* Eugene Green Energy Standard, an international standard to which electricity labelling schemes can be accredited to confirm that they provide genuine environmental benefits

Commentator Jojo Robles of the Manila Standard Today cited the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant — the nation's single biggest debt and incurred during Marcos administration — which took 10 years to build at a cost of US $ 2. 3billion, and which to this day has not produced a single watt of electricity.

Standard town services followed including paved roads, gas and electricity, sewers, a slaughterhouse, cemetery and more.

In states with a Renewable Portfolio Standard, a RECs purchase enables the utility company to meet its minimum renewable electricity percentage without having to install that renewable generating capacity itself, regardless of the source of generating renewable energy.

The COPC-2000 CSP Standard can be downloaded for free and is " open source " meaning it can also be utilized within your contact centre as a service to the industry.

The DoD is required by law to " maintain a Standard Positioning Service ( as defined in the federal radio navigation plan and the standard positioning service signal specification ) that will be available on a continuous, worldwide basis ," and " develop measures to prevent hostile use of GPS and its augmentations without unduly disrupting or degrading civilian uses.

In order to classify a business as a service, one can use classification systems such as the United Nations's International Standard Industrial Classification standard, the United States ' Standard Industrial Classification ( SIC ) code system and its new replacement, the North American Industrial Classification System ( NAICS ), the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community ( NACE ) in the EU and similar systems elsewhere.

For purposes of finance and market research, market-based classification systems such as the Global Industry Classification Standard and the Industry Classification Benchmark are used to classify businesses that participate in the service sector.

An Internet Standard is characterized by a high degree of technical maturity and by a generally held belief that the specified protocol or service provides significant benefit to the Internet community.

The International Customer Service Standard ( TICSS ) has been developed by The International Customer Service Institute ( TICSI ) with the objective of making it the cornerstone global standard of customer service.

* Gold Keeps Shining, 40 Years After Nixon Ended Gold Standard, an April 2011 radio and Internet feature story by the Special English service of the Voice of America.

The Common Management Information Service ( CMIS ) is the service interface specified in ITU-T Recommendation X. 710, ISO / IEC International Standard 9595 that is employed by OSI network elements for network management.

It defines the service interface that is implemented by the Common Management Information Protocol ( CMIP ) as specified in ITU-T Recommendation X. 711, ISO / IEC International Standard 9596-1.

The Remote Operations Service Element ( ROSE ) is the OSI service interface, specified in ITU-T Recommendation X. 219, ISO / IEC International Standard 9072-1, that ( a ) provides remote operation capabilities, ( b ) allows interaction between entities in a distributed application, and ( c ) upon receiving a remote operations service request, allows the receiving entity to attempt the operation and report the results of the attempt to the requesting entity.

The Standard Time and Frequency Signal ( STFS ) is a time signal service available in the United States which provides standard time and frequency signals, broadcast on very precise carrier frequencies by the U. S. Naval Observatory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), formerly the National Bureau of Standards ( NBS ).

Standard Oil of California celebrated, among other things, the fact that the world's first service station opened in Seattle in 1907.

But by 2001 BP announced that all Amoco service stations would either be closed or renamed to BP service stations, including the remaining stations still bearing the " Standard " name.

In November 2004, the CBC, in partnership with Standard Broadcasting and Sirius Satellite Radio, applied to the CRTC for a license to introduce satellite radio service to Canada.

ITILv3 underpins ISO / IEC 20000 ( previously BS15000 ), the International Service Management Standard for IT service management, although differences between the two frameworks do exist.

The British Army did not purchase the Blindfire system until 1979, entering service with Rapier " Field Standard A " ( FSA ).

Emerging as " Rapier 2000 ", or " Field Standard C " ( FSC ) in British service, the system reached its ultimate form.

Ottie Cate ran a poultry and ice house, and Bill Shaver had the Standard Oil service station.

The county courthouse and historic jail building are on the north side near the Welcome Center in a historically maintained Standard Oil service station 1920 prototype.

Cliff Winslow operated the " Anchor Inn ," a small restaurant located on highway 60 that was owned by George and Beulah Loveland who owned and operated Loveland Standard Service next to it .. Chuck Carter owned the local propane service.

The method of infrastructure asset management is based upon the definition of a Standard of service ( SoS ) that describes how an asset will perform in objective and measurable terms.

The same is true if you have itemized your deductions and later decide you should have used the Standard Deduction or Tax Table.

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII, ;) is a character-encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet.

Austrian German (), or Austrian Standard German, is the national standard variety of the German language spoken in Austria and in the autonomous Province of South Tyrol ( Italy ).

As German is a pluricentric language, Austrian German is merely one among several varieties of Standard German.

With German being a pluricentric language, Austrian dialects should not be confused with the variety of Standard German spoken by most Austrians, which is distinct from that of Germany or Switzerland.

As a result, Standard German is replacing it in government and administrative texts.

The Advanced Encryption Standard ( AES ) is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U. S. National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) in 2002.

A RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh ( CG-67 ) | USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser | Ticonderoga-class cruiser.

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable ( from a total of 128 ) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters ( beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII

* 1882 – The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.

Received Pronunciation ( RP ) refers to a way of pronouncing Standard English that is actually used by about two percent of the UK population.

The deal is said to be worth £ 80 million over four years, replacing United's deal with AIG as the most lucrative shirt deal in history at the time, but it was later equalled when Standard Chartered Bank agreed a deal with Liverpool FC to pay £ 20 million a year over the same period.

Standard addition can be applied to most analytical techniques and is used instead of a calibration curve to solve the matrix effect problem.

The symbol for bit, as a unit of information, is either simply " bit " ( recommended by the ISO / IEC standard 80000-13 ( 2008 )) or lowercase " b " ( recommended by the IEEE 1541 Standard ( 2002 )).

The group is usually divided into two sub-groups: Western Baltic, containing only extinct languages, and Eastern Baltic, containing both extinct and the two living languages in the group: Lithuanian ( including both Standard Lithuanian and Samogitian ) and Latvian ( including both literary Latvian and Latgalian ).

Within the prevailing Standard Model of particle physics, the number of baryons may change in multiples of three due to the action of sphalerons, although this is rare and has not been observed under experiment.

It is the Technical Committees that, formally, approve a British Standard, which is then presented to the Secretary of the supervisory Sector Board for endorsement of the fact that the Technical Committee has indeed completed a task for which it was constituted.

The standards produced are titled British Standard XXXX: YYYY where XXXX is the number of the standard, P is the number of the part of the standard ( where the standard is split into multiple parts ) and YYYY is the year in which the standard came into effect.

This latter translation is preferred by the New Revised Standard Version.

This is a list of International Standard Book Numbers ( ISBNs ) for the Government edition of The World Factbook.