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Spec's Music

In 1992, two Spec's stores were entirely destroyed by Hurricane Andrew, resulting in more than $1 million in damages for the company, and an estimated operating loss of $160,000.


2004 British Touring Car Championship season

GA Motorsport (now under the 'Team Sureterm' banner) continued to run a pair of Astra Coupes for the returning Paul Wallace and Renault Clio Cup graduate Charlie Butler-Henderson, while a Super 2000-spec Alfa Romeo 156 was also entered for Carl Breeze.

48th Operations Group

The HH-60G Pavehawk Helo is used in CSAR, SAR and now, in place of the retiring MH-53 PAVELOW fleet, spec-OPS infiltration and exfiltration.

Abraham Higginbotham

Higginbotham got his big break after submitting a spec script for Will & Grace.

Airlines for America

The Federal Aviation Administration's JASC (Joint Aircraft System/Component) code table provides a modified version of ATA Spec 100.

America's Music: The Roots of Country

America's Music: The Roots of Country is a 1996 three-part, six episode documentary about the history of American country music directed by Tom Neff and Jerry Aronson and written by Neff and Robert K. Oermann.

The film touches on many of the styles of music that make up country music, including: Old-time music, Cajun music, Folk music, Rockabilly, Western music, Western swing, the Bakersfield sound, Honky-tonk and the Nashville sound.

Amy Records

Paul Simon, (pre-dating Simon & Garfunkel), together with children's music producer and songwriter Bobby Susser, released records in 1961 and 1962 under the names Tico and The Triumphs with "Motorcycle" (Amy 835 charted #97) and Jerry Landis with "Lone Teen Ranger" (Amy 875 charted #99") with little success as did garage band Kinetic Energy with their version of Dale Hawkins 1957 hit "Susie Q" (Amy 11,028) in 1969.

Barber Pro Series

Len Lonnegren, PR boss at Saab Cars USA, Inc., had heard that Skip Barber was planning to launch an open-wheel "spec car" professional race series, and that it was to run on the same IMSA programs as the GTPs and Camel Lights.

BitTorrent protocol encryption

Vuze (formerly Azureus) supports the final spec since 25 January 2006 (CVS snapshot 2307-B33).

Blancpain Sprint Series

The Blancpain Sprint Series Series is contested with GT3-spec cars.

Cheilosia variabilis

Adult flies were found from May to August visiting flowers of Aegopodium podagraria, Alliaria petiolata, Anthriscus sylvestris, Apiaceae, Aurinia saxatilis, Conium maculatum, Crataegus laevigata, Euphorbia cyparissias, Meum athamanticum, Potentilla reptans, Ranunculus repens, Salix spec.

Children's music

The quality of Sesame Street's children's music (much of it created by noted composers Joe Raposo and Jeff Moss) has dominated the children's music landscape to this day - the show has won 11 Grammy Awards.

Many of the biggest names in theater, radio, and motion pictures were featured on these albums, such as: Bing Crosby, Harold Peary ("The Great Gildersleeve"), Orson Welles, Jeanette MacDonald, Roy Rogers, Fanny Brice, William Boyd ("Hopalong Cassidy"), Ingrid Bergman, Danny Kaye, and Fredric March.

The 21st century has also seen an increase in the number of independent children's music artists, with acts like The Dirty Sock Funtime Band, Dan Zanes, Parachute Express, Cathy Bollinger, Laurie Berkner and Lah-Lah getting wide exposure on cable TV channels targeted to children.

Such companies as RCA Victor, Decca Records, Capitol Records, and Columbia Records (among others) published albums based on popular cartoons or nursery rhymes.

Dodge Mirada

Petty, who had left Dodge for General Motors in 1978, agreed, and several other teams including Junior Johnson's team built race-spec Mirada's to test.

Garland SF-03

Engine position = mid-mounted
SF-03/G: GIO V Spec-01 (Spec-02) cyber cycle hydrogen 4,497 cc V12 with twin boost pods, mid-mounted

Honda C engine

This engine has various upgrades and modifications by Mugen and is the first turbo-charged Honda engine used in the series (prior to 2003, the GT-spec NSXs used a highly advanced, naturally aspirated variant of the C32B engine).

Honda Civic

In 2002 JAS Motorsport entered the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) with a Super 2000 spec Civic and was used until restart season of the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) in 2005.

J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner

After stints as a regular teenager on the New York City based television show This Week's Music (1984) and as an actor in theater off-Broadway, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.

John Mashey

Mashey was one of the founders of the SPEC benchmarking group, was an ACM National Lecturer for four years, has been guest editor for IEEE Micro, and one of the long-time organizers of the Hot Chips conferences.

Just a Day

The Alan Moulder Mix featured as the opening track for the European version of Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec.

Laurie Berkner

Laurie Berkner (born Laurissa Berkner, March 15, 1969, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France to American parents) is an American musician best known for her work as a children's musical artist.

Lui Collins

Her albums have included some children's music, some of which she co-wrote with children's author Jane Yolen.

Mikko Alatalo

His style is primarily seen as children's music and folk music but he has contributed to other genres as well, including a long partnership with rock musician Juice Leskinen.

Monk's Music

The first song "Abide With Me"—a hymn by W. H. Monk—is an austere rendition played only by the septet's horn section.

Moon Mullins

Comic strip historian Bill Blackbeard (1926–2011) edited a series of strip reprints for SPEC Productions.

Neo Drift Out: New Technology

To start, players chooses between three big Japanese rally-spec vehicles--the Mitsubishi Lancer, the Subaru Impreza, and the Toyota Celica--which vary in their Speed, Control, and Body stats.

Panoz DP01

Since the IRL used its own spec formula based around a chassis made by Italian manufacturer Dallara, the DP01 was retired from championship racing after approximately one year of racing service.

Peter McLeod

Following the ATCC, McLeod built a new 'Walkinshaw' spec VL Commodore Group A SV with the engine and suspension supplied by the Peter Brock organisation, who by that stage were running the BMW M3's.

Philippe Létourneau

He competed in Formula 1600, Formula 2000, Champcar Light, Formula Renault, Formula Vauxhall Junior, Touring car, Spec Racer, Formula Atlantic, and Daytona Prototypes, and competed at circuits including Silverstone, Magny Cours, Daytona Speedway, Mont Tremblant and Gilles Villeneuve.

Scott Gardenhour

Since opening their doors eleven years ago, Scott has guided successful campaigns for the likes of Audi, Nike, AT&T and Toshiba, including the Emmy Award-winning commercial, 'Required Reading', for Hallmark that originated as a spec spot, concepted and created by The Institute.

Shootyz Groove

Formed in 1992, the band originally consisted of Donny on guitar, Spec on bass guitar, Dose on drums, and their two MCs Season and Sense.

Spec Martin Stadium

Spec Martin Stadium was a filming location for the 1998 film The Waterboy starring Adam Sandler.

Spec Sanders

Orban Eugene "Spec" Sanders (born January 26, 1919 in Temple, Oklahoma) was a former American football running back, quarterback, and punter in the All-America Football Conference and a defensive back in the National Football League for the New York Yanks.

Sunstreaker

:According to original tech spec notes written by Bob Budiansky found at Iacon One in 2006 the original name for Sunstreaker was Spinout.

Tom Dey

Dey got his start by shooting a spec commercial reel which landed him a spot at Ridley Scott Associates.

Toyota R engine

It was also available as the 8R-D, dual SU 8R-B, EFI 8R-E, Californian-spec 8R-C and DOHC 8R-G.


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