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.

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

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.

Dianne Nelmes, who worked as a researcher and executive producer of WIA, was the founding editor of Granada TV's hugely successful This Morning with Richard and Judy and went on to head daytime and factual programmes at ITV.

The operation ended in a complete failure, with the Finns capturing 1, 231 German prisoners ( of which 175 were wounded ) in addition to 153 Germans killed in action with Finns losing 36 KIA, 67 WIA and 8 MIA.

The Fighting 69th led with distinction the crossing of the Ourcq River July 28 – 31 and suffering 264 KIA ( including poet Sgt Joyce Kilmer ), 150 MIA, and 1200 WIA out of the 3000 man regiment in four days fighting.

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.

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.

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.

According to the German reports which are still stored at the Storage Center of National Document of Germany, from March 1942 to March 1942, the casualties of the 2nd, 4th, 9th, 2nd Panzer, 3rd Panzer and 4rd Panzer Army ( The 4rd Panzer Army only have data from March to April 1942 ) amount to 162, 713 KIA, 35, 650 MIA, 469, 747 WIA.

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.

The Russian armies suffered about 15 548 casualties ( 2007 KIA, 1448 MIA, 12 093 WIA ) However, despite the greater Japanese casualties ( 23, 615 killed, wounded or captured ), the Japanese were able to claim victory since the Russians quit the battlefield.

Out of 34 men in Compton ’ s 2nd Platoon, 12 were either wounded in action ( WIA ) or killed in action ( KIA ).

2nd Platoon had survived but at a significant cost ; out of the 29 men, nine were KIA and a further 13 WIA.

VC losses were 614 killed, Marine losses were 45 KIA and 203 WIA.

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.

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.

For US military members, becoming WIA in combat generally results in subsequent conferral of the Purple Heart, because the purpose of the medal-itself one of the highest awards officially given by the American government, military or civil-is to recognize those killed, incapacitated, or wounded in battle.

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.

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.

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

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.

If the fletching is not arranged to induce rotation, it will still improve accuracy by causing a restoring drag any time the arrow tilts away from its intended direction of travel.

The project was intended to improve telephone, internet, television and radio broadcast services throughout the country.

Automatic lead selection or lead steering is also intended to improve efficiencies, both for inbound and outbound campaigns, whereby inbound calls are intended to quickly land with the appropriate agent to handle the task, whilst minimizing wait times and long lists of irrelevant options for people calling in, as well as for outbound calls, where lead selection allows management to designate what type of leads go to which agent based on factors including skill, socioeconomic factors and past performance and percentage likelihood of closing a sale per lead.

Extreme Programming ( XP ) is a software development methodology which is intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements.

The program was intended to reduce costs, improve access to education and health care, and provide workers for modernized cod fisheries, which were growing rapidly at the time.

The Academy at St. Petersburg, established by Peter the Great, was intended to improve education in Russia and to close the scientific gap with Western Europe.

It was sold as Pentium with MMX Technology ( usually just called Pentium MMX ); although it was based on the P5 core, it featured a new set of 57 " MMX " instructions intended to improve performance on multimedia tasks, such as encoding and decoding digital media data.

The university's first president, Edgar Odell Lovett, intended for the campus to have a uniform architecture style to improve its aesthetic appeal.

Changes since Revision C have been in timing and details intended to improve harmonization with the CCITT standard V. 24, but equipment built to the current standard will interoperate with older versions.

In the 1860s and 1870s, Gladstonian Liberalism was characterised by a number of policies intended to improve individual liberty and loosen political and economic restraints.

Wapiti have been introduced into some European red deer herds to improve the Red Deer type, but not always with the intended improvement.

In 2001, Hyundai debuted a new evolution of the Accent WRC, which was intended to improve reliability, but the performance of the car was still not good enough to challenge the four big teams ( Ford, Mitsubishi, Peugeot and Subaru ).

This is intended to create environmentally sustainable buildings, open green spaces, two hotels, a conference centre, cafés, restaurants, and better transport facilities to improve links to Slough town centre and the surrounding residential areas.

Pulmonary rehabilitation is intended to educate the patient, the family, and improve the overall quality of life and prognosis for the patient.

Allende also intended to improve the socio-economic welfare of Chile's poorest citizens ; a key element was to provide employment, either in the new nationalised enterprises or on public work projects.

NERC's role in raising awareness of reliability issues and creating the impetus to address them is intended to improve reliability every day.

To the basic PS system, DPS adds a number of features intended to ease working with bitmapped displays and improve performance of some common tasks.

Milbury said that his moves were intended to improve the team immediately.

Hydrophobic coatings designed to ease cleaning are also available, as are anti-reflective coatings intended to reduce glare, improve night vision and make the wearer's eyes more visible.

This was intended to improve the government's financial management and develop standards of financial performance and disclosure.

The two states finally signed into law the long awaited Afghan-Pak Transit Trade Agreement in 2011, intended to improve trade.

The command was intended to uplink new battery charging software to improve the lander's deteriorating battery capacity, but it inadvertently overwrote data used by the antenna pointing software.

Ultimately linked to the palace by the Bridge of Sighs, the building was intended to improve the conditions for prisoners with larger and more light-filled and airy cells.