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4 unusual facts about standby


Standby

Standby (theater), an actor or performer who will appear in a particular role if the regular performer is not present

Sleep mode (in electronics), also known as standby-mode - a mode in which electronic appliances are turned off but under power and ready to activate on command

Standby power energy consumed by an electronic device while it is turned off

Standby, the term NASA uses in air-to-ground radio communications for expressing "please wait"


Air Foyle HeavyLift

In 1994 Air Foyle won a contract to operate one Lockheed L-100 Hercules and one Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft on permanent 24/7 standby for Oil Spill Response Ltd, to provide immediate response on a worldwide basis in the event of a major oil spillage.

Aki Takajō

(Standby for Sae Miyazawa, Reina Fujie, Haruka Nakagawa, Mariya Suzuki)

Albert Dryden

Following a protracted dispute with Derwentside District Council, an enforcement order was to be served on 20 June 1991, with diggers on standby to demolish the house.

Alli Mauzey

From April 17 to October 7, 2007, Mauzey acted as the standby for the lead role of Glinda in the Broadway production of Wicked, covering in the absence of Kendra Kassebaum.

Amjad Mahmood

He was the junior and senior Pakistan hockey player and was the standby of Samiullah Khan (World Flying Horse).

Aric Almirola

Hendrick Motorsports named Almirola a standby driver for the No. 48 team in case Jimmie Johnson needed to leave for the birth of his daughter.

Bill Timoney

In April 2010, Timoney made his off-Broadway theater debut at the Soho Playhouse as a standby for the actor Dan Butler in the role of Joseph Flaherty in The Irish Curse, dramatized by Martin Casella.

Bob Stillman

One of his songs, "Long Hard Day", was featured in Urban Cowboy; he was a standby for the role of Cosmé McMoon in Souvenir.

BuddyCast

Developed by Mel Beckman, Denison Bollay, and Brian Fox, the protocol maintains resilience through the use of standby redundant buddies to replace buddies that leave the network.

Carmen Cusack

After spending one year on tour, she left on November 2, 2008, and was replaced by Donna Vivino, who had been her standby.

Cusack was next seen in the Melbourne production in Australia, as the temporary standby for Elphaba: Amanda Harrison had taken a break from the show due to illness, and the standby, Jemma Rix, had been given the lead role.

Coeurl

A combat droid used by the lead character in David Gerrold's novel A Season for Slaughter is similarly catlike and vocalises the word "Coeurl" when it is on standby and awaiting further orders.

Cummins

The Onan name continues to be used for modern versions of their traditional engine-driven generators for RV, marine, commercial mobility, home standby, and portable use.

Double acting ship

Icebreaking supply and standby vessel SCF Sakhalin, delivered in 2005 as FESCO Sakhalin, was the first large-scale double acting icebreaker.

Effects of Hurricane Charley in North Carolina

Governor Mike Easley declared a state of emergency in advance of the storm, and 200 National Guard troops were dispatched to Charlotte, Raleigh, Kinston and Lumerton, while 800 more were on standby.

Effects of Hurricane Dennis in Mississippi

Governor Haley Barbour issued a state of emergency, and 600 National Guard soldiers were on standby.

Energy Star

Martin Hellman revealed that Energy Star standby mode requirement can be compromised when an electronic device uses Download Acquisition Mode (DAM) feature to update TV Guide listing during standby mode.

The Energy Star program has helped spread the use of LED traffic lights, efficient fluorescent lighting, power management systems for office equipment, and low standby energy use.

Harley Venton

While still appearing on Guiding Light he was also a standby for the roles of Lloyd Barnett and Doc Porter in the original Broadway production of Crimes Of The Heart.

HMH-464

In 1999, the HMH-464 detachment assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (26th MEU), participated in a 45 day TRAP standby during Operation Allied Force, a non-combatant evacuation operation in Albania in support of Operation Shining Hope, peace enforcement operations in Macedonia and Kosovo in support of Operation Joint Guardian and humanitarian assistance in Turkey in support of Operation Avid Response.

I Can Get It for You Wholesale

In the album Just For the Record..., Streisand recalls, "My first audition for the show was on the morning after Thanksgiving in 1961. Since the action took place in the 1930s, I showed up in a '30s fur coat that I'd bought in a thrift shop for $10. I sang three songs, including my new standby "A Sleepin' Bee". They asked me to come back and gave me "Miss Marmelstein" to learn for my second audition a few hours later."

John R. Reilly

A turntable with a 78-rpm recording of Mahalia Jackson's He's Got the Whole World in His Hands was on standby, having been selected in advance by Reilly.

Jordan Henderson

On 16 May 2012 he was named as a standby player in new England manager Roy Hodgson's UEFA Euro 2012 squad.

Kristy Cates

Cates then returned to the Broadway production and played her final performance May 29, 2005, to originate the role of Standby Elphaba in the Chicago sit-down production of the musical, to Ana Gasteyer's Elphaba.

Lauren Kennedy

Kennedy appeared in the original cast of the short-lived Side Show as the standby for Emily Skinner, for whom she stepped in many times due to Skinner's frequent absences.

Legally Blonde – The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods

She became the standby for Glinda in the San Francisco company of the show from February 2010 to September 2010, when the production closed.

Low-noise block downconverter

In the case of UK BSkyB receivers, the LNB remains powered while in standby so that the receiver can receive firmware updates and Electronic Programme Guide updates.

McGill EMF Conference

They knew that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was threatening to regulate workplace smoking as a carcinogenic pollutant in the ambient air—and therefore that their old standby claims that the 'smoker made the choice to smoke or not'... that smoking was a personal choice... would no longer excuse the damage to health.

Patient 17

Michael Budd was originally placed on standby for lead which eventually went to Cornelius Macarthy, Michael was then cast as a mystery man but did not feature in the final cut due to budget restraints.

Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth

The next year, he held that Nottinghamshire police had acted negligently in firing CS gas into a house knowing there would be a fire risk and not having fire engines on standby.

RAF Chelveston

Starting in November 1955 the airfielf was transferred to the SAC 7th Air Division as a standby facility,operated by the 3914th Air Base Group (SAC).

Rita Gardner

She was featured in a brief 1963 revival of Pal Joey and replaced Susan Watson soon after the opening of Ben Franklin in Paris in 1964, after which her Broadway career stalled, finding her serving merely as a standby or understudy in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965), The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1969), and Morning's at Seven (2002).

Sony Ericsson K750

There is one side key on the left of the phone; when pressed in standby mode, it opens either the RDS FM radio or the Media Player as selected by the user, allowing playback of WAV/MP3/AAC audio files, and 3GP/MPEG-4 video files.

Standby power

In July 2001 U.S. President George W. Bush signed an Executive Order directing federal agencies to "purchase products that use no more than one watt in their standby power consuming mode".

Uswsusp

It supports both s2ram ("standby") and s2disk ("hibernate"), as well as a mode called "s2both", which saves state to disk and RAM.

Yussif Chibsah

He was captain of the Ghana olympic team, who exited in the first round of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, having finished in third place in Group B and was also the captain of the Ghana Meteors in the 2003 All Africa Games in Abuja that won the bronze medal.His international efforts was recognized as he was a member of the Ghanaian standby players in 2006 World Cup in Germany after playing most of the matches of the qualifying round.


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