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Electronic article surveillance (EAS) is a type of system used to prevent shoplifting from retail stores, pilferage of books from libraries, or unwanted removal of properties from office buildings. EAS systems typically consist of two components: EAS antennas and EAS tags or labels.
The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite and broadcast television and both AM, FM and satellite radio.
Eastern Analytical Symposium. The Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) and Exposition is an American organization that sponsors a Symposium and Exposition generally held in Princeton, New Jersey, every November. The Symposium is attended by over 2000 scientists and typically contains several hundred papers by the world's leading authorities on ...
In January 2010, the first live code testing of the EAS was conducted in Alaska. The first ever nationwide test of the system took place on November 9, 2011. In September 2010, FEMA announced IPAWS would be utilizing Open Platform for Emergency Networks (OPEN) to move standards-based alert and information messages between alert and warning systems.
An emergency action notification test on an Android smartphone; October 3, 2018. A National Emergency Message ( SAME code: EAN), formerly known until 2022 as an Emergency Action Notification, is the national activation of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) used to alert the residents of the United States of a national or global emergency such as ...
Catalogue Service for the Web ( CSW ), sometimes seen as Catalogue Service - Web, is a standard for exposing a catalogue of geospatial records in XML on the Internet (over HTTP). The catalogue is made up of records that describe geospatial data (e.g. KML ), geospatial services (e.g. WMS ), and related resources.
EAS was silent during the major earthquake in Northridge, California in 1994 and during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2005. In southern California, EAS is used to warn of child abductions and high wind advisories. I fail to see how child abductions and wind advisories qualify as emergencies and a major earthquake does not.
Our Dumb World is a parody of the standard desk atlas created by the staff of The Onion and published by Little, Brown and Company on 30 October 2007. It is The Onion's first book of entirely original content since 1999's Our Dumb Century.