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  WD61414: Kennedy F. Jones d/b/a Shiloh Ridge Apartments, Appellant, The Missouri Press Association, Amicus Curiae v. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Jones raises six points on appeal, resolution of his points alleging error in the granting of the Circuit Court's motion to dismiss his petition for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted disposes of the appeal.
Jones' petition failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted because the Sunshine Law did not apply to the records he wished to obtain from the court.
Jones alleged in Count II that the Circuit Court refused to make the case records available to him by the method and in the format he requested, and he argued such refusal violated Court Operating Rule 2.02 because it was technologically and economically feasible for the Circuit Court to have done so.
www.osca.state.mo.us /courts/pubopinions.nsf/ccd96539c3fb13ce8625661f004bc7da/956bdc1747f5316786256fa100676c2a?OpenDocument   (3501 words)

  
 RPCA - Parks - Jones Point Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cadwalder Jones was an English trader and map maker who built his cabin at Jones Point in 1699.
The survey placed the southern boundary of the new ten mile square District of Columbia Federal City at Jones Point where the marker was laid on the Potomac River shoreline.
In 1855, the historic Jones Point Lighthouse was built close to the District of Columbia Federal City boundary marker.
ci.alexandria.va.us /recreation/parks/jones_point_park.html   (525 words)

  
 Chesapeake Chapter, US Lighthouse Society - Our Lighthouse Heritage - Jones Point
In 1852 Congress approved $5,000 to acquire land and build a small lighthouse at Jones Point on the Potomac River just south of the city of Alexandra, Virginia.
The land was purchased from the Manassas Gap Rail Road in 1855.
Because of landfill operations, the light needed to be moved closer to the point.
www.cheslights.org /heritage/jones-pt.htm   (662 words)

  
 "Strain CounterStrain"
The tender points in counterstrain are not the lesion or subluxation itself.
Travell points feel like a band or a fibrotic "glump." Jones points are small and discreet; can feel thick and dense; and the tender point often is found in a hole.
If some of the tender points remain, it may indicate that you are not resolving the whole of the problem and need to look deeper, using counterstrain or other methods to resolve the reflex dysfunction.
www.chiroweb.com /archives/21/12/08.html   (1380 words)

  
 Player Bio: Nick Jones :: Men's Basketball
Statistically, Jones had his best season as a Gaucho, averaging 12.4 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, but his contributions could not be measured solely with numbers and that was recognized by the Big West coaches.
If Jones can come anywhere close to matching his 397 point total of last season, he would not only become a member of the club, but he would move into the school's all-time top-ten.
Jones is one of the most dependable outside shooters on the team, having connected on 119 three-pointers in his career, seventh best all-time.
ucsbgauchos.collegesports.com /sports/m-baskbl/mtt/jones_nick00.html   (677 words)

  
 Jones_Burton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Jones won a Regents' Scholarship to study at the University of Texas and when he entered the University he was certainly still intending to become a lawyer and he enrolled in the pre-law program.
Perhaps the main factor which led Jones to finally decide to become a mathematician was R L Moore.
Jones wrote 67 papers, his first in 1935 being on separable spaces, while his third in 1937 on normal spaces is one of his most important.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Jones_Burton.html   (986 words)

  
 The Eagles Online -- Ashland University Athletics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The point guard is traditionally a position of leadership on the basketball court along with being the spark plug in the offense.
Jones is also the top freshman scorer in the conference and continues to make a strong push toward GLIAC Freshman of the Year.
Even though Jones’ three-pointer at the buzzer fell short, it was a sign that Lyons showed a strong confidence in his point guard’s ability to put the ball in his hands as time wound down with the game on the line.
www.ashland.edu /athletics/media0304/40221menbasketball-feature.htm   (1286 words)

  
 Alexandria Archaeology Museum - Jones Point Trek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Jones Point Park encompasses 60 unique acres in the southeast corner of Alexandria, Virginia.
Jones Point is a true time capsule: it preserves sites, buildings, and artifacts above and below the ground which are related to Alexandria's prehistory and its military, shipbuilding, industrial, navigational, domestic and recreational history.
The tip of the historic Point is now submerged, and Great Hunting Creek was once the entrance to the international port of Cameron, an 18th century village which once stood near the present-day Telegraph Road.
oha.ci.alexandria.va.us /archaeology/jonespoint/ar-jpt-index.html   (156 words)

  
 WWB :: Neighborhood News - Jones Point Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Two additional historic landmarks - the 1791-1794 original South Cornerstone of the District of Columbia and the 1855 Jones Point Lighthouse - also have been the focus of intense study to ensure that no damage occurs to these resources during bridge construction.
The construction of the Jones Point Lighthouse between 1855-1866 continued the maritime tradition on Jones Point.
The beginning point of the survey would be at Jones Point, along Hunting Creek, according to Washington's orders.
www.rkkengineers.com /wilsonbridge-new/nn-jonesPointPark-arch3.htm   (239 words)

  
 Mail Tribune News - Eagle Point taps Jones for schools
Jones says he views the community and staff role in school operations as the district's greatest strength.
Jones says he will continue the practice of allowing individual schools in each of the district's four communities to set their own course, However, Jones says he intends to establish more central control over operations and give more direction to staff.
Jones also urged parents to participate in school programs and invited community groups to use school facilities.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/99/june99/61499n3.htm   (600 words)

  
 RealCavsFans - Cavaliers sign Damon Jones!
Jones, who played last season with the Miami Heat, was the last of the top free agent point guards left.
Jones was fifth in 3-point field-goal percentage last season at 43.2 percent.
Jones had preferred to return to the Miami Heat and that looked like it would happen after the Heat failed to sign Michael Finley.
www.realcavsfans.com /showthread.php?t=1417   (745 words)

  
 Stevens Point Journal - Jones heads to Ireland to coach Special Olympics soccer team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Perhaps the biggest challenge facing Richard Jones of Stevens Point and the members of the Wisconsin soccer team that will represent the United States at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Ireland is finding time to practice.
Jones, 63, a longtime Special Olympics volunteer, has been tabbed as one of four soccer coaches who will travel with Team USA-Wisconsin to the 11th Special Olympics World Summer Games in Ireland.
Jones credits his selection to letters of recommendation from area coaches.
www.wisinfo.com /journal/spjlocal/276080768648146.shtml   (478 words)

  
 PACERS: Jones Eyes Rare Double with Triples
A career.302 shooter from the arc entering this season, Jones has added more than 100 percentage points to that mark and stands at.403, best on the team and 23rd in the NBA.
Jones won the dunk title last year but won't be able to defend that crown because of knee tendinitis, though he will make the trip to Denver this weekend.
Jones' development is all the more remarkable because he had little time to work on his shooting or conditioning after undergoing shoulder surgery in the offseason.
www.nba.com /pacers/news/fjones_050214.html   (464 words)

  
 BYU Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Jones’ early compositions included piano and choral pieces, which were often performed by groups at his high school or by himself in various competitions.
Jones’ own work has come to reflect the philosophy of his mentor—that deeper themes of morality and God should be a part of music.
For Jones, composition "involves a striving—a working out of ideas and their interrelationships, of attempting to find a way to arrive at a point at which things fit exactly and the reasons for the ideas and journeys of the music are fulfilled," he wrote in the program notes for at the exactest point.
magazine.byu.edu /article.tpl?num=40-Spr04   (2793 words)

  
 Basset Hounds at Jones Point Park, neglected federal premises with large open spaces.
This is the light­house at Jones Point in Alex­an­dria, Vir­gin­ia. The light­house is the old­est stand­ing riv­er light, built in 1855, lit in May 1856, auto­mated in 1919, and de­ac­ti­vat­ed in 1926, when a steel tower with a fixed green (port hand) light was placed at the tip of Jones Point.
Jones Point Park is south of the Wilson Bridge, and much of it is trees and brush grown over the for­mer ship­ways of the Vir­gin­ia Ship Build­ing Cor­po­ra­tion.
Be­nign ne­glect of the fed­er­al prem­ises has left Jones Point Park as one of the few large open spaces where dogs can be exercised.
www.vagabond-lawyer.com /park.html   (430 words)

  
 Larry's Lights Jones Point, VA
The Jones Point Lighthouse was first lit in 1856 to help guide ships up the Potomac River to Alexandria, VA and Washington, DC.
In 1926, a steel skeletal tower was built closer to the point with a fixed green light.
The Jones Point Lighthouse is in Jones Point Park in Alexandria, under the Woodrow Wilson Bridge.
mywebpages.comcast.net /larrylights/Virginia/jonespoint.htm   (441 words)

  
 Broncos Have Guard Up / Point man Jones returns after serious knee injury
Brian Jones is gratefully entering the third phase of his sporting life -- roaming the basketball court again, trying to guide Santa Clara to the top of the West Coast Conference.
Jones spent three restless months essentially confined to bed, waiting for the bone to heal after surgery.
Jones is a top-flight point guard, a tidy complement to athletic shooting guard Nathan Fast.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/11/04/SP66831.DTL   (939 words)

  
 Jeffrey Jones Biography
I'm sure he got some assignments because he was able to provide a passable version of the style, but one look at A Woman of Bangkok at right and it is obvious that he had a style and a talent very early on that had nothing to do with muscular barbarians.
By this point there was a mannered, painterly, almost N.C. Wyeth feel to his art.
Jones explored his muse in the early dawn hours, creating images that were marketed as posters and signed prints.
www.bpib.com /illustrat/jonesjf.htm   (1532 words)

  
 WWB :: Neighborhood News - Jones Point Park
Human use of Jones Point goes back to 7,900 B.C. and newly found archeological evidence of native americans living in the area has dated occupancy much earlier than expected before theses studies.
The history of European occupation of Jones Point can be traced to the mid-seventeenth century, when it was used for agricultural purposes.
During the American Revolution and the Civil War, the Point housed a barricade and a fort to protect Alexandria from attack.
www.wilsonbridge.com /nn-jonesPointPark-arch.htm   (242 words)

  
 Alexandria Archaeology Museum - Jones Point Trek: Lighthouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Congress authorized $5,000 in 1852 to build the Jones Point Lighthouse, one of America's oldest inland waterway lighthouses.
The "brilliant" whale-oil lantern was first illuminated May 1, 1856, and also provided light for ice skaters on the river during winter nights.
The Mount Vernon Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution took over responsibility of the lighthouse in 1926 and spearheaded the building's preservation.
oha.ci.alexandria.va.us /archaeology/jonespoint/ar-jpt-jptlh.html   (73 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Jazz trolling for point guards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
With 40-year-old all-time NBA steals and assists leader John Stockton expected to return for a 19th season with the Jazz and Spanish rookie Raul Lopez prepared to play his first season in Utah, the Jazz hope to sign an experienced and affordable guard who can handle the ball.
As for the point guards, Utah might be inclined to make an offer to either Jones or Strickland.
Jones has averaged 5.3 points and 2.3 assists after stops in New Jersey, Boston, Golden State, Dallas, Vancouver and Detroit, including 5.1 points and 2.3 points in 67 games for the Pistons last season.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,405022160,00.html   (705 words)

  
 Pittsburgh Bridges at the Point, HAER - Jones' Ferry
From the foundation of the first settlement at Pittsburgh until 1818 the only means of communication between the town and the further banks of the rivers was by canoe or skiff.
About 1840 the horse ferry was introduced in which blind horses, as a rule, were used as motive power -- they were made to tramp upon a horizontal wheel, the revolutions of which propelled the boat across the stream.
Subsequently the Jones' Ferry was abandoned and a steam ferry operated from Saw Mill Run on the south bank of Ohio to Penn Street in Pittsburgh.
pghbridges.com /articles/PA3-04.htm   (259 words)

  
 HoustonChronicle.com - Ex-UH star Jones finally at home with the Heat
Jones, 28, still won't be the main attraction tonight when Miami makes its only appearance of the season in Houston, but that's not his goal anyway.
For Jones, this is exactly the type of season he dreamed of when he left UH in 1997.
Jones, who will be a free agent this summer, had a breakthrough season in Milwaukee last year, which helped him land the dream job in Miami.
www.chron.com /cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/sports/3096692   (1507 words)

  
 Nic Jones Discography: Slipcue.Com Folk Guide
Jones had been on the scene since the late 1960s, a contemporary of Shirley Collins, Steeleye Span, Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick, Dave and Toni Arthur -- the whole lot of them.
This is the Nic Jones album to look for, not least because it's the only studio album that's been in print over the last few decades.
At last, Jones has prowled through his attic and compiled the master tapes of various BBC and folk club outings, recordings which perfectly capture his resonant vocals and dazzling guitar work as heard at his very peak.
www.slipcue.com /music/international/celtic/artists/nicjones.html   (1686 words)

  
 Alexandria Council to Vote on Jones Point Park Plan
After six years of debate and disputes over issues as varied as parking, security and soccer fields, the Alexandria City Council is set to vote next week on a plan for upgrading Jones Point Park.
Because of concern that the new bridge could be vulnerable to a terrorist attack, city officials announced last year that they had to scrap a proposed 242-space parking lot for the new Jones Point Park and find a new place for it, either in the park or off-site.
The work group then tackled the parking issue but was unable to agree on a new park design, as many of the same issues decided in 2000 -- primarily the number, size and location of the planned athletic fields -- reemerged.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/22/AR2005062200690_pf.html   (753 words)

  
 Paul Jones encourages McNair Scholars to pursue their dreams
Jones, who has donated his extensive collection of African-American art to UD [www.udel.edu/PaulRJonesCollection/], recently shared some of his experiences and vision with fellow McNair Scholars from UD and across America.
Although denied the opportunity to go to West Point, Jones did earn a scholarship to Alabama State University, where he was president of the freshman class and president of his fraternity pledge club, while still finding time to play football and drums in the marching band.
Jones said that while he is pleased that his collection now had a home, he wants to see UD collaborate with other institutions in mounting traveling exhibitions of works from the collection.
www.udel.edu /PR/UDaily/2004/pjones101503.html   (1683 words)

  
 NBA History: K.C. Jones Summary
K.C. Jones Jones was a defensive standout with the fabled Celtics dynasty of the late 1950s and 1960s.
Jones was a defensive standout with the fabled Celtics dynasty of the late 1950s and 1960s.
After retiring, Jones continued his winning ways as a coach with six teams, employing a low-key, laissez-faire approach that won seven division titles, five Eastern Conference titles and two championships.
www.nba.com /history/players/joneskc_summary.html   (232 words)

  
 Arkansas Ozark Land for sale at Jones Point Estates in Marion County, AR
Arkansas Ozark Land for sale at Jones Point Estates in Marion County, AR Jones Point Estates, our newest project, consists of 16 parcels of Oak-covered ridge-top above Bull Shoals Lake, these ranging in size from.81 acre up to 5.53 acres.
Jones Point Estates is located 77 miles southeast of Springfield, 50 miles east of Branson and 10.3 miles south of Theodosia, Mo. pop.
The area is one of the most sparsely populated along Bull Shoals' shoreline near the Jones Point Wildlife Preserve.
www.ozarkland.com /JonesPoint.htm   (262 words)

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