KDE Toys is a collection of several programs in KDE. The toys collection may vary from release to release and may be different on different operating systems. They include programs such as a pair of eyes that follows your mouse pointer and a program to help you brew your tea for the correct length of time.
Internet traffic engineering refers to all the work related to the physical network (usually fiber optic cables, routers, exchanges) that carries Internet traffic between different networks with the objective of reaching the highest levels of capacity in the Internet backbone.
Abdel-Hameed Nawar, “E-Commerce” Lecture Notes, Cairo University, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Egypt, 2005. et al
KDE Dot News is a website for news and threaded discussion related to the KDE project. Most stories are summaries of things published elsewhere, some are interviews with KDE developers. The site also includes links to recent software releases and developers’ weblog postings.
The site uses the Squishdot content management system, running on Zope using Python technology.
Shamir may refer to:
A white route is, in the telecommunications business, a legal termination route.
This is opposed to a black route, which is a route that uses illegal termination. Also common in telecom (especially VoIP) is the term grey route, which defines a route that is legal for one country or the party on one end, but illegal for the party on the other.
An example of the white/grey/black trichotomy is often seen in telecom routes from the USA to India. In India, a telecom monopoly is granted to a few large corporations. Hence, all legal (”white”) telecom traffic to the country is subject to the rates imposed by these corporations. To overcome this restriction for the purpose of achieving lower costs for consumers, and to make a profit in the process, many small parties set up VoIP routers in homes and offices around India. Telecom traffic from the USA is sent to these VoIP routers via TCP/IP and terminated to the local Indian PSTN. This process is illegal in India (”black”), but completely lawful in the USA (”white”). A route like this that is white on one end and black on the other is said to be “grey”.
San Miguel Mission, also known as San Miguel Chapel, is a Spanish colonial mission church in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Built between approximately 1610 and 1626 The church was damaged during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 but was rebuilt in 1710 following the Spanish reconquest and served for a time as a chapel for the Spanish soldiers. The wooden reredos, which includes a wooden statue of Saint Michael dating back to at least 1709, was added in 1798. Though the church has been repaired and rebuilt numerous times over the years, its original adobe walls are still largely intact despite having been hidden by later additions. This church is often and incorrectly labeled the oldest church in the US. Sunday mass is still held at the chapel.
Libya competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.
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Brainwave Creations was a small game programming company started by Michael Berlyn, formerly of Infocom. The company was founded in the mid-1980s, and is probably best-known for co-creating Tass Times in Tonetown along with Interplay’s Bill Heineman.
The term slack voice (or lax voice) describes the pronunciation of consonants with a glottal opening slightly wider than that occurring in “normal” (modal) voice. Such sounds are often referred to informally as lenis or half-voiced. In some Chinese languages (”dialects”) and in many Austronesian languages, the ‘intermediate’ phonation of slack stops confuses Western listeners, so that different transcription systems may use /p/ or /b/ for the same consonant. Although the IPA has no dedicated diacritic for slack voice, the voiceless diacritic (the under-ring) may be used.
Javanese contrasts slack and stiff voiced bilabial, dental, retroflex, and velar stops:
| Javanese | translation | |
| stiff voice | guest | |
| slack voice | blow |
The Shanghainese “muddy” consonants are also slack voice, the primary effect of which is a slightly breathy quality of the following vowel:
| Shanghainese | translation | |
| slack voice | earth | |
| tenuis | (a grammatical particle) | |
| aspirated | heaven |
The German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, abbreviated DNB) was established in 1990 during the German reunification by merging the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig (founded 1912, later the national library of East Germany) and the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt (founded 1947, later the national library of West Germany). At first operating under the name “Die Deutsche Bibliothek”, it received its current name in 2006.
The German National Library is responsible for collecting and cataloging all German and German language publications issued since 1913. The cooperation with publishers is regulated by law since 1935 for the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig, since 1969 for the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt and since 1990 for the successor organisation, the German National Library.
Duties are shared between the facilities in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main, with each center focusing its work in specific specialty areas. A third facility, the Deutsches Musikarchiv Berlin (founded 1970), deals with all music-related archiving (both printed and recorded materials).
22.2 million items
In the USA, a party admission, in the law of evidence, is any statement made by a declarant who is a party to a lawsuit, which is offered as evidence against that party. Under the Federal Rules of Evidence, such a statement is admissible to prove the truth of the statement itself, meaning that it constitutes an exemption or exclusion to the prohibition on hearsay - indeed, this is probably the most important category of exemptions to the inadmissibility of out-of-court statements. When the term “exemption” is used, though, it does not mean that the statement is an “exception” to the hearsay rule. Rather, a party admission is classified as “nonhearsay” by the Fed. R. Evid. 801(d)(2).
The statement is admissible even if the declarant had no basis for knowing the truth of the statement. For example, if an employee rushes to tell the director of a trucking company that one of his trucks has been in an accident, and the director says, “oh, we’re behaving so negligently, lately,” that statement will be admissible - even though the manager had no reason to know that this particular accident was the result of negligence.
The exemption permits one party to offer the out-of-court statement of any opponent party. It may not be used by a party to offer that party’s own out of court statement. However, under the common law doctrine of completeness, a party may possibly be able to admit some statements of their own, if a party admission exemption allows the opponent to admit part of a statement, and the first party wishes to admit the rest of that statement.
The party admission exemption does not formally, or informally, require that the admission be a representation against the party’s interest - a “statement against interest.” Those kinds of statements are covered by an exception to the hearsay rule, under Rule 804, and can be used by any party to admit the out-of-court statement of a legally unavailable witness. The basis for the exemption has nothing to do with judgments about the likelihood of a party making a false statement against his or her own interest. The basis is that if a party to a suit has made a statement, the opponent is entitled to admit the statement. It is different from other hearsay in that the party opponent is present and has an opportunity to contest or explain any such statements. The party admission rule furthers the truth-finding mission of the trial process.
The reach of Rule 801(d)(2) extends beyond simple statements of a party’s own making, which is exempted under 801(d)(2)(A). It also applies to statements made by others, if the party manifests belief and approval. FRE(801(d)(2)(B). Further, it applies to vicarious admissions - those made by a declarant authorized by the party to make the statement, or by a servant or agent, if it concerns a matter within the scope of the servant. FRE 801(d)(2)(C) and (D). Finally, it allows admission of any statement made by a co-conspirator in furtherance of the conspirator, provided there is independent evidence of the conspiracy’s existence. FRE 801(d)(2)(E).
With regard to adoptive admissions, even a party’s silence can be a basis for admitting evidence under this exception. In some jurisdictions, the court is required to let the jury consider whether the silence was an adoptive admission. See U.S. v. Sears, 663 F. 2d 896 (9th Cir. 1981)
Some states do not have the exemption/exception distinction, but even in these states, party admissions are generally admissible. See e.g. Cal. Evidence Code s. 1220.
Seven vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Acheron after Acheron, a river of Hades in Greek mythology.
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Stephen P. Cohen is senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution. He is an expert on Pakistan, India, and South Asian security.
Additionally, Cohen is an emeritus professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Asako Kozuki is a Japanese American voice actress who was the voice of Princess Peach in Mario Kart 64 (only in the Japanese version) Mario Party and Mario Party 2. She retired and has been replaced by Jen Taylor since Mario Party 3, although Jen Taylor has been the voice of Princess Peach since Mario Golf.
The Irish Council of State met on 28 October, 1999 to advise President Mary McAleese on whether or not to deliver an address to the Houses of the Oireachtas on the subject of the new millennium. The proposal to deliver the speech was not a controversial one but the meeting had to be held because the constitution requires that the president consult the Council of State before delivering any address to the legislature. Following the meeting the president gave the address to a joint sitting of both Houses of the Oireachtas on 16 December, 1999.
The banjo clock, or more properly the banjo timepiece, is an American wall clock with a banjo-shaped case. It was invented by Simon Willard, originally of Grafton, Massachusetts, later of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and patented in 1802. The banjo timepiece is so named because it normally lacks a striking mechanism, an essential feature of a true clock, and indicates time only by its hands and dial.
The banjo style of wooden case usually features a round opening for a painted dial, a long-waisted throat, and a rectangular pendulum box with hinged door. Both the throat and door are ornamented with reverse-painted (verre églomisé) glass panels, and the case is usually flanked by curved and pierced brass frets. A finial mounted atop the case usually takes the form of a cast-brass eagle or a turned, giltwood acorn.
Only 4,000 authentic Simond Willard banjo clocks were made. The style was widely copied by other members of the Willard family of clockmakers and many others clockmakers, both craftsmen and industrial manufacturers. Variants of the banjo-style clock made by others include examples with square or diamond-shaped dials, and the extremely opulent, heavily gilt “girandole” style.
HBC Rewards is a loyalty program where customers earn points for purchases at Hudson’s Bay Company’s various chains of stores in Canada, including Zellers, The Bay, Home Outfitters, Designer Depot, HBC Telecommunications and hbc.com, their online store. Some third-party businesses also offer HBC Rewards Bonus points for purchasing their merchandise and/or services.
HBC Rewards Points can be redeemed for items found in the HBC Rewards catalogue and on the rewards website. They can also be redeemed immediately in-store for gift cards and trade-and-save promotions where a certain amount of points will give you a set amount off your purchase.
Every year in August a new catalogue for HBC rewards comes out with various products that you can redeem HBC Rewards Points for, for selected items in the catalogue, money can be combined with redeemed points to purchase the product. Due to The Bay previously offering Air Miles, customers can redeem their HBC Rewards points for Air Miles instead.
HBC Rewards points can also be exchanged for Esso Extra Points at a predetermined rate and Esso Extra Points can be exchanged for HBC Rewards. The HBC Rewards website details the exchange rates.
In addition to HBC companies, HBC Reward points can be collected at Esso, Thrifty Car Rental, Dollar Rent A Car, Travelodge and MotorPlus.
HBC Reward Points can also be exchanged using the Third-party service offered by points.com.
The rewards program was first introduced by Zellers in 1986 and was known as Club Z (pronounced Club Zed). Shoppers earned ‘Club Z points’. Starting in the 1990s, The Bay offered Air Miles reward miles to their customers as a rewards program. In an effort to offer more choices to customers at both Zellers and the Bay, and with the opening of another chain of stores, Home Outfitters, the HBC Rewards program was born in April 2001.
The Planck current is the unit of electrical current, denoted by Ip, in the system of natural units known as Planck units.
<math> I_p = q_p/t_p = (c^6 4 \pi \varepsilon_0 / G )^ \frac{1}{2} </math> ≈
3.479 × 1025 A
where:
<math>q_p = (c \hbar 4 \pi \varepsilon_0 )^ \frac{1}{2} </math> is the Planck charge
<math>t_p = (\hbar G/c^5)^ \frac{1}{2} </math> is the Planck time
<math>\varepsilon_0</math> = permittivity in vacuum
<math>\hbar</math> is Dirac’s constant
G is the gravitational constant
c is the speed of light in vacuum.
The Planck current is that current which, in a conductor, carries a Planck charge in Planck time.
Alternately, the Planck current is that constant current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length and negligible circular cross-section, and placed a Planck length apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to a Planck force per Planck length.