The defendants' guilt, they said, lies in holding a party at a firetrap.
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It is a rotting firetrap of bowed gray oaken board and rusted hinge, leaning precariously.
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Leonard McBean had been told for months that his south Los Angeles home was a firetrap.
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" A scruffy bystander who'd been eavesdropping looked at Mr. T. and commented, "You're kind of a firetrap, yo.
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"Defendants Almena and Harris knowingly created a firetrap with inadequate means of escape," O'Malley said today a press conference.
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Everything about it was illegal: It was a firetrap, it didn't have running water, it didn't have a bathroom.
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I was determined to find a way to make it work, even if it meant living in a cockroach-infested firetrap.
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The probability of successfully solving a block was past parity with the cost of running the firetrap hobbyist equipment required to play.
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However, only 10 of the 12 jurors could agree that Almena was guilty of negligence and in hosting a party at a lethal firetrap.
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Ghost Ship's creative director, Max Harris, and the warehouse's master tenant, Derick Almena, were accused of creating a firetrap that didn't meet basic safety requirements.
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Despite the risk of keeping a collection of irreplaceable objects in what those inspectors called a firetrap, officials and politicians rebuffed generous offers of financial help.
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Known as the Wigwam, the building was always intended to be temporary, and from all accounts it sounds like it was a bit of a firetrap.
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The benchmark at this multiple in a rising-earnings phase, with a 2 percent dividend yield and few imminent recession signals, doesn't seem like a market firetrap one needs to escape this minute.
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Appearances mattered, which was why she had refused to live in the governor's house in Sacramento, that old firetrap, and instead moved to a 12-room Tudor mansion in a better part of town.
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This year, 64 people were killed when a fire swept through a mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, where local residents said corruption and negligence among officials had turned the mall into a firetrap.
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The father of the three girls, Matthew Badger, initially filed suit against Borcina, the city of Stamford and four other contractors who worked on the house, claiming that shoddy construction work turned the home into a firetrap.
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"Everything about it was illegal: It was a firetrap, it didn't have running water, it didn't have a bathroom, who knows how old the wiring was," Moby says in a recent episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
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Whereas the firetrap hoverboards require that you steer by shifting your weight to one foot or the other, the miniPro has a middle steering bar you lean into, giving you precise control over where the miniPRO is going.
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There's the one in the alley far Downtown where you get yourself into a fistfight for reasons you can't begin to fathom, the one in the ancient condemned theater on 28th Street where jokers on line on the firetrap staircase start flicking lit matches at one another, the one in the decommissioned bar and grill where the personnel from all the other clubs go after closing, where you belly up to the counter and order not drinks but rails of Uptown.
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Why do you work in a firetrap? Why are your hours so long? Because you are a woman and have no vote.
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Firetrap is a British clothing company, founded in 1993, About Firetrap specialising in menswear and accessories. It was the main brand within the WDT company (World Design and Trade), which also owned its sister brand Full Circle along with previous brands SC51 and Sonnetti. Firetrap's distinctive edgy design inspirations saw it achieve rapid growth in international markets from 2006 - 2008 under the leadership of MD John Gorman, before being sold to Sports Direct. Now owned by Frasers Group (the retail company founded by Mike Ashley), Firetrap had taken part of the Sports Direct group of global brands such as Slazenger, Gelert and Kangol, among others.
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In 1996, Damski teamed up with John Michael Vore, then a Chicago-based writer, to begin Firetrap Press. This collective of writers and artists has grown to include the work of over two dozen writers, artists and their friends. Before Damski's death, three collections of his works were published by Firetrap. These were considered "keep-sake" editions--limited- run, hand-made non-books, put together by friends of Damski's, including Lori Cannon, James Tennant and Vore.
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We do know from University of Washington records that Damski earned the Masters of Arts, and completed the coursework necessary to become a Ph.C. (Ph.D. candidate).John Vore, "Briefly, A Life," in Fresh Frozen: First Chicago Poems by Jon-Henri Damski (Firetrap Press, 2009); correspondence between Firetrap publisher, faculty and staff at Bryn Mawr University, University of Washington From 1970 to 1973, Damski lectured at Bryn Mawr College in the Classics department. Damski also led a seminar at the Aspen Summer Institute on Socrates.
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The event was surrounded by coincidence, misjudgment, and accident. It is impossible, he maintains, to determine with certainty the origin of the fire. The most probable explanation was that it began from the burning cotton on Richardson street. Columbia at this time was a virtual firetrap because of the hundreds of cotton bales in her streets.
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However, change of government from Labor to Liberal in 1965 slowed the pace of major public works. In 1970 plans for a new Parliament House were spearheaded by the Parliamentary Librarian, Dr Russell Cope. An Advisory Committee was established, representing both Houses and all political parties to determine accommodation needs for the Parliament. At the time much of Parliament House was substandard and a possible firetrap.
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When a Democrat was elected to Congress from a die-hard Republican county, the Sentinels editor refused to print the fact. This led Nieman to resign and join the fledgling Milwaukee Journal. The Journal first received acclaim when Nieman's coverage of a deadly hotel fire revealed it to be a firetrap, but the Sentinel defended the hotel's management, which included a Sentinel stockholder.Will C. Conrad, Kathleen F. Wilson and Dale Wilson.
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In December 2007, the company bought out Bank Stores, which sold fashion clothing, such as Firetrap, Alu, Henleys & Adidas Originals for around £19M. JD Sports is the official supplier and sponsor of numerous association football teams, players and associations. In August 2008, JD Sports announced sponsorship deals with Bournemouth, Charlton Athletic, Dundee United, Blackpool, Luton Town & Oldham Athletic. In May 2009, JD Sports acquired Chausport, which operated 75 small stores in France.
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The new larger library was planned as early as 1928, but suffered many financial setbacks. In 1941, the chairman of the senate appropriations committee called for funding for a new library building, referring to their current one as a "firetrap." Although money was allocated for the funding of a new library with the passing of a bill, wartime expenditures put the construction on hold yet again. During the war, Low put himself in charge of the "War information center," housed on campus.
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Work began on a three-story brick high school in 1908, but not in time for the first graduating class of Sallisaw High School held in a Methodist church that same year. Deemed a firetrap, the three-story brick high school was razed in 1939 and a yellow brick, one-story building was completed in 1940 by WPA workers. It served as a high school until 1988. The old building was converted into a museum and burned down in 2004.
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We know what these things are today; the iron teeth are our necessities, the thumbscrews are the high-powered and swift machinery close to which we must work, and the rack is here in the firetrap structures that will destroy us the minute they catch on fire. :This is not the first time girls have been burned alive in the city. Every week I must learn of the untimely death of one of my sister workers. Every year thousands of us are maimed.
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Reagan as the first lady of California Nancy Reagan was First Lady of California during her husband's two terms as governor. She disliked living in the state capital of Sacramento, which lacked the excitement, social life, and mild climate to which she was accustomed in Los Angeles.Cannon, Lou (2003), p. 233. She first attracted controversy early in 1967; after four months' residence in the California Governor's Mansion in Sacramento, she moved her family into a wealthy suburb because fire officials had labelled the mansion as a "firetrap".
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Fashion has been a huge part of Jade Williams' career alongside her passion for music. Her first role as a model came in October 2010 when she became the new face of River Island's Design Forum campaign. She has a fashion blog/vlog on MSN Life & Style, puts together all of her tour outfits and stage design, and even put out her own fashion line with Firetrap in September 2011. Williams cites her fashion icons as Coco Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld, and describes her own style to be masculine, tailored, and tom-boyish.
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Jon-Henri Damski, "Operations Cancelled," Nightlines, June 18, 199 (Jon- Henri Damski Archive) Damski refused an experimental treatment, telling friends and readers he wanted to maintain his quality of life, a clear-head and the ability to write during the last months of his life. He wrote weekly until he collapsed in late October, 1997--having unknowingly written his 20th anniversary column and one more for the road, both of which were published posthumously.Regarding Damski's writing milestone, see: John Vore, "Briefly, A Life," published as an addendum in Damski's Fresh Frozen (Firetrap Press 2009).
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John Vore, "Briefly, A Life," in Fresh Frozen: First Chicago Poems by Jon-Henri Damski (Firetrap Press, 2009);journals, correspondence 10.15.77 (Jon-Henri Damski Archive) The decision was not easy; his "quit" option was about quitting something he equated with life itself. Given the references in this letter to many facts and features of Greek history, Damski could be dramatically contextualizing his own life, or have reached the end of a 10-year deadline on Ph.D. thesis submission: "But my ghost will not let me give up," he wrote.
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The report went on to say that the mansion was a virtual firetrap. Upon receiving the report, Brown immediately moved his family out of the mansion and back to Cave Hill, his estate in Lexington. The Department of Buildings and Construction forbade use of the mansion for overnight purposes or group meetings until repairs could be made. Brown's Cave Hill estate was officially designated the temporary executive mansion, and the state agreed to furnish Brown's groceries, reimburse him for entertaining official guests, and pay for telephone calls made in his capacity as governor.
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Thai Xuan Village, which has 380 units, is entirely composed of condominiums, and not apartments. In 1998 Betty Ann Bowser, a reporter for PBS NewsHour, said that Thai Xuan Village was "beginning to show its age." In 2007 residents of Glenbrook Valley characterized the complex, as paraphrased by Ruth Samuelson of the Houston Press, as "a firetrap with numerous building code violations" that had been "falling apart for years". Samuelson said in 2007 that Thai Xuan Village was "[t]he most dilapidated complex" of the multi- family complexes in its area.
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A third site, located in the city of Saquarema, is used as a support and logistics center for field activities. Finally, the museum is also dedicated to editorial production, outstanding in that field the Archivos do Museu Nacional, the oldest scientific journal of Brazil, continuously published since 1876. The palace, which housed a large part of the collection, was destroyed in a fire on the night of 2 September 2018. The building had been called a "firetrap" by critics, who argued the fire was predictable and could have been prevented.
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Four new works by Damski were published by Firetrap Press, a volunteer cooperative of writers, artists—and friends of Damski—in 2009: Nothing Personal: Chronicles of Chicago's LGBTQ Community, 1977-1997 edited by John Vore, Albert Williams and Owen Keehnen: captures the history of the LGBTQ community in Chicago as it defines itself.Firetrap Press, 2009. A landmark portrait of the LGBTQ community, drawn from Damski's first Gay Chicago "Nothing Personal" columns and continuing to his final "Nightlines" contributions. Fresh Frozen: First Chicago Poems edited by John Vore from a manuscript by Damski from 1977, includes poems and epigrams from 1975 to 1976.
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Bucky starts putting the pieces together and remembers props in another movie matched the set in Elizabeth's pornographic film. The end credits thanked Emmett Linscott, Madeleine's father, and Bucky digs deeper into a story Madeleine told about him using old film sets to build cheap firetrap housing. In an empty house below the Hollywoodland sign built by Emmett, Bucky recognizes the set that was used in Elizabeth's film. He finds evidence in a barn on the property that Elizabeth was killed and butchered there, as well as a drawing of a man with a Glasgow smile.
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In 1974, Damski traveled to Chicago for the annual American Philological Society convention, scheduled for that December.John Vore, "Briefly, A Life," in Fresh Frozen: First Chicago Poems by Jon-Henri Damski (Firetrap Press, 2009);draft correspondence, January, 1978 (Jon-Henri Damski Archive) He had hoped to continue lecturing in the Classics and finish his Ph.D., but was unable to find work in the small, crowded Classics field. This would make finishing the Ph.D. thesis difficult, though notes show him working on it through 1975. In Chicago, then, Damski wrote daily in his typed journals, using a portable typewriter and the Newberry Library as his base.
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Some of these dated to Damski's original work in the History of Ideas in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Angels Into Dust: The New Town Anthology, Volume 1: a collection of columns spanning Damski's Chicago career and covering the life and birth of New Town, Damski's name for the g/l/b/t/q communities. This edition was the most "book like," using, as it did, the prototypes for what would soon become Print On-Demand technologies. Firetrap publisher/editor Vore updated the books and created three new "facsimile" digital editions in 2002, making the limited-run works available as Portable Document Format books on-line.
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Damski is arguably the first queer columnist in America. Damski's writing seemed to take wing, in some ways, at this point, as the weight of political activities with the fabled "Gang of Four" could give way to the funny and insightful, classically trained mind which had kept its eye so intently on the civil rights ball for fifteen years. This work and his queer perspective on life have been collected in the anthology, dead/queer/proud (Firetrap Press, 2002); with his Classics training, Damski wasn't about to end up just your average Dead White Male, although d/q/p does qualify as a "great book." Damski's last column for Windy City Times was published May 18, 1995.
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Damski announced his column's re-emergence in Nightlines on June 21, 1995.Jon-Henri Damski, "A Community Trust," Nightlines, June 21, 1995 (Jon-Henri Damski Archive) A new weekly column, "Queer Thoughts and Mini-Essays," began on July 5, 1995 in Nightlines, and JHD continued on a monthly basis in Outlines, its sister-publication with the July, 1995 issue. Nightlines and Outlines were edited and published by Tracy Bain, an alumnus of GayLife and Windy City Times (which she would eventually purchase and publish, as well). It was during this last period of Damski's weekly career that he announced the formation of a publishing cooperative with John Michael Vore and friends, called Firetrap Press.
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St. Louis Artist's Guild building Bernays was a charter member of the St. Louis Artists Guild. The building at 812 Union Boulevard was designed by her nephew Louis C. Spiering, perhaps due to her recommendation. She was also a member of the Arts & Crafts jury for the St. Louis World's Fair or Louisiana Purchase Exposition. In December 1911, Bernays wrote a decalogue for women: # equal facilities in education # equal rights in the guardianship of children # equal wages for equal work # a single standard of morality # regulation and restraint of child labor # abolition of sweatshops # abolition of firetrap factories # suppression of smoke # minimizing the drink evil without interfering with personal liberty # abolition of white slave traffic.
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Damski attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington from 1955 to 1959, and he was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1959.John Vore, "Briefly, A Life' in Damski's Fresh Frozen (Firetrap Press, 2009); "Directory Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, 1945–1961, p.89 He chose Brandeis University because of Herbert Marcuse and its History of Ideas Program. Damski's masters thesis was a collection of 10,000 epigrams.The Jon- Henri Damski Archives contains original manuscripts from this period with the 10,000 epigrams "Marcuse warned me that writing epigrams was dangerous to my thought and health," wrote Damski in the late 1980s;Jon-Henri Damski, "On the Fringe," Windy City Times, November 10, 1988 (Jon-Henri Damski Archive) Damski would continue to write them until his 1997 death.
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His letters and epigrams continued to get published late into the Fall of 1977. Damski's first "Bits & Pieces" written with Gay Chicago News in mind were penned November 8, 1977:Jon-Henri Damski, "BBC Papers 11.8.77 (268)" (Jon- Henri Damski Archive) cited in John Vore, "Briefly, A Life," in Fresh Frozen: First Chicago Poems by Jon-Henri Damski (Firetrap Press, 2009) "As a gay Karl Marx would say: Sex according to your ability to sex; and pay according to your ability to pay." And on December 2, 1977,Jon-Henri Damski, Gay Chicago News, "Everyone hates Queens," December 2, 1977 (Jon-Henri Damski Archive) with a defense of queens, Damski began the weekly columns which would continue until October 29, 1997.
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The game is similar to breakout in that the player uses a ball (a fireball, hence the name) to break-up walls made of bricks by hitting the bricks with the ball, with the shape of the walls changing as the player progresses. The game differs from breakout, however, in that rather than just being a bat, the player is controls an animated juggler who can catch and throw the ball at the bricks. Five different modes of play are provided, including "Firetrap", "Knock-a-block", "Marching Blocks", "Migrating Blocks", and "Cascade", and as many as six balls may be on-screen at any given time. The game may be played in single-player mode, or in a two-player mode where each player takes turns.
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Jon-Henri Damski (March 31, 1937 – November 1, 1997) was an American essayist, weekly columnist, poet and community activist in Chicago's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities from the mid to late 1970s until the late 1990s. At the time of his death, Damski was the longest-running columnist published in the American gay and lesbian press, having written for publication every week from November 8, 1977 until November 12, 1997. Damski is also considered the first gay columnist in the American Midwest to publish under his real name and photo, starting in January, 1979, when no legal protections existed in the city of Chicago to give one recourse if fired from a job, or forced from housing, due to sexual orientation. Damski's epigrams, columns and poetry have been gathered in several collections and anthologies (see "Damski and Firetrap" section, below).
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Several of my senior neighbors have been here since World War II, when the monthly rent was a dollar a day. Now it is a hundred-plus dollars a week."Jon-Henri Damski, "Living in an SRO," Windy City Times, September 1, 1993 (Jon-Henri Damski Archive) Damski's Chicago debut in print came on February 17, 1975 with a letter to the Chicago Daily News about the "Daley machine," shorthand for the political connections of Mayor Richard J. Daley.Jon-Henri Damski, Letter to the Editor, Chicago Daily News" February 17, 1975 (Jon-Henri Damski Archive); cited in John Vore, "Briefly, A Life," in Fresh Frozen: First Chicago Poems by Jon-Henri Damski (Firetrap Press, 2009); Damski also was getting published in the Sun-Times Line o' type column, which accepted reader submissions, usually epigram-length, humorous musings.
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For some it radicalized them still further; as Rose Schneiderman said in her speech at the memorial meeting held in the Metropolitan Opera House on April 2, 1911 to an audience largely made up of the well-heeled members of the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL): :I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship. We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting. The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. We know what these things are today; the iron teeth are our necessities, the thumbscrews are the high-powered and swift machinery close to which we must work, and the rack is here in the firetrap structures that will destroy us the minute they catch on fire.
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