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Topic: Ramon Rivas


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  Ramon Rivas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ramon Rivas (born March 16, 1966) is a former NBA basketball player from Carolina, Puerto Rico.
Rivas attended Temple University from 1984 to 1988 going in four occasions to the NCAA post season tournament, was coach by hall of famer coach John Chaney.
Rivas represented Puerto Rico as a member of the Puerto Rican national basketball team at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, and in the 1992 Olympics, held at Barcelona, Spain and the 1996 Olympics, held in Atlanta.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ramon_Rivas   (770 words)

  
 2003 NYSlipOp 14594
At this point, the court directed the removal of both defendants from the courtroom, and took the verdict as to Ramon Rivas in his absence.
Rivas was found guilty on all three counts.
Notwithstanding the explanation provided by the trial court, defendant Rivas is correct in arguing that he was improperly deprived of his right to be present at a material stage of his trial by his removal from the courtroom before the verdict was rendered, in view of his adherence to the court's warning.
www.courts.state.ny.us /REPORTER/slips/14594.htm   (641 words)

  
 List of people by name: Riv - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rivas, George, (born 1970), leader of the Texas 7
Rivas, Ramon, (born 1966), Puerto Rican basketball player, former Boston Celtics member
Rivera, Ramon Luis, (born ~1925), Puerto Rican mayor
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_people_by_name:_Riv   (172 words)

  
 al.com: Weblogs
Led by Pastor Ramon Rivas, the 42-member church not only owns its 3,000-square-foot, two-story building, it also owns the 4.65 acres of land on which it sits next to the Marion Association office in Hamilton.
Rivas and Gallups said the joint work built the foundation for a strong relationship that has formed between the Hispanic congregation and the other churches in Marion Association.
Rivas plans to continue training Hispanic leaders by moving the extension classes from the associational office to the church building.
www.al.com /weblogs/tide/index.ssf/?/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news/115012802868700.xml&coll=8   (559 words)

  
 NORTHERN FRONT CONTRAS
Rivas reportedly said that he became involved in the drug trade at a low level--packaging drugs; transporting them within the city of Barranquilla, Colombia; and passing them to traffickers for overseas shipment.
The CIA independent contractor says pursuing this question with Rivas was very difficult, in part because Rivas was always surrounded by a lot of "gunmen." Thus, the independent contractor says he believed he might be at personal risk if he accused Rivas in their presence.
At the time [Rivas] had just broken a relationship with [an American] who was the daughter of a very rich US citizen and those who met [Rivas] at the time assumed his money came from the girl and/or her father.
www.fas.org /irp/cia/product/cocaine2/north.html   (9753 words)

  
 [343 NLRB No. 77] Champion Home Builders Co.,32-CA-17185
The judge’s analysis, however, fails to explain why the State court lawsuit was preempted upon issuance of the complaint alleging that Rivas had been unlawfully discharged, and why it was unlawful for the Respondent to fail to stay or seek the dissolution of the lawsuit as subsequently alleged.
The judge found that the State court’s restraining order against Rivas, barring him from entering the Respondent’s property, was preempted by the Act because it conflicted with the Board’s remedy for Rivas’ 8(a)(1) discharge, requiring him to be reinstated to the Respondent’s employment.
Rivas testified that he discussed his concerns about bonuses with coworkers on several occasions, and that some of his fellow employees agreed and encouraged him to bring the matter up at a safety meeting.
www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/343/343-77.htm   (9515 words)

  
 DANCE REVIEW; In Venezuelan Dancers, Shades of Soviet Style - New York Times
Johana Fernandez, supported by the exuberant Ramon Thielen, led the work with aplomb and an assured technique, typically illustrated by her forceful pirouettes.
Rivas), and the bluebird wore a dinner jacket.
Snow White and seven children as the dwarfs were added to the divertissement, which opened with an eclectic group of fairies dancing to the "precious stones" music.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E5D71631F931A25752C1A962958260   (466 words)

  
 The Monitor - McAllen, Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Rivas would follow her love for writing into a career in journalism, writing for the United Press International and newspapers in Dallas, San Antonio, and El Paso.
She was unsuccessful until she began teaching at UT and created a class on the topic.
Using students as her interviewers and traveling extensively, Rivas tracked down hundreds of veterans and others of the World War II generation to interview them and record their stories for posterity.
www.themonitor.com /SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=14209&Section=BOOKS   (794 words)

  
 OA Online Obituaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
His children are Ramon Ponce of Odessa, Marissa Sanchez of Midland, Armida Aranda of Ojinaga, Mexico, Javier Ponce of Odessa, Jose Ponce of Odessa, Lucy Stevens of Edmore, Mich., Hilda Nieto of Odessa and Ymelda Ponce of Odessa.
Rivas, 74, was born June 17, 1930, in Casa Piedra, Texas, to Abelino and Florencia Muñoz Rivas Sr.
of Odessa, Ramon Rivas, Demetrio Rivas of Midland, Victor Rivas Sr.
www.oaoa.com /obit/obits010205.htm   (1148 words)

  
 Latinos & WWII
Ramon Flores -- Along with two other brothers, Ramon Flores fought in the South Pacific.
Ramon served with the 8th Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division, having been inducted into service in September 1944, charged with “mop-up” duty in Leiti and Luzan after Japan’s surrender.
Manny Rivas -- Manuel Rivas joined the U.S. Marines with his twin brother Sal, both fighting in the same division but in different platoons in the South Pacific.
utopia.utexas.edu /explore/latino/narratives/v3n2index.html   (3378 words)

  
 Ranger Insurance Company v. Hinshaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
At one stop, Juan Rivas (Rivas), an employee of Skydive, rode up on his motorcycle.
While Rivas and Takeda were on the motorcycle, Rivas rear ended a motor vehicle operated by David Reardon (Reardon), and both Rivas and Takeda were ejected from the motorcycle.
On May 21, 1998, Takeda filed a second amended complaint against Rivas, Skydive, Reardon, and unnamed Doe defendants, alleging that Rivas negligently operated the motorcycle and that Skydive was liable because Rivas was acting within the scope of his employment.
www.hawaii.gov /jud/22532.htm   (3681 words)

  
 CIA-Contras -
DEA alleging" that Rivas was identical with a person of the same name who had reportedly escaped from a
Rivas reportedly said that he became involved in the drug trade at a low
Rivas was always surrounded by a lot of "gunmen." Thus, the independent contractor says he believed he
www.uhuh.com /bbks/ciacontras/north.htm   (3740 words)

  
 The Consortium
At their head was the district police chief, a retired army colonel named Ramon Rivas.
Rivas ordered that the Chilean scientist be turned over to the soldiers.
Lacalle did fire the police chief, Rivas, but agreed only to transfer the head of military intelligence, Mario Aguerrondo.
www.consortiumnews.com /1999/c011399a.html   (1936 words)

  
 Raul N. Longoria's Genealogy Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Children were: Ascension SALINAS, Ramon SALINAS, Enrique SALINAS, Delfina SALINAS, Sabina SALINAS, Cruz SALINAS.
He was married to Maria Gertrudis LOPEZ on May 15 1765 in Camargo, Tamaulipas, New Spain.
Ponciano and Juana Salinas, daughter of his adopted father's brother Ramon Salinas, fell in love and eloped because Ramon would not consent to his daughter marrying an Indian.
www.raullongoria.net /Genealogy/FamilyTree/d175.html   (656 words)

  
 Priest fears Cuban ideological crusade in alphabetization campaign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Venezuelan Catholic Education Association (AVEC) president, Father Ramon Rivas says he fears that President Hugo Chavez Frias' alphabetization program announced last Sunday could introduce Venezuelans to Cuban thought patterns.
Rivas complains that there are plenty of educators in Venezuela and there is no need to bring in Cubans.
During his Sunday radio broadcast, President Chavez Frias had announced that he would be using the Cuban experience because of its use of broadcast media to complement reading and writing for adults.
www.vheadline.com /printer_news.asp?id=7507   (169 words)

  
 Anaheim Angels, Major League Baseball, Minnesota Twins - CBS SportsLine.com
Ramon Ortiz combined with two relievers on a four-hitter, and Tim Salmon and Scott Spiezio each hit two-run homers as the defending World Series champs beat the Twins 5-0 Friday night in their first meeting since the AL championship series.
Second baseman Luis Rivas lost sight of Troy Glaus' towering popup in the twilight and it fell in short right-center for an RBI double, just beyond the reach of right fielder Bobby Kielty.
Bobby Kielty, RF Dustan Mohr, LF Denny Hocking, CF Luis Rivas, 2B
cbs.sportsline.com /mlb/gamecenter/recap/MLB_20030711_MIN@ANA   (963 words)

  
 Home of the Miami Tropics Basketball Team
Former FIU point guad Carlos Arroyo, now with the Orlando Magic, is in the middle of a four-year, $16 million contract.
Among the undrafted Puerto Ricans played to play in the NBA are Ramon Rivas, Ramon Ramos and Daniel Santiago.
Rivas, a 6-10, 260-pound forward from Carolina, starred at Temple University and played 22 games for the Boston Celtics in 1988-89.
www.hoop-rap.com /news/newsview.php?getstory=603   (1627 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Ramon Vazquez walked, Varitek to second, Mueller to third.
Luis Rivas was safe after Ramon Vazquez committed a fielding error, Castro to second.
Ramon Vazquez singled, Varitek to second, Mueller to third.
pages.prodigy.net /kkimballsd/bosmin.htm   (3622 words)

  
 Greece holds off Puerto Rican rally   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
 But Puerto Rico (1-2) responded with a 20-0 run that was touched off by a brief scuffle between Greece's Efthimis Rentzias and Puerto Rico's Ramon Rivas.
With Rivas scoring 11 of the points in the surge, Puerto Rico pulled to 59-53 with 9:15 to play.
 After the scuffle between Rivas and Rentzias, the Denver Nuggets' first-round pick last month, Greece was charged with a technical foul because its entire team went onto the floor.
www.canoe.ca /OlympicsBasketball/jul24_gre_pr.html   (235 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
One check was issued to Ramon Perez (later positively identified by the FBI agent as ORLANDO-ALMENGOR) and the other was issued to a co-defendant.
Four of the checks were issued to Juan Rodriguez Mendez (later identified by the FBI agent as CUEN-AGUILAR), Martin Paz Amador (later identified by the FBI agent as CARBAJAL-RIVAS), Ramon Perez (later identified by the FBI agent as ORLANDO-ALMENGOR) and a fourth defendant.
The FBI agent and a representative of Snelling and Associates would testify the checks were counterfeit.
www.usdoj.gov /usao/mt/PressReleases/20030716092100.htm   (674 words)

  
 Daniel Santiago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He has played in Bayamón since the middle 1990s, helping the team to various national championships and tournament finals.
In between 1998 and 1999, he played for the Varese Roosters of the Italian league, and between 2000 and 2001, Santiago played for the NBA's Phoenix Suns in the position of back-up center, becoming the fourth Puerto Rican, after Butch Lee, Piculin Ortiz and Ramon Rivas to make it to the NBA.
He was released from the Suns after the 2001 campaign was over.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_Santiago   (359 words)

  
 TNI The Pinochet Precedent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The area police chief, Retired Col. Ramón Rivas, appeared and ordered the police commissioner to turn the prisoner over.
They decided to denounce retired Colonel Ramón Rivas to the police chief.
Rivas facilitated the military operation to capture Berríos and destroyed official documents in an attempt to cover the biochemist's trail.
www.tni.org /archives/blixen/berrios.htm   (3718 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Twins win big, force decisive Game 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Tejada threw Luis Rivas' grounder over Eric Chavez's head at third, allowing Mientkiewicz to score and giving the Twins a 3-2 advantage, their first lead since Game 1.
Pierzynski slid home on a wild pitch by Hudson, and Jones was plunked on his foot.
Rivas stopped short of the plate, let the ball trickle by him and scored to make it 5-2.
www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/playoffs/2002-10-05-twins-athletics-game-4_x.htm   (1053 words)

  
 JS Online: Twins Force Game 5 Against A's
When the damage was done, this was the result: two wild pitches, a hit batsman, two errors, four hits and seven unearned runs.
Pierzynski slid home on a wild pitch by Hudson, and Jacque Jones was plunked on his foot.
Scott Hatteberg fielded Cristian Guzman's grounder and threw errantly to catcher Ramon Hernandez.
www.jsonline.com /sports/brew/ap/oct02/ap-bba-athletics-t100602.asp   (946 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Sentinel Forums: Watsonville City Council
But after a half-hour of acrimonious debate Tuesday night, during which Rivas assured the audience that attending conferences was "hard work and not one big party," the City Council, voted 5-2 to sign off on the taxpayer-funded trip to the Norwegian city, at a total cost of $6,600.
WATSONVILLE — Mayor Judy Doering-Nielsen and councilmen Oscar Rios, Antonio Rivas and Ramon Gomez will be off to San Juan, Puerto Rico, this summer to attend the National Association of Latino Elected Officials.
But after a half-hour of acrimonious debate Tuesday night, during which Rivas assured the audience that attending conferences was "hard work and not one big party," the City Council, voted 5-2 to sign off on the taxpayer-funded trip to the Caribbean island, at a total cost of $6,600.
forums.santacruzsentinel.com /cgi-bin/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001971   (1381 words)

  
 CIA Report on Contras and Cocaine
A different problem was represented in the case of Juan Ramon Rivas, one of the first rebel fighters to enter Nicaragua in 1982.
In November of that year, however, a DEA report identified Rivas as a fugitive from a Colombian prison who had been arrested on a drug charge.
Rivas, a former member of the Nicaraguan National Guard, acknowledged to DEA officials that after the Sandinistas took power in 1979, he went to Colombia and became involved in the drug trade.
www.namebase.org /hitz.html   (2997 words)

  
 Cascada San Ramón, Nicaragua
EXPLORE NICARAGUA: Rivas and La Isla de Ometepe
Destination content © Randy Wood and Joshua Berman, used from Moon Handbooks Nicaragua, 2nd edition.
The sole bus to San Ramón leaves Moyogalpa at 8 a.m., returning daily at 2:30 p.m.
www.moon.com /planner/nicaragua/mustsees/cascadasanramon.html   (236 words)

  
 County Obituaries Q-Z | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Jennifer Ann Rivas, 34, of Imperial died Aug. 8.
She was born in Riverside and was a homemaker.
Survivors include her husband, Joe Jr.; sons, Robert and Anthony; parents, Tom and Debi Duff and Conchita and Joe Rivas; sisters, Charlotte Duff, Regina Guevara and Maria and Sylvia Rivas; brothers, Marcos and Ramon Rivas and Robert Guevara; grandmothers, Flora Lea Jarratt and Barbara Duff.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040820/news_1m20obitqz.html   (676 words)

  
 Geoffrey Rivas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Born in East L.A. (1987) (as Geoff Rivas)....
Glory Years (1987) (TV) (as Geoffrey L. Rivas)....
Find where Geoffrey Rivas is credited alongside another name
www.imdb.com /name/nm0729060   (173 words)

  
 OA Online Obituaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
ODESSA Ismael M. Rivas Sr., 74, of Odessa, retired from the City of Odessa street repair department, died Friday, Dec. 31, 2004 at Medical Center Hospital.
SURVIVORS Wife, Socorro L. Rivas of Odessa; son, Ismael Rivas Jr.
of Odessa, Ramon Rivas, Demetrio Rivas, both of Midland, Victor Rivas Sr., Dolores Rivas, both of Odessa; sisters, Rita Rivas, Aurora Rivas, both of Odessa; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren.
www.oaoa.com /obit/deaths010305.htm   (994 words)

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