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	SF REVIEWS.NET: The Owl Service / Alan Garner
		The "service" of the title refers to a set of tableware found in a musty attic, not any sort of business enterprise.
		Anyway, it turns out that the plates — which bear curious drawings of leaves and owls — are linked to an olde local legend about a young girl who was magically brought to life out of flowers, and how she spurned her lover for another man, leading to the expected tragic confrontation.
		Is the owl service linked somehow to our modern day heroes, particularly Alison (the stepdaughter of the cottage's owner) and Gwyn (a local boy who knows lots about the legend), who are tap dancing around each other in an unrequited love?
	www.sfreviews.net /owlservice.html (360 words)

	The Owl Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Owl Service (ISBN 0152017984) is a children's novel by Alan Garner first published in 1967.
		It is a contemporary interpretation, which Garner described as an "expression of the myth", of the story of Blodeuwedd.
		The Owl Service was made into a Granada Television television serial in 1969.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Owl_Service (129 words)

	News/Features \| Endangered species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		With its new Night Owl service, the MBTA is finally giving some Bostonians a car-free way to get home after 1 a.m.
		But as the service begins its trial run, local activists have been raising concerns about whether the T might be sabotaging the project with poor promotion and an insufficient schedule.
		Besides, if Night Owl service is supposed to make the city’s nightlife accessible as long as the bars are open, its schedule is self-defeating.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/news_features/other_stories/documents/01803484.htm (1639 words)

	Night Owl Service - Statewide & After Hours
		To reach Night Owl, call 410-396-3557 in Baltimore and and toll free 1-800-325-6483 elsewhere in Maryland.
		The Night Owl staff use their expert skills to answer your questions.
		The broad collection of resources used by the Telephone Reference Service librarians is also used by the Night Owl librarians, including the query card file, databases, and the Internet.
	www.sailor.lib.md.us /MD_topics/ask/ask_owl.html (98 words)

	Alan Garner, The Owl Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Owl Service interprets a story from the Welsh Mabinogion, namely, portions of the story of "Math Son of Mathonwy." In this story Math's niece, Arianhrod, is tricked into giving birth when her claim to virginity is tested.
		Bloduwedd can either be flowers or owl; Lleu can be either the lord of the valley and her partner, or he the betrayed lover and she the vindictive mother.
		Owl Service is the best of his young adult stories because Garner does all this without resorting to plot tricks like traveling through time (Elidor) or populating the story with wizards, elves, dwarves and goblins ("The Alderly Tales": The Wierdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath).
	www.greenmanreview.com /owlservice.html (1174 words)

	BBC - Devon Theatre - The Owl Service a world premiere at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Owl Service combines mystery, adventure and the complexity of human relationships in a perfect end of term treat for children aged 10 - 15 years.
		Alison and her stepbrother, Roger, discover that the flowery patterns on the plates, when traced onto paper, can be fitted together to create owls - owls that disappear when no one is watching.
		As the kids uncover the mystery of the owl service, they become trapped within the legend, playing out roles in a tragic love story that has repeated itself for generations - a love story that has always ended in disaster.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/stage/2004/owl_service.shtml (358 words)

	Commentary from Bad Transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A week prior to the beginning of service, many people hadn’t even heard of the Night Owl and advertisement seemed mostly limited to tiny signs emblazoned with a little yellow owl near T stops.
		However, people are taking advantage of the Night Owl service, while one MBTA employee referred to the program as “a Band-Aid over a gunshot wound." Indeed, while it is helpful to have late night service on Friday and Saturday nights, the service doesn’t run all night, nor does it run seven days a week.
		While the Night Owl has managed to stay alive through the end of June, its future is tenuous, even with all of its promoters in the state House, its support from city councilors like Mike Ross who also spoke at the advisory board meeting on Tuesday and organizations like MassPIRG.
	www.badtransit.com /TheT/commentary/railroaded_part4.htm (1486 words)

	BBC - Devon Theatre - Review - The Owl Service at The Drum Theatre, Plymouth
		The Owl Service at The Drum Theatre in Plymouth is a fantasy for children aged 10-15 - and it gets the thumbs up from our teenage reviewers, Natalie and Rosie Soper (ages 15 and 13).
		Before we saw The Owl Service, all we knew about it was that it was a ghost story, so we didn't really know what to expect.
		The Owl Service is very enjoyable, but younger children would find it hard to understand and possibly a bit scary.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/stage/reviews/2004/owl_service.shtml (342 words)

	CHICAGO BUS AND STREETCAR ROUTES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Service into Indiana was jointly operated with the Hammond Whiting & East Chicago Railway, later Calumet Railways, and finally Chicago & Calumet District Transit Co. Originally, route operated from 63rd St. and Dorchester Ave.
		Owl service is mentioned, although dates of introduction are not available.
		Not mentioned are situations where only a portion of a route has owl service, or where hours of service are different for different portions of a route.
	members.aol.com /ctapacefan/rte03039.html (1700 words)

	www.myspace.com/theowlservice
		The Owl Service formed through a mutual love of British films and television of the 1960s and 70s, the great outdoors and {of course} the sound of the English folk revival.
		Released on July 9th, 2007, "A Garland of Song" is the debut album from The Owl Service and follows their two long sold out releases from 2006, "Wake the Vaulted Echo" and "Cine".
		Their addition has brought a sense of cohesion previously unheard in the music of The Owl Service and their knowledge of both traditional song and early music heralds an exciting new period for the band.
	www.myspace.com /theowlservice (1470 words)

	[No title]
		The service that binds an agent to a transport address, and is responsible for the delivery of messages to other agents.
		A service that provides a shared library of built-in actions, which may be extended by the user.
		A service that is provisioned as a separate web service, specified using the REST style of a URL and a set of named arguments.
	www.nuin.org /ontology/service.owl (411 words)

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		Each service board is required to look at service independent from other services available in the area.
		Ridership is lost through lack of service and inability to board due to over-crowding.
		Rail Owl service is eliminated under this scenario.
	www.transitchicago.com /news/motion/board/0503planningreport.txt (767 words)

	AC Transit \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Additional service will be assigned to bus lines that tend to reinforce the local transit network (For example, all day transbay lines will serve as important components of the East Bay's transit network).
		This service is proposed to be provided by a combination of bus transit agencies, including AC Transit, Muni, County Connection, Wheels, and SamTrans.
		AC Transit's portion of the plan proposes that current owl services would be maintained or modified, and new services would be added.
	www.actransit.org /news/articledetail.wu?articleid=d901054b (2299 words)

	SF Muni: Service Notes
		After the stations close, streetcar service is replaced by buses aboveground (Metro Owl motor coaches) for the L Taraval and N Judah lines, which approximately duplicate the streetcar service.
		Metro service is also operated on the surface early Saturday and Sunday mornings, on the J, K, and M lines, by a mix of streetcars and buses.
		Owl Service is also provided on the 14-Mission and 22-Fillmore lines along their normal routes.
	www.sfmuni.com /cms/mms/routes/svcnotes.htm (903 words)

	MBTA May Terminate Night Owl Bus Service
		Desperate to dig out of a $16 million budget hole, the T is considering cutting the Night Owl bus service, which ferries late-night passengers home on weekends, after the rest of the transit system shuts down, a top MBTA official said.
		The Night Owl service, begun in 2001, has been singled out for elimination first, because revenue from its relatively small ridership does not come close to covering the $1.4 million annual cost.
		But cuts in service must also be considered, and routes with low ridership are the natural first candidates, the official said.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V124/N60/60nightowl.60n.html (846 words)

	CAT: Night Owl Service
		Every potential rider needs to fill out an application, so that we know where they live, where they work, what times they work, what days of the week they are requesting service and some other information.
		We are hoping to add additional vehicles to the service in the spring to accommodate the number of requests we've had.
		I was told that the time I was requesting service was one of the busier times.
	www.cat.org /nightowl/faq3.html (465 words)

	The Boston Phoenix - Pounding the Pavement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The stopping in the middle of the summer, for a half hour at a time, saying, "The train will be moving momentarily." We're not movin' momentarily, we sit there for 20 minutes.
		It kind of limits you: you have to plan to be back by the time the T is running or not travel too far away so you can afford to be back.
		If the clubs close at 1 or 1:30 or whatever, then it gives people the time to get out, get on the train, and get moving, instead of people taking their cars in town, and then driving after 12, you know, it might reduce drinking and driving.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /pages/boston/pound/20010824pavement.html (955 words)

	Cover Pages: Ontology Web Language for Services (OWL-S) Version 1.0.
		OWL-S (formerly DAML-S) is "an OWL Web service ontology which supplies Web service providers with a core set of markup language constructs for describing the properties and capabilities of their Web services in unambiguous, computer-intepretable form." The OWL Web Ontology Language was published by W3C as a Proposed Recommendation on December 15, 2003.
		OWL is "used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting advanced Web search, software agents, and knowledge management.
		The Service Profile is used to concisely represent the service in terms of capabilities, provenance, and operational parameters (e.g.
	xml.coverpages.org /ni2004-01-08-a.html (1157 words)

	Owldaughter Read - Owl Service book review
		As the mythic tension mounts, the pattern vanishes from all the plates and the portrait vanishes from the wall, plaster crumbling and the wall weakened.
		When the climax of the myth comes, and Alison is unconscious, surrounded by paper owls and unseen energies drawing owl-like shapes and patterns in the dust on the floor, Roger and Gwyn must put aside their differences and work together.
		They were moving on the ceiling and the walls, and he began to see the patterns that had followed Huw in the rain: eyes and wings and sharpness: winged eyes, yellow, and flness curved: all in the rafters and the wall and the feathers everywhere.
	www.owldaughter.org /articles/garner.html (1951 words)

	screenonline: Owl Service, The (1969-70)
		Teenager Alison finds a dusty dinner service in the loft of her Welsh holiday home.
		Seemingly possessed, she traces their flower pattern and from the tracings makes paper owls.
		This unleashes ancient forces feeding on the jealousy and attraction between Alison, her new stepbrother Roger and local boy Gwyn.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/976641 (376 words)

	WonderWeb OWL Ontology Validator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Any constructs found which relate to particular species of OWL will be reported.
		Note that if the ontology given is not OWL DL, then the Abstract Syntax description shown may not accurately reflect the contents of the original ontology.
		Developed by Sean Bechhofer of the University of Manchester and Raphael Volz of the University of Karlsruhe as part of the EU IST Project WonderWeb.
	phoebus.cs.man.ac.uk:9999 /OWL/Validator (165 words)

	Boston.com \| Latest News \| Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		BOSTON — The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's advisory board voted Tuesday to continue its "Night Owl" service, which carries passengers on select routes after train service shuts down at 1 a.m.
		Last week the board's finance committee had recommended cutting the service, as well as the T's ferry service between Boston and the South Shore, to save $1.8 million a year.
		State Secretary of Transportation Daniel A. Grabauskas applauded the decision, saying it's a service the city should not be without.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/11/night_owl.htm (171 words)

	SEPTA
		Some service notes that appear on the printed timetables are not available for text schedules.
		For complete details please consult the PDF version of the schedule or call Customer Service at 215-580-7800.
		Riders using screen readers, please read guidelines for JAWS settings for text schedules.
	www.septa.org /service/bus_schedules_split.html (266 words)

	The Owl Service -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Owl Service (ISBN 0152017984) is a (additional info and facts about teenage) teenage (Imagination unrestricted by reality) fantasy novel by (additional info and facts about Alan Garner) Alan Garner first published in 1967.
		It is a present-day retelling of the story of (additional info and facts about Blodeuwedd) Blodeuwedd.
		It was made into a (additional info and facts about Granada Television) Granada Television television serial in 1969.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_owl_service.htm (87 words)

	UMBC eBiquity Publication: Towards Distributed Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments
		The protocol is based on the concepts of peer-to-peer caching of service advertisements and group-based intelligent forwarding of service requests.
		It does not require a service to be registered with a registry or lookup server.
		We exploit the semantic class/subClass hierarchy of OWL to describe service groups and use this semantic information to selectively forward service requests.
	ebiquity.umbc.edu /v2.1/paper/html/id/187 (245 words)

	Business 1 - Grey & Blue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		If you work evenings and need a ride to or from work,the Paducah Area Transit System's new NIGHT OWL service is for you.
		PATS Night Owl service is funded with an Access to Jobs Grant.
		Night Owl service is part of an ongoing effort by the Paducah Area Transit Authority to respond to community needs.
	www.paducahtransit.com /nightowl.html (343 words)

	MASSPIRG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This report compares Greater Boston’s nighttime public transportation service with that of other similar transportation systems across the country and finds that, out of eleven comparable systems, Boston is one of only two that do not offer some form of nighttime service on weeknights.
		And cutting current weekend Night Owl service would make Boston one of only two comparable cities that fail to provide nighttime weekend service.
		Endangered Night Owl service is a symptom and a sign of the systematic failure to adequately invest in public transportation for the region and state, and this larger problem threatens ultimately to undermine smart development in the region.
	www.masspirg.org /MA.asp?id2=16324&id3=MA& (221 words)

	OWL-S @ MINDSWAP
		OWL-S supplies Web service providers with a core set of markup language constructs for describing the properties and capabilities of their Web services.
		These services are all grounded in actual WSDL services and you can execute the services using the OWL-S API.
		These are simple service descriptions to show different features in OWL-S such as how to define XSLT transformations in groundings, how to define CompositeProcesses and data flows and so on.
	www.mindswap.org /2004/owl-s/index.shtml (290 words)

	Keynsham Online : Shop : Books : The Owl Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The language has dated, as perhaps have some of the attitudes to teenage relationships, but The Owl Service is such a fertile text that it doesn't matter.
		The Owl Service is a piece of modern day genius masquerading as a children's novel.
		It is the kind of book that can be read at many levels, as a thrilling exciting read; a comment on modern day society and its social injustice and prejudices; as a modern day interpretation of the ancient celtic work the Mabinogion.
	www.keynsham.co.uk /shop/ItemDetail0007127898.html (521 words)

	Superior Ford - Service Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The all new, Superior service department is equipped and staffed to make the maintenance and repair experience convenient and easy in a number of ways.
		Because cars, vans, and trucks are machines, the reality is that no matter how well they are built, they can break down.
		When that happens, Superior Ford's service department and staff of skilled technicians, using the most up-to-date equipment, will diagnose and repair the problem quickly and efficiently.
	www.superiorford.com /service/ServiceDept (117 words)

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