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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In addition, LLNL conducts work-for-others research and development for various Defense Department sponsors, other federal agencies, including NASA, Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ), National Institutes of Health, and Environmental Protection Agency, a number of California State agencies, and private industry.

It also conducts educational programs such as workshops for high school debate students and sponsors MichiganVotes. org, a comprehensive online legislative voting record database.

The Library of Congress sponsors the Federal Research Division ( FRD ) which conducts a great deal of tailored open-source research on a fee-for-service basis for the executive branch.

The NAIA sponsors 13 sports in which it conducts 23 annual championships ( 12 for men, 11 for women ).

As proponents of the concept of public-private partnerships ( PPP's ), The Council conducts research, publishes findings, facilitates forums for discussion and sponsors an Annual Conference on topics related to PPP's, both domestic and international.

In addition to publishing the magazine, the Society also sponsors lecture series at the California Institute of Technology, produces and sells tapes of the lectures, as well as other books on pertinent subjects, holds field trips to investigate and research such subjects, conducts social events to promote good-will, and provides resources for the public, skeptic organizations ( such as SkeptiCamp ) and the media, with which they may approach controversial subjects from a skeptical viewpoint.

LSAC processes academic credentials for an average of 85, 000 law school applicants annually, provides essential software and information for admission offices and applicants, conducts educational conferences for law school professionals and prelaw advisors, sponsors and publishes research, funds diversity and other outreach grant programs, and publishes LSAT preparation books and websites and law school guides, among many other services.

It sponsors three annual conferences that allow members to share best practices, conducts research into topics of concern and provides benchmarking data for members.

Led by Director Carolyn M. Clancy, M. D., AHRQ sponsors, conducts, and disseminates research to help people make more informed decisions and improve the quality of health care services.

The program sponsors an annual writing contest, publishes a free handbook for prisoners, provides one-on-one mentoring to inmates whose writing shows merit or promise, conducts workshops for former inmates, and seeks to get inmates ' work to the public through literary publications and readings.

* Autism Speaks – the world's largest autism advocacy organization that sponsors autism research and conducts awareness and outreach activities aimed at families, governments, and the public.

* Autism Speaks – the world's largest autism advocacy organization that sponsors autism research and conducts awareness and outreach activities aimed at families, governments, and the public.

LICR sponsors and conducts its own early-phase clinical trials in potential antibody-based and cancer vaccine therapies.

Advertising messages are usually paid for by sponsors and viewed via various traditional media ; including mass media such as newspaper, magazines, television commercial, radio advertisement, outdoor advertising or direct mail ; or new media such as blogs, websites or text messages.

The Association of Southern Forestry Clubs, for example, sponsors an annual Forestry Conclave with 250 contestants in various events.

Established in 1997, the Allegan Area Arts Council is a vibrant organization that sponsors various artistic activities in and around Allegan.

The town church, St. Michael's Lutheran Church, sponsors various activities in the town also.

Under various sponsors ( and two different networks ), they were on the air from May 9, 1937 to July 1, 1956.

They also serve as sponsors for the various classes ( freshmen, sophomore, etc.

Depending on the kind of participants required, sponsors of clinical trials use various recruitment strategies, including patient databases, newspaper and radio advertisements, flyers, posters in places the patients might go ( such as doctor's offices ), and personal recruitment of patients by investigators.

The 47 car was sponsored in 2010 by various brands owned by Little Debbie, Clorox, and Kimberly-Clark, all sponsors returned.

The club sponsors an association football ( soccer ) team which competes in the Portuguese Football Federation's 2nd Division — Series C. The team plays at Campo da Mata, a 13, 000-seat field located in a forest adjacent to Parque D. Carlos I. CSC also sponsors several youth ( junior ) football teams for various age groups.

Other floors in the tower are occupied by various organisations and commercial companies, including Environment Agency, Altitude 360 London, free software promotion company Canonical Ltd .,-the company that sponsors the Ubuntu project ; the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, the UK India Business Council, the Audit Commission ( soon to be wound up by Eric Pickles ), event caterers Salt and Pepper, Private Food Design and the firm Lewis PR.

Lindenwood also sponsors a wide variety of sports not sponsored by the NCAA that compete in various other sport governing bodies and conferences.

The organization sponsors youth sports programs throughout the country and has constructed more than fifty football pitches in various cities and towns.

The company participates in various policy and civic leadership groups, such as TechNet, and sponsors independent third-party research and publications, such as the journal Nature.

Marlboro are generally credited as being among the most important of sponsors to the world of Formula 1 ( and motor racing in general ) in terms of the amount of financial backing given to various competitors.

The book Tour: Smart, featured contributions from Henry Rollins, Cynthia Plastercaster, The Enigma, the Suicide Girls, Zim Zum ( formerly of Marilyn Manson ), Kevin Lyman, Curse Mackey and various other managers, journalists, venues, agents, sponsors, and radio personalities.

The programme led various sponsors to withdraw their participation in Crufts and the BBC eventually dropped Crufts 2009 from its coverage.

Today the parade is funded by various corporate sponsors ( including McDonalds, Canadian Tire, Lowes, Sears Canada, and Tim Horton's ) that are featured in the floats.

The group runs and sponsors various initiatives, and runs the annual ShmooCon conference, which was founded in 2005.

The Tiger Award has had various sponsors over the years.

In the only warm up match before the series — against a Jamaican XI, the Australians drew controversy from various sections of the media as they chose to wear a sponsors cap over the traditional Baggy Green cap.

USA Jump Rope sponsors various regional competitions and a national competition at Walt Disney World's Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida every June.

The fraternity sponsors various programming including ethical leadership development through its LEAD program and philanthropic events through its Helping Hand Initiative.

UAB Hospital sponsors residency programs in various medical specialties, including internal medicine, neurology, surgery, radiology, and anesthesiology.