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Alan Light

Light then got a spot as music reviewer on radio station WFUV, and serves as music correspondent on NPR show Weekend America.

AltaRock Energy

Founded in 2007 by serial entrepreneur Andrew Perlman and his business partners, AltaRock has received backing from investors such as Google.org, Advanced Technology Ventures

Andrea Seabrook

She replaced Debbie Elliott, who traded places with Seabrook and moved to becoming NPR's Congressional reporter.

Animals Asia Foundation

Animals Asia Foundation has been profiled on CNN, NPR, Animal Planet, the BBC, the National Geographic Channel, as well as in print media in several countries.

Arlöv

The former office building of Danisco Sugar was bought in 2008 by the Church of Scientology who opened their new church, a so-called "Ideal org" there in 2009.

BluegrassReport.org

The blog, which further covers ongoing intra-party operations, political issues and scandals, was started in June 2005 by Democratic consultant Mark Nickolas, former campaign manager for both Speaker of the Kentucky House Jody Richards and U.S. House Rep. Ben Chandler's 2003 gubernatorial campaign.

Clean Energy Bank

These two bills received bipartisan support and have been endorsed by the US Chamber of Commerce, Google.org and the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA).

Come Back Baby

Pat Donohue (member of The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band on NPR's A Prairie Home Companion) covered the song on his 2011 album Nobody's Fault.

Cristina Lopes

While at PARC, She was most known as a founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and started aspectj.org.

Daniel C. Esty

He is a frequent commentator on NPR and has appeared on national TV talk shows such as The Colbert Report, The O'Reilly Factor, and Glenn Beck, to speak on issues of business innovation and the environment.

Edwin Cameron

He is the general secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships in Southern Africa (www.rhodestrust.org.za) and is a patron of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.

FactCheck.org

At the time of the debate, factcheck.com was controlled by Frank Schilling's company Name Administration Inc., who quickly redirected the address to point to an anti-Bush website owned by Bush critic George Soros.

Gauss pseudospectral method

JModelica.org (Modelica-based open source platform for dynamic optimization)

George Whitman

On Wednesday, September 26, 2007, journalist Gerry Hadden's story on George Whitman, his daughter Sylvia Beach Whitman, and Shakespeare & Company aired on NPR's The World (a co-production of the BBC, Public Radio International (PRI), and the Boston radio station WGBH).

Homoglyph

Commonly, this is implemented by prohibiting names which mix character sets from multiple languages (toys-Я-us.org would be invalid, but wíkipedia.org and wikipedia.org still exist as different websites); Canada's .ca registry goes one step further by requiring names which differ only in diacritics have the same owner and same registrar.

Jim Babka

However, before the foundation team could complete the new Downsize DC site, they were inspired by Harry Browne, Jude Wanniski, and Attorney Bill Olson to launch a site called TruthAboutWar.org.

John Wilcockson

John Wilcockson is a British sports journalist and author who has covered professional cycling for over 40 years, reporting on major cycling events for NPR and the BBC World Service, and publishing articles in The New York Times, Outside, Men’s Journal and The Times, among others.

Kafila

Kafila.org is a group blog where members post opinions on current affairs, mostly related to India.

Komputeko

Others who have availed themselves of Komputeko include Cindy McKee's KDE and Joomla translation teams, Esperanto Wikipedia founder Chuck Smith's Drupal translation and the former Amikumu projects, Tim Morley's OpenOffice.org translation team, Guillaume Savaton's GNOME translation team, the translation teams for Plone and Xfce, and Joop Kiefte's Ubuntu translation team.

Lenore Skenazy

Skenazy also wrote and reported for NPR and Mad Magazine, and was featured in the second episode of Bravo's series Tabloid Wars.

Loren Coleman

He has written on Yeti and Bigfoot expedition sponsor Tom Slick and appeared on NPR discussing the death of Grover Krantz.

Louis B. Butler

NPR commented on the Senate's reluctance to confirm Butler in an August 4, 2011 article, stating that "Some of the longest waiting nominees, Louis Butler of Wisconsin, Charles Bernard Day of Maryland and Edward Dumont of Washington happen to be black or openly gay".

Mara Liasson

Liasson was a freelance radio and television reporter in San Francisco and worked at Berkeley's KPFA before joining NPR in 1985.

Meg Meeker

She has appeared on various media programs such as 60 Minutes, The Today Show, and NPR.

Mike Shuster

Prior to working for NPR, he was a United Nations correspondent for Pacifica News Service where he covered the election of Robert Mugabe in 1980 in Zimbabwe.

Mikhail Trepashkin

However, according to NPR's David Folkenflik, Conde Nast management gave orders to limit circulation of the story.

MIRIAM Registry

The URL form is directly resolvable, and relies on a resolving layer provided by Identifiers.org.

National Partnership for Reinventing Government

Toward the end of Clinton’s first term, the task of the NPR became less to “review and recommend” and more to “support agencies in their reinventing goals,” reflected in the change of the senior advisor from Elaine Kamarck to Morley Winograd.

Neal Katyal

NPR, Nina Totenberg's summary of Katyal's efforts, on 2006, September 5.

New Jersey Association for Infant Mental Health

Some of the original group were the late Thea Bry, Gerard Costa, Susan Adubato, Elaine Herzog, and Nancy Murphy, all of whom were involved with parent education and treatment of infant and family mental health problems www.njaimh.org.

Org, Minnesota

Theodore Roosevelt travelled through Org when he was running for president in 1912 as the Bull Moose Party candidate.

Pledge drive

Although the federal government of the United States, primarily through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and corporate underwriting provide some money for public broadcasting organizations like National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), they are largely dependent on program fees paid by their member stations.

Question mark

In recent XFree86 and X.Org incarnations of the X Window System, it can be accessed as a compose sequence of two straight question marks, i.e. pressing ?

Ramrai

Notable people from the village include Chaudhary Dal Singh, the first Irrigation and Power Minister of Haryana, and Parminder Singh Dhull, the MLA for the Julana constituency of the Haryana Legislative Assembly for term 2009-2014, and Amarjit Singh Dhull founder of IB School Rohtak, Ukindo international charity (www.ukindo.org), Vision Fostering (UK) amongst others.

Red River Radio

Red River Radio (RRR) is affiliated with National Public Radio and broadcasts many popular NPR programs including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, World Cafe, Car Talk, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me and From the Top.

Robert Trout

In one of Trout's NPR reminiscences, airing July 9, 1999, he admitted that an oft-played recording of his announcing the end of World War II ("my greatest hit, as it were") on August 14, 1945 was actually a fake.

Sandra Mackey

In addition to appearing on NPR, Nightline, BBC, and ABC News with Peter Jennings, Mackey also served as a commentator on the first Gulf War for CNN.

Scilla Elworthy

In 1982 she founded the Oxford Research Group (ORG) an NGO which independently researched decision-making on security in the five major nuclear nations during and after the Cold War and brought together policy-makers, academics, the military and civil society to engage in dialogue.

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

On September 15, 2012, just prior to publication, Reiss was interviewed by NPR staff member Scott Simon.

The Chemist

The Chemist (user) a known user on punknews.org or orgsummit.com, known for his obsession with Lagwagon.

The Position

The author of the book, Meg Wolitzer, was a guest on NPR's program Fresh Air on May 10, 2005 discussing the book and her life as an author.

TheMusicLibrary.org

Olympic skating champion Ekaterina Gordeeva has performed to music from TheMusicLibrary.org during her TV specials such as NBC's Katarina Witt and Friends.

These Are the Vistas

In November 2009, NPR's All Songs Considered selected the album as one of the 50 "most important" recordings of the decade.

Things We Do

Indigenous was featured on broadcast shows such as NPR's All Things Considered, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, CBS Saturday Morningand Austin City Limits.

United Press International Radio Network

Out of that merger came an audio service that at its peak served more than a thousand U.S. radio stations and many foreign clients, including other networks such as NPR, RKO, Britain's Independent Radio News and even CNN in its early years when CNN, then headed by former UPI and UPTN executives Reese Schonfeld and Burt Reinhardt, effectively reunited UPI audio with UPITN video.

Witeck Communications, Inc.

Witeck-Combs Communications helped openly gay (and lesbian) actors Amanda Bearse and Dan Butler to communicate honestly to celebrate and promote National Coming Out Day by serving as the first celebrity spokespersons for the Human Rights Campaign Fund (since renamed the Human Rights Campaign (www.hrc.org).

WUKY

Owned by the University of Kentucky, it is an Adult Album Alternative (Indie Rock) station that airs over 100 hours of music a week, in addition to programming from NPR, Public Radio International, the BBC, and American Public Media.

X.Org Foundation

The modern X.Org Foundation came into being when the body that oversaw X standards and published the official reference implementation joined forces with former XFree86 developers.

Yordenis Ugás

" Later Ugás beat Russian Khabib Allakhverdiyev and in the final he outfought Romal Amanov from Azerbaidjan. Cubanet.org writes "Yordenis Ugas, a sharp, technically accomplished fighter but with a suspect jaw, won the lightweight gold for Cuba after an explosive toe-to-toe clash with Romal Amanov of Azerbaijan.


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Jed Hilly

Hilly is the Executive Producer of the annual Americana Honors & Awards show at the Historic Ryman Auditorium, which is broadcast around the world on PBS and AXS TV along with BBC2 Radio, XM/Sirius Satellite Radio, WSM, Voice of America and NPR.org.