When the lift started returning to the ground floor, ASIS officers emerged wearing masks and openly brandishing 9mm Browning pistols and Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns, two of them with silencers.

Quincy is also home to the United States ' longest running Flag Day parade, a tradition that began in 1952 under Richard Koch, a former director of Parks and Recreation, who started the " Koch Club " sports organization for kids and had an annual parade with flags.

Charles G. Koch joined Rock Island in 1961, having started his career at the management consulting firm Arthur D. Little.

Having started as a technical services manager, David became president of Koch Engineering in 1979.

He has started his own record company, Kalonji Records ; which in a joint venture with Damon Dash Music Group and Koch Records, released the album, The Overstanding, in November 2006.

Koch is a Democrat who started his career in politics working for Tony Coelho and was part of his campaign to become House Majority Whip.

Koch started presenting Sunrise on a permanent basis from 4 October 2002.

Phase I of the program started in February 1986 when development contracts were placed with six companies: AAI Corporation, Ares Incorporated, Colt's Manufacturing Company, Heckler & Koch ( H & K ), McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems ( MDHS ), and Steyr Mannlicher.

Some notable Columbia alumni that have gone on to work in film include directors Sidney Lumet ( 12 Angry Men ) and Kathryn Bigelow ( The Hurt Locker ), screenwriters Howard Koch ( Casablanca ) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( All About Eve ), and actors James Cagney and Ed Harris.

He remained in this post until his death ; " he was editing a manuscript on his death bed, a scientist until the bitter end " according to Christof Koch.

A public memorial was held on 27 September 2004 at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, near San Diego, California ; guest speakers included James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, Leslie Orgel, Terry Sejnowski, his son Michael Crick, and his youngest daughter Jacqueline Nichols.

Robert Koch died on 27 May 1910 from a heart-attack in Baden-Baden, aged 66.

Monument to Robert Koch on his name square in Berlin.

Koch on the Moon is named after him.

Because the construction efforts on Veliki Brijun Island were jeopardized by malaria outbreaks which occurred during summer months, and even Austrian steel industrialist Paul Kupelweiser himself fell ill with the disease, at the turn of the century Kupelweiser invited in Koch, who at the time was studying different forms of malaria and quinine-based treatments.

Koch accepted the invitation and spent two years, from 1900 to 1902, on the Brijuni Islands and Kupelwieser erected a monument to Koch, which still stands in the vicinity of the 15th-century Church of St. German on Veliki Brijun.

Likewise, the German Heckler & Koch MP5K ( a weapon small enough to be concealed on one's person or in a briefcase ), is also classed as a compact submachine gun.

There are several hypotheses about how tolerance develops, including opioid receptor phosphorylation ( which would change the receptor conformation ), functional decoupling of receptors from G-proteins ( leading to receptor desensitization ), μ-opioid receptor internalization and / or receptor down-regulation ( reducing the number of available receptors for morphine to act on ), and upregulation of the cAMP pathway ( a counterregulatory mechanism to opioid effects ) ( For a review of these processes, see Koch and Hollt.

Variants of the Sten and modern-day Heckler & Koch MP5 have been manufactured with integral suppressors, and such weapons are on occasion used by special forces and police units.

* A tutorial-style dissertation by Volker Koch that introduces message-passing on factor graphs to decompose EMG signals

They also sponsored a letter-writing campaign to Mayor Lindsay in which the Greenwich Village Democratic Party and Congressman Ed Koch sent pleas to end raids on gay bars in the city.

* Subgenus Hymenanthes ( Blume ) K. Koch: large leaf or elepidotes ( without scales on the underside of their leaves ); about 140 species, type: Rhododendron degronianum.

It was an adaptation of the novel by Christopher Koch, which was based in part on the experiences of Koch's journalist brother Philip, the ABC's Jakarta correspondent and one of the few western journalists in the city during the 1965 attempted coup.

It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled " On a continuous curve without tangents, constructible from elementary geometry " ( original French title: Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire ) by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch.

The Koch curve has an infinite length because each time the steps above are performed on each line segment of the figure there are four times as many line segments, the length of each being one-third the length of the segments in the previous stage.

Not all biologists grant determinism: Christof Koch argues against it, and in favour of libertarian free will, by making arguments based on generative processes ( emergence ).

* Fractals derived from standard geometry by using iterative transformations on an initial common figure like a straight line ( the Cantor dust or the von Koch curve ), a triangle ( the Sierpinski triangle ), or a cube ( the Menger sponge ).

Journalist John Nichols opined in The Nation that the Koch brothers have provided funding to ALEC for " decades " in a " savage assault on democracy ".

Koch was executed by firing squad on 5 April 1945, one week before American allied troops arrived to liberate the camp.

After completing elementary school in 1912, Koch began studying business and worked as a messenger and an apprentice in a bookkeeping department in a local factory.

Wichita was also a significant entrepreneurial business center during the pre and post-war period, with Coleman, Mentholatum, Pizza Hut, White Castle, Taco Tico and Koch Industries having all been founded in Wichita.

Cargill's beef processing business is headquartered downtown, and Koch Industries ' primary corporate headquarters complex is located in northeast Wichita.

Prins and another business partner, Theodore Koch, began offering land for sale in and around Prinsburg beginning in 1885, and the town appeared shortly thereafter.

Koch hosts a small business show, Kochie's Business Builders, which airs on Sundays on the Seven Network.

Koch has written several practical books on family and business financial management ; he has also published a book of jokes compiled from his daily joke segment on TV, this was parodied in an episode of The Chaser's War on Everything where reading jokes from " Kochie " was the only thing that got a laugh at a stand-up comedy club.

In 2007, readers of Banking and Finance Magazine voted Koch Australia's Best Finance Journalist while the Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia presented him with the " Small Business Champion award " in recognition of his support of Australian small business.

Purina Mills, Inc., the U. S. animal feed business that was sold by Ralston Purina Company in 1986, was purchased by Koch Industries in 1998, but a U. S. bankruptcy court cancelled out all equity held by Koch in order to maintain the company's viability.

Purina Mills, Inc., the U. S. animal feed business that was sold by Ralston Purina Company in 1986, was purchased by Koch Industries in 1998, but a U. S. bankruptcy court cancelled out all equity held by Koch in order to maintain the company's viability.

Throughout many of his endeavors, Marshall turned most of his business associations into friendships ; including J. R. Parten, Fred Koch and his sons, Oscar Wyatt and E. O.

Paula Werne, director of communications for Holiday World and Splashin ' Safari, said the Koch family had explored a lot of ways to grow their business over the years, including recently Kentucky Kingdom.

* October — Koch Records Nashville folds when its parent company goes out of business.