X-Nico

3 unusual facts about MIS


Ahmed Bahrozyan

He holds an undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the University of Colorado in the US, 1991.

Mis-Shapes

Taken from the number-one album Different Class, it was released as a double A-sided single with "Sorted for E's & Wizz" in September 1995, and reached number two in the UK charts.

Mis'ry's Comin' Round

The complete song was not restored to the show's score until EMI's landmark 1988 3-CD recording of the show's score with its original lyrics, orchestrations and vocal arrangements, and performed onstage complete for the first time since the Washington D.C. tryout of Show Boat when producer Harold Prince included it in the 1994 Broadway revival.


Angle Township, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota

Benjamin Franklin and British representatives established the initial U.S. and Canadian borders in the Treaty of Paris in 1783 from a map that mis-represented the source of the Mississippi River.

Bob Godfrey

The use of cutout animation for the narrator pre-dates Terry Gilliam's use of the technique, and the film is often mis-credited as being produced by Gilliam.

Briganté

Matthew Ford had been given legal executive of the band's facto but due to an embarrassing mis-hap at Bedford St Johns train station, he was unable to attend any of the early gigs.

Chris Dobson

In 2009 he was awarded the Royal Medal by the Royal Society "for his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the mechanisms of protein folding and mis-folding, and the implications for disease."

EyeToy: Groove

There are 28 songs from several different artists including The Cheeky Girls, Daniel Bedingfield, Mis-Teeq, Earth, Wind & Fire, Elvis Presley, Fatboy Slim, Groove Armada, Good Charlotte, The Jackson 5, Jessica Simpson, Las Ketchup, Madonna, and Village People.

Flora Bramley

In 1928, she was selected to be a WAMPAS Baby Star (sometimes mis-credited as Flora Bromley), receiving a good amount of publicity.

Foundation and Empire

At the Great Library, Ebling Mis works continuously until his health fatally deteriorates.

Geert Arend Roorda

Due to a hip injury he had to mis out on the European Championships in Italy.

Giftgas

A frequent mis-hearing for Giffgaff (a British mobile phone service), often in the recorded message "This is Giffgaff voicemail"

Hotel Hell Vacation

After having mis-communications with the receptionist at the front desk (Robert Stephenson), Clark and Ellen finally get into their room the Napoleon suite, which turns out to be very small.

IFRB

You may have mis-typed IRFB, the International Rugby Football Board, the predecessor to the International Rugby Board.

Incumbency advantage for appointed U.S. Senators

Finally, Treadmill to Oblivion: The Fate of Appointed Senators, which is authored by William D. Morris and Rodger H. Marz, and The Electoral (Mis)Fortunes of Appointed Senators and the Source of the Incumbency Advantage, written by Jennifer A. Steen and Jonathan Koppell will close out the review.

Iranian subsidy reform plan

Ahmad Tavakkoli, a parliamentarian, accused the government of “violating the law” and “mis-implementing” the plan because it earned 290,000bn rials ($23.6bn) from the cut in subsidies in the first 14 months of its implementation but paid people $36.7bn of compensation in return (he says).

Killer Queen

The song, in the second line, mentions the phrase "Let them eat cake", a phrase (mis)attributed to Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat cake," she said, Just like Marie Antoinette.

Madison International Speedway

The Madison International Speedway (MIS) is a stock car racing oval in the town of Rutland in rural Oregon, Wisconsin (near Madison) a short distance off of Wisconsin Highway 138.

March of Cambreadth

John Ringo has (mis)quoted March of Cambreadth in his novels Hell's Faire, Ghost and There Will Be Dragons as well as in the second Looking-Glass book, Vorpal Blade.

Margaretta D'Arcy

Big Plane, Small Axe, the mis-trials of Mary Kelly, 2005, awarded 2nd Prize for Best Feature Documentary at Galway Film Fleadh, and also shown at Cork Film Festival, Portobello Film Festival, Human Rights Documentary Festival (Glasgow), and the 'Irish Film Festival' (San Francisco).

Marine isotope stage

The theoretical advances and greatly improved data available by the 1970s enabled a "grand synthesis" to be made, best known from the 1976 paper Variations in the earth’s orbit: pacemaker of the ice ages (in Science), by J.D. Hays, Shackleton and John Imbrie, which is still very widely accepted today, and covers the MIS timescale and the causal effect of the orbital theory.

Michelle Wahlgren

She was hired as the MIS Director for AEG in 2002 when the organization owned and operated two entertainment facilities, STAPLES Center, and the Kodak Theatre, five MLS soccer teams, including San Jose Earthquakes, Los Angeles Galaxy, New York Red Bulls formerly known as the New Jersey Metrostars, Chicago Fire, and the Colorado Rapids, and the Los Angeles Kings Hockey Team.

MIS AG

In 2006 Systems Union Group entered Gartner CPM Quadrant with MIS products as one of fully functional performance management solutions.

Mis Canciones Favoritas

Mis Canciones Favoritas (En Concierto Acústico) is a 2003 unplugged acoustic performance by Spanish musician Chenoa released as an album and DVD.

Mis Canciones Preferidas 2

Mis Canciones Preferidas 2 (Spanish: My Favorite Songs 2) is the follow-up compilation to Mis Canciones Preferidas from 1986 by the Puerto Rican singer Yolandita Monge.

Northwest Angle

Benjamin Franklin and British representatives established the initial U.S. and Canadian borders in the Treaty of Paris in 1783 from the Mitchell Map of colonial American geographer John Mitchell, which mis-represented the source of the Mississippi River.

Paulina Irby

Similarly, a street in Belgrade, within the municipality of Zvezdara, Ulica Mis Irbijeve carries her name.

Payment protection insurance

Alliance and Leicester were fined £7m for their part in the mis-selling controversy, several others including Capital One, HFC and Egg were fined up to £1.1m.

Phil Rainford

He also mixed the Musical Revue album for Suns of Arqa, also known as Live with Prince Far-I, although his surname is curiously mis-spelled 'Qainford' on the credits.

Pinus sibirica

The Russian name Сибирский кедр (tr. Sibirsky kedr) is often mis-translated in English as "Siberian cedar"; references to "cedar" in texts translated from Russian usually refer to this tree or related pines, not to cedars.

Preston Hollow Elementary School

Judge Sam Lindsay ruled in November that the school's practices were not legal because they attempted to keep white students together even if minority students had to be placed in inappropriate courses; this ruling was mis-cited in at least one local paper as indicating that all-white classes had been created.

Ralph Modjeski

He took over the mis-designed Quebec Bridge after the 1907 disaster that killed 75 workers, and succeeded in creating the longest truss span in the world (though a construction accident killed another thirteen workers).

Rasta Mis Huevos

Rasta Mis Huevos is the second EP from Californian ska punk band Voodoo Glow Skulls.

State Express 555

The brand is cited in Salman Rushdie's post-colonial novel Midnight's Children, where it is, however, mis-attributed to the former British importer and manufacturer W.D. & H.O. Wills: Rushdie later explains this as symptomatic of an 'unreliable narrative' device in his essay on the book's 'errata'.

Stephen Nolan

In May 2008 Stephen featured heavily on Chris Moyles' Radio 1 Breakfast Show for the line "That is not my name" in his heavy Northern Irish accent, a mis-quote of the Sue Tilley interview with ITV News.

Swinton, Greater Manchester

The club was based in the town until 1992, when financial mis-management necessitated a relocation from the Station Road ground to play at Gigg Lane in Bury.

The Art Journal

The Art Journal became noted for its honest portrayal of the fine arts, but its opposition to fake and mis-attributed Old Masters, such as Raphael or Titian, depressed the market in such works.

Tyler's toadlet

It has a solid distribution south of Jervis Bay Territory and there are some populations between Jervis Bay and Sydney, there are records for this species north of Sydney, however similarities with other Uperoleia frogs may have led to mis-identification.

Whitsunday Islands

The term is a mis-nomer, based as it is on Captain Cook’s naming of what is now known as the Whitsunday Passage (in Cook’s Journal, Whitsunday’s Passage) in the belief that the passage was discovered on Whitsunday, The Sunday of the feast of Whitsun or Pentecost in the Christian liturgical year, observed 7 weeks after Easter.

WinCos

The control/PLC level where the process interlocking is secured, the HMI level presenting the graphical display of the process and the SCADA/MES (Manufacturing execution system)/MIS (Management Information System).


see also