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.

As part of its Midtown Direct expansion program, New Jersey Transit, with supplemental funding from the Township of Montville, renovated the Towaco Train Station using a design hearkening back to the early 1900s.

The College recently announced its intention to become a Direct Subsidy Scheme ( DSS ) School, an historic change to the College as it will free the school from the centralised funding system that currently administers secondary education in Hong Kong.

The College recently announced its intention to become a Direct Subsidy Scheme ( DSS ) School, an historic change to the College as it will free the school from the centralised funding system that currently administers secondary education in Hong Kong.

Although the government also has the Direct Subsidy Scheme ( DSS ) to provide funding to schools which operate more independently than typical local schools, most DSS schools were formerly top-tier local schools and continue to offer the local curriculum.

Under Ha ’ s leadership, St. Paul ’ s College underwent several major projects, including renovations and restructuring of the school premises as well as changes to the school management and funding structure, by participation in the Direct Subsidy Scheme in 2002.

Organisations that had previously opposed British nuclear weapons supported CND, including the British Peace Committee, the Direct Action Committee, the National Committee for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Tests and the Quakers.

Direct negotiations to determine the permanent status of Gaza and the West Bank had begun in September 1999 after a three-year hiatus, but have been derailed by the al-Aqsa Intifada that began in September 2000.

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.

This is a collection of fifteen selected non-fiction entries that had been published in Analog magazine over the years ; it includes five articles authored or co-authored by Zubrin, including " The Hypersonic Skyhook ", " Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet " ( co-authored with David A. Baker ), " Colonizing the Outer Solar System ", " Terraforming Mars " ( co-authored with Christopher McKay ), and " The Magnetic Sail ".

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.

He had been outraged by Jinnah's Direct Action campaign, which had provoked communal violence across India and by the viceroy's vetoes of his home department's plans to stop the violence on the grounds of constitutionality.

Borders Group announced on July 1, 2011, that it had found a bidder, Direct Brands, that would acquire the assets for $ 215 million and the assumption of $ 220 million in debt.

Direct astrophotography had an early role in sky surveys and star classification but over time it has given way to more sophisticated equipment and techniques designed for specific fields of scientific research, with film ( and later astronomical CCD cameras ) becoming just one of many forms of sensor.

Direct telegraph transmission was not possible because the British had cut the German cables in the Atlantic.

To expanding its retail banking business overseas, rather than create a branch network, it used the direct banking business model it had develop with NMB Postbank to launch an overseas direct banking businesses called ING Direct.

As recently as July 2011, ING Direct Canada had over 1. 7 million clients, employed over 900 people and had over US $ 37. 6 billion in assets.

On 2 February 2009 it was announced that the brothers ' Shop Direct Group had purchased the Woolworths and Ladybird brand names for an undisclosed amount, from the failed Woolworths Group's administrators Deloitte.

A survey by British insurance company Direct Line found that 58 % of families played I spy, and 65 % of the parents consulted had played it on journeys as a child.

Shaw Direct is a direct broadcast satellite television distributor in Canada which is majority-owned by cable TV operator Shaw Communications Inc. As of 2010, Shaw Direct had over 900, 000 subscribers.

Kodak's chemistry kit for reversing Panatomic-X (" Direct Positive Film Developing Outfit ") used sodium bisulfate in place of sulfuric acid in the bleach, and used a fogging developer that was inherently unstable, and had to be mixed and used within a two hour period.

In 1983, Northwestern Bell and AT & T in conjunction with Telesystems and First Data Resources / WATS Marketing, developed a method to use Direct Inward Dialing ( DID ) to handle traffic so call centers no longer had to have dedicated lines or trunk groups as they are called, to handle each telephone number.

Shortly after take off, XM598, commanded by Squadron Leader John Reeve, suffered a pressurisation failure ( a rubber seal on the " Direct Vision " side window had perished ) and was forced to return to Ascension.

; Direct frequency synthesis: Early channelized communication radios had multiple crystals-one for each channel on which they could operate.

Direct Rule did not mean that the people of Northern Ireland had no democratic say in how they were governed ; like other parts of the United Kingdom they elected ( and still elect ) members of parliament to the Parliament of the United Kingdom to which the Northern Ireland Office is responsible.

* Direct railway via Kilmarnock: the Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway, opened on 26 June 1873, and operated as a joint line with the Caledonian Railway ( CR ); it had been the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilson Direct Railway, with a Kilmarnock " extension ".

Direct proportionality of the rate to the incident intensity has also been assumed in obtaining the value in the last column for the fourth sample of series 2, where the light intensity was reduced by use of a screen.

Direct information has been obtained from rockets and satellites equipped with impact sensors.

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.

Since the Referendum on the Direct Election of the President of the French Republic, 1962, the President has been directly elected by universal suffrage ; he or she was previously elected by an electoral college.

Belldandy explains that Skuld uses a type of magic called Direct Manipulation, and has been able to unconsciously access this ability since the very beginning.

In the War on Terror, SEALs have been utilized almost exclusively for land-based operations, including Direct Action, Hostage Rescue, Counter Terrorism, Special Reconnaissance, unconventional warfare, manhunts and foreign internal defense operations.

A number of services have been withdrawn due to Dublin Bus ' Network Direct route restructuring programme.

However, the authors of DC ++ have been actively working on a complete replacement of the Direct connect protocol called Advanced Direct Connect.

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

Direct action has also been used on a smaller scale.

Direct travel between mainland China and Kinmen re-opened in 2001, and there has been extensive tourism development on the island in anticipation of mainland tourists.

One is now a David Lloyd leisure centre, whilst the other has been adapted as the headquarters of the Shop Direct Group, and is now known as Skyways House.

Direct broadcast satellite service has been available since the late 1980s with the arrival of free-to-air satellite Astra and subscription service Sky Television.

Transactional payments have been popular in Asia and Europe but are now being overtaken by other mobile payment methods such as mobile web payments ( WAP ), mobile payment client ( Java ME, Android ...) and Direct Mobile Billing for a number of reasons:

In 1994 it adopted its current name, having previously been the Direct Action Movement since 1979, and before that the Syndicalist Workers ' Federation since 1950.

Lockheed Martin won the initial contract to provide DMLGBs to the US Navy ( USN ) in 2005, however subsequent-year money has been " zeroed " in favor of a follow-on Direct Attack Moving Target Capability ( DAMTC ) program.

Once a truly successful model has been designed, the aim is to sell the houses in conjunction with the “ 502 Direct Loan ” provided by the Rural Housing Service.

It has been announced that Argos, Sports Direct, Walter Wall and Coral will be relocated to another part of Castle Dene but the temporary relocations of the health centre, the youth centre and the sorting office have not been currently announced.