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The abbreviation SPS stands for items in the following categories:

Computer and gaming hardware and software[link]

• SharePoint Portal Server, a Microsoft Office product
• Sleep Proxy Service, a power management enhancement to Multicast DNS
• Sony PlayStation, a 1994 video game console
• Symbolic Programming System, a code assembler developed by IBM
• Speicherprogrammierbare Steuerung, German for Programmable Logic Controller

Educational, scholarly, and professional institutions[link]

• St. Patrick's School, Asansol, an old school in Asansol, India
• St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), a boarding school in the United States
• St Paul's School (London), a day and boarding school in the United Kingdom
• School of Practical Science, of the University of Toronto in Canada
• Sigma Pi Sigma, an honor society in in the United States
• Social and Political Sciences, of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom
• Society for Pentecostal Studies, an association of biblical scholars
• Society of Physics Students, an international professional association
• Software Preservation Society, a society dedicated to preserving obsolete software
• Sadiq Public School, a boarding school in Pakistan.
• Seattle Public Schools, the school district serving the city of Seattle
• Springfield Public Schools, in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey

Genealogy[link]

• sine prole superstite, Latin for without surviving issue (children).

Medicine and psychology[link]

• Small Penis Syndrome, a psychological condition
• Sensory-processing sensitivity, a psychological term to describe a highly sensitive person
• Simple partial seizure, a seizure which affects only a small region of the brain
• Stiff person syndrome, a rare neurologic disorder
• P600/SPS (short for Syntactic Positive Shift), an event-related potential in brain imaging
• Skinny Pants Syndrome, a fictional disorder from Sonny with a Chance. It occurs when someone wears skinny jeans too long.
• Single Port Surgery, a minimally invasive surgery technique.

Politics, treaties, political parties, and government uses[link]

• Socialist Party of Serbia (Социјалистичка Партија Србије), a political party in Serbia
• Union of Rightist Forces (Soyuz Pravykh Sil), a political party in Russia
• Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (Sozialdemokratische Partei Schweiz), a political party in Switzerland
• Sahara Press Service, the press agency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
• Single Payment Scheme, a European Union Common Agricultural Policy subsidy payment system
• Scottish Prison Service
• Singapore Prison Service
• Swedish Police Service
• State Police Services, number of police services in different states and territories of India
• Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement, an international treaty of the World Trade Organization
• Standard Procurement System for the US Department of Defense

Science and engineering[link]

• Service Propulsion System, the rocket engine on the United States Apollo Program Service Module
• Sewerage Pumping Station (or Sanitary Pumping Station), a pumping facility designed to handle raw sewage
• Side Protection System, another term for a torpedo belt, a part of early warship design
• Solar power satellite, an orbital satellite designed to beam solar power down to Earth
• Stand-alone power system (SPS or SAPS)
• Super Proton Synchrotron, a particle accelerator at CERN
• Switched-mode power supply, an electronic power supply unit that incorporates a switching regulator
• Samples Per Second, a sampling rate
• Spark Plasma Sintering, a sintering technique
• Statistic Process Control, a method of monitoring a process through the use of control charts
• Small polyp stony coral, a category of coral, often collected in aquaria
• SAME code SPS, used for issuing special weather statements and significant weather alerts
• Syndiotactic Polystyrene, an engineering plastic

Other uses in the Americas[link]

• San Pedro Sula, a city in Honduras
• Wichita Falls Municipal Airport (IATA airport code)
• Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, a defunct railroad in the United States
• SPS Specialized Plumbing Services, Is a licensed plumbing company in California

Other uses in the UK[link]

• Station Police Sergeant, or Station Sergeant, a defunct British police rank
• Sussex Piscatorial Society, a fishing club in the United Kingdom

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Mike Gray is a writer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film producer and director.

Career[link]

Film and TV[link]

Gray co-wrote the screenplay for the 1979 nuclear thriller The China Syndrome. Earlier in his career he directed and produced two documentaries on radical politics in Chicago, American Revolution 2 (1969) and The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971). He went on to produce several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, among other TV and film credits. He was also a second unit director on the 1993 film The Fugitive.

Books[link]

Gray is the author or editor of five books: The Warning on the Three Mile Island accident, Angle of Attack, on the Apollo program, Drug Crazy and Busted, on the war on drugs, and The Death Game, on capital punishment.

Personal life[link]

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Carol, a reporter for public radio. His son, Lucas, is a storyboard artist for The Simpsons.

External links[link]

• Mike Gray at the IMDb
• Mike Gray
• Drug Crazy