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Total Request Live Total Request Live (commonly known as TRL) is the flagship television series on MTV that features popular music videos. TRL is MTV's prime outlet for music videos as the network continues to concentrate on reality-based programming.
Total station A total station is an optical instrument used in modern surveying. It is a combination of an electronic theodolite (transit), an electronic distance measuring device (EDM) and software running on an external computer.
Total suspended solids Total suspended solids is a water quality measurement usually abbreviated TSS. This parameter was at one time called non-filterable residue (NFR), a term that refers to the identical measurement: the dry-weight of particles trapped by a filter, typically of a specified pore size.
Total synthesis A total synthesis is the complete chemical synthesis of complex organic molecules from simple, commercially available (often petrochemical) precursors. Total syntheses are often used as a playground for the development of new chemical reactions and routes, and highlight the sophistication of modern synthetic organic chemistry.
Total Shareholder Return Total Shareholder Return (TSR) is a concept used to compare the performance of different companies’ stocks and shares over time. It combines share price appreciation and dividends paid to show the total return to the shareholder.
Total Spectrum Solar Concentrator A Total Spectrum Solar Concentrator is a device used to optimise the efficiency of solar power. The suns rays are first concentrated using parabolic mirrors or a fresnel lens, and then spread out into a light spectrum via a prism.
Total Viable Organism Total Viable Organism (TVO) is a term used in microbiology to quantify the amount of microbial organisms present in a sample. Each sample is usually cultured on a variety of agar plates (petri dishes) often containing different types of selective media.
Total Wine & More Total Wine & More was founded in 1991 by David and Robert Trone when they opened two wine stores in Delaware. With the acquisition of 10 Total Beverage stores in 1998 and steady expansion thereafter, Total Wine & More is one of the largest independent fine wine retailers in the United States and is among just a handful of fine wine retailers who operate in multiple states.
Totalisator A totalisator or totalizator (tote board in common parlance) is the name for the computerised system which runs parimutuel betting, calculating payoff odds, displaying them, and producing tickets based on incoming bets.
Totalise Plc v Motley Fool Ltd Totalise Plc v Motley Fool Ltd (2001) was the first case of internet libel in the UK. Totalise PLC sued Motley Fool because a user named "Zeddust" made negative comments about Totalise on the Motley Fool website.
Totalism (music) In music, totalism is a term for a style of music that arose in the 1980s and '90s as a developing response to minimalism - parallel to post-minimalism, but generally among a slightly younger generation, born in the 1950s. In the early 1980s, many young composers began writing music within the static confines of minimalism, but using greater rhythmic complexity, often with two or more tempos (or implied tempos) audible at once.
Totalitarian principle In quantum mechanics, the Totalitarian Principle states: "Everything which is not forbidden, is compulsory." Physicist Murray Gell-Mann used this expression to describe the state of particle physics around the time he was creating the Eightfold Way, a precursor to the quark-model of hadrons.
Totalitarianism Totalitarianism is a term employed by political scientists, especially those in the field of comparative politics, to describe modern regimes in which the state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior.
Totally '70s Totally '70s is an all '70s music channel on SIRIUS Satellite Radio channel 7 and DISH Network channel 6007. Every Saturday from about 12-2:30 pm Eastern/9-11:30 am Pacific and Sunday from about 9-11:30 pm Eastern/6-8:30 pm Pacific, Totally '70s airs a Top 30 countdown show from a particular year in the decade.
Totally Awesome Totally Awesome is a television movie produced by VH1. Totally Awesome directly parodies a number of 1980s movies, including Dirty Dancing, Soul Man, Footloose, Some Kind of Wonderful, Teen Wolf, Better Off Dead, Lucas, and The Karate Kid.
Totally bounded space In topology and related branches of mathematics, a totally bounded space, or precompact space (note though that some sources such as PlanetMath take precompact to mean relatively compact), is a space that can be covered by finitely many subsets of any fixed size. The smaller the size fixed, the more subsets may be needed, but any specific size should require only finitely many subsets.
Totally Bowling Totally Bowling is produced by CDE Software and is a two CD-ROM set that has original images dedicated for the sport of bowling. The product includes professional quality drawings, photographs and graphics in color and black and white.
Totally Doctor Who Totally Doctor Who is a children's programme produced by the BBC to accompany the science fiction series Doctor Who. It aired on BBC One at 5:00pm on Thursdays as part of the CBBC strand, and was repeated at 6:30pm on Fridays and then again on Saturdays on the CBBC Channel, just prior to the BBC One airing of the new episode of Doctor Who.
Totally Fucked Up Totally Fucked Up (censored title Totally F***ed Up in many references and publicity material) is a 1993 film written and directed by Gregg Araki. The first installment of Araki's Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy, Totally Fucked Up is a seminal entry in the New Queer Cinema genre.
Totally Hot Totally Hot was an album by Olivia Newton-John, released in 1978. The album was an extension of the edgier image Newton-John had begun to create for herself via her role as Sandy in the hit movie musical Grease, incorporating more rock and disco elements than were present on her previous albums while still featuring some of her trademark country-flavored ballads.
Totally Insured Totally Insured Group are independent financial advisors specialising in providing financial services for special risks clients and people with pre-existing medical conditions typically not covered by the leading insurance companies.
Totally Minnie Totally Minnie is a 1988 musical television special hosted by Suzanne Somers and starring Minnie Mouse. She teaches a nerd (Robert Carradine) how to be cool at the "Minnie Mouse Center for the Totally Un-hip.
Totally NASCAR Totally NASCAR was a newscast about NASCAR racing that aired on Fox Sports Net from 2001 to 2004. The show aired nightly and replaced the recently cancelled weekly show Inside NASCAR that had aired on TNN until late 2000 when NASCAR began a new television contract.
Totally real number field In number theory, a number field K is called totally real if for each embedding of K into the complex numbers the image lies inside the real numbers. Equivalent conditions on K, a finite extension of the rational number field Q, are that K is generated over Q by one root of an integer polynomial P, all of the roots of P being real; or that the tensor product algebra of K with the real field, over Q, is a product of copies of R.
Totally Wild Totally Wild is an Australian children's television series, in production since 1992. It has the format of a news program, and does stories on topics such as Australia's native flora and fauna, action sports, the environment, science, and technology.
Totalmedi Our primary goal is to develop a software solution for a dermatologist’s medical practice that would significantly increase efficiencies of the patient-doctor visit process. This solution, that encompasses ease-of-use, provides real-time accurate billing, will optimize doctor’s time spent with a patient during a regular diagnostic visit.
Totapuri Ishwar Totapuri (also Tota Puri) (1780-1866), born likely in Punjab, India, was a parivrajaka (wandering monk) who followed the path of the Advaita Vedanta. He regarded the gods and goddesses of dualistic worship as fantasies of the mind and reportedly spent forty years practicing austerity and other disciplines of self-exertion.
Totara Park Totara Park is a suburb of Upper Hutt, New Zealand, and is situated off State Highway 2, and is accessed via the Totara Park Bridge which crosses the Hutt River. It was popular in the 1970's and 1980's for families moving into the Upper Hutt area.
Totaram Sanadhya Totaram Sanadhya was an Indian-born political activist in Fiji. Amongst the people who have written about the life of Fiji’s indentured Indian labourers, Sanadhya stands out because he actually experienced indenture and spent a considerable time witnessing its atrocities and trying to improve the plight of the indentured labourers.
Totatiche The municipality of Totatiche is located in the northern extreme of the state of Jalisco, Mexico between 21°48’30” and 22°06’00” latitude north and 103°20’00” and 103°34’00” longitude east at a height of 1,751 meters above sea level. The municipality is bordered on the north and southeast by the state of Zacatecas.
Totális Metal Totális Metal is the debut album of Hungarian heavy metal band Pokolgép. The band was one of the first metal bands in Hungary, and they were definitely the first to release a metal album and single (1985, A Sátán/A maszk).
Tote board A tote board is a large, numeric or alphanumeric display used to convey information, typically at a race track (to display the odds or payoffs for each horse) or at a telethon (to display the total amount donated to the charitable organization sponsoring the event).
Totem A totem is any natural or supernatural being or animal which watches over or assists a group of people, such as a family, clan or tribe (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition).
Totem (media player) Totem is a free software media player (audio and video) for the GNOME computer desktop environment which runs on GNU/Linux, Solaris, BSD and other Unix and Unix-like systems. It is officially included in GNOME starting from version 2.
Totem and Taboo Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics was a book written by Sigmund Freud published in German as Totem und Tabu: Einige Ăśbereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker in 1913. It was a collection of four essays which had been published in the journal Imago from 1912-1913 as an application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archeology, anthropology, and the study of religion.
Totem Acoustic Totem Acoustic is a Montreal, Canada-based manufacturer of loudspeaker systems founded in 1987 by Vince Bruzzese, also the Company's Chief Designer. The name was chosen as an ongoing symbolic representation of this mission and vision.
Totem pole Totem poles are monumental sculptures carved from great trees, typically Western Redcedar, by a number of Native American cultures along the Pacific northwest coast of North America. The word "totem" is derived from the Algonkian word Dodem, originally meaning "to be related to someone" (i.
TotemBall Totemball is a Xbox Live Arcade musical action game developed by Freeverse Software/Strange Flavour and published by Microsoft. It will take advantage of the Xbox Live Vision Camera with the camera tracking the players hand movements.
Totemizer Totemization is a fictional method of torture and punishment introduced in the computer game Zork Grand Inquisitor. The Totemizer machine was originally created by the Frobozz Magic Company in 672 GUE under commission of King Duncanthrax the Bellicose as an effective alternative to the death penalty.
Toteng Toteng is a village in the north east of Botswana, North East region located at 20,22'S 22,56'E. The town is reportedly the location of the oldest "directly dated evidence of cattle in southern Africa" Nearby towns are Monedi], [[Demarara, and Motlhatlokho in the west, Rammu and Dirolos in the north and Makkhalo in the east.
Totenkopf Totenkopf (Plural: Totenköpfe) is the German word for "death head" or "death's head" and is used to describe a military insignia featuring a skull above crossed bones. It is distinguished from the similar traditions of the skull and crossbones and the Jolly Roger by the fact that the bones are positioned directly behind the skull and the lower jaw bone is absent.
Totenkopf (mountain) The Totenkopf is a 557-m (1827-ft) mountain in Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany, forming the highest point in the Kaiserstuhl region. The mountain is topped by an observation tower and a 120-m (394-ft) Deutsche Telekom communications tower.
Totes Gebirge The Totes Gebirge is a group of mountains in Austria, part of the Northern Calcareous Alps, lying between the Salzkammergut and the Ennstaler Alpen. The name Totes Gebirge is derived from the German words tot meaning "dead", referring to the apparent lack of vegetation, and Gebirge meaning "mountain range".
Totie Fields Totie Fields (May 7, 1930 - August 2, 1978) was a zaftig American comedian who was not afraid to poke fun at her own weight problems. She was quoted as saying "I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days.
Totila Totila, born in Treviso, was king of the Ostrogoths, chosen after the death of his uncle Ildibad, having engineered the assassination of Ildibad's short-lived successor his cousin Eraric in 541. The Byzantine historian Procopius, who accompanied the general Belisarius in the Gothic War employed his nom de guerre "Totila": his real name, which can be seen from the coinage he issued, was Baduila.
Totipotency Totipotency is the ability of a single cell, to divide and produce all the differentiated cells in an organism, including extraembryonic tissues. For example, a plant cutting can be used to grow an entire plant.
Totleigh-in-the-Wold Totleigh-in-the-Wold is a fictional locale from the Jeeves stories of the English comic author, PG Wodehouse. It is the setting for a number of little sagas, all of which involve the foppish Bertie Wooster and his indispensable valet Jeeves.
Totley Totley is a suburb on the extreme southwest of Sheffield, next to the Yorkshire/Derbyshire boundary. Traditionally a Derbyshire village, Totley officially became part of Sheffield in 1935, and is now part of the Dore and Totley ward of the city.
Totnes Community Mag Totnes Community Mag was a fortnightly free magazine in Totnes, England from 1989 - 1998 produced by members of Totnes Community Office, a voluntary group interested in preserving and supporting the local environment of Totnes. The magazine provided an alternative to the commercially successful Totnes Times, though the profits it made were used to keep the Community Office going.
Toto (band) Toto (IPA pronunciation: ) is an American rock/pop/prog band which had their greatest commercial success in the 1980s. They are known for covering several music styles, such as pop, rock, funk, prog, jazz, and others.
Toto Bissainthe Marie Clotilde "Toto" Bissainthe was a HaĂŻtian actress and singer known for her innovative blend of traditional voodoo and peasant themes and music with contemporary lyricism and arrangements. Born in Cap-HaĂŻtien in 1934, she left HaĂŻti an early age to pursue her studies abroad.
Totodile are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Totodile in the games, anime and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Totonacan languages The Totonacan Languages are a family of closely-related languages spoken by approximately 200,000 Totonac people in the states of Veracruz, Puebla, and Hidalgo in Mexico. The Totonacan languages are not demonstrably related to any other languages, although they share numerous areal features with other languages of the Mesoamerican sprachbund such as the Mayan languages and Nahuatl.
Totopo Totopos, in Mexican cuisine are a flat, round corn product similar to a tortilla best known as originating from Zapotec peoples of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. There, the Zapotec women bake totopos in a clay oven known as a comixcal.
Totopoly Totopoly is a commercial board game, based on the events leading up to, and during, a horse race. Originally made in 1938 by Waddingtons, the game is based on a double-sided board, with each side representing a different half of the game.
Totskoye range Totskoye is a military range established in September 1941 to the north of Totskoye village, about 40 km from Buzuluk in Orenburg Oblast, Russia (in Southern Urals) under the jurisdiction of the South Urals Military District
Tottel's Miscellany Songes and Sonettes, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other, usually called Tottel's Miscellany, was the first printed anthology of English poetry. It was published by Richard Tottel in 1557, and ran to many editions in the sixteenth century.
Totten trust A Totten trust is a form of trust created where one party (the settlor of the trust) places money in a bank account with instructions that upon the settlor's death, whatever is in that bank account will pass to a named beneficiary. For example, a Totten trust arises where the bank account is titled in the form "[depositor], in trust for [beneficiary]".
Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway The Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway was a railway line in north London, formed by an Act of Parliament of 1890 and built as joint venture between the Midland Railway and the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway. It opened in 1894.
Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway The Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway was a railway line in north London, formed by an Act of Parliament of 28 July 1862. The line opened on 21 July 1868 between Tottenham North Junction (on the Great Eastern Railway) and Highgate Road.
Tottenham Court Road Tottenham Court Road is a road in Central London running from St Giles' Circus (the junction of Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road) north to Euston Road, near the border of the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden. The road is one-way; all three lanes are northbound only.
Tottenham High Cross Tottenham High Cross was erected in Tottenham sometime between 1600 - 1609 by Owen Wood, Dean of Armagh, on the site of a wooden wayside cross first mentioned in 1409, and marks what was the centre of Tottenham Village. There is some speculation that the first structure on the site was a Roman beacon or marker , situated on a low summit on Ermine Street, which became the Tottenham High Road, as it is now known.
Tottenham High Road High Road, Tottenham´s main thoroughfare, runs through the district from the North at the border with Edmonton (Snells Park) to Stamford Hill in the South. It follows for the whole of its length, the course of the erstwhile Roman Road, Ermine Street .
Tottenham North (UK Parliament constituency) Tottenham North was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Municipal Borough of Tottenham, in North London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Totterdown, Bristol Totterdown is a suburb of Bristol, England, situated area just south of the River Avon and south-east of Temple Meads railway station. It rises relatively steeply from the river bank to a largely terraced housing area which is notable for its painted homes often in bright colours that can be seen from some distance.
Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window is a book written by Japanese television personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi about her childhood at Tomoe Gakuen, an alternative elementary school founded by educator Sosaku Kobayashi.
Totton and Eling Totton and Eling is a town in Hampshire, UK, with a population of around 28,000 people. It is situated on the eastern edge of the New Forest and on the River Test, close to the city of Southampton and part of the city's urban area.
Tottori Castle was the central castle of the Tottori han (fief) in feudal Japan. It was a yamashiro, or 'mountain-castle', built into the mountain itself, using natural obstacles and defenses to a greater extent than man-made walls.
Totttech Tofftech is a UK-based computer retailer owned by the Toffgroup. Tofftech have one of the largest product databases available for a single site in the UK with over 50000 in stock products at any given time including (but not limited to) laptops, PC's, servers, software, displays, printers, components & storage.
Totum pro parte Totum pro parte is Latin for "(taking) the whole for a part"; it refers to a kind of synecdoche. When used in a context of language it means that something is named after something of which it is only a part (or only a limited characteristic, in itself not necessarily representative for the whole).
Tou Mu Kung Temple The Tou Mu Kung Temple (Chinese: 斗母宫) is a Taoist temple situated on Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore. Worshipping the Empress Registrar of Birth or Dou Mu (斗母) and Nine Emperor (九皇大帝) deities, the temple has a mixture of Taoist and Buddhist influence.
Touareg tea Touareg tea (also called Tuareg tea or Mint tea) is a flavoured tea prepared in northern Africa and in Arabian countries. Mint tea (in Arabic, شاي بالنعناع, shāy bil n'anā', or more commonly, in dialect, الأتاي, at tay) is central to social life in Maghreb countries.
Toubab Krewe Toubab Krewe is an American instrumental band which fuses the music of Mali with American musical styles (particularly those of the Southern United States). The group's instrumentation includes kora (21-string harp-lute), kamelengoni (12-string harp-lute), soku (Malian horsehair fiddle), two electric guitars, electric bass guitar, drum set, and African percussion.
Toubon Law The Toubon Law (full name: law 94-665 of 4 August 1994 relating to usage of the French language), is a law of the French government mandating the use of the French language in official government publications, advertisements, and some other contexts. The law does not concern non-commercial communications, web pages or publications from individuals or private bodies.
Toucouleur The Toucouleurs (or Haalpulaaren) are an ethnicity of West Africa. They live primarily in the north of Senegal (where they represent 10% of the population) in the Senegal River valley, in Mauritania, in Mali, and in Guinea.
Toucy Toucy is a French commune situated in the Yonne département, in the région of Bourgogne. It was the hometown of Pierre Larousse, creator of one of the most highly regarded French dictionaries, Le Petit Larousse.
Toufee Toufee, is a new WYSIWYG online Flash movie builder that aims to make it easy for non technical users to quickly create impressive multimedia items for embedding in web pages. Some of the key features include drag and drop element placement, good control over presentation timing and a text-to-speech engine with six relatively human voices.
Touge is a Japanese word literally meaning "pass." It refers to a mountain pass or any of the narrow, winding roads that can be found in and around the mountains of Japan and other geographically similar areas.
Tougeki - Super Battle Opera , also known as Arcadia Cup, is an annual Japanese fighting video game tounament hosted by the magazine Arcadia. The tournament takes place over three days and is considered by many to be one of the best in the world, in regards to the skills of the players.
Tough as Nails (Video Game) Tough as Nails is a two-dimensional platform game, which is being developed by NailTek Productions. The team consists of two people so far, Dan Rhodenizer (AKA: 123Dan123), and Ahmed Amer (AKA: Spectek), and is currently looking for a spriter.
Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn was a talk show on Comedy Central which attempted to be comedic and borrowed heavily in premise and format from a previous Comedy Central production, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. Like Politically Incorrect, the idea of the show was to have roundtable discussions, except instead of inviting various guests of many views, mixing entertainers expressing themselves with experts and political figures, Quinn's guests consisted mainly of comedians from the Olive Tree Cafe, the restaurant connected with the Comedy Cellar in New York City.
Tough guy A tough guy is an intimidating, hypermasculine figure, usually with a large muscular build. Tough guys are often rugged, stoic, self-sufficient, no-nonsense individuals, and almost always excel in some form of fighting or athleticism.
Tough Plastic Sheath Tough Plastic Sheath (TPS) cable normally consists of a white or off white outer sheath of plastic, one or more inner coloured plastic sheaths, and a core or cores of plain annealed copper, either single or multi strand. These strands of copper are much thicker than the strands in appliance cable, and are not very resistant to fracturing if bent repetitively.
Toughbook Toughbook is the trademarked brand name owned by Matsushita Electric Industrial and marketed by their international brand name Panasonic. Toughbook refers to its line of semi-rugged and rugged laptop computers.
Toughened glass Toughened glass or tempered glass is a type of safety glass that has increased strength and will usually shatter in small, square pieces when broken. It is used when strength, thermal resistance and safety are important considerations.
Tougher Disguises Tougher Disguises is a well-regarded publisher of experimental poetry, based in San Diego, California. It was founded by poet James Meetze in 2002, publishing small letterpress editions by a pair of established poets, Peter Gizzi and Clark Coolidge.
Toughman Contest Founded in 1979 in Bay City, Michigan by boxing promoter Art Dore, the Toughman Contest is a chance for the novice amateur fighters (those with no more than 5 winning fights in the past 5 years) to test themselvles in the ring.
Toughness In materials science and metallurgy, toughness is the resistance to fracture of a material when stressed. It is defined as the amount of energy that a material can absorb before rupturing, and can be found by finding the area (i.
Touhou Project The , also known as Toho Project or Project Shrine Maiden, is a series of curtain fire scrolling shooters made by Team Shanghai Alice. They are notable for being successful dojin soft because of their intricate bullet patterns, their greater focus on characters than most shooter games, and being a one-man project.
Touch 'n Go The Touch 'n Go smart card is used by Malaysian toll expressway and highway operators as the sole electronic payment system (EPS). The credit card sized smartcard made of plastic with Philips MIFARE microchip technology embedded in it.
Touch (60s band) Touch were a 60s rock group who recorded just one album, 1968's eponymous 'Touch'. They consisted of John Bardonaro (Drums, percussion, vocals), Don Gallucci (Keyboards, vocals), Bruce Hauser (Bass, vocals), Jeff Hawks (Vocals), and Joey Newman AKA Vern Kjellberg (Guitar, vocals).
Touch (band) Touch were a rock band from New York City formed in 1978. Members included Mark Mangold (songwriter and keyboards) and Glen Kithcart (drums), both who had previously been in the band American Tears (releasing three albums on Columbia Records).
Touch (film) Touch is a 1997 film written and directed by Paul Schrader. It is based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, and stars Christopher Walken, Bridget Fonda, Skeet Ulrich, Tom Arnold, Gina Gershon, Lolita Davidovich, Janeane Garofalo and Paul Mazursky.
Touch and Go Records Touch and Go Records is an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois, USA, which began life in 1979 in East Lansing, Michigan as a magazine put out by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson. Vee was bored with the punk sounds of the day, and captivated by the emerging hardcore movement in America.
Touch El Arab Touch El Arab was a pop/electronica group from Basel, Switzerland, formed by members Philippe Alioth, Christoph MĂĽller and Stefan Hopmann. Their humorous song "Muhammar" was a major hit in Switzerland, France and Italy.
Touch football (rugby league) Touch (with a capital "T"), is also known as Touch Football (particularly in Australia) and Touch Rugby in other countries. In games of Touch, which is a derivative of rugby league, touching an opposing player replaces a tackle, avoiding the physical nature of the full contact game.
Touch FM (Banbury) Touch FM is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to the town of Banbury and northern Oxfordshire, in the English Midlands. The station, launched on 25 February 2006 by breakfast presenter Dale Collins, is owned by Cumbria-based CN Radio and was the third station to adopt the Touch FM brand, alongside sister stations in Coventry and Stratford-upon-Avon.
Touch FM (Stratford-upon-Avon) Touch FM is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to the town of Stratford-upon-Avon and much of the county of Warwickshire, in the English Midlands. The station, which launched in 1996 as FM102 The Bear and was later known as The Bear 102, was taken over by Cumbria-based CN Radio in 2003 and launched, along with a station in Coventry, as Touch FM on January 16 2006.
Touch Football Touch (with a capital "T"), is also known as Touch Football (particularly in Australia) and Touch Rugby in other countries. In games of Touch, which is a derivative of rugby league, touching an opposing player replaces a tackle, avoiding the physical nature of the full contact game.
Touch hole A touch hole is a small hole, through which the propellant charge of a cannon or muzzleloading gun is ignited. In small arms, the flash from a charge of priming held in the flash pan is enough to ignite the charge within.

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