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  John Laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Laws, CBE (born August 8, 1935) is a prominent and controversial radio presenter in Australia, whose mellifluous voice earned him the nickname 'Golden Tonsils'.
Born in Wau, Papua New Guinea, Laws was educated at Knox Grammar School and Mosman Preparatory School in Sydney, Australia.
Laws had previously apologised for another incident in which he called gay TV personality Carson Kressley, of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy fame, a "pompous little pansy prig" and "a pillow biter" before urging him to "piss off, pansy".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Laws   (804 words)

  
 John Laws : Milestones : Bio
Now at his 50th anniversary, John Laws is the highest paid radio broadcaster in the world, at the top of the radio ratings ladder in several Australian markets, and broadcasts the biggest radio programme in Australia from behind a golden microphone.
John Laws has been given the nickname Golden Tonsils and the title, King of Radio because he is the trusted voice of 'dial in democracy', an Australian legend and to those in and outside the radio industry, John Laws is an icon.
John Laws returned to 2UE when the station had plummeted to 8th place in the Sydney ratings, but quickly returned to the top of the ratings, where 2UE has consistently remained since his return in 1988.
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 Laws Construction - Our Reputation Is Building Everyday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Laws is licensed in nine states (throughout the southeast), has their own concrete and steel crews, and continues to expand.
Laws can no longer be called just a "metal building" contractor - that's a heritage they're proud of and they still build a lot of metal buildings, but today they do so much more.
After 34 years, Laws is now one of the "old line" contractors in the area and is recognized as a premier general contractor and construction management firm.
www.lawsconst.com /hist.html   (637 words)

  
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JOHN PILGER: Before we answer that one, let me say this: there are two very big differences between the situation here in Britain and in Australia.
JOHN PILGER: I think there will be new laws, yes, but they don't think they'll be anywhere near as draconian, anti-democratic as the kind of laws that Blair is proposing.
That under international law, under the Nuremberg enactment that formed the basis for international law all those years ago, that is an illegal, rapacious and an act, in effect, of terrorism.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article10261.htm   (1958 words)

  
 Chris Aoki Golf - Student Profiles - John Laws
John became an extremely accurate player around the green and is excellent at reading greens.
John is an excellent student and received a 4.0 his first semester.
John will continue to go far in his career as a golfer and as a person who has truly kept a strong character of honesty, hard work, patience and sincerity.
www.chrisaoki.com /profile_laws.htm   (370 words)

  
 John Murphy's Ten Laws of Technical Trading   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
John's "Ten Laws of Technical Trading" is the best guide available anywhere for people who are new to the field of charting.
John Murphy, StockCharts.com's Chief Technical Analyst, has drawn upon his thirty years of experience in the field to develop ten basic laws of technical trading: rules that are designed to help explain the whole idea of technical trading for the beginner and to streamline the trading methodology for the more experienced practitioner.
Before joining StockCharts, John was the technical analyst for CNBC-TV for seven years on the popular show Tech Talk, and has authored three best-selling books on the subject: Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets, Intermarket Technical Analysis and The Visual Investor.
stockcharts.com /education/TradingStrategies/MurphysLaws.html   (1454 words)

  
 Laws: I was trying to be funny - TV & Radio - Entertainment - smh.com.au
Broadcaster John Laws says he was objecting to the "unnecessarily overt" homosexuality displayed by an American TV personality when he called him a "pillow biter" on air.
Laws told the ADT today that his comments were supposed to be funny and tongue-in-cheek, and denied he had a problem with homosexuality in general.
Laws told the tribunal he would be happy to read an apology he had published in a gay newspaper aloud on his radio show tomorrow.
www.smh.com.au /news/tv--radio/laws-i-was-trying-to-be-funny/2006/03/14/1142098457547.html   (307 words)

  
 St. John Artists Presents - The Groove Hogs
Regardless of the real reason for his collection, John Laws' bass playing keeps the Groove Hogs at the forefront of their musical genre as well as contributing to one of the best stage shows currently on the road.
While John seems clever and witty on stage (like a head of cabbage), off stage he is sensitive and quiet (while he raises a shot glass to his lips).
The band members feel very fortunate to have John in the band (he gets the blame for all the bad stuff) because his introspective nature (plays with his food) reminds them all that life is a barrel of !and@$% with the handles on the inside.
www.stjohn-artists.com /groovehogs   (3089 words)

  
 AM - John Laws and Alan Jones' war of words
Rival broadcaster, John Laws says Jones told him at a dinner party in November, 2000 that he was so determined to get Professor David Flint re-appointed to the position of ABA head that he threatened to withdraw his political support for the Prime Minister.
JOHN LAWS: And then he said, "As a matter of fact, I feel it's important that he is reappointed as head of the ABA, that I went to Kirribilli House and I told John Howard, reappoint David Flint or you won't have my support in the forthcoming election.'"
JOHN HOWARD: As to this suggestion that he tried to heavy me under threat that if I didn't reappoint David Flint, he wouldn't support me in the election campaign, that is absurd and wrong.
www.abc.net.au /am/content/2004/s1097140.htm   (688 words)

  
 John Laws   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
John joined the KMID sports team in August of 2005 just in time for the Texas high school football season.
John played and competed in almost every sport in his youth but stuck with swimming through high school and received an athletic scholarship to SMSU.
During his time in college, John interned at many places including the ABC affiliate in Springfield, a sports radio station in St. Louis, and a cable news station based out of Orlando, Florida.
www.big2.com /bios/John_Laws.asp   (201 words)

  
 The Spirit Network ~ John Laws
At John Laws 40th anniversary dinner, former Prime Minister Paul Keating handed John the ultimate compliment, hailing him as "the broadcaster of the century".
John Laws has also been extremely prominent in other areas of the Australian media.
John Laws is known for his passionate interest in motor sports, motor cycling, writing, reading, tennis, rural pursuits, photography, antique furniture, works of art and sculpture, timepieces and first collector's editions of books.
www.spiritradio.com.au /gtn/laws.html   (205 words)

  
 Media Man
John's influential relationship with his listeners is both as friend, confidante and teacher.
John Laws worked at several country radio stations prior to joining 2UE in 1957, the first of four terms at Sydney's top-rating radio station.
John Laws assistance to charities is continual, raising money for and giving money to various institutions.
www.mediaman.com.au /profiles/laws1.html   (938 words)

  
 Banks pay $1m+ for radio favours   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
TALKBACK host John Laws was unrepentant yesterday as four separate investigations were launched into allegations that he received more than $1 million in return for favourable commentaries on the banking industry.
And while Laws maintained yesterday that he was an entertainer and not a journalist, Edith Cowan University communications lecturer Alan McKee said he had little doubt that most of Laws' two million listeners regarded him as a journalist.
Laws' program was different to programs such as Channel 10's home improvement show Bright Ideas, which left viewers with no illusion that it was anything other than "advertorial.".
www.multiline.com.au /~johnm/johnlaws.htm   (858 words)

  
 John Laws : Vox
He speaks with John Laws about the movie, and his previous movie '13 Days' which focuses on the Cuban Missile Crisis, a situation dealt with by his uncles John F Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.
John Farnham released a CD titled "I Remember When I Was Young, The Great Australian Songbook" and called into The Fortress to speak with John Laws.
John Laws received a fax from Bob, a listener who was unhappy with Lawsie calling him a sicko and asking whether John wanted a bottle of blood stained sand as a souvenir to show his grandkids the part that he was playing in the Corby case in Bali.
www.johnlaws.com.au /4Vox.html   (2567 words)

  
 Foreign Minister: Interview with John Laws - Radio 2UE
LAWS: You've heard plenty of reports, I imagine, about how it happened, when it happened and what the feeling was when the bomb went off.
LAWS: Well, I think you're probably in for a difficult weekend because I'm sure from what we've seen here the bomb must have been massive and the building is just unbelievable that it even stood.
LAWS: Okay, well, I know that her father is a New South Wales police officer, I'm not sure whether he's arrived there or not but assumedly he's been told that she's been taken to Singapore.
www.foreignminister.gov.au /transcripts/2004/040910_2ue.html   (1274 words)

  
 John Quiggin: The ticking bomb problem
Turning from individual ethics to law and public policy what this means is that laws against torture should be enforced in all cases.
It is actually a standard method to make law breakers work to executive requirements - and it involves them throwing themselves on their superiors' mercy and not going private.
John, Are you suggesting that torture should always be prosecuted by law but that acts of torture might be morally justified in a Ticking Bomb situation and that the torturer's confession plus factual demonstration of a Ticking Bomb situation is a mitigating circumstance?
www.johnquiggin.com /archives/001694.html   (2986 words)

  
 News Talk 1116 Brisbane's 4BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
For virtually all of the 50 years he has worked in radio, John Laws has been the undisputed king of Australia's talk-back airwaves and has remained at the top of the ratings - an achievement many say will never be obtained again.
At a glittering fl-tie dinner celebrating John Laws' 40th anniversary in Australian radio, Prime Minister Paul Keating handed him the ultimate compliment, hailing him as 'the broadcaster of the century'.
The Independent Monthly, in a November 1994 story, described John Laws as a 'rare phenomenon, a voice of the masses'; 'one of the prominent people who still speak for the working and lower middle classes' and said he, more than any other public figure, was 'in touch'.
www.4bc.com.au /johnlaws.php   (1438 words)

  
 The shrinking world of John Laws - smh.com.au
Laws is referring to the way 2GB has cracked the No.1 radio station slot for the first time in 17 years after luring Alan Jones from 2UE's breakfast shift to its own.
"When you talk to John Laws you are standing in the lounge rooms of middle Australia," comments Stephen Loosley, former general secretary of NSW Labor and later ALP national president, in the John Lyons biography Laws, A Life of Power.
Part of the Laws legend is his ability to take middle Australia with him as he has moved back and forth with his audience across the AM dial, creating and destroying the fortunes of a string of stations.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/03/07/1046826526917.html   (1295 words)

  
 John Muuss Photographic Artist, Inc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
John started as a photographer working freelance in New York City, and then as a photographer in the US Army.
John studied under the great Adolph Studley, and worked for such notable clients as The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York, Willem & Elaine de Kooning and Jacques Lipchitz.
John is now a Photographic Artist in North Carolina.
www.johnmuuss.com   (169 words)

  
 2UE Radio Presenters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
John Laws was born in Wau, New Guinea, on August 8, 1935.
For virtually all of the 51 years he has worked in radio, John Laws has been the undisputed king of Australia's talk back airwaves and has remained at the top of the ratings.
John Laws has worked at several country radio stations prior to joining 2UE in 1957, the first of four terms at Sydney's top rating radio station.
www.2ue.com /presenters.php?presenter_id=3   (445 words)

  
 Naturalist John Muir Laws gives presentation on Sierra Nevada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
John Muir Laws, naturalist, educator, and artist will lecture on The Sierra Project, his forthcoming lavishly illustrated natural history guide for the Sierra Nevada.
Laws, who is currently an Associate in the Research Division of the California Academy of Sciences, is creating an illustrated field guide to more than 1,200 species of plants and animals of the Sierra.
Laws will make this presentation as the culminating lecture for Interdisciplinary 6, a semester-long interdisciplinary course at Sierra College that focuses on the natural history of the Sierra, but includes art, history, economics, philosophy, management, and protection of this California bioregion.
www.yubanet.com /artman/publish/article_35214.shtml   (431 words)

  
 Laws
This Judge Thomas Laws was married to Amelia, daughter of Levin and Ann Cropped and was born in 1753 - He left a large family some of whom are in Ohio and Indiana and some in Delaware yet.
This John Lawes of Accomac left a family near Modestown in that County and one of his sons, William Laws in 1701 moved to Snow Hill, Worcester Co., Md. This William Laws died 1729, leaving John, William, Belitha and Elijah Laws.
John Laws family is extinct except through his daughter, [long space] I, together with many others are descended from William Laws.
www.goldenlyon.com /laws.html   (3394 words)

  
 SitNews - Column:Caution on terror laws By JOHN HALL
One of the laws Blair has already started to throw at radicals in his midst is treason.
The problem with all these laws that inhibit speech - treason, sedition, justifying or glorifying terrorism, whatever politicians come up with and however base or noble their motivations - is that eventually they can be turned around to clamp somebody in handcuffs who got a little carried away.
John Hall is the senior Washington correspondent of Media General News Service.
www.sitnews.us /Columns/0805/081005_john_hall.html   (701 words)

  
 Not Aussie enough: why John Laws is out - TV & Radio - Entertainment
John Laws is set to lose more than a third of his regional network to the 60 Minutes presenter Charles Wooley, who is quitting TV to become a morning talkback presenter.
Southern Cross Broadcasting, which owns 2UE, was yesterday putting on a brave face on the announcement, saying Laws would still be the leading syndicated morning show for 43 remaining stations.
Since Law's lost his No. 1 spot in the Sydney market his regional audience has been vital in retaining sponsors and attracting guests.
www.smh.com.au /news/tv--radio/not-aussie-enough-why-john-laws-is-out/2005/10/11/1128796525668.html   (420 words)

  
 CCOPS: the JOHN LAWS file
The only "evidence" for any such past Laws could have had was from Becky, and she was definately a liar, as you'll see.
And for damnsure, if Officer Laws was an honest cop who actually got "taken" by Becky on the false death fraud, he wouldn't have helped her write up criminal charges against her victim after he was aware she'd pulled all that fraud.
But the fraud was never investigated, John Laws never recieved so much as a reprimand, and Becky never faced any legal consequences from any of this.
www.equalccw.com /johnlaws   (1394 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Books: John C. Maxwell,Zig Ziglar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
John Maxwell's book is by far the best leadership book I have read in the past few years.
I am not going to write about all 21 laws, but here are a few worth noting, the book opens with the Law of the Lid, which is essentially if you do not surround yourself with the very best people then you will limit what you can accomplish.
And we end on law 21, the law of legacy, where the value of the leader is tested by time and whether or not he succeeded with succession.
www.amazon.com /21-Irrefutable-Laws-Leadership/dp/0785274316   (2592 words)

  
 The Morning Journal - John O. Laws Sr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Laws worked at U.S. Steel in Lorain for 29 years in the No. 2 seamless mill as a crane follower, retiring in 1982.
of Lorain and Larry Laws of California; daughters Cheryl Quickle of Foothill Ranch, Calif., Sandra Rottari of Wakeman and Michele Laws of Lorain; sister, Faye Smith of Honea Path, S.C.; and 10 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, S.L. and Flora (nee Green) Laws; and five brothers, three sisters and a great-grandson.
www.morningjournal.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=16973571&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46369&rfi=6   (303 words)

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