hoad).
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Flim Flam, 37. He died in Houston, Texas,Houston Chronicle February 22, 1998 Section A, Page 33 He was survived by his wife, Mary; sons Morgan and John; grandchildren William, Alexandra, Elizabeth, George, Charlotte, and Mary Catherine. He was preceded in death by his son, Philip deMarigny.Houston Chronicle, January 30, 1998, 26A.
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Ghazi Shah Mound The Ghazi Shah Mound is most ancient archaeological site located in Johi Tehsil Dadu District Sindh, Pakistan. It was explored by N. G. Majumdar and Louis Flam has also studied and surveyed this ancient site. It is very earliest site of Indus Valley Civilization dates back to 4000 to 6000 years.
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Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions is a 1980 book by magician and skeptic James Randi about paranormal, occult, and pseudoscience claims. The foreword is by science fiction author Isaac Asimov. Randi explores topics which he says that scientists and the media are too willing to promote without skepticism and proper expertise.
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Popoff refused to comment. "Flim flam is his profession," Randi explained to reporter Matt Meaghan. "That's what he does best. He's very good at it, and naturally he's going to go back to it." In May 2007, ABC's 20/20 focused on Popoff's comeback and explored the lives of a few people who felt cheated.
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In C. Gans and D. Crews, Hormones, brain and behavior: Biology of the reptilia, vol. 13, physiology E, pp. 70-113. Joan Roughgarden, a biologist and Darwin-critic, rejected use of the term in the reptile literature, as she says it is "degrading and has been borrowed from the porn industry."Flam, Faye (2008).
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Flim Flam's first major international competition was in 1998, at the World Equestrian Games in Rome. He and rider Sue Blinks finished 12th individually and 4th as part of the US team. In 2000, Flim Flam and Blinks won the US Equestrian Team National Grand Prix Championship. It was stated that he could quietly "steal" the show.
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After the war he became a professor at the Free University of Brussels. He founded the Vlaamse vereniging voor Wijsbegeerte (1959) (E: Flemish League for Philosophy), later of Aurora. He became director of the magazine Geschiedenis in het onderwijs (E: History in education). Flam died at his home in Vilvoorde, near Brussels, on 29 September 1995.
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Pratkanis is an amateur magician and a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Society of American Magicians. He uses magic tricks such as cold reading and levitation in his course, The Social Psychology of Flim Flam, as an effective way to teach critical thinking; proving to his students that even their college professor can fool them.
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Flim-Flam! specifies that the winner of the Pigasus Award falls in one of four possible categories: # The scientist who said or did the silliest thing relating to parapsychology in the preceding twelve months. # The funding organization that supports the most useless parapsychological study during the year. # The media outlet that reported as fact the most outrageous paranormal claim.
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The girl, named Margi, knows for the first time her "sister" in the hospital and immediately a bond is created between them full of affection and complicity. Margi, moreover, allows her little sister to finally recover from blindness: in fact, thanks to the transplantation of her stem cells into the body of Flam, Margi can allow the doctors to continue the operation in the eyes, which will eventually have a positive outcome. Flam is helped, as in the second season, by Chicco, who, being deeply attached to the child, will be a real reference for her: not surprisingly, the boy helps her make the most of the gift of sight through her discovery of colors. Margi, will fall in love with Bobo, who initially will not be attracted to her, being in love with Nina.
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Flam is a frequent speaker at conferences. At first her appearances were related to her book, The Score, such as when she discussed it as part of the 2008 Wistar Author Series, and her talk, Are Males the More Interesting Sex? at The Philadelphia Science Festival. More recently, she has spoken to promote science journalism and communication skills to scientific and skeptical forums.
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She is often called just "Flam" for short. She appears to be a girl in her teenage years, with long silver hair and sharp magenta eyes. She wears a white straitjacket with nine padlocks, although she says that she chose to wear it herself because she thought it "matches Hal's tastes". Flamberge, like Dalian, is a 'vase world', containing a library inside her.
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Duke U Cancer Fraud Scandal: A Cautionary Tale For Obama's Precision Medicine Push, Faye Flam, 17 February 2015 (Forbes website)"Liquid biopsies" for cancer screening: Life-saving tests, or overdiagnosis and overtreatment taken to a new level? David Gorski, September 2015, Science-Based Medicine websiteA public discussion by cancer patients from 2011 on the melanoma.org website shows costs and claims.
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In 2008, near the end of her term as author of the Carnal Knowledge column, Flam published a book, The Score: How the Quest for Sex has Shaped the Modern Man, a scientific review of the evolution of sex and of the sexual behaviour of the human male. (In some countries, the book is published with the alternate title, The Score: The Science of the Male Sex Drive.) Psychology Today described the book "not only...highly entertaining and titillating" but "scientifically rigorous and informative", while New Scientist called The Score "at its best when it is exploring the advantages or peculiarities of other species". Flam took part in several interviews associated with the release of the book. In a Salon interview she discussed the evolution of human gender roles, including the theory that risk-taking behavior in men evolved through sexual selection.
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Institutional change entails changes in particular rule complexes and/or enforcement activities to the effect that new or deviant patterns of action and interaction are generated and encouraged.(Burns and Flam, 1987; Levi, 1990) Social rule system theorists point to three major power mechanisms of rule system reproduction and change to explain the evolution of social rule systems and institutional arrangements:(Burns and Carson, 2002; Burns and Dietz, 1992; Flam and Carson, 2008; Stinchcombe, 1968) the selective action of the environment; the constraining and facilitating conditions of institutional arrangements with their technologies, available resources, and participants; and creative/destructive human agency. Selective environments operate to bring about the successes of some rule structures and the failure of others and, thereby, shifts in the prevalence of different forms. Rule system changes may be also initiated by social agents.
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Scott returned to Broadway in 1967 to direct Dr. Cook's Garden by Ira Levin but quit during tryouts. As an actor, he appeared in a revival of The Little Foxes (1967–68) directed by Mike Nichols, which ran for 100 performances. Scott starred in The Flim-Flam Man (1967) and Petulia (1968). He appeared in the made for television movie Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall (1969).
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Art historian Jack Flam further emphasizes the color ratios (the use of black) and composition between the canvas and the MNAM painting and two of the most important works of 1916, Les Demoiselles à la rivière and Les Marocains. These arguments lead to the conclusion that The Painter and His Model was painted by Matisse toward the end of 1916, and possibly finished early 1917.
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She played a mission worker in 7 Women (1965), director John Ford's last feature film. Lyon played the female lead in the comedy The Flim-Flam Man (1967) and had a supporting role in Tony Rome (1967), which starred Frank Sinatra. She played the wife of daredevil Evel Knievel in the film Evel Knievel (1971).Evel Knievel : Press Kit, Cast, Crew, Synopsis, Movie Posters, onesheetindex.
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It peaked at #97 on the Billboard 200, then known as the Pop Albums chart. Starting with this release the song "Hands Off the Man" was retitled "Flim Flam Man (Hands Off the Man)". Columbia Records re-issued The First Songs with all-new cover art (featuring a rose illustration) in 1973. In 1999, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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Most of the small-town scenes in the movie Elizabethtown (2005) were filmed in Versailles. It was also the setting of the movie Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005). The cemetery scene in the film Secretariat (2010), about one of Kentucky's major race and stud horses, was filmed at Pisgah Pike Church. The Flim-Flam Man (1967) was filmed at several locations near Versailles.
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Without any coaching, in 1950 Savitt reached the U. S. Tennis Championship semifinals at Forest Hills, losing to Art Larsen. In 1951, at the age of 24, Savitt won the Wimbledon Singles Championship. Along the way he beat Larsen, the # 1 US player, in straight sets, and Herbert Flam, the # 2 US player. He also won the Australian Open Singles title, winning in straight sets in the 61-minute final.
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The article was reviewed favourably by other bloggers, notably Jerry Coyne in Why Evolution Is True. This approach continued, with Higgs guest-authoring other posts in the Planet Of The Apes blog, and "Higgs, the Science Cat" publishing his own science articles in Parade, with Flam calling herself "assistant to Higgs". The Parade articles ran from April to June of 2013, and covered primarily biology and astronomy topics.
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Older Roland machines can be synchronized via its DIN sync port (a precursor to MIDI). The 909 features a sequencer that can chain up to 96 patterns into songs of up to 896 measures, and controls including shuffle and flam. It features an improved accent feature, allowing users to accent particular beats or sounds. Roland changed elements of the 909 during its lifetime, correcting problems and adjusting sounds.
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At Wimbledon he lost in round one to Istvan Sikorski. The highlight of Gardini's career was when he won the title at Rome in 1955, beating Herbert Flam, Enrique Morea and Giuseppe Merlo. The final was a dramatic match. Merlo led by 2 sets to 1 and had two championship points in the fourth set, but suffered from cramps and was forced to retire at 6–6 in the fourth set.
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Faye Flam, "Formerly on Ice, Past Unearthed. The Icehouse Found in Philadelphia Gives a Glimpse into Colonial History," The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 23, 2001. A technological marvel built by Robert Morris in the early 1780s, the icehouse had been a windowless building erected over an octagonal stone-walled pit, in diameter and deep.Rebecca Yamin, Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archeology, Yale University Press, 2008.
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Airey was a very prolific poet writing under the pen-names "P. Luftig", "Philander Flam" and "Furness Born" as well as his own, although no collection of his works has been published to date. The Bulletin described his verse in 1904 as "a task entered upon as doggedly and conscientiously as the correction of school exercises and with as little poetic inspiration", but admitted occasional flights of something better.
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He won the U.S. Senior (45-over) Indoor titles in both 1964 and 1965, and was also the 1964 Outdoor Clay Court Champion. During the late 1960s, he got to the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Senior Doubles three different times. In his tennis career he had wins over Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder, and Herbie Flam. In 1997 he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
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In an audio interview on the Radio Times program on WHYY-FM, Flam revealed that her original plan for the book had it starting with evolutionary theory, but that the receipt of a book on the "Mystery method" from a publicist gave her the idea to start with the lighter subject of the visit to the "seduction boot camp". In discussing the topics taught at the boot camp, she explained that one of the proposed methods - making a first appearance at social events in the company of other women, in order to appear more acceptable and less threatening - may have some scientific validity, in the theory of mate choice copying. Flam realized that elements of mate choice copying were also employed by other animals, a concept that is now generally accepted in the field. In another audio interview, she also discussed the plausibility of other popular sexual evolutionary and behavioural theories, such as Testosterone poisoning.
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In 2020, Flam published a controversial book titled "Det här är en svensk tiger" ("This is a Swedish Tiger") which addresses the official policies of Sweden during World War II. In the book, Flam claims that under the guise of neutrality Sweden assisted the German war effort intentionally and consistently. He casts Swedish efforts to save Jews from Nazi persecution as insignificant, and criticizes the appraisal of these efforts by many historians as highly exaggerated. Swedish prosecutors have seized the entire third print run of the book (2000 copies) and seek to destroy them; they claim that an image on the cover of the book, a tiger sporting Sweden’s national colors of blue and yellow, infringes on the copyright of a war-time information campaign, now owned by the Swedish Military Preparedness Museum (Beredskapsmuseet). The matter is expected to be presented to a court on 24 September 2020, and has ignited a vigorous debate in Swedish media on censorship and the boundaries of satire.
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A flam consists of two single strokes played by alternating hands (rL or lR). The first stroke is a quieter grace note followed by a louder primary stroke on the opposite hand. The two notes are played almost simultaneously, and are intended to sound like a single, broader note. The temporal distance between the grace note and the primary note can vary depending on the style and context of the piece being played.
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The same year he was also the editor of Jag bombade, an anthology concerning life as a stand up comedian. In autumn 2013, the first season of Flam's self-produced program Folkets främsta företrädare aired on SVT Play. Folkets främsta företrädare is an infotainment television series with satire on various parts of the Swedish government and similar topics. Flam speaks to the camera, together with others including David Druid and Henrik Dorsin.
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320 in Primitivism: Twentieth Century Art, A Documentary History, Jack Flam and Miriam Deutch, editors. The 19th century saw for the first time the emergence of historicism, or the ability to judge different eras by their own context and criteria. A result of this, new schools of visual art arose that aspired to hitherto unprecedented levels of historical fidelity in setting and costumes. Neoclassicism in visual art and architecture was one result.
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A previously disregarded reference in the Mirabilia Urbis Romae ("Circus Flammineus Ad Pontem Ludeorum"), which placed it near the Pons Fabricius, and a fragment of the Marble Plan labelled "CIR FLAM" which fitted south of the Portico of Octavia, confirmed the Circus to be roughly located between the Tiber to the south and the Porticos of Octavia and Phillipus to the north, and hemmed in by the Theatre of Marcellus to the east.
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" Dave Langford reviewed Flim-Flam! for White Dwarf #43, and stated that "Always he thrusts before your nose the parts of the story which believers' books omit: even if inclined towards the loony, I mean the uncritical viewpoint, you should consult these books for the devil's advocate arguments. They are important. In a world where an ounce of sensationalism sells better than a ton of rationality any day, they are very important.
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In his later film career, he appeared in Inherit the Wind (1960), How the West Was Won (1962) (as Ulysses S. Grant), John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965), Frankie and Johnny (1966), The Flim-Flam Man (1967), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), Support Your Local Gunfighter! (1971), Snowball Express (1972), The Shootist (1976), The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979), and as Captain Gannon in the film version of Dragnet (1987) with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks.
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But she is also described as having read fairy tales to Mabel Nash's younger sister in novel Volume 1 Chapter 5. ; : :Flamberge's Keykeeper. He has sharp blue eyes and long side-swept brown hair. He and Flam do not have a very good relationship, and he will often use the phrase "Keep your mouth shut, you piece of junk" in response to Flam's endless accusations of him being a pervert, making it almost something of a catchphrase for him.
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Almqvist died in 1972 and in 2002 the copyright of the poster/logo was transferred to the (Military Preparedness Museum). After eleven years of legal battle, the Swedish Armed Forces, who had been using the image without permission, paid SEK 700 000 in damages to the copyright owners in 2008. In 2020, the Swedish satirist Aron Flam was prosecuted for copyright infringement after using a variant of the image in his book "Det här är en svensk tiger".
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Besser Manufacturing Company held a dominant position in manufacturing concrete block–making machines. It acquired several patents for automatically making concrete block. In 1948 it succeeded in acquiring control of its principal competitor, Stearns Manufacturing Company, and the two firms accounted for 65% of dollar sales volume in 1948; the other 35% was divided among 53 companies, two of which had 14% together and the rest had the remaining 21%. In 1946, Besser had acquired Stephen Flam, Inc.
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He gained a contract with Universal Studios. His early appearances include episodes of The Virginian (1965) and Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as well as the TV film The Doomsday Flight (1966) and the feature Gunfight in Abilene (1967). 20th Century Fox borrowed him for a starring role in The Flim- Flam Man (1967) with George C. Scott. Universal then co-starred him against Anthony Franciosa in A Man Called Gannon (1968) and James Caan in Journey to Shiloh (1968).
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He also decided to incorporate a flam, in which two drum strokes are staggered, creating a fuller sound, which Gary considered to be crucial to the song's success. In an interview with The Washington Post, Fieger also noted that the song was written from the perspective of a 14-year-old boy. The song's stuttering vocal effect of the repeated "muh muh muh my Sharona" phrase is reminiscent of Roger Daltrey's vocals in the 1965 song "My Generation" by the Who.
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Jack D. Flam, Matisse on Art, paperback edition, 1978, E. P. Dutton, p.10, The Open Window depicts the view out the window of his apartment in Collioure, on the Southern coast of France. We see sailboats on the water, as viewed from Matisse's hotel window overlooking the harbour. He returned frequently to the theme of the open window in Paris and especially during the years in Nice and Etretat, and in his final years, particularly during the late 1940s.
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According to the sources, several historical Gradlons existed: Gradlon Meur is cited in a cartulary of Landévennec, but there is also a Gradlon Flam and Gradlon Plueneuor (Plonéour). They are generally classified as consul, which can be understood as the count - as the Latin texts translate the Breton title of mac'htiern by "tyrant". They would have most likely lived between the 5th and 9th centuries. In the Gallo-Roman era, the capital of Osismes - predecessors of Cornouailles, Trégorrois and Léonards - was Carhaix.
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All micro- versions had three modes: 'BARS' mode was used to create individual patterns and 'SONG' mode to align patterns in desired order to create a tune (exactly as pattern- based music sequencers do). There was also a third Real-Time mode for playing with the keyboard. Simple Flam effect and Pitch adjust for every sample were also possible, as well as the main tempo change. Each micro version had unique sets of sounds, thus producing different genres of tunes.
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" Jack Kirwan writing in the National Review embraced the tone of the book describing the writing as "a juicy knock-'em-down style" and stating, "Randi takes on the heavies of the paranormal scene - von Däniken, UFOs, Uri Geller, TM - and feeds them into the meat grinder of critical investigation." The San Francisco Chronicle stated, "Flim-Flam! is an excellent overview of paranormal claims that analyzes medical humbugs, psychic photography, Transcendental Meditation, ancient astronauts, UFOs, etc. Plentiful photographs catch hoaxers in the act.
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Finally, in Salacious Science: What I Learned from Writing an Infamous Sex Column she discussed her long-running column and the broad range of reactions it received. She presented a similar talk to The Center for Science and the Common Good at Ursinus College later that year. Flam was a presenter at the 2013 edition of The Amaz!ng Meeting, speaking on the importance of countering misleading and uncritical media coverage, and later blogged about her experience interacting with the skeptics, magicians, and scientists who attended.
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He is currently working on A Magician in the Laboratory, which recounts his application of skepticism to science. He was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of his good friend Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers.Asimov 1994 Other books are Flim-Flam! (1982), The Faith Healers (1987), James Randi, Psychic Investigator (1991), Test Your ESP Potential (1982) and An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (1995).
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Charles was captain of the 1906 wooden schooner Mary E he purchased in 1973 and restored, and later captained the boat Pilgrim out of Greenport, New York (on the North Fork of Long Island) and performed music locally. In his last years, he began performing again after spending some years at sea. His last recording was the 2011 collaboration with Wily Bo Walker and Danny Flam featuring the song "You Don't Know What Love Is". He died of heart failure in 2012, aged 84.
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'Oppenheimer, Mark. "An Illustrated Guide to the 613 Jewish Commandments." The New York Times, October 30, 2015. According to The Washington Post, The 613 "boasts a murderer's row of testimonials."Among those who submitted published praise for The 613 were Art Spiegelman, John Ashbery, Ang Lee, Jules Feiffer, Leonard Nimoy, Jack Flam, Cynthia Ozick, John Baldessari, Barry Schwabsky, Malcolm Morley, Janet Fish, Ben Katchor, Audrey Flack, Rabbi Steven Greenberg, Joan Snyder, Leroy Neiman, Amiri Baraka, David Plante, Will Eisner, Laura Kruger, and Rabbi Laura Geller.
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Sometime before March 1860 he founded a newspaper, the Standard. He was a founding member of Gawler's "Humbug Society" (whose members included L. S. Burton, George Isaacs, J. D. Stow and Dr. George Nott) and was that organization's inaugural "Grand Flam". It was the Humbug Society and The Bunyip, a newspaper which sponsored his election to the House of Assembly seat of Barossa, which he won by 60 votes and served from March 1860 to November 1862. He did not contest the following election.
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The Times noted the Magic Wand was relatively new to the market in the United Kingdom, where it became available in 2004. The Magic Wand was number seven of the top ten hand-held massagers sold on Amazon.com. Faye Flam writing for Knight Ridder Newspapers reported in 2006 that the Magic Wand was exempt from anti-vibrator laws in Alabama, Georgia, and Texas because it did not appear to be a phallic object. In 2006 the device was among the top-selling masturbation aids in the market.
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Their particular social contacts produced an advantage from which they could compile a world- renowned art collection.Matisse in the Cone Collection — The Poetics of Vision by Jack Flam The Cone sisters compiled a large collection of paintings and sculptures by Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Paul Cézanne. The Cone sisters never married; this was the case for about ten percent of women during this time period. Customary to their rank in society, they traveled extensively in the company of other women.
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Skaterdater had been made for $17,000 and sold to United Artists for $50,000, winning the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, and being nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Film. Turman described the novel as "a hip horror story about today's alienated youth." Black said it was about "a Walter Mitty type who comes up against a teenybopper Lady Macbeth." Turman had just made The Flim Flam Man for 20th Century Fox and obtained finance from the same studio.
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Phillip Wilcher's has composed over 100 works for solo piano, pieces for soloist and piano as well as chamber ensembles. His music was described by The Sydney Morning Heralds Steve Dow as "an eclectic mix of classical and flim-flam". Wilcher's compositions are influenced by Chopin and J.S. Bach, and some of his works are notable for their use of Eastern scales, such as his Six Etudes, which uses Chinese and Japanese scales. He has composed music for pianist Aaron McMillan, and for musician and former ABC broadcaster, news reader and journalist, Clive Robertson.
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Like other rulers before him, he promised a swift transfer to democracy, but then made little of these promises. The discord between conflicting visions of Mauritanian society as either black or Arab, again rose to the surface during the inter-communal violence that broke out in April 1989 (the "1989 Events"), when a Mauritania–Senegal border dispute escalated into violence between the two communities. Tens of thousands of black Mauritanians fled or were expelled from the country, and many remain in Senegal as refugees. This is also where the black Mauritanian movement FLAM is based.
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Alvin and the Chipmunks recorded the song for "Film Flam", a 1985 episode of their TV series. In 2004, the band Hanson released their version during their Underneath Acoustic Live. Cliff Richard featured a version on his 100th album in 2013, titled The Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll Songbook. In 1997, Japanese singer- songwriter Eiichi Ohtaki recorded a song called "陽気に行こうぜ～恋にしびれて"—the Japanese title of "Rip It Up" and Elvis Presley’s "All Shook Up", respectively—which ‘merges’ the two songs into one.
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He was the California state junior champion at age 18. He was a radio operator for three years in the United States Army Air Corps while in Guam, and played and lost to Bobby Riggs in the finals of the Army-Navy Championships in 1945. In 1947, playing doubles for Rice University, Match along with his doubles partner Bob Curtis beat Herbert Flam and Gene Garrett of UCLA 6–4, 8–10, 3–6, 6–2, 7–5 to win the NCAA doubles title. Match twice defeated US No. 1, Pancho Gonzales.
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In the larger towns and cities, the authorities targeted black civil servants, employees of private institutions, trade unionists, former political prisoners and, in some instances, the wives of political prisoners.Amnesty International, Mauritania: Human rights violations in the Senegal river valley, 2 October 1990 Tens of thousands of black Mauritanians fled or were expelled from the country, and many remain in Senegal as refugees. This is also where the black Mauritanian movement FLAM is based. Although tension has since subsided, the Arab-African racial tension remains an important feature of the political dialogue today.
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"Stoney End", composed by Laura Nyro, was released in the US as a single and charted at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart and also reached number 27 on the UK singles chart. "Time and Love" reached Number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 3 on the AC Chart. "Hands Off the Man", the final single, was officially titled "Flim Flam Man" (and backed with "Maybe"). It spent 5 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at 82.
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In 1995, the band released its most successful album, Tou Cho Tou Flam, which generated seven hits out of the 11-track album, one of which was the huge hit "Balance Batty", which remains popular to this day. By the launch of the band's seventh album, Original Hold Dem, WCK were at the apotheosis of their popularity. That album contained popular tracks like "Mete Veye", "Original Hold Dem", "Nomn La" and "Preg Dance See". To establish their musical strength, prowess and creativity, the band toured the US, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean from 1995 – 1998.
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In contrast to Huey's technique of retrieving Phantom Books from Dalian, the method used by Hal to retrieve books from Flam in the novel is very similar but requires a bit more unwrapping. When he asks her "Art thou mankind--?" she shakes her hair and laughs madly while he unwraps her, before answering. In the anime the retrieval is shown to be very raw, painful and less dignified. Flamberge is often seen as a very arrogant and unpleasantly blunt character, and enjoys harassing Hal by accusing him of having perverted tendencies or a dirty mind.
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Returning to Sweden, she did research at the Scandinavian Institutes of Administrative Research (SIAR) and SIFO as well as Uppsala University (1984–85). She then worked for the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (1985–87).Prof. Dr. Helena Flam at University of Leipzig, 2013. In 1987, inadvertently, her academic career in Germany began: she was first a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, then assistant professor at the University of Konstanz (1990-1993), and eventually full professor of sociology at the University of Leipzig.
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Body II Ocul, Cap, Corp, Derm, Opt (Ophth), Head, Dent, Cyclops 4\. Fire Ign, Torr, Pyr, Therm, Helio, Flam, Sol, Holocaust, inferno, in, barbecue 5\. Looking Spec, Scope, Vid (Vis), Orama, Iris, Roy G Biv 6\. Numbers I Bi, 2, tw, mono, 1, uni, (unicorn) 7\. Numbers II Pan, Poly, Multi, Ambi (Amphi), Googol, Semi, Hemi, Half, 8\. Numbers III 100, cent, Dec, Quadr, Quart, 4, tri, triskaidekaphobia, trivia, square, all, 9\. Walk and Run Gress, Grad, Cur, Drom, Fug, Ambul 10\. Water Aqua, Mar, Flu, Sea, Und, Hydr, H2O, Hydra, diluv, antediluvian 11\.
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Euroa is roughly midway between Melbourne and Albury. The area is geographically very flat, as the town is located in the huge Goulburn Valley, however the Strathbogie Ranges are not far away. Euroa contains several retirement villages, one high school, two primary schools (one Catholic) a Chinese restaurant called the Flam Shan and a lovely golf club where no thongs or singlets are allowed. Euroa also has a range of accommodation options such as the Euroa Motor Inn, Castle Creek Motor Inn, Jolly Swagman Motor Inn and Accommodation Euroa.
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FLAM was founded in 1983 (co-founded by Ibrahima Moctar Sarr) as tensions had increased between the two ethnicities following severe political instability and a controversial land reform enacted under Col. Mohamed Khouna Ould Heidalla's military government. The group endorsed, but did not initiate, a violent overthrow of the regime, and was quickly outlawed. In 1986, it published the Manifesto of the oppressed black Mauritanian, which detailed government discrimination, and demanded the overthrow of the "Beidane System" (Beidane is an Arabic language-appellation for the Arabophone Moorish elite).
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In an orchestral context, the cymbals are held by their straps with the thumb and index finger closest to the bell, not unlike holding a drumstick. The cymbals are held at a forty-five degree angle with the dominant hand holding the cymbal over the other. To crash, there is a brief prep motion in which the arms move away from each other, before finally dropping the dominant handed cymbal on top of the bottom cymbal. Properly played crashes will be played like a flam where the bottom of the cymbals touch before meeting at the top.
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This blog was launched in 2012 with a review of the controversy among historians over whether Ben Franklin's famous experiment with a kite in a lightning storm ever really happened. She regularly writes articles on astronomy, conspiracy theories, biology, and pseudoscience. Flam's articles have frequently been republished by other journals and sites, including The Washington Post, the News Herald, The Japan Times, and the Richard Dawkins Foundation. While writing the Planet Of The Apes blog for the Inquirer, Flam wrote an article about evolution as though the responses had been written by her cat, Higgs, to emphasize the simplicity of the reasoning.
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In January 2016, Flam started his own podcast Dekonstruktiv kritik ("Deconstructive Criticism") in which he conduct interviews in Swedish or English with an invited guest on a wide range of topics. Some of the topics are, or have been, considered sensitive, controversial or even taboo to examine or criticize in the public discourse in Sweden. Some recurring topics are drugs, immigration, feminism, socialism and Sweden during World War II. As of September 2018, 95 episodes have been produced. The podcast is published on several platforms like Acast, SoundCloud and YouTube and is (2017) considered one of the most financially successful pods in Sweden.
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In July 1914, Henri Matisse had an exhibition at the Gurlitt gallery, for which Michael and Sarah Stein, Americans living in Paris and brother and sister-in-law of Gertrude Stein, had lent nineteen paintings from their collection. (Flam, 1995, pp. 229). The pictures were lost in the first days of World War I "and subsequently confiscated, or threatened with confiscation", but "they survived intact [even though they] never returned to Paris, resurfacing after complex and protracted negotiations in private hands in Copenhagen (where [many] can be seen today in the Statens Museum for Kunst)." (Spurling, 2003).
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Daphne, Van Ghoul, Scooby, and Shaggy tail him but are attacked by the phantom car again which uses its revving engine to create an avalanche. Vincent finds he is unable to use his magic and the four crash into a temple. Meanwhile, Fred and Velma search a seemingly abandoned post office and unknowingly meet an adult Flim-Flam who tries to sell them Chest of Demons merchandise and ghost-catching equipment. They leave but are snatched up by something even Velma can't explain and she comes to the conclusion that it must have been real ghosts.
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Meadows Games was a developer and manufacturer of coin-operated video games established by Harry Kurek as a subsidiary of his contract manufacturing company, Meadows Manufacturing, in 1974. Kurek established the company because he felt the economy of the United States was headed into a recession and he wanted to enter a business he felt would be "recession proof." The company scored a major hit with its 1974 release Flim-Flam, a cocktail-table ball-and- paddle game that sold over 12,000 units. Subsequent games were not as successful, and Kurek sold the company to Holosonics in 1978.
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The ‘dreambody’ concept was developed in the 1970s while Mindell was a practicing Jungian analyst, derived from his observation of connections between people's dreams and their body symptoms and published in Dreambody: the Body's Role in Revealing the Self (Routledge, 1982). Mindell's therapeutic technique has been compared to Fritz Perls: “The most striking difference, at least from Perls himself, is one of mood – Mindell's work is playful, supportive and permissive rather than confrontational.” Another commentator writes: “Mindell … exemplifies both the good and bad of contemporary dreamwork. On the first score: there is a bit of flim-flam about Mindell.
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Jerry Goldsmith, Best Original Score – Motion Picture nominations and wins at the Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved 2011-02-18. During this time, he also composed for many lighter, comedic films such as the family comedy The Trouble with Angels (1966), the James Bond parodies Our Man Flint (1966) and its sequel In Like Flint (1967), and the comedy The Flim-Flam Man (1967). In 1968, Goldsmith caught massive critical attention with his landmark, controversial soundtrack to the post-apocalyptic science fiction epic Planet of the Apes, which was one of the first film scores to be written entirely in an Avant garde style.
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Cynoscephalae (, meaning "dog's heads") was the name of a range of hills in ancient Thessaly, a little to the south of Scotussa, in whose territory they were situated. They are described by Polybius as rugged, broken, and of considerable height; and are memorable as the scene of two battles: Battle of Cynoscephalae (364 BC), between the Thebans and Alexander of Pherae, in which Pelopidas was slain; and Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BC), of still greater celebrity, in which Philip V of Macedon was defeated by the Roman consul Titus Quinctius Flamininus.Plut. Pel. 32.Plut. Flam. 8.
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1985 saw the debut of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, which featured Daphne, Shaggy, Scooby, Scrappy, and new characters Flim-Flam (voiced by Susan Blu) and Vincent Van Ghoul (based upon and voiced by Vincent Price) traveling the globe to capture "thirteen of the most terrifying ghosts upon the face of the earth." The final first-run episode of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo aired in December 1985, and after its reruns were removed from the ABC lineup the following March, no new Scooby series aired on the network for the next two years.
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Norwood Pratt has just finished his enlistment in the United States Marine Corps and is on his way home from Vietnam. A musician, his one great ambition is to appear on the radio program Louisiana Hayride. Along the way, Norwood meets a variety of characters, including Grady Fling, a flim-flam man; Yvonne Phillips, a hooker; Marie, a jaded would-be starlet; and his Marine buddy Joe William Reese. However, the most important person that he meets is Rita Lee Chipman, the "right kind of girl," who is unfortunately an unwed soon-to-be mother at a time when this was uncommon and somewhat shameful.
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In 1957, he and Mike Green reached the Quarterfinals of the 1957 Wimbledon Men's Doubles, losing to Lew Hoad and Neale Fraser. He competed at Wimbledon in 1957, 1959, and 1964. In his tennis career he defeated the following tennis champions: Rod Laver, Alex Olmedo, Arthur Ashe, Gil Shea, Ulf Schmidt, Jon Douglas, Barry MacKay, Herb Flam, Mike Green, Warren Woodcock, Donald Dell, Allen Fox, Charlie Pasarell, Tom Brown, Dennis Ralston, Ron Holmberg, John Newcombe, Bob Hewitt, Fred Stolle, Vic Seixas, Rafael Osuna, Mal Anderson, Billy Knight, Billy Talbert, Billy Lenoir, and Sammy Giammalva. He never beat Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall, or Roy Emerson.
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The Cabernet reserve of Flam winery of the Judean hills, was included in the important ' La Revue Du Vin France' French magazinelist of 100 outstanding wines. Galil Mountain winery won two awards in the 'Citadelles du Vin 2011' competition which was held at the Vinexpo 2011 in France. In Hugh Johnson's wine pocket book, written by the British important wine critic, Domaine du Castel winery received the full 4 stars and Yatir winery 3-4 stars, the highest rating available, since 2008. Hugh Johnson has also selected Domaine du Castel's Grand Vin wine to be one of his personal 200 favorite wines from all around the world.
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The band was formed in 1984, by Johny Brown in New Cross, South London. Early experiments revolved around cheap junk shop instrumentation and rudimentary electronics. After two self-issued cassettes, they signed to South London indie label Flim Flam for a string of singles and two 1987 albums; More Tales From The City and the live LP When Stars Come Out To Play. The band reached a commercial and critical peak after signing to Rough Trade, with Manic, Magic, Majestic in 1989, and Positively Spooked in 1990, supported by a tour of the U.S.S.R. The label was forced into receivership in 1991 following cash flow problems and eventual bankruptcy.
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Ibrahima Sarr was sentenced to four years in jail. In 1989, after being released from jail, Sarr resigned from FLAM and ceased his political activities until the democratization process was started in 1992 by President Taya. Sarr then joined the Popular Progressive Alliance (APP) under Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, becoming a leading member of the party. He later left the APP.Birome Guèye, "IBRAHIMA SARR, LEADER DE l’AJD/MR : En quête d’ouverture", Africanglobalnews.com, August 24, 2007 . Sarr stood in the March 2007 presidential election on an anti-racist platform. In order to facilitate his candidacy, he founded the "Movement for National Reconciliation", although he stood as an independent.
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Backing off an arsenic-eating claim By Faye Flam, Dec. 17, 2010Arsenic about face: NASA's arsenic debacle tells us a lot about what's wrong about the relationship between science, peer review and the media in the 21st century by Martin Robbins, 2010-12-08 Wolfe-Simon left USGS in May 2011. Wolfe-Simon maintains she did not leave voluntarily, but was "effectively evicted" from the USGS group. The Science article "A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus" appeared in the June 3, 2011 print version of Science; it had remained on the "Publication ahead of print" ScienceXpress page for six months after acceptance for publication.
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When Werrason's college band Wenge Musica 4x4 BCBG split in December 1997. Werrason, Masela, and Dominguez then created Wenge Musica Maison Mère, a band based at Zamba Playa in Kinshasa. With the help of among others Sankara de Kunta and Zachary Babaswe, Werrason travelled the country to recruit young musicians; his primary band members were Masela, Dominguez, Ferre Gola, Baby Ndombe, Seseli Adjani, JDT Mulopwe, Celeo Scram, Bill Kalondji, Serge Mabiala, Didier Lacoste, Lay Chou, Michael Shendu, guitarists Flam Kapaya, Japonaise Maladi, Christian Mwepu, and drummers Papay Kakol and Ali Mbonda. His first album, Force d'Intervention Rapide was released at the end of 1998.
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Her husband and business partner, Christopher Noxon, indicated that she is planning on using the second floor as production offices for writers and editors on her TV shows.Ng, David (March 13, 2014) "Historic Hayworth Theatre is entering a new stage of life" Los Angeles Times In 2017,former Hollywood Improv booker and artistic director Jamie Flam launched a kickstarter campaign to reopen the venue under the name Dynasty Typewriter at The Hayworth. Operating as a hub for comedy, variety, screenings, and more, the new venue launched in January 2018 and has since hosted a multitude of shows and events, including performances by Ilana Glazer, Patton Oswalt, and Margaret Cho.
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The song was written by the lead singer, David Coverdale, and former Whitesnake guitarist, Bernie Marsden. The most notable difference between the original and re-recorded versions are a slight change in the lyrics and a different pace, as well as a missed "flam" at 4:22. The chorus of the original version features the lines: > And here I go again on my own Goin' down the only road I've ever known Like > a hobo I was born to walk alone In an interview, Coverdale explained that "hobo" was changed to "drifter" in the re-recorded version to ensure that it would not be misheard as "homo".
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Bédard and Fontana lost the doubles rubber in four sets as well; these were the only two sets during the tie that Canada won, in consolation. The following year Canada again opened with a win over the West Indies, this time in Port of Spain and dropping only one set. This set up an encounter with the United States in Victoria. Fontana was soundly defeated by Ham Richardson to open the tie, 1–6, 2–6, 2–6. In Round 2, Bédard won the first set against Herb Flam, 6–2, before succumbing to his more accomplished opponent, 2–6, 1–6, 9–11.
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Malow-Iroff, M. "cross-sex Best Friendship Influences on Early Adolescent Cigarette and Alcohol Expectancies and Use", "The Journal of Psychology", 2006. Adolescents mainly look for cross-sex friends who are sociable, as they expect less from these friendships as they do from same-sex friends. Another study by Ami Flam Kuttler, Annette M. La Greca, and Mitchell J Prinstein surveyed 223 students from grades 10 through 12. The study concluded that although the number of cross-sex friendships in adolescents increase with age, both girls and boys felt a sense of stronger companionship and prosocial support with their friends of the same sex.
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The lower caves are called "Satt Ghariyoon" (Seven Caves)..Nearby the upper caves, the top of the hill is surrounded by very ancient compound wall which is constructed with stones. The remains of ancient settlement and very old potsherds have been explored. The discovered earthenware or ceramic material refers to earlier Indus Valley Civilisation while the period of caves has been considered as the Stone Age..In the vicinity of Kai Valley, close to Kai Caves, the other sites of Bulo-Ji-Buthi, Nuko-Buthi, Kai-Buthi and Naig have been discovered belonging to prehistoric and Chalcolithic periods.. Dr. Louis Flam had visited the Kai Caves with native archaeologist Taj Sehrai in 1976.
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The TR-707 provides four levels of shuffle that operate globally on the rhythm, as well as flam that can be applied to any step. The device offers 64 programmable patterns, which are editable via step-write or tap-write, that can be sequenced together into any of four different tracks. Patterns and tracks can be stored on the device (providing that two AA batteries are inserted) or onto an optional memory cartridge with twice the capacity. The TR-707 is particularly sought after by users of Roland gear from the same era because it can synchronize with other hardware via both MIDI and DIN sync, although it cannot do so when controlled by other hardware.
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Social rule systems are used to examine all levels of human interaction.(Burns and Flam, 1987; Carson, 2005; Giddens, 1984; Goffman, 1974; Harré, 1979; Lotman, 1975; Posner, 1989, among others) They provide more than potential constraints on action possibilities. They also generate opportunities for social actors to behave in ways that would otherwise be impossible, for instance, to coordinate with others, to mobilize and to gain systematic access to strategic resources, to command and allocate substantial human and physical resources, and to solve complex social problems by organizing collective actions. In guiding and regulating interaction, social rules give behavior recognizable, characteristic patterns, and make such patterns understandable and meaningful for those who share in the rule knowledge.
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Kjosfossen in 1962. The Flåm Line passes directly in front of and over the upper part of the waterfall (the falls continue much longer down to the right (east) of the Flåm Line as you head down into the gorge), which is one of the main attractions for tourists who take the Flåm Line. (Some of the Flam tourist maps are orientated with South at the top.) The waterfall is located about northeast of Myrdal Station. During the main tourist season in the summer an actress dressed as a legendary Huldra (a seductive forest creature in Scandinavian folklore) dances and sings in front of the waterfall as the trains enter the station for the amusement of the tourists.
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236) were overturned by the Appeals Board, which includes both a Catholic and Protestant clergyman.Rockett 2004, p.72 The Censorship of Films Acts apply only to cinema films; the Video Recordings Act 1989 did not include blasphemy as grounds for prohibition, but does include "incitement of religious hatred" as grounds for censorship or an outright ban (refusal of certification).§3 Certification of video works. Video Recordings Act 1989; Irish Statute Book In September 2016, reports that the lack of an Irish release for My Scientology Movie was due to the blasphemy laws were dismissed by The Irish Times as media flim-flam; Neville Cox said the laws were "of no relevance" to the situation.
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Pratkanis commenced his teaching career at Carnegie Mellon University in 1984 where he taught courses in advertising and, human behaviour. In 1987 he moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he took up the position of Professor in the Psychology Department of the Social Services Division where he teaches four courses - Introduction to Social Psychology, Social Influence, Social Psychology of Autocracy and Democracy, and Social Psychology of Flim Flam. Pratkanis received the UCSC Excellence in Teaching Award for his courses Social Influence and Social Psychology, and was named the Psychology Class of 2005 Most Revered Professor. Outside of the University, Pratkanis presented lectures on social influence at skeptical conferences including SkeptiCal, CSICon, and the Skeptic's Toolbox.
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In 1988, Jaroff wrote an article for Time called "Fighting Against Flim Flam." The article featured magician James Randi and his ability to set up double-blind experiments and, through his understanding of the art of deception, expose "psychics, astrologers, spiritualists, channelers, faith healers, and a host of mystics and charlatans". Jaroff had been investigating Uri Geller, a man who claimed to be able to project energy "by sheer mind power" and "cause an electron beam to be diverted, cause objects to levitate, and cause metallic objects to bend." Even after Geller was exposed as a fraud by professors from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jaroff observed that Geller's popularity in the United States had continued to rise.
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These drawbacks were eventually overcome with the launch of cellulose triacetate base film by Eastman Kodak in 1948. Cellulose triacetate superseded nitrate as the film industry's mainstay base very quickly. While Kodak had discontinued some nitrate film stocks earlier, they stopped producing various nitrate roll films in 1950 and ceased production of nitrate 35 mm motion picture film in 1951. The crucial advantage cellulose triacetate had over nitrate was that it was no more of a fire risk than paper (the stock is often referred to as "non-flam": this is true—but it is combustible, just not in as volatile or as dangerous a way as nitrate), while it almost matched the cost and durability of nitrate.
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Sedgman beat Rose in the final of the MCC championships in Melbourne in March and later in the month was victorious in the Australian hardcourt tournament in Tasmania over Don Candy. Sedgman lost to Drobny in the semifinals of the French Championships. Top-seeded at Wimbledon, Sedgman led by two sets to love against Herbert Flam in the quarterfinals, but lost in five sets. At the Newport championships in August, Sedgman beat Mervyn Rose in the final to become the first overseas winner of the men's singles since 1916.Warwick Daily News, 14 August 1951 At the U.S. Championships, Sedgman beat Bill Talbert, Tony Trabert, Larsen and Vic Seixas to win the title.
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Tensions between the group and Heidalla's successor Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya increased to a peak in April 1989, when a border dispute with southern neighbor Senegal led to widespread ethnic violence in the racially mixed border areas, as well as a collapse in bilateral relations and intermittent military skirmishing between the two countries. In these so-called "1989 events", tens of thousands of Black Mauritanians (mostly of the halpulaar minority) were forced across the Senegal River; Moors in Senegal fled the opposite way. FLAM received and organized the Mauritanian refugees in Senegal, which bolstered the strength of the movement. With Senegalese backing, the movement intensified its armed struggle with continuous cross-border raids in the Senegal river valley.
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Bassett was the co-captain (with Herb Flam) of the University of California at Los Angeles tennis team that won the NCAA championship 1950. Also that year, he won the singles title at the Cincinnati Masters, defeating Ham Richardson, 6–2, 4–6, 6–1, 6–1 in the final. Bassett graduated from UCLA in 1951, and would go on to coach the UCLA tennis team for 27 seasons (from 1967 to 1993). At UCLA, he compiled a record of 592-92-2, winning 13 conference championships, seven NCAA team championships (1970, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1982 and 1984) and producing three NCAA singles champions, four NCAA doubles team champions and 49 All- Americans.
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In April 1986, the Manifesto of the Oppressed Black Mauritanian (Manifeste du négro-mauritanien opprimé), which documented discrimination against Mauritania's black populations in every sector of public life, was published by the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLAM; Force pour la Liberation Africaine de Mauritanie). In response, in September 1986, 30 to 40 black intellectuals suspected of involvement in the publication of the Manifesto were arrested and subjected to brutal interrogations. They were not allowed visitors until November 1987. In the meantime, the authorities cracked down on black communities, often using mass arrests as a form of intimidation.Mauritania’s campaign of terror In October 1987, the government allegedly uncovered a tentative coup d'État by a group of black army officers, backed, according to the authorities, by Senegal.
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Matisse was inspired to paint his Odalisque's by his trip to Morocco in 1912, he argues for the legitimacy of the subject by stating “‘I do Odalisques in order to do nudes. But, how does one do a nude without being artificial? And then I do them because I know they exist. I was in Morocco, I have seen them”Jack Flam, Matisse on Art, (London, 1995), 86. The word “odalisque” is derived from the Turkish word Odalik, which means chambermaid or female harem slave. Matisse would recreate the Moorish interior that he experienced on his trip by decorating parts of his studio with his collections of “oriental” objects such as tapestries, mirrors, ornate screens, decorative wall hangings, and elaborate costumes.
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" Kirkus Reviews states Flim Flam! has a brisk pace and clear message. They were also critical of Randi's "abrasive style" but state that after, "Randi has set forth the shameless frauds and money-making schemes, the outrageous misstatements and falsifications of data in respected scientific journals, the righteous harangue seems warranted." The magazine describes the anecdotes about cases Randi was involved in as a judge or expert as absorbing and states they go far to make the point, "if you design the experiment adequately, no extraordinary powers are demonstrated." concluding, "By the end of the book, Randi's personal offer of $10,000 to be paid to anyone who successfully demonstrates paranormal abilities under proper test conditions seems safe beyond a doubt.
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Virgin, 2000, p. 244. (Google Books preview) is a British electronic music DJ and producer. Mackintosh was a member of M/A/R/R/S and a DJ at Ministry of Sound in the 1990s, in addition to doing production and remix work from the 1980s onward. Mackintosh was raised in London, where he DJed on a sound system he had put together with his brother, who was also a DJ.C.J. Mackintosh at Allmusic He held a regular gig at London's Flim Flam Club (run by Jonathan More of Coldcut)CJ Mackintosh at Resident Advisor before being hired by Serious Records to put together compilation mixes, and in 1987 he participated in the DMC World Mixing Championships, winning the UK bracket.
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While Bart and all of the series' recurring characters join forces to energetically flim-flam the banker ("....if you can't trust your banker, who can you trust?"), Bret sits whittling in a rocking chair across the street from the bank every day, responding to the amused and patronizing queries of the local townspeople curious about how he plans to recover his money, "I'm working on it." "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" was generally the first episode that Garner mentioned in interviews. The episode is also the only one featuring brief appearances by all of the series' early semi-regular recurring characters, including Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Dandy Jim Buckley, Diane Brewster as Samantha Crawford, Leo Gordon as Big Mike McComb, Richard Long as Gentleman Jack Darby, and Arlene Howell as Cindy Lou Brown.
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Legere was at large for a period of seven months and during this time committed four additional murders in and around the towns of Chatham, Newcastle, and adjoining communities (now part of the city of Miramichi). The individuals he murdered were Annie Flam (May 29, 1989; during this incident, Flam's sister was also assaulted); sisters Linda and Donna Daughney (October 13, 1989; Legere set fire to the Daughney home before leaving), and Father James Smith (November 16, 1989).Timeline of Terror, from the Daily Gleaner; published November 4, 1996; archived at Murderpedia (retrieved March 22, 2014) Legere was recaptured on November 24, 1989, following a failed carjacking that began in Saint John and ended outside Rogersville; rewards of $50,000 were collected for the information that led to his arrest.
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In mid December Hoad and Rosewall competed in the final of the Victorian Championships which was their last final as amateurs as Rosewall turned professional at the end of the month. The final started late due to rain and was stopped due to darkness at two sets to one for Hoad but the following day Rosewall won the last two sets and the title. In late December, Hoad was part of the Australian Davis Cup team which successfully defended the cup in the Challenge Round against the United States who were weakened by the absence of Tony Trabert (now a pro). In his last Davis Cup appearance, Hoad won both his singles rubbers, against Herbie Flam and Seixas, as well as his doubles match with Rosewall to help Australia to a 5–0 victory.
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He further suggested that part of Morrissey's appeal was that he conveyed the image of a "cultivated English gentleman (and being every inch the typically English 'gent' he is perfectly representative of that type's loathing for cant and hypocrisy, and his fragile, quasi-gay sexuality)". Similarly, Morrissey biographer David Bret described him as being "quintessentially English", while Simpson termed him a Little Englander. During the 1980s, interviewer Paul Morley stated that Morrissey "sets out to be a decent man and he succeeds because that is what he is". Eddie Sanderson, who interviewed Morrissey for The Mail on Sunday in 1992, said that "underneath all the rock star flim-flam, Morrissey is actually a very nice chap, excellent company, perfectly willing and able to talk about any subject one cared to throw at him".
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" Oliver Keens of Time Out London called the album's handling of the drones subject matter "tactless and crass" and its story "as dull as dog food – told with the wishy-washy flim-flam of a frothing conspiracy theorist ... We used to moan that musicians didn't write about politics anymore. Based on this effort, maybe that's for the best." Rolling Stone named it the 38th best album of 2015, calling it a "searing commentary on our era's vague dread, computer-driven death from above and Orwellian political climate ... It was the year's most convincing howl from the abyss.". The Daily Telegraph wrote that "It's more than a little Spinal Tap, but if I was a teenage boy this is exactly the kind of thrilling madness that might turn me on to a moribund genre.
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A German "Limited Collectors Edition" Blu-ray Box was released in December 2016, featuring not only the remastered Japanese uncut version (with German subtitles) but also the heavily cut German version. While only eight episodes in total were dubbed into English, the series met huge success particularly in France, where the title and lead character's name were changed to "Capitaine Flam", in Italy with the translated title of "Capitan Futuro", in Latin America and Spain with the title "Capitán Futuro", in Taiwan with the title "太空突擊隊" ("Space Commando"). The Arabic-language version has the title of فارس الفضاء (Faris al-Fadha'a, or "The Knight of Space") and was broadcast many times during the 1980s. The series was also broadcast in Germany, where it appeared under its original title.
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Ray Bradbury appeared at a WGAW rally at Fox Studios in Century City, Jan. 7, 2008 (writers Diane Doniol-Valcroze (l), Arthur K. Flam (r)). Ellen DeGeneres stated she supports the strike, but crossed the picket line, though she decided not to do a monologue on her show during the strike, explaining that she did not wish to lay off the 135 employees from her staff. The WGAE issued a statement condemning DeGeneres, stating she was "not welcome in NY." DeGeneres' representatives asserted that she did not violate the WGA's agreement, arguing that she is competing with other first-run syndicated shows like Dr. Phil and Regis and Kelly during the competitive November sweeps period, and that DeGeneres must fulfill her duties as host and producers, lest her show lose its time slot or be held in breach of contract.
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Since he has released a series of introspective solo acoustic albums Long Way North (2008), Portraits (2010) and About A Time (2013) until the 2014 Fender Telecaster group based psychedelic garage rock of The World of The Wooltones. All these recordings were released on Staff Only Records with 'less is more' producer Fran Ashcroft at the controls. Of these, first album Long Way North was described by the Liverpool Echo as 'simple songs sung simply with a melodious voice... No flim flam, no camouflage, no recording studio tricks, just the music and the voice – doing what so many recording artists are too cowardly to do for fear of showing their vulnerabilities. This album rather shows Rob Clarke's strengths, his warm voice and sensitive musicality, coupled with memorable songs that somehow evoke the spirit of Liverpool, and will touch the heart of many, particularly the title track Long Way North'.
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In her student years, she was a broadcaster for an independent radio station, "Radio ondes rouges" (Red Radio Waves). Her pacifist and environmental efforts continued with her membership of Front de lutte antimilitariste (FLAM, "Front for the Antimilitarist Struggle") and Friends of the Earth. Politics tempted her at this time, however the issues that were dear to her - social efforts, peace and environmentalism - were not represented in France by any party at the time. For this reason, she became one of the founding members of The Greens in France. Dominique Voynet In 1989 she was elected a Member of the European Parliament. From 1992 to 1994 she was a member of the conseil régional (regional council) of Franche-Comté. She contested the 1995 presidential election which raised her public profile across all of France. In the first round of voting, she won 3.32% of the vote.
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Runes in earlier games were mostly found in hard copy materials, such as maps and the decorative covers of booklets. Runes appear less in Ultima VII and in later games. Gargish is the language of the gargoyles of Britannia and the language used in spellcasting within the game. Unlike the runic script, which is usually used simply as a visual cipher for English, the Gargish script encodes a genuine constructed language, based on (but expanding greatly upon) the magical words of power that first saw use in Ultima V, as well as the mantras for each of the Shrines of Virtue, which had remained consistent since Ultima IV. The lexicon mostly comprises deformed or truncated Latinate stems (flam "fire" ← Latin flamma; lap "stone" ← Latin lapis; leg "to read" ← Latin legō), but other origins are also apparent (uis "wisdom" ← English wise; kas "helmet" ← French casque).
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Counting on his new talented musicians Heritier Watanabe, Eboa Lotin, Miel de son, Cappucino Bogard,solo guitar master Flam Kapaya, his longtime drummer Papy Kakol, animators Brigade Sabatini and Celeo Scram, seasoned dancers Anya Star, Bibisia Mfwengi, Gisele Yamamoto, Linda Kalome among others, the band enjoyed great success and did a number of major performances attended by tens of thousands in Brazzaville, Angola, Kikwit, Stade de Matadi, Bukavu, Masina, FIKIN among others. In 2004, Werrason released Alerte Generale, a 4-track single, then proceeded on a European tour to promote the album. In 2005, during performances in Africa and Europe, he reorganized Wenge Musica Maison Mère, and continued work on his second solo album, Temoignage de Miracle, a 14-track double CD released in early 2005. Werrason won a 2005 KORA award for best artist in Central Africa. Werrason joined forces, in 2006 in Kinshasa, with the Jamaican superstar Shaggy who, during an interview in CNN recognizes Werrason as “The greatest current African artist”.
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Before ending his life, however, Nina succeeds, through the help of Davide, to make Dr. Baratti understand her intention to give his heart to Bobo, who, in fact, will be operated soon after and manages to recover from his illness with Nina's heart beating inside him. Even Bobo's mother (Vanessa, a young and charming woman), will have a crush on the Doctor, and it will be her pleasant presence to create a relationship of complicity between his son and the Doctor. Nina, before dying, will have the opportunity to get in touch with her parents even if in a totally unexpected way, because without their knowledge, they will discover their daughter's illness only because of a stratagem (adopted by herself and by Cris) that will be unmasked by the various inconveniences and by the different circumstances of life. Flam, the blind girl who appears in the second season, learns of a secret that will have a very positive outcome in her life: at the beginning of the season she discovers that her father has had another daughter from another woman, her first wife.
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