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Kimpton Topaz Hotel, Washington
Main amenities
- 99 smoke-free guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Breakfast available
- WiFi in the lobby
- Fitness center
- Valet parking
- Spa services
- Business center
- Airport shuttle
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
For families
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (free)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Private bathroom
- Premium TV channels
- Free toiletries
What's around
- In Dupont Circle
- White House (16-minute walk)
- George Washington University (20-minute walk)
- Ford's Theater (27-minute walk)
- Washington Monument (29-minute walk)
- Lincoln Memorial (33-minute walk)
- Jefferson Memorial (44-minute walk)
- National World War II Memorial (26-minute walk)
- Verizon Center (31-minute walk)
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial (31-minute walk)
- Smithsonian's National Zoo (36-minute walk)
Kimpton Topaz Hotel, Washingtonfrom $99
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- Deluxe Room, 1 Queen Bed
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 99 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 10 floors
- Check-in time 3 PM-2:00 AM
- Check-out time is noon
- Express check-out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Children (17 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets stay free
- Restrictions apply *
- WiFi in public areas *
- WiFi in rooms *
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- Valet parking *
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Continental breakfast (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Fitness facilities
- Spa services on site
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Business center
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 2
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Multilingual staff
- Year Built 1901
- Elevator/lift
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Bathrobes
- Iron/ironing board
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Premium bedding
- In-room massage available
- Private bathroom
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Pay movies
- Premium TV channels
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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Also known as
- Hotel Topaz
- Topaz Hotel
- Topaz Hotel Washington
- Topaz Washington
- Kimpton Topaz Hotel Washington
- Kimpton Topaz Washington
Group bookings of 10 or more rooms cannot be accommodated via this website.
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- Resort fee: USD 26.39 per accommodation, per night
Resort fee inclusions:
- Internet access (may be limited)
Inclusions may be listed elsewhere on the page as free or for a surcharge.
Optional extras
Valet parking costs USD 48.00 per night with in/out privileges
Breakfast costs between USD 8 and USD 20 per person (approximately)
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of USD 35-125 per vehicle (one way)
WiFi is available in guestrooms for USD 12.99 per night (rates may vary)
WiFi is available in public areas for USD 12.99 per night (rates may vary)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
What's around Kimpton Topaz Hotel, Washington
- In Dupont Circle
- White House (16-minute walk)
- George Washington University (20-minute walk)
- Ford's Theater (27-minute walk)
- Washington Monument (29-minute walk)
- Lincoln Memorial (33-minute walk)
- Jefferson Memorial (44-minute walk)
- National World War II Memorial (26-minute walk)
Getting around
- Washington, DC (DCA-Ronald Reagan Washington National) 16-min drive
- College Park, MD (CGS) 28-min drive
- Washington, DC (IAD-Washington Dulles Intl.) 34-min drive
- Fort Meade, MD (FME-Tipton) 41-min drive
- Gaithersburg, MD (GAI-Montgomery County Airpark) 43-min drive
- Baltimore, MD (BWI-Baltimore Washington Intl. Thurgood Marshall) 46-min drive
- Manassas, VA (MNZ-Manassas Regional) 52-min drive
- Washington Union Station 12-min drive
- Alexandria Station 22-min drive
- New Carrollton Station 26-min drive
- 7th St. Convention Center Station 21-min walk
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
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Ian Gomez is scheduled to kick things off as a doctor on tonight's Grey's Anatomy (ABC, 9 ET/PT), followed by Cox and Christa Miller as a lesbian couple at a fertility clinic on Private Practice (ABC, 10 ET/PT).
With so many entertainment choices these days and network promotional budgets often focused on just a few programs, shows have to find ways to market themselves, executive producer Bill Lawrence says. Since Cougar Town isn't on the air now, "we decided it might be funny to say our cast is going to be on in the fall more than any other cast."
Cox is game for the gimmick: "I thought it was hysterical. Bill and the writers have always been great about figuring out ways to keep people aware of our show even when we're not on TV."
Almost all the roles are designed to be uncredited, non-speaking appearances for a cast that also includes Dan Byrd, Josh Hopkins, Busy Philipps and Brian Van Holt. To date, 13 shows are on board, says Lawrence, who hopes eventually to have more than 20. Series include:
•ABC:Body of Proof,Castle,Dancing With the Stars,Man Up! and The Middle
•CBS:How I Met Your Mother
•Nick Jr.:Yo Gabba Gabba!
NBC's Parenthood and CBS' 2 Broke Girls are also likely.
In return, Cougar Town's writers and actors, some of whom have thousands of Twitter followers, will tweet to promote their appearances.
Lining up appearances on other programs, especially on competing networks, can be tricky, but relationships forged by Lawrence, Cox and others over their years in the business reaped rewards. The Mother role is reciprocation of sorts for when Scrubs creator Lawrence allowed star Sarah Chalke to appear on the CBS show, he says.
"The fun thing is that if you can get to this point, the idea behind it, as writers and creators, is that we can help each other out," Lawrence says.
Read more at USAToday
Private Practice - Courteney Cox and Christa Miller to appear as a couple, more info on the Cougar Town actors appearing on other shows
Ian Gomez is scheduled to kick things off as a doctor on tonight's Grey's Anatomy (ABC, 9 ET/PT), followed by Cox and Christa Miller as a lesbian couple at a fertility clinic on Private Practice (ABC, 10 ET/PT).


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AS had been widely expected, our representatives in the continental clubs tournaments, Young Africans and Azam FC are out of the run after being knocked out by their counterparts!
While Azam FC are out until next year, if they win either the Vodacom Premier League or the Federation Cup; Young Africans move to the lesser tournament, the Confederation Cup.
Young Africans were first blessed with the opportunity of stepping down to the Confederation Cup last season, after being knocked out by Egypt's multiple continental club winners, Al Ahly. Unfortunately, they once again fluffed and returned home to continue with their contention for the VPL.
For both clubs, the ignominious knockout this time around could rightly be described as the fastest knockout they have had in the last five years they have represented us in the continent's version of Champions League and the Confederation Cup.
What is however, more disheartening is that both of them have been knocked out not in the second round, but rather in their first or second pair of matches. And, what makes this development extremely serious is the simple reason that they have been beaten by clubs within the region.
The implication of our clubs' loss against clubs within the region means that, in terms of soccer level, we hold the lowest rank in the region and that again leaves a lot to be desired. For Azam FC, their latest debacle, after taking part in the continental clubs tournaments for over five years, and in a row, raises one important question.
Namely, the dire need for the club owner to review the profiles of the team's coaching bench from the first team to those behind training of the club's soccer academy. After over five years of working on the club's soccer academy, Azam FC should have by now had the services of their first graduates from their soccer academy.
And as I have, time and again, noted in my sports columns; you cannot succeed in today's fast pace, modern soccer without making use of players from well organised and professionally run soccer academies.
Therefore, if Azam FC are yet to get even the first graduates from their soccer academy, then there is something utterly wrong with their soccer academy.
This is because they have already had adequate time for preparing their own, homegrown soccer players. However, if they have the players, but are perhaps not up to the required standard, then it's most likely they don't have the right crop of trainers for their soccer academy.
In short, I expect Azam FC to only do well if the bulk of their players come from soccer academies, internally or externally. Secondly, the second area they need to look critically into revolves around purchase of foreign players.
They need to change by getting their players either from under 21 national players from other parts of the continent or those who figure prominently in their first eleven national soccer teams. The point is, Azam FC should go for national team regulars, and not for reserve players some of whom end up returning home without kicking the ball.
Given the sound financial resources they have, Azam are capable of getting European premier league coaches. And, having done that, they should allow such coaches or managers to buy their own players they think would fit the kind of system they want to deploy for their teams.
If Azam FC spends their money wisely, hence start winning continental clubs tournaments, such development would rub off on other top-flight clubs in the VPL. It will force clubs like Simba and Young Africans to even change their present form of management by getting into the kind of management followed by the Chamazi club. Indeed, for our clubs to change into better teams they are supposed to be, they need massive pressure from within in order to grow to another level.
And, as long as such pressure is not exerted to them, Simba and Young Africans will remain what they have been for ages which can rightly be translated into underdevelopment.
The importance of exerting pressure from within the VPL to the so-called big clubs is that it would, ultimately, force such clubs to act promptly.
As for Young Africans' failure to forge ahead yet again, their problem as I had occasion to note in one of these columns a few days ago is very clear; namely, continued reliance on local and foreign players who have gone past their peak both in terms of skills and age. For instance, the best example was a few weeks ago provided by Simba Sports Club when they beat their archrivals by 2-1.
In that match, it was quite clear that Young Africans lost despite being in front by one goal because of lack of pace which is one of the tell-tale signs that a team had either not prepared well for the match or the players were past their peak.


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global: future employment in the energy sector
The Energy [R]evolution scenario results in more energy sector jobs globally at every stage of the projection.
- There are 23.3 million energy sector jobs in the Energy [R]evolution scenario in 2015, and 18.7 million in the Reference scenario.
- In 2020, there are 22.6 million jobs in the Energy [R]evolution scenario, and 17.7 million in the Reference scenario.
- In 2030, there are 18.2 million jobs in the Energy [R]evolution scenario and 15.6 million in the Reference scenario.
Figure 5.12a shows the change in job numbers under all scenarios for each technology between 2010 and 2030.
Jobs in the coal sector decline steeply in both the Reference scenario and the Energy [R]evolution scenario, as a result of productivity improvements in the industy, coupled with a move away from coal in the Energy [R]evolution scenario.
The reduction in coal jobs leads to a signficant decline in overall energy jobs in the Reference scenario, with jobs falling by 21% by 2015. Jobs continue to fall in this scenario between 2020 and 2030, mainly driven by losses in the coal sector. At 2030, jobs are 30% (3.1 million) below 2010 levels.
In the Energy [R]evolution scenario, strong growth in the renewable sector leads to an increase of 4% in total energy sector jobs by 2015. Job numbers fall after 2020 because as renewable technologies mature costs fall and they become less labour intensive. Jobs in the Energy [R]evolution are 19% below 2010 levels at 2030. However, this is 2.5 million more jobs than in the Reference scenario.


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The Alexander Technique Teacher Training Course in San Diego (ATTTiSD) is a traditional training based on Alice Olsher's own training with Walter and Dilys Carrington.
Alice is in the process of gathering a new group of students to start training in autumn 2014. Students are already signing up.
If you are interested in the training course, please contact Alice at 619 855 2345 or email@example.com for more information.
Alice Teaching Trainees in their Final Term (2010):
Alice, during her final term of training, with Walter and Dilys Carrington in London, England (1990):


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This is college football, after all. Here are the grades that Stanford and USC receive for their performances on Saturday night.
Stanford Offense: B+
Call us spoiled, but the Cardinal offense was not clicking on all cylinders, and the USC defense is one of the shabbiest in the PAC-10. The Stanford offensive numbers were fairly impressive (478 yards and 37 points) but the Card only edged USC in time of possession by under a minute and lost 3 fumbles. Turnovers can kill an otherwise impressive offensive performance, and Stanford needs to improve ball security in the coming weeks. Nonetheless, the beautiful game-ending drive proves that Stanford can move the ball down the field, and a B+ is a pretty good grade. Andrew Luck gets an A: the redshirt sophomore completed 83% of his passing attempts (yes, that number is correct) for 285 yards and 3 scores, all without throwing an interception. Plus, he did this:
USC Offense: A-
The Trojans posted fewer points than the Card, but picked up more yards and committed 2 fewer turnovers. Matt Barkley threw for 390 yards, 3 touchdowns, and no interceptions while completing over 62% of his passing attempts. That's a career day, even for a highly-respected quarterback. USC's biggest offensive frustration came in the running game. After rushing for over 200 yards last week against Washington, starting halfback Allen Bradford only managed 33 yards on 13 carries last night. Barkley had as many yards on 5 scrambles. The Trojans mustered a measly 108 combined rushing yards, which isn't good enough to win in most cases, last night's game included. Regardless of how well Barkley plays, any team running the pro style offense needs a solid running game. USC didn't have it.
Stanford Defense: C-
The Cardinal D was effective at shutting down Bradford and the USC running game, but the passing defense completely fell apart. Matt Barkley is a talented player, but he's not nearly as good as he looked in Stanford Stadium yesterday. Before yesterday, Barkley had not thrown for more than 290 yards in a game this year. He threw for 390 against Stanford. That's the highest yardage game of his career, and only the second time ever that he's thrown for over 300 yards (the last time was against Notre Dame in 2009). Perhaps more disturbingly, freshman Robert Woods caught 12 balls for 224 yards and 3 touchdowns. Those numbers account for 48% of his career catches, 75% of his career touchdowns, and 56% of his career receiving yards. That's downright absurd. Although Woods deserves a lot of credit for such a breakout performance, Stanford needs to find a way to get its corners to limit big-play receivers' production statistics. Though the Card escaped with a win yesterday, the defense cannot continue playing like this and expect to win.
To illustrate the point most dramatically: on USC's first drive of the 4th quarter, 3 Trojans wideouts lined up to Barkley's left, and only 2 Stanford defensive backs lined up to guard them. Barkley read the defense, hit the uncovered Ronald Johnson on a screen, and picked up an easy 11 yards. That's not championship-caliber defense.
USC Defense: C
The Trojans get a C here mostly because they've been panned throughout the sports media world as an incredible disappointment. They didn't play very well against Stanford, but they recovered 3 fumbles, kept the game close, and held Stanford to 7 points fewer than the Card's average scoring this season. They blew assignments, had costly penalties, and didn't play big in the game's biggest spots. But compared to their reputation, they produced an average performance.
Stanford Special Teams: A-
They probably don't deserve a grade this high (missed extra points are not exactly desirable), but they held USC's superb athletes to mediocre returns and Chris Owusu looks to be back as one of the country's best return men. Nate Whitaker missed a very important extra point, but he did make up for it.
USC Special Teams: B
We've come to expect freakish athletes from Troy, and that normally means very dangerous punt and kick returners. There wasn't a whole lot of that going on last night. Lane Kiffin doesn't have much to complain about when it comes to his special teams, but they didn't do anything special.
USC Final Grade: B+
The Trojans were double-digit underdogs coming off a heartbreaking loss at home last week, and they gave Stanford a close game. Matt Barkley performed like the blue-chip recruit he was coming out of high school two years ago, and Robert Woods could emerge as USC's next great wide receiver. The Trojans didn't win, but they fought until the end and outperformed what nearly everyone thought they were capable of against a superior Stanford team.
Stanford Final Grade: B
Stanford should have blown USC out. That's all there is to it. If the Cardinal had any other quarterback in the country–Ryan Mallett, Jake Locker, Matt Barkley, Denard Robinson, whoever–they would have lost this game. That's a testament to Andrew Luck's remarkable leadership and skill, but also to the fact that the Cardinal rely upon Luck and the passing game to pick up the defense's slack. That's a dangerous way to go about doing business. Stanford left the field with a win last night, but without much cause for optimism. The Card need the upcoming bye week to regroup, have its injured players rest up, and come back in two weeks looking like the early-season Stanford football team. If they do, they'll have an easy time beating Washington State for Homecoming on the 23rd, and will have a good chance to beat a dangerous Arizona team 2 weeks later.


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A beach wrap by Victoria's Secret is one the most pinned images on Pinterest this year. Despite that, Victoria's Secret got minimal traffic since the image that went viral wasn't actually on their site. A considerable amount can be learned by this popular pin.
The most popular pin of the year?
There is no way to determine the most popular pin on Pinterest. No leaderboard or official release from Pinterest exists on the topic. But I can say that I have seen this image pinned more than any other pin by the people I follow on @free; three times more than the closest pin. And I have seen it pinned over a hundred times in the past two month. Just when I think there is no way that that it can get pinned again, it does. Despite the popularity of the pin, I wasn't able to find the actual product until @KC_Laura answered my request for information on Twitter.
The image below on the left is a single product shot from Victoria's Secrets' site. The image below on the right is five of the different product photos (all on the Victoria's Secret site) placed together vertically.
Lost Traffic
If Victoria's Secret would have taken the time to put together the images they paid to have taken and placed them one after another in a vertical manner, a number of people would have pinned it, and I believe it would have still gone viral. Yes, some pinners would pin it without linking back. Yes, scammers would have caught on to the popular image and used it to divert traffic (they did this anyway). But by providing this image as a photo booth style vertical image, they would have gotten considerable traffic. Pinners are generally fair and want to provide a relevent link. Since this image didn't exist on the Victoria's Secret website, pinners couldn't pin it and by the time they saw the image, they likely didn't know where to look.
I spent a half hour going through pins of this image and none of them link back to Victoria's Secret"s site. Most traffic went to other image sites (Google Images, Tumblr, etc) and in a few case the link went to a Pinterest 404 error since a scammer had been using it.
Not too late for Victoria's Secret and other businesses to take advantage.
It goes without saying that Victoria's Secret should have a Pinterest account. They currently don't. Attractive models wearing seasonal styles and lingerie are very pinnable. Victoria's Secret also invests in having photographers take multiple photographs of the same model, and those images should be combined and placed on the the product pages in order to provide "original source" pin options. Their shoppers are on Pinterest in overwhelming numbers, and they pin many product images without any prompting. By being on Pinterest, they can be the ones who introduce apparel to their audience, and thus control where the links go.
The case of this viral pin also show that brands need to at least monitor Pinterest. Monitoring lets businesses learn what products are popular, but also the image format that people like best.
All business interested in Pinterest should consider providing pictures that are photo booth style. Multiple images can tell a story, and when they are arranged vertically, they command more space in people's feeds. Something to consider the next time you are putting together images of products or even just images to go with a blog post.


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We follow agile development process that helps us to deliver perfect and flawless results with 100% client satisfaction.
Xicom has established itself as one of the most reliable Xamarin development company with instrumental expertise in various technologies associated with the Microsoft Xamarin platform. Being a certified Microsoft application development partner, we help organizations in building critical business applications using our efficient project management processes and transparent work methodologies. Xamarin application development is an integral skill-set of the framework programmers at Xicom who are well abreast with the latest technology trends and development frameworks to provide improvised user experience as per the business requisites of our customers. From analyzing, defining, developing, testing, deployment and maintenance, Xicom ensures all deliverables are reliable, scalable and 100% customized at each development stage. The Xamarin based solutions offered by Xicom allow enterprises to build cutting-edge mobile applications with Xamarin that foster growth and ensure industry's best ROI.
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Hey there, read more Ramen-loving New Yorkers. Here's your lucky chance to win 2 FREE tickets to Ramen Fever at Asia Society this Thursday, December 16th from 6:30 – 9:30 pm.
The program will include a discussion with Shigeto Kamada, owner of Minca Ramen Factory and Kambi Ramen House, Jenny Miller, Assistant Food Editor at Grub Street/NYMag.com, Adina Steiman, Food Editor at Men's Health magazine, and Rickmond Wong, owner of Ramen blog Rameniac, highlighting this exciting new trend. The talk will be followed by a Ramen demonstration and tasting given by Shigeto Kamada.
So, how does this work? Just leave a comment with your favorite NY Ramen joint and I'll pick a lucky winner on Wednesday. Deadline to enter is this Wednesday, December 15th at 12 noon. Good luck!
Check back on Wednesday — we'll announce the winners and also be posting up another product giveaway for all you non-New Yorkers too (I haven't forgotten about you guys). Until then, eat well and stay warm!


text: Turkey's humanitarian aid reaches displaced in Iraq Sunday, April 27, 2014 First round of humanitarian aid has been sent to 100 Iraqi families displaced due to insecurity around Iraq's restive Anbar IRBIL, Iraq – Turkey has delivered a convoy of humanitarian help to 100 Iraqi families displaced due to insecurity around Iraq's restive Anbar province.Turkey started the delivery of an aid package worth $500,000 to help Anbar's displaced families with the cooperation of the UN refugee agency, Turkey's ambassador to Iraq Faruk Kaymakci said in a written statement on Sunday.Earlier, Turkey had announced that it would provide humanitarian aid for 800 Iraqi families. Kaymakci said aid delivery would continue in accordance with the urgency and safety situations.He said the aid kits sent to 100 families who moved to the Mansur district of Baghdad comprised blankets, beds, tents, air conditioners, kettles, kitchen utensils and cleansing agents.The Iraqi army has waged a major offensive in the Sunni-majority Anbar province since last December with the stated aim of flushing militants – who Baghdad claims are linked to Al-Qaeda – from the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah.More than 140,000 people have been displaced from the province, according to the UN refugee agency. Copyright © 2014 Anadolu Agency


text: On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:16:39AM +0000, email@example.com wrote: > Hi, > > I have an Intel DE815EEA motherboard, complete with > two IBM 30Gb ATA100 disks. When the kernel boots, > I'm happily informed that the drives are operating > at UltraDMA mode 5 (which is ATA100). > > Do the drives actually operate at Mode 5 or is it a > lesser mode (such as in other OS's like Li**x)? The kernel prints 2 infos: what the drive supports, and what the kernel uses. You should get these two lines with a 'dmesg' | grep wd0 I don't remenber if ATA-100 support was in 1.5 or if it has been pulled up later ... -- Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. email@example.com --


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Common Channel Signaling System No. 7 (aka SS7 or C7) is a global standard for telecommunications defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T). The standard defines the procedures and protocol by which network elements in the public switched telephone network PSTN exchange information over a digital signaling network to effect wireless (cellular) and wireline call setup, routing and control. The ITU definition of SS7 allows for national variants such as the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and Bell Communications (Telcordia Technologies) standards used in North America and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) standard used in Europe.
Reference pages
- Introduction to SS7 Signaling - Free tutorial provides an overview of Signaling System No. 7 network architecture and protocols.
- How does SS7 to SIP work article by Terratel
- VoIP and SS7 Development Services FREE Consultancy Session until Oct 31st 2010
- SS7 over IP
- ATM SS7 Interworking International Engineering Consortium
- Matthew Fredrickson new Digium SS7 implementation Summer 2006
- SS7 insights - Typical SS7 Case Studies
- Low cost entry to SS7 interconnect + more: by Squire Technologies
- What is SS7 or C7? by Squire Technologies
- SS7 Tutorials and Resources by Telecom Space
- SS7 Tutorial by Performance Technologies
- Converged Communications Intel Technology Journal
- SS7 Tutorial White Paper by the International Engineering Consortium
- SS7 Training Courses by Lee Dryburgh
- SS7 HTML Book SS7 book written by Cisco, available for free, courtesy of Lee Dryburgh
- http://wiki.sangoma.com/smg-ss7-demo Sangoma testing back to back with A10x cards
SS7 Forums
- SS7 and SIGTRAN Signalling Forum hosted by Dialogic
- hosted by Digium
- hosted by Telecom Space
- hosted by Openvox
SS7 Wiki Pages
- Asterisk SS7
- SS7 Point Code
- SCTP SCTP is created to tunnel SS7 ISUP over IP networks
- OpenSER OpenSER had SCTP support from August 2007
- SS7 JIP SS7 JIP code (Jurisdiction Information Parameter)
- Yate - supports SS7, STP, MAP, TCAP, CAMEL
Hosted SS7 solution
- SS7cloud based on Yate
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Carl Gude, 71, lines up a shot at Tom Varn Park in Brooksville. The Brooksville Horseshoe Club has a pitching session every Thursday from 9 to 11 a.m., and it's open to the public. The club is sponsoring a tournament on March 22.
Jan Glidewell: Festival for folks offers great yarns and music Keeping in mind that it might be the last chance you get for a while, think about taking this weekend to walk the sandy shaded soil of the Sertoma Youth Ranch north of Dade City, listen to some of the finest folk and acoustic musicians in Florida and enjoy peace -- a commodity that will probably soon be in short supply.
County goes after those who owe fines
Haven't paid that traffic ticket yet? A collection agency might soon try to persuade you to do so. The county contracts to get people to pay fines.
Ex-school leader fired from job
FORT MYERS -- John Sanders, the former Hernando County School District superintendent who left in 2001 to lead Lee County's school system, has been fired for incompetence, neglect of his duties and willful misconduct, according to the Fort Myers News-Press.
Lead in Odom case is a dead end
Officials thought they may have a long sought key to the slaying of Jennifer Odom, but their suspect was in Maine around that time.
Report backs textbook reform
A report says some flexibility in how Hernando and Pasco counties buy school books could save money. A decision is up to the Legislature.
Weeki Wachee Woodcarvers' show, sale will be on March 22
SPRING HILL -- The Weeki Wachee Woodcarvers' annual show and sale will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 22 at the Weeki Wachee Acres Senior Citizen Center, 3357 Susan Drive.
This week: Hernando
ONE SINGULAR SENSATION: The musical A Chorus Line continues Thursdays and weekends through March 23 at Stage West Community Playhouse, 8390 Forest Oaks Blvd., Spring Hill. Shows are at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $16. The box office is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and an hour before each show. Call 683-5113.
Jazz group offers a dose of 'hi-dee-ho'
The Cab Calloway Orchestra performs Saturday at the Hernando High School Performing Arts Center.
PHCC finds backup in Rams pipeline
One former Ridgewood player's baseball career at PHCC is finished while another ex-Ram is stepping in as a replacement.
Bears save Cseh work with double plays
High in the lineup of baseball cliches is the maxim about double plays -- pitcher's best friend and all -- but there is an obvious underlying truth.
Police reports: Girl, 15, injured in water scooter accident
BAYPORT -- A 15-year-old girl needed 19 staples to close two cuts on her head after a water scooter accident Wednesday off the Bayport boat pier.
Education is parents' responsibility
Editor: Re: Headlines should not give jitters to third-graders, March 6 letter to the editor:
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