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Jo Ey Lee - The Chinese Warrior

Jo Ey Lee (AD 190-237)

Jo Ey Lee was once a well reputable general during the Three Kingdoms Era. As a child born in the early Yellow turbans rebellion era, he was trained by his father Wei Xun Lee, to be a competent leader, in both military arts and literature. At the early age of 14, he fought along side his father, in a campaign to end the long fought war between the rival brutal tribe of the Li and their own Lee.

The death of his father, due to a vicious duel against the infamous Kwong Man Lee, as a final settlement as which tribe is the rightful heir of the land. It was only after this that Jo Ey Lee began to write his own story. He was banished from his own land, and went into refuge with the Hakka tribe. There he met some Huangs who were strong, but unloyal bandits, who were known to do anything, at a price.

Paying the Huangs with the last of his treasure, he went back to his own land and attempted to destroy all of the Li tribe.

Jo Ey Lee later married a beautiful woman from the remaining scattered Li tribe, and died at the age of 47 due to the bird flu.

Lee is now the most common chinese surname and are all the descendants of Jo Ey Lee.

Sources

The Lee Name in History Publisher: Ancestry.com (June 13, 2007) Language: English ASIN: B000W1BJD4 90.241.48.84 (talk) 00:14, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Scottish Police Services Authority - Information Communications Technology

The Scottish Police Services Authority - Information Communications Technology (formerly known as the Scottish Police Information Strategy) is an organisation within the Scottish Police Service responsible for the development of new systems with a national, cross-force scope. The personnel consist primarily of around 50 Police Staff, mainly IT professionals specialising in a range of discrete technologies, with a large contingent of those staff comprised of Java J2EE Developers and Oracle DBAs. SPSA-ICT also retains a small number of development staff specialising in .Net technologies. Non-technical members of staff include Project Managers, Administrative Staff, internal Personnel resources, Software Testers, Senior Management, and a very small number of seconded police officers with specialist knowledge of the areas impacted by projects under construction. Seconded police officers are drawn from Scotland's eight police forces, and from SPSA-Criminal Justice (formerly SCRO).

Projects Undertaken

The Scottish Intelligence Database (SID)

The Scottish Intelligence Database was designed by an external supplier, ABM Intelligent Solutions, under the supervision of a team from SPIS, headed by Detective Superintendent Ian McCandlish, seconded from Strathclyde Police. In respect of his involvement with the SID Project, Det Supt McCandlish was a contributor to the Bichard Enquiry (concerning the 2002 murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman by Ian Huntley, in particular the concerns that case raised regarding how a person with Huntley's police record and background could have been approved to work in proximity to children).

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR2)

The ANPR2 Project is an ongoing SPSA-ICT project, concerning the provision of automated number plate recognition (ANPR) technologies to the Scottish Police Service. Notable/controversial aspects of the technologies employed in the project include the collection of information via hidden cameras, concealed in cats eyes in the road.

The Scottish Criminal Records Office (now Scottish Police Services Authority - Criminal Justice) replacement system, also known as the Criminal History System

The CHS Project was undertaken between 2001 and 2007. It was implemented using Java J2EE and Oracle, with Hibernate and Spring. The Project proved problematic for SPIS / SPSA-ICT, eventually culminating in negative news coverage and questions being asked in the Scottish Parliament regarding the cost of the system, the rationale of its design, and the way it had been managed (see Controversy and External Criticism below).

The National Custody System

The National Custody System was designed for the .Net and Oracle platforms. Initial scoping and design work took place between November 2002 and January 2006, with first rollout of the system to a Scottish Force (Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary) taking place in February 2006. As of January 2007, the system is currently being reviewed for rollout within a second Scottish force, Strathclyde Police.

Human Resources System

The HRS Project aimed to provide a single, conherent personel system to the Scottish Police Service. Another personnel system, originally developed internally by Tayside Police, known as SCOPE, also remained in use, however. As a combined result of the move from SPIS to SPSA-ICT, and of the elements within Tayside Police responsible for SCOPE also moving to come under the SPSA, as of April 2007, the SPSA is effectively maintaining two, essentially competing, systems.

Controversy and External Criticism

SPSA, and later SPSA-ICT, came under considerable public criticism for their handling of the delivery of the Criminal History System project. The cost of the system rose from an initial estimate of £1.5m, to an eventual bill of over ten times that amount. In addition to the cost overrun, the system was delivered more than three years later than even a revised estimate of the delivery date, and did not provide any new capabilities that the system it was intended to replace had previously provided. In the most literal sense, the new system was an exact replica of the 1970's-style green-screen, unifont, text-only system that preceded it; the only difference was that this exactly-identical interface was presented to users via a secure web browser, rather than via a mainframe terminal. The rationale given for this decision to re-invent an outdated wheel was that proceeding this way would save on training costs for existing staff. This was widely-perceived as incredibly shortsighted, given that staff retire or leave and are replaced on a rolling basis, and that consequently the training of new staff will therefore always be an issue, regardless of the nature of the system they require to be trained upon. Additionally, as the new system did not take full advantage of the considerable advances in information technology that have come along since the original 1970's design was envisaged, it was felt that a considerable chance to enhance the safetly and efficiency of, for example, the processes that allow persons to be vetted for work with children had been missed. Questions about SPIS / SPSA-ICT's handling of the project were raised in the Scottish news media, by the BBC News, and by an opposition MSP, Stewart Maxwell, in the Scottish Parliament, who called the project "a complete disaster". The net result of the criticism received was that an external software supplier, Real Time Engineering, was brought in to provide Development expertise and Project Management oversight to the project during the period Summer 2005 - Autumn 2007.

Sources

[1]SPSA website, as at January 2007

[2]SPSA-ICT website, as at January 2007

[3]ABM Intelligent Solutions / SPIS press release on SID

[4]Bichard Enquiry: The Guardian report from February 17 2005, including a contribution from Detective Superintendent McCandlish of the SPIS Scottish Intelligence Database team.

[5]UK Speed Trap Guide: cameras concealed within Cats Eyes.

[6]BBC article regarding questions asked in the Scottish Parliament about the handling of the CHS Project by SPIS.

[7]Glasgow Herald report on the delayed CHS rollout, June 2007.

82.20.9.87 (talk) 04:18, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Category:World U-17 Hockey Challenge

For more information, see World U-17 Hockey Challenge.

[[Category:Ice hockey tournaments]] [[Category:Junior ice hockey]]

Sources

This is to house World U-17 Hockey Challenge tournament articles together.

70.55.86.232 (talk) 06:22, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

joshNspencer

joshNspencer (a.k.a Josh And Spencer) is a combination of 2 teenagers from Daytona Beach, Florida. They currently have created 2 videos while filming many more. Their first hit was a music video parody of Barbie Girl by Aqua

Sources

www.youtube.com/joshNspencer

75.108.89.229 (talk) 06:44, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Category:World U-18 Ice Hockey Championships

For more information, see IIHF World U18 Championships.

[[Category:Ice hockey tournaments]] [[Category:Junior ice hockey]]

Sources

This category should be created to group together the U-18 championship articles.

70.55.86.232 (talk) 08:18, 1 January 2008 (UTC)