Robert Wilkins was first recorded by Victor in Memphis in 1928, and Big Joe Williams and Garfield Akers also in Memphis ( 1929 ) by Brunswick / Vocalion.

Akers has also been a member of the Carolina Panthers, Washington Redskins, Berlin Thunder, and Philadelphia Eagles.

A planned EVA also was performed by astronauts Thornton and Akers as part of the ASEM experiment to demonstrate and verify maintenance and assembly capabilities for Space Station Freedom.

The spacewalkers also set up the payload bay for mission specialists Tom Akers and Kathy Thornton who would replace the telescope's two solar arrays during the second spacewalk.

The third space walk, which also included astronaut Thomas Akers, was the first ever three-person space walk.

Manchac ( also known as Akers ) is a small unincorporated community in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States.

The company's difficulties, however, weren't caused by Akers alone, as some suggested that he was merely doing what he had been " programmed " to do by an outdated " IBM system ", while a complacent board of directors was also blamed.

Akers also closed ten plants and trimming manufacturing capacity by forty percent.

Record Memorial-This building serves as a connection between Hambley Boulevard and University of Pikeville and also contains Booth Auditorium, the Sturgill Board Room, the Elizabeth Akers Nursing Program, the Marguerite Weber Art Gallery, and the Ridenour Dance Studio.

Fletcher also appeared in a cameo role in the low budget, Client music video " Client " which was produced and directed by Laurence Akers ( assisted by Barry Holloway ) and shot in and around Soho and St. John's Wood.

He went to a brokerage partnership with Thomas P. Akers in New York, a venture that also failed.

Other meanings have been suggested over the years and are listed on the borough's website, including an Indian word for running water, a cleft in the rock or under the rock or hollow rock, the word " hohokes ", signifying the whistle of the wind against the bark of trees, the Chihohokies Indians whose chief lived here, the Dutch Hoog Akers for " high acorns " or Hoge Aukers, Dutch for " high oaks ", the Indian word hoccus meaning " fox ", or woakus, " gray fox ", or that the " Ho " part means joy or spirit, and the rest of the name from " hohokes ," meaning a kind of bark of a tree.

Akers is a veteran of four shuttle flights in which he spent over 800 hours in orbit, including more than 29 hours of extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ) experience.

On December 16, 2007, in a 10-6 win over the Dallas Cowboys, Akers set the Philadelphia Eagles franchise record for most points and on Thanksgiving in 2008, Akers passed 1, 000 career points during a 48-20 win over the Arizona Cardinals.

On January 11, 2009, Akers kicked three field goals in three attempts during a divisional playoff win over the New York Giants.

The fourth EVA began on 7 December 1993, while Endeavour was flying over Egypt at 10: 13 pm EST with Thornton and Akers.

Many outsiders viewed Akers as being in over his head.

When IBM's board forced chairman and CEO John Fellows Akers to resign, though he would remain in a caretaker role for three months, the directors first looked within the computer industry for his successor.

In addition, Lehman's board of directors, which includes retired CEOs like Vodafone's Christopher Gent and IBM's John Akers were reluctant to challenge Fuld as the firm's share price spiraled lower.

Akers was chief executive during IBM's decline in the mid-1980s and early 1990s.

In addition, Lehman's board of directors, which includes retired CEOs like Vodafone's Christopher Gent and IBM's John Akers were reluctant to challenge Fuld as the firm's share price spiraled lower.

But McNabb made up for his mistake with a 39-yard run on third down and 5 on Philadelphia's ensuing possession, setting up a field goal for David Akers that tied the game, 3-3.

The Eagles controlled the first quarter, scoring with two field goals by David Akers while holding the Bears to 25 offensive yards and one first down.

The play set up David Akers ' 37-yard field goal attempt after McNabb ran for another first down.

His parents were Theodore Spiros Agnew, a Greek immigrant who shortened his name from Anagnostopoulos ( Αναγνωστόπουλος ) when he moved to the US, and Margaret Marian ( Akers ) Pollard Agnew, a native of Virginia.

Benjamin Paul Akers ( July 10, 1825 – May 21, 1861 ) was an American sculptor, from Maine.

He was married to the poet Elizabeth Anne Chase Akers Allen from 1860 until his death in Philadelphia in 1861, aged 35, from unknown causes.

* Benjamin Paul Akers letter collection, 1858-1920 from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art

* Anne Akers Johnson, String Games from Around the World, Klutz 1996

In criminology, Ronald Akers and Robert Burgess developed social learning theory to explain deviancy by combining variables which encouraged delinquency ( e. g., the social pressure from delinquent peers ) with variables that discouraged delinquency ( e. g., the parental response to discovering delinquency in their children ).

In 2000, van der Sluis exited from the company to return to his career as a software engineer ; Akers continued to run the company as CEO until April 2006, when he resigned.

According to Diana Akers Rhoads, " Perhaps the most important mistake of the British is their belief that all civilization progresses, as theirs has, from the tribal stage through monarchy to parliamentary government.

Akers was the valedictorian of his 29-member 1969 senior class from Eminence, Missouri.

Akers retired from NASA in 1997 and the Air Force in 1999 at the rank of Colonel, taking a position as instructor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri – Rolla, which in 2008 changed its name to the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Akers retired from teaching in 2010.

The capture required three EVAs: a planned one by astronaut Thuot and Hieb who were unable to attach a capture bar to the satellite from a position on the RMS ; a second unscheduled but identical attempt the following day ; and finally an unscheduled but successful hand capture by Thuot, Hieb and Akers as commander Brandenstein delicately maneuvered the orbiter to within a few feet of the 4215 kg communications satellite.

Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston GBE PC ( 21 October 1851 – 15 January 1926 ), born Aretas Akers and known as Aretas Akers-Douglas between 1875 and 1911, was a British Conservative statesman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until he was raised to the peerage in 1911.

# Adapted from C. Melissa Mcclendon, Larry Regot, Gerri Akers.

Akers ' vision was to autonomize each division into " Baby Blues " with the aim of spinning them off from " Big Blue ".

Philadelphia added 13 points to their lead with two David Akers field goals and another touchdown pass from McNabb to Lewis.

The Eagles responded by driving 44 yards and scoring with a 41-yard field goal from David Akers.

David Akers tied it at 10, with a 30-yard field goal midway through the second quarter, but the Bucs responded with an 80-yard, 12-play drive that ended with a 9-yard touchdown pass from Brad Johnson to Keyshawn Johnson.

Chicago responded with an 11-play, 44-yard drive that ended with a field goal from Paul Edinger, but the Eagles struck back with an 11-play drive on their own, driving 45 yards and scoring with Akers ' third field goal.

* NFC-TD Torry Holt 27 yd pass from Michael Vick ( Akers kick )-11: 19 3rd

Akers ' clasps, as a rule, face away from an edentulous area.