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  Astronaut Bio: Jeffrey N. Williams (6/2007)
Williams received his commission as a second lieutenant from the U.S. Military Academy in May 1980 and was designated an Army aviator in September 1981.
Williams was the backup Commander and Soyuz Flight Engineer for the 12th Expedition to the ISS launched on September 30, 2005.
Jeff Williams was the Expedition 13 Flight Engineer and Science Officer aboard the International Space Station.
www.jsc.nasa.gov /Bios/htmlbios/williamsj.html   (716 words)

  
  Jeffrey Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeffrey Nels Williams (born 18 January 1958) is an American astronaut and veteran of one space shuttle mission.
Williams was raised in Winter, Wisconsin and earned an engineering degree from the U.S. Military Academy, receiving his commission in the United States Army.
Williams served with the army at Johnson Space Center from 1987 to 1992 before training as a test pilot.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeffrey_Williams   (201 words)

  
 Jeff Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeff Williams (born June 6, 1972 in Canberra) is an Australian-born, left-handed pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers baseball team.
Williams began his Major League Baseball career in September 1999 with the LA Dodgers and pitched for the Dodgers until September 2002.
While with the Dodgers in 2000 and 2001, the tandem of Williams and fellow Australian Luke Prokopec gained considerable popularity in the Los Angeles area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeff_Williams   (246 words)

  
 JEFF WILLIAMS EXCITES CAPACITY CROWD AT MESA MARIN - RacingWest
When Jeff took his first practice he found the truck to be loose off the corner, and he also found that he was bumping the rev limiter before getting to the turns.
Jeff’s first lap of qualifying was only a 22.3 but he was just determining how the truck felt after the changes.
On the restart Tony was glued to the rear of the #28.
www.racingwest.com /news/story.php3/6838   (858 words)

  
 The Williams Family - Missionaries to New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Jeff and Debby were married soon after graduation from Bible college and worked for a year at the Lawton Street Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida, where the late B.H. McWaters was pastor.
God blessed the Williams’ with a second son named Luke, who was born in Dunedin in September of 1992.
Another ministry begun by the Williams’ during their first term was the New Zealand Correspondence School of the Bible.
home.earthlink.net /~rcstorck/williams.html   (1041 words)

  
 Jeff Williams, Senior Consultant at Baker Communications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Jeff is a long-time member and officer in the Houston Organization Development Network and has been associated for years with local chapters of the American Society for Training and Development, Houston Human Resources Management Association, and Houston Area I/O Psychologists.
Jeff has worked in technical companies at the plant, division, and corporate level, and he is knowledgeable about the business processes and associated human resource needs of the refining, chemical, gas processing, and upstream oil and gas industries.
Jeff met his wife Janet Penner Williams at the University of Houston where they were both students.
www.bakercommunications.com /staff/jwilliams.htm   (350 words)

  
 Q & A: Jeff Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Jeff Williams -- an assistant coach with the Pitt women's basketball team -- is among a rare portion of coaches who have seen both sides first-hand.
Williams: The intensity on the men's side is at a different level.
Williams: Actually, when they were playing, we were playing [in the WNIT], so I haven't had an opportunity to follow them closely.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06093/679012-175.stm   (797 words)

  
 Morgenstein & Jubelirer LLP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Jeff Williams focuses his practice in the areas of products liability and complex commercial litigation, where he has tried and arbitrated dozens of cases to verdict or binding award.
Williams was one of the founders of Morgenstein & Jubelirer in 1982, and served as its Managing Partner from 1987-1990.
Williams received his Juris Doctor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1978.
www.mjllp.com /attorney_detail_l-z.asp?propid=89   (487 words)

  
 STS 101 Mission Specialist: Jeff Williams
Williams role with NASA began in 1987 with an assignment at Johnson Space Center.
In 1992, Williams was selected for the Naval Test Pilot School.
Williams has logged approximately 2,000 hours in more than 50 different aircraft.
www.space.com /peopleinterviews/sts101_williams_bio.html   (310 words)

  
 Jeff Williams
Jeff Williams is the founder and director of Critical Reaction Training, Inc. a self defense company dedicated to bringing quality instruction in self defense to Michigan.
Williams is a graduate of Fox Valley Technical College’s Police Academy in Wisconsin and currently holds the IDPA classification of Sharpshooter, the rating of Handgun Master from The Firearms Academy of Seattle, and is a Brown Belt in Isshinryu Karate.
In addition to his LFI instructor rating, Jeff is also rated as an Instructor in the disciplines of Handgun Retention, Persuader, the Air Tazer and Impact Weapon Defense.
www.criticalreaction.com /INSTRUCTORS/Jeff.htm   (179 words)

  
 Reviews: The Conversion of Jeff Williams
So often in the Mormon world (actually in almost all of Christendom) the fallen are not represented in their fullness but in a sort of half-state reserved for those whose primary purpose is to tell a story in which the white and delightsome people are victorious.
Thayer’s narrator, Jeff Williams, is a callow, self-absorbed teenager who is called to spend the summer with his cousin, Christopher Lowery, who is the son of a multi-millionaire stake president who, like Stephen Covey, got rich by marketing and selling gospel principles.
Jeff rightfully believes he’s being shuttled off to a kind of spiritual fat camp, where he can cultivate his testimony in the presence of his talented, pious, wealthy cousin.
www.signaturebooks.com /reviews/conversion.htm   (1711 words)

  
 ESPN.com: MLB - Kent-for-Williams: from ugly to beautiful
The calls might have been complimentary rather than vulgar, had anyone had known that Jeff Kent would eventually become the first second baseman in major-league history to drive in more than 100 runs in six straight seasons.
If Williams and Kent had been nothing more than Strat-O-Matic cards, and they'd been traded for each other straight up, it would have been a great deal for the Giants.
For Williams, the Indians and the Diamondbacks -- who acquired Williams in 1998 for Travis Fryman -- have spent approximately $47 million.
espn.go.com /mlb/columns/neyer_rob/1429910.html   (766 words)

  
 Realization Check by Jeff Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A Jeff Skrentny training class revealed this to me years ago that it’s more sophomoric to think that you are above such things than to use them to track your personal effort, especially when more effort is required to produce less revenue.
Jeff has been in the industry since mid 1990's and has been fortunate to experience the many different facets of recruiting; from independent headhunting though corporate recruiting departments.
Although Jeff is originally from Texas, he currently resides in the Chicagoland area with his wife and three children.
www.recruitersnetwork.com /articles/article.cfm?ID=1216   (848 words)

  
 CD Baby: JEFF WILLIAMS AND THE CLEAR SPACEMEN: White Under Green   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
From 1989 to 1995, Williams led Melbourne outfit Acuff's Rose, one of the progenitors of Melbourne's Alt-Country scene.
With White Under Green, Jeff Williams delivers an album that lives up to the promise of his earlier work and makes a whole new set of promises of things to come.
Jeff Williams writes some mighty fine country songs - and here's ten of 'em, recorded live and done much justice by renowned harvester of good things musical, Mr Julian Wu...
cdbaby.com /cd/clearspacemen   (819 words)

  
 JEFF WILLIAMS RACE REPORT - RacingWest
The first few laps of the first practice our driver Jeff Williams came on the radio and informed me that the engine was awesome.
Jeff and the #12 Michael May had a great battle.
Jeff and Michael battled lap after lap and finally at the finish Michael nipped us at the line for 7th place.
www.racingwest.com /news/story.php3/2697   (455 words)

  
 Jeff Williams Construction, Inc.
Jeff and Patti Williams have been working together building houses for long enough to know the strengths and expertise each contribute to the team.
Jeff and Patti feel fortunate to have built for clients who test their abilities to be flexible, and are proud of the fact that their homes reflect styles and personalities as diverse as their clients.
Jeff Williams Construction, Inc. has built custom homes in King's Mill and Walnut Creek in Mansfield, and in Moorewood and Bay Club Estates in Arlington, as well as on scattered sites in Kennedale, Fort Worth, and Aledo.
www.jeffwilliamshomes.com /about-us   (1064 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Dusted Off
At 5:45 that morning, his mother, Kathy Williams (a nurse by profession), had attempted to wake him before she left for work.
Jeff Williams does indeed have a German Shepherd named Thor who had been a police dog with the East Cleveland Police Department until he was shot in the line of duty in March 2001.
Williams' letter began as a post to an online message board he visited for support in the wake of his son's death.
www.snopes.com /medical/toxins/dustoff.asp   (2317 words)

  
 CNN.com - Astronaut Jeff Williams and Miles O'Brien: Space talk on the spacewalk - August 16, 2001
JEFF WILLIAMS: I'm happy to be here today to talk to you a little about EVA (extra-vehicular activity) and space in general and answer your questions.
WILLIAMS: There is a definite risk of being hit by debris in space.
WILLIAMS: We have international agreements among the partners of the ISS as to how we operate the Space Station.
archives.cnn.com /2001/COMMUNITY/08/16/obrien_williams/index.html   (1710 words)

  
 CNNSI.com -- Baseball -- Jeff Williams News
Williams has been recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas by the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Williams has been recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas by the Los Angeles Dodgers to replace the injured Jesse Orosco.
Williams is 2-1 with a 5.16 ERA in 12 appearances with the Dodgers this season.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/mlb/players/15196/latest_news.html   (217 words)

  
 Theory and Practice: A Tribute to Jeff Williams
Both the liveliness and the political seriousness should I think be seen as the fruit of Jeff's wisdom in choosing to address professional and institutional questions in the first place, or rather choosing to address them in the spirit he has.
Today's younger generation of academic leftists, whose voices Jeff has made exceptional efforts to seek out, has been dramatically shaped by the bad job market, and thus has especially strong reasons to dis-identify with the institutional routines that have set them up for a fall.
Sprinker's abundant kindness in editing the work of his friends, students, and contributors is legendary, as is the fact that he kept it up after he had transferred mr to Jeff, right through the years of his fight against cancer, sacrificing his own diminished time and energy to improve other people's work.
www.louisville.edu /journal/workplace/issue5/williamstribute.html   (1159 words)

  
 Jeff Williams Wins European Poker Tour 2006 Finals
It appared the action went: Jeff came in for the standard raise, Thierry re-raised to 190K, Jeff moved all in, and Thierry called.
Jeff, who had taken some seriou hits is back on track.
Jeff Williams check-raised him all in and Ross mucked, leaving himself barely 120K to play with.
www.guidetopoker.com /Jeff-Williams-2006.php   (3181 words)

  
 Jeff Williams, Aspect Security CEO Invited to Speak on Securing Services at Secure Software Summit
Jeff Williams, Aspect Security CEO Invited to Speak on Securing Services at Secure Software Summit
With many code examples and discussion of vulnerabilities, architects and developers will find much to think about in these slides.
That's code that was designed and built without much thought about the real threat environment where it will be deployed," said Jeff.
www.aspectsecurity.com /press/pr_20060606.htm   (345 words)

  
 Newsvine - Spacewalking Astronauts Get Extra Work
In this image made from NASA TV, astronaut Jeff Williams, left, and German astronaut Thomas Reiter deploy the Floating Potential Measurement Unit on the exterior of the International Space Station during a televised spacewalk Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006.
Reiter and astronaut Jeff Williams, installed the device that will measure the electrical field around the exterior of the ISS and ways to minimize arcing hazards as the complex expands.
American astronaut Jeff Williams and German astronaut Thomas Reiter were so efficient at important repairs to a key new cooling system for the international space station that they finished that primary job 90 minutes early in their 5-hour, 54-minute spacewalk.
www.newsvine.com /_news/2006/08/03/311427-astronauts-look-at-tropical-storm-chris   (1250 words)

  
 Wisconsin Radio Network: Wisconsin astronaut heads to space station
That astronaut, Jeff Williams from northern Wisconsin, says the Russians have been great partners with the U.S. in our space program.
Williams, who will serve as the flight engineer and science officer, says he loves to take his story to kids in small towns in Wisconsin, particularly his hometown of Winter, to inspire and motivate them to prepare for their future full of possibilities.
Williams, who already has one spacewalk under his belt, will spend six months at the space station.
www.wrn.com /gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=97CDBCAB-E41C-4EFB-9C4B4F6796990594&dbtranslator=local.cfm   (382 words)

  
 Presenter Bio: Jeff Williams
Dr. Jeff Williams is Chief Technology Officer for Vanson HaloSource Incorporated in Redmond, WA, a bioscience company with a focus on specialty polymers and their usage in water treatment.
During that time he served as a member of the Board of Counsellors to the NIH Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as consultant to the World Health Organisation Program on Tropical Disease Research, and for 15 years he was the Director of the NIH Program Project on Infectious Diseases in Sudan, administered through MSU.
Williams joined Michigan State after spending several years as research scientist with the PanAmerican Health Organisation in Argentina, (1968-1971).
www.nciia.org /CD/public/htmldocs/presenters/williams.html   (238 words)

  
 UltraFlight Radio - Interviews with Jeff Williams
Jeff Willams' Airwolf is the EAA AirVenture Flexwing Champion.
Jeff talks about this 912 Powered Parachute that won the best of show in its category.
Jeff Willams is the new owner of Powrachute.
www.ultraflightradio.com /byname/williams-jeff.html   (486 words)

  
 The Door in the Floor (Tod Williams): Jeff Bridges Kim Basinger Jon Foster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
That approach is particularly grating partly because it throws the film off balance (while signaling that Williams doesn’t trust his audience), but mainly because if The Door in the Floor had kept its focus on the story’s delicate observations about human nature it could have become the outstanding motion picture it aims to be.
True, Ted Cole is doing his utmost to take his mind away from the emotional void created by the death of his sons and his crumbling marriage, but only sporadically does Bridges convey the pain that underlies his character’s outward exuberance.
A renowned children's book writer, Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges), and his wife, Marion (Kim Basinger), have had their emotional lives ruined by the death of their two teenage sons in a car accident.
www.altfg.com /Reviews/Doorinthefloor.htm   (991 words)

  
 Jeff Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Jeff is the CEO of Aspect Security, a leading provider of application security services including security code review, penetration testing, secure development training, and security engineering services.
Jeff speaks regularly about application security and leads the Top Ten project for OWASP.
Jeff holds advanced degrees in computer science and human factors, as well as a law degree from Georgetown University.
old.owasp.org /columns/jwilliams.html   (150 words)

  
 Tate Modern | Talks & Discussions | Gilda Williams on Jeff Wall
Gilda Williams is a lecturer in contemporary art at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London. From 1994–2005 she was Editor and Commissioning Editor (from 1997) for Contemporary Art at Phaidon Press, where she worked closely with Wall on both the first (1996) and second (2002) edition of his Contemporary Artists series monograph.
Williams gives a talk in the Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978–2004 exhibition which explores the ideas and sources behind his art, looking closely at recurring themes which run throughout the work.
Williams also writes criticism for TATE ETC., Art Monthly, Parkett and many other art journals.
www.tate.org.uk /modern/eventseducation/talksdiscussions/gildawilliamsonjeffwall4013.htm   (104 words)

  
 NASA - Preflight Interview: Jeff Williams
It wasn’t until later on, after high school when I went to the military academy at West Point, and I got introduced to Army aviation and read Tom Wolfe’s book, The Right Stuff, that I realized it could be possible and set it as a goal.
As someone who’s flown in space before, Jeff, you’re more aware than most people are of the dangers that come with doing that; and yet, here you sit, ready to go do it again.
Image at left: Jeffrey Williams performs a spacewalk outside the station during the STS-101 shuttle mission in May of 2000.
www.nasa.gov /mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition13/exp13_interview_williams.html   (4291 words)

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