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Sprandel, then 25, a sometimes bartender and perpetual vagabond, boasted he could paddle from New York, down the East Coast, through the Panama Canal and up the West Coast to Los Angeles.
The friend promised to outfit Sprandel for the trip and give him a dime to call him when he was ready to quit.
Before the months-long trip down the East Coast would be over, Sprandel would paddle 1,700 miles, brave storms, fight off a manatee, drink moonshine and repair a brothel’s roof. And then there were the 46 days spent in a Cuban prison, after he accidentally landed on the communist country’s shore. In an international incident that played prominently on the pages of The Morning Call, he was found guilty of espionage and ultimately released in an exchange for Cuban fishermen.

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AP: “Shaquille O’Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl after being moved by national news coverage of the case of Shaniya Davis, who police say was kidnapped and killed.  The Cleveland Cavaliers player was touched by the stories he saw and got in touch with the family to see what he could do to help, a spokeswoman for O’Neal said Thursday. More than 2,000 people attended the girl’s funeral Sunday. Her body was found Nov. 16 beside a rural road. Her mother, Antionette Davis, who had reported the child missing six days earlier, is charged with human trafficking and child abuse involving prostitution. Mario McNeill is charged with murder, rape and kidnapping in the case. ‘I was sitting at home watching it on the news and the story brought a tear to my eye,’ O’Neal told The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper.”

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NBA in Brief
Friday, November 27th, 2009 | 2:10 am
Canwest News Service
CAVALIERS: SHAQ PAYS FOR FUNERAL
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal paid for the funeral of a five-year-old North Carolina girl after being moved by national news coverage of the case of Shaniya Davis, who police say was kidnapped and killed.
The Cleveland Cavaliers player was touched by the stories he saw and got in touch with the family to see what he could do to help. “I was sitting at home watching it on the news and the story brought a tear to my eye,” O’Neal told the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper.
The girl’s mother, Antionette Davis, is charged with human trafficking and child abuse involving prostitution.
76ERS: WILLIAMS OUT FOR 8 WEEKS
NEW YORK — Philadelphia 76ers guard Lou Williams will be sidelined for eight weeks after having jaw surgery on Thursday, the team said in a news release.

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… A few other people had noticed as well and when I started taking photos everyone in the area started to look up and point, laugh, grin,” a witness said. “From the looks of it, the couple did seem to know they could be seen and seemed completely unfazed.”
Newspapers have appealed for the couple to identify themselves. Some speculated the pair were students who had sex atop the building as a prank.
Figurines depict women in life of PM
ROME, Nov. 25 (UPI) — Two women at the center of scandals in the life of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are depicted in new wooden figurines.
Craftsmen in Naples have carved the likenesses of call girl Patrizia D’Addario, who allegedly had sex with Berlusconi, and Noemi Letizia, 18, who reportedly calls the prime minister “Papi,” or Daddy, The Daily Telegraph said Wednesday.

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… I’ve always been a pretty dirty comic,” Oakerson says. “My comedy style is like storytelling. There’s vulnerability to it. I’m not dirty for the sake of being dirty.”
Growing up, Oakerson was an underachiever whose mother went to school to become a respiratory therapist so they could move away from their depressed Philadelphia neighborhood. Because he had no better career plan, he figured he’d follow in her footsteps. He enrolled at Camden County Community College in South Jersey but dropped out in less than a month. Still with no better career plan, he began doing open-mic nights at an all-black club, where he gave himself the name Big Jay because he thought he needed a nickname to fit in.
To support himself, Oakerson performed at children’s parties for a shady company that also provided strippers to bachelor parties.

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Not so much inspired as ignited by an eccentric script from television writer William J. Finkelstein, Herzog creates an atmosphere sticky with amorality. For the filmmakers, New Orleans is a delirium state where all bad deeds go unpunished and vice versa.
The film spins with McDonagh’s whirling moral compass. As the waters rise in the Katrina prologue, McDonagh dives into a lockdown to set free a drowning prisoner.
His reward for this act of kindness? A promotion and a back injury that gets him addicted to Vicodin. In a pinch, he’ll use any prescription or street drug that can stanch the pain. And there are a lot of pinches.
McDonagh routinely shakes down suspects for drugs. And if the suspects don’t have them, there’s always the property room at the precinct or the stash of his prostitute girlfriend, Frankie (Eva Mendes), whose johns McDonagh loves to mess with. And did I mention that he is a sports gambler who owes thousands to his bookie?

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I find two of the points made in the letter to have been based on erroneous information.
The first is that Walker wrote that civil unions (now permitted in New Jersey) make gays who wish to marry equal to heterosexuals who wish to marry. If that were so, we would not need two different instruments to effect this so-called equality. Americans have heard that people can be separate but equal before, and they knew they were being lied to.
Also, “one-man, one woman” monogamous marriage has not been the sole definition of marriage since the earliest times of humankind.  There are still cultures that practice polygamy today.
Polygamy has its roots in the Judeo-Christian tradition that P. Walker attempts to represent. Open the Old Testament sometime and see how many wives and prostitutes that some of the men had relations with.

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An immigrant who has built her own business, Bravo-Blackwood is blunt about what’s happened to ACORN. She said the group has been hurt because donors don’t want to give to the national organization. She explained the local chapter’s funding streams came from its members, grants and donations.
The grants and donations all went to the national ACORN office, which then sent the money to the locals, which paid its professional staff. No money has come from the national organization since September, she said.
ACORN, as a national group, has been hammered by controversies and scandals. The most widely talked about involved several employees in other parts of the country who were caught on tape offering advice on how to deal with taxes related to prostitution and allegations of voter fraud related to ACORN registration drives.

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Franklin founded Pennsylvania Hospital in 1751. The illustrations were a gift to him in 1762 from his friend Dr. John Fothergill, a prominent London physician and fellow Quaker. They became part of the hospital’s medical education curriculum.
Thursday was the first time the illustrations have been on public view, Peeples said. They are normally kept in storage to protect them but will be on display at Pennsylvania Hospital’s medical library until December 2010.
Dutch artist Jan Van Rhysdyk, then regarded as one of Europe’s most gifted medical illustrators, created the drawings. He wanted to devote his efforts to portraiture but produced anatomical art because it paid the bills, Peeples said.
“He did it begrudgingly, but he was incredibly talented,” Peeples said.
The subjects were generally prostitutes, criminals and others of low social stature whose bodies would go unclaimed at the morgue. Other people, then as now, weren’t typically eager to donate their bodies to science.

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2007 – Former WCW wrestler Hardbody
Harrison was been found guilty of sex trafficking and prostitution charges. 
The Associated Press issued the following:
Ex-Wrestler Convicted of Sex Trafficking
ATLANTA (AP) A federal jury on Wednesday
convicted a former pro wrestler known as “Hardbody Harrison” of
charges that he kept eight women as sex slaves in his two north Georgia homes.
Harrison Norris Jr. was convicted of charges
including aggravated sexual abuse, forced labor, sex trafficking, conspiracy and
witness tampering. He was acquitted of all charges involving a ninth woman, but
still could get life in prison at sentencing, set for Feb. 28.
…
During a two-week trial, prosecutors portrayed
Norris as a predator who used his wrestling business to lure poor and vulnerable
women into prostitution and forced labor.
…
In addition to forcing the victims to work as
prostitutes, Norris made them work in and around his houses, requiring them to
haul trees, lay sod and paint, according to testimony.

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