Immediately following the modest success of this album, a similar but unrelated Who compilation, Direct Hits, was released in the UK by Track Records.

* Earl ' Fatha ' Hines plays Hits he Missed: ( inc Monk, Zawinul, Silver ): Direct to Disc M & K RealTime 1978

Direct Hits shares a few songs with the earlier U. S. compilation album Magic Bus: The Who on Tour, but is otherwise unrelated to that release.

This Hour Has 22 Minutes Direct Hits is a videocassette compilation of the best bits from the Canadian television series, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, from the years of 1993-99.

22 Minutes Direct Hits 1993-99 was produced by Salter Street Films.

* Rogers Video: " This Hour Has 22 Minutes Direct Hits "

Direct Hits

A year later, his first Greatest Hits package was issued ; titled The Best of Collin Raye: Direct Hits, it comprised several of his hit singles from the past five years, as well as four new songs, of which three released as singles.

Direct Hits received a gold certification from the RIAA for selling 500, 000 copies in the United States.

* 1976: Direct Hits

In 1968 Track began releasing compilations albums such as The Who's Direct Hits.

* Direct Hits ( compilation ) 1976

Three APIs are available — a Direct Persistence Layer which is " Plain Old Java Objects " ( POJO ); one which is based on the Java Collections Framework ( an object persistence approach ); and one based on the traditional Berkeley DB API.

Direct current ( DC ) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.

Direct current is produced by sources such as batteries, thermocouples, solar cells, and commutator-type electric machines of the dynamo type.

Direct fuel injection which can inject fuel only at the time of fuel ignition ( similar to a diesel engine ) is another recent development which also allows for higher compression ratios on gasoline engines.

Direct contempt is an unacceptable act in the presence of the judge ( in facie curiae ), and generally begins with a warning, and may be accompanied by an immediate imposition of punishment.

Direct contempt is distinctly different from indirect contempt, wherein another individual may file papers alleging contempt against a person who has willfully violated a lawful court order.

# Direct contempt is that which occurs in the presence of the presiding judge ( in facie curiae ) and may be dealt with summarily: the judge notifies the offending party that he or she has acted in a manner which disrupts the tribunal and prejudices the administration of justice.

Direct microscopy of stool is not recommended, as it is unreliable.

The Direct Examination or Examination-in-Chief is one stage in the process of adducing evidence from witnesses in a court of law.

Direct examination is the questioning of a witness by the party who called him or her, in a trial.

Direct examination is usually performed to elicit evidence in support of facts which will satisfy a required element of a party's claim or defense.

Direct or substantive dyeing is normally carried out in a neutral or slightly alkaline dyebath, at or near boiling point, with the addition of either sodium chloride ( NaCl ) or sodium sulfate ( Na < sub > 2 </ sub > SO < sub > 4 </ sub >) or sodium carbonate ( Na < sub > 2 </ sub > CO < sub > 3 </ sub >).

Direct current, as produced by example from a battery and required by most electronic devices, is a unidirectional flow from the positive part of a circuit to the negative.

Fox News Channel is currently offered by Access Communications, Bell TV, Cogeco, Eastlink, Manitoba Telecom Services, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw Cable, Shaw Direct and Telus TV.

Direct Democracy is pervasive in representative assemblies and small-government units.

Direct information about a consumer ’ s willingness to pay is rarely available.

Direct linkage is available with Mozambique, however, which has the same gauge track.

* Round-tripping: Money is deposited in a controlled foreign corporation offshore, preferably in a Tax haven where minimal records are kept, and then shipped back as a Foreign Direct Investment, exempt from taxation.

Mars Direct is a proposal for a manned mission to Mars that is designed to be both cost-effective and possible with current technology.

Mars Direct was featured on a Discovery Channel programs Mars: The Next Frontier in which issues were discussed surrounding NASA funding of the project, and on Mars Underground, where the plan is discussed more in-depth.

* Mars Direct is the mission mode used in Gregory Benford's novel, The Martian Race, and in Geoffrey A. Landis's novel Mars Crossing, as well as Zubrin's own novel, First Landing.

* In the West Wing episode " The Warfare of Genghis Khan ", a NASA staffer describes Mars Direct to the skeptical White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman and is able to convince him of its merit.

The first Aldermaston March in 1958 went the other way ( from London to Aldermaston ) and was organised by the Direct Action Committee.

Since it was first proposed as a part of Mars Direct, the Mars Habitat Unit has been adopted by NASA as a part of their Mars Design Reference Mission, which utilizes two Mars Habitat Units-one of which flies to Mars unmanned, providing a dedicated laboratory facility on Mars, together with the capacity to carry a larger rover vehicle.

Direct tracings of the vibrations of sound-producing objects such as tuning forks had been made by English physician Thomas Young in 1807, but the first known device for recording airborne speech, music and other sounds is the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by French typesetter and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

Direct Sino-Portuguese trade had existed since 1513, but this is the first official legal treaty port on traditional Chinese soil that will form a long-term Western settlement.

The first mainstream direct democracy party to be registered with any country's electoral commission against each country's register is the UK's People's Administration Direct Democracy party.

TGG Direct has released the first season of the series on August 28, 2012.

Direct literary models were available from a number of sources, including F. V. Dickins ’ s 1866 Hyak nin is ’ shiu, or, Stanzas by a Century of Poets, Being Japanese Lyrical Odes, the first English-language version of the Hyakunin isshu, a 13th-century anthology of 100 tanka, the early 20th-century critical writings and poems of Sadakichi Hartmann, and contemporary French-language translations.

Direct action tactics have been around for as long as conflicts have existed but it is not known when the term first appeared.

The telephone industry made a United States " first " in Englewood with the introduction of what is known now as Direct distance dialing ( DDD ).

Williams lost her first match at the Direct Line International Championships in Eastbourne on grass before losing to eventual champion and World No. 3 Jana Novotná in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon.

The first, the Retort Courteous ; the second, the Quip Modest ; the third, the Reply Churlish ; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant ; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome ; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance ; the seventh, the Lie Direct '.

New engines included the first Turbocharged Direct Injection ( TDI ) diesel engine in a Golf, and a narrow-angle 2. 8 L VR6 engine.

* Direct manipulation interfaces ( 1985 ) in collaboration with E. L. Hutchins ( first author ) and J. D.

In 1992, St. Paul's College was the first aided school to opt for the Direct Subsidy Scheme.

In response to the first of these, Sifton in 1913 introduced the Direct Democracy Act.

Three versions of the Riddler have appeared in the DC Direct line, two based on his first appearance and one based on his look in the " Hush " storyline.

In addition, Yoopa launches, as Yoopa makes the first satellite TV debut solely on Shaw Direct since Big Ten in December 2008, and the first TV channel to debut under the Shaw Direct name but not on rival Bell TV.

The book details Zubrin's Mars Direct plan to make the first human landing on Mars.

* Mid-January – Direct flights to China are set to resume for the first time in 40 years after diplomatic talks between the two countries.

In 1958 he joined the first Aldermaston march, organised by the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War.

* 1951: Direct Distance Dialing ( DDD ) first offered at Englewood, New Jersey, to 11 selected major cities across the United States ; this service grew rapidly across major cities during the 1950s