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  A.A. Ames at AllExperts
Ames was born in Garden Prairie in Boone County, Illinois, but left the area at age ten when his father, Dr. Alfred Elisha Ames, moved his family to Fort Snelling in Minnesota Territory.
Ames had been implicated in some scandalous behavior of others in his early terms as mayor, but his actions in 1901 and 1902—supposedly as part of a "reform" administration—would prove beyond doubt that Ames was a very dastardly figure himself.
Doc Ames organized his advisers and announced he would install his brother Fred W. Ames as the city's chief of police.
en.allexperts.com /e/a/a/a.a._ames.htm   (1086 words)

  
  A.A. Ames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ames was born in Garden Prairie in Boone County, Illinois, but left the area at age ten when his father, Dr. Alfred Elisha Ames, moved his family to Fort Snelling in Minnesota Territory.
Ames had been implicated in some scandalous behavior of others in his early terms as mayor, but his actions in 1901 and 1902 —supposedly as part of a "reform" administration—would prove beyond doubt that Ames was a very dastardly figure himself.
Doc Ames organized his advisers and announced he would install his brother Fred W. Ames as the city's chief of police.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doc_Ames   (1042 words)

  
 SSCI Ames Assesment
Ames had been an employee of CIA for 31 years, with most of his career spent in the Directorate of Operations, which is responsible for carrying out CIA clandestine operations around the globe.
Ames would subsequently state that he might not have made the decision to commit espionage in April of 1985 if he had known that he was going to be polygraphed the next year.
Ames recalls being "very anxious and tremendously worried" when he was in formed that he was scheduled for a polygraph exam in May of 1986, one year after he had begun his espionage activity for the KGB.
www.cicentre.com /Documents/DOC_SSCI_Ames_Assessment.htm   (12253 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ames Middle School administrators, teachers, and students reported professional development is a strength of the school.
Ames Middle School administrators, teachers, students, support staff, and SIAC members reported knowledge and commitment to the middle school philosophy.
Ames Community School District’s Title IVA Compliance Status The school district has one or more citations of Title IVA (SDFSC) non-compliance identified during this on-site visit.   These citations appear in the "Areas of Non-compliance" section of this report.
www.ames.k12.ia.us /popups/district/news/AmesReport.doc   (7113 words)

  
 Phil Windley's Technometria | Why Technometria
Technometry meant literally "the measure of a skill or art." As Ames used it, he meant the study of the theory of the interrelation of the arts and sciences.
Ames also spoke to the application of art in an "encyclopedic array of vocations--everything from fish farming to cryptography." (See A Vision of Veritas by David Hill Scott) Technometria was a comprehensive integrated approach to all thought and life.
Ames and others were trying to systematically categorize information in order to create knowledge, an idea that originated with Aristotle.
www.windley.com /essays/2005/why_technometria   (302 words)

  
 Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it ...
Ames could not get anything outside of his own town, and after his third term as mayor it was thought he was out of politics altogether.
Ames who had been a bank clerk, told him so, and then had the effrontery to say that payment on such a check could not be stopped.
Fred Ames did resign, and though the mayor's resignation was laid aside for a while, to avoid the expense of a special election, all looked well for Coffee John and his clique.
www.brandywinesources.com /1901-1945/1903DOCSteffensShameofMinn.htm   (6521 words)

  
 Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN): THE SHAME of MINNEAPOLIS; "Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American ...
In Minneapolis, Doc Ames was the man." - Journalist Lincoln Steffens, 1903, "The Shame of Minneapolis.".(VARIETY)@ HighBeam Research
In Minneapolis, Doc Ames was the man." - Journalist Lincoln Steffens, 1903, "The Shame of Minneapolis.".(VARIETY)
Ames was the mayor - a schmoozer who turned into a greedy, lying, cheating, hard-hearted creep who took bribes from everyone from cops to prostitutes.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:96251289&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (240 words)

  
 Doc and Tweed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Doc moved closer to the bushes, hoping to find a trail of coins that might provide some answers to the Jesse James mystery.
Doc & Tweed rescue a young flour milling heiress from kidnappers in Minneapolis' milling district.
Doc & Tweed and their friend, Arch, spend a night in the store in an attempt to nab the organist who may or may not be of flesh and blood.
www.mnriv.com /doctweed.html   (2046 words)

  
 The shame of Minneapolis -- 100 years ago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ames was the mayor -- a schmoozer who turned into a greedy, lying, cheating, hard-hearted creep who took bribes from everyone from cops to prostitutes.
Steffens wrote that Ames was vain and led a loose life.
According to Steffens, Ames neglected his own family in favor of friends downtown.
www.startribune.com /stories/389/3570509.html   (683 words)

  
 Definition of Oakes Ames
When Ames claimed that he could hit a target from across th...
Ames is of Portuguese/English descent, and much of his...
Ames served with the [[Royal Air Force]] during, risin...
www.wordiq.com /search/Oakes_Ames.html   (647 words)

  
 Series List
Doc Savage Omnibus # 2 (om) Bantam 1987
Doc Savage Omnibus # 3 (om) Bantam 1987
Doc Savage Omnibus # 4 (om) Bantam 1987
www.locusmag.com /index/f68.html   (1370 words)

  
 Embedded Real-Time Linux for Instrument Control and Data Logging
The SSFR is used by the Ames Atmospheric Radiation Group to measure solar spectral irradiance at moderate resolution to determine the radiative effect of clouds, aerosols and gases on climate, and also to infer the physical properties of aerosols and clouds.
The DOC was shipped with a DOS system on it but was configured as the second BIOS drive, which enabled us to boot Linux from a hard drive (which is seen as the first drive if attached) and get to the DOC, which was very convenient.
Within the DOC drivers provided by the manufacturer, there is a file list and a copy script for a bare-bones Linux system based on a standard Red Hat 6.2 install with some standard utilities, shared libraries and device entries.
www.linuxjournal.com /node/5667/print   (3832 words)

  
 Ames first, Nicklaus second in   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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WHISTLER, British Columbia -- Stephen Ames won the Canadian Skins Game, but the event was all about Jack Nicklaus.
In what was billed as Canada's farewell to the great Golden Bear, the 65-year-old Nicklaus showed he could still compete with younger, longer hitters.
docdavid.net /2005/07/06/Ames_first,_Nicklaus_second_in_Canadian.html   (141 words)

  
 City Pages - Minneapolis Confidential
Doc Ames's first three administrations were corrupt in the ordinary sense, as his administration balanced squeezing local criminals and prostitutes with the job of running the city.
Ames may have inadvertently sounded the death knell for legalized Minneapolis prostitution when he stopped the system of women paying fees to the city.
Indictments followed, and Doc Ames was forced to flee the city on a night train.
citypages.com /databank/16/775/article2415.asp   (5972 words)

  
 Ames Iowa brick layer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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www.homeservicechoice.com /home-improve/Ames-Iowa-brick-layer.asp   (1140 words)

  
 nappy/doc/USAGE.txt - view - 1.1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This checking facility will eventually be made explicit to report NASA Ames specific errors.
A detailed description of the NASA Ames format can be', 'found on the Web site of the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) at', ' http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/help/formats/NASA-Ames/ ', 'E-mail contact: badc@rl.ac.uk ', 'Reference: S. Gaines and R. Hipskind, Format Specification for Data', 'Exchange, Version 1.3, 1998.
This is required when the time unit string in your NASA Ames file is non-standard.
glue.badc.rl.ac.uk /viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/nappy/doc/USAGE.txt?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup   (614 words)

  
 Doc Savage Organized : Chuck Welch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Doc and his crew battle to unmask the deadly mystery -- and to keep a billion-dollar scientific breakthrough out of the hands of gangland gorillas.
Doc's quest to find the madman becomes a terrifying race to save the world from total annihilation!
Doc Savage Org is a member of the Doc Savage Webring
www.docsavage.org /arch/rosmond   (729 words)

  
 [No title]
Their investigations disclosed the fact that Ames, then a member of the House of Representatives, the principal stockholder in the Union Pacific, and the soul of the enterprise, had organized, under an existing Pennsylvania charter, a construction company called the Credit Mobilier, whose shares were issued to Ames and his associates.
Ames was four times mayor of the city, but never his own successor.
Ames was the type of boss with whom discipline is secondary to personal aggrandizement.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext02/bossm11.txt   (19723 words)

  
 The Shame of the cities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Colonel Ed Butler is the unscrupulous opportunist who handled the non-partisan minority, which turned St. Louis into a "boodle town." In Minneapolis "Doc" Ames was the man.
"Doc" Ames, tall, straight, and cheerful, attracted men, and they gave him votes for his smiles.
Skillful as a surgeon, devoted as a physician, and as a man kindly, he increased his practice till he was the best-loved man in the community.
www.startribune.com /stories/389/3579735.html   (666 words)

  
 Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) : THE SHAME of MINNEAPOLIS; "Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In Minneapolis, Doc Ames was the man." - Journalist Lincoln Steffens, 1903, "Th @ HighBeam Research
In Minneapolis, Doc Ames was the man." - Journalist Lincoln Steffens, 1903, "Th Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); January 08, 2003; Meier, Peg
In Minneapolis, Doc Ames was the man." - Journalist Lincoln Steffens, 1903, "Th' with a FREE Trial for instant access »
static.elibrary.com /s/startribuneminneapolismn/january082003/theshameofminneapoliswheneveranythingextraordinary/index.html   (367 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, NCHRP Web Doc 1 Smoothness Specifications for Pavements: Final Report (1997)
Moreover, 9 and 7 agencies were noted as using the Ames profiIograph and the Mays Meter, respectively, on asphalt surfaced pavements.
The straightedge is next commonly used (23 agencies), followed by the Ames and Rainhart profilographs (7 agencies each).
For all of the devices (California profilograph, Ames profilograph, Rainhart profilograph, and Mays Meter) rated by the contractors, each had mean property ratings equal to or slightly below the mean State ratings shown in figures 10 through 13.
www.nap.edu /openbook/nch001/html/7.html   (4964 words)

  
 The Ames Test. In the Pipeline:
One hears a lot about the Ames test (as a measure of carcinogenicity and other Bad Things.) It's sometimes held up by animal-rights types as a model of the sort of testing that could be done if, presumably, we weren't all so much into torturing the lesser species.
The original Ames test dates to the mid-1960s, and the idea behind it is even older.
Your test compound either caused the damage that had to be repaired, or it caused the replication process to fumble.
www.corante.com /pipeline/archives/2002/07/29/the_ames_test.php   (940 words)

  
 NASA - 94-003.DOC
Ken K. Munechika has been appointed Director of the Ames Research Center, Mountian View, Calif. He has been serving as the Executive Director of the Office of Space Industry of the State of Hawaii.
Dale Compton, the present director of Ames, plans to retire on Jan. 28.
Kenneth J. alai, who currently heads Dryden as a deputy director of Ames, has been appointed as the new director of Dryden, reporting directly to Wesley Harris, Associate Administrator for Aeronautics.
www.nasa.gov /lb/centers/johnson/news/releases/1993_1995/94-003.html   (437 words)

  
 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 00028373
Our home was a small, low-ceilinged attic over the room where Widow Wink lived and made and sold her ginger beer on Water Street, near Union Wharf.
Now the smell of ginger mixed with that of the sulfur Doc Ames had thrown on the floor to try to rid us of the smallpox, and with the salt river air that blew through the walls and the slats in the wooden shutters.
Doc Ames ran his hand through his long thinning gray hair.
www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/simon051/00028373.html   (2243 words)

  
 TV.com Forums - Episode Discussion for 13.5 (Ames v. Kovac)
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Forest Whitaker ("The Shield") guest stars in this new episode as stroke patient Curtis Ames, who is alleging neglect at the hospital.
Run a Google search on GV or FW's name this AM and there's lots of buzz about the episode tonight in the media-related press.  It seems to be the show to watch tonight.  Imagine that.
www.tv.com /er/show/111/episode-discussion-for-13.5-ames-v.-kovac/topic/224-539040/msgs.html   (1093 words)

  
 [No title]
Ames’ many workgroups -- ranging from computer-aided designers to wind tunnel operators -- operate as independent enterprises, making any kind of centralized network administration difficult.
“Additionally, Ames is testing the TCO benefits of thin-client machines against the same servers with great results.” From a sub-group of 10 initial testers, implementation has grown to 90 requested accounts, although current network capacity could allow 160-200 users to run applications simultaneously, Chimento estimates.
Ames’ administrative support and other clerical staff could work directly from the network with thin-client desktops, he says.
download.microsoft.com /documents/customerevidence/5552_recom_nasaCS.doc   (1639 words)

  
 Office of the Provost - Planning Committee for Combination of Colleges of Education and Family and Consumer Sciences
ISU students, faculty object to proposed merger of colleges - The Ames Tribune - March 9, 2004
FCS alumni oppose merger - The Ames Tribune - April 14, 2004
Faculty Senate approves college merger - Ames Tribune - December 8, 2004
www.provost.iastate.edu /educfcs   (1043 words)

  
 Minneapolis, Minnesota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Naftalin was the first Jewish mayor, while Sharon Sayles Belton became the first woman and the first African-American to hold the office.
The city government has not been immune to corruption, however, and the man who exemplified that was "Doc" Ames.
He essentially turned the police force into a group of organized criminals before an investigation forced him out of office more than a century ago.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minneapolis   (4824 words)

  
 surfingsports.com: True Ames Windsurfing Fins
True Ames precision manufacturing techniques lead the industry in close tolerance fit and advanced design execution regardless of the board the fin is going into.
WARDOG employs his Oceanography and Engineering background in the quest for the perfect fin, but all the science in the world is not a replacement for T.O.W. (time on the water).
Working directly with True Ames in R and D, allows us to bring you the most superior windsurfing fins at the lowest cost.
www.surfingsports.com /trueames.asp   (678 words)

  
 Local History 1900-1950   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Before their term was over they would put an end to the corrupt administration of Minneapolis mayor A.A. "Doc" Ames.
Ames fled the city after being indicted for extortion, conspiracy, and bribe-offering.
On June 7, 1902 the whaleback freighter Thomas Wilson was leaving the Duluth harbor when it collided with another ship and sank.
home.comcast.net /~samp0094/History/1900-1950.html   (953 words)

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