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unusual facts about The Standards


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Gloria Estefan - The Standards (2013) Also she recorded live for a PBS Special



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Accounting reform

Marilyn Waring, who deeply criticized the UN account system for systematically under-valuing the social and economic contributions of women, stated also that she had to read literally an entire room full of books in order even to understand the standards applied today.

American Association of University Professors

Founded in 1915 by Arthur O. Lovejoy and John Dewey, the AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic freedom in the country's colleges and universities.

Carbon Trust

The standards behind carbon labelling are now formally recognised through the PAS 2050 developed by the Carbon Trust in conjunction with BSI and Defra.

Certified Tissue Bank Specialist

Certification as a Tissue Bank Specialist requires Tissue Banking staff to be familiar with the Standards published by AATB, as well as the FDA promulgated standards of CFR 21, parts 1270 and 1271, and Guidance for Current Good Tissue Practice.

Computer telephony integration

On the software level, the most adopted interface by vendors is the CSTA standard, which is approved by the standards body ITU.

Cornell–Harvard hockey rivalry

Fans and coaches from Harvard alike pointed to New York State's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University as proof that Cornell and Harvard were not peer institutions and that the standards of the latter were far superior to those of the former.

David Mincberg

His article, "Guns, Collective Bargaining and Moral Turpitude: Gilbert Arenas and the National Basketball Association" examined the standards by which the NBA assesses moral turpitude and whether Gilbert Arenas' contract could have been terminated on such grounds in the wake of his decision to bring a gun into the Washington Wizards' locker room.

German decorations awarded to members of the United States military

Even so, cases were reported in POW camps of some American military members, who had been sentenced to forced labor receiving the War Merit Medal for "high production" or performing above the standards expected of an enemy prisoner.

Gilabert de Próixita

Some poems vary the metre but it is always intentional: Gilabert is second to none among his generation in the perfection of his metre, which appears to be influenced by the standards of the Consistori del Gay Saber in Toulouse.

Heredia Jaguares de Peten

The stadium, however, does not meet the standards of CONCACAF, therefore CONCACAF Champions League matches are played at the Estadio Cementos Progreso in Guatemala City.

Hogshead

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) notes that the hogshead was first standardized by an act of Parliament in 1423, though the standards continued to vary by locality and content.

HTML5 video

The release concerns only H.264 video and not AAC audio formats, since "the standards bodies have aligned on Opus and G.711 as the common audio codecs for WebRTC".

Huangyangchuan

He was working for Inventec Electronics (Tianjin) Co., Ltd at the time, and persuaded them to start a programme aimed at improving the standards of education for students from this area attending and exposing them to life in developed mainland China.

Japanese whisky

For some time it was believed by many that whisky made in the Scottish style, but not produced in Scotland, could not possibly measure up to the standards of the traditional Scotch Whisky distilleries.

John Wallowitch

Wrote Stephen Holden in The New York Times: "While Noël Coward is no longer around to set the standards for a certain kind of sophisticated songwriting sensibility, Mr. Wallowitch nimbly carries the torch."

Kevin Casha

Furthermore, under his guidance, the foremost photographic association in the UK, the SWPP, later recognized the standards of the Maltese qualifications and agreed to give reciprocal qualifications.

Kristian Erslev

As editor of the Danish Historisk Tidsskrift he also set the standards for solid, factual historical writing.

Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition

Since the show is targeted to ages 13 to 16, and it is educational (mostly about the careers of the movie and TV industry), it meets the standards for the FCC's E/I guidelines.

MAIDS report

The MAIDS (Motorcycle Accidents In Depth Study) report is a large-scale, comprehensive study of Powered Two Wheelers (PTW, i.e., motorcycles, scooters and mopeds) accidents carried out across five European countries, using both accident and exposure (or control) cases, as was done in the Hurt Report, and following the standards of OECD.

Marlène

The song is a paean to Marlene Dietrich, whom Dussault famously refers to as "a silhouette in Sexyrama" at one point in the lyrics, before comparing her appearance to that of the star and concluding that she will never live up to the standards of her idol.

Microtiter plate

The standards govern various characteristics of a microplate including well dimensions (e.g. diameter, spacing and depth) as well as plate properties (e.g. dimensions and rigidity) (typical dimension ~5"x3.33"), which allows interoperability between microplates, instrumentation and equipment from different suppliers, and is particularly important in laboratory automation.

Noel Lynch

As an Assembly Member, Lynch was a member of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA), the Metropolitan Police Authority, the Culture, Sport and Tourism Committee, the Planning and Spatial Development Committee, the Health Committee and the Standards Committee (of which he was Chair).

Nokia N86 8MP

It was Nokia's first camera phone to have an 8 megapixel sensor, and features both multiple aperture settings and a mechanical shutter (uncommon features by the standards of camera phones), and a Carl Zeiss lens with a wide angle of view (28 mm equivalent).

Otto Nerz

Nerz studied a large number of league and cup games in England, as well as in Austria and Italy, and sought advice on coaching and tactics from internationally-respected coaches such as Jimmy Hogan, Hugo Meisl and Vittorio Pozzo in a quest to improve the standards of the German national team.

Patrick D. Gallagher

Currently, he serves as co-chair of the Standards Subcommittee under the White House National Science and Technology Council.

Paul McCrossan

In 2001, he was named to the Standards Advisory Council of the International Accounting Standards Committee.

Polytan

Polytan surfaces hold certification confirming compliance with the standards of all major international sports governing bodies, e.g. IAAF, FIFA, UEFA, and FIH.

Puss in Boots

In Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion Jack Zipes notes that Perrault "sought to portray ideal types to reinforce the standards of the civilizing process set by upper-class French society".

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

In 1997, OMB issued a Federal Register Notice regarding revisions to the standards for the classification of federal data on race and ethnicity.

Real Academia de la Historia

The publicly funded publication has been subject of controversy for failing to achieve the standards of objectivity associated with, for example, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

SECAT RG-60

The RG-60 was displayed together with other SECAT designs at the Semaine de l'Aviation légère (light aviation week) held at Toussus-le-Noble from 22 April 1947 but was already somewhat outdated by the standards of the time.

SECAT RG-75

Shortly afterwards, F-WBBT was displayed together with other SECAT designs at the Semaine de l'Aviation légère (light aviation week) held at Toussus-le-Noble from 22 April 1947 but was already somewhat outdated by the standards of the time.

Stalag XI-B

Led by the formidable RSM John C. Lord of 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment, they set about raising the standards of the camp.

Standards Board for England

The last chief executive of the Standards Board for England is Glenys Stacey.

Sultan Mohammad IV Stadium

At this time, this stadium is the largest in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia with seating capacity of 22,000 and a pitch area to meet the standards set by the National Sports Council of Malaysia is measuring 119 meters long and 100 meters wide.

Tav HaYosher

Traditional agencies such as the Orthodox Union and Star-K offer kosher certification (known in Hebrew as a Hechsher), which confirms that the food meets the standards of kosher dietary law and can be eaten by those Jews who observe the laws of Kashrut.

Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998

The Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30) was enacted by the United Kingdom Parliament on 16 July 1998, in order to improve the standards of teaching in the UK through the establishment of statutory General Teaching Councils (GTC's) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland and the modification the remit of the General Teaching Council for Scotland.

The Saint of Dragons

Venemon is regarded as highly ruthless and sadistic even by the standards of Dragons and is the one responsible for the death of Simon's mother, the Magician, Maradine.

The Valentino Orchestra

The Valentino Orchestra—named after Rudolph Valentino—bases its repertoire of “sophisticated swing” on the standards of the golden age of American popular music—compositions by Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, and the many others who in the Jazz Age established what is often called the Great American Songbook.

Transport in Cornellà de Llobregat

On the other hand, L8 is a Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) service which grew out of a former commuter line, adapted to the standards, schedules and frequency of metro lines.

Tyne Theatre Stage School

All dance subjects are taught to the standards of the International Dance Teachers Association (IDTA), along with a Musical Theatre programme.

UAB Blazers

Setting the standards high from the start, UAB hired former UCLA, University of Illinois and Memphis head coach Gene Bartow.

United States v. Moore

The defendant Moore was charged with the possession of heroin, and in his defense sought to introduce psychiatric testimony that because of his heroin addiction he lacked substantial capacity to conform his behavior to the standards of the criminal law.

Valerian Gaprindashvili

From the 1920s, like many of his fellow Symbolists, he faced an ideological pressure from the newly established Soviet regime which forced him to make a conciliatory move towards the standards of Soviet literature.

Wayne Coles-Janess

It is the third Australian film in the past 15 years to meet the standards for the highly competitive Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.