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20 unusual facts about JANET


AbMAN

AbMAN connected universities and colleges in and around Aberdeen in Scotland to one another and to the Janet backbone.

Coloured Books

Coloured Book protocols, a set of network protocols used primarily on the UK academic network before the widespread adoption of TCP/IP

EaStMAN

EaStMAN connects universities and colleges to one another and to Janet in the Edinburgh, Stirling, West Lothian and Borders areas of Scotland.

EMMAN

The optical network layer can be easily expanded to provide dedicated channels for other services at bandwidths ranging from 1 Gbit/s to 10 Gbit/s for ad hoc point to point connectivity either from one EMMAN node to another or to the outside world via the Janet Lightpath service.

Each core node has a separate connection into the Janet network and each edge node has dual connections into the core to provide a fully resilient service.

The network is managed by EMMAN Ltd under a contract with Janet who operate the Janet network.

Additional public sector organisations connected to Janet via EMMAN.

EMMAN owns and runs a high bandwidth Regional Network whose primary purpose is to deliver connectivity to the Janet network and the Internet for the higher education institutions, further education institutions, specialist colleges and other institutions across the East Midlands region.

The equipment also has the ability to structure each wavelength into separate multiple 1 Gbit/s channels for the routers that run the production IP network as well as having the capability to provide dedicated point to point links at speeds up to 10 Gbit/s either within EMMAN or for linking to the outside world via the Janet Lightpath service.

A direct commercial link to the Internet was commissioned to provide Internet access for EMMAN connected customers’ activities that are not eligible for use over the Janet network.

The East Midlands Metropolitan Area Network (EMMAN) was established in 1994, initially as a point to point link between The University of Nottingham (UoN) and The Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in order to connect NTU to the Janet network via the SMDS connection at UoN.

A separate commercial IP network is provided over the backbone to provide direct Internet connectivity for those customers not eligible to use the Janet network.

The production IP network has dual resilient connections into the Janet high speed academic network at each of the core nodes in Nottingham.

Janet

JANET, the organisation providing network infrastructure and collaborative services, to research and education in the United Kingdom

JANET

The core point of presence (Backbone) sites in SuperJanet4 were Edinburgh, Glasgow, Warrington, Reading, Bristol, Portsmouth, London and Leeds.

SuperJanet3 created new 155 Mbit/s ATM nodes to fully connect all of the major sites at London, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds, with 34 Mbit/s links to smaller sites around the country.

Janet: Live in Hawaii

Recorded on February 16, 2002, the final date of the All for You Tour at the Aloha Stadium in Hawaii, it was televised live on February 17, 2002 on HBO, and was Jackson's second concert appearance with the cable channel.

SWERN

Additionally more than 40 further education institutions, specialist colleges and adult learning centres connect to the SWERN backbone to obtain Janet and Internet connectivity.

SWERN has formed a contractual relationship with Janet to operate the regional network that connects sites to the Janet backbone.

SWERN (The South West England Regional Network) is one of the regional networks that make up Janet, the UK's research and education network.


Amanda Van Annan

Van Annan played the role of Janet in the Italian film Natale a Beverly Hills, starring actors such as Christian De Sica, Massimo Ghini, Sabrina Ferilli and Michelle Hunziker.

Association for Psychological Science

Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions: The APS Janet Taylor Spence Award was established to recognize transformative early career contributions to psychological science.

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

A fellow folk singer who guested on The Midnight Special, Janet Smith, took up the song and developed it further, playing it live at hootenanny folk-song events at Oberlin College, one performance of which was attended by Joan Baez.

Book of Shadows

They have tried to keep the contents of this Book a secret, although it has been published on a number of occasions by figures such as Charles Cardell, Lady Sheba and Janet and Stewart Farrar.

Cedella Booker

Called "the keeper of the flame," Booker grew voluminous dreadlocks, adopted Rohan Marley, Bob Marley's son by Janet Hunt, and occasionally performed live with Marley's children, Ky-Mani, Ziggy, Stephen, Damian and Julian Marley.

Charles Crombie

Crombie was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 16 March 1914 to David William Alexander Crombie, a grazing farmer, and his Indian-born British wife Phoebe Janet (née Arbuthnot), the daughter of Lieutenant General Sir Charles Arbuthnot.

Cheddi Jagan

He married Janet (née Rosenberg) in 1943, and the couple had two children, Nadira and Cheddi Jr. (who in turn produced five grandchildren).

Doctor Finlay

The show stars David Rintoul as Dr. Finlay, Ian Bannen as his semi-retired practice partner, Dr. Cameron, and Annette Crosbie as his housekeeper, Janet.

Dr. Finlay

The main characters were Dr. Finlay, a junior partner in the practice, played by Bill Simpson, Dr. Cameron, the craggy senior partner, played by Andrew Cruickshank, and Janet, their unflappable housekeeper and receptionist at Arden House, played by Barbara Mullen.

Elizabeth Lawrie Smellie

She was born at Port Arthur, Ontario, to Dr. Thomas Stuart Traill Smellie, Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Fort William and Lake of the Woods from 1905-1911, and Janet Eleanor Lawrie.

Enfield Poltergeist

Society for Psychical Research members Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair reported “curious whistling and barking noises coming from Janet’s general direction.

Galapagos Conservation Trust

Ambassadors for the charity include Janet Barber, Sir James Barlow, 4th Baronet, Angela Darwin, Sarah Darwin, Julian Fitter, Monty Halls, Randal Keynes, Dorothy Latsis, Godfrey Merlen, Henry Nicholls, Nigel Sitwell, Antje Steinfurth, Jennifer Stone and Ian Swingland.

George Ogilvy, 2nd Lord Banff

The son of Sir George Ogilvy, 1st Lord Banff, and 1st Baronet (1627), by his spouse Janet, daughter of William Sutherland, Lord Duffus.

I'm a Cult Hero

They also feature Malice/Easy Cure guitarist Porl Thompson and Magspies keyboardist Matthieu Hartley amongst an extended lineup of friends and family, including Robert's sisters Janet and Margaret and local band The Obtainers.

James Kiberd

A popular character from the beginning, he was paired in relationships with the character Natalie Marlowe (Kate Collins), Laurel Banning (Felicity LaFortune) and later, Natalie's nutty sister Janet Green (Robin Mattson).

Janet and John

The radio and television broadcaster Terry Wogan regularly satirised the series on his BBC Radio 2 show Wake Up To Wogan by reading out stories clearly based on the premise of the original Janet and John books, but deriving humour through euphemism and innuendo.

Janet Cruz

Janet Cruz (born July 7, 1956) is a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 62nd District, which includes northwestern Hillsborough County, namely Town 'n' Country, since 2012.

Janet Elaine Paul

Booksellers and publishers Blackwood and Janet Paul Ltd. had, by the mid 1960s, overtaken Caxton as New Zealand’s leading publishers of poetry, and in 1968 Janet had published Glover’s Sharp Edge Up: Verses and Satires.

Janet Farrar

Janet Farrar (born Janet Owen on 24 June 1950) is a British teacher and author of books on Wicca and Neopaganism.

Janet Mondlane

Janet Mondlane and her husband, Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane were the founders of Frelimo and helped organize the liberation of Mozambique from the Portuguese colonialists.

Janet Museveni

In February 1981 when Yoweri Museveni launched his guerrilla war against the government of President Milton Obote, Janet Museveni and her children re-located to Nairobi, Kenya, where they lived with family friends until 1983.

Janet Panic

The couple moved to Vancouver, British Columbia together in 1992 where Janet took a job at Punch Lines Comedy Club and met Canadian comedian Brent Butt.

Janet Rehnquist

Janet Rehnquist (born May 4, 1957), is a former inspector general of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a prominent Republican, and the daughter of former Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

Janet S. Owens

Janet S. Owens (born February 18, 1944, in Lothian, Maryland) is an American politician and Democrat who served as County Executive of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for two terms, from 1998 until 2007.

Janet Webb

Born as Janet Patricia Webster in Liverpool, she was most famous for her appearances on BBC television's The Morecambe & Wise Show where was, anonymously, "the lady who comes on at the end".

Janet Wolfe

Janet Wolfe is an entrepreneur and scientist who founded the privately owned Wolfe Laboratories, Inc. (WLI), a contract research organization based in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Jim Beloff

The 5th UKEtopia featured such performers as Ian Whitcomb, Janet Klein, and Peter Brooke Turner of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain as well as the traditional finale of Beloff and his wife leading the audience in song and ukulele playing.

John Altenburgh

Altenburgh is a producer and executive producer whose credits include works by Mike Metheny, John Greiner, Rebecca Parris, The Kenny Hadley Big Band, Bob Kase, Gary Brunotte, Gary Sivils, Dennis Mitcheltree, Janet Planet, Otis McLennon, Chris O'Keefe, Randy Sabien, Melvin Rhyne, and many others.

John Wallach

He is survived by his wife, Janet Wallach, and sons David Allyn and Michael Wallach.

Kim Taylforth

Aged 19, she starred as 'Janet' in the 1979 TV film The Knowledge about a group of aspiring Londoners learning The Knowledge with Mick Ford and Nigel Hawthorne.

Kirby Wright

He won a Visiting Writer post at the 2009 International Writers Conference in Hong Kong, where he joined fellow US poet Gary Snyder as well as Pacific Rim colleagues Young-Ha Kim (Korea), Bi Feiyu (China), Atsushi Shiitada (Okinawa), Wena Poon (Singapore), Chen Li (Taiwan), Miguel Syjuco (Philippines) and Janet Charman (New Zealand).

Kristiana Gregory

Kristiana Gregory, known also by her given name Lynn Christine (b. 1951 in Los Angeles, California to Harold D. Gregory and Virginia Jean Kern Gregory with two younger siblings Robert and Janet), is a popular author of children's historical fiction, including several for the Dear America and Royal Diaries series.

Lapwing Publications

These include: Janet Shepperson, James Simmons, Robert Greacen, Padraic Fiacc, Michael Fanning, Des O’Grady, John Liddy, Jean O’Brien, Niall McGrath, Fred Johnston, Maurice Harmon, Gerry McDonnell, Hugh McFadden, Jack Holland, Todd Swift, Patrick Chapman, Jan Oskar Hansen and Adam Rudden.

Luv Me, Luv Me

The song was originally recorded in 1998, as a collaboration between Janet Jackson and Shaggy for the soundtrack to the film How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

Norman Raeben

His students include Bob Dylan, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Carolyn Schlam, Andrew Gottlieb, Janet Cohn, John Smith, Diana Postel, Lori Lerner and Rosalyn (Roz) Jacobs and the photographer, Larry Herman.

Ocean Countess

On the eve of entering full commercial service in August 1976, Cunard Countess was christened at San Juan by Janet Armstrong, then wife of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.

Old Luce

Carscreugh Castle (of Earl of Stair in 1782) was the home of Janet Dalrymple, on whom Sir Walter Scott based his heroine Lucy, the Bride of Lammermoor, (who became Lucia di Lammermoor in Donizetti's opera of the same name.) Janet fell in love with and secretly betrothed to a penniless local man, Archibald Rutherford.

Rapture in the Chambers

Mark Andes also appeared on two tracks, and Randy's sister Janet provided harmony vocals on Hard Love and "Shera: Princess of Power".

Restored Hope Network

Their Board of References consists of members from ex-gay organizations Randy Alcorn, Joseph Nicolosi, Matt Barber, Steve Berger, Dr. Michael Brown, Donald A. Carson, Paul Check, Dr. James Dobson, Robert A. J. Gagnon, Jim Garlow, June Hunt, Dr. Juan Martinez, Ray Ortlund, Janet Parshall, Leanne Payne, Georgene Rice, Mathew Staver, Dr. Sam Storms, Christopher West.

Sir Albert Spicer, 1st Baronet

They had eleven children, three boys and eight girls: Albert, Marion, Bertha, Grace, Stewart Dykes, Janet, Lancelot, Gwendoline Elaine, Eva, Olga and Ursula.

Stalk

The Stalk, a 1994 science fiction novel by Chris Morris and Janet Morris

Stanley Frederick Utz

Married in 1935 to Janet Cuthbertson Saxton, Utz then began to diversify into tin mining in Malaya and Thailand as well as becoming managing director of several businesses and helping found International Pacific Corporation Ltd.

Steven Bilsland, 1st Baron Bilsland

Lord Bilsland married Amy Janet Colville, daughter of David Colville JP, of Jerviston House, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, in 1922.

Taunton Press

Popular publications have included Sarah Susanka's Not So Big home design series, New York Times Bestseller The Food You Crave by Ellie Krieger, The Crocheted Prayer Shawl Companion by Janet Bristow and Victoria A. Cole-Galo, Graphic Guide to Frame Construction by Robert Thallon, and Turning Wood with Richard Raffan.

Three Little Fishies

In a 1981 Episode of Three's Company, a wacky misunderstanding occurs when Jack and Janet overhear a psychiatrist played by Jeffrey Tambor repeatedly saying "boom, boom, dittum dottem..." while trying to remember the words to this song to help him get through to a patient.

With U

After the infamous Super Bowl XXXVIII incident, Janet released her 2004 album, Damita Jo.