Elsewhere DOJ shook down corporations to fund their nonprofit allies.
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In grade school he shook down kids for their lunch money.
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So I would always joke that it was like All Shook Down, almost like a Malkmus solo record.
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They removed about 200 protesters before proceeding to tie them up with zip ties and shook down their bunks.
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The mobsters also shook down many other businesses, including lime farming, cattle ranching and taxis, leading to an uprising of vigilante squads against them.
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The power the authorities wielded over them in New York went mostly unchecked, and underpaid police shook down businesses with impunity and threatened owners if they were not paid.
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After having used drum machines, and other studio drummers in making All Shook Down, he'd gotten a little taste of what another player could bring to open up the possibilities.
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But make no mistake, the genius is at work, already promoting: A recent Observer column is about Harder and "the insane backstory behind the lawyer who shook down Donald Trump (and Hulk Hogan)."
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Fast forward to 1990 when the band released its final album, All Shook Down, off of which they toured the United States with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, and were nominated for a Grammy.
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A three-part noise blast shook down some plaster in the Carolina Theater: deep subwoofer dread and grim threnodies by Ben Frost, looming apocalyptic rumbles and hollows from Tim Hecker, and then the more up-tempo but equally assaultive Oneohtrix Point Never.
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It was also Mr. Percoco, working with another "Herb" and former Cuomo aide, Todd R. Howe, who shook down a developer and an energy company for at least $315,000 in bribes in exchange for putting his considerable power at their service, prosecutors say.
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The Cook County state's attorney has vacated convictions in 42 cases — and is evaluating scores of others — because of illegal conduct by a corrupt former police sergeant who shook down drug dealers while running a protection racket in a South Side public housing project.
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To try to answer these questions, we've put together a list of winners and losers from the meeting: which people and governments came out in a better position than they were in before the talks, and who was hurt by the way things shook down.
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The evidence amassed during the House impeachment proceedings — that he shook down a foreign government in the service of his own re-election campaign — is overwhelming, and Mr. Trump has yet to counter any of it with so much as a single piece of paper or word of testimony.
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With brief stopovers in the Chesapeake Bay region, the new light cruiser "shook down" principally in the Gulf of Paria, near Trinidad.
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A brick wall was also "shook" down within St. Louis, Missouri. Reports came from various states, including Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee.
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All Shook Down is the seventh and final studio album by the American rock band The Replacements, released on September 25, 1990 by Sire Records.
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Mars appeared on only a few songs on the Replacements' final album, All Shook Down (1990), and left before the subsequent tour, unhappy with Westerberg's increasing control of the band.
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In this exhibition, they created a 90 lb meatloaf.Kahn, Janine. "New Gallery: "If the Smoke Don't Get You, the Meatloaf Will" at the SF Art Institute - San Francisco Music - All Shook Down." The SF Weekly Blogs.
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Paul Tracy was absent for the day, due to the birth of his daughter in Toronto. Emerson Fittipaldi shook down Tracy's car for a handful of practice laps. Galles Racing won the Miller Pit Stop Contest with driver Al Unser, Jr.
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Paul Tracy shook down the cars before handing them over to the Rahal team. Mark Smith (219.947 mph) was the fastest of the non- qualified drivers, and veteran Roberto Moreno took over Al Unser, Sr.'s car, starting a refresher test.
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Greg Gossel is an American artist. His work has been described as "a mix between that of Shepard Fairy and Roy Lichtenstein."Pascual, Oscar. (2008-06-02) Shooting Gallery Premieres Greg Gossel's "Make Believe" – San Francisco – Music – All Shook Down. Blogs.sfweekly.com.
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All for Nothing / Nothing for All is a two-disc compilation album by The Replacements. The All for Nothing disc contains tracks from Tim through All Shook Down, while the Nothing for All disc is a collection of B-sides and other previously unreleased tracks.
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Connolly > was a mortgage broker who prepared fraudulent mortgage schemes for > associates of James "Whitey" Bulger. Connolly informed the FBI that James > "Whitey" Bulger had personally extorted $50,000 from him and that he had > been "shook down" in the backroom of a liquor store with a knife to his > chest.
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Mars primarily works as a visual artist. In 1997, Reprise Records released the two CD set All for Nothing / Nothing for All. The All for Nothing disc collected cuts from Tim through All Shook Down; the Nothing for All disc is a collection of B-sides and tracks not previously released on albums.
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The final practice session saw Sam Schmidt (222.458 mph) on top of the speed chart. Scott Goodyear blew an engine, and Jimmy Kite stalled with clutch problems, but no serious incidents were reported. Robby Gordon skipped the session and was at Gateway for the CART Motorola 300. Greg Ray shook down his car for a few laps.
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It reads, "Site of NOTRE DAME FIELDHOUSE where varsity and intramural athletes shook down the thunder for seventy year 1898-1968. PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT addresses a special University convocation in the Fieldhouse December 9, 1935. The building was razed in 1983." The other plaque pays tribute to the Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival that originated in the Fieldhouse on April 11, 1959.
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Johnny Rutherford, who was already in the field, posted the fastest lap at . Bobby Unser shook down a Penske back-up car, which some speculated would be for Mario Andretti. Andretti was participating in Formula One full-time in 1979 to defend his 1978 World Championship, and a scheduling conflict with Monaco was expected to keep Mario away from Indy in 1979.
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Starting in January 1991, The Replacements toured Europe for Warner Bros.' Sire Records for All Shook Down as the opening act for Elvis Costello. But their review in New YorkPareles who loved Westerberg thought Dunlap and Foley were a separate band just playing along. was poor and they broke up, perhaps because Westerberg was in pursuit of a solo career, or they just quit.
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This album was originally intended to be frontman Paul Westerberg's solo artist debut. His management talked him into doing it as a Replacements album before the recording started. As a result of its initial intent, All Shook Down is marked by numerous session, side and journeyman musicians, in addition to the three other Replacements. Although there are no clear records of which members played on which tracks, there are numerous clues.
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Stribling shook down out of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; then reported for duty at the Fleet Sonar School at Key West, Florida. In 1948, she embarked upon the first of a career-long series of deployments to the Mediterranean Sea. Between 1948 and 1953, Stribling spent a portion of each year in the "middle sea." During the 1948 cruise, she flew the United Nations flag while on Palestine Patrol.
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"1990: Rockers had a ball in court". Montreal Gazette, December 27, 1990. Lepage wrote that "there's a drunkard, a wife-beater or a psycho on every big-city street, and Vancouver's Art Bergmann writes and sings as if he's met them all", and Potter described the album as "Art Bergmann in Paul Westerbergish form" while simultaneously describing The Replacements' album All Shook Down as "Paul Westerberg in Art Bergmannish form".
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At number 69 (Don't Tell a Soul reached 57) on the Billboard 200, All Shook Down was The Replacements' second-best-selling album. It received four stars from Rolling Stone who called The Replacements "America's best band". Allmusic didn't like it but gave the album four and a half stars, and, undated, appears to predict the band's breakup. Early on The Replacements refused to make videos but later made commercial videos for Sire and MTV.
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He shook down the car with some practice laps, and appeared to be finding some speed. It was the second time in recent years that Rutherford was teaming up with Foyt on bump day. In 1984 Rutherford successfully bumped his way into the field with a Foyt backup car in the closing moments of time trials. With fifteen minutes left in the day, Rich Vogler (213.239 mph) bumped Johnny Rutherford from the field.
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Gambling, the local wire service, drug distribution, bootlegging, certain trade unions, as well as the extortion rackets were all operated by the Purple Gang. In 1927, the Purple Gang was on top of their game running Detroit's underworld. When Three Chicago gunmen, Joseph "Nigger Joe" Lebovitz, Herman "Hymie" Paul, and Isadore "Izzy the Rat" Sutker, fled to Detroit, the Purple Gang's status was put to the test. The men shook down Chicago speakeasy operators for protection money.
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They skipped the audition, which became their first practice together when their just-released album All Shook Down happened to be in his car's CD player—loudly when Foley turned on the ignition. The band as well as observers knew at the time that it was self-destructing. Foley first played with The Replacements publicly for First Avenue's twentieth anniversary. After seeing him play with this band at the Orpheum Theatre, his father finally decided that Foley was a professional musician.
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Accessed: June 26, 2015. In a 2012 book, former Knapp Commission counsel Michael F. Armstrong disclosed that Greenberg and Hantz were investigated by the Brooklyn District Attorney's office for the murder of two drug dealers, an event recounted in the Super Cops book and movie as self-defense. Armstrong said that the Greenberg and Hantz account was contrary to the evidence, and he disputed other parts of the book, claiming that the two repeatedly shook down, robbed and assaulted suspects.
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On October 30, 2007, one of McGee's co-defendants pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against McGee.Nunnally, Derrick. "McGee case defendant guilty, will testify", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 31, 2007, pg. 1-B According to the federal criminal complaint filed in the case, FBI agents using wiretaps and undercover surveillance, watched as McGee shook down a business owner who wanted to obtain or keep a liquor license and a gas station owner who sought to operate 24 hours a day.
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But there was trouble within the band following a disastrous tour opening for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Westerberg recorded a new album largely with session musicians but was persuaded to release it as a Replacements album. All Shook Down won critical praise and more mainstream attention, though the many guest players and Mars's quick departure from the band following the album's release led many to wonder about the band's future. They also received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
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Bainbridge was designed and built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at Fore River Shipyard at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in October 1962, she shook down off the East Coast and in the Caribbean area until February 1963, when she began her first Mediterranean deployment. This included demonstrations of her long-range high-speed dash capabilities and operations with the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier . Bainbridge returned to the Mediterranean Sea in May 1964, this time joining Enterprise and the guided missile cruiser to form the all-nuclear-powered Task Force 1.
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Arnold wrote regularly on alternative music and indie rock for Spin and Entertainment Weekly. Her weekly column "Fools Rush In" debuted in the East Bay Express in 1991 and ran through 2001. From 1996 through 2002, she wrote a column for the Metro Silicon Valley named after The Replacements album All Shook Down. With commentary that included the assertions that The Rolling Stones were “ugly, lecherous and old” and that “the Replacements have influenced current music much more than the Stones have,” Arnold's columns often strove to be contentious.
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The band broke up in 1991. Their final album, All Shook Down, was mainly a Westerberg solo project; there were a number of guest performers and the other three members of the band (including Slim Dunlap, who had replaced Bob Stinson three years earlier to tour in support of Pleased to Meet Me), made minimal contributions. Mars left the band soon after the album was released. After touring for the album (which was critically well-received) with replacement Replacements, Westerberg and bassist Tommy Stinson went their separate ways.
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Ronald Previte (October 9, 1943 – August 21, 2017) was an American corrupt police officer for the Philadelphia Police Department and an informant against the Philadelphia crime family. Previte was born in 1943, in Philadelphia to Sicilian-American parents, but was raised in Hammonton, New Jersey. Previte joined with the United States Air Force, serving in the Vietnam War, and when he returned, he joined the Philadelphia Police Department. During his time in the police force, Previte extorted traffic violators, shook down restaurant owners, stripped impounded cars, stole from crime scenes and solicited payoffs from bookies and mobsters.
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Tensions between the Earps and both the Clantons and McLaurys increased through 1881. On March 15, 1881 at 10:00 pm, three Cowboys attempted to rob a Kinnear & Company stagecoach carrying US$26,000 in silver bullion (about $ in today's dollars) near Benson, during which popular driver Eli "Budd" Philpot and passenger Peter Roerig were killed. Tensions further increased between the Earps and the McLaurys when a passenger stage on the Sandy Bob line headed for Bisbee was robbed in the Tombstone area on September 8. The masked robbers shook down the passengers and robbed the strongbox.
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2189 After his retirement from the House, Orth was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria. He resigned in the late spring of 1876, having been nominated in February for governor by the Republican party. Members of the reform wing distrusted Orth automatically, because he stood well with Senator Oliver Morton's political machine, and they doubted his personal integrity. They were strengthened in their suspicions when a newspaper charged him with participating in a ring of speculators that shook down Venezuelan claimants in disputes between injured parties in Venezuela and the United States and with lobbying the Congress to confirm those claims.
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Police were decentralized, with officers walking beats on foot, without many means of communication with or direct supervision from their headquarters, other than by the use of a call box to contact the station house. Police performed many social services such as helping run soup kitchens, providing shelter for the homeless, and finding jobs for immigrants. The political era is associated with police corruption because patrol officers shook down peddlers and small businesses,History of Policing Community Policing accepted bribes to not enforce laws, and administered curbside justice based on citizens' political influence, with the result that strangers and ethnic minorities were discriminated against.
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Of the twenty-four songs on the album only five songs are actually written by the band. The remaining nineteen are cover versions of songs by other artists, some of which were requested by the small audience. This includes the song "Merry-Go-Round" which was a track from Mötley Crüe's debut album Too Fast for Love, not the similarly-named song which would open the Replacements' final studio album All Shook Down. The audio dropout heard during "Hear You Been to College" is caused by Paul Westerberg who accidentally pressed the record button on a Walkman while listening back to the master copy.
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She returned northward soon thereafter, spending most of May undergoing docking and tests at the New York Navy Yard. She then shook down off Tompkinsville, New York (Staten Island), from 28 May to 5 June before she returned to Hampton Roads for further observances at the Jamestown Exposition. Washington departed Hampton Roads on 11 June and proceeded via Bradford, Rhode Island, to Newport where she joined before heading across the Atlantic on the 14th, bound for European waters. The sister ships visited the French ports of Royan, Île-d'Aix, La Pallice, and Brest from 23 June – 25 July, before returning to Tompkinsville in August to run speed trials.
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She was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet until 1953, engaged in fleet training missions out of Newport, R.I. In December 1953, the destroyer joined the United Nations Fleet and operated in the Far East, stopping at the southern tip of Japan, then traveling to the Pusan harbor briefly and later Inchon, until the summer of 1954. In July, she returned to Newport after completing a circumnavigation of the world. In November 1954, Stockham entered Boston Naval Shipyard and, at the completion of her overhaul in February 1955, she shook down in the Caribbean. She then resumed normal operations with the Atlantic Fleet until 1 February 1956, when she was posted to the 6th Fleet.
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Steven Foley (June 4, 1959 – August 23, 2008) was an American drummer who played for Curtiss A, Things That Fall Down, The Replacements, Bash & Pop, Wheelo, and several other bands in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He played live for the most part, but he recorded with songwriter Peter Lack, and he appears in a Replacements video, "When It Began," which received two 1991 MTV Video Music Awards nominations. Foley replaced founding member Chris Mars and toured Europe and the United States with the Replacements in support of their final album, All Shook Down, and played in their final show (prior to a reunion in 2013), which took place on July 4, 1991, in Chicago's Grant Park.
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Five other car-driver combinations entered for the opening round did not feature in testing during the month: Johnny O'Connell, Johnny Parsons and American Indycar drivers Rick DeLorto, Jim Buick and Tony Turco, who were joining fellow AIS competitors Butch Brickell and Bill Tempero. During the Firestone tire session, Buddy Lazier tested in a Hemelgarn Racing car and set the fastest time of the week at 182.621 mph, with Hearn, Buzz Calkins and Salazar posting laps over 181 mph in the following days. John Paul Jr. shook down the Brickell Racing car for a couple dozen laps, and World of Outlaws multi-champion Steve Kinser tested with A. J. Foyt Racing during the Goodyear tire session, with a best lap of 168 mph that fell 5 mph short of Foyt's driver Davey Hamilton.
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Following a disastrous tour opening for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Westerberg recorded a new album largely with session musicians but was persuaded to release it as a Replacements album. All Shook Down, released in 1990, won critical praise and more mainstream attention, though the many guest players and Mars's quick departure from the band following the album's release led many to wonder about the band's future. Drummer Steve Foley was recruited as Mars's replacement in 1990, and the band embarked on a long farewell tour which lasted into the summer of 1991. On July 4, 1991, the band officially broke up following a Taste of Chicago performance in Grant Park, referred to by fans as "It Ain't Over 'Til the Fat Roadie Plays" because each member disappeared during the set, their respective roadies taking their places.
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Since then he has helped found and/or produce festivals and concert nights such as All Shook Down Music Festival, Sea of Dreams NYE, Ghost Ship Halloween, Loveboat Halloween, North Beach Jazz, Festival of the Golden Gate and Mojito Café. According to the Los Angeles Times, in 2006 MoPo was the first DJ to play a silent disco in the United States, and since then he has founded Silent Frisco, a headphone dance concert production company. In 2015, Silent Frisco and SunsetSF merged to become HUSHconcerts, an event production company that now contributes to more than 1000 events per year, Motion Potion tours frequently, and is best known for crafting intensively researched tribute sets, typically related to artists headlining a festival at which he performs. Among the themes he is best known for include Radiohead in Remix, Talking Heads Dance Party, Santana in Remix, Janet vs Michael, Beasties/Beatles/Beck, Prince's Purple Reign, and Metallica in Remix.
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Newcomb shook down in the West Indies for a month, then made passage to the Marshall Islands, arriving 4 April 1944 for two months duty on antisubmarine patrol off the Japanese held Mille, Wotje, and Jaluit atolls. She next joined the assault on Saipan as flagship for the screen from 29 May until 5 August, serving as fire support and patrol ship at both Saipan and Tinian. On 22 June, while guarding transports, she and sank Japanese submarine , and on 4 July her well-directed fire broke up a Japanese banzai attack north of Garapan on Saipan. Operating in the Fire Support and Bombardment Group for the assault on the Palaus 6 September to 1 October, Newcomb fired 23 separate shore bombardments and also covered underwater demolition teams providing bombardment control spotting. As flagship of Destroyer Squadron 56 (DesRon 56), Newcomb joined in the Leyte landings 12 October to 4 December, covering underwater demolition teams and firing preinvasion-bombardment, call-fire, night-harassing and illumination missions. Her squadron made a night torpedo attack in the Surigao Strait phase of the Battle for Leyte Gulf 25 October.
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