Blue laws may also prohibit retail activity on days other than Sunday.

In 1933, Bert Bell, understanding that prerequisites to a NFL franchise being granted to him were changes in the blue laws, played the primary role of convincing then Governor Gifford Pinchot to issue a bill before the Pennsylvanian legislature to deprecate the Blue Laws.

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* Blue laws

Prior to the enactment of the federal securities laws and the creation of the SEC, there existed so-called Blue Sky laws that were enacted and enforced at the state level and regulated the offering and sale of securities to protect the public from fraud.

However, these Blue Sky laws were generally found to be ineffective.

For example, the Investment Bankers Association told its members as early as 1915 that they could " ignore " Blue Sky laws by making securities offerings across state lines through the mail.

However, these Blue Sky laws were generally found to be ineffective.

By the mid-1990s, the town lost its status as the primary alcohol stop in the county as other nearby communities began to repeal their Blue laws.

" Blue sky laws often impose very specific, qualitative requirements on offerings, and if a company does not meet the requirements in that state then it simply will not be allowed to do a registered offering there, no matter how fully its faults are disclosed in the prospectus.

The Blue Laws of the Colony of Connecticut, as distinct from the generic term " blue laws " that refers to any laws regulating activities on Sunday, were the initial statutes set up by the Gov.

Known as " Lampy ", his most notable achievement was his opposition to Toronto's Blue laws which banned virtually any activities on Sundays.

When Major League Baseball owners considered locking out the regular players and using " scabs " instead for the 1995 season, Dunedin would have been used as the Toronto Blue Jays ' home field due to Ontario laws concerning replacement workers.

Additionally, Blue laws in Toronto prevented publication on Sunday.

In the context of the Doctor Who universe, all this may be explained by Iris's claim in the novel The Blue Angel that she is from the Obverse, a surreal parallel universe with radically different physical laws.

( Blue laws earlier prohibited baseball within the city and games were played on Ackerman Island in the middle of the Arkansas River.

Songs and poetry often rely on ambiguous words for artistic effect, as in the song title " Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue " ( where " blue " can refer to the color, or to sadness ).

One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes, he is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, and is often accompanied in stories by his animal companion, Babe the Blue Ox.

Similarly, hospital emergency codes often incorporate colors ( such as the widely used " Code Blue " indicating a cardiac arrest ), although they may also include numbers, and may not conform to a uniform standard.

Blue was a particular problem, and skies and blue robes were often added a secco, because neither azurite blue nor lapis lazuli, the only two blue pigments then available, works well in wet fresco.

Most ( but not all ) machines sold to run TOPS-10 were painted " Blasi Blue ", whereas most TOPS-20 machines were painted " Terracotta " ( often mistakenly called " Chinese Red " or orange ; the actual name of the color on the paint cans was Terracotta ).

One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes, he is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, and is often accompanied in stories by his animal companion, Babe the Blue Ox.

In the 1970s, syndicated children's television program Big Blue Marble often invited viewers to write to them for their own pen pal.

Rock and roll has been seen as reorienting popular music towards a teen market, often celebrating teen fashions, as in Carl Perkins ' " Blue Suede Shoes " ( 1956 ), or Dion and the Belmonts " A Teenager in Love " ( 1960 ).

The recurring " Blue star tattoo legend " or " Mickey Mouse Acid " legend has often inspired credulous officials to issue warnings.

* In Terry Pratchett's Humour / Fantasy series Discworld, the Lancre Witch Nanny Ogg's cat Greebo ( also known as " The Terror of the Ramtops ") is often depicted in art as resembling the British Blue.

For instance, the Yellow Line and Blue Line in Manila are often referred to as " light rail ", despite being fully segregated mostly-elevated railways.

Although many of Spector's s productions were credited to acts such as The Ronettes, The Crystals, the Righteous Brothers, the Paris Sisters and Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, in reality they were created using a crack team of top-rank Los Angeles session players ( now known as " The Wrecking Crew ") and often featured an interchangeable lineup of lead singers, including Ronnie Spector and Darlene Love.

It is often pointed out that this date was almost exactly 20 years after the theft of the French Blue, just as the statute of limitations for the crime had expired.

These protocols are often initiated by a Code Blue, which usually denotes impending or acute onset of cardiac arrest or respiratory failure, although in practice, Code Blue is often called in less life-threatening situations that require immediate attention from a physician.

* The Blue Beetle ( Jim Boyd ): A bumbling super hero with a mask, a hood with antennae, wings, tennis shoes, boxer shorts, and a T-shirt that bore his name, the Blue Beetle often made matters worse instead of better for people who he tried to help.

Blue is often used for side trails.

ESPN is often accused of having a bias towards certain teams, including those in the Atlantic Coast Conference ( ACC ), particularly the Duke Blue Devils and North Carolina Tar Heels.

Mount Joy is often named in lists of " delightfully-named towns " in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Intercourse, Blue Ball, Lititz, Bareville, Bird-in-Hand and Paradise .< ref name =" Mencken63 "> Mencken ( 1963 ) p. 653 quote:

Accordingly UN peacekeepers ( often referred to as Blue Berets because of their light blue berets or helmets ) can include soldiers, police officers, and civilian personnel.

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At that time, numerous influences-including a growing awareness of the unity and fragility of the biosphere following mankind's first steps into outer space ( see, for example, the Blue Marble ), increased public concern over the impact of industrial activity on natural resources and human health ( see, for example, the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, the increasing strength of the regulatory state, and more broadly the advent and success of environmentalism as a political movement-coalesced to produce a huge new body of law in a relatively short period of time.

In 2010, additional commercial real estate activity is anticipated including the construction of the Lowe ’ s Home Improvement store mentioned earlier ; a new 30, 000 professional office building to house a high tech network-based solutions company named Ednetics ; a 30, 000 LEED certified industrial building to be the home of a subsidiary of Berg Integrated Systems will begin construction in early 2010 ; the State of Idaho Department of Labor will construct their new regional office here in Post Falls that will provide services to the northern five counties of Idaho ; Blue Dog RV is planning on constructing a new recreational vehicle showroom and maintenance facility ; several restaurants are also anticipated to locate within the Pointe at Post Falls regional power center to take advantage of the retail traffic of Cabela ’ s and Wal-Mart ; the City ’ s downtown area is expected to see a major mixed use project also take off with infrastructure and the first phase including a hospitality component begin construction ; and finally the community anticipates that construction on the Beck Road Interchange with Interstate 90 will begin this fall ultimately providing service to the Pointe at Post Falls and EXPO on the north side of the freeway and the Riverbend Commerce Park and Greyhound Event Center on the south side of the Interstate 90.

This building is an official California Point of Historical Interest and includes its own ghost ( the Blue Lady ) which has been featured in a number of ghost hunting programs including Unsolved Mysteries. Sci-Fi's Ghost Hunters recently found their paranormal claims to be fraudulent by revealing that owners of the distillery have created various hoaxes simulating paranormal activity.

Cultivation of almonds has historically been a significant activity in the vicinity, including a major Blue Diamond processing facility nearby.

The Big Blue River and Sugar Creek overflowed their banks as a result of this activity.

A team studying earthquake activity at Blue Mountain Lake ( BML ), New York, made a prediction on August 1, 1973, that " an earthquake of magnitude 2. 5 — 3 would occur in a few days.

However, researcher Brad Sparks, citing research from the May, 1970 issue of NICAP's UFO Investigator, reports that the last day of Blue Book activity was actually January 30, 1970.

In this respect, Blue Key was given the task of planning and executing Homecoming activities that year and has continued to lead this activity ever since.

The main economic activity is agriculture with the irrigated scheme of Suki, the Sugar factory of Sennar and a number of fruit ( including bananas and mangos ) growers located on the banks of the Blue Nile.

Sahra-ye Mahshar ( Armageddon ) ( 1947 ), Talkh-o Shirin ( Bitter and Sweet ) ( 1955 ), Kohne va Now ( Old and New ) ( 1959 ), Qair az Khoda Hichkas Nabud ( None Existed Except God ) ( 1961 ), Asman-o Risman ( The Blue Yonder and Rope ) ( 1965 ), Qesse-ha-ye Kutah Bara-ye Bachcheha-ye Rish-dar ( Short Stories for Bearded Children for Adults ) ( 1974 ), and Qesse-ye Ma be Akhar Rasid ( Thus Ends Our Story ) ( 1979 ) were written during this phase of his literary activity.

A major activity for female students at Kellenberg is the Blue and Gold sports night.

Cenozoic activity was mainly in the form of isolated basalt flows that now form cappings to Mount Banks and Mount Wilson in the Blue Mountains, and Peats Ridge on the central coast of New South Wales.

Whyte, who owned 80 percent of the commercial property in the Pines, instituted the community ’ s central social activity schedule of “ Low Tea ” ( drinks — particularly the " Blue Whale " cocktail of Curaçao liqueur and vodka that turned patrons ' tongues blue — at the Blue Whale from 5 PM to 8 PM ) followed by “ High Tea ( drinks at the Pavilion from 8 to 10 PM ) followed by an evening of dancing at the Pavilion ( all of which were Whyte establishments ).

As in the " Blue Siren " sequence, some of the cunnilingus activity is filmed underwater.