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Transit of minor planets A transit of a minor planet across the Sun takes place when the minor planet passes directly between the Sun and the observer, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc. During an astronomical transit, the minor planet can be seen as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun.
Transit of Mars from Saturn A transit of Mars across the Sun as seen from Saturn takes place when the planet Mars passes directly between the Sun and Saturn, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc for an observer on Saturn. During a transit, Mars can be seen from Saturn as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun.
Transit of Mercury A transit of Mercury across the Sun takes place when the planet Mercury comes between the Sun and the Earth, and Mercury is seen as a small black dot moving across the face of the Sun. On the 8th of November, 2006, the planet Mercury could be last seen going across the sun.
Transit of Mercury from Jupiter A transit of Mercury across the Sun as seen from Jupiter takes place when the planet Mercury passes directly between the Sun and Jupiter, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc for an observer on Jupiter. During a transit, Mercury can be seen from Jupiter as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun.
Transit of Mercury from Mars A transit of Mercury across the Sun as seen from Mars takes place when the planet Mercury passes directly between the Sun and Mars, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc for an observer on Mars. During a transit, Mercury can be seen from Mars as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun.
Transit of Mercury from Saturn A transit of Mercury across the Sun as seen from Saturn takes place when the planet Mercury passes directly between the Sun and Saturn, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc for an observer on Saturn. During a transit, Mercury can be seen from Saturn as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun.
Transit of Mercury from Venus A transit of Mercury across the Sun as seen from Venus takes place when the planet Mercury passes directly between the Sun and Venus, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc for an observer on Venus. During a transit, Mercury can be seen from Venus as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun.
Transit of Phobos from Mars A transit of Phobos across the Sun as seen from Mars takes place when Phobos passes directly between the Sun and a point on the surface of Mars, obscuring a large part of the Sun's disc for an observer on Mars. During a transit, Phobos can be seen from Mars as a large black disc rapidly moving across the face of the Sun.
Transit of Saturn from outer planets A transit of Saturn across the Sun as seen from an outer planet (Uranus or Neptune) takes place when the planet Saturn passes directly between the Sun and the outer planet, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc for an observer on the outer planet. During a transit, Saturn can be seen from the outer planet as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun.
Transit of Venus A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, obscuring a small portion of the Sun's disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun.
Transit of Venus from Jupiter A transit of Venus across the Sun as seen from Jupiter takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Jupiter, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc for an observer on Jupiter. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Jupiter as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun.
Transit of Venus from Mars A transit of Venus across the Sun as seen from Mars takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Mars, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc for an observer on Mars. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Mars as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun.
Transit of Venus from Saturn A transit of Venus across the Sun as seen from Saturn takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Saturn, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc for an observer on Saturn. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Saturn as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun.
Transit planner Transit Planning or Public Transport Planning, is the professional discipline responsible for developing public transport systems. It is a hybrid discipline involving aspects of transportation engineering and traditional urban planning.
Transit police Transit police or transport police, are a specialized type of police employed by a common carrier, usually a railroad (but may also include a bus line or other transport carrier) that are tasked to prevent and investigate crimes committed against the carrier or by or against passengers or other customers of the carrier.
Transit Research and Attitude Control The Transit Research and Attitude Control (TRAAC) satellite was launched by the US Navy from Cape Kennedy along with Transit 4B on November 15, 1961. The 109 kg satellite was used to test the feasibility of using the Earth's gravitational attraction to orient and stabilize a vehicle in space.
Transit telescope A transit telescope is a special purpose telescope mounted so as to allow it to be pointed only at objects in the sky crossing the local meridian, an event known as a transit (using the second meaning listed at the transit link.) These telescopes rely on the rotation of the Earth to bring objects into their field of view.
Transit to Scorpio Transit to Scorpio is a science fiction novel written by Kenneth Bulmer under the pseudonym of Alan Burt Akers, volume 1 in his extensive Dray Prescot series of planetary romances, set on the fictional world of Kregen, a planet of the Antares star system in the constellation of Scorpio. It was first published by DAW Books in 1972.
Transit village A transit village is a planned development around a transporation hub, such as a train station, with the intent to make it convient for village dwellers to get to/from work or run errands and travel via a public transporation network.
Transit Valley Transit Valley is a country club in Western New York that was involved in an incident in 1993 where membership was denied to NHL player Grant Fuhr. It was believed that he had been denied membership to the club due to his race.
Transit watchdog A transit watchdog is an individual or group that provides public comment regarding public transit operations. Transit watchdogs attract a variety of contributors, from transit users to railfans, who offer feedback about service, operations, and funding matters.
Transite Transite is a completely fireproof composite material made of 12-50% asbestos and cement, which was once frequently used for such purposes as furnace flues, and shingles, siding, and wallboard for areas where fire retardancy is particularly important. Because cutting, breaking, and machining transite releases carcinogenic asbestos fibers into the air, its use has fallen out of favor.
Transitforum Austria Tirol The Transitforum Austria Tirol is an Austrian all-party non-governmental organization, which advocates for a reduction of international through traffic on Austrian roads, for environmental, economic, and medical reasons. The initiative is primarily targeted at truck transport.
Transitgas Pipeline The Transitgas Pipeline is a 293 kilometres long natural gas pipeline in Switzerland, which connects Trans Europa Naturgas Pipeline from Wallbach, Germany, and Gaz de France gas grid from Rodersdorf/Oltingue at the French-Swiss border with the Snam Rete Gas S.p.
Transition (genetics) In genetics, a Transition is a mutation changing a purine to another purine nucleotide (A <-> G) or a pyrimidine to another pyrimidine nucleotide (C <-> T). Approximately two out of every three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are transitions.
Transition (grappling) A transition in grappling is a move from one grappling hold or grappling position to another. The process is called transitioning and is one of the most important aspects of ground grappling, as it allows the combatant performing the transition to advance in positioning, for instance by using a sweep, or to attempt pinning holds or submission holds.
Transition (literary journal) The journal transition was founded in 1927 by poet Eugene Jolas and his wife Maria McDonald along with editors Elliot Paul, Robert Sage & Stuart Gilbert, Caresse Crosby & Harry Crosby did some editing as well.
Transition constraint A transition constraint is a way of enforcing that the data doesn't enter an impossible state because of a previous state. For example, it shouldn't be possible for a person to change from being "married" to being "single, never married".
Transition economics Transition economics is a special branch of economics dealing with the transformation of a planned economy to a market economy. It has become especially important after the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.
Transition from Prison to Community Initiative The Transition from Prison to Community Initiative was proposed and developed by the National Institute for Corrections as a comprehensive model for the reintegration of convicted felons back into the community.
Transition nuclear protein Transition nuclear proteins (TNPs) are proteins that are involved in the packaging of sperm nuclear DNA during spermiogenesis. They take the place of histones associated with the sperm DNA, and are subsequently themselves replaced by protamines.
Transition point In the field of fluid dynamics the point at which the boundary layer changes from laminar to turbulent is called the transition point. Where the boundary layer becomes turbulent, drag due to skin friction is relatively high.
Transition radiation Transition radiation is produced by relativistic charged particles when they cross the interface of two media of different dielectric constants. The emitted radiation is the homogeneous difference between the two inhomogeneous solutions of Maxwell's equations of the electric and magnetic fields of the moving particle in each medium separately.
Transition radiation detector A transition radiation detector (TRD) is a particle detector utilizing the gamma-dependent threshold of transition radiation in a stratified material. It contains many layers of materials with different indices of refraction.
Transition School and Early Entrance Program The Transition School and Early Entrance Program (TS/EEP) is an early college entrance program located on the University of Washington campus at the Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars. The program was begun in 1977 by the late Halbert Robinson, who recognized the need for extremely gifted students to have an accelerated academic program.
Transition time The transition time t_t, is the time a dynamical system needs to switch between two different stable states, when responding to a stable input signal. In a logic circuit (a discrete-time dynamical system whose state is representable as a boolean-valued vector function of time) undergoing a change of state, it identifies the rise time or the fall time of the output voltage.
Transition Tag A transition tag is a tool used by National Football League teams to retain unrestricted free agents. It guarantees the original club the right of first refusal to match any offer the player may make with another team.
Transition To War Transition To War (TTW) is a NATO military term referring to a period of international tension during which government and society move to an open (but not necessarily declared) war footing. The period after this is considered to be war, conventional or otherwise, but the term TTW found its origins in the peak of the Cold War as a key NATO concept within the tripwire escalation of the DEFCON status.
Transition words Transition words allow you to write smooth changes in the lines of thinking, thus non-complex sentences give light to complex sentences and long paragraphs through connectors of meanings. These connectors provide a powerful tool to put sentences and phrases together, bringing coherence, consistency and most importantly puts into written words the thoughts that your mind is trying to convey.
Transition Year Transition Year (TY) is an optional one-year programme that can be taken in the year after the Junior Certificate of the Republic of Ireland and is intended to make the senior cycle a three year programme encompassing both Transition Year and Leaving CertificateCircular M31/93, Department of Education, Ireland, 1993. Transition Year was created as a result of the Programme for Economic and Social Progress which called for a six-year cycle of post-primary educationProgramme for Economic and Social Progress, Government of Ireland, Dublin, 1991.
Transitional age youth Transitional age youth are young people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four who are in transition from state custody or foster care and are at-risk. Once they turn 18 they can no longer receive assistance from the systems of care that previously provided for many of their needs.
Transitional ballistics Transitional ballistics, also known as intermediate ballistics, is the study of a projectile's behavior from the time it leaves the muzzle until the pressure behind the projectile is equalized, so it lies between internal ballistics and external ballistics. This is also referred to in some texts as intermediate ballistics.
Transitional bilingual education Transitional Bilingual Education is an educational theory that states that children can most easily acquire fluency in a second language by first acquiring fluency in their native language. Fluency is defined as linguistic fluency (e.
Transitional deacon In the Roman Catholic church, a transitional deacon is a celibate man who has been ordained a deacon and who intends to become a priest. For several centuries, all Roman Catholic deacons were in this transitional stage between layman and priest.
Transitional fossil A transitional fossil or transitional form is the fossilized remains of a life form that illustrates an evolutionary transition. It can be identified by having certain primitive (plesiomorphic) traits in comparison with its more derived relatives, such as defined in the study of cladistics.
Transitional Federal Charter of the Somali Republic The Transitional Federal Charter of the Somali Republic, or TFC is the principle organizing document of the Somali Republic, written and approved in February 2004 in Nairobi, Kenya. It represents one of the Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs) of the state, along with the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP), which is the legislative branch, and the executive branch under the President, known as the Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo was tasked with moving from the state riven by the Second Congo War (1998-2002) to a government based upon a constitution agreed on by consensus. In 2001 President Laurent Kabila was assassinated and his son Joseph Kabila was named head of state.
Transitional champion A transitional champion is a professional wrestling term for a champion that holds the title between two lengthy championship reigns. Their purpose is to be a go-between, taking the title from a face champion and moving the title to another face without booking two faces together in a match.
Transitional Military Council This article details the period of Transitional Military Council, April 1985 to April 1986, in the history of Sudan. The combination of the south's redivision, the introduction throughout the country of the sharia, the renewed civil war, and growing economic problems eventually contributed to Jaafar an Nimeiri's downfall.
Transitional object Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-1971) introduced the concepts of transitional objects and transitional experience in reference to a particular developmental sequence. With ‘transition’ Winnicott means an intermediate developmental phase between the psychic and external reality.
Transitional Program The Transitional Program, the full name of which is The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International, is a political platform adopted by the 1938 founding congress of the Fourth International, the international Leninist organization founded by Leon Trotsky.
Transitional shoguns Although these two military adventurers did not succeed in establishing new dynasties of shoguns, they stand at a crucial moment in Japanese history. Their successes paved the way for the relative tranquility of the Tokugawa era.
Transitive Corp. Transitive Corporation is a software company providing solutions that allow the transportability of software applications across multiple hardware platforms. The company’s QuickTransit hardware virtualization solution allows software applications that have been compiled for one processor/operating system to run on another without any source code or binary changes and at speeds comparable to native ports.
Transitive reduction In mathematics, the transitive reduction of a binary relation R on a set X is the smallest relation R' on X such that that the transitive closure of R' is the same as the transitive closure of R. If the transitive closure of R is antisymmetric and finite, then R' is unique.
Transitively normal subgroup In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a subgroup of a group is said to be transitively normal in the group if every normal subgroup of the subgroup is also normal in the whole group. In symbols, H is a transitively normal subgroup of G if for every K normal in H, we have that K is normal in G.
Transjoik Transjoik (founded in Trondheim in 1992) is a Norwegian band that plays jazz and Sámi music, often characterised as an ambient electronic, techno and trance band, but with a dose of yoiking, so it is often considered world music. The group's original name was Frode Fjellheim Jazzjoik Ensemble.
Transjordan The Emirate of Transjordan was an autonomous political division of the Mandate for Palestine, created as an administrative entity in April 1921 before the Mandate came into effect in September 1923. It was geographically equivalent to 1942 - 1965 Kingdom of Jordan (slightly different from today's borders), and remained under the nominal auspices of the League of Nations and British supreme rule, until its independence in 1946.
Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, also TIPS, is an artificial channel in the liver from the portal vein to a hepatic vein (for blood). It is created endovascularly (via the blood vessels) by physicians via the jugular vein.
Transkei The Transkei — which means the area beyond the Kei River — is a region situated in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. It is also the name of an Apartheid-era Bantustan (1959-1994) corresponding to this territory.
Transketolase Transketolase, an enzyme of the Calvin cycle of photosynthesis, catalyzes the transfer of a 2-carbon fragment from a 5-carbon keto sugar (D-xyulose-5-P) to a 5-carbon aldo sugar (D-ribose-5-P) to form a 7-carbon keto sugar (sedoheptulose-7-P) and a 3-carbon aldo sugar (glyceraldehyde-3-P).
Translating "law" to other European languages The translation of "law" to other European languages faces several difficulties. In most European languages, there are two different words that can be translated to English as "law", for instance:
Translatio imperii Translatio imperii, Latin for "transfer of rule", is a concept invented in the Middle Ages for describing history as a linear development: a succession of transfers of power from one supreme ruler (emperor) to the next.
Translation Translation is the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language (the "source text") and the production, in another language, of an equivalent text (the "target text," or "translation") that communicates the same message.
Translation (Mormon) Among members of the LDS faith translation refers to being physically changed by God from a mortal human being to an immortal human being. A translated person is akin to a resurrected person with the exception that translated people did not die first.
Translation (rhetoric device) Translation as a rhetorical device is a form of parody, where a sarcastic paraphrase of a source quotation is given to mock its author; to enhance the irony, it is furthermore stated that the version being given is merely a translation into the speaker's language, implying that the original speaker was unduly obscure or ranting. Given the nature of Usenet forums, parodic translation is prevalent in flame wars, where remarks such as "Translation: 'I do not have a clue and am throwing mud'" are used to imply — on very little ground — that another poster is not making any appreciable contribution to the subject.
Translation dictionary A translation dictionary (or sometimes translator) is a specialized lexicon designed for giving users rough equivalences of words and phrase equivalences between two distinct languages. A user desiring a translation using a translation dictionary may start with the words or phrases in his own language, the source language, and reference words or phrases in the foreign language, or target language, for speaking and writing.
Translation Lookaside Buffer A Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) is a cache in a CPU that is used to improve the speed of virtual address translation. A TLB has a fixed number of entries containing parts of the page table which translate virtual addresses into physical addresses.
Translation Memory eXchange TMX (Translation Memory eXchange) is an open XML standard for the exchange of translation memory data created by computer-aided translation and localisation tools. TMX is developed and maintained by OSCAROSCAR - Open Standards for Container/Content Allowing Re-use (Open Standards for Container/Content Allowing Re-use), a special interest group of LISALISA - Localization Industry Standards Association (Localization Industry Standards Association).
Translation relay A translation relay is a version of the well-known telephone game. In this kind of relay, the first player produces a text in a given language, together with a basic guide to understanding, which includes a lexicon, an interlinear gloss, possibly a list of grammatical morphemes, comments on the meaning of difficult words, etc.
Translation studies Translation studies is the branch of the humanities dealing with the systematic, interdisciplinary study of the theory, the description and the application of translation, interpreting or both these activities.
Translation unit In the field of translation, a translation unit is a segment of a text which the translator treats as a single cognitive unit for the purposes of establishing an equivalence. The translation unit may be a single word, or it may be a phrase, one or more sentences, or even a larger unit.
Translational frameshift If a ribosome changes (shifts) frame when translating the genetic code this is called a translational frameshift. This type of frameshifting may be programmed to occur at particular recoding sites and is important in some viruses (e.
Translational lift Translational lift is the extra lift created/received when a helicopter's forward speed increases from the hover. It should be noted that if there is a steady wind (above 10 knots) a helicopter in the hover may already be in translational lift.
Translational medicine Translational medicine is a branch of medical research that attempts to more directly connect basic research to patient care. Translational medicine is growing in importance in the healthcare industry, and is a term whose precise definition is in flux.
Translational partition function In statistical mechanics, the translational partition function is that part of the partition function resulting from the movement (translation) of the center of mass. It is derived in the same way as the partition function for the canonical ensemble.
Translations Translations (Aistrichiuain) is a three-act play by Irish playwright Brian Friel written in 1980. It is set in Baile Beag (Ballybeg), a small, fictional village at the heart of 19th century agricultural Ireland.
Translations of Frère Jacques The song Frère Jacques is well known in English-speaking countries in both its French and English forms. Many other translations and versions exist; some are an exact structural match to the French version, while others vary in the details to better fit a rhyme scheme, syllable structure, or general euphony.
Translations of Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" ("God Save Emperor Franz") is an anthem to the Austrian Emperor Francis II, set to music by Joseph Haydn, the anthem served as the national anthem of Austria-Hungary.
Translator microbes In the fictional Farscape universe, translator microbes allow alien races to understand each other's speech. According to the script, they "colonize at the base of the brain" and allow one to understand alien speech.
Transleithania Transleithania (German: Transleithanien) was the name of the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary, the Dual monarchy created in 1867 and dissolved in 1918. The Transleithanian lands were also known as the Lands of the Crown of St.
Translit Translit is a method of encoding Cyrillic letters with Latin ones. The term stems from transliteration, a method used by interpreters to translate otherwise untranslatable words such as names or geographical locations.
Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian In the field of Egyptology, transliteration is the process of converting (or mapping) texts written in the Egyptian language to alphabetic symbols representing uniliteral hieroglyphs or their hieratic and demotic counterparts. This process facilitates the publication of texts where the inclusion of photographs or drawings of an actual Egyptian document is impractical.
Translocon The translocon (commonly known as a translocator) is the complex of proteins associated with the translocation of nascent polypeptides into the interior (cisternal or luminal) space of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) from the cytosol. This process requires the protein to cross a hydrophobic lipid bilayer.
Translohr Translohr is a guided bus system manufactured by Lohr Industrie of France. It is used in Clermont-Ferrand and Tianjin, under construction in Padua, L'Aquila, and the mainland Mestre district of Venice in Italy.
Translunar injection Translunar injection is the name given to a rocket "burn" intended to place a spacecraft on a trajectory towards the Moon, generally in a Hohmann transfer orbit. Most, but not all, unmanned spacecraft use this technique to travel towards the moon, and all Project Apollo manned spacecraft did so.
TransLink (San Francisco Bay Area) TransLink is a rechargeable contactless stored value smart card fare collection system being implemented in the San Francisco Bay Area About Translink, retrieved on January 26, 2007.. The fare system was introduced as a pilot program in 2002 by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to reduce the number of fare systems and help integrate transit systems in the Bay Area.
TransLink (South East Queensland) TransLink is a system of integrated public transport that covers rail, bus and ferry networks in South East Queensland, Australia. It was introduced by the Queensland Government in July 2004, and is operated by Queensland Transport.
TransLink (Vancouver) TransLink, officially known as the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, is a transportation organization that services transportation needs of the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) in British Columbia, Canada.
TransLink fares (Vancouver) TransLink is the transportation authority in the Greater Vancouver Regional District area of British Columbia. It was created in 1998 as a replacement for BC Transit in the city of Vancouver and its neighbouring municipalities.
Transman Transmen or trans men are transgender or transsexual people who were identified female at birth based on genital appearance (or, in cases of intersexuality, were later assigned to the female gender) and who feel that this is not an accurate or complete description of themselves. They have a male gender identity and/or present themselves as men and desire to live in a male gender role.
Transmediale transmediale is an annual festival for art and digital culture, held in Berlin, Germany. Originating as a video and film festival for contemporary art that started in 1988, transmediale has since 2001 been directed by Andreas Broeckmann who introduced an interest in software art and re-established the festival as an important contributor to the European art scene.
Transmedics Transmedics, located in Andover, Massachusetts, is a medical device company involved in the design and production of new transplant devices. The company is responsible for designing the Organ Care System, a device which allowed the first 'beating-heart' transplant to take place.
Transmembrane helix Within an integral membrane protein, a transmembrane helix is a segment that is alpha-helical in structure, roughly 20 amino acids in length, and (though it may be presumed to lie within the protein, out of contact with the surrounding lipid bilayer) is said to "span" the membrane.
Transmembrane receptor Transmembrane receptors are integral membrane proteins, which reside and operate typically within a cell's plasma membrane, but also in the membranes of some subcellular compartments and organelles. Binding to a signalling molecule or sometimes to a pair of such molecules on one side of the membrane, transmembrane receptors initiate a response on the other side.
Transmeta Transmeta develops computing technologies with a focus on reducing power consumption in electronic devices. Transmeta was founded in 1995 by Bob Cmelik, Dave Ditzel, Colin Hunter, Ed Kelly, Doug Laird, Malcolm Wing, and Grzegorz Zynerlo as a US-based corporation that designed VLIW code morphing microprocessors.
Transmetals Transmetals is a subline of Beast Wars in the fictional Transformers Universe, featuring toys with mechanical animal modes and techno-organic robot modes . The subline was released in conjunction with Beast Wars' second and third seasons, for the price points of 10, 15, 20 and 35 USD.
Transmetropolitan Transmetropolitan is a postcyberpunk comic book series written by Warren Ellis with art by Darick Robertson and published by DC Comics. The series was originally part of the short-lived DC Comics imprint Helix Comics but upon the end of the book's first year, the series was moved to the Vertigo imprint as DC Comics cancelled the Helix Comics imprint.
Transmigration operation In solid modelling, a transmigration operation refers to the changes in a part that must be propagated to changes in other parts which have a dependence on the first. Put simply it means that if something is moved, other things will be affected and must also be adjusted to preserve other established relationships.
Transmigration program The transmigration program (Indonesian: Transmigrasi) was an initiative of the Indonesian Government to move landless people from densely populated areas of Indonesia to less populous areas of the country. This involved moving people predominantly from the island of Java, but also to a lesser extent from Bali and Madura, to less densely populated areas including Papua, Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Sulawesi.
Transmisiones bahia del sur Transmisiones Bahia del sur ("Southern Bay Broadcasting") is an independent internet radio station located in La Serena, Chile. The station usually plays non-mainstream music, it never censors what its announcers or guests say, and of course contributors are never paid.

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