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Yarnslut.com. AndyGill at UofK. Research I lead the Functional Programming Group at the University of Kansas. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the International Foundation for Telemetering, and others, we use functional programming to solve problems in ways that are amicable to acceleration, and supports assurance arguments. As a group we make aggressive use of functional languages, extending the technology where needed, and ultimately strive to close gaps between high level specifications and highly efficient implementations. We then deploy our new technologies into diverse application areas, including telemetry, high performance computing and real-time systems. Read more about Functional Programming Research at KU Teaching I teach programming in Java (EECS 168 & 368), Scheme (EECS 368), and Haskell (EECS 368, 776, 876).

I am teaching Programming I (EECS 168) in Spring 2013. Read more about Andy Gill's classes at KU Recent Publications and Submissions Professional Activities Bio and Background. Stéphane Thomas : Senior Engineer & Founder. Tout pour elles. 81 FEMMES. Photos from willem velthoven. Jim Gray (computer scientist) James Nicholas "Jim" Gray (born January 12, 1944; lost at sea January 28, 2007; declared deceased May 16, 2012[4]) was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation.

" Gray was born in San Francisco, California, the second child of a mother who was a teacher and a father in the U.S. Army; the family moved to Rome where Gray spent most of the first three years of his life, learning to speak Italian before English.[2] The family then moved to Virginia, spending about four years there, until Gray's parents divorced, after which he returned to San Francisco with his mother.[2] His father, an amateur inventor, patented a design for a ribbon cartridge for typewriters that earned him a substantial royalty stream.[2] Gray contributed to several major database and transaction processing systems. Among his best known achievements are. Www.myspace.com/oliviergattoprojects. Www.myspace.com/renanluce. Search Discover Help Site Info Privacy Terms Ad Opt-Out A part of the People / Entertainment Weekly Network.

Filter Stream Select the types of content you would like to see. Bio & Contact Top 8 Similar Artists Search Myspace Start typing... Your search did not return any results. Photo from You're now in slide show mode. Hitting < pauses the slideshow and goes back. Press ESC to close. Close Press esc to close. Connecting to your webcam. You may be prompted by your browser for permission. No Filter Grayscale Sepia Nostalgia Hazy Days Orange Love Lomo. How to drive fast on drugs while getting your wing-wang squeezed. How to DRIVE FASTon DRUGSwhile getting yourWING-WANGSQUEEZEDand notSPILL YOUR DRINKBy P.J.

O'RourkeIllustration by George Perez When it comes to taking chances, some people like to play poker or shoot dice; other people prefer to parachute jump, go rhino hunting, or climb ice floes, while still others engage in crime or marriage. But I like to get drunk and drive like a fool. Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you're half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose, and a teen-age lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you're going a hundred miles an hour down a suburban sidestreet. You'd have to watch the entire Mexican air force crash-land in a liquid petroleum gas storage facility to match this kind of thrill. If you ever have much more fun than that, you'll die of pure sensory overload, I'm here to tell you. Now a lot of people say to me, "Hey, P.J., you like to drive fast.

Yes, but where does it all end? ◦ night light ◦ Jonathan Idema. Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema (May 30, 1956 – January 21, 2012) was a former army reserve special operations non-commissioned officer with a controversial history. In September 2004 he was found guilty of running a private prison in Afghanistan and torturing Afghan citizens. At the time, Idema had been portraying himself as a U.S. government-sponsored special forces operative on a mission to apprehend terrorists. However, the U.S. government has repeatedly denied most of such claims.[2] Idema was released early by Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai in April 2007, departing Afghanistan in early June, having served three years of a ten-year sentence.[3] Idema died of AIDS in Mexico in late January 2012.[1] Questionable behavior[edit] At the center of the controversy is Idema's claim that while in Afghanistan he was acting on behalf of the U.S. government and that he was an advisor to the Northern Alliance.

Early life[edit] Military service[edit] Business interests[edit] Fraud conviction[edit] Fact Sheets : Col. Joseph Kittinger Jr. : Col. Joseph Kittinger. The double life of Marc Rich - Special Coverage - MSNBC.com. Feb. 12, 2001 — For nearly two decades, Marc Rich has lived a double life. One was a billionaire’s sumptuous world of mansions, ski villas and high finance; the other, the uneasy life of a fugitive. Since he fled the United States in 1983, the 66-year-old Rich has been a prime target of U.S. law enforcement, a regular fixture of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. When President Clinton signed his name to pardon Rich on Jan. 20, it became one of the most controversial pardons since Gerald Ford absolved the disgraced Richard Nixon in the aftermath of Watergate. Inauguration Day 2001 in Washington turned out to be liberation day for the fugitive financier still hiding out in Switzerland. Though hiding out may be a bit of a stretch. Rich’s wealth has been subject of speculation for years.

For Rich, life on the lam hasn’t exactly been filled with hardship. That galling fact has been a thorn in the side of federal prosecutors for years. But tax evasion was just the final piece of the Rich indictment. The story of Clinton&#039;s Marc Rich pardon. Text smaller Text bigger He wasn’t born Rich. No, he was born Marc David Reich in Belgium in 1934 to a working-class Jewish father. Fearing the Nazis, his family fled to America in 1942, changed their name to Rich and tried to start life all over again.

Forty-one years later, Marc Rich was fleeing again, but this time the feared authority was not Adolph Hitler, but the assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Morris (Sandy) Weinberg. Rich, by now a multimillionaire, was in Switzerland on the day his indictment came down and decided to stay. On Jan. 20, President Clinton gave Rich a chance for a third “do-over.” Even left-wing newspapers and columnists have rebuked Clinton for pardoning Rich. The strange case started with the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, which established a system of price controls on crude oil produced in or imported to the United States.

The plane was on its way to Europe. Burton and Sen. Marc Rich - CIA Rich, The Secret Accounts, King Of The US Bullet. John Dee. John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, imperialist[5] and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy.

In his lifetime Dee amassed one of the largest libraries in England. His high status as a scholar also allowed him to play a role in Elizabethan politics. He served as an occasional adviser and tutor to Elizabeth I and nurtured relationships with her ministers Francis Walsingham and William Cecil. Dee also tutored and enjoyed patronage relationships with Sir Philip Sidney, his uncle Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and Edward Dyer. He also enjoyed patronage from Sir Christopher Hatton. Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Later life[edit] By the early 1580s, Dee was growing dissatisfied with his progress in learning the secrets of nature and with his own lack of influence and recognition. Final years[edit] Personal life[edit] Achievements[edit] Thought[edit] Noam Chomsky. Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher,[21][22] cognitive scientist, logician,[23][24][25] political commentator and anarcho-syndicalist activist.

Sometimes described as the "father of modern linguistics",[26][27] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy.[21] He has spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is currently Professor Emeritus, and has authored over 100 books. He has been described as a prominent cultural figure, and was voted the "world's top public intellectual" in a 2005 poll.[28] Born to a middle-class Ashkenazi Jewish family in Philadelphia, Chomsky developed an early interest in anarchism from relatives in New York City. He later undertook studies in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his BA, MA, and PhD, while from 1951 to 1955 he was appointed to Harvard University's Society of Fellows. Early life Childhood: 1928–45.

SuicideGirls &gt; Pin-Up Punk Rock and Goth Girls: Pictures, Jou. Louis Slotin And &#039;The Invisible Killer&#039; - Larry Lavitt. This article was originally published in The Beaver in their August/September 1995 issue. Reproduced with permission. Louis Slotin And'The Invisible Killer' A young Canadian scientist gave his lifeto save his friends when an experiment went wrong By Martin Zeilig It happened in an instant. A sudden blue glow momentarily enveloped the room before evaporating. Slotin had been instructing a colleague, Alvin C. Canada's 20th Century proximity the two halves of a beryllium-coated sphere and convert the plutonium to a critical state. With his left thumb wedged into a cavity in the top element, Slotin had moved the top half of the sphere closer to the stationary lower portion, a micro-inch at a time. The chain reaction was stopped when Slotin knocked the spheres apart, but deadly gamma and neutron radiation had flashed into the room in a blue blaze caused by the instantaneous ionization of the lab's air particles.

According to security guard Patrick Cleary: Dr. Pretty soon Dr Slotin and Mr. Daghlian: The Omega Site Accident at Los Alamos. As scheduled, Baker, Holloway, King and Schreiber arrived at the Los Alamos facility in the autumn of 1943, while Daghlian stayed behind to help with rebuilding the Purdue cyclotron, restoring it to produce 10-MeV deuterons. At this point, he also needed to complete his course work at Purdue, typically two years in duration, which would then allow him to devote full-time to his doctoral thesis project at Los Alamos. Daghlian probably started working at Los Alamos in the late spring of 1944 as a member of the "Water Boiler" group at the Omega Site; he later joined the Critical Assembly Group or "crew" that was headed by Otto Frisch, also located at Omega. These studies included the well-known "tickling the dragon's tail" experiments. Daghlian immediately set about removing the 49 metal sphere from the vault and constructing the planned assembly.

Using the audible "clicks" of the monitoring instruments as a guide, he quickly completed four layers.