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However, it is superior to the nearest equivalent rank of sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy.
The equivalent rank in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force was "section officer".
The term "flying officer" was originally used in the Royal Flying Corps as a flying appointment for junior officers, not a rank.
On 1 April 1918, the newly created RAF adopted its officer rank titles from the British Army, with Royal Naval Air Service sub-lieutenants (entitled flight sub-lieutenants) and Royal Flying Corps lieutenants becoming lieutenants in the RAF.
However, with the creation of the RAF's own rank structure on 1 August 1919, RAF lieutenants were re-titled flying officers, a rank which has been in continuous use ever since.
The rank title does not imply that an officer in the rank of flying officer flies.
Some flying officers are aircrew, but many are ground branch officers.
Amongst the ground branches some flying officers have command of flights.
In the RAF, aircrew and engineer officers are commissioned directly into the rank of flying officer, while ground branches are commissioned as pilot officers for an initial period of six months.
Time served in the rank of flying officer varies depending on branch before automatic promotion to flight lieutenant; aircrew and BEng qualified officers will serve for a period of 2½ years, MEng qualified engineers for 1½ years, and all other ground branches for 3½ years.
A graduate entrant who has an MEng but is joining a ground branch other than engineer will serve 3½ years as a flying officer – the early promotion for MEng engineers is designed as a recruitment incentive.
The starting salary for a flying officer is £30,616.80 per year.
In many cases the rank of flying officer is the first rank an air force officer holds after successful completion of his professional training.
A flying officer might serve as a pilot in training, an adjutant, a security officer or an administrative officer and is typically given charge of personnel and/or resources.
By the time aviators have completed their training, they will have served their 2½ years and typically join their frontline squadrons as flight lieutenants.
The rank insignia consists of one narrow blue band on slightly wider black band.
This is worn on both the lower sleeves of the tunic or on the shoulders of the flying suit or the casual uniform.
The rank insignia on the mess uniform is similar to the naval pattern, being one band of gold running around each cuff but without the Royal Navy's loop.
The rank of flying officer is also used in a number of the air forces in the Commonwealth, including the Bangladesh Air Force, Indian Air Force (IAF), Pakistan Air Force (PAF), Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF).
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) used the rank until unification of the three armed services into the Canadian Forces in 1968 and army-type ranks were adopted.
RCAF personnel holding this rank then switched to the rank of lieutenant.
In official French Canadian usage, a flying officer's rank title was "lieutenant d'aviation".
Although the RCAF again became a named organization in the Canadian Forces in 2011, the RCAF continued to retain army-type ranks.
The rank of "warrant flying officer" was also used by the air service of the Imperial Japanese military.
This rank is the equivalent of a lieutenant in the Royal Malaysian Air Force.
Colón (currency)
The colón (₡) refers to two Central American currencies:
The symbol for the colón is "₡", written as a capital letter C crossed by two diagonal strokes.
In Unicode, it is at code point and may be typed on many English language Microsoft Windows keyboards with the shortcut +.
When Did You Leave Heaven
When Did You Leave Heaven is an album by Swedish singer Lisa Ekdahl.
It was released in 1997 by BMG and by RCA records, and a special edition was released on Phantom Records.
Institute of Technology (California/Oregon)
Institute of Technology is a vocational school operating in California and Oregon.
Several career training programs are offered at its four campus locations at Clovis, Modesto, Redding, and Salem, Oregon.
Institute of Technology started as Fresno Institute of Technology.
Later the name was shortened to the Institute of Technology.
The school now operates three California campuses (Clovis, Modesto, Redding) and one in Salem, Oregon.
The institute is operated by Modesto-based Select Education Group.
Four main program fields are taught: Culinary, Technical, Medical, and Business fields.
Within each field, students are given the opportunity to specialize in specific areas.
For example, they have the opportunity to become a Culinary Arts Specialist, Network Support Technician, Pharmacy Technician, Licensed Vocational Nurse, or Human Resource Administrator.
Institute of Technology is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC).
The Salem campus is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training (ACCET).
Myshkin (town)
Myshkin () is a town and the administrative center of Myshkinsky District in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located on the steep left bank of the Volga.
Population:
A settlement at this location has existed since at least the 15th century.
Town status was granted to it in 1777.
It was demoted in status to that of an urban-type settlement in Soviet times, but was granted town status again in 1991.
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Myshkin serves as the administrative center of Myshkinsky District.
As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Myshkinsky District as the town of district significance of Myshkin.
As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Myshkin is incorporated within Myshkinsky Municipal District as Myshkin Urban Settlement.
The town attracts a significant number of tourists usually arriving by river cruise ships.
Myshkin retains architectural features characteristic for the 19th century Russia.
It also features a number of museums.
One of them is the unique Mouse Museum (the name of the town is derived from the word "" ("mysh") meaning "mouse" in Russian).
There are also a Museum of Valenki ("valenki" being a type of Russian felt boots), an ethnographic museum, an art gallery, an open air retro car museum and more.
College of Idaho
The College of Idaho (C of I) is a private liberal arts college in Caldwell, Idaho.
Founded in 1891, it is the state's oldest private liberal arts college, with an enrollment of 1,000 students.
The college has produced seven Rhodes Scholars, three governors and four NFL players.
Its PEAK Curriculum allows students to study in the four knowledge areas of humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and a professional field, enabling them to earn a major and three minors in four years.
For sixteen years, from November 1991 until October 2007, the C of I was known as Albertson College of Idaho.
The college was conceived in 1884 when the Presbyterian Church's Wood River Presbytery, meeting in Shoshone, formed a commission to examine the possibility of establishing a Presbyterian college somewhere in the Idaho Territory.
The commission found support for such a venture and in 1890 the Presbytery accepted an offer from a group of Caldwell citizens, led by William Judson Boone, to locate the institution in that community.
The college was founded in 1891 by Dr. Rev.
William Judson Boone with the support of the Wood River Presbytery.
It first opened its doors to students on October 7, 1891.
Nineteen students showed up at The College of Idaho for the first classes in 1891.
The first classes were held downtown in the Caldwell Presbyterian Church and a year later the college moved into its own downtown building.
The campus moved to its present site on the east side of town in 1910 when Henry and Carrie Blatchley donated of land.
Sterry Hall, a classroom and administration building, and Finney Hall, the first residence hall, were built that year.
Voorhees Hall, the second of what would become a total of five residence halls, opened two years later.
In 1893, it was incorporated under the laws of the State of Idaho and placed in the hands of a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees.
Dr. Boone served as president of the College for 45 years until his death in 1936.
In 1991, the college's board of trustees unanimously voted to change its name to Albertson College of Idaho to honor alumnus and long-time donor Joe Albertson and his wife Kathryn The couple, who founded one of the country's largest supermarket chains, Albertson's Inc., met in a chemistry class at C of I and were generous benefactors of the college.
At the time of the name change, the enrollment was
On October 10, 2007, college president Bob Hoover announced that the name would revert to The College of Idaho, with the mutual agreement of the J.A.
and Kathryn Albertson Foundation, to promote acceptance and gain financial backing from alumni who were unhappy about the original name change.
This coincided with a donation by the foundation to the college.
Seventy percent of its students are from Idaho, and international students comprise nearly 10% of the student body.
There are more than twenty states and forty countries represented.
The C of I maintains a 63% graduation rate, and there is a 12 to 1 student to faculty ratio; 85% of full-time faculty have their terminal degree.
The college has a medical school acceptance rate of more than 85%.
Minority students make up more than 20% of the student body, and more than one-third of the enrollment identifies as first-generation college students.
86% of freshman students move on to their sophomore year.
The college accepts 68% of applications.
More than 60% of students live on the close-knit, residential campus.
Approximately 40% of students are varsity athletes, and the male/female ratio is 48:52.
The college offers 26 undergraduate majors, 58 undergraduate minors, three graduate programs, and a variety of collaborative programs through 16 departments.
Popular majors include Biology, Business, History, Psychology, and Political Economy.
The college has been accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities since 1922.
Its teacher education program has been approved by the Idaho State Department of Education since 1913, and its graduates are eligible for certification in all states participating in the Interstate Certification Compact.
The college is accepted by, and the alumnae are eligible for, membership in the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
Collaborative programs between The College of Idaho and other institutions offer degrees from both with students spending three to four years at C of I and two to three years at the cooperating university.
Collaborative programs in health professions include: nursing, clinical lab science, speech and language pathology and audiology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, pharmacy, pharmaceutical science and public health.
Other collaborative programs include engineering and law.
"PEAK is The College of Idaho's highly distinctive, undergraduate curriculum.
PEAK allows students to graduate with an academic major and three minors in four years ...