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unusual facts about Omni



33 Dundas Street East

In keeping with the layout of Dundas Square, 33 Dundas Street East is notable for its large billboard, usually used to advertise City and OMNI's programming, along with a Jumbotron-style TV screen which relays City broadcast programming to those in the square below.

Alan M. Davis

He has held industry positions at GTE (a Director of R&D at GTE Communication Systems in Phoenix, Arizona; and Director of the Software Technology Center at GTE Laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts), BTG (Vice President in Vienna, Virginia), and Omni-Vista (President in Colorado Springs, Colorado).

Armageddon It

However, "Pour Some Sugar on Me" was the first song used there for the "live" concept (in fact, many of the scenes are the same in the two), but instead of filming a different video, slight changes were made using footage filmed in October at the Omni in Atlanta, Georgia.

CHNM

CHNM-DT, a television station also known as OMNI British Columbia

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History

The Omni shows documentaries daily, as well as showing feature length films including Star Trek, The Hobbit, Skyfall, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Night at the Museum, and Polar Express, among others.

Jim Hogshire

His works have been published in such magazines as Harper's, Gentleman's Quarterly, Details, Esquire, CovertAction Quarterly, Omni, FAIR, The Animal's Agenda, and Lies of Our Times.

John Frazee

He is also known for a science humor story he wrote in OMNI magazine, the Buttered cat paradox.

Maritime mobile amateur radio

For FM operation on the 2 m band, the masthead vertical whip that is normally installed for marine VHF operation will provide good omni-directional, vertically polarised signals.

Meadows Field Airport

The terminal also contains an Omni Goods gift shop and a Blimpie restaurant.

NOWTV

CHNU was renamed OMNI.10 in September 2005, in line with OMNI Television stations in Ontario.

Omni Air International

Unlike MatlinPatterson and Global Aero Logistics, Omni which previously was with the Fedex team; has managed to steer clear of any conflict of interest issues since the economic upheaval of 2008, by competing solely upon one military bidding team.

Omni Broadcasting Network

The Omni Broadcasting Network is a small over-the-air broadcast television network in the United States (not to be confused with the Canadian broadcast system Omni Television).

Omni Mobile

Omni Mobile is a Novell GroupWise wireless email client for Palm, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile, Sony Ericcsson and Nokia Series 60 PDAs and PDA Smart Phones.

Omni San Diego Hotel

Built in 2004 at a cost of $124 million, the 32-story, 511-room Omni San Diego is located across the street from the San Diego Convention Center and connected via sky bridge to Petco Park.

Omni Superstore

Dominick's and their developers referred to Omni Superstore as a Cub Foods with more pizazz.

The Clybourn Avenue Dominick's in Chicago is the remaining Omni Superstore buildings now occupied by Dominick's.

Omni would eventually be phased out by Dominick's and Safeway for various reasons ranging from consumer preference to responding to competition from new stores such as Meijer, Whole Foods and Wal-Mart entering the Chicago market.

Password Plus and Super Password

Milton Bradley made an eight-track cartridge version of the game for its Omni Entertainment System.

Rob Haigh

Many Omni Trio tracks feature on popular video games: "Renegade Snares" appears in the game Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, "First Contact" (from Even Angels Cast Shadows) is featured in Grand Theft Auto 3 and "Secret Life" is featured in the futuristic racing video game Rollcage Stage II.

Soko G-4 Super Galeb

:Further development of G-4M upgrade including: LCD flight screens, HOTAS, HUD, integrated mission computers, distance measuring equipment, GPS-based navigation systems, identification friend or foe, navcomm units, mission records, and VHF omni-range and instrument landing systems.

Stanley So

He served as the news controller for Fairchild TV's Toronto division for a few years, before joining CFMT-TV (now Omni) in 1998 as the anchor and senior editor of the station's Cantonese newscast, as well as the station's public affairs officer.

Tara Lynne Barr

Barr has donated her time over the past several years to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley as a performer and presenter for a variety of functions, and was a celebrity youth presenter at the 6th annual OMNI Youth Music / Actor Awards.

Tejas Networks

Tejas Networks was founded in May 2000 by Sanjay Nayak with funding from Gururaj Deshpande (brother-in-law of Infosys founder, N. R. Narayana Murthy), with funding $5 million initially, and US-based ASG-Omni.

The 1982 Annual World's Best SF

The stories were previously published in 1981 in the magazines Omni, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, the collections Sunfall and Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions, and the anthology Distant Worlds.

The 1989 Annual World's Best SF

The stories were previously published in 1988 in the magazines Interzone, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Omni, Amazing Stories, and Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, the collection Dance Band on the Titanic, and the anthology Other Edens II.

Wayne McLoughlin

He first worked on creating illustrated humor parodies for national magazines, including Esquire, Omni, Next, Yankee, and National Lampoon.

Werner Rey

Through his companies, Werner Rey held controlling participations in the Metallwerke Selve AG in Thun, the commodity inspection company Inspectorate International, the holding company Omni Holding AG, the Swiss media conglomerate Jean Frey AG, the temporary employment agency Adia Interim (today part of Adecco), and a substantial 30 percent of the established Sulzer group, among others.

Word Travels

The show is co-hosted by Robin Esrock and Julia Dimon, produced by Omni Film Limited, and filmed by Sean Cable.

Yusuf Bey

In 1994, Yusuf's son Akbar Bey was shot four times and killed by a local drug dealer associate outside the old Omni nightclub near the corner of Shattuck Avenue and 50th Street.

Zaibatsu

In the 1993 movie RoboCop 3 Omni Consumer Products was under control of a zaibatsu named the Kanemitsu Corporation, which bought a controlling stake in the organization.


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