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 conducts training sessions and has training materials for people wishing to become licensed Amateur Radio operators, conducts the testing using a system of accredited testers, and issues the authorisations for the ACMA to issue licenses.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 WIA sponsors or conducts various Australian and Australasian radio contests.

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

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.

The College also publishes each year The Report Of The Treasurer and a monthly newsletter entitled Carleton College Comments.

and it publishes Sum And Substance, a monthly newsletter, which reports the system's activities to the staffs and trustees of member libraries.

EuropeAxess Media, in liaison with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gibraltar, also publishes a monthly magazine: Upon This Rock

It also publishes the monthly Lundagård magazine.

* ALEC publishes a monthly magazine for its members entitled Inside ALEC.

The Institute for Business Cycle Analysis publishes a monthly consumer demand survey known as US Consumer Demand Indices.

The ISM publishes the monthly publication Inside Supply Management, which includes the purchasing surveys Manufacturing ISM Report On Business and the Non-Manufacturing ISM Report on Business, which debuted June 1998.

It manages the Pine Mountain Patrol, publishes a monthly newspaper, the Condor and keeps up various trails used for hiking and cross-country skiing.

The electronic Sarasota News Leader, founded in 2012, is a weekly, however it publishes breaking news daily ; Creative Loafing is published monthly.

Durant's KLBC publishes a monthly entertainment guide, The KLBC Buzz.

The Jerusalem Post also publishes a monthly magazine titled Ivrit.

It maintains a web site and discussion forum, publishes ( at irregular intervals ) an amateur magazine called Shangri L ' Affaires, and hosts the collations of a weekly amateur press association, APA-L, as well as its own official monthly publication, De Profundis, named for the club motto, De Profundis ad Astra (" From the Depths to the Stars ").

In addition to the monthly newsletter and daily updated global news archive, the CTBUH publishes a quarterly CTBUH Journal.

The Community operates its own telecom company, electric utility, industrial park and healthcare clinic, and publishes a monthly newspaper.

Besides the daily newspaper, the company also publishes the weekly Jugan Chosun, the monthly Wolgan San ( lit.

Among other things, Spiegel Verlag now publishes the monthly Manager Magazin.

Scripps publishes explorations now an award-winning monthly e-magazine of ocean and earth science.

It publishes the daily Hochi Shimbun, a sport-specific daily newspaper, as well as weekly and monthly magazines and books.

A 2006 New Yorker magazine article described Critical Mass ' activity in New York City as " monthly political-protest rides ", and characterized Critical Mass as a part of a social movement ; and the UK e-zine Urban75, which advertises as well as publishes photographs of the Critical Mass event in London, describes this as " the monthly protest by cyclists reclaiming the streets of London.

PCE publishes Mundo Obrero ( Workers World ) monthly.

* September 4, 1995 Stan Flack publishes the first monthly issue of MacCentral using DOCMaker.

The Anarchist Federation publishes the theoretical journal Organise !, as well as a monthly newsletter, Resistance and two series of pamphlets ; Anarchist Communist Editions and Stormy Petrel.

The institute also publishes a monthly e-newsletter titled KGP Konnexion for alumni.

The Mata Amritanandamayi Math also publishes Matruvani, a monthly spiritual magazine, as well as Immortal Bliss, a quarterly.