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4 unusual facts about switch


Bayn Johnson

After outgrowing The Electric Company in 1975 (she was replaced by another blonde, Janina Mathews as "Gail"), Johnson made television appearances on The Love Boat, Police Woman and Switch.

Blind Luck

Blind Luck's connections opted to skip the Grade I Apple Blossom Handicap, which Havre de Grace subsequently won over California filly Switch.

Freq Nasty

2008 saw the release of "Creator", his crossover hit collaboration with Santigold, producer Switch and New York City lyricist Santogold, and the Fabric Live 42 mix CD, which was picked as DJ Magazine's compilation of the month.

Turn On

Switch, an electrical component that allows a circuit to be turned on or off


Akron and Barberton Belt Railroad

The main purpose was to switch chemical cars for Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Babcox and Wilcox Companies as well as O.C. Barber's match works, all in Barberton.

Alundis Brice

When Dallas acquired Deion Sanders Brice was given a BMW to switch jersey numbers so that Sanders could wear his #21.

Bielefeld University

It is among the first of the German universities to switch some faculties (e.g. biology) to Bachelor/Master-degrees as part of the Bologna process.

Bit flipping

Memory error, Soft error, an unintentional state switch from 0 to 1, or vice versa, of a bit stored to random access memory or other medium

Breckenridge, Colorado

Notable among the early prospectors was Edwin Carter, a log cabin naturalist who decided to switch from mining to collecting wildlife specimens.

Bruno Putzeys

Current activities include designing high-performance discrete AD/DA converters and analogue signal processing circuits, DSP algorithms, class D power amplifiers and switch-mode power supplies.

Bryan G. Rudnick

During the petition drive he conducted for the 2002 marriage initiative, the Massachusetts Attorney General issued a press release warning citizens about the possible “bait and switch” tactics being implemented during the petition gathering process.

CJAM-FM

The desire to switch channels is due to various factors, such as interference to WUOM-FM 91.7 in Ann Arbor, Michigan; and a new Smile FM station on 91.5, licensed to China Township, Michigan, in southern St. Clair County.

CJGV-FM

On December 1, 2011, the station flipped to an all Christmas format for the holiday season, with announced plans to switch to adult contemporary after January 1, 2012.

Clock ltd

From a PHP house of ten years, Clock made the switch to emerging technology Node.js in 2011.

Contesting technology

Another necessity is the ability to switch or mix audio from two different radios to a single pair of headphones.

Cooper T51

By the end of 1960 BRP had lost three drivers - Ivor Bueb, Harry Schell (who also ran his own T51 under the Ecurie Bleue banner) and Chris Bristow - to fatal accidents, and the Samengo-Turners decided to take their money to Reg Parnell's team instead, and since Parnell had filled up Cooper's order book BRP had to switch to Lotus for 1961.

Czech Wikipedia

The three pages the Czech version had at the time were lost during the switch to MediaWiki.

Galen Tyrol

In the cliffhanger Season 3 finale, "Crossroads, Part II", he, along with Samuel Anders, Saul Tigh, and Tory Foster become aware that they are Cylons, based on hallucinatory music (which turns out to be a cover of "All Along The Watchtower" written by Bob Dylan) that only they can hear, and a "switch" Tyrol believes has gone off within them.

Gikuyu language

The Gichugu switch easily to the other plainer Kikuyu dialects in conversation with the rest of the Gikuyu.

Grayling Army Airfield

The control tower was recently upgraded to a STVS (Small Tower Voice Switch) system with positions in three different locations.

Grinder's Switch featuring Garland Jeffreys

Garland Jeffreys and Grinder's Switch is the debut album of the band Garland Jeffreys and Grinder's Switch and was released by Vanguard Records in 1970.

Hot switch

In December 1992, for the premiere of The Jackie Thomas Show, a hot switch was used where the end of an episode of Roseanne had the Connor family watching the new show on television, and then the new show then began.

Hunedoara

In 1601 the castle was besieged by the Wallachian army of Michael the Brave in his campaign to unite the Romanian-inhabited principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania against the Ottoman Empire, and to switch the Ottoman vassalage to the Habsburgs.

Hyper IgM syndrome

Hyper-IgM syndrome type 4, which is a defect in class switch recombination downstream of the AICDA gene that does not impair Somatic Hyper Mutation.

International Launch Services

Most Proton payloads are too massive to launch with the less powerful Falcon 9 rocket, and there are no spare Ariane 5 launch opportunities, so Proton customers cannot easily switch to other launchers.

Issue number

An issue number is a supplementary number to the account number of certain debit cards, primarily United Kingdom ones such as Switch and Maestro.

Juan José Cuadros Pérez

In 1945, finished as the Bachelor of Baeza, spends revalidated at the University of Granada, and moved to Madrid to continue his studies at the Royal Academy, deciding to exact sciences, but in those postwar years were scarce economic resources and needed to switch the studies with work, having to give up.

KHVN

Three years later, the station was renamed as KSAX (callsign to have stood for SAXophone) while maintaining its Jazz format before making its final switch to a Black Gospel formatted station as KHVN in 1985.

La Roux discography

They first collaborated on the acoustic project Automan before opting to switch to a musical style similar to that of Prince and David Bowie, naming their new project La Roux.

Lee Trundle

Trundle also performed 'Let it Snow' for Preston's 2012 Christmas light switch on, before turning on the lights alongside fellow players, Matt Cardle and Russell Watson.

Mama Campisi's

Its success was apparently not sufficient, perhaps in part due to a switch to prefab/frozen food, as well as employee theft, and it eventually became the center of an episode of Restaurant: Impossible.

Marcus Lemonis

Shortly thereafter, he had a conversation with family friend and auto mogul Lee Iacocca, who suggested Lemonis switch to the camping and RV industry, because there had yet to be a defining trailblazer in that arena.

Marine Parade Records

Many remixes have been commissioned from other esteemed dance-music acts, like Prins Thomas, Switch and D.I.M, and featured collaborations with artists ranging from Aesop Rock to Josh Wink and Tom Middleton.

Massacre at Béziers

Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse was able to switch sides in time and joined the crusaders at Valence.

Matt Blaymire

After impressing for York City Knights in 2006, Blaymire made the switch to the Wildcats alongside Peter Fox.

Mobile Station Roaming Number

A MSRN is assigned for every mobile terminated call, not only the calls where the terminating MS lives on a different MSC than the originating MS. Although this seems unnecessary since many vendors' VLR's are integrated with the MSC, the GSM specification indicates that the MSC and VLR (Visitor Location Register) do not need to reside on the same switch.

My Heart Takes Over

However, on 1 November 2011, the band performed the track in the center of Oxford Street during the Christmas Lights Switch On.

Negroponte switch

Negroponte called this "trading places," but his co-presenter (George Gilder), at an event organised by Northern Telecom called it the "Negroponte Switch" and that name stuck.

In the 1980s Professor Nicholas Negroponte of the Media Lab at MIT originated the meme, that came to be known as the "Negroponte Switch".

Pencil detonator

Another, superior type, was developed by Millis Jefferis of MD1 known as the "Lead Delay switch" or officially "Switch, No. 9, L Delay".

Rollie's Follies

The Switch is On (The tale of switch-pitcher Pat Venditte successfully playing a game of cat and mouse against a switch-hitter)

Sarah-Jane Dias

That same year she was featured in the music video for Australian rock group INXS's "Never Let You Go" from their album Switch.

Signal passed at danger

The DRA is an inhibiting switch designed specifically to prevent 'Starting Away SPADs' by passenger trains.

Soundbeam

Due to the system's ability for expansion with four sensors and eight switches, installations have included DAW synchronization (such as with Reason or Ableton), as well as live video manipulation such as Arkaos, (Resolume and Vvvv).

South Norwalk Railroad Bridge

The bridge is adjacent to the South Norwalk Switch Tower Museum, which showcases the railroad switch tower where tracks were physically switched at the intersection of the Danbury Branch and the New Haven Line.

Speak Easily

Boarding a train bound for New York City, Prof. Post encounters James (Jimmy Durante), the manager of a dancing troupe that has an engagement in the backwater town of Fish's Switch.

Strowger

Almon Brown Strowger, who invented the principle of the Strowger switch in 1888

Tennessee State Route 317

State Route 317 is also known as Bonny Oaks Drive, Old Lee Highway, Apison Pike, Wesleyan Road, and Weatherley Switch Road SE; it dead ends into State Route 60 in Bradley County.

The Brothers Bloom

Mark Ruffalo as Stephen: When Johnson first sat down with Ruffalo it was for the part of Bloom but his actual personality was so similar to Stephen, Johnson chose to switch.

The Reason 4

They also supported Peter Andre on a number of UK tour dates through the summer, played many light switch ons where they were joined on stage by Keith Lemon in Blackpool.

Tiefenbach halting point, Switzerland

In the Swiss German dialect, the expression Haltestelle normally refers to a railway facility without points or switches, where scheduled trains are allowed to stop, depart or terminate.

Visa Debit

NatWest followed with the "Switch" debit card in October 1988.

WFIV-FM

In February 2000 the station adopted an 80s format with the call sign WKLV-FM; the station would switch from talk back to 80s music many times up until November 1, 2005.


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