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unusual facts about Experts-Exchange



Alastair Balls

Alastair Balls served as secretary to the U.K. government's Channel Tunnel advisory committee of experts (the Cairncross Committee of 1974-75) chaired by another Scottish economist Sir Alexander Cairncross, also a former pupil of Hamilton Academy.

Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Gundelfingen

Its Australian partner school for the exchange program for female participants is the Mac.Robertson Girls' High School.

Arnold Amet

The exchange, which had been filmed, was posted on YouTube, and made front page news in the Post-Courier, the country's largest-selling daily newspaper.

Art Mahaffey

The Cardinals traded him on April 1, 1967 along with infielder Jerry Buchek and shortstop Tony Martínez to the New York Mets in exchange for shortstop Eddie Bressoud, Danny Napoleon and cash, though he never played for the Mets.

Barter

Michael Linton originated the term "local exchange trading system" (LETS) in 1983 and for a time ran the Comox Valley LETSystems in Courtenay, British Columbia.

Beacon of Hope

A Beacon of Hope, a 1963 United States report on cultural exchange programs

Beaver Coins

The Provisional Legislature at Champoeg then gave the approval for the Oregon Exchange Company to mint currency.

Briar Stewart

In 2010, Stewart won an AMPIA Award for her documentary "Journey to Jamaica", a story that followed a group of First Nations cadets from Hobbema, Alberta on an exchange that took them to the slums of Spanish Town, Jamaica.

Central Arcade

It is contained within the Central Exchange building, which was built by Richard Grainger in 1836–38 to the designs of John Wardle and George Walker.

Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code

If the company's stock is publicly traded, a Chapter 11 filing generally causes it to be delisted from its primary stock exchange if listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or the NASDAQ.

China Lake Grenade Launcher

In June 2007, a taping of an episode of the popular military technology program, Weaponology was filmed which announced that Trident had been approached by a U.S. company seeking to license their intellectual property in exchange for a royalty on each weapon produced.

Click Asia Summit

The speaker lineup comprised various experts in the field of online and social marketing from across the globe, including Dr. Shashi Tharoor (Indian Parliament), Bingham Willis, Lucy McCabe (Ogilvy & Mather, Singapore), Nick Decrock (Yento!, Belgium), Aditya Anupkumar (Saatchi & Saatchi, India), Namrita Sehgal (Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, India), Ramon Vullings (new shoes today, Netherlands), and Ankit Fadia (eSecure Solutions, India).

Concise International Chemical Assessment Document

CICADs are prepared in draft form by one or two experts from national bodies such as the US CDC, and then peer reviewed by an international group of experts.

Čušperk

Emperor Frederick III pledged the castle to the Auerspergs in exchange for Kostanjevica na Krki.

Dark Void Zero

Until finally, the military sent in experts: A soldier named Rusty, who was actually born in the Void, and Nikola Tesla.

DeMaurice Smith

Although Smith lacked football experience, his ties to presidential power and business experts helped give him an advantage over other potential candidates like Troy Vincent, Trace Armstrong, and sports attorney David Cornwell.

Éder Gaúcho

In January 2010 he left the club, in exchange for Pascal Feindouno.

Edward D. Thalmann

In 1985, Dr. Thalmann, now the Senior Medical Officer at NEDU, was selected for the NATO Undersea Medicine Personnel Exchange Program and assigned to the Royal Navy Institute of Naval Medicine, Alverstoke, United Kingdom.

Evan Trupp

On March 8, 2013, the 2012-13 ECHL trading deadline, the Condors moved Trupp to the Alaska Aces in exchange for Shawn Skelly and Chris Haltigin.

Falcon Northwest

In 2005, Falcon Northwest's President, Kelt Reeves, had a heated exchange with HardOCP, an online magazine geared towards the PC hardware enthusiast and PC gaming communities.

Getting It: The Psychology of est

Fenwick went on to work as director of the Behavioral Medicine Clinic at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, before retiring in 1993 to set up Psybar, an online service to provide psychological experts for court cases.

Harrington on Hold 'em

The level of play in major poker tournaments have gotten significantly tougher and more competitive since the release of the first book in the series, according to several experts on poker tournaments, including poker professional Blair Rodman and Mason Malmuth, the owner of the books' publishing company.

Hortense Gabel

Her judicial career came to an end after she was charged with lowering alimony payments for Carl Andrew Capasso in exchange for a position for her daughter at the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, which was then headed by Capasso's lover Bess Myerson.

Imakane, Hokkaido

Imakane Junior High School has an exchange program with Burnside High School, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Information policy

More precisely, — the digization of the cultural content made the cost of the copy decreasing to nearly zero and increased the illegal exchange of files, online, via sharing web site or P2P technologies, or off line (copy of hard disks).

James Timberlake

In January 1882, outlaws Robert Ford, Charles Ford and Dick Liddil surrendered to Timberlake at the Fords' sister, Martha Bolton's residence in Ray County, Missouri, on the condition that they would receive full pardons and $10,000 in reward money, in exchange for the death or imprisonment of the gang's ringleader, Jesse James.

Joe F. Edwards, Jr.

In the fifth and last exchange of a U.S. astronaut, STS-89 delivered Andy Thomas to Mir and returned with David Wolf.

Kazuki Takahashi

Takahashi and Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy, also participated in an art exchange (with Takahashi drawing Hellboy with Yugi Mutou's hairdo, a Millennium Puzzle, and a duel disk and Mignola drawing Hellboy wearing a Millennium Puzzle and a Yugi T-shirt).

Ken DeBauche

"Taylor Mehlhaff teamed with punter Ken DeBauche to form what many experts felt was the best kicking tandem in college football in recent years." -NFLDraftScout.com

KXXT

In January 2011, after the attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords (see 2011 Tucson shooting ), KXXT National Talk Show Host Steve Sanchez of The Steve Sanchez Show offered 30 minutes of airtime to Westboro Baptist Church in exchange for the Church agreeing not to protest at the funeral of 9 year old Christina Green who was killed during the assassination attempt.

Link 1

Link 1 is a point-to-point, duplex, non-encrypted, digital NATO Tactical Data Link (TDL) Standard for the automatic exchange of Track and Strobe data, combined with link and data management messages between ground based ASACS-elements / e.g. CRC and CAOC), specific units (TACCS / MC) and data link buffers (SSSB, CSI).

Lipper average

Lipper Average also known as Lipper Index are a series of indices that establish benchmarks to measure the performance of a portfolio, or of various mutual funds and exchange-traded funds produced by Lipper Analytical Services.

Maggie Barry

Featured were ‘bug man’ Ruud Kleinpaste, gardening experts Bill Ward, Jack Hobbs, Gordon Collier and Professor Thomas William Walker ("John Walker").

Malabika Sarkar

She was also a member of the University Grants Commission Panel of Experts in English and Foreign Languages and a panel member of NAAC.

Manuel Bulnes Pinto

Himself and his squadron were later freed via prisoner exchange, and they fought at the battles of Tacna, Chorrillos and Miraflores.

Mold cape

The cape was number 6 in the list of British archaeological finds selected by experts at the British Museum for the 2003 BBC Television documentary Our Top Ten Treasures presented by Adam Hart-Davis.

Ōmura Masujirō

After studying in Nagasaki, Ōmura returned to his village at the age of twenty-six to practice medicine, but accepted an offer from daimyō Date Munenari of nearby Uwajima Domain in 1853 to serve as an expert in Western studies and a military school instructor in exchange for the samurai rank that he was not born into.

Payment in kind

Barter, exchange of goods or services for other goods or services

Pestival

It has attracted world renowned insect experts as well as artists, such as Bob and Roberta Smith, and comedians, most notably Garth Merenghi, Robyn Hitchcock, Robin Ince and Stewart Lee (who mentions his involvement in his stand-up act "41st Best Stand-up Ever").

Remembrances of the Mountain Meadows massacre

Prior to the digging, the area had been tested and examined by experts from Brigham Young University, the U.S. Forest Service and The Army Corps of Engineers.

Ronald Flemons

He was traded to the Saskatchewan Roughriders on March 5, 2008, along with Glenn January, Toronto's first round selection in the 2008 CFL Draft and Toronto's second round selection in the 2010 CFL Draft in exchange for Kerry Joseph and Saskatchewan's third round pick in the 2010 Canadian Draft.

Rufus Phillips

Phillips was a protégé of General Edward Lansdale and participated in the 1962 RAND Counterinsurgency Symposium alongside other counterinsurgency experts such as David Galula and Frank Kitson.

Service club

Many of these service clubs were started early in the 20th century, such as Apex Clubs of Australia, Altrusa International, JCI, Sertoma, Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Exchange, Optimists, Soroptimists, KIN Canada, Zonta and Alpha Phi Omega, .

Sheila Florance

In a heated on air exchange with Grundy's senior Vice President Peter Pinne on a live British television programme Open Air in 1989, Florance was highly critical of the production company and its treatment of the cast.

Tomiko Satō

Satō was sharing Guo's grief over the death of his friend, and once Guo returned to Okayama, they started regularly exchange letters.

Treasure of the Llanganatis

Atahualpa, seeing that the Spaniards cherished gold above all, promised to fill a room with gold in exchange for his freedom.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 191

United Nations Security Council Resolution 191, adopted on June 18, 1964, after reiterating its previous requests of the Republic of South Africa and again condemning apartheid, the Council decided to establish a Group of Experts made up of representatives of all the then current members of the Council to study the feasibility and effectiveness of measures which could be taken by the Council under the Charter.

Uranium mining in Wyoming

The uranium will be absorbed onto ion-exchange resin beads at the mine; the beads will be shipped to existing facilities of Power Resources Inc. (Cameco) in Wyoming and Nebraska for recovery of the uranium.

William, Duke of Opava

In 1451, William transferred his ownership of Münsterberg to his brother Ernest, in exchange for a 1/3 share in the ownership of the Duchy of Opava.

Wolfgang Niedecken

He studied Art at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, graduating in 1974 after a short-term exchange in New York with Howard Kanovitz and Larry Rivers.


see also

Stack Exchange Network

In 2008, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky created Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer Web site for computer programming questions, which they described as an alternative to the programmer forum Experts-Exchange.