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The school is open all year round except for major holidays.
The predominant areas of study at the downtown campus are business and media, computing and information, and international student entry programs.
It was opened to allow for a greater number of students in part-time studies.
The Great Northern Way Campus (GNWC) Heavy Equipment programs have been moved to Annacis Island, and BCIT's interests in the shared campus have been sold to allow a new Emily Carr University to be built on the site.
Located on Annacis Island in the City of Delta, this 142,000-square-foot facility is home to motive power programs offered by BCIT and Vancouver Community College.
Programs at Annacis Island Campus train heavy-duty mechanics, transport trailer mechanics, diesel mechanics, commercial transportation mechanics, railway conductors and forklift operators.
BCIT has six Schools providing full-time and part-time studies in a variety of subjects.
BCIT also has a Technology Centre which undertakes and coordinates applied research, and provides technology transfer and commercialization assistance.
BCIT has a unique education philosophy which sets it apart from typical post-secondary institutions.
BCIT focuses on the practical aspects of studies, as opposed to theoretical.
Thus, the students get an exceptional amount of hands-on experience while in school.
For example, the school has:
In June 2010, the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) granted national accreditation to BCIT's Civil Engineering Bachelor of Engineering program.
This represented a milestone as the first accreditation of a non-university Civil Engineering program in Canada.
In 2011, the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board granted national accreditation to BCIT's Bachelor of Electrical Engineering program, and the school's Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering program was accredited in 2014.
The British Columbia Institute of Technology Student Association (BCITSA) is a student-led society that exists to serve the school's student body.
It is dedicated to the social and academic support and advocacy of all students attending BCIT.
The BCITSA is active on all five campuses, but operates primarily out of the Burnaby campus
The Student newspaper at BCIT is monthly and called "The Link."
To date, BCIT has more than 170,000 alumni and over 4,000 new graduates each year.
Some notable attendees include Canadian MP Chuck Cadman, Georgian Cabinet member Vera Kobalia, Gemini Award-winning journalist Gloria Macarenko, Internet entrepreneur , Esports professional Harish Anantharajah, field hockey player Rob Short, and actress Teejay Sidhu.
Notable faculty members include Henry C. Gunning, Hassan Farhangi, and Mark Angelo.
1940 Armistice Day Blizzard
The Armistice Day Blizzard (or the Armistice Day Storm) took place in the Midwest region of the United States on November 11 (Armistice Day) and November 12, 1940.
The intense early-season ""panhandle hook"" winter storm cut a 1,000-mile-wide (1600 km) swath through the middle of the country from Kansas to Michigan.
On November 7, 1940 the low pressure system that later developed into the storm was affecting the Pacific Northwest and produced the winds that destroyed the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
On November 10 the fast-moving storm crossed the Rocky Mountains in just two hours on its way to the Midwest.
The morning of November 11, 1940 brought with it unseasonably high temperatures in the Upper Midwest.
By early afternoon, temperatures approached over most of the affected region.
However, as the day wore on conditions quickly deteriorated.
Severe weather was reported across much of the Midwest with heavy rain and snow, a tornado, and gale-force winds were all reported.
Temperatures dropped sharply, winds picked up and rain, followed by sleet and then snow, began to fall.
An intense low pressure system had tracked from the southern plains northeastward into western Wisconsin, pulling Gulf of Mexico moisture up from the South and pulling down a cold arctic air mass from the North.
The result was a raging blizzard that would last into the next day.
Snowfalls of up to , winds of , snow drifts, and temperature drops were common over parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
In Minnesota, of snow fell at Collegeville, and the Twin Cities recorded .
Record low pressures were recorded in La Crosse, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota.
Transportation and communications were crippled, which made finding the dead and injured more difficult.
The Armistice Day Blizzard ranks #2 in Minnesota's list of the top five weather events of the 20th century.
Survivors describe the cold as so severe that it was difficult to breathe, with the air so moisture laden it was thick like syrup and that the cold seared the survivors lungs like a red-hot blade.
Many individuals claim that animals were aware of the upcoming weather shifts which led to animals moving rapidly from the area.
Duck hunters who were out at the time were amazed at the amount of ducks that were in the area and on the move through the skies, one survivor recounting there were thousands.
A total of 146 deaths were blamed on the storm, with the following instances being noteworthy:
Additionally, 1.5 million turkeys intended for Thanksgiving dinner across Minnesota perished from exposure to the cold conditions.
Prior to this event, all of the weather forecasts for the region originated in Chicago.
After the failure to provide an accurate forecast for this blizzard, forecasting responsibilities were expanded to include 24-hour coverage and more forecasting offices were created, yielding more accurate local forecasts.
The U.S.
Weather Bureau was criticized that it failed to predict the huge blizzard, and Officials released a statement that they were aware that the storm was coming but wrong about its strength and scope.
The Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St.
Paul) branch of Meteorology was upgraded to issue forecasts and not rely on the Chicago site.
Robert Parker
Robert Parker may refer to:
Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer
General Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer, (24 May 1775 – 23 February 1850) was a British military officer and colonial administrator.
Aylmer was gazetted ensign in 1787, lieutenant in 1791 and major in 1800, after being held in a French prison for six months in 1798.
His career continued as colonel in 1810, being aide-de-camp to King George III between 1810 and 1812 and then major general in 1813.
He was present at most of the battles in the Peninsular War.
In 1814, following service in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, he was appointed adjutant general of British forces in Ireland, where he remained until 1823.
After reaching the position of lieutenant-general in 1825, Aylmer was, in 1830, appointed commander of British military forces in North America as well as Governor General of British North America and Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada.
Lord Aylmer had no previous experience as a civil administrator and no political experience.
He was unable to pacify the growing demands in Lower Canada for responsible government and, in 1834, the radical Assembly of Lower Canada passed 92 "resolutions of grievance" including a demand that Aylmer be recalled.
Lord Aylmer exacerbated ethnic tensions in Lower Canada by favouring the English over the French.
The deterioration of the situation led to his recall in 1835.
His administration may have been a contributing factor to the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837.
Returning to England, Aylmer was promoted to the rank of general in 1845 but he never obtained a British peerage (his dignity was in the Irish peerage), nor another administrative post.
He died at 15 Eaton Square, Belgravia on 23 February 1850, and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery.
Aylmer's sister Rose Aylmer was the inspiration behind the poem of that name by Walter Savage Landor.
General the Right Honourable Matthew Whitworth, 5th Lord Aylmer, G.C.B., married Louisa Anne Call, daughter of Sir John Call, Bart.
on 4 August 1801.
When her husband was appointed in 1830 to administer the government of Canada, as Governor-General, from February 1831 to August 1835, the couple entertained at the Castle of St. Louis, Quebec.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831–32, she was interested in the relief of the sufferers.
Since she was interested in education, she regularly visited and bestowed prizes in the schools.
She served as the patroness of the Societe d'Education sous la direction des dames lie Quebec.
She died on 13 August 1862.
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Byron K. Lichtenberg
Byron Kurt Lichtenberg, Sc.
D. (born February 19, 1948) is an American engineer and fighter pilot who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist.
In 1983, he and Ulf Merbold became the first Payload Specialists to fly on the shuttle.
Born February 19, 1948 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
Married to Tamara Lichtenberg with five children, including two adopted Chinese daughters.
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From 1978 to 1984 he was a researcher for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/Canadian Vestibular experiments on Spacelab 1, Spacelab D-1, Spacelab SLS-1 and SLS-2, and a co-principal investigator for the Mental Workload and Performance experiment flown on IML-1 to assess human-computer workstation characteristics for the Space Station.
He was a founder of Payload Systems, Inc., a company that has provided hardware and flight support for MODE and MACE experiments for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS).
They also were the first commercial user of the Mir Space Station, flying protein crystal growth experiments to Mir in the early 1990s.
He is now the Chief Technical Officer of Zero Gravity Corporation, founded to make parabolic, weightless aircraft flights available to the general public.
He was a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot for 23 years, flying the F-4, F-100, and A-10, reaching the rank of Lieutenant colonel in the Massachusetts Air National Guard.
Lichtenberg flew 138 combat missions during the Vietnam War, and received two Distinguished Flying Crosses, ten Air Medals, and numerous other decorations.
He flew as a captain for Southwest Airlines and is now a professor at LeTourneau University in Longview Texas.
Lichtenberg was the first astronaut to serve as a Payload Specialist.
He flew on Spacelab-1 (STS-9) mission for ten days in 1983, conducted multiple experiments in life sciences, materials sciences, Earth observations, astronomy and solar physics, upper atmosphere and plasma physics.
His second flight was ATLAS-1 (STS-45) Spacelab mission for nine days in 1992; conducted 13 experiments in Atmospheric sciences and astronomy.
He flew 310 orbits, and logged 468 hours in space.
Family tree of Kingdom of Jerusalem monarchs
This a family tree of the kings of Jerusalem.
This diagram lists the rulers of the kingdom of Jerusalem, since the conquest of the city in 1099, during the First Crusade, to 1291, year of the fall of Acre.
Burlington College
Burlington College was a private, nonprofit liberal arts college located in Burlington, Vermont, that offered associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees, as well as several professional certificates.
Although regionally accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the college was placed on probation in July 2014 for failing to meet the accreditor's standards regarding financial resources.