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  Jim Turner (Congressman) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jim Turner (born February 6, 1946), American politician, was the Democratic representative for the Texas 2nd Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 until 2005.
Turner received a bachelor's degree in business, and simultaneously earned a Master of Business Administration and Juris Doctor, all at the University of Texas at Austin.
Congressman Turner was a member of the Armed Services Committee, and was the ranking minority member of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Turner_(Congressman)   (376 words)

  
 Jim Turner's story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jim Turner, at age 70, tried skydiving for the first time (his instructor is on his back).
Turner recalls, "Rhea told me one of the telltale symptoms of carcinoids -- a distinct type of liver tumor -- was flushing.
Turner also joined the "Southern California Carcinoid Fighters," a support group that educates carcinoid patients and their families about treatments, financial resources and other information to help patients and their families deal with the challenge of this rare disease.
www.mayoclinic.org /heart-valve-surgery/jimturner.html   (1241 words)

  
 Calvin College - Spark - Fall 2002
They were to serve as Jim Turner’s hands at the chalkboard, writing the equations as he spoke them, both those in his prepared lecture and those given in spontaneous response to student questions.
Turner’s give and take with students has, as of this past summer, begun to extend beyond the classroom, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, a grant he shares with Venema.
During graduate school at MIT and in post-doctoral work at the University of Virginia Jim Turner chose to study and research homotopy theory, a branch of mathematics where geometric figures meet algebraic equations, producing a powerful tool for understanding complex objects and their processes of transformation.
www.calvin.edu /publications/spark/fall02/turner.htm   (1360 words)

  
 DEC 98 Court Decision in: Jim Turner vs U.S. Navy (U.S. District Court, DC, 1998)
Turner on Count I. It finds that the Navy's rejection of the BCNR majority decision was arbitrary and capricious because the Secretary of the Navy did not address non-frivolous arguments raised by plaintiff and did not set out a reasoned basis for his decision.
Turner's NJP be overturned, that his discharge be voided and that his record be corrected to show that he served until the expiration of his enlistment and then was honorably discharged.
Turner had used indecent language with and solicited homosexual conduct from Poore, it is unlikely that Mr Turner would have been discharged from the Navy on the basis of an uncorroborated allegation of a sole indecent proposal.
dont.stanford.edu /cases/turner/turneropinion.htm   (3988 words)

  
 JIM TURNER: Well, the headache issue is very dramatic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
JIM TURNER: Well, it was first approved, interestingly enough, in 1974, and I and Dr. Olney each filed a complaint at the FDA and objected to the approval and we were able to hold it off the market all of the way until 1981.
JIM TURNER: Depletion of serotonin is one of the measures of depression and it has been fascinating that the growth of the antidepressant drugs and the growth of the sale of NutraSweet have been almost parallel.
JIM TURNER: Either themselves conduct or require to be conducted by a responsible third party, paid for by NutraSweet, to re-do the cancer tumor tests in animals that were done in the early 1970's.
aspartame.com /jimturner.htm   (5065 words)

  
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JIM TURNER is a stride pianist from Los Angeles whose style is faithful to tradition, but not old-fashioned.
Turner has performed for audiences in concerts and jazz festivals throughout the West from San Diego to the San Juan Islands in Washington, and in New York City.
Turner is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara where he received a degree in music composition and arranging.
stridepiano.com /bios/gen3/jimturner.html   (670 words)

  
 Spring 2003 Keynote Speaker - Jim Turner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Turner continues to be the company's chief representative to state policymakers and regulators in Cinergy's three operating states of Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.
Turner is a member of the Ohio State Board of Education, having been appointed by Governor Bob Taft in February 2000 to a term that expires at the end of December 2004.
Turner was employed as a principal in the Indianapolis law firm of Lewis and Kappes, P.C., representing industrial customers in state utility commission proceedings as well as before the Indiana General Assembly.
www.ewh.ieee.org /soc/pes/icc/meetings/spring_2003/turner_bio.htm   (377 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Jim Turner (Congressman)
Turner received a bachelor's degree in business, and simultaneously earned a Master of Business Administration and a law degree, all at the University of Texas at Austin.
Turner was elected representative for the Texas 2nd Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996, taking office in 1997.
After a highly controversial redistricting caused a massive change in what district he would represent, Turner chose not to run for another term.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jim-Turner-(Congressman)   (1001 words)

  
 Jim Turner Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Jim Turner was born on Thursday, August 6, 1903, in Antioch, Tennessee.
Turner was 34 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 30, 1937, with the Boston Bees, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
Jim Turner's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Jim Turner baseball statistics page.
baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=turneji01   (307 words)

  
 Jim Turner vs U.S. Navy (U.S. District Court, DC)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In May 1994, because of unsubstantiated rumors that he might be gay, Jim was subjected by the command of USS ANTIETAM to two overlapping and rapid administrative proceedings in a highly charged and prejudicial shipboard atmosphere.
At the conclusion of the second proceeding, Jim was adjudged to have used indecent language and to have solicited a male shipmate for oral sex.
Jim argues that the Navy's proceedings against him, and the decision to demote and dishonorably discharge him, have violated his legal rights under the United States Constitution; the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue" statute, directive, and regulations; and other federal laws and regulations.
www.davidclemens.com /gaymilitary/turner.htm   (309 words)

  
 TheDeadballEra.com :: JIM TURNER'S OBIT
Turner's 51 years in uniform are now being approached by Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer, who just completed his 50th season.
Turner was 19 when he broke into the minor leagues in 1922, playing for Paris, Tenn., for $150 a month.
Turner, nicknamed ``The Milkman'' because of his off-season job delivering milk, was the Yankees' pitching coach from 1949-59 under manager Casey Stengel.
www.thedeadballera.com /Obits/Turner.Jim.Obit.html   (376 words)

  
 Jim Turner (football player) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
James Bayard "Jim" Turner (born March 28, 1941 in Martinez, California) was a college and professional American football player.
A placekicker for the American Football League's New York Jets, he scored ten points in the Jets's defeat of the Baltimore Colts, in the third World Championship of professional football, Super Bowl III.
Turner won the hearts of AFL fans when, in the locker room after the game, he told an NFL sportscaster (and the world), "Welcome to the AFL!" Following the AFL-NFL merger, Turner also played with the Denver Broncos for another nine seasons.
bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Jim_Turner_(football_player)   (191 words)

  
 JIM TURNER
Jim Turner was born and raised in Los Angeles where, as a youth, he studied with his father, noted classical pianist and teacher Robert E. Turner.
Jim Turner recorded his first solo album in 1981.
Turner is the proud father of a son, Eddie (pictured at left).
www.riverwalk.org /profiles/turner.htm   (458 words)

  
 Jim Turner - SourceWatch
Representative Jim Turner, according to his Congressional biography (http://www.house.gov/turner/bio.shtml), is "serving his fourth term in Congress representing the Second Congressional District of Texas.
As the Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee, Jim is working to protect the safety and security of the American people in the war on terrorism.
Turner is also "a Co-Chair of the "Blue Dog" Coalition and is a member of the New Democrat Coalition, groups of moderate and conservative Democrats who work for fiscal responsibility through balanced budgets and lower taxes."
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Jim_Turner   (300 words)

  
 Devil Jim Turner
James Turner and Francis Pace are now writing to this William Turner Jr to come to Lexington in the fall when they are to be brought back to Manchester for trial as they say to prevent the KuKlux from killing them, but if he comes, it will be for quite a different purpose.
James `Devil Jim' Turner and Francis Pace were finally convicted and sentenced to life in the state penitentiary in December of 1874.
William Turner, Sr., is said to have served in the Revolution but as most six year olds did not join military units, his fighting probably occured in the Indian fights of the 1790's.
www.rootsweb.com /~seky/famfile/turner/djt.html   (6013 words)

  
 Arnold & Porter LLP - Press Releases - Former U.S. Congressman Jim Turner, Who Served as Ranking Minority Member on ...
Turner has over 20 years of service in elective office at the local, state, and federal levels.
Turner’s former Chief of Staff, Elizabeth Hurley Burks, who is not an attorney, has also joined the firm as the Senior Policy and Legislative Advisor.
Turner serves as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A and M University.
www.aporter.net /news_news.cfm?publication_id=1081   (579 words)

  
 Jim Turner Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jim Turner, as a boy raised in Knoxville, TN in the shadow of the Great Smoky Mountains, got his early experience in a local band performing on the south-eastern college concert and club circuit.
Jim went on to headline in his own shows at Knott's Berry Farm and Opryland.
Jim also does his annual tour of personal appearances all across the country, as well as commuting between L.A. and Nashville for his recording commitments.
www.welkshow.com /turner.html   (209 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Jim Turner 'manages' his Type 1 diabetes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
With medical adviser Stephen A. Shoop, M.D. Jim Turner is among the more than one million Americans living with Type 1 diabetes.
But in real life Jim Turner is absolutely on top of his game when it comes to the management of his Type 1 diabetes.
Turner stresses that these elements can help make up a winning team in the battle against diabetes.
www.usatoday.com /news/healthscience/health/2002-06-14-jim-turner.htm   (1018 words)

  
 Player Bio: Jim Turner :: Football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jim Turner is starting his third season as Harvard’s offensive line coach and run game coordinator.
Turner came to Harvard in 2000 after helping direct one of the most potent offenses in Division 1-A at Louisiana Tech.
Turner played in the Liberty Bowl, Cotton Bowl, and Hall of Fame Bowl and was a blocking back for some of the Eagles’ best teams of the Doug Flutie era.
gocrimson.collegesports.com /sports/m-footbl/mtt/turner_jim00.html   (457 words)

  
 Jim Turner, Notre Dame Magazine
Jim Turner, the unpretentious, easy-going scholar with Texas roots, who says he "writes books to solve problems, to answer questions," became its first director.
The Erasmus Institute, Turner says, is a vehicle for "making connections between Catholic faith traditions and the ideas that govern how we live on a day-to-day basis" as well as with the largely secular world of academe, keeping a "treasure house of 2,000 years of very creative thinking" in dialogue with today’s intellectual currents.
While it is apparent Turner is committed to this enterprise, he is probably happiest buried in the archives, mining the past, then writing about his discoveries.
www.nd.edu /~ndmag/grd10sp00.htm   (368 words)

  
 Cheyenne Turner
Turner --- then Dallas-area director of MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network --- had a vision to make her mission in life "the spreading of interesting and helpful knowledge," said her ex-husband, Jim Turner.
Turner was educated at the University of Tennessee.
Turner moved to Austin in 1972, where she did aging research, preparing electron microscope slides for the project at the University of Texas.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Crete/9923/chey.html   (921 words)

  
 High-Sheriff Jim Turner: High Times of a Florida Lawman
The first of these, High Sheriff Jim Turner: High Times of a Florida Lawman, published in 1998, is brief and simple.
Warner sat with his distant cousin, James Turner, who was eighty at the time and had been elected sheriff of Levy County five times.
The Florida of Sheriff Turner, as he remembers it on his front porch in Fowler's Bluff, overlooking the Suwanee River, was a raw and violent place.
www.wual.ua.edu /bookreviews/Jim_Turner.html   (942 words)

  
 Jim Turner, ICCCR: International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jim’s research considers the application of psychological knowledge about face perception to suspect identification in a forensic setting.
The main focus of Jim’s work has been on the efficacy of facial compositing systems in police use and adapting the systems and procedures in the light of psychological theory and research.
Jim is currently working on an EPSRC-funded project examining the interaction between eyewitnesses and new composite systems based on Principal Components Analysis.
www.open.ac.uk /icccr/turner.htm   (173 words)

  
 APROVision: Meet Congressman Jim Turner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This week’s Congressional profile is on Jim Turner, a Texas Democrat, who is serving his fourth term in Congress representing the Second Congressional District of Texas.
Turner earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business and his law degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Turner and his wife, Ginny, have been married for 32 years and have a son, John, 28, and a daughter, Susan, 26.
www.apro-rto.com /legalchannel/leg_turner.html   (395 words)

  
 Texas Legislature Online - Bills Authored   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
SR 385    Author: Turner, Jim Sponsor: none Last Action: 03/09/1995 S Reported enrolled Honoring Mary Sisson of Hearne on her retirement after 22 years of contributions to the community.
SR 588    Author: Turner, Jim Sponsor: none Last Action: 04/03/1995 S Reported enrolled Congratulating Fortunata "Forgie" Weise for her recent selection as the Volunteer of the Year by the Bryan Police Department.
SR 812    Author: Turner, Jim Sponsor: none Last Action: 04/26/1995 S Reported enrolled Recognizing Melanie Shuffield for her contributions as the president of the Cameron Area Chamber of Commerce.
www.capitol.state.tx.us /tlo/reports/author/74R/A1590.HTM   (9253 words)

  
 Locus Online: Letters May 1999, Tribute to Jim Turner
Without Jim Turner, my then agent Virginia Kidd, and another fine editor, David Hartwell, I might well have packed it in and taken a time-consuming day job teaching.
Without Jim, I would never have had the pleasure and privilege of finding my work illustrated by artists as different yet authentic as GlennRay Tutor, Raymond Bayless, Andrew Smith, and J. Potter, whose photographic montages set a high standard for the entire field.
Jim and I also met face to face far too seldom and far too briefly.
locusmag.com /1999/Departments/Letters05f.html   (651 words)

  
 Sports Illustrated: Jim Turner, NFL Kicker: September 22, 1969.(catching up with...)(Brief Article)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jim Turner, NFL Kicker: September 22, 1969.(catching up with...)(Brief Article)
Jets coach Weeb Ewbank, however, saw in Turner the potential to be a placekicker and soon turned him into one.
Turner went on to play for 16 seasons, seven with New York, then nine with the Denver Broncos,...
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:82672849&refid=ip_almanac_hf   (200 words)

  
 Rep. Jim Turner Votes to Help Rescue Small Businesses From Superfund Litigation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
TEXAS, Sept. 28, 2000 -- U.S. Rep. Jim Turner (2nd Dist. - Texas) this week voted in support of bipartisan legislation that would have rescued innocent small businesses from a Superfund liability trap that encourages big polluters to wrongfully sue them.
Turner heard the concerns of the small business owners of Texas and voted to pass the bipartisan Small Business Liability Relief Act in the U.S. House of Representatives.
In addition to Turner, the legislation was supported by many on both sides of the political aisle, but the Environmental Protection Agency opposed bipartisanship and instead defended big polluters' ability to sue innocent small businesses.
www.nfib.com /object/2771616.html   (387 words)

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