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Two satellite types are used for North American television and radio: Direct broadcast satellite ( DBS ), and Fixed Service Satellite ( FSS )
The definitions of FSS and DBS satellites outside of North America, especially in Europe, are a bit more ambiguous.
Because of this, the terms FSS and DBS are more so used throughout the North American continent, and are uncommon in Europe.
FSS satellites are also used to distribute national cable channels to cable television headends.
Free-to-air satellite TV channels are also usually distributed on FSS satellites in the K < sub > u </ sub > band.
Segments in most of The Americas are represented by ITU Region 2 from 11. 7 to 12. 2 GHz ( Local Oscillator Frequency ( LOF ) 10. 750 GHz ), allocated to the FSS ( fixed service satellite ), uplink from 14. 0 to 14. 5 GHz.
There are more than 22 FSS K < sub > u </ sub > band satellites orbiting over North America, each carrying 12 to 48 transponders, 20 to 120 watts per transponder, and requiring a 0. 8-m to 1. 5-m antenna for clear reception.
Segments in those regions are represented by ITU Region 1 and they are, the 11. 45 to 11. 7 and 12. 5 to 12. 75 GHz bands are allocated to the FSS ( fixed satellite service, uplink 14. 0 to 14. 5 GHz ).
This is important because satellites in FSS ( Fixed Satellite Service ) service ( 11. 7-12. 2GHz in the U. S .) are only 2 degrees apart.
The standard 18 " DBS antennas used by other providers are not compatible with this system as the signals differ in both frequency and polarization, because Shaw Direct is relayed via FSS satellites, Anik F1 and F2 in this case.
Foreign Service Specialist ( FSS ) candidates are evaluated by Subject Matter Experts for proven skills and recommended to the Board of Examiners for an oral assessment based on those skills.
Old PrimeStar satellite dishes are popular among hobbyists for free-to-air ( FTA ) satellite broadcasts on the K < sub > u </ sub > band transponders of FSS satellites.
Another structure which can exhibit subwavelength characteristics are frequency selective surfaces ( FSS ) known as Artificial Magnetic Conductors ( AMC ) or alternately called High Impedance Surfaces ( HIS ).
The people who communicate with pilots from an FSS are referred to as specialists rather than controllers, although in the US, FSS specialists ' official job title is " air traffic control specialist – station ".
There is no per-use charge for flight services, but aircraft owners are required to pay Nav Canada a daily or annual fee, depending on aircraft weight, to support all air traffic services, both FSS and air traffic control ( for a light private aircraft, the fee is approximately CAD 70 / year ).
Many of these airports have an onsite FSS that pilots are required to contact, while others have Remote Aerodrome Advisory Services ( RAAS ) provided by an FSS in a different location.
These FSS stations generally have limited hours and are no longer responsible for flight planning, except for sending departure and arrival messages to the appropriate FIC.
The FIC's also have large areas they are overseeing and have networks of RCO's, some of which are co-located with FSS or air traffic control sites.

FSS and currently
FSS systems currently in orbit have a huge capacity with a relatively low price structure.
The American Kennel Club does recognize the Russell Terrier, although currently the breed is listed within the Foundation Stock Service ( FSS ) which is not categorized into the Terrier group.

FSS and into
The breed is still relatively unknown in North America and not yet recognized as a breed in the USA or Canada, although it has been accepted into the AKC's FSS program and is assigned into the Sporting Group.
GSA reorganized in 2005 to merge the Federal Supply Service ( FSS ) and Federal Technology Service ( FTS ) business lines into the Federal Acquisition Service ( FAS ).
FSS president Terzić ( who would soon afterwards be indicted on embezzlement charges ) commented Mirković's resignation as follows: " Mirković is my mistake since I didn't know him well enough as a man before I brought him into the FSS.
Notably Mr Brokenshire led the closure of the UK's Forensic Science Service, with the loss of over 2000 jobs, which included skilled forensic / research scientists, many whom have since left the profession Science and Technology Committee Inquiries into FSS closure.

FSS and Office
The UK NDNAD is run by the Forensic Science Service ( FSS ), under contract to the Home Office.

FSS and Security
Established on December 25, 1921 and relaunched on August 24, 1992, this training academy of the Russian Federal Security Service is mandated for the enhanced education of all FSS personnel in various fields of law enforcement.

FSS and .
William Ewart Gladstone, FRS, FSS ( 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898 ) was a British Liberal statesman.
It was popularized by IBM's SDLC ( later renamed HDLC ), to ensure that the Frame Sync Sequence ( FSS ) never appears in a data frame.
An FSS is the method of frame synchronization used by HDLC to indicate the beginning and / or end of a frame.
The bit sequence " 01111110 " containing six adjacent 1 bits is commonly used as a " Flag byte " or FSS.
The American Dish Network DBS service has also recently utilized FSS technology as well for their programming packages requiring their SuperDish antenna, due to Dish Network needing more capacity to carry local television stations per the FCC's " must-carry " regulations, and for more bandwidth to carry HDTV channels.
Operating at lower frequency and lower power than DBS, FSS satellites require a much larger dish for reception ( 3 to 8 feet ( 1 to 2. 5m ) in diameter for K < sub > u </ sub > band, and 12 feet ( 3. 6m ) or larger for C band ).
FSS satellite technology was also originally used for DTH satellite TV from the late 1970s to the early 1990s in the United States in the form of TVRO ( TeleVision Receive Only ) receivers and dishes.
SES launched the Astra 1A satellite to provide services to homes across Europe receivable on dishes of just 60 cm-80 cm and, although these mostly used PAL video format and FSS frequencies with linear polarization, the DBS name slowly came to applied to all Astra satellites and services too.
To capitalize on these broadcasting assets, Dish Network started providing extensive ethnic programming from lower-powered satellites broadcasting in the non-DBS portion of the FSS band.
The SuperDish, Dish 500 +, and Dish 1000 + systems receive DBS signals from both of the primary 110 ° W and 119 ° W locations ( 129 ° W for Dish 1000 +) as well as lower-powered FSS signals from either 121 ° W, 105 ° W, or 118. 75 ° W.
The Dish 500 + and 1000 + systems receive circularly polarized signals in the non-DBS portion of the FSS band — the only American satellite television service to do so.

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As more men and women are made capable of living up to the challenge of decency the chances are improved that the pattern of predisposition prevailing in positions of strength in future crises can be favorably affected.
Their conclusions concerning the untrustworthiness of the West Saxon annals, the confused chronology of Bede, the unreliability of the early positions of the Anglo-Saxon genealogies and the mythological elements contained in Nennius are now mostly accepted.
In addition to this the U. S. Civil Service Bureau, when examining applicants for government positions as interior designers, expects that `` when various needed objects are not obtainable on the market he will design them.
Actually, there are a number of individual-contributor positions in both operating departments and in the company-wide `` services '' operation that are filled by men with successful managerial experience who are currently broadening their capabilities.
Under this assumption the space group must be Af and the following are the positions of the atoms in the unit cell.
If the Af bond is linear then there are three reasonable positions for the hydrogen atoms: ( 1 ) The hydrogen atoms are centered and hence all lie on a sheet midway between the oxygen sheets ; ;
There are several causes for this, one being rapid economic development with increasing numbers of of middle-class positions requiring engineering or scientific training.
And the fact remains that there are today few shining examples of Negroes in positions of intellectual leadership.
Therefore, the only conceivable alternatives are those represented, on the one hand, by the two at least apparently self-consistent but mutually exclusive positions of Buri and Barth and, on the other hand, by the third but really pseudo position ( analogous to a round square ) of Bultmann.
Early examples of attempts to capture the phenomenon of motion drawing can be found in paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting to convey the perception of motion.
More advanced methods of locating objects in the sky include telescope mounts with setting circles, which assist with pointing telescopes to positions in the sky that are known to contain objects of interest, and GOTO telescopes, which are fully automated telescopes that are capable of locating objects on demand ( having first been calibrated ).
Traditional printed sources are subtitled by the ' epoch year, which refers to the positions of celestial objects at a given time to the nearest year ( e. g., J2005, J2007 ).
These measured positions are then compared with those calculated by the laws of celestial mechanics: an assembly of calculated positions is often referred to as an ephemeris, in which distances are commonly calculated in astronomical units.
Only the product is required to calculate planetary positions for an ephemeris, which explains why ephemerides are calculated in astronomical units and not in SI units.
The numerals are arranged with their lowest value digit to the right, with higher value positions added to the left.
The Arabic numeral glyphs 0-9 are encoded in ASCII and UTF-8 at positions 0x30 to 0x39, matching up with the second hex-digit for convenience:

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