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  Politics of Oil - The Center for Public Integrity
Koch Industries (pronounced "coke") is a huge oil conglomerate controlled by brothers Charles and David Koch, two of the country's richest men and among the biggest backers of conservative and libertarian causes.
The Kochs were also sued by their own brother several years ago in a case where the company was accused of stealing millions of barrels of oil from federal and Native American lands.
Bill Koch, best known for bankrolling a yacht racing team that won the 1992 America's Cup, and another plaintiff filed the suit under the False Claims Act, which allows private plaintiffs to sue on behalf of the government companies and individuals that are defrauding it.
www.publicintegrity.org /oil/report.aspx?aid=347   (3228 words)

  
  Ed Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Irving Koch (born December 12, 1924; pronounced kotch) was a U.S. Congressman and the Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.
Ed Koch was born to a Jewish family in Morrisania, in the Bronx.
Koch was the Democratic-Liberal U.S. Congressman from New York's 17th District from 1969–1973, and U.S. Congressman from New York's 18th District from 1973–1977, a total of nine years as a Congressman.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ed_Koch   (1524 words)

  
 Marita Koch - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
As a result, Marita Koch became one of the most successful runners over 50 and 60 metres where she set many records between 1980 and 1985.
Koch also won the IAAF European Championships at 400m in 1978, 1982 and 1986 before retiring in 1987 as one Germany's most successful athletes.
Koch's achievements, along with the extrordinary performances many other East German female athletes, aroused considerable suspicion at the time that they were achieved with the aid of anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs, which were and remain illegal but were not detectable at the time.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /marita_koch.htm   (390 words)

  
 Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carl Wilhelm Otto Koch, (1810 - 1876), mayor of Leipzig
Charles G. Koch - Billionaire, heir and CEO of Koch Industries and co-founder of the free-market Cato Institute.
Robert Koch - German physician, discoverer of the tubercle and cholera bacilli, Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate in 1905
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Koch   (254 words)

  
 Koch, Robert,
Koch also invented the apparatus and the procedure for the very useful hanging-drop technique, whereby microorganisms could be cultured in a drop of nutrient solution on the underside of a glass slide.
Koch also concentrated his efforts on the study of tuberculosis, with the aim of isolating its cause.
Resuming his studies of tuberculosis, Koch investigated what effect an injection of dead bacilli would have on a person who subsequently received a dose of living ones; he concluded that the local reaction produced might prove the means by which the disease could not only be diagnosed but, in the early stages, perhaps even cured.
www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/325_28.html   (1216 words)

  
 Robert Koch - Biography
Robert Koch was born on December 11, 1843, at Clausthal in the Upper Harz Mountains.
In 1896 Koch went to South Africa to study the origin of rinderpest and although he did not identify the cause of this disease, he succeeded in limiting the outbreak of it by injection into healthy farm-stock of bile taken from the gall bladders of infected animals.
Koch was the recipient of many prizes and medals, honorary doctorates of the Universities of Heidelberg and Bologna, honorary citizenships of Berlin, Wollstein and his native Clausthal, and honorary memberships of learned societies and academies in Berlin, Vienna, Posen, Perugia, Naples and New York.
nobelprize.org /medicine/laureates/1905/koch-bio.html   (1641 words)

  
 Koch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
The second of von Koch's papers was published in 1892, the year in which von Koch was awarded a doctorate for his thesis which contained the results of the two papers.
In July 1911 von Koch succeeded Mittag-Leffler as professor of mathematics at Stockholm University.
Von Koch is famous for the Koch curve which appears in his paper Une méthode géométrique élémentaire pour l'étude de certaines questions de la théorie des courbes plane published in 1906.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Koch.html   (742 words)

  
 Robert Koch
Robert Koch is generally considered to be one of the two founders of modern bacteriology.
Koch announced that he had isolated, and grown, the tubercle bacillus to the Physiological Society of Berlin on 24 Mach 1882.
Koch investigated the effect an injection of dead bacilli would have on a person who subsequently received a dose of living ones.
web.ukonline.co.uk /b.gardner/Koch.htm   (1053 words)

  
 PlanetMath: Koch curve
A Koch curve is a fractal generated by a replacement rule.
A Koch snowflake is the figure generated by applying the Koch replacement rule to an equilateral triangle indefinitely.
This is version 4 of Koch curve, born on 2002-01-03, modified 2005-02-28.
planetmath.org /encyclopedia/KochSnowflake.html   (258 words)

  
 WEVD 1050 - Personalities - Ed Koch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
Edward Irving Koch was born in the Bronx on December 12, 1924.
Koch served for nine years as a Congressman and two years as a member of the New York City Council.
Koch is currently a partner in the law firm of Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn and Berman LLP.
www.1050wevd.com /koch.html   (273 words)

  
 Ritter, Laber & Assoc. v. Koch Oil, 2001 ND 56, 623 N.W.2d 424
Koch purchased or sold oil from the wells between January 1, 1975 and December 1988, and measured the oil by hand gauging.
[¶9] Koch argues the trial court erred as a matter of law in deciding the "joint or common interest" factor under N.D.R.Civ.P. 23(c)(1)(A) was satisfied, because Koch's liability is not a fixed amount and the adjudication of one class member's claim will not be res judicata on the claim of any other class member.
Koch, 2000 ND 15, ¶ 12; 605 N.W.2d 153, 157 (N.D. If Koch is found to possess profits from oil for which it did not pay and if it is found that those profits must be returned, Koch's liability would not depend on how the profits would be distributed.
www.court.state.nd.us /court/opinions/20000224.htm   (3160 words)

  
 Koch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
Koch explained he had to accept some of his party fellows had engaged in manipulations behind his back He said he was taking his responsibility seriously and would see to that the affair was properly investigated and that the results of the investigation were made public in due course.
Koch's remarks would certainly be on the agenda of a parliamentary session some time soon.
Its chairman Paul Spiegel said Koch statements that the media were creating the wrongful impression the National Democrats were soon to take over the country had been "irresponsible" and a disservice to all efforts to contain right-wing tendencies.
www.rp-online.de /news/german/2000-0825/koch.html   (376 words)

  
 Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 27, 1925.
Originating at Harvard, where Koch met fellow students Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, the New York School derived much of its inspiration from the works of action painters Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Larry Rivers, whom the poets met in the 1950s after settling in New York City.
Koch wrote the libretto for composer Marcello Panni's The Banquet, which premiered in Bremen in June 1998, and his collaborations with painters have been the subject of exhibitions at the Ipswich Museum in England and the De Nagy Gallery in New York.
www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/75   (619 words)

  
 The Koch Method of CW learning - NW7US   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
The Koch method of building code proficiency character-by-character is similar to standard methods of teaching touch typing, another skill that must be reflexive.
Koch himself, with hand-picked students, got a group to master 12 wpm code in a mere 13.5 hours.
Probably the only reason Koch's method didn't become standard back in 1936 when he first published it was that the average individual had no way of implementing it.
hfradio.org /koch_1.html   (2837 words)

  
 Find Dave Koch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
Koch was wearing sandals, which led rescue crews to conclude he intended to go on a light walk.
Koch, the associate publisher of a technology magazine, was in Vancouver for business meetings and had driven to the city after renting a car in Seattle.
Koch says she appreciates the thousands of hours spent by rescuers looking for her brother, but she wonders why they haven't accepted help from search crews across the border.
www.finddave.net /latest.asp?nav=latest   (4227 words)

  
 Koch Curve
The Koch curve is the limiting curve obtained by applying this construction an infinite number of times.
Koch constructed his curve in 1904 as an example of a non-differentiable curve, that is, a continuous curve that does not have a tangent at any of its points.
Three copies of the Koch curve placed around the three sides of an equilateral triangle, form a simple closed curve that form the boundary of the Koch snowflake.
ecademy.agnesscott.edu /~lriddle/ifs/kcurve/kcurve.htm   (542 words)

  
 David Koch Info
David Koch has loved art ever since he was in grade school but didn’t realize that he could also make a living at it until his second year at Utah State University.
David Koch is a full-time oil painter who’s impressionistic painting style is attracting the attention of local and national collectors.
Koch’s work is already very familiar to local collectors and galleries, he is now enjoying a national discovery of his unique impressionist style.
david.koch.net /artist.html   (702 words)

  
 Koch Supplies INC. - Products & Vendors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
KOCH has food storage containers, totes, buckets, ingredient bins, waste receptacles, stainless steel containers and trucks, shelving, combo bins, pallets, shovels and scoops to help take care of the job at hand.
It is sometimes necessary to expand or remodel your current work area, or at least have the proper elements that are needed to maintain the area that you do have.
KOCH can facilitate the way you process your beef, chicken or pork with our extensive collection of processing supplies.
www.kochsupplies.com /ProductVendor/Products.asp   (569 words)

  
 Speakers Platform Speakers Bureau: Edward Koch, Speaker On: Government/Politics, Liberal Politics, Law, Journalism
Koch is credited with many major achievements as the Mayor: First and foremost, he restored fiscal stability to the City of New York, being responsible for placing the City on a GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Practices) balanced budget basis with ten such balanced budgets during his administration.
Koch lectures around the country and overseas, his commentaries can be seen internationally on Bloomberg Television, and his movie reviews appear in seven New York Papers.
Koch is the author of the following books: Mayor, 1984; Politics, 1985; His Eminence And Hizzoner, 1989; All The Best, 1990; Citizen Koch, 1992; Ed Koch On Everything, 1994; and Murder At City Hall, 1995; Murder on Broadway, 1996; and Murder on 34th Street, 1997.
www.speaking.com /speakers/edwardkoch.html   (425 words)

  
 Wired News: The Professor and His Mac Tattoo
Christof Koch, a professor of Computation and Neural Systems at the renowned California Institute of Technology and head of the Koch Laboratory, has a small rainbow-colored Apple logo tattooed on his right arm.
Koch got his Apple tattoo a couple of years ago while on a summer archeological dig in Israel with his 18-year-old son, Alexander, who pestered him to take him to a tattoo parlor.
Koch was surprised to learn he is not the only person with an Apple tattoo and that there are dozens of others.
www.wired.com /news/mac/0,2125,54154,00.html   (583 words)

  
 MFA Boston: Exhibition: Things I Love: The Many Collections of William I. Koch
Founder of The Oxbow Group, one of the top 500 privately held companies in America, William I. Koch is an international businessman, chemical engineer trained at MIT, world-class sailor, and devoted father.
The exhibition explores the collector’s interest in sailing and the sea (Koch captured the America’s Cup in 1992) with nautical paintings by Lane, Boudin, Dufy, and Homer; and silver trophies.
Koch’s fascination with the American West is represented by major paintings and sculpture by Remington and Russell, Native American works, and rare firearms including the gun that killed Jesse James and General George Armstrong Custer’s hunting rifle.
www.mfa.org /exhibitions/sub.asp?key=15&subkey=519   (307 words)

  
 Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
Charles Koch is a board member at the Mercatus Center, which describes itself as a "research and education center [that] generates knowledge and understanding of how institutions affect the freedom to prosper and holds organizations accountable for their impact on that freedom."
The brothers have a strong interest in libertarian theory; the three family foundations operated by the Kochs (the Charles G. Koch, David H. Koch and Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundations) made possible the libertarian Cato Institute and Citizens for a Sound Economy ($6.5 million and $4.8 million contributed between 1986 and 1990, respectively).
However, the Kochs do share with these foundations the conviction that the advancement of their philosophy is contingent upon investment in academia.
www.mediatransparency.org /funderprofile.php?funderID=9   (2638 words)

  
 Koch Curves, general discussion
A Koch curve is a fractal curve that can be constructed by taking a straight line segment and replacing it with a pattern of multiple line segments.
Clearly, the generation of a Koch curve is a prime candidate for recursion.
A Koch snowflake is a Koch curve whose base case consists of a set of Koch curves all in their base cases.
www.owlnet.rice.edu /~comp212/02-fall/projects/kochCurve/koch.html   (463 words)

  
 Holiday World/Splashin' Safari: Press Release: Bill Koch
Born in Evansville in 1915 to Louis J. and Clarice A. Koch, William (nicknamed Bill) was a 1932 graduate of Reitz High School and a 1937 graduate of Purdue University.
Koch is survived by his wife of 40 years, Patricia Yellig Koch, plus their five children: Will and Philip of Santa Claus, Daniel of Miami, Florida; Dr. Kristi Koch George of Indianapolis, and Natalie Koch, of West Lafayette, Ind. He is also survived by a sister, Katheryne Bosse, of Longboat Key, Florida.
Philip Koch remembers the summer days of his early boyhood in the 1960s, when he and his three older siblings would pile into the family station wagon and bump along the dusty back roads as his father hunted for land to buy.
www.holidayworld.com /news/Bill_Koch.html   (3727 words)

  
 Huskerextra.com
Koch was of monumental help against Pitt, averaging 46 yards on eight attempts and five times pinning the Panthers inside their 20-yard line, including at the 4 in the fourth quarter and at the 1 in the third.
Koch said he simply tried to stay as relaxed as possible as pressure mounted in the second half.
Koch is now just the second punter in school history with three punts of 70 yards or more, joining predecessor Kyle Larson, now a member of the NFL Cincinnati Bengals.
www.journalstar.com /articles/2005/09/18/huskerextra/doc432ce5ee312a6096818685.txt   (1178 words)

  
 Koch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
Färbert P, Koch UT (1993) Measurements of the pheromone density in cotton fields and vineyards by EAG-method.
Koch UT, Färbert P, Termer A, Sauer AE, Milli R, Karg G, de Kramer JJ (1992) Pheromone density measurements by EAG method in vineyards, p.
Milli R, Koch UT, de Kramer JJ (1996) Measurement of pheromone distribution in apple orchards treated for mating disruption of Cydia pomonella.
www.nysaes.cornell.edu /pheronet/iobc/koch.html   (2954 words)

  
 Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education
Born in 1940, David Koch was one of four bothers (along with Charles, William, and Frederick) who inherited control of Koch Industries, a natural gas, petroleum, asphalt, fertilizers, fibers, minerals, and plastics conglomerate.
Through his David H. Koch Foundation, he has written checks to the Cato Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Institute for Justice, the Reason Foundation, the Heartland Institute, the Libertarian Party, the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, and others.
In 1980, Koch translated his principles into politics when he ran for vice president as a Libertarian with running mate Ed Clark.
www.theadvocates.org /celebrities/david-koch.html   (513 words)

  
 What’s he doin’? Koch backs Bush
Koch, a staunch supporter of Israel, said, Dean’s statements were “absolutely antithetical, hostile to Israel.” Calling Dean “dangerous,” he said, “I believe what Dean is seeking to do is capture all of the ultra-left…and you do that by attacking Israel.
Koch was stopped in his car on West St., en route to an interview with Jerry Nachman on a roof overlooking ground zero, when he saw the offensive sign.
Koch said he supported Eristoff because he was a “superb” candidate, “far better” than Krueger, who he says “hasn’t gotten anything done” since she’s been in the senate.
www.thevillager.com /villager_22/whatshedoin.html   (1972 words)

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