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This is compounded by a failure mode of street lights, known as "cycling", in which street lights of the high pressure sodium type turn off and on more frequently at the end of their life cycle. [5] A high pressure sodium engineer at General Electric, quoted by Cecil Adams, summarizes SLI as "a combination of coincidence and wishful thinking". [5]
It is the opposite of a sign-off (or closedown in Commonwealth countries except Canada), which is the sequence of operations involved when a radio or television station shuts down its transmitters and goes off the air for a predetermined period; generally, this occurs during the overnight hours although a broadcaster's digital specialty or sub ...
The timer may switch equipment on, off, or both, at a preset time or times, after a preset interval, or cyclically. A countdown time switch switches power, usually off, after a preset time. A cyclical timer switches equipment both on and off at preset times over a period, then repeats the cycle; the period is usually 24 hours or 7 days.
Sleep on macOS consists of the traditional sleep, Safe Sleep, and Power Nap. In System Preferences , Safe Sleep [ 8 ] is referred to as sleep. Since Safe Sleep also allowed state to be restored in an event of a power outage , unlike other operating systems, hibernate was never offered as an option.
So Papa organizes a schedule to keep them on time with their daily activities. But the next day, it turns into a big disaster when Mama realizes that she forgot to get the car fixed. She bawls her eyes out, with the cubs joining her in the crying. So Papa calls off everything and restarts their schedule and puts other things at a different time.
The Deep is a CGI animated television series based on the comic book created by Tom Taylor and James Brouwer [1] and published by Gestalt Comics.The series was developed by executive producer Robert Chandler, optioned by Technicolor, [2] and produced by A Stark Production of Australia and the Canadian animation studio Nerd Corps Entertainment (credited to WildBrain). [3]
The TV-B-Gone Pro SHP (Super High Power) is the latest TV-B-Gone to be announced. It is considerably more powerful than the standard model, using eight infra-red LEDs to allow TVs to be turned off from distances of up to 100 meters (300 feet). TV-B-Gone Pro SHP is switchable between its North American and European databases of POWER codes.
[4] Bart Andrews, in his 1980 book The Worst TV Shows Ever, stated that Turn-On was actually quite close to the original concept for Laugh-In. "It wasn't that it was a bad show, it was that it was an awkward show," concluded author Harlan Ellison, a fan of counter-cultural comedy and a TV critic for the Los Angeles Free Press in 1969.