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 STS-51-A - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mission specialists Allen and Gardner performed an EVA, capturing the satellite with a device known as a "Stinger," which was inserted into the apogee motor nozzle by Allen.
The satellite's rotation was slowed to 1 RPM and Fisher, operating from a position on the end of the RMS, attempted unsuccessfully to grapple the satellite.
Allen was able manually to maneuver the satellite into its cradle with Gardner's help and aided by the RMS which was operated by Fisher.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/STS-51-A   (650 words)

  
 BEPC - Allen Fisher - clusters
"Allen Fisher has used the South London where he was born and raised as his special focus, but this and other experiences are placed within the context of his work as a painter and an open field poetics, partly inherited and partly developed by himself."
Throughout most of his career, Fisher has been engaged in performance as an aesthetic activity, both in its own right and in the presentation of poetry as performance.
For Fisher poetry is repeatedly defined by a set of paradigms that must continuously be broken...
www.soton.ac.uk /~bepc/poets/fisher_1.htm   (665 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Fisher bounces back from sub-par effort   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Allen Iverson, right, had a hard time getting away from Derek Fisher in Game 2 of the NBA Finals and it showed as 'The Answer' could only manage 23 points on 10-of-29 shooting.
Fisher scored 14 points — capped by the biggest basket of the game — and harassed Iverson into a 10-for-29 shooting performance as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Philadelphia 76ers 98-89 to even the finals.
Fisher averaged 15.1 points as the Lakers swept Portland, Sacramento and San Antonio in the playoffs, and had 38 assists and only six turnovers while playing terrific defense.
www.usatoday.com /sports/nba/01playoffs/stories/2001-06-08-fisher.htm   (787 words)

  
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Allen eventually determined that the Jersey Boys--appellant, Edward Beckford, Keith Mayweather, and Daniel Ford--were operating out of a residence that was owned by Joseph Curry.
On October 9, 1998, Allen obtained an arrest warrant for appellant on a failure to appear charge and proceeded to the Curry house to serve the warrant.
Allen advised appellant of his Miranda rights and expressed concern that there might be drugs on the premises.
www.courts.state.va.us /txtops/1730992.txt   (2962 words)

  
 History of the Cedar Fork Rifles
Fisher was also responsible for developing the new Western North Carolina Railroad but his presidency was marred with alligations of mismanagement and politics curbing the new railroad.
Fisher was officially commissioned as the Colonel of the 6th North Carolina State Troops and Richard York, became Captain of Compnay I, and his lieutenants received their posts as well.
These commissions were back dated for Fisher to the 15th of May and the Captains to the 16th were about to evolve into the unit they would remember for the rest of their lives.
www.mindspring.com /~nixnox/CFR3.html   (899 words)

  
 Was it James or John Allen?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Allen are that he was a North Carolinian, well educated and of a "family of easy circumstances." That he had come to Nashville with the intention of being a lawyer.
James Allen was served with the papers on April 10, 1830, and the case was set for trial in the November term of 1830.
Fisher's sole argument was that the conveyance was not binding towards him because the Deed of Gift had not been filed for record within three months after the state of Mississippi had passed a law extending its jurisdiction over the Chickasaw Nation.
home.flash.net /~kma/allen.htm   (3912 words)

  
 Alan Fisher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Allen Fisher's Gravity Shapes CD presents 6 poems, all named after old jazz dances: Bel Air, Watusi, African Boog, Break-a-Leg, Tensor and Ring Shout, from his extended sequence Gravity as a consequence of shape, begun in 1982 and completed this year, 2005.
Fisher's range of resources is huge, drawing on the discourses of genetics, quantum mechanics, philosophy, topography, mathematics, psychology, zoology, Marxism, hypercapitalism, you name it….
Allen Fisher was born in 1944, and has been involved in performance and writing poetry since 1962.
www.stemrecordings.com /fisher.html   (427 words)

  
 UA net.magick Archive - The Fisher King
If the cult leader wins, however, it is agreed that the Fisher King will remain with the cult as a hostage until the cult receives a ransom from the Fisher King's companions, and a vow of immunity from further retaliation.
The Fisher King effect may only be healed by a certain natural artifact (the Sang Real, a blood red stone rumored to have been placed in the mythical artifact the Holy Grail).
Unlike the Fisher King, they may have no relief from this pain, and for because of this unnatural and intense pain they must make an Unnatural stress check Level 5, and a Helplessness stress check Level 5, and a Self stress check Level 5.
www.scc.net /~indra/ua/archetypes/fisherking.html   (1533 words)

  
 Pages: Robert Sheppard: New Memories: Allen Fisher's Gravity as a Consequence of Shape
Fisher both describes and enacts this process in the text Philly Dog, part of Gravity as a Consequence of Shape, published in 1995, but republished in Entanglement (p.
Fisher’s point is that the place in London where he lived through its years of deprivation and riots is traceable only by his irregular technique, particularly in ‘Birdland’, where he tries to connect the place in its sexual, ideological and linguistic shapings:
Fisher is careful, in this creation of ‘new memories’ by creative linkage, to hold off the gratifications of seamlessly conventional syntax.
robertsheppard.blogspot.com /2005/02/robert-sheppard-new-memories-allen.html   (1316 words)

  
 fisher --  Encyclopædia Britannica
U.S. oologist Lester Fisher was a leader in the movement to reorient metropolitan zoos toward wildlife conservation and preservation of species.
The son of fundamentalist Mormons, Vardis Fisher was born on March 31, 1895, in Annis, Idaho.
The archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961 was Geoffrey Francis Fisher.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9034390   (597 words)

  
 Fisher vs Allen Trial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
It is therefore considered by the Court that the plaintiff recover of the defendant the sum of two hundred and eight dollars and eight cents the damages sustained by reason of the nonperformance of the promise and assumption in the declaration mentioned together with the cost in this cause expended.
It is therefore considered by the Court that the plaintiff recover of the defendant the sum of two hundred and eighty dollars and eight cents the damages sustained by reason of the non performance of the promise and assumption in the declaration mentioned together with the cost in this cause expended.
The said John Fisher avers that the negro Man named Toney served on by virtue of the execution filed in this cause is the property of James Allen the defendant in said Execution and that said negro slave Toney is liable to the satisfaction of said execution.
home.flash.net /~kma/Fisher.htm   (1412 words)

  
 Allen Fisher, Entanglement
This is the first book-length showing of Allen Fisher’s work of the 1990s and 2000s, drawing together previously uncollected work from the ongoing project Gravity as a consequence of shape.
For Fisher, art is transformation, and in these poems – clashing, combining, recombining, moving restlessly from Piers Plowman to Kurt Cobain to genetic engineering – such transformation is ultimately a form of healing.
Allen Fisher’s Gravity sequence began biking out of Brixton’s lock-ups in the early eighties and here its later crushed spirals achieve a welcome and incomplete shape.
www.ndorward.com /poetry/entanglement   (289 words)

  
 Naples Daily News: Eagle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Fisher changed vests and put on a beret with a plume for his number as "Sir Lawrence" from medieval times.
Fisher is used to life on the road: He grew up in a U.S. Air Force family and traveled extensively as a child.
Fisher has been building harps since 1979, first for himself to play, then for others beginning in 1984.
www.naplesnews.com /npdn/ma_eagle/article/0,2071,NPDN_14916_3586940,00.html   (822 words)

  
 Whitman vs Lewis & Clark (04/06/02)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Allen singled to left field; Pellegrino advanced to second.
Fisher singled to center field; Toivola advanced to second.
Fisher walked; Toivola advanced to second; Jones advanced to third.
www.lclark.edu /~sports/Baseball/Baseball2002/g21-whtm.htm   (1371 words)

  
 Pages: July 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Allen Fisher reading in Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, the second of the stops (the third being Lincoln's Inn Fields) sporting his new name on a t shirt designed by Dell Olsen.
Allen Fisher ran workshops at Goldsmiths’ College which generated a focus and produced the Robert Sheppard, Adrian Clarke axis, and there were occasional programmes such as the RASP session in South London put together by Reality Studios and Spanner [the presses of Ken Edwards and Allen Fisher respectively].
Fisher’s interview-essay Necessary Business is crucial in its attempt to articulate a poetics of a new pertinence that emphasizes activating readers through habit-breaking unpredictability and plurivocal structures.
robertsheppard.blogspot.com /2005_07_01_robertsheppard_archive.html   (3253 words)

  
 The Arm Wrestling Story of Allen Fisher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Carolyn owes much of her present success to Allen.
Allen won lst place and Carolyn came in 4th.
Carolyn and I have been blessed with two beautiful children Megan and Austin and we know how much it takes to raise children so our traveling to tournaments is sometimes minimal.
www.armpullers.com /allen.html   (712 words)

  
 Welcome to Allen & Fisher Pianos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Paul Fisher began his career in the piano trade in London in 1967 where he trained in all aspects of the piano with a well-known, long established company.
The business of Allen & Fisher Pianos; Piano World, is predominately that of major restoration, rebuilding, re-polishing, tuning and general servicing.
John has since settled in Texas, but the name Allen & Fisher is still stenciled on the walls of what was once the Wynberg Hotel in Main Road, now Paul's workshop, from which he also sells and leases pianos.
home.mweb.co.za /pi/pianofis/profile.htm   (768 words)

  
 Gravity
Allen Fisher’s epic Gravity is an alphabet of procedural poems, a conceptual cinema, a fun-park, and a museum of anthropology.
Unpublished endorsement : Allen Fisher’s Gravity is a definitive work of synthesizing (non-totalizing) perceptual analysis—an energy map for the uncoded regions of social space.
In shape-time as pliant as that which Fisher explores here, the mind of the writer, seen from above, takes on the aspect of a river through the head.
www.saltpublishing.com /books/smp/1844710343.htm   (585 words)

  
 obit_12221999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Fisher resided the majority of his life in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he operated his own business, Fort Lauderdale Lumber Company.
Fisher was preceded in death by his wife, Hazel Fisher; son, Jimmy Fisher; daughter, Tammy Steiner; granddaughter, Jennifer Fisher, and son-in-law, Bob Burks.
He is survived by his daughters, Judy (Murray) Hinckley, Birmingham, and Laura Ann Burks, Odenville; sons, Allen Fisher, Rainbow City, and Mike Fisher, Rainbow City; sister, Marie Kemp; brother, Raymond (Mary) Fisher; 8 grandchildren; 5 great-grandchildren; a number of nieces and nephews.
www.gadsdenmessenger.com /obits/obit_12221999.htm   (1126 words)

  
 Journal-Express/The Reminder - News - 11/06/2003 - Edgar Allen Fisher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Memorial services for Edgar Allen Fisher, 79, who died Saturday, Nov. 1, 2003 at the Marshalltown Hospital, were held Tuesday, Nov. 4, at Pierschbacher Funeral Home in Melcher-Dallas.
Edgar was born on April 11, 1924, in Pleasantville, to Chester and Grace (Clampitt) Fisher.
He is survived by two sisters, Evelyn Cummings and Ethel Haselhuhn; a sister-in-law, Lois Fisher, all of Melcher-Dallas; and by many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews and cousins.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1463&dept_id=523600&newsid=10474290&PAG=461&rfi=9   (252 words)

  
 Kingston University London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Sue Hubbard, Frances Presley and Allen Fisher are three poets writing in and about London.
Fisher’s Gravity contains the celebrated Brixton Fractuals, filled with driving narratives; Hubbard’s Ghost Station is an elegiac and intense survey of loss, love and separation; and Presley’s Paravane is centred on the City of London in the wake of IRA bombings, exploring sites of resistance and dissent.
Allen Fisher has been involved in performance and writing poetry since 1962.
www.kingston.ac.uk /krf/hubbard.htm   (342 words)

  
 Walter Allen --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Allen graduated from the University of Birmingham (B.A., 1932) and taught briefly at his old grammar school before accepting the first of several visiting lectureships and professorships in North America and elsewhere.
Dulles, Allen W. diplomat and intelligence expert, who was director (1953–61) of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during its early period of growth.
Although the form has been popular since the days of James Fenimore Cooper, the massive best-seller Anthony Adverse (1933), by Hervey Allen, gave a new vogue to the historical novel.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9002765   (578 words)

  
 Curry vs Fitchburg State (Mar 30, 2004)
HBP - by Sullivan (Schultz); by Allen (Collins); by Sullivan (Sullivan); by Allen (Fisher); by O'Donnell (Shafer).
Fisher flied into double play lf to 3b to c; Keeley out on the play.
Fisher reached on a throwing error by 3b.
www.fsc.edu /sports/baseball/pastseasons/2004/bbgame13.htm   (1270 words)

  
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Allen eventually determined that the Jersey Boysappellant, Edward Beckford, Keith Mayweather, and Daniel Fordwere operating out of a residence that was owned by Joseph Curry.
Accordingly, Allen and the other officers entered the house lawfully, they searched the house and premises pursuant to appellant's consent, and the trial court properly denied the motion to suppress. III.
Admissibility of Simulated Cocaine Based on descriptions Parker gave of the crack cocaine she helped to transport into Virginia for her coconspirators, Allen created simulated crack cocaine out of dental stone (Commonwealth's Exhibits 7 and 8).
www.courts.state.va.us /opinions/opncavwp/1730992.doc   (3039 words)

  
 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: The Richard Allen Fisher, Jr. Family Page
One area of particular interest is the Fisher branch.
William Henry was born in 1908 in Festus, MO. George Fisher died around 1943 and is buried in near Festus, MO. I am looking for information about him and Minnie Palmer Fisher, who died in 1942 and is buried near Festus, MO. I believe that George came from Indiana.
Minnie was born in Fletcher, MO. I would be particularly interested in parents of George Fisher and/or Minnie Palmer.
familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/f/i/s/Richard-A-Fisher   (211 words)

  
 John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
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An author of fiction and nonfiction for both adults and children, Dorothy Canfield Fisher was popular especially for her novels concerned with the problems of home and children.
She was also an educator who helped introduce the Montessori method of education to the United States.
concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9364494?tocId=9364494   (678 words)

  
 Crazy Horse Memorial
Defending champion Allen Fisher of Ashland, Mont., held on to his all-around title.
From the field of 86 contestants, Fisher won calf roping and partnered with Frank Lawrence of Fort Thompson to win team roping.
Allen Fisher, Ashland, Mont., Frank Lawrence, Fort Thompson, 6.9 seconds; 2.
www.crazyhorse.org /news/rodeo2005/friday.shtml   (226 words)

  
 Jacket # 11 - Allen Fisher - poem - Winging Step
Allen Fisher was born in 1944, and has been involved in performance writing since 1962.
A painter, publisher, editor and art historian, he has produced one hundred and twenty chapbooks and books of poetry, graphics and art documentation.
This material is copyright © Allen Fisher and Jacket magazine 2000
jacketmagazine.com /11/fisher-allen.html   (435 words)

  
 Sojourns by Allen Fisher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The cover illustration is one of a series of Trap studies by Allen Fisher.
Allen Fisher's author page at the Electronic Poetry Centre.
Bill Griffith's interview with Allen Fisher at the Lolliop (List of Little Press Publications) website.
www.wildhoneypress.com /BOOKS/SOJ.html   (52 words)

  
 Desktop Items » Allen fisher » Fisher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Woman writers of the 1890s such as Grant Allen and Sarah Grand were exploring and questioningUniversity Press, 1992) 45 Grant Allen: Hilda Wade (Strand Magazine, 1898-18991900) and The Capture of Paul Beck (T Fisher Unwin, 1909) 63 Grant Allen: Miss Cayley's Adventures (Strand MagazineThe Female Sherlock Grant Allen's Female Detectives Victim
Fisher to write an article on the origin of the poverty thresholds.
Gong still continues, and has createdthen there are children telling tales, spooky witchs, The Fisher King, The Irish Tuatha De Danaan, Mr Camembert, and otherslibrary.
www.intercityditta.com /pens/ball-point/fisher/allen-fisher.html   (488 words)

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