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  CD Baby: JAN DAVIS: Concert By The Sea
Jan graduated from being a recognized teen-player when he opted into doing lead guitar with the ever-popular B. He was even named group leader while the Stingers were still a struggling bunch of studio musicians, mainly for Jan's songwriting and guitar ability.
Jan continued the battle for popularity by taking up acoustic guitar and continues to be praised by his peers for his unusual guitar tuning ability, which Jan terms as: Hawaiian tuning.
Jan wrote and arranged a nine-selection score entitled, "Concert By The Sea," This soundtrack is a major accomplishment, as Jan performs on video his Flamenco, Classical and even a jazz composition, on dual acoustic guitars.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/jandavis   (768 words)

  
  Jan Davis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Davis did her graduate research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, studying the long-term strength of pressure vessels due to the viscoelastic characteristics of filament-wound composites.
After her flight on STS-85, Dr. Davis was assigned to NASA Headquarters as the Director of the Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS), Independent Assurance Office for the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance.
Davis was the payload commander for STS-85, which was launched on Discovery on August 7, 1997.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jan_Davis   (934 words)

  
 Astronaut Bio: N. Jan Davis (1/2006)
Dr. Davis did her graduate research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, studying the long-term strength of pressure vessels due to the viscoelastic characteristics of filament-wound composites.
After her flight on STS-85, Dr. Davis was assigned to NASA Headquarters as the Director of the Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS), Independent Assurance Office for the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance.
Davis was the payload commander for STS-85, which was launched on Discovery on August 7, 1997.
www.jsc.nasa.gov /Bios/htmlbios/davis.html   (722 words)

  
 NASA - Three-time shuttle astronaut Dr. Jan Davis wins award for communicating promise of engineering and space ...
Davis, who oversees more than 1,400 civil service and contract workers, leads a directorate responsible for payload and science operations for the Space Station, training crews to operate Space Station science experiments and operating the control center for those experiments.
Davis, who grew up and went to school in Huntsville, began her career at the Marshall Center in 1979 as an aerospace engineer.
Davis, a 1971 graduate of Huntsville High School, earned a bachelor's degree in applied biology in 1975 at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1977 from Auburn University in Auburn, Ala.
www.nasa.gov /centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2003/03-077.html   (666 words)

  
 American Association of Engineering Societies
Jan Davis for her passionate communica-tion of the excitement and wonders of space exploration and engineering.
Jan Davis is director of the Flight Projects Directorate at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dr. Davis did her graduate research work at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and is a 1971 graduate of Huntsville High School.
www.aaes.org /communications/davis_bio.asp   (326 words)

  
 JAN DAVIS Boss Guitar ***
Jan also worked with acoustic guitar, studying Flamenco and recording many songs in that vein.
Among Jan's credits was playing solo guitar in front of Philharmonic orchestras, and the most memorable was with Rene' Hall arranging and conducting.
Jan claims involvement with the recording of Dick Dale and his Del-tones' amazing "Miserlou" single, but accounts vary as to the details.
www.reverbcentral.com /reviews/d/davis4829.html   (791 words)

  
 Yosemite Association - Newsroom
The fourth, Davis, 58, of Santa Barbara fell about 3,500 feet to her death, with her husband and others watching.
Sanders said Davis feared three things in her life: growing old, not living life to the fullest and dying a slow death.
Davis was the first woman to jump from the waterfall.
www.yosemite.org /newsroom/clips1999/november/1109b99a.htm   (564 words)

  
 Jan Davis Profile from Folk Rag no.4 November 1996
Jan's first encounter with other musicians was when Pamela Gallagher decided to run a "Fling Thing" in other words a bush dance.
Jan's first taste as a full time professional entertainer came when she joined "The Wayfarers" and by the time she left the band her repertoire was enormous consisting of 100 Scottish, Irish, Australian, Country and Western, and 1930's to 1960's popular songs.
Jan has played gigs with John Colville (Scotch Broth), with Gerry Farrell or Terry Jacob as 'Black Velvet' and bush songs and dances with everyone mentioned thus far.
users.tpg.com.au /folkrag/profiles/jandav.htm   (466 words)

  
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If you are Jan Davis, you at this moment calmly reach back, pull your ripcord, feel the puppeteer-like jerk of a parachute opening, and float serenely downward, one of the few humans in history to "fly" at Yosemite.
Jan Davis, however, was here legally, part of an organized jump designed to show that BASErs deserved the same legal access to public lands as, say, rock climbers, kayakers, or hikers from Des Moines.
Sanders filmed as Davis, clad (barely) in racy red lace, was the only one to land upright in her stilettos.
www.writesafe.com /storage/davisflight.txt   (3313 words)

  
 Jan Davis Guitar Infuriates Gay Community! - International Art & Entertainment: Music - Bigg News
SPONSORED BY The phrase: wrong-way, pertaining to the methods used by Jan Davis to tune and play his guitar, has spread throughout the gay community as being directed toward their sexual preference.
The phrase: wrong-way, pertaining to the methods used by Jan Davis to tune and play his guitar, has spread throughout the gay community as being directed toward their sexual preference.
Meanwhile, Davis publicists were assuring him their new release should put an end to the negative controversy.
news.bigg.net /n35558-Jan_Davis_Guitar_Infuriates_Gay_Community.html   (453 words)

  
 Jan Davis - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
If you've seen Pulp Fiction, that's Jan Davis yelling at the top of his lungs during one of the film's key songs, Dick Dale's "Misirlou." Davis had been a busy session guitarist when "Misirlou" was recorded, called in whenever a song needed his rocking guitar or his crazy vocalizing.
It was his ability to arrange and write music that landed Davis a gig with the popular B. Bumble & the Stingers, a group of studio musicians who released albums of classical pieces in a rock & roll style.
Davis' own Stone Tiger Records documented one of these shows recorded on California's coastline as Concert by the Sea, released in 2000.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,2891479,00.html   (446 words)

  
 Davis
Davis became an astronaut in June 1987 and is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews.
Davis was a mission specialist on STS-47, Spacelab-J, the 50th Space Shuttle mission.
Davis was also a mission specialist on STS-60, which was the second flight of Spacehab (Space Habitation Module) and the first flight of the Wake Shield Facility (WSF).
www.astronautix.com /astros/davis.htm   (1192 words)

  
 UAH: News & Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
(Jan. 7, 2003) - Dr. Jan Davis, a veteran astronaut with three space shuttle flights, and director of Flight Projects for Marshall Space Flight Center, has been named by President Bush as one of only 32 NASA executives nationwide to receive one of the country's highest honors for government service work.
Davis received the 2002 Presidential Rank Meritorious Executive Award for her contributions to the space shuttle, International Space Station and other space projects.
Davis is also responsible for the Chandra X-ray Observatory Program Office, overseeing operations of the world's most powerful X-ray telescope.
www.uah.edu /news/2003news/Davis.html   (631 words)

  
 CA: Vehicle license fee hike pushed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Gov. Gray Davis didn't propose it in his budget plan last week, but the Legislature may nonetheless boost the annual fee Californians pay to license their vehicles to help close a $34.6 billion shortfall.
Gov. Gray Davis insists that however the state's budget crisis is resolved, he won't sign a 2003-04 budget unless it contains substantial "structural reform" of the state's obviously skewed system of financing state and local governments.
Since Davis tapped Zingale in late 1999 to launch a new unit monitoring health plans in the state, the 42-year-old gay rights activist has built a reputation as a patients-rights advocate.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/823125/posts   (2859 words)

  
 Jan Davis: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
If you've seen Pulp Fiction, that's Jan Davis [+] yelling at the top of his lungs during one of the film's key songs, Dick Dale [+]'s "Misirlou." Davis had been a busy session guitarist when "Misirlou" was recorded, called in whenever a song needed his rocking guitar or his crazy vocalizing.
It was his ability to arrange and write music that landed Davis a gig with the popular B. Bumble and the Stingers, a group of studio musicians who released albums of classical pieces in a rock and roll style.
Davis' own Stone Tiger Records documented one of these shows recorded on California's coastline as Concert by the Sea [+], released in 2000.
www.music.com /person/jan_davis/6   (384 words)

  
 Jan Davis 1941-1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Jan Davis' life was truly a celebration: a celebration of love, passion, daring, and adventure.
Jan's family would like you to remember her as she was ­ vivacious, radiant, and affectionate.
Jan's final skydive will be with her husband from the top of the world's tallest waterfall.
www.aerialfocus.com /jan.html   (242 words)

  
 Jan Davis
Jan Davis is an American astronaut who was born on November 1, 1953, in Florida.
Davis made her second spaceflight in 1994 aboard STS-60.
Davis is scheduled to make her next spaceflight in July 1997 aboard STS-85.
www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/people/astronauts/davis.html&edu=high&frp.=windows3.htm   (128 words)

  
 NASA - Dr. Jan Davis named NASA Marshall Center Safety And Mission Assurance director - Marshall Center Space News ...
Davis, a former astronaut who joined NASA in 1979, had been serving as director of the Flight Projects Directorate at the Marshall Center.
In her new position, Davis will direct the safety, reliability and quality activities of all Marshall Center programs, including establishing and assuring compliance with NASA safety and mission assurance strategies, policies, and standards and implementing methods for identifying and assessing safety risks.
As flight projects director, Davis led a team of more than 1,400 civil service and contract workers responsible for payload and science operations for the International Space Station, training crews to operate Space Station science experiments and operating the control center for those experiments.
www.nasa.gov /centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2003/03-137.html   (681 words)

  
 News: Jan Davis: Touching The Stars--From The Ground (August 19, 2003)
Astronaut Dr. Jan Davis is a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions, including the first U.S. flight to carry a Russian cosmonaut.
Davis also got to help the cosmonauts adapt for their stay in America, teaching them such things as how to write checks and use ATM cards--simple things to us that were foreign concepts to them.
When she was in high school, Davis was involved not only in academic organizations in honoraries, but also in athletics and service organizations.
liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /news/2003/news-davis.asp   (1207 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Introduction to Online Investment Research (Business Research Solutions Series): Books: Jan Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Jan Davis is President of JT Research, located in Portland, Oregon.
Jan coordinates a team of trained information specialists to provide business professionals with the data they need in a timely and cost effective manner.
Jan received her Masters in Library and Information Studies from UC Berkeley, and has over fifteen years of experience in academic and corporate libraries.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0538726814?v=glance   (1005 words)

  
 MP3tunes.com
It's JAN DAVIS.Back in the "Miserlou" era, Dick Dale was riding waves of popularity with his surfin' guitar and the Deltones, while Jan was working nonstop as one of the most booked studio musicians whenever gigs called for an unforgettable lead or rhythm guitar.
Jan wasn't much into surf sounds then, as he was way into Rock 'n Roll with his custom blue Fender guitar.Jan graduated from being a recognized teen-player when he opted into doing lead guitar with the ever-popularB.
Many guitarists of our time have attempted to duplicate Jan's artistry on guitar, to no avail.Jan and another professional singer-musician, Lee Charles, were chosen to play and sing at the Sahara Hotel in Lake Tahoe, for a fun gig that put their names on the highway billboards, with mega success!
www.mp3tunes.com /album_details.php?album_id=24065   (760 words)

  
 Jan Davis and The Spain Gang - free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick
Jan Davis had the original USA hit on this one.
Jan Davis wrote this song, seeing his beautiful daughter, Laura, by the sea.
Jan Davis was ahead of his time (as always) with the 'Latin Explosion' taking place at this writing.
www.soundclick.com /bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=20132   (447 words)

  
 MP3tunes.com
JAN DAVIS BIOGRAPHYDid you ever wonder who was doing the red-hot "rebel yell" at the top of the soundtrack on the film: PULP FICTION?
It's JAN DAVIS.Back in the "Miserlou" era, Dick Dale was riding waves of popularity with his surfin' guitar and the Deltones, while Jan was working non-stop as one of the most booked studio musicians whenever gigs called for an unforgettable lead or rhythm guitar.
The single consolation, over time, was that "The Fugitive" is included on numerous VENTURE albums, crediting Davis as co-writer.Jan continued the battle for popularity by taking up acoustic guitar and continues to be praised by his peers for his unusual guitar tuning ability, which Jan terms as: Hawaiian tuning.
www.mp3tunes.com /album_details.php?album_id=24052   (615 words)

  
 M2 Presswire: NASA Marshall Center's Jan Davis to be inducted into Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame.@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
NASA Marshall Center's Jan Davis to be inducted into Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame.
Jan Davis of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will be inducted into the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame on Friday.
As director of the Flight Projects Directorate at the Marshall Center, Davis oversees development of the International Space Station's connecting nodes 2 and 3; multi-purpose logistics modules;...
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:74021636&refid=holomed_1   (209 words)

  
 Davis-Besse, Nov 2003 -- Ohio Citizen Action
FirstEnergy stands to collect $8.7 billion in transition charges, as the PUCO approved in 2000, plus another $3.7 billion in interest on the old debt, for a total of $12.4 billion by the end of 2005.
Jan 23: "The NRC is not prepared to shut down Davis-Besse if it is operating and a safety problem develops"
OAK HARBOR -- "The performance issue came on New Year's Eve, she said, three days into the heat-up, when a reactor operator noticed that a valve in one of the plant's two emergency cooling systems was out of service for maintenance.
www.ohiocitizen.org /campaigns/electric/2004/nuc2004a.html   (5052 words)

  
 Boss Guitar - by Jan Davis: Rock, Surf & Hot Rod instrumentals from the 60s
One of Jan's best from 1964 puts baying hound dogs chasing this poor slob who didn't commit the crime and Jan paints the feel, so You, the audience, knows it and are rooting for his escape.
Jan was a freak for sound effects in the 60's and when you hear the guy screaming as he's sucked into the "Time Funnel," you'll agree.
Jan Davis wonders why he ever did this one.
www.stonetigerrecords.com /bossguitar.htm   (678 words)

  
 NASAexplores: Astronaut Profile - Jan Davis
Astronaut Jan Davis is a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions, including the first U.S. flight to carry a Russian cosmonaut.
Three things really stood out for Davis as the most exciting parts of her Shuttle missions—working with an international crew, being involved in scientific research from all over the world, and getting “the experience of looking at the Earth from space.
Davis also got to help the cosmonauts adapt for their stay in America, teaching them such things as how to write checks and use ATM cards—simple things to us that were foreign concepts to them.
www.nasaexplores.com /extras/astronauts/davis_07-10-03.html   (941 words)

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