Rips grew up in Latvia ( then part of Soviet Union ).

On 9 April 1969, Rips, then a graduate student at the University of Latvia, attempted self-immolation in a protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

In 1994, Rips, together with Doron Witztum and Yoav Rosenberg, published a seminal article in the journal Statistical Science, " Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis ", which claimed the discovery of encoded messages in the Hebrew text of Genesis.

Until the late 1990s it formed together with Milheeze and De Rips the municipality of Bakel and Milheeze but in 1997 it was forced to merge with the larger Gemert municipality.

Drosnin's book is based on the technique described in the paper " Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis " by Professor Eliyahu Rips of the Hebrew University in Israel with Doron Witztum and Yoav Rosenberg.

In the late seventies, Rips began looking with the help of a computer for codes in the Torah.

While Rips originally claimed that he agreed with Drosnin's findings, he later distanced himself from his interpretations.

This includes, in particular, the work of Birget, Ol ' shanskii, Rips and Sapir essentially characterizing the possible Dehn functions of finitely presented groups, as well as results providing explicit constructions of groups with fractional Dehn functions.

The group eventually recruited guitarist Stacey Blades, with both Muscat and Kelli departing the group, in 2004 while they also released the cover album, titled Rips the Covers Off, the same year.

The Baltimore Rips Raps included several sailors familiar with the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.

Bomazeen ( or Bomaseen ), the sachem who with Sebastien de Villieu led 250 Abenakis to Durham, New Hampshire on July 18, 1694 for the Oyster River Massacre, was shot fording the Kennebec at a place thereafter called Bomazeen Rips.

In this area he has co-authored a book with Eliyahu Rips, one of the coauthors of the original Statistical Sciences paper.

The mathematical probability for several coded words which are related to occur within the same area of the Bible was calculated by Rips to be enormously greater than chance, though mathematicians with formal training in statistical analysis place this figure at 1: 2.

Contemporary discussion and controversy around one specific encryption method became widespread in 1994 when Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg published a paper, " Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis ", in the scientific journal Statistical Science.

Gans argues that the conspiracy must include Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips, and S. Z. Havlin, because all of them say that Havlin compiled the appellations independently.

Since the Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg ( WRR ) paper was published, two conflicting schools of thought regarding the " codes " have emerged among proponents.

Rips and Witztum designed computer software for the ELS technique and subsequently found many examples.

Witztum and Rips also performed other experiments, most of them successful, though none were published in journals.

In 1999, four authors, the Australian mathematician Brendan McKay, the Israeli mathematicians Dror Bar-Natan and Gil Kalai, and the Israeli psychologist Maya Bar-Hillel ( collectively known as " MBBK ") published a paper in Statistical Science, in which they argue that the case of Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg ( WRR ) is " fatally defective, indeed that their result merely reflects on the choices made in designing their experiment and collecting the data for it.

For that reason, most of the serious effort of the skeptics has been focused on the scientific claims of Witztum, Rips and Gans.

It later burned, giving Burnt Mill Rips its name.

Bakel, De Mortel, De Rips, Elsendorp, Gemert, Handel, Milheeze.

In 1955, Irving Rips of Younger Optics created the first seamless or " invisible " bifocal, a precursor to all progressive lenses.

Code pioneers Haralick and Rips have published an example of a longer, extended ELS, which reads, " Destruction I will call you ; cursed is Bin Laden and revenge is to the Messiah.

Nevertheless, the practice remained known only to a few until the early 1980s, when some discoveries of an Israeli school teacher Avraham Oren came to the attention of the mathematician Eliyahu Rips at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Rips issued a public statement that he did not support Drosnin's work or conclusions ; even Gans has said that although the book states that the codes in the Torah can be used to predict future events: This is absolutely unfounded.

Similarly, the authors quote a 1985 lecture by Eliyahu Rips, in which he describes the appellation selection process as taking " every possible variant that we considered reasonable ", and makes no mention of Havlin or an independent expert.

* The Bible Code, transcript of a story which aired on BBC Two, Thursday 20 November 2003, featuring comments by Drosnin, Rips, and McKay.

There is a theory of group actions on R-trees, known as the Rips machine, which is part of geometric group theory.

Petro-Canada was backronymed to " Pierre Elliott Trudeau Rips Off Canada " by opponents of the National Energy Program, and the Petro-Canada Centre in Calgary became known as " Red Square.

The semantic feature-comparison model, proposed by Smith, Shoben, and Rips ( 1974 ), describes memory as being composed of feature lists for different concepts.

Such computational feature-comparison models include the ones proposed by Meyer ( 1970 ), Rips ( 1975 ), Smith, et al.

" Wanda Sykes Rips Into Rush Limbaugh " The Advocate.

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