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Wiser.org

Wiser.org was launched as WiserEarth.org on Earth Day (April 22) 2007 as an online directory of the 100,000+ organizations touched upon in Paul Hawken's book, Blessed Unrest.


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

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.

Bertrand Newton

Newton's philosophy on political advertising, and organising methods, have their roots in organizations like MoveOn.org, and have been closely connected to George Soros's Open Society Foundation project.

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.

Caleb Kelly

Based in Sydney, it was part of the global XChange Network and Open Radio Archive Network Group (ORANG), which included Radio International Stadt (Germany), r a d i o q u a l i a (New Zealand/Adelaide/Amsterdam), RIX-C (Latvia) and irrational org (UK).

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).

Consumers Union

In March 2005, CU campaign PrescriptionforChange.org released "Drugs I Need", an animated short with a song from the Austin Lounge Lizards, that was featured by The New York Times, JibJab, BoingBoing, and hundreds of blogs.

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.

Cybercast News Service

CNSNews.com was founded by L. Brent Bozell III on June 16, 1998, under the name Conservative News Service and the domain name conservativenews.org.

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.

For the Lonely Lest the Wiser

For the Lonely Lest the Wiser is the first EP but second release from Wauconda, Illinois rock outfit Dr Manhattan.

Gauss pseudospectral method

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

GendBuntu

2004 - OpenOffice.org software replaces 20,000 copies of the Microsoft Office suite on Gendarmerie computers, with the transfer of all 90,000 office suites being completed in 2005.

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.

Internet Systems Consortium

ISC also expanded their operational activities to include Internet hosting facilities for other open source projects such as NetBSD, XFree86, kernel.org, secondary name service (SNS) for more than 50 top-level domains, and a DNS OARC (Operations, Analysis and Research Center) for monitoring and reporting of the Internet's DNS.

Isaac Mao

He is also known for co-founding CNBlogs.org, doing research in social learning and for developing the philosophy of Sharism.

Ivo Widlak

On September 19, 2013, Friends of Ivo Widlak created on Change.org a petition to Alejandro Mayorkas, Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services for a positive and immediate review of Ivo Widlak's immigration case.

Jaakko Wallenius

The Finnish publishing company Edita published in the year 2002 Jaakko Wallenius's book on OpenOffice.org– productivity suite called ”OpenOffice tehokäyttöön” of which the second edition was published with the name ”OpenOffice – koulutuspaketti” in the year 2004.

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.

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.

Livestrong Foundation

In 2008, Demand Media reached an agreement with the Livestrong Foundation to use the Livestrong name to create a spin-off website, Livestrong.com (unconnected to Livestrong.org), a commercial health and wellness site, supported by advertisers.

Matt Dellinger

He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and blogs for public radio’s TransportationNation.org.

MIRIAM Registry

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

MyFax

Some of the features of MyFax include the ability to send and receive faxes by email and through the internet, as well as send faxes directly from Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Windows-based applications including Google Docs, OpenOffice.org, and Intuit QuickBooks.

Nathan Wolfe

Wolfe has been awarded more than $40 million in funding from a diverse array of sources including The U.S. Department of Defense, Google.org and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

National Runaway Switchboard

NRS also maintains a Web site, www.1800RUNAWAY.org, which was significantly revamped in 2006 and which presents a wide range of information both on NRS and on runaway and homeless youth in general, including guidance for what families should do if a child is missing.

National Sexuality Resource Center

NSRC activities have included an Internet-based "sexual literacy campaign" called SexLiteracy.org, the University Consortium for Sexuality Research and Training, an annual Summer Institute, and the Sexual Health Literacy Project in partnership with College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California.

New Era High School

The computer system, especially present in the Secondary Section, is Open Source based - highlighting Mandriva 2007 and Fedora Core 7, OpenOffice.org, and GIMP.

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.

Nick Vernier Band Sessions

#"Time Will Show The Wiser" (E. Rhodes) – Both Emitt Rhodes and Iain Matthews previously recorded this Rhodes-original early on in their careers, the song being starting points as well as signature works for The Merry-Go-Round and Fairport Convention respectively.

Org, Minnesota

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

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.

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.

Scitopia

To access the content, visitors to scitopia.org use an interface developed by Deep Web Technologies.

Social Psychology Network

Affiliated partner sites include the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP.org); the Society for Personality and Social Psychology; and Research Randomizer (Randomizer.org, a web-based tool for random sampling and random assignment).

Still Water

In 2004, Still Water co-organized the event Distributed Creativity with Eyebeam Atelier, which merged conversations during a six-week period from the email discussion lists Creative Commons (USA), Rhizome.org (USA), DATA (Ireland), Sarai (India), and Fibreculture (Australia).

StudentLoanJustice.org

StudentLoanJustice.org or its members have been covered by a number of newspapers, radio, and television shows, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The National Review, The Wall Street Journal, Public Broadcasting System, Fortune Magazine, Businessweek, Fox Television, CNN, CBS News, Democracy Now!, The Chicago Sun-Times, and others.

Taiji dolphin drive hunt

Hardy Jones, who founded BlueVoice.org with film star Ted Danson in 2000, has gone to Taiji numerous times to try to stop the capture of dolphins and small whales.

The Chemist

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

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.

Vicenç Navarro

Navarro contributes regularly at the Spanish newspaper Público as well as in Rebelion.org.

White noise

For example, Random.org uses a system of atmospheric antennae to generate random digit patterns from white noise.

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).

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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