The WIA sponsors or conducts various Australian and Australasian radio contests.

The NCIDC administers a Workforce Investment Act ( WIA ) program, previously called the JTPA, which is available to provide quality employment and training services to assist eligible individuals in finding and qualifying for meaningful employment, and to help employers find skilled workers.

* Job training, adult education, and workforce development initiatives, including those under the Workforce Investment Act ( WIA ), to help local communities train and retrain workers ;

WIA intended to improve the configuration and the user interface for interacting with scanners and such devices, ( which were previously supported by the TWAIN standard ) and simplify writing device drivers for developers.

WIA also includes support for USB still image capture device classes such as scanners and cameras through the Picture Transfer Protocol.

The WIA publishes a monthly journal for its membership called Amateur Radio.

Edwards ran a wholesale butchery business that supplied schools in Manchester ; WIA exposed practices of bribery of council officials and the supply of meat that was unfit for human consumption to such institutions ; Edwards ' businesses were subsequently prosecuted and lost their contracts.

Unusually for a current affairs programme, WIA's standard format was as a voice-over documentary without a regular reporter although a handful of WIA journalists did appear in front of camera, including Chris Kelly, Gordon Burns, John Pilger, Gus Macdonald, Anthony Wilson, Nick Davies, Adam Holloway, Stuart Prebble ( who later became the programme's editor ), Mike Walsh, David Taylor and Donal MacIntyre.

Among the more recent generation of film-makers to emerge from World in Action were Alex Holmes, who became editor of the BBC2 documentary strand Modern Times and went on to write and direct the Bafta-winning dramatised documentary series Dunkirk for the BBC ; and Katy Jones, a former WIA producer, who became a key collaborator with the screen writer Jimmy McGovern as a producer on his award-winning drama-documentaries Hillsborough and Sunday.

WIA was a starting point for several key programme-makers who went on to major roles in British broadcasting.

* Harris, Linda Recommendations for WIA Reauthorization Legislation: Title I Youth Provisions Center for Law and Social Policy, July 19, 2007

Several WIA staffers were promoted to significant roles in Granada Television, among them David Plowright, who became its chairman and later went on to become deputy chairman of Channel 4.

It is organised by the WIA, with operators in each Australian state contacting operators in other states, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.

Two UH-60 Blackhawks are shot down and the operation leaves over 1000 Somalians dead and over 73 Americans WIA, 19 KIA, and 1 captured.

Throughout the war, the regiment took a total of 1803 casualties, of which 158 were KIA, 557 were WIA ( 490 of whom recovered to some extent ), and 1088 MIA.

Within a few weeks of taking over operational control from the previous units, 2n Brigade began experiencing violent activity that began the WIA and KIA toll.

:: 502d Parachute Infantry Col. George V. H. Moseley, Jr. ( WIA 6 June )

Two UH-60 Blackhawks are shot down and the operation leaves over 1000 Somalians dead and over 73 Americans WIA, 19 KIA, and 1 captured.

The Wireless Institute of Australia ( WIA ) was formed in 1910, and is the first and oldest national amateur radio society in the world.

The 100th anniversary of the WIA was commemorated in 2010.

In most states, WICEN is organised by a committee of the WIA state organisation, but in New South Wales and Victoria, WICEN is separately incorporated.

The Scientologists tried failed to stop World in Actions broadcasts about them through the courts and in 1980, members of the programme's staff and senior executives at Granada TV announced that they would be prepared to go to prison rather than submit to a House of Lords ruling that the programme reveal the identity of an informant who had supplied WIA with 250 pages of secret documents from the then state-owned steel company British Steel.

More recent current affairs series on other channels, such as the MacIntyre series on BBC and Five, and Channel 4's Dispatches, commissioned by Dorothy Byrne, a former WIA producer, may be seen as having inherited certain aspects of World in Actions hard-hitting journalistic style.

The rise of Thatcherism and the misery of mass unemployment saw WIA examining the phenomenon through the eyes of another emerging band, UB40, in A Statistic, A Reminder ( 1981 ), a line taken from one of the band's songs.

Perhaps the most bruising encounter between WIA and popular entertainment was the 1995 film Black and Blue which featured a covert recording of a performance by the veteran comedian Bernard Manning as the star of a charity function organised by the Manchester branch of the Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers.

Manning's racist and homophobic performance, loudly applauded by those present, caused outrage when WIA broadcast excerpts, sparking an intense debate about the willingness of British police officers to embrace a diverse culture.

Those working on the series in its early years included Michael Apted, later to direct Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas in the Mist and the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, as well as the Up Series documentaries ( the earliest programmes were part of the WIA series ), and Mike Hodges, who went on to direct Get Carter and Flash Gordon.

The Safety Board maintains a training academy in Ashburn, Virginia, where it conducts courses for its employees and professionals in other government agencies, foreign governments or private companies, in areas such as general accident investigation, specific elements of investigations like survival factors or human performance, or related matters like family affairs or media relations.

It also conducts all formal course directed aircraft initial qualification / re-qualification training.

1st Battalion, 14th Aviation Regiment operates from Hanchey Army Heliport and conducts graduate level training using the AH-64D Apache Longbow and OH-58D Kiowa helicopters.

1st Battalion, 212th Aviation Regiment operates from Lowe Army Heliport and Shell Army Heliport and conducts combat and night operational training, using the OH-58, UH-1, and UH-60 helicopters.

1st Battalion, 223d Aviation Regiment operates from Cairns Army Airfield and Knox Army Heliport and conducts flight training using the CH-47 Chinook helicopter and C-12 Huron aircraft.

The 489th Reconnaissance Squadron conducts training, while the 427th is primarily the operational squadron.

The UNLV Rebels football team conducts its summer training camp in Ely, which provides a cooler place for August practices and prepares the team for the high altitude of most Mountain West Conference road games.

In an example of a company trying to do just this, Goldman Sachs conducts training programs that use actors to portray Millennials who assertively seek more feedback, responsibility, and involvement in decision making.

The NRC observes the National Nuclear Accrediting Board accrediting board meetings, and conducts audits and training inspections.

Combat Training School at SLNS ' Pandukabaya ' conducts combat training for Naval Patrolmen.

When not operationally deployed, HRT conducts full-time training for its members at various sites across the country.

It continuously conducts combat operations, operational test and evaluation, tactics development, and advanced training to warfighters.

In an effort to achieve their goal, the NINDS " supports and conducts research, both basic and clinical, on the normal and diseased nervous system, fosters the training of investigators in the basic and clinical neurosciences, and seeks better understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of neurological disorders.

These include Teen Help LLC, the marketing arm of WWASPS and the entity that processes admissions paperwork ; Teen Escort Service, a teen escort company that transports teenagers to WWASPS facilities ; R & B Billing, which does tuition billing and payment processing ; and Premier Educational Systems, LLC ( also called Premier Educational Seminars ), which conducts orientation and training workshops for parents whose children are in WWASPS facilities.

Today, Officer Candidate School in the Philippines were distributed on each armed services of the Armed Forces of the Philippines ( AFP )-Philippine Army, Philippine Air Force and Philippine Navy, these armed services conducts each of their officer's training annually on separate locations such as Philippine Air Force Aviation OCS in Fernando Air Base, Lipa City ; Philippine Army OCS in Camp O ' Donnell, Capas, Tarlac ; and Philippine Navy OCS in San Antonio, Zambales.

The wing conducts daily F-16 flight training to maintain its combat readiness edge.

Other Ateneo initiatives include Pathways to Higher Education, a response to the problem faced by academically-gifted yet financially-underprivileged youth who seek a college education ; and the Ateneo Center for Educational Development ( ACED ), which conducts national teacher and principal training programs.

While most of the orienteering training is done in pairs for safety reasons, as in every other unit in the IDF, Sayeret Matkal is one of the handful of IDF units which conducts long-range solo navigation exercises.

Now, the Company supports charities, including Vision Aid Overseas, and research in the field of optics and conducts training and professional development including the two-year correspondence course for optical technicians that has national accredication in the British National Qualifications Framework.

The Champions of Character conducts clinics and has developed an online training course to educate athletes, coaches, and athletic administrators with the skills necessary to promote character development in the context of sport.

The college also conducts Nursing, Pharmacy, Lab technician training, training of Radiological Assistants and Ophthalmic Assistants.

The Academy offers practitioner-oriented courses at the Institute ’ s headquarters in Washington and elsewhere, conducts conflict management workshops and training in conflict zones abroad, and serves as an education resource for professionals, teachers, and students around the world preparing to work in and on conflict zones.

It conducts training in joint space fundamentals and associated computer maintenance.

The group also conducts qualification and orientation training for Air Force Space Command ( AFSPC ) staff and senior-level personnel, as well as instructor enhancement in support of operational units.