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  Michael Turner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Turner (artist), a comic book publisher and artist known for his work on Witchblade and Fathom.
Michael Turner (musician), a Canadian writer and musician from Vancouver, BC Mike Turner, an American politician from Ohio
Michael Turner (Australian), Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Turner   (115 words)

  
 Noted cosmologist Michael Turner to speak on origin of universe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Michael Turner, chairman of the astronomy and astrophysics department at the University of Chicago, will discuss the latest advances in scientists’ understanding of the origin and evolution of the universe in a public lecture Thursday, April 25, at New Mexico State University.
Turner’s presentation will be appropriate for a general audience, including high school students and even younger students with a strong interest in science.
Turner’s research focuses on the application of modern ideas in elementary particle theory to cosmology and astrophysics.
www.nmsu.edu /General/ucomm/public_html/Releases/2002/April2002/turner_lecture.html   (430 words)

  
 Interview | Michael Turner
Turner finds it ironic that, "giving up the touring life [with The Hard Rock Miners], the book then became the carrier, the medium by which I was touring again.
Turner is the editor of the aptly named Advance Editions, a project the writer has a great deal of excitement for.
Michael Turner lives in Vancouver with his partner, Judy Radul, who Turner says, "wears the geek pants in the family." The former musician says that his life these days, "is pretty good.
www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/mturner.html   (3197 words)

  
 Michael Turner
A second and briefer account of Turner is contained in a letter from C J Lucas, a member of the local gentry and churchwarden of St Margaret's, Warnham, to the redoubtable Canon K H MacDermott, in 1917.
Michael Turner spent his last five years of life in poverty and was dependent on charity (one is reminded of the reason behind Henry Burstow's book).
Turner's fiddle rests in a glass case in Warnham Church and Turner rests a few yards away in the churchyard; the village is losing its half-hearted fight against the invasion of modernity and mediocrity.
www.mustrad.org.uk /articles/turner.htm   (2397 words)

  
 Representative Turner
WASHINGTON, DC -Congressman Michael R. Turner announced today that the House of Representatives has passed the fiscal year 2005, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies...
Turner & Hobson: $1.1 Million In Local Funding Included In Interior Appropriations Bill WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Representatives Michael R. Turner (R-Centerville) and Dave Hobson (R-Springfield) announced today that a total of $1.1 million in funding for two local projects was included...
Turner Highlights Veterans Healthcare Funding Dayton, Ohio - Congressman Michael R. Turner returns to Dayton after voting in favor of the fiscal year 2005 Budget Conference Report, which the House successfully passed late last...
www.house.gov /miketurner   (389 words)

  
 Michael Turner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Turner also serves as assistant director for mathematical and physical sciences for the National Science Foundation, heading a $1 billion directorate that supports research in mathematics, physics, chemistry, materials and astronomy, as well as multidisciplinary programs and education.
The recipient of numerous awards and distinctions during his three decades of research, Turner is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Scientists.
Turner has chaired the National Research Council's Committee on the Physics of the Universe, which produced a comprehensive report, "Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century," that contributed to the Bush administration's formulation of its science planning agenda.
www.phys.ksu.edu /paw/sc/Spring05/abstracts/turner.html   (409 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Michael Turner (cosmologist)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Turner (not pictured) is employed by the University of Chicago
Michael S. Turner is a cosmologist who coined the term dark energy.
Turner earned a Doctor of Physics degree from Stanford University in 1978.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Michael-Turner-(cosmologist)   (325 words)

  
 American Whiskey Bar - Michael Turner
The first is a Preface by a Michael Turner, in which he explains how and why he wrote the screenplay for a project originally titled "A Bunch of Americans Talking" (subsequently re-titled "American Whiskey Bar").
Not Turner: at the heart of American Whiskey Bar is American Whiskey Bar, Michael Turner's script, filmed exactly -- so he claims -- as he wrote it.
Turner is more and less successful with it -- though given the build up (and even the aftermath), he puts a lot of pressure on his screenplay, and it doesn't quite live up to its billing.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/canada/turnerm3.htm   (708 words)

  
 The Turner Network - Michael T. Turner's Homepage
Michael T. Turner is a graduate of Florida State University where he earned a Bachelor's degree in 2002 and a Master's degree in 2005 emphasizing in Risk Assessment, Emergency Management Policy, and Economics.
Turner has been employed at Tallahassee's Seminole Golf Club; his most senior position serving as the Coordinator of Business and Financial Auxiliary Services.
Turner also serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Camellia Gardens Condominiums Association, Inc.
www.turnernetwork.com /online/ike.shtml   (181 words)

  
 Actis: Biography: Michael Turner
Michael is responsible for Actis’s investment activities in East Africa, based in Nairobi.
Michael joined CDC Capital Partners in 1998, prior to the creation of Actis in 2004, as an investor focused on East, Central and Southern Africa.
Michael has a first class degree in civil engineering from Southampton University and is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.
www.act.is /about/michael_turner.asp   (249 words)

  
 Soft Skull: The Pornographers Poem by Michael Turner;
Turner knows and is willing to write about the way each of us comes to understand our past and the damage done.
Turner's pornographer has been profoundly damaged by the discovery, too soon, of the adult world.
Turner's elegy to innocence is by far the best novel I have read this year.
www.softskull.com /detailedbook.php?isbn=1-932360-23-9   (4858 words)

  
 Eye - The observer - 04.15.04
Turner has always been a bit unpredictable: his first book, Company Town (1991), is a long, narrative poem about a salmon fishery; his most famous work, Hard Core Logo, is a rock novel in verse that became one of the most successful Canadian films of all time.
Turner recalls that the strangeness was only magnified by his presence on set (he had a small role as the bartender).
While this may have ended Turner's career as an actor, he continues to work in film (including a new project with Douglas) and this is where his interests lie.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_04.15.04/arts/americanwhiskeybar.html   (965 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Pornographer's Poem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Written as a transcript between a mysterious interrogator and an unnamed narrator, Michael Turner's The Pornographer's Poem is an unusual take on the coming-of-age novel, transforming the standard elements of teen awakening into a sexy and provocative thriller.
Despite his best intentions and the intellectual and artistic encouragement of Nettie, who remains his muse even after she goes off to school in England, the narrator is escorted by a charismatic hoodlum named Flynn into the seamy and dangerous world of pornography, where he quickly falls out of his depth.
Michael Turner's punk roots as leader of legendary folk punk group the Hard Rock Miners, gave a truthful ring to his most famous work, Hard Core Logo, a novel that became a feature film by Bruce McDonald.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0385258488   (606 words)

  
 Running back Michael Turner opens eyes in Chargers camp North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Turner was the equivalent of Charles Atlas at Northern Illinois, where he produced some impressive statistics: 13th all-time on the NCAA career rushing list (4,941 yards) and second in the nation in rushing the past two years (1,915 in '02; 1,648 in '03).
Turner rushed for 156 yards in Northern Illinois' 19-16 upset.
It was during Turner's junior year at Northern Illinois that a sportswriter tagged him with the nickname "Turner the Burner." It stuck.
nctimes.com /articles/2004/08/06/sports/professional/22_31_138_5_04.txt   (688 words)

  
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I would have to say that Michael Turner is one of the top three backs I have seen come through the MAC.”
“Michael Turner will come into this season with as much hype out of the Mid-American Conference as Byron Leftwich did last year.
Turner will need to be the difference maker for the Huskies, and he has the tools to be one of the most productive backs in college this year.
www.turnertheburner.com /html/test.html   (519 words)

  
 Michael Turner
In the early 60's, Turner launched his own company, 'Studio 88', to publish his aviation and motor racing prints, as well as his annual set of Christmas Cards, collected by enthusiasts world wide.
Turner is the primary artist for our own Road Racing Legends Series of Limited Edition Prints, the latest of which is the Autumn Thunder Portfolio, our tribute to the Can Am series of 1967.
Turner is as well known in the aviation art community as he is amongst racing fans.
www.motorsportcollector.com /MTBio.html   (492 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Aviation Art of Michael Turner: Books: Michael Turner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Michael Turner is one of the best known names in aviation art.
Michael Turner is one of Britain?s most prestigious aviation artists.
Since Turner's work is not typically found in the signed, numbered limited edition print market, this book affords a very practical way to enjoy his work and get to know something of the artist.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0715317199?v=glance   (815 words)

  
 Michael Turner's 18 yard romp - San Diego Chargers Message Boards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
LT just commented on how Turner fixed his helmet in the middle of the run and all this after he used Rodney Harrison's replacement as a speed bump.
There were two great runs by Turner, the TD that was called back and some other one.
Michael Turner can come in every once in a while and produce some big plays.
www.glorifythepast.com /forums/chargers-nfl-discussion/8050-michael-turners-18-yard-romp.html#post84552   (341 words)

  
 Comic creator: Michael Turner
Michael Turner was "discovered" by Marc Silvestri at a comic convention.
He studied under Silvestri until he was assigned to 'Witchblade', a book that took the USA by storm and was made into a movie.
Michael Turner is curently working on his book, 'Fathom'.
lambiek.net /artists/t/turner_michael.htm   (52 words)

  
 Surat Shabd Yoga as taught by Michael Turner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Michael Turner was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1958, and raised in California.
His goal is to establish this timeless way of unfoldment as a recognized and well-respected school of spiritual exploration and growth, and to make its teachings available to all who are interested - in a context to which each individual can relate.
As a Surat Shabd Yoga teacher, Michael Turner serves as the behest of Divine Spirit, independent of all religious organizations.
www2.hmc.edu /~dkimbro/ShabdYoga.html   (812 words)

  
 Powell's Books - American Whiskey Bar by Michael Turner
American Whiskey Bar is a remarkable faux memoir about the un-making of a film — a film which Michael Turner was commissioned to write.
Turner constructs an intense, intelligent, and darkly humorous satire.
Michael Turner lives in Vancouver, where, in addition to books and screenplays, he writes art essays and edits ArsenalAdvance, a literary/visual art imprint.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-1551521598-2   (580 words)

  
 Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Wire
Turner filed the lawsuit in light of the deterioration of the relationship between Turner and Top Cow and the threats of litigation being made by Top Cow.
Turner continued to prepare to distribute his books and only learned on Wednesday, May 28th, 2003 that the books (beginning with Michael Turner Presents: Aspen #1) would not be distributed by Diamond.
Turner and Aspen are committed to resolving these issues raised by the lawsuit in as timely a fashion as possible, while still preserving Turner's and Aspen's legally protected rights.
www.comicbookresources.com /news/newsitem.cgi?id=2324   (1095 words)

  
 MICHAEL JAMES MERRELL, LONNIE TURNER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
However, Merrill was last known to be in Cincinnatti, OH and told Turner he was going to Florida.
Turner is a single state offender with several arrests in Kentucky.
Turner was serving a prison sentence for Felony Theft.
www.seminolesheriff.org /criminal/trav286.html   (252 words)

  
 Hard Core Logo - Michael Turner
It is vaguely billed as a novel-in-verse, but that seems stretching definitions -- though there is a reasonable amount of free-ish verse (and those lyrical songs) in the book.
Turner's vignettes and morsels around the band and from the tour are fairly effective: the pace is fast, the material varied (and only in a few cases is any single item over a page in length), different perspectives are offered.
Photographs are also interspersed with the text, as well as other items (facsimiles of a contract, of a scrawled note, etc.) spreading things out even more.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/canada/turnerm2.htm   (632 words)

  
 Alibris: Michael Turner
by Turner, Michael, and Shah, Steve, and Muthyala, Narender Reddy
In his highly acclaimed third novel, Turner deftly blends time shifts, tableaux of radical sexuality and degradation, and an unexpected coming-of-age theme, bringing comparisons to Salinger and other chroniclers of growing up absurd.
Bryan F. Turner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Michael_Turner   (971 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Superman/Batman Vol. 2: Supergirl: Books: Jeph Loeb,Michael Turner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is pretty to look at (It's Michael Turner, people) and there are some great moments in the story but other than that it is pretty generic.
It isn't very often that Michael Turner will do the artwork for an entire series (he's done Fathom and Soulfire that I really enjoy), let alone one outside of one of his personal creations.
Some people will take issue with Turner's interpretations of the classic characters of the DC universe (Batman's ears are too pointy, Superman's jaw is too square), but I really just love them all.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1401203477?v=glance   (2711 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Michael (1996): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
After they arrive, the woman dies and Michael agrees to go with them to Chicago with them to be used in their paper.
MICHAEL is what many critics might call a "charming little film", and that's basically what Nora Ephron's romantic comedy/drama is---a nice, but not magnificent, film.
Ephron directs with a reverence usually found in her films, and although MICHAEL entertains, it doesn't turn out to be the heavenly film it probably was meant to be.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780618068?v=glance   (2244 words)

  
 NEWSARAMA - MICHAEL TURNER PRESENTS ASPEN #1 IN STORES, WEBSITE LAUNCHES
Michael Turner Presents: Aspen #1 is a 32-page issue that introduces fans to the world of Aspen Comics, and also includes the first 12 pages of a brand new Fathom story by writer Geoff Johns and artist Michael Turner.
Michael Turner Presents: Aspen #2 is set to hit stores on Wednesday, November 19th, with issue #3 set to debut on Wednesday, December 17th.
Yeah, if I had the choice of Micheal Turner drawing anything at DC it would definetly be a Flash series.
www.newsarama.com /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6287   (623 words)

  
 Michael Turner & Peter Steigerwald in Fremont, OH on 9/25
Michael Turner has been one of the top comic book artists since breaking into the industry with Witchblade in 1995.
Peter has been Michael Turner’s exclusive colorist for more than three years now, and is also the VP of Production for Aspen MLT, Inc.
Michael Turner and Peter Steigerwald will be available Saturday, September 25th from 1-6 PM signing autographs and answering questions about art, comic books, getting into the comic book industry, and life in LA.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /news/109594617197293.htm   (347 words)

  
 Chargers: 2004 NFL Draft: Profile: Michael Turner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A two-time All-America selection and semifinalist for the prestigious Doak Walker Award (nation's premier running back), Michael rushed for 1,915 yards as a junior (2002) and 1,648 more as a senior (2003) to finish ranked 13th on the all-time National Collegiate Athletic Association major-college rushing list with 4,941 career yards...
He is blessed with the size of a fullback and the speed of a sprinter...
Head coach Joe Novak said, "Michael is so big and so strong, he's a guy that's fast when he gets going.
www.chargers.com /draft/2004/profiles_michael_turner.cfm   (615 words)

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