Stad

Stad is the word for city used in Swedish, Danish and Dutch, and related to German Stadt. See also: Stad (Sweden).

Stad may also refer to:

  • Stad (peninsula) (or Stadlandet), the westernmost point in mainland Norway (in Selje municipality)
  • Stad Ship Tunnel, a proposed ship tunnel through the Stad peninsula in Norway
  • The Irish language word meaning "stop"
  • Science Teams Against Disease is a fund which aims to develop new treatments for schizophrenia
  • Student team achievement division, a cooperative learning classroom technique
  • "Stay To Astronaut Dream"

  • Stad (Sweden)

    Stad (Swedish: "town; city"; plural städer) is a Swedish term that historically has used for urban centers of various sizes. Since 1971, stad has no administrative or legal significance in Sweden.

    History

    The status of towns in Sweden was formerly granted by a royal charter, comparable to the United Kingdom's status of borough or burgh before the 1970s or city status today. Unless given such town privileges, a municipality could not call itself stad. To receive the privileges, there were several requirements a municipality needed to fulfill, like being of a certain size, and to have certain facilities. The criteria varied over time as they were at the discretion of the Riksdag or the monarch, but they could included a permanent town council hall and a prison.

    In the majority of cases, before a town received its charter, it would have previously been given the status of köping or "merchant town". Exceptions to this would be when a town was founded under Royal supervision, in which case it would often bear the name of the monarch, such as Kristianstad or Karlskrona (named after kings Christian IV of Denmark and Karl XI of Sweden).

    Stad (peninsula)

    Stad or Stadlandet is a peninsula in Selje Municipality in the northwestern part of Sogn og Fjordane county in Norway. The peninsula is considered the dividing point between the Norwegian Sea to the north and the North Sea to the south. The name is sometimes also written as Stadt, Statt, or Stadlandetnot to be confused with the similar German word Stadt. The d in Stad is pronounced in Norwegian as a t. Some of the larger villages on the peninsula include Ervik (northwestern tip), Borgundvåg and Leikanger (northeastern side), and the village of Selje (southwestern side).

    The peninsula is a 500-metre (1,600 ft) high mountain plateau topped by the 645-metre (2,116 ft) tall Tarvaldsegga peak. There are several lower valleys on the peninsula, but at the western end, the plateau plunges into the sea in a 497-metre (1,631 ft) tall cliff at Kjerringa.

    The Stad Peninsula has a very harsh, windy climate. The highest wind speed in the country is often recorded at this promontory. Located between the cities of Bergen (in Hordaland county to the south) and Ålesund (in Møre og Romsdal county to the north), this is the only peninsula on the mainland of Norway that goes out into open sea. Most of the rest of the ship route from Bergen to Ålesund is protected by islands. The Svinøy Lighthouse is located 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of the peninsula on a small island in the Norwegian Sea.

    To be announced

    To be announced (TBA), to be confirmed (TBC), and to be determined (or to be decided, TBD) are placeholder terms used very broadly in event planning to indicate that although something is scheduled or expected to happen, a particular aspect of that remains to be arranged or confirmed.

    TBA vs. TBC vs. TBD

    These phrases are similar, but may be used for different degrees of indeterminacy:

  • To be determined (TBD) - the appropriateness, feasibility, location, etc. of a given event has not been decided.
  • To be announced (TBA) - details may have been determined, but are not yet ready to be announced.
  • To be confirmed (TBC) - details may have been determined and possibly announced, but are still subject to change.
  • Other similar phrases sometimes used to convey the same meaning, and using the same abbreviations, include "to be ascertained", "to be arranged", "to be advised", "to be adjudicated", "to be done", "to be decided", and "to be declared".

    Use of the abbreviation "TBA" is formally reported in a reference work at least as early as 1955, and "TBD" is similarly reported as early as 1967.

    ANSI escape code

    In computing, ANSI escape codes (or escape sequences) are a method using in-band signaling to control the formatting, color, and other output options on video text terminals. To encode this formatting information, certain sequences of bytes are embedded into the text, which the terminal looks for and interprets as commands, not as character codes.

    ANSI codes were introduced in the 1970s and became widespread in the minicomputer/mainframe market by the early 1980s. They were used by the nascent bulletin board system market to offer improved displays compared to earlier systems lacking cursor movement, leading to even more widespread use.

    Although hardware text terminals have become increasingly rare in the 21st century, the relevance of the ANSI standard persists because most terminal emulators interpret at least some of the ANSI escape sequences in the output text. One notable exception is the win32 console component of Microsoft Windows.

    History

    Almost all manufacturers of video terminals added vendor-specific escape sequences to perform operations such as placing the cursor at arbitrary positions on the screen. One example is the VT52 terminal, which allowed the cursor to be placed at an x,y location on the screen by sending the ESC character, a y character, and then two characters representing with numerical values equal to the x,y location plus 32 (thus starting at the ASCII space character and avoiding the control characters).

    TBC (disambiguation)

    TBC may refer to:

    Education

  • Trinity Bible College
  • Tauranga Boys' College, a state secondary school in Tauranga, New Zealand
  • Companies

  • Triangle Brewing Company of Durham, North Carolina
  • Tram et Bus de la CUB, the operator of three tram lines and a bus network in Bordeaux, France
  • TBC Bank, a private bank in Republic of Georgia
  • Medicine

  • Tuberculosis, lethal, infectious disease common before WWII
  • Radio and television

  • Tongyang Broadcasting Company, 1964–1980, a defunct South Korean company
  • Taegu Broadcasting Corporation, a South Korean local broadcasting company
  • Tonga Broadcasting Commission
  • Triad Broadcasting Company
  • Tohoku Broadcasting Company, a Sendai, Japan, TV/radio station
  • Music

  • The Black Crowes, a blues based rock band
  • TBC (band), a Christian band
  • Other uses

  • To be confirmed
  • To be continued
  • 4-tert-Butylcatechol, an antioxidant
  • The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies, organization aiming at educating the academic community about China
  • World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, the first expansion pack for World of Warcraft
  • Podcasts:

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