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The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which, after a police officer's death (usually in the line of duty but sometimes from illness), the officers from his or her unit or department gather around a police radio, over which the police dispatcher issues one call to the officer, followed by a silence, then a second call, followed by silence.
ELC English Language Center is a privately operated group of boutique [clarification needed] language schools that provide English language training in the United States. It operates through various language centers, in Los Angeles, Boston and Santa Barbara. ELC opened its first center in 1978.
ELC English Language Center, an American language school; elc International School, in Selangor, Malaysia; eLearning Credits, an initiative of the Government of the United Kingdom; Elizabeth Learning Center, a public school in Cudahy, California, United States; Eligibility in the Local Context, in the University of California admissions process
WSRO returned to secular talk in February 2003, primarily from the Langer-owned National Radio Network (which operated out of the same facility in Framingham that WSRO broadcast from); by 2007, the English-language programs had gradually been replaced by a lineup of programming in Portuguese, featuring religious and secular programs aimed at ...
The society's membership was open to anyone making contributions of $5 or more; [4] according to historian Paul Boyer, the membership was "almost a roll call of [Boston] Brahmin aristocracy". [3] The society held its first annual meeting in Boston's Park Street Church in 1879. In 1891, it was renamed the Watch and Ward Society after an old ...
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 2012. In 2009, the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority launched the "Top 5 Campaign", aiming to make Boston one of the top five cities in North America for conventions. The initiative recommended increasing the number of local hotel rooms. [12] PAX moved its eastern show to the convention hall in ...
The complex is officially known as the Joseph A. Langone, Jr. Memorial Center; it was named for the Massachusetts state senator in 1962. [3] [4] Older references have used the names "Government Service Center" (this name is easily confused with Government Center as a whole), the "State Services Center", or the "State Health, Education and Welfare Services Center".
A Boston accent is a local accent of Eastern New England English, native specifically to the city of Boston and its suburbs. Northeastern New England English is classified as traditionally including New Hampshire , Maine , and all of eastern Massachusetts , while some uniquely local vocabulary appears only around Boston.