Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is the "order of chivalry of British constitutional monarchy", rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations and public service outside the Civil Service. It was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V, and comprises five classes, in civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a knight if male, or dame if female. There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with, but not members of, the order.

Appointments to the Order of the British Empire were at first made on the nomination of the self-governing Dominions of the Empire, the Viceroy of India, and the colonial governors, as well as on nominations from within the United Kingdom. As the Empire evolved into the Commonwealth, nominations continued to come from the Commonwealth realms, in which the monarch remained head of state. These overseas nominations have been discontinued in realms that have established their own Orders—such as the Order of Australia, the Order of Canada, and the New Zealand Order of Merit—but members of the Order are still appointed in the British Overseas Territories.

O3b (satellite)

The O3b Satellite Constellation is a satellite constellation designed for telecommunications and data backhaul from remote locations. It was scheduled for deployment in 2013 & 2014. The first four satellites were launched on 25 June 2013, and eight more in 2014. There are plans to extend this to 16 satellites.

The constellation is owned and operated by O3b Networks, Ltd..

Satellites

The satellites were deployed in a circular orbit along the equator at an altitude of 8063 km (medium earth orbit) at a velocity of approximately 11,755 mph (18,918 km/h), each making 5 orbits a day. Initially eight satellites, Due to problems with a component of the first four satellites launched, two of those four have been placed on standby for the other two, and six are used operationally.

Each satellite is equipped with twelve fully steerable Ka band antennas (two beams for gateways, ten beams for remotes) that use 4.3 GHz of spectrum (2×216 MHz per beam) with a proposed throughput of 1.2 Gbit/s per beam (600 MBit/s per direction), resulting in a total capacity of 12 GBit/s per satellite. O3b claims a mouth-to-ear one-way latency of 179 milliseconds for voice communication, and an end-to-end round-trip latency of 238ms for data services. The maximum throughput per TCP connection is 2.1 Mbit/s. For maritime applications, O3b claims a round-trip latency of 130ms, and connectivity speeds of over 500 Mbit/s.

Haplogroup O-M176

In human population genetics, Y-Chromosome haplogroups define the major lineages of direct paternal (male) lines back to a shared common ancestor in Africa. Haplogroup O-M176 (aka O-SRY465) is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. It is best known for its part in the settlement of Korea and Japan. It is a descendant of Haplogroup O-P31.

Distribution

Haplogroup O-M176 is found mainly in the northernmost parts of East Asia, from the Uriankhai and Zakhchin peoples of western Mongolia (Katoh 2004) to the Japanese of Japan, though it also has been detected sporadically in the Buryats (Jin 2003) and Udegeys (Jin 2010) of southern Siberia, very rarely among populations of Southeast Asia including Indonesia (Hammer 2006 and Jin 2003), the Philippines (Jin 2003), Thailand (Jin 2003), and Vietnam (Hammer 2006 and Jin 2003), and Micronesians (Hammer 2006). This haplogroup is found with its highest frequency and diversity values among modern populations of Japan and Korea and is absent from most populations in China, but it has been detected in some samples of Han Chinese from Beijing (Jin 2003), Xi'an (1/34, Kim 2011), Jiangsu (Lu 2008), Wuhan (1/160),South China outside of Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, and Shanghai (1/65), and Taiwan (1/34 Hakka and 1/258 other miscellaneous Han), and Daurs (Xue 2006), Hezhes (Xue 2006), Koreans in China (Xue 2006 and Katoh 2004), Manchus (Xue 2006, Katoh 2004, and Karafet 2001), Sibes (Xue 2006), and Kham Tibetans.

O3b Networks

O3b Networks, Ltd. is a network communications service provider building a medium Earth orbit satellite constellation. The network will combine the relatively large reach of satellite with high speed and medium latency to deliver satellite Internet services and mobile backhaul services to emerging markets. The company was founded by Greg Wyler in 2007. The name "O3b" stands for "[The] Other 3 Billion", referring to the population of the world where broadband Internet is not available without help. O3b is financially backed by SES, Google, HSBC, Liberty Global, Allen & Company, Northbridge Venture Partners, Soroof International, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Sofina and Satya Capital.

After initially planning to launch in 2010, on June 25, 2013, O3b launched the first four of an initial constellation of 8 satellites into orbit. A further four satellites were launched in July 2014, and another four in December 2014.

O3b will primarily serve mobile operators and Internet service providers, providing for voice and data. The network will consist of eight Ka-based satellites orbiting at an altitude of 8,000 km, which is less than one quarter of the altitude of geostationary satellites; significantly reducing satellite latency.

BE

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B̤ē

B̤ē (Sindhi: ٻ‎) is an additional letter of the Arabic script, derived from bāʼ (Arabic: ب‎) with an additional dot. It is not used in the Arabic alphabet itself, but is used to represent the sound [ɓ] when writing Hausa, Saraiki, and Sindhi in the Arabic script. The same sound may also be written simply as bāʾ in Hausa, undifferentiated from [b].

Both Hausa and Sindhi are also written in scripts besides Arabic. The sound represented by b̤ē is written Ɓ ɓ in Hausa's Latin orthography, and written ॿ in Saraiki and Sindhi's Devanagari orthography.

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Burglary

Burglary (also called breaking and entering and sometimes housebreaking) is an unlawful entry into a building for the purposes of committing an offence. Usually that offence is theft, but most jurisdictions include others within the ambit of burglary. To engage in the act of burglary is to burgle (in British English) or to burglarize (in American English).

Common law definition

The common law burglary was defined by Sir Matthew Hale as: