unreferenced date July 2009 AppleSpecialist is an independent Apple Inc. reseller which over time has demonstrated exceptional, consistent, and comprehensive knowledge of Apple technology, offers its ... been designated as Specialist by the manufacturer. Apple Premiere Specialists constitute an elite 100 businesses among the Specialist designated group. Each specialist displays a plaque with a special golden Apple logo which reads, AppleSpecialist Recognized by Apple, Inc. as an Apple authorized reseller with demonstrated expertise in providing consultation and service for Apple computers. History An Apple Reseller befriended Dr. Gil Amelio, then CEO of Apple, and recommended that they form a premier reseller channel designation. Dr. Amelio assigned Paddy Wong and Loretta Flores of Apple ..., but only included resellers who mainly sold Apple products and not competitors. Apple rolled out the AppleSpecialist Program in December 1996. The program is still in place as of 2011. Before the introduction of Apple Store retail Apple retail stores , the Specialist resellers, typically locally ... Apple s innovative technologies and solutions, assisted and fed Apple evangelist Mac evangelism , and held Apple to a high standard of design, construction, and business practice during the lean days before Steve Jobs return to Apple in 1997. Specialist resellers must pass an annual comprehensive screening to be recognized and approved by Apple to retain AppleSpecialist designation. In 2004, members of Apple s Reseller Advisory Board formed the AppleSpecialist Marketing Coop ASMC . Since that time ASMC has grown to include over 160 members. External links http channelprograms.apple.com specialistAppleSpecialist section from Apple s website http www.applespecialist.com AppleSpecialist website ... manufacturer among other Apple authorized resellers and Value added resellers. As small businesses who had made a significant commitment to Apple and continued to have their own stake in the manufacturer ... more details
wikt SpecialistSpecialist frequently refers to an expert in a profession. It can also mean Specialist rank , a military rank Specialist degree , in academia Specialist , a song by the band Interpol band Interpol The Specialist , the English translation of Lo Sconosciuto , an Italian comics character Generalist and specialist species , a method of species categorization A market maker in a stock exchange Specialty medicine Payload Specialist , a Space Shuttle crew member selected for a single specific mission The Specialist , a 1994 action film Specialist, a military avionics, electrical & environmental, or engines expert American football special teams player who is either a return specialist or a kicking specialist . Specialist short story , a science fiction short story by Robert Sheckley Team Role Inventories Specialist , one of the Belbin team roles disambig es Especialista nl Specialist ru ... more details
ref The Specialist is a 1994 American action film from Warner Bros. Pictures . It is directed by Luis ... in the Specialist Series On the Job. Spotlighting the Workaday World. One in a Series. publisher The Los ... Plenty of Explosions, but Few Fireworks in The Specialist PETER RAINER work The Los Angeles Times date url http articles.latimes.com 1994 10 08 entertainment ca 47885 1 explosives specialist accessdate 2010 12 25 ref Based on 23 reviews, The Specialist gathered a 3 10 on average. Roger Ebert gave it 2 stars out of 4, stating that The Specialist is one of those films that forces the characters through ... to figure out what the heroine s motivations were. ref cite news title The Specialist publisher ... that The Specialist attempts to be an atmospheric, dramatic thriller. On the other hand, if I ... office performance The Specialist opened in the U.S. on October 7, 1994 and was one of Stallone ... links imdb title id 0111255 Amg movie id 223900 rotten tomatoes id 1056079 mojo title id specialist Luis Llosa DEFAULTSORT Specialist, The Category 1994 films Category 1990s action films Category 1990s ... Films set in Miami, Florida ar de The Specialist es El especialista fr L Expert film it Lo specialista hu A specialista nl The Specialist ja no Spesialisten pl Specjalista pt O Especialista ru sr sh The Specialist fi Spesialisti elokuva sv Specialisten ... more details
A Kicking specialist or kick specialist and sometimes referred to a kicker , especially when referring to a placekicker , is a player on American football and Canadian football special teams who performs Punt football punts , kickoff s, field goal American football field goals and or point after touchdown s. Most kicking specialists do not play other non kicking positions at the highest levels of competition. The special teams counterpart of a kicking specialist is a return specialist . See also Punter football Punter Placekicker Category American football positions americanfootball stub ... more details
store s, by offering in house pharmacy services, an area where specialist knowledge cannot be eliminated. Specialist stores are also increasingly facing competition from web based retailer s which ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 For other degrees Academic degree The Specialist degree in the Commonwealth of Independent States The specialist degree Lang ru was the only first degree in the former Soviet Union and currently is being phased out by the bakalvr s Bachelor s magister s Master s degrees. In the early 1990s bakalavr Bachelor s and magistr Master s degrees were introduced in all the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States , except in Turkmenistan . However, the specialist ... and Ukraine to this day. The specialist degrees in Armenia , Azerbaijan , Georgia country Georgia .... Actually there are some similarities between the specialist degree in the CIS and the Germany German Diplom degree. The following are the most important specialist degrees in the CIS specialist ekonomist first degree in economy or management including engineering management specialist inzhener the engineer s degree in the CIS specialist uchitel the first degree for teacher s specialist vrach .... specialist iskusstva the first degree in art s specialist jurist the first degree in law The Specialist degree in the English speaking world The Specialist degree is found in some programs of education ..., Ph.D., D.Ed. or Th.D. . It is most often referred to as an Ed.S. Educational SpecialistSpecialist of Education , or sometimes Sp.Ed. but can be designated in the form of SSP Specialist of School Psychology , or Psy.S Psy.S. Specialist of Psychology . The College of Education at Eastern Michigan University and many other American institutions confer it as the Sp.A or Specialist in Arts degree ... and Instruction are two of the most common areas where a specialist degree is found. In the field ... within psychology departments have begun offering a Psy.S. degree instead of an SSP. A specialist degree is not to be confused with a specialist program, which in certain universities, refers to an undergraduate ... fills the same need as a Specialist degree. Academic degrees DEFAULTSORT Specialist Degree Category ... more details
see also Astronaut ranks and positions unreferenced date October 2008 A Mission Specialist MS is a position held by certain NASA astronaut s during Space Shuttle missions. A Mission Specialist is assigned to a limited field of the mission, such as for medical experiments or technical quests. Other functions on board are aviator Pilot , flight engineer Flight Engineer and commander Mission Commander . Some Space Shuttle missions included Payload Specialist s in addition to Mission Specialists. While a Payload Specialist was selected for a single specific mission, a Mission Specialist was selected as an astronaut first, and then assigned to a mission. Mission Specialist is abbreviated by NASA as MS. NASA navbox Category Human spaceflight Category NASA personnel NASA stub de Missionsspezialist fr Sp cialiste de mission ja pt Especialista de miss o NASA ... more details
Image US Army E 4 SPC.svg thumb Specialist rank insignia U.S. Army Two other uses the group of non commissioned officer ranks in Singapore Specialist Singapore other uses SpecialistSpecialist abbreviated ... acquired job skills, will enter as a Specialist. ref http www.goarmy.com about ranks and insignia.jsp , US Army Website ref Typically, newly recruited Officer Candidates hold the rank of Specialist ... sergeant. The wearing of Specialist badges inset in rank insignia was abolished and a generic system of chevrons and arcs replaced them. Private Specialist From 1920 to 1942 there was a rank designated Private Specialist or simply Specialist that was graded in 6 Classes the lowest being 6th Class ... additional Specialist pay in relationship to the specialist level possessed on top of their base PFC Grade Six pay. The classes only indicated experience, not seniority, and a Private Specialist ... no special insignia was authorized to indicate their rank. Unofficially, a Private Specialist ... Specialist rank, which was discontinued by 30 June 1942. This gave technical specialists more authority ... under the chevrons on 4 September 1942. The rank was finally discontinued on 1 August 1948. Specialist ... 60px Specialist 9 rank insignia U.S. Army Specialist 8 rank insignia U.S. Army Specialist 7 rank insignia U.S. Army Specialist 6 rank insignia U.S. Army Specialist 5 rank insignia U.S. Army Specialist 4 rank insignia U.S. Army SP9 SP8 SP7 SP6 SP5 SP4 On 1 July 1955, three grades of Specialist were established Specialist Three E 4 , Specialist Two E 5 , and Specialist One E 6 . In 1958 the DoD added ... with additional opportunities for promotion. Thus the recognition was changed to six specialist ranks, and the paygrade was tied into the rank designation Specialist Four E 4 , Specialist Five E 5 , Specialist Six E 6 , and Master Specialists E 7 , E 8 and E 9 http www.ncohistory.com files shsr.pdf ... Major, the specialist ranks at E 8 and E 9 were abolished without anyone ever being promoted to those ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2006 In the United Kingdom , an associate specialist doctor is one who is appointed to a permanent position in the middle ranks. The rank is the highest that a doctor not seeking to be made a Consultant medicine consultant may achieve, and is usually conferred upon staff grade doctors after several years experience although it is possible to go from specialist registrar to associate specialist if one chooses at that stage to leave the consultant career path . Rank and Speciality An associate specialist ranks below a consultant medicine consultant and is always nominally accountable to one, but as associate specialists do not count as junior doctors they are able to have their own clinic lists and see patients independently. Associate specialists are normally but not always on the specialist register of whichever field of medicine in which they practice, and can be specialists in any field. Promotion from staff grade is normally on experience rather than qualification, although an associate specialist is free to sit any required exams and become a consultant often without having to have been a specialist registrar first if they wish. An associate specialist can sit for an exam at any time. Difference from Consultants An associate specialist is normally reached by doctors taking what is known as the non consultant career path which involves becoming after being a Foundation Doctor a staff grade and then reaching this rank with seniority. It is however possible for anyone not yet a consultant to leave the consultant career path and take up either this rank or staff grade depending on experience. An associate specialist is a hospital doctor and is generally treated as a senior doctor. Pay is usually lower than that of a consultant though as associate ... between an associate specialist and a consultant is that an associate specialist is more of a for hire ... specialist but due to similar training and pay, their autonomy in practice, and level of responsibility ... more details
The appointment of Specialist Judges is part of a pilot scheme by Singapore s Judicial system of Singapore Subordinate Courts to bring experienced and well respected members of the legal profession or academia to the Bench to preside over cases in the Subordinate Courts. The scheme was initiated in July 2006 and Senior Counsel Tan Chee Meng became the first Specialist Judge to be appointed under this scheme to hear the Fusionpolis case. Tan Cheng Han , dean of National University of Singapore NUS law school, was the second Specialist Judge to be appointed to hear the Informatics Case. The aim of the scheme is bring additional expertise to the Subordinate Courts bench and, at the same time, give leading practitioners and academics a better insight to the workings of the Judiciary of Singapore. A specialist judge is expected to devote up to 40 days a year to hearing cases and will be paid an allowance pegged to the salary of a senior judge in the district court. http www.subcourts.gov.sg MediaArticles 2006June30 ST01.pdf The pilot scheme will be reviewed in 2007. Category Singaporean judges ... more details
Image Devin Hester in 2007.jpg thumb right 200px Devin Hester , who is shown fielding a punt during special teams practice at the Chicago Bears 2007 Training Camp, is one of the best return specialists in National Football League history. A Return Specialist is a player on American football or Canadian football special teams who specializes in Punt returner returning punts and Kick returner kickoff returns . There are few players who are exclusively return specialists most play other positions as well. The special teams counterpart of a return specialist is a kicking specialist . See also Kick returner Punt returner American football concepts americanfootball stub Category American football positions no Return specialist ... more details
A kickoff specialist KOS is a seldom used position in American football American and Canadian football . Kickoff specialists are members of the special teams. They are responsible to kick the ball in the Kickoff American football kickoff . These players tend to have a strong leg, often capable of making touchbacks, and capable of keeping a ball in the bounds of the field of play but do not have the accuracy or technique required to be a full time placekicker or Punter American football punter . Due to modern roster restrictions, most NFL teams do not elect to have a Kickoff Specialist, and instead use their placekickers or, less often, punters on kickoffs. During the 2009 NFL season Rhys Lloyd of the Carolina Panthers and David Buehler of the Dallas Cowboys are the only players employed solely as a Kickoff Specialist. Likewise, in high school football and most other professional leagues, one kicker handles all three kicking positions. Even college football teams usually do not utilize kickoff specialists, despite the much larger rosters at that level. American football positions American football concepts Category American football positions hu Kickoff specialist pt Kickoff Specialist ... more details
Course from the Specialist and Warrant Officer Advanced School SWAS . With SAFWOS, SWAS and Specialist ... SAFTI is the new home of the Warrant Officer and Specialist Corps of the SAF. Specialist rank ... of the SAF, the Singapore Civil Defence Force SCDF also trains Specialist cadets known as Fire & Rescue Specialists upon graduation from the Emergency Response Specialist Course administered by the Civil ... Materials Hazmat and Paramedic Specialists who are made up of regulars in the SCDF. The DART Specialist ... Specialist specialises in detection and containment of hazardous chemicals and toxins while the Paramedic Specialist is part of the emergency ambulance service team providing efficient and accurate ... ranks index.asp SAF Military Ranks http www.mindef.gov.sg swi Specialist & Warrant Officer ... more details
Superherobox Wikipedia WikiProject Comics image caption comic color background ff8080 character name Specialist real name species publisher Marvel Comics debut Spider Man 2099 4 Feb 1993 creators Peter David and Rick Leonardi alliance color background c0c0ff status alliances Stark Fujikawa Corporation previous alliances aliases relatives powers Specialist is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe . The character exists in the Marvel 2099 line, which takes place in an alternate future from the main timeline of Marvel Comics. Fictional character biography The man who would later become known as the Specialist was born in Osaka, Japan in the late 21st Century. The Specialist worked for Tyler Stone comics Tyler Stone as an assassin and field operative for the Stark Fujikawa Corporation in the year 2099. At the behest of Tyler Stone, the Specialist captured Kasey Nash in order to lure the Spider Man 2099 Spider Man of that era into battle. ref Spider Man 2099 4 ref As the Specialist battled Spider Man, his throat was slit. ref Spider Man 2099 5 ref Powers and abilities The Specialist is an athletic man with no superhuman powers, and is an expert martial artist, trained as a samurai warrior. He is highly proficient with various martial arts weaponry of the late 21st Century. He wears an unrevealed bulletproof fabric insulated against electric shock and body armor of unknown materials. He wields a 4 samurai sword capable of slicing through solid steed, and also carries shurikens and nunchakus. He is a skilled hovercraft pilot and uses a one man hovercraft. All of his equipment is supplied by the Stark Fujikawa Corporation. References reflist Category Marvel 2099 characters Category Marvel Comics supervillains Marvel villain stub ... more details
Infobox film name The Heart Specialist image The Heart Specialist poster.jpg caption Theatrical release poster director Dennis Cooper producer ubl Dennis Cooper Kristin Overn writer ubl Dennis Cooper starring ubl Wood Harris Zoe Saldana Brian J. White M a music ubl Tree Adams Christopher Faizi cinematography Yasu Tanida editing Jonathan Schwartz distributor Freestyle Releasing released Film date 2006 9 13 Boston Film Festival Boston 2011 1 14 runtime 99 minutes country FilmUS language English budget gross 1,103,037 The Heart Specialist is a romantic comedy film starring Wood Harris , Zoe Saldana , Brian J. White , and M a . Originally released under the title Ways of the Flesh , ref http www.hollywoodreporter.com review heart specialist film review 72592 ref the film premiered at the 2006 Boston Film Festival . ref http www.moviefreak.com artman publish movies waysoftheflesh.shtml ref The film was written, produced, and directed by Dennis Cooper and was released in limited theaters in the United States on January 14, 2011. Plot A modern comedy about the everyday perils of first year medical residents at a shabby south Florida hospital. Wood Harris is the Chief Resident, who teaches the trainees how to save lives and not take themselves too seriously, all the while hiding a chilling secret of his own. Cast Wood Harris as Dr. Sidney Zachary Zoe Saldana as Donna Brian J. White as Dr. Ray Howard M a as Valerie Scott Paulin as Dr. Graves David S. Lee as Dr. Propper Kenneth Choi as Mitchell Kwan Marla Gibbs as Ms. Overwood Jenifer Lewis as Nurse Jackson Method Man as Lorenzo Leon Robinson Leon Jasmine Guy Terrence J Ed Asner Reception Box office The Heart Specialist ranked premiered nineteenth at the box office grossing 581,516 over the four day Martin Luther King Jr holiday weekend ... The Heart Specialist 2011 Weekend Box Office Results accessdate 2011 01 22 work Box Office Mojo ref ... 0455841 The Heart Specialist Mojo title heartspecialist The Heart Specialist DEFAULTSORT Heart Specialist ... more details
In bicycle racing , a breakaway specialist is a rider who is specialized in attacking the race from the start in order to show off his sponsor and to try his luck in winning the stage without having to fight with the whole peloton at the finish line. cycling stub Category Road bicycle racing ... more details
Specialist Games is division of Games Workshop which sells tabletop wargames that are no longer part of Games Workshop s core market which is served by such games as Warhammer 40,000 . The Specialist Games rules are normally developed openly by the design studio and the online community and playtested by hobbyists over the world, although some closed source development occurs too. Most of the rulebooks and supplements for the games are released both as physical books and downloadable PDF documents The exception being The Battle of Five Armies . The Games Workshop policy regarding how to promote the Specialist Games division is a source of some concern to fans Fact date July 2007 , since releases for the games are few and far between. The Specialist Games lineup contains the following games Warhammer 40,000 universe Epic game Epic A wargame for fighting massive battles with 6mm scale miniatures. Battlefleet Gothic A wargame based around spacecraft combat. Inquisitor game Inquisitor A highly detailed skirmish wargame using large 54mm miniatures. Necromunda A skirmish wargame & campaign system, depicting gang warfare. Gorkamorka Another skirmish wargame & campaign system, focused on combat between Orks. Warhammer Fantasy universe Blood Bowl An American football style game using Warhammer Fantasy races. The world of Blood Bowl is a more light hearted, parodic rendering of the Warhammer Fantasy setting. Mordheim A Fantasy skirmish wargame & campaign system. An expansion Empire in Flames was also released. Warmaster A wargame for fighting large fantasy battles with 10mm scale miniatures. The Lord Of The Rings Strategy Battle Game universe Warmaster Battle of Five Armies The Battle of Five Armies a game for fighting larger battles with 10mm scale miniatures. The game was named ... to the list of its current games and scenarios. Games Workshop Category Games Workshop fr Specialist games it Specialist Games ... more details
magnet school The specialist schools programme was a UK government initiative which encouraged secondary school s in England to specialise in certain areas of the curriculum to boost achievement. The Specialist ... there are nearly 3,000 specialist schools, or 88 of the state funded secondary schools in England . ref name Standards Site cite web url http www.standards.dcsf.gov.uk specialistschools title Specialist ... and funding was absorbed into general school budgets. ref name DCSF Guidance cite web title Specialist ... year 2008 url http www.standards.dfes.gov.uk specialistschools guidance2008 ref History File Specialist ... specialisms are Technology, Arts, Sport and Science. Numbers of specialist schools in England by year ... were added in 1996. ref name Schagen Performance cite book title The Impact of Specialist and Faith ... downloadable archive reports the impact of specialist and faith schools on performance.cfm ref ref name Ofsted briefing cite book title Specialist schools A briefing paper for section 5 inspections ... content download 4951 39701 file Specialist 20Schools 20Briefing.doc ref ref name Castle cite book title Specialist Schools what do we know? first Frances last Castle coauthors Evans, Jennifer year 2006 ... specialist.html accessdate 16 December 2008 ref ref name Smithers cite book title Specialist science ... programme, and the number of specialist schools continued to grow. ref name Schagen Performance ref name Smithers The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 made it possible for specialist schools ... have taken up this option. ref cite book title Specialist Schools An evaluation of progress publisher ... Publications and research Browse all by Education Leadership Management Specialist schools an evaluation ... cite press release title Charles Clarke welcomes new partnership with Oracle to sponsor specialist ... 90 of maintained secondary schools had become specialist schools. ref name Smithers Extension of the specialist programme to primary schools is being trialled at 34 schools in England, starting ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 tone date December 2011 NHS medical career grades A Specialist Registrar or SpR is a Physician doctor in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland who is receiving advanced training in a specialist field of medicine in order eventually to become a Consultant medicine consultant . In surgery, also referred to as Higher Surgical Trainee or HST. After graduation from medical school , they will have undertaken several years of work and training as a pre registration house officer and senior house officer , and will usually have taken examinations for membership of the Royal College of their speciality. For example, medical registrars will take the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians MRCP examinations to enable progression to become registrars. Entry to the grade of SpR is now closed and thus information is largely historical. The entry into Specialist Registrar posts was regarded as highly competitive and so tough. Regional advertisements were placed by local deaneries, which controlled the number of places and the funding for posts. Open competition was afforded and, via shortlisting and interviews, successful applicants were given posts for 4 6 years depending on the speciality. A National Training Number was awarded concurrently and was attached to the post rather than the doctor, again historically. The number of posts available was strictly linked to the number of consultants required in a particular speciality, and therefore in the more popular specialities such as Cardiology, General Surgery and Sub Specialties, Orthopaedics and Plastic ... desirable posts, something that initially was a total and unmitigated disaster MTAS . Specialist Registrars ... this a Certificate of Eligibility to the Specialist Register CESR is awarded. Listing on the Specialist Register permits application to consultant jobs. Specialist registrars are encouraged to undertake ... House Officers and Specialist Registrars. DEFAULTSORT Specialist Registrar Category Medical education ... more details
otheruses Specialist Operations New South Wales Specialist Operations is a directorate of the Metropolitan Police . At its peak, SO was a group of twenty specialist units, which were formed to give the Metropolitan Police a specialist policing capability. The SO designation was implemented in 1986 as part of Kenneth Newman Sir Kenneth Newman s restructuring of the Metropolitan Police Service. Most of the units designated SO units were already in existence, many of them as departments of C Division and its branches, and all were presided over by an Assistant Commissioner of Special Operations ACSO . Current structure Specialist Operations is made up of three Commands commanded by Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick . Protection Command Protection Command is split into three branches Protection Command Specialist Protection Specialist Protection SO1 Provides armed personal protection services for Minister government ministers and public officials at threat from terrorism, including visiting heads of government and other public figures. Protection Command Royalty Protection Royalty Protection SO14 Provides protection of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom Monarch and other members of the British Royal Family Royal Family . The Operational Command Unit OCU is divided into Residential Protection, Personal and Close Protection and the Special Escort Group SEG who provide mobile protection. Diplomatic Protection Group SO6 Provides protection for foreign missions in London, including ... reassigned to another unit, the units are listed in order SO1 Specialist Protection Merged with SO14 ... Branch Directorate of Forensic Services Now part of the Specialist Crime Directorate as SCD4 Forensic ... now SCD5 Child Abuse Investigation Team SO6 Fraud Squad now SCD6 Economic and Specialist Crime SO7 Serious ... Force Firearms Unit Specialist Firearms Command , CO19 SO20 Forensic Medical Examiners Branch See also ... Police Specialist Operations References reflist Metropolitan Police Category Metropolitan Police ... more details
Citations missing date August 2007 The Education Specialist , also referred to as Educational Specialist , Specialist in Education , or Ed.S. , is an advanced academic degree in the United States U.S. that is designed for individuals who wish to develop additional skills or increase their knowledge beyond the master s degree level, but may not wish to pursue a degree at the doctorate doctoral level. About Many individuals who earn an Ed.S. degree seek to increase their skills for advanced professional certification licensure requirements or other professional objectives. Many people may pursue an Ed.S. degree in order to meet state or professional requirements for career advancement. Major areas available with this degree include school counseling , school psychology , educational leadership , educational administration, higher education adult continuing education, advanced curriculum and instruction, Superintendent education superintendent , career and technical education, and others. ref Joint Graduate Program ref http www.udayton.edu learn graduate education major educational leadership eds.php & http www.wright.edu academics catalog grad degrees postmast.html The Ed.S. degree is a focused degree program that is considered by accrediting bodies as the completion of the seventh year of collegiate study, between the master s and doctorate , assuming a master s degree in education. Programs typically require from 30 to 45 semester hours beyond a master s degree, but may be as high as 65. Many also require an oral defense of a scholarly thesis or field study, similar to a dissertation ... . The Specialist in School Psychology SSP degree is similar to the Ed.S. in School Psychology . It is typically .... At Arkansas State University, for example, students may earn an S.C.C.T. Specialist in Community College Teaching . Academic dress According to The American Council on Education six year specialist ...?Section Search&template CM HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID 10625 6 year title Six Year Specialist ... more details
A Payload Specialist PS is an individual selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific Payload air and space craft payload on a NASA Space Shuttle mission. People assigned as Payload Specialists included individuals selected by the research community, a company or consortia flying a commercial payload aboard the spacecraft , and non NASA astronauts designated by international partners. The term refers to both the individual and to the position on the Shuttle crew. History main Astronaut ranks and positions Payload Specialists were generally selected for a single specific mission and were chosen outside the standard NASA NASA Astronaut Corps astronaut selection process . They were not required to be United States citizen s, but had to be approved by NASA and undergo rigorous training. In contrast, a Space Shuttle Mission Specialist was selected as a NASA astronaut astronaut candidate first and then assigned to a mission. Payload Specialists on early ... Shuttle were commander Mission Commander , aviator Pilot , and Mission Specialist . Contrary to other ... who trained alongside the primary Payload Specialist and would replace him her in the event of illness ... payload specialist was the first Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon on board STS 107 , who was killed ... Merbold was the first international German payload specialist STS 41 D Charles D. Walker Charles ... Program military payload specialist STS 51 D Charles D. Walker Charles Walker , Jake Garn first legislative branch payload specialist STS 51 B Lodewijk van den Berg , Taylor G. Wang STS 51 G Patrick ... Mission reflight STS 85 Bjarni Tryggvason STS 87 Leonid Kadeniuk Ukrainian payload specialist STS ... American payload specialist STS 107 Ilan Ramon first Israeli in space, last payload specialist, killed ... wikitable bgcolor efefef Flights Payload specialist bgcolor efefef 3 Charles D. Walker Charles Walker ... Israel bgcolor efefef Total 60 Payload Specialist flight opportunities Payload Specialists who trained ... more details
File Rating Badge SK.jpg 200px right U.S. Navy s LS rating device The Logistics Specialist LS is a US Navy rating that was created on October 1, 2009 by the merger of the Storekeeper SK and Postal Clerk US Navy Postal Clerk PC ratings. ref http www.navy.mil search display.asp?story id 40993 Storekeeper, Postal Clerk Ratings to Merge into Logistic Specialist Rating , Navy.mil , November 19, 2008. Story Number NNS081119 10 accessed 19 December 2008 ref , Job Description Logistics Specialists manage inventories of repair parts general supplies and distribute mail for ships, squadrons, and shore based activities. They procure, receive, store and issue material and repair components. They utilize financial accounting and database systems to perform inventory and financial management functions. Additionally, they sort and distribute all official and personal mail, manage money order and stamp inventories, and maintain financial and inventory reports. ref http usmilitary.about.com od enlistedjob1 a ls.htm Navy Enlisted Rating Job Descriptions , About.com . accessed 28 October 2009 ref , See Also List of United States Navy ratings References Reflist Category 2009 introductions Category United States Navy ratings Category Military logistics of the United States US navy stub ... more details
Specialist baiting or Spetseedstvo was a sociology sociological phenomena in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s where proletarian and young CPSU b party members attacked technician Specialists and Professional s, causing them to be politically purge d from the workplace, and allowing young inexperienced and uneducated workers to take these work positions. Sheila Fitzpatrick 2002 Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921 1934 . See also Engineers trial Great purge New Economic Policy First five year plan Second five year plan socio stub Soviet stub Category 1930s in the Soviet Union Category History of the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia Category Political repression in the Soviet Union ... more details
Infobox film name The Love Specialist La Ragazza Del Palio director Luigi Zampa producer Maleno Malenotti writer Ennio De Concini , Liana Ferri , Giuseppe Gironda , Luciano Martino , etc. starring Diana Dors br Vittorio Gassman br Franca Valeri br Bruce Cabot music Renzo Rossellini composer Renzo Rossellini cinematography Giuseppe Rotunno editing Eraldo Da Roma distributor Medallion Pictures Inc. released 1958 runtime 102 minutes country Film Italy br Film France language Italian budget preceded by followed by The Love Specialist lang it La Ragazza Del Palio is an Italian French movie filmed in 1958, and released in the U.S. in 1959 with the title The Love Specialist . Plot Diana Dixon, a Texan girl played by Diana Dors Dors , wins a quiz show jackpot, and uses her winnings a prize in cash and a brand new Cadillac car for a trip to Italy. Her car breaks up near Siena where she meets Prince Piero di Montalcino Vittorio Gassman Gassman , a handsome Italian nobleman. He believes that she must be rich, and she also thinks that he must be wealthy, but that s very far from the truth. br The romance reaches its climax at the traditional Palio di Siena Palio horse race where, after Diana breaks up with the prince upon hearing that he bribed the jockey of the rival contrade of Siena contrada into throwing the race so that his horse could win, she fast talks the rival horse s owner into letting her ride. Cast Diana Dors Diana Dixon Vittorio Gassman Piero di Montalcino Franca Valeri Contessa Bernardi Bruce Cabot Mike Teresa Pellati Laura Tina Lattanzi Madre di Piero Enrico Viarisio Il zio di Piero Nando Bruno Pap ferrari Ronaldo Bonacchi Tino Many of the extras for the horse race scenes were real jockeys, some of which quite known to the Senese. One of them, Pietro De Angelis nicknamed ... by the contrada . External links Imdb title id 0050657 title The Love Specialist Luigi Zampa CinemaofItaly CinemaofFrance DEFAULTSORT Love Specialist, The Category 1958 films Category 1950s comedy films ... more details
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