One of the best examples of a local currency is the original LETS currency, founded on Vancouver Island in the early 1980 ’ s.

Another early commercial model was the six-button Microwriter, designed by Cy Endfield and Chris Rainey, and first sold in 1980.

In early 1980, they recorded and released the single " Holiday in Cambodia ".

Parton's commercial success continued to grow during 1980, with three number-one hits in a row: the Donna Summer-written " Starting Over Again ", " Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You ", and " 9 to 5 ", which topped the country and pop charts in early 1981.

Starting in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, several types of video production equipment were introduced, such as time base correctors ( TBC ) and digital video effects ( DVE ) units ( one of the former being the Thomson-CSF 9100 Digital Video Processor, an internally all-digital full-frame TBC introduced in 1980, and two of the latter being the Ampex ADO, and the Nippon Electric Corporation ( NEC ) DVE ).

Towards the end of the year, Bowie and Angela initiated divorce proceedings, and after months of court battles the marriage was ended in early 1980.

Such earthquakes can serve as an early warning of volcanic eruptions, as during the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980.

The Electric Light Orchestra Story, Bev Bevan's memoirs from his early days and throughout his career with The Move and ELO, were also published in 1980.

Lineker began scoring prolifically in the early 1980s, helping Leicester win promotion to the First Division in 1980 and again in 1983.

The Marxist FUTH, with an estimated 16, 000 members in the early 1990s, was first organized in 1980 by three communist-influenced unions, but did not receive legal status until 1988.

In early times, horror films such as My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ), Halloween ( 1978 ), and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) pertained mostly to a male audience in order to " feed the fantasies of young men ".< ref name = Nowell > Their main focus was to express the fear of women and show them as monsters ; however, this ideal is no longer prevalent in horror films .< ref name = Williams > Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films.

In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee created ENQUIRE, an early hypertext database system somewhat like a wiki but without hypertext punctuation, which was not invented until 1987.

After the betting scandal of the early 1980 ( the Calcio Scommesse scandal ) it was decided to clean up the image of Italian football by assigning referees randomly instead of picking them, in order to clear up all the suspicions and accusations always accompanying Italy's football life.

An early Kemp tax reform attempt was an unsuccessful 1979 proposal to index tax brackets for cost of living fluctuations, which was incorporated in Reagan's 1980 package.

In the early 1980s, according to David Stockman, Kemp persuaded Reagan to make a 30 % across-the-board tax cut a central 1980 presidential campaign feature.

In the aftermath of a war that had for the first time properly engaged Sartre in political matters, he set forth a body of work which " reflected on virtually every important theme of his early thought and began to explore alternative solutions to the problems posed there " ( Aronson 1980: 121 ).

Another early rap group with all Latino members was La Familia, formed in 1980.

This idea of the infinite, of the unreal, of the innocence dying ..." — Robert Smith 2003 ( about the Peake character that inspired the early Cure song The Drowning Man in 1980 )

" A number of original recordings also were released in this way in the 1970s and early 1980s, such as " Gall in the Family Fare " ( a parody of All in the Family ), a single entitled " Makin ' Out ," the octuple-grooved track " It's a Super Spectacular Day ," which had eight possible endings, the spoken word Meet the Staff insert, and a six-track, 30-minute Mad Disco EP ( from the 1980 Special of the same title ) that included a disco version of " It's a Gas.

His succession had been decided as early as 1980, with the support of the military and party apparatus.

Wanting to complete the line-up with someone they knew well and whose musical skill and style was compatible with their own, New Order invited Morris's girlfriend, Gillian Gilbert from Macclesfield, to join the band during the early part of October 1980, as keyboardist and guitarist.

As part of a study launched in 1980 by Ambio, a journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Paul Crutzen and John Birks circulated a draft paper in early 1982 with the first quantitative evidence of alterations in short-term climate after a nuclear war.

During the band's early years, Peart's lyrics were largely fantasy / science fiction-focused, though since 1980 he has focused more on social, emotional, and humanitarian issues.

An early work which would mark their difference from the then dominant postmodern classicism of the late 1970s, was their contribution to the Venice Biennale of 1980, curated by Italian architect Paolo Portoghesi, titled " Presence of the Past ".

During 1979 and early 1980, eight more ships were added, including six built in Yugoslavia and two in Denmark.

Telidon-based teletext was tested in a few North American trials in the early 1980s — CBC IRIS, TVOntario, MTS-sponsored Project IDA, to name a few.

* F. R. O. G., a TV series which aired on TVOntario in the early 1990s, starring Lani Billard

ASN provided 16 hours of educational programming each weekend from 6: 00 a. m. to 2: 00 p. m. and ten hours every Monday to Friday morning from 4: 00 a. m. to 6: 00 a. m. ( In the early years, some TVOntario programs were carried on ASN, such as Polka Dot Door, Today's Special and Fast Forward.

He joined the Ontario Educational Communications Authority ( later TVOntario ) in the early 1970s as a manager and, in 1974, was assisting with the establishment of its regional councils, when he was told OECA had acquired the broadcast rights to three Ingmar Bergmann films and was asked if he had any ideas on how the station could air them in an educational context.

In a controversial announcement, TVOntario, the program's producer, cancelled the series in early 2005.

In the early 1980s, Daynard hosted a television series discussing and reviewing feature films for the Ontario educational television network TVOntario.

Many of Alcott's educational principles are still used in classrooms today, including " teach by encouragement ", art education, music education, acting exercises, learning through experience, risk-taking in the classroom, tolerance in schools, physical education / recess, and early childhood education.

In Europe, the grammar school or academy existed from as early as the 16th century ; public schools or fee-paying schools, or charitable educational foundations have an even longer history.

His reactions to the prevailing theories and practices in education, corrections made to these philosophies, and recommendations to teachers and administrators to embrace “ the new education ,” provide a vital account of the history of the development of educational thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 4 Dewey placed so called pragmatism above moral absolutes and helped give rise to situational ethics.

During his career as a director, he retained an early ambition to teach science, and after his career declined in the 1950s he made some educational TV films related to science subjects.

Polgár and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and International Master Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age.

She implemented four major initiatives: Take Time For Kids, an awareness campaign to educate parents and caregivers on parenting ; family literacy, through cooperation with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, she urged Texas communities to establish family literacy programs ; Reach Out and Read, a pediatric reading program ; and Ready to Read, an early childhood educational program.

There were significant improvements for black and other races in the early 20th century as the descendants of former slaves, who had had no educational opportunities, grew up in the post Civil War period and often had some chance to obtain a basic education.

Although Shakespearean experts disparaged Ogburn's methodology and his conclusions, one reviewer, Richmond Crinkley, the Folger Shakespeare Library's former director of educational programs, acknowledged the appeal of Ogburn's approach, writing that the doubts over Shakespeare, " arising early and growing rapidly ", have a " simple, direct plausibility ", and the dismissive attitude of established scholars only worked to encourage such doubts.

His poetry shares with much of the work of the early 5th century, an ornateness of style that classicists of the 18th and 19th century found cloying and dismissed as decadent — though Paulinus ' poems were highly regarded at the time and used as educational models.

* Stephan Wassong, Pierre de Coubertin ´ s American studies and their importance for the analysis of his early educational campaign.

In the late 1960s and early 70s, educational shows like Sesame Street, Vision On and The Electric Company routinely showed bits that involved Rube Goldberg devices, including the Rube Goldberg Alphabet Contraption, and the What Happens Next Machine.

Many educational games were created in the early years of game consoles, and created a template for games that involved thinking and strategy without any action or adventure.

In the early 14th century, a geography encyclopedia called Geographica Universalis was compiled at Malmesbury Abbey in England, which was in turn used as a source for one of the most widely-circulated medieval English educational works, Polychronicon by Ralph Higden, a few years later.

They regularly advertised their Rainbow, Radiant, Penguin and Educational brands of crayons in various art and educational catalogues and periodicals throughout the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Nearly all the early immigrants were young males with low educational levels from six districts in the Guangdong province.

In the early 1960s Palme became a member of the Agency for International Assistance ( NIB ) and was in charge of inquiries into assistance to the developing countries and educational aid.

Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the UK educational computer market during the 1980s and early 1990s.

By the early 1990s, the UK educational market began to turn away from the Archimedes.

( Cornell University Press ; 2012 ) 280 pages ; shows how Franciscans shifted away from an early emphasis on poverty and humility and instead emphasized educational roles

From its early days, the Boston YMCA offered educational classes.

During his early adulthood he was a radical Liberal Party member and a campaigner for educational reform.

Among the most popular were the Commodore PET which had a strong following in the new computer programming classes due to its tough all-in-one construction and built-in support for Microsoft BASIC, and the Apple II which had a wide variety of educational software, mostly aimed at early education.

Madison County's public educational system consists of one early college high school, one traditional high school, located in the county seat of Marshall, one middle school, and four elementary schools.

Maturationism is an early childhood educational philosophy that sees the child as a growing organism and believes that the role of education is to passively support this growth rather than actively fill the child with information.