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  SignOnSanDiego.com > News > North County -- Sig alert canceled for southbound I-5
The sig alert was issued at 5:30 a.m.
and the sig alert was lifted 10 minutes later as the morning commute resumed its normal flow.
Highway patrol officers were on the scene within 15 minutes and discovered that diesel fuel was leaking onto the highway and signaled for a sand crew and rig to pull the truck off the highway.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/northcounty/20031218-0621-sigalert.html   (326 words)

  
  Sig Alert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The term "Sig Alert" is as "real" as an English language word can be: in 1993, it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
The alert described a train derailment outside LA's Union Station and requested any available doctors and nurses to respond to the scene.
At first, the LAPD issued about one alert a day, but soon other agencies were calling in messages they wanted broadcast, including rabid dog reports and gas leaks.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/s/si/sig_alert.html   (514 words)

  
 Safety Alert -- Recommendations and Resources
Although each regional AMBER Alert sets the criteria for activation, most alerts follow the following guidelines: #The missing child is 17 years of age or younger and the law enforcement agency believes the child has been abducted.
Global Alerts are also issued by agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO), when there is a perceived threat of international pandemic, (global epidemic), such as the threat of a SARS, (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), pandemic during March, 2003, due to its high contagion level which was rapidly spread by travelers sharing international flights.
The global alert released by the World Health Organization regarding the SARS outbreak and its rapid contagion saved many lives: The alert about the disease, precautionary measures, and preventive measures to be taken by individuals, including specific hygiene information needed to arrest the spread of SARS was communicated instantly throughout the world.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/128/safety-alert.html   (959 words)

  
 Sig Alert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One of the first major "Sigmon traffic alerts" was broadcast on January 22, 1956, causing a traffic jam.
The alert described the derailment of the Santa Fe's San Diegan passenger train near LA's Union Station and requested any available doctors and nurses to respond to the scene.
At first, the LAPD issued about one alert a day, but soon other agencies were calling in messages they wanted broadcast, including rabid dog reports, gas leaks, and even a ship collision in Los Angeles Harbor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sig_Alert   (586 words)

  
 Neuro-Oncology SIG Newsletter
With the meetings divided, each member may have a chance to explore another SIG of interest and also attend one of which he or she is a member.
Another change for the Neuro-Oncology SIG is that we will not have a hospitality and networking event prior to Congress as we have the past two years.
The mission of the Neuro-Oncology SIG is to provide networking and educational opportunities to neuro-oncology nurses and raise awareness in the oncology nursing community of the impact of central nervous system tumors.
onsopcontent.ons.org /Publications/SIGNewsletters/non/non4.1.html   (3540 words)

  
 "This is a SigAlert Message"
Parker finally gave Sig the go-ahead, but only on the condition that the receivers be made available to all interested radio stations.
The messages would be taped automatically, after which a red light would come on, sometimes accompanied by a buzzer, to alert the radio stations' engineers.
Sigmon's system allowed the alerts to be transmitted on the regular police dispatch frequency (1730 kilocycles), without the radio station personnel having to listen to all the routine police calls.
harrymarnell.com /sigalert.htm   (1309 words)

  
 "This is a SigAlert Message"
Parker finally gave Sig the go-ahead, but only on the condition that the receivers be made available to all interested radio stations.
The messages would be taped automatically, after which a red light would come on, sometimes accompanied by a buzzer, to alert the radio stations' engineers.
Sigmon's system allowed the alerts to be transmitted on the regular police dispatch frequency (1730 kilocycles), without the radio station personnel having to listen to all the routine police calls.
www.harrymarnell.com /sigalert.htm   (1309 words)

  
 A Sig Alert is defined by the California Highway Patrol California...
A Sig Alert is defined by the California Highway Patrol California...
The term "Sig Alert" is as "real" as an English language English language word can be: in 1993 1993, it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary.
The alert described a train derailment outside LA's Union Station Union Station and requested any available doctors and nurses to respond to the scene.
www.biodatabase.de /SigAlert   (603 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
SIG's that don't already follow proper volume and issue sequencing, should adopt the correct policy starting January 1, 1994.
Since the schedule is taken directly from the SIG budgets, any change in page counts directly effects the production and distribution costs of the budget.
The Published Frequency The number of issues within a year and volume of a newsletter is the frequency of the newsletter (quarterly, monthly, bimonthly, etc.) The frequency should be published in the inside front cover of the newsletter and adhered to.
www.acm.org /sig_volunteer_info/editors_manual/scheduling.txt   (422 words)

  
 Sig Alert at AllExperts
One of the first major "Sigmon traffic alerts" was broadcast on January 22 1956, causing a traffic jam.
The alert described the derailment of the Santa Fe's San Diegan passenger train near LA's Union Station and requested any available doctors and nurses to respond to the scene.
At first, the LAPD issued about one alert a day, but soon other agencies were calling in messages they wanted broadcast, including rabid dog reports, gas leaks, and even a ship collision in Los Angeles Harbor.
en.allexperts.com /e/s/si/sig_alert.htm   (628 words)

  
 Motivation in Education: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
I wanted to alert everyone who is presenting that they need to check the format of their presentation as listed in the program.
If you are a graduate student and member of the Motivation SIG, and you are first author on a presentation or poster accepted this year by the Motivation SIG, then you are eligible to receive either a SIG travel award (usually around $100.00) or a Paul Pintrich Memorial Award (usually $400.00 to $500.00).
The SIG business meeting and dinner will be Sunday evening (in keeping with our tradition of having it the 3rd night of the conference).
www.motivationsig.org /news/news.html   (1184 words)

  
 CREEKING, Yucca Creek, Sig Alert
Gary Gunder drops in on Sig Alert, the first rapid on the "reasonably accessible" segment of Yucca Creek
We were intending to do the upper section of the N.F. Kaweah, but due to some logistical problems arrived too late at the regular N.F. put-in to do the required seven mile hike.
SIG ALERT (aka ON RAMP) - This is the put-in drop.
www.sierraphotography.com /img0400.htm   (668 words)

  
 Sig Alert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The LAPD's chief William H. was interested though sceptical warning the inventor going to name this damn thing Sigalert." practically he refused to use it unless receivers were made available to all LA stations -- it could not be a monopoly.
Initially half a dozen stations installed Sigmon When a message had been received and from the LAPD a red light sometimes by a buzzer would alert the radio engineers.
The alert described train derailment outside LA's Union Station and requested any available doctors and to respond to the scene.
www.freeglossary.com /Sig_alert   (607 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: The Sig Files
The word SigAlert eventually became a common and familiar term to Southland drivers, even though few of them were aware of its origins or knew what criteria triggered such an alert.
Broadcasting alerts of accident-related freeway congestion to listeners, Sigmon reasoned, would give KMPC a competitive edge over both television and other local radio stations.
His invention was a combination of a short-wave receiver tuned to the LAPD frequency and a tape recorder
www.snopes.com /autos/hazards/sigalert.asp   (1249 words)

  
 Defining Signatures
The alerts, as well as other events, may be retrieved from the event store by web-based clients.
For example, if you always want to produce an alert when the signature is fired, you must configure it along with the other event actions you want.
The goal is to prevent the sensor from creating alerts where a valid TCP session has not been established.
www.cisco.com /univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/csids/csids12/cliguide/clisgdef.htm   (3287 words)

  
 Who's Sig, and why is he so alert? | Matthew Alice | www.sdreader.com
I've lived in Southern California for nine years and have heard many times in traffic reports the term "sig alert." I know that this means you're screwed if you're driving anywhere, but I can't figure out what the heck "sig" stands for.
He developed a system by which LAPD dispatchers could send a signal tone to each local radio station, the tone would activate a special tape recorder, then the police would record a message detailing the problem, and the tape could be replayed on the air.
It was a call for doctors and nurses to assist at the scene of a train derailment in downtown L.A. Early on, the system also broadcast such announcements as rabid-dog alerts, gas leaks, an impending dam collapse, and a message from a pharmacist who had made a potentially deadly mistake in filling a prescription.
www.sdreader.com /php/ma_show.php?id=470   (328 words)

  
 [Sig Makers! Alert] FF Sig Gallery [Click at your own risk] - The Final Fantasy Forums
Lately, my members and I have started a FF sig gallery, for people who want to use pre-made sigs, easy-acess, etc. However, we are only 4 sig makers and we could do with some help!
Since the sigs are watermarked with the site, it's gonna be kind of hard to remove it.
Have a certain rule or guideline for the sig's.
www.thefinalfantasy.com /forums/showthread.php?p=976668#post976668   (510 words)

  
 Enter Content Here: Sig Alert
They came about in the 1940s when the L.A.P.D. got in the habit of alerting a local radio reporter, Loyd Sigmon, of bad car wrecks on city streets.
Sigmon developed an electronic device that authorities could use to alert the media of disasters.
Caltrans latched on to the term "Sig-Alert" and it has come to be known as any traffic incident that will tie up two or more lanes of a freeway for two or more hours.
contenthere.blogspot.com /2005/08/sig-alert.html   (269 words)

  
 California Highway Patrol (CHP) terminology
If you have ever driven a car or listened to the radio in Southern California, you have heard the phrase "Sig Alert." Newcomers to the area have probably figured out it is something to do with traffic.
"Sig" is not an acronym, it is the nickname of the man who invented the Sig Alert.
Then, based on their assessment of how long it will take for the roadway to be cleared, and how much traffic has backed up, they may request a Sig Alert to be issued or help from other CHP Officers.
www.americanindian.net /traffica.html   (10391 words)

  
 San Bernardino County Sun - SIG ALERT ISSUED FOR WESTBOUND I-10
California Highway Patrol officials have issued a sig alert warning residents that Highway 62 may be closed due to fire evacuations.
but CHP officers have alerted that they might be asked to close the roads possibly, CHP dispatchers said.
If a closure is ordered, it may begin on at Indian Avenue though an exact location has not yet been determined, dispatchers said.
www.sbsun.com /news/ci_4048352   (127 words)

  
 SnortDocument   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
This filter is focused on traffic coming from the network 192.168.2.0/24 with nc.exe in the data part of the packet packet.
This filter is focused on traffic coming from any where going towards the network 10.1.2.0/24, destination port 80, with cmd.exe?/c+dir in the data part of the packet.
These filters are based ports and content with in the data transmission.
homepage.mac.com /sean.ryan/ClassNotes/snortdocument.html   (587 words)

  
 CEA: Press Release Detail - Press Release Detail
In addition, these products are able to recognize 62 different types of alerts for hazards ranging from avalanche warnings and civil emergencies to law enforcement, hurricane and tornado warnings.
Many manufacturers of public alert devices also provide options for the hearing impaired, including multi-colored illuminated lights to show the current alert status, and some products offer text and multiple language options.
And all new public alert certified devices can be tailored to more than 3,400 specific U.S. areas of coverage, eliminating many distant alerts, silencing all weekly tests, dramatically reducing annoyance and providing critical emergency alerts for families under a variety of threatening conditions.
www.ce.org /Press/CurrentNews/press_release_detail.asp?id=10473   (549 words)

  
 Halfbakery: Siggle
Sigs would be identified in that they tend to be repetitive large blocks of text, appearing at the end of messages, however that is defined on the medium.
I thought, considering it was being presented as though it was a file extension, it had something to do with signature files.
With this you might actually be able to look up the user, get the full sig, see who else adopted the sig, etc.
www.halfbakery.com /lr/idea/Siggle   (635 words)

  
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The term is such a universal touchstone that when the Pacific Park amusement arcade opened on the spruced up Santa Monica Pier, it christened its blue-and-yellow bumper car ride the Sigalert.
"I always thought it meant signal alert," actor and director Rob Reiner confessed before allowing that he knew the truth that most Angelenos don't.
He proposed that stations install receivers that would be activated by a signal from police headquarters and then record the officer's bulletin for immediate broadcast.
cad.chp.ca.gov /htm/sig_explain.htm   (665 words)

  
 Biz Stone, Genius
Traffic Information Center - Sig Alerts "The term "sig alert" was coined by Southern California broadcasting pioneer Loyd C. Sigmon.
Loyd would get information about road hazards from police headquarters and broadcast it to his listeners.
The first sig alert went out on Labor Day weekend in 1955." Or at least that's what they want us to believe.
www.bizstone.com /2001/11/traffic-information-center-sig-alerts.html   (58 words)

  
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Alert SIG members to conferences and journal special issues that relate to relationship marketing issues
The RM SIG will host a special session at the 2006 winter AMA in St. Pete, Fl.
Additionally, the RM SIG will host a free continental breakfast for SIG members on Sunday morning at the AMA from 7:30-8:30am.
faculty.bus.olemiss.edu /snoble/RMSIG.htm   (523 words)

  
 ASU Art Museum - Sig-alert Netalogue Page 25   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The term is synonymous with the need to look for an alternative route because of freeway congestion.
It was named for Loyd "Sig" Sigmon, its inventor, who was co-owner of radio station KMPC in the 1950s.
Sigmon's original idea was to give L.A. radio stations direct access to emergency public safety information from the Los Angeles Police Department.
herbergercollege.asu.edu /museum/sig-alert/spiak1.htm   (484 words)

  
 [No title]
apparent reason for the congestion, and thus the term Phantom SIG alert.
known as corks and the periodic Phantom SIG alerts.
Environmental stinkage is a factor in most Phantom SIG alerts predominatntly found on the Jersey Turnpike just north
www.ewee.com /SFT.html   (1072 words)

  
 ASI SIG Press Releases: ASI SIG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
MEDIA ALERT: ASI SIG To Participate in Panel Session on The New Landscape of Serial Interfaces
ASI SIG to Sponsor Advanced Switching Press and Analyst Roundtable at Intel Developer Forum
MEDIA ALERT: Advanced Switching Interconnect SIG and Denali Team to Deliver Webcast Series
www.asi-sig.org /press/ASI_Press_Releases   (141 words)

  
 Alert - NIB SIG Kadet Mark II Kit - RC Groups
Alert - NIB SIG Kadet Mark II Kit - RC Groups
This thread is privately moderated by Gene Chernosky, who may elect to delete unwanted replies.
Alert - NIB SIG Kadet Mark II Kit-SOLD!
www.rcgroups.com /forums/showthread.php?t=202001   (294 words)

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