However, recent AMI adaptation in gas and water is leveraging developments used by peers in the electric sector for communications, cybersecurity, data privacy, and smart grid, and adapting them for applications such as theft detection, leak detection, load balancing, demand response, and distribution automation.
Joseph Stalin 1 (1879-1953) Joseph Stalin, infamous for his campaigns of terror, was totalitarian dictator of the USSR from 1941 until his death in 1953. Stalin's policy of state-organized industrialization turned his country into a industrial and military power second only to the USA. From Stalin, Joseph. Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2001. Joseph Stalin was general secretary of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1922 to 1953. [By many accounts, Stalin,] more than any other
Image caption Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship is considered one of the bloodiest in the Americas. Before his assassination on a dark highway on 30 May 1961, the Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, ruled with an iron fist for almost 30 years. Tim Mansel meets one of the men who shot him. Rafael Trujillo's rule is considered one of the most brutal periods in the history of the Dominican Republic. Taking power in 1930, his hold over the country was absolute. He brooked no opposition.