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Alvin and successfully
At the 2010 Florida Youth In Government convention, two delegates, Alvin Wang and Connor Harrison, successfully conducted the first override of a governor's veto in 53 years of Florida YIG history, a groundbreaking achievement in the Legislature.
During the early 1970s, however, Jewry acquired a new persona, Alvin Stardust, as he successfully cashed in on the glam rock bandwagon.

Alvin and down
But this time they failed to score because Washington safety Alvin Walton sacked Elway for an 18-yard loss on third down, pushing the Broncos out of field goal range.
Lyle invites Alvin to sit down.
The case finally comes to a conclusion as the mob led by their main Sparta connection Lewis Alvin Epp orders Lana ’ s farm house burnt down after she refuses to be bought out giving them access to Sparta ’ s south side.
Ballard and geophysicist Jean Francheteau went down in Alvin the day after the black smokers were first observed.
: Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can -- Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day working together he says I have not been with out assistance but can not say more only you better find out the next day I take the older Smith by the arm & he says Joseph can see any thing he wishes by looking at a stone Joseph often sees Spirits here with great kettles of coin money it was Spirits who brought up rock because Joseph made no attempt on their money I latter dream I converse with spirits which let me count their money when I awake I have in my hand a dollar coin which I take for a sign Joseph describes what I seen in every particular says he the spirits are grieved so I through back the dollar in the fall of the year 1827 I hear Joseph found a gold bible I take Joseph aside & he says it is true I found it 4 years ago with my stone but only just got it because of the enchantment the old spirit come to me 3 times in the same dream & says dig up the gold but when I take it up the next morning the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times & held the treasure & would not let me have it because I lay it down to cover over the hole when the spirit says do not lay it down Joseph says when can I have it the spirit says one year from to day if you obay me look to the stone after a few days he looks the spirit says bring your brother Alvin Joseph says he is dead shall I bring what remains but the spirit is gone Joseph goes to get the gold bible but the spirit says you did not bring your brother you can not have it look to the stone Joseph looks but can not see who to bring the spirit says I tricked you again look to the stone Joseph looks & sees his wife on the 22d day of Sept 1827 they get the gold bible -- I give Joseph $ 50 to move him down to Pa Joseph says when you visit me I will give you a sign he gives me some hiroglyphics I take then to Utica Albany & New York in the last place Dr Mitchel gives me an introduction to Professor Anthon says he they are short hand Egyption the same what was used in ancient times bring me the old book & I will translate says I it is made of precious gold & is sealed from view says he I can not read a sealed book -- Joseph found some giant silver specticles with the plates he puts them in an old hat & in the darkness reads the words & in this way it is all translated & written down -- about the middle of June 1829 Joseph takes me together with Oliver Cowdery & David Whitmer to have a view of the plates our names are appended to the book of Mormon which I had printed with my own money -- space and time both prevent me from writing more at present if there is any thing further you wish to inquire I shall attend to it
After 50 games in the 2003-2004 season, Toronto was 25 – 25 and in a position to make the playoffs, but injuries to Jalen Rose, Alvin Williams, and Carter sent the Raptors plummeting down the standings and the Raptors fell 3 games short of making the playoffs.
The final example is seen at the end of the book, when Alvin is looking down on Earth from space for the last time.

Alvin and explains
American philosopher Alvin Plantinga presented a version of the free will defence which argued that the coexistence of God and evil is not logically impossible, and that free will further explains the existence of evil without threatening the existence of God.
American philosopher Alvin Plantinga offers a free will defence which argues that human free will sufficiently explains the existence of evil while maintaining that God's existence remains logically possible.
Another response to Kant's is attributed to Alvin Plantinga who explains that even if one were to grant Kant that ' existence ' is not a real predicate, ' Necessary Existence ', which is the correct formulation of an understanding of God, is a real predicate, thus Kant's argument is refuted.
That evening, Mulder encounters a paranoid doctor, Alvin Kurtzweil ( Martin Landau ), who explains that the five victims were already dead, and that the bomb was allowed to detonate in order to destroy evidence of how they died.
This explains the rapid amount of trees infected in a given area Ling, Kai-shu, and Alvin Simmons.

Alvin and which
For example, Alvin Sandberg claimed that the short story " The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids " offers " an exploration of impotency, a portrayal of a man retreating to an all-male childhood to avoid confrontation with sexual manhood " from which the narrator engages in " congenial " digressions in heterogeneity.
These included that of Dillinger, Alvin Karpis, and Machine Gun Kelly, which led to the Bureau's powers being broadened and it was given its new name in 1935: the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In 1987, the philosophical journal Synthese published a special issue on social epistemology, which would include two authors that have since taken the discipline in two divergent directions: Alvin Goldman and Steve Fuller < sup > 3 </ sup >.
While many networks followed the show's success by scheduling other cartoons in the early 1960s, including Scooby-Doo, Where Are You !, The Jetsons, Top Cat, and The Alvin Show, none of these programs survived more than a year ( save Scooby-Doo, which, despite not being a primetime cartoon, has managed to stay afloat for over four decades ).
Time domain processing works much better here, as smearing is less noticeable, but scaling vocal samples distorts the formants into a sort of Alvin and the Chipmunks-like effect, which may be desirable or undesirable.
In the USA, some of the earliest examples in popular music were the novelty records released under the name Alvin & The Chipmunks, which became hits in many countries in the mid-1950s.
She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit " Come On-a My House " written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian ( better known as David Seville, the father figure of Alvin and the Chipmunks ), which was followed by other pop numbers such as " Botch-a-Me " ( a cover version of the Italian song Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina by Alberto Rabagliati ), " Mambo Italiano ", " Tenderly ", " Half as Much ", " Hey There " and " This Ole House ", although she had success as a jazz vocalist.
Alvin York ( Gary Cooper ), a poor young Tennessee hillbilly, is an exceptional marksman, but a ne ' er-do-well prone to drinking and fighting, which doesn't make things any easier for his patient mother ( Margaret Wycherly ).
J. Alvin Hawbaker also pioneered the " Gallery of Homes " real estate marketing approach, which resulted in the sale of thousands of housing units within the area now known as Park Forest Village.
The Alvin Rotary Club sponsors a yearly Frontier Day celebration, which includes a parade and 5k Fun Run.
The project used an air gun that sent sound waves underwater to determine the underlying structure of the ocean floor and the submersible Alvin, which was used to find and recover a sample from the bedrock.
An early example is the book of Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, which Pine and Gilmore quote in their work.
Alvin C. York State Historic Park in Pall Mall, which includes the family farmhouse and grist mill.
He was a co-founder of the ONCE Group, as well as a member of the Sonic Arts Union, which also included David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, and Gordon Mumma.
But Lucy Mack Smith said that she and some of her children sought comfort in the church after the death of her oldest son, Alvin, in November 1823, which if her memory was correct, would place the date of the first vision no earlier than 1824.
When Don Albert later formed his own band, which included clarinetists and saxophonists Herb Hall and Louis Cottrell plus trumpeter Alvin Alcorn, they, too, played the Shadowland.
Wayout Toys, under licence to Emson, introduced the Alvin Hula Hoop Doll, which dances with his hula hoop and sings the song based on wanting his hula hoop.
* The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Canadian Ballet have also included her music in their performances ; notably, " Been On A Train " from Christmas and the Beads of Sweat, in which a woman describes watching her lover die from a drug overdose, comprises the second movement of Ailey's 1971 solo for Judith Jamison, Cry.
One phrase in the chorus has Alvin wishing for a hula hoop, which was that year's hot new toy.
There is a reference to the company in the 2007 film Alvin and the Chipmunks, in which the Chipmunk's record label is " Jett Records " ( with two T's ).
According to this letter, when Smith dug up the plates a " salamander " appeared, which transformed itself into a spirit that refused to give Smith the plates unless his brother Alvin Smith was also present.

Alvin and calls
Now beginning to run low on cash, Alvin borrows a cordless phone from a homeowner-gently but resolutely refusing an invitation to come indoors-and calls Rose to ask her to send him his Social Security check.
In his 2006 essay " Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism ", Alvin H. Rosenfeld takes " a hard look at Jewish authors " whose statements go well beyond " legitimate criticism of Israel ," and considers rhetoric that calls into question Israel's " right to continued existence " to be antisemitic.

Alvin and hard
Alvin tells the hitchhiker about the importance of family by describing a bundle of sticks that is hard to break (" United we stand ; divided we fall ").

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* Sullivan, Alvin, ed., ' The Athenaeum ', British Literary Magazines.

Alvin and brother
When he hears that his estranged brother Lyle ( Harry Dean Stanton ) has suffered a stroke, Alvin makes up his mind to go visit him and hopefully make amends before he dies.
Alvin then learns that his brother Lyle has suffered a stroke.
Alvin replies that ' neither one of us has had a brother for quite some time.
* Alvin H. Nielsen ( 1910 – 1994 ), molecular spectroscopist ( and brother of Harald Herborg Nielsen )
* Harald Herborg Nielsen ( 1903 – 1973 ), physicist ( and brother of Alvin H. Nielsen )
The film suggests that Joseph Smith was required to dig up his brother Alvin ’ s body and bring a part of it with him to the hill Cumorah in order to obtain the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon was said to be translated.
Alvin and his older brother Phil grew up in Downey, California.
In 1979 Alvin and his brother formed a roots rock band called The Blasters with fellow residents Bill Bateman and John Bazz.
He was the brother of Claude Kitchin and the uncle of Alvin Paul Kitchin, each of whom served in the U. S. Congress.
Her younger brother, Alvin Anson ( born October 20, 1962 ; Manila ) was also a lead actor and model.
Tenskwatawa, along with his brother Tecumseh, is one of the major characters in Orson Scott Card's alternate history fantasy series of novels The Tales of Alvin Maker ( especially the second book, Red Prophet ).
Alvin heals himself ( with the aid of his brother Measure, who performs the surgery ).
He is the son of former Canadian Football League ( CFL ) and United States Football League ( USFL ) player Alvin Burleson and the younger brother of former National Basketball Association ( NBA ) player Kevin Burleson.
His oldest brother, Alvin Jr., played college football for the University of Washington Huskies and the Western Illinois University Leathernecks.
Alvin sends Arthur to initiate the eruption and warn his brother Calvin, who ignores the warning but still manages to escape.
Born in Philadelphia, Sargent was the older brother of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Alvin Sargent.
When Alvin Miller and his older brother Measure travel to the place of his birth ( where Alvin is expected to become apprenticed to the Hatrack River blacksmith ) the two brothers are captured by ' Reds ' ( Native Americans ) sent by William Henry Harrison to intentionally create conflict.
He is the brother of philosopher Alvin Plantinga and musicologist Leon Plantinga.
Alvin Ray Straight ( October 17, 1920 – November 9, 1996 ) was a resident of Laurens, Iowa, who gained fame for traveling on a 1966 John Deere riding lawn mower to visit his 80-year-old brother Henry in Blue River, Wisconsin who had recently had a stroke.

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