* At the October 16, 2008 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, then, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama joked that he was from Krypton, saying " Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger.

A week before her suicide she told Rob Smith, the night news editor, that she had bought a gun and joked about killing herself on air.

Shortly afterward, Smith delivered a few remarks among which he joked " We're really glad to be here, but Sonny and I really wanted to sky dive in.

Things got heated in 2011 during a game when Roman Harper illegally hit Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith after Smith scored a touchdown.

In the 2009 European Parliament election the EFA got six MEPs elected: two from the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one from the PC ( Jill Evans ), one from the Party of the Corsican Nation ( PNC ; François Alfonsi ), one from the ERC ( Oriol Junqueras ) and Tatjana Ždanoka, individual member of the EFA from Latvia.

After sitting out Game 1, Smith got the start in Game 2 at Busch Stadium, helping his team go up two games in the series by notching a run, a hit and two walks at the plate, along with an assist and a putout in the field.

On August 6, 1999, Tony Gwynn got his 3, 000th hit ( a line-drive single over the second-baseman ) off of Montreal Expos rookie pitcher Dan Smith at Olympic Stadium.

On the ensuing drive, a 7-yard sack by Patriots cornerback Otis Smith helped the New England defense force the Packers to punt, and the Patriots got the ball back with great field position after Meggett returned Craig Hentrich's 48-yard punt 6 yards to the New England 47-yard line.

Immediately after the Broncos got the ball back, Smith broke ahead of Falcons safety Eugene Robinson, caught a pass from Elway, and took off for an 80-yard touchdown reception, giving Denver a 17-3 lead ( the fourth 80 + yard touchdown pass play in Super Bowl history ).

Robert Smith appeared in the final episode of the first series of The Mary Whitehouse Experience singing " The sun has got his hat on " before punching the character Ray ( played by Robert Newman ) whilst uttering Ray's catchphrase " Oh no what a personal disaster ".

Much later in his life, Smith got a tattoo of a map of Texas on his upper arm and said, " I didn't get it because I like Texas, kind of the opposite.

Dejected by his failure to bring Smith to Flint, Moore proclaims that " as we neared the end of the 20th century ", as the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, and " it was truly the dawn of a new era.

Smith sentimentally and poignantly sings the opening lines of " White Cliffs of Dover ", and " We'll Meet Again ", and then ( to avoid lowering the tone ) has to interrupt Jones when he begins to sing, " Hitler has only got one ..."

The city got its name from one of the original founders / settlers, Pleasant Smith " Plez " Humble, who opened the first post office in his home and later served as justice of the peace.

Smith began taking classical guitar lessons from the age of nine, " with a student of John Williams, a really excellent guitarist I learned a lot, but got to the point where I was losing the sense of fun.

On one occasion, Smith said that he wore a black velvet dress to Notre Dame and kept it on all day " because the teachers just thought ' oh, it's a phase he's going through, he's got some personality crisis, let's help him through it '.

Gareth Southgate cited Duncan Smith when he remarked after England's 2002 World Cup quarter-final defeat against Brazil that " we were expecting Winston Churchill and instead we got Iain Duncan Smith.

Unlike contemporary mountain men, Smith never smoked, got drunk, or used profanity.

Hill then went down with the ship when he played Captain Edward J. Smith on the ill-fated Titanic ( 1997 ), by James Cameron, with whom Hill got along quite well — an experience not shared by most working on the film.

As one of Smith's friends who was present often during filming as either extra help or just moral support, it fell to Flanagan to play these characters when the actors Smith originally got to play them just didn't show up.

Owen Williams, writing for Empire magazine, opines that Star Trek as a whole has been slow to adapt and develop to new trends, while singling out Deep Space Nine for special mention: "... arguably even the ace DS9 only got good in response to Babylon 5 ..." Adam Smith, chief features writer for Empire commented in a 2009 article that, " It's hard to choose the best episodes of DS9 without mentioning the stories involving the Dominion War.

The session got off to an inauspicious start: Greenfield nominated the government's preferred candidate for speaker, Oran McPherson, only to have one of his backbenchers, Alex Moore, nominate Independent Conservative John Smith Stewart ; Stewart spared the government embarrassment by declining the nomination.

" Elisabeth Sladen, who portrayed Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who, said " although we got a lot of flak from Mary Whitehouse, I think it was quite unwarranted.

Before Roberts ' switch to Methodism, Crutchfield arranged a meeting between Roberts and Bishop William Angie Smith, at which the Bishop told Roberts, " We need you, but we need the Holy Spirit more than we need you and we've got to have the Holy Spirit in the Methodist Church.

Then the Giants took control, as Manning threw for two more TD passes to Mario Manningham and Nicks and the defense completed its shutout of the Falcons to give the New York Giants the win, 24-2, and the Falcons their third straight playoff loss with Matt Ryan and Mike Smith.

The bundle theory of substance thus rejects the substance theories of Aristotle, Descartes, and more recently, J. P. Moreland, Jia Hou, Joseph Bridgman, Quentin Smith, and others.

" ( now more commonly " BASE ") was coined by filmmaker Carl Boenish, his wife Jean Boenish, Phil Smith, and Phil Mayfield.

However, it was primarily poetry that motivated the young Smith and he confined his efforts for poetry for more than a decade.

At the beginning of the Depression in 1929, with his aged parents ' health weakening, Smith resumed fiction writing and turned out more than a hundred short stories, nearly all of which can be classed as weird horror or science fiction.

The social goal was to invest in land and enter the gentry, ideas more similar to the physiocrats than that of Adam Smith.

Some of the more recent inductees were Troy Aikman, all-time NFL leading rusher Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irvin, known as " The Triplets ".

They are in the Holmes and Watson tradition, with Dr. Petrie narrating the stories while Nayland Smith carries the fight, combating Fu Manchu more by dogged determination than intellectual brilliance ( except in extremis ).

Smith is most known for his View Askewniverse films, the flagship film being Clerks, which focused on a pair of bored, twenty-something convenience store clerks in New Jersey circa 1994 ; Linklater's Slacker similarly explored young adult characters who were more interested in philosophizing than settling with a long-term career and family ; Solondz ' Welcome to the Dollhouse touched upon themes of school bullying, school violence, teen drug use, peer pressure and broken or dysfunctional families, mostly set in a junior high school environment during the early to mid-1990s.

Once the 14-year-old king had regained control of the capital and then the whole country, Grindcobbe was tried in the Moot Hall ( on the site of the present-day W H Smith stationery shop, where a plaque commemorates the event ) and adjudged a ' traitor ' alongside John Ball (' the mad priest of Kent ', one of the rebel leaders who had escaped from Smithfield, London to Coventry ) and more than a dozen others.

This argument was explicitly given by Adam Smith in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, and has more recently been developed by Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman in his book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.

A more positive use of the term in Britain came to be used with the writings of James Elishama Smith, who was a millenarian and a Christian Israelite.

However, according to Smith, in a more advanced society the market price is no longer proportional to labor cost since the value of the good now includes compensation for the owner of the means of production: " The whole produce of labour does not always belong to the labourer.

The May 15, 1843 issue of the official Mormon periodical Times and Seasons contains an article, purportedly written by Joseph Smith, Jr., deriving the etymology of the name " Mormon " from English " more " + Egyptian mon, " good ", and extolling the meaning as follows:

While in Memphis, Hurt recalled seeing " many, many blues singers ... Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, and lots, lots more.

Smith ended up seriously ill in hospital in 1999 after consuming more than 50 Nurofen Plus tablets ; these contain the opiate drug Codeine, which is known to be addictive.

In mathematics, more specifically in general topology and related branches, a net or Moore – Smith sequence is a generalization of the notion of a sequence.

After more behind-the-scenes contract wrangling, Smith became a St. Louis Cardinal on February 11, 1982.

Herzog believed Smith could improve his offensive production by hitting more ground balls, and subsequently created a motivational tool designed to help Smith concentrate on that task.

Smith finished his career with distinctions ranging from the accumulation of more than 27. 5 million votes in All-Star balloting, to holding the record for the most MLB at-bats without hitting a grand slam.

By December 1979, Muzerowa had replaced Smith as Prime Minister and secured a a fresh agreement with the more militant African factions, allowing Rhodesia to briefly revert to her colonial status pending popular elections.

* David Smith: Founded Retrosheet in 1989, with the objective of computerizing the box score of every major league baseball game ever played, in order to more accurately collect and compare the statistics of the game.

Smith attempted to extract more bribe money from Remus to pay for a pardon.