Archive for June, 2008



Pull to Par is effect that forces the price of the bond to converge to par value as time passes
because at maturity the price of the credit instrument in good standing should equal to its par (or face value).

Another name for this effect is reduction of maturity.

It results from the difference between market interest rate […]

Localhost is a software program that facilitates access to a peer-to-peer virtual file system via the BitTorrent protocol. The program is a modification of Azureus version 2.3.0.4 and the two are backwards compatible.

See also

Comparison of BitTorrent software

External links

Localhost Official Web Site

Overweight is part of a three-tiered rating system, along with “underweight” and “equal weight”, used by stock analysts to indicate a particular stock’s attractiveness. If a stock is deemed “overweight” the analyst is saying, in his opinion, the stock is a better value relative to other stocks he covers in the same sector.

Examples
Overweight portfolio […]

The Open Source Software CD is a collection of about 150 open-source programs for Microsoft Windows. It contains programs for software development, fun and games, Internet, multimedia, productivity, security, text editing, and utilities. It was last updated in December 2005, and some of the packages are now several releases old.

Similar projects include OpenCD, […]

The Proctor District is a neighborhood in the north end of Tacoma, Washington. Primarily a center for locals to shop, the District has cultivated a small town feel, despite the increasing status of the surrounding area as a bedroom community for commuters to Seattle.

Businesses
The Proctor District is home to a range of unique businesses, ranging […]

The San Jacinto River is a river in Riverside County, California. The river’s headwaters are in San Jacinto National Forest, but the lower portion of the 765 square mile (1,980 km²) watershed is urban and agricultural land. The river flows about 10 miles (16 km) from its source to Lake Hemet, which holds 14,000 acre feet (17.2 million m³) […]

Envolution is a content management system that began as a fork of PostNuke.

Creation
Envolution created and developed a smarty based templating engine named “Encompass”. Emcompass was later combined with “envRender”, another Envolution-developed work.

Envolution Software
The Envolution Project formally disbanded as a community project in 2003. Afterwards, the group became the Envolution Software business entity. […]

Turku International School is an international school in Turku, Finland. It was established in 2003, and is maintained by the City of Turku. It currently temporarily operates within the premises of Turun normaalikoulu, but will soon get its own building in Varissuo. The school offers three programmes: a primary (years 1-4) and secondary (years 5-9) […]

Disturbance Theory is a political postulation by David Truman that states that interest groups form primarily in opposition to other interest groups so as to counteract influence in their respective political domains. Robert Salisbury would later augment the theory to state that interest groups form in the absence or increasing scarcity of resources. Salisbury also […]

West Katuic languages are a language group part of the Mon-Khmer group of the Katuic languages of the Austroasiatic family.

Brou-So languages

Eastern Bru language (Laos)

Western Bru language (Thailand)

So language (Laos)

Khua language (Vietnam)

Kuay-Yoe languages

Kuy language (Thailand)

Nyeu language (Thailand)

The Framework for Intervention is a theoretical approach that supporters claim can prevent behavior concerns in schools and nurseries. It concentrates on changing the environment rather than the child. This means that all the factors that might affect the student or child’s behaviour in the classroom or around the school can be analysed. To change […]

The Cambridge Business Park is a large business complex in Cambridge, England. It is home to many companies, mostly IT-related, such as CSR, Autonomy, and The MathWorks.

See also: Silicon Fen.

External links

Official site

The Credit Business Associate (CBA) is a professional designation for a credit manager. This designation was created by the National Association of Credit Management. This professional degination signals knowledge of three business-to-business-credit related disciplines:

Basic financial accounting

Business-to-business credit principles

Introductory financial statement analysis

External links

CBA Requirements from NACM

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JMoney is a personal finance manager written in Java. It supports multiple accounts in different currencies, double entry banking, income/expense categories, various reports and Quicken file (QIF) exchange. JMoney is currently going through major re-architecturing. The next version of JMoney will support plugins.

Languages currently supported are English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and Hungarian.

Released under the […]

Price-to-sales ratio, P/S ratio, or PSR, is a valuation metric for stocks. It is calculated by dividing the company’s market cap by the company’s revenue in the most recent fiscal year (or the most recent four fiscal quarters); or, equivalently, divide the per-share stock price by the per-share revenue.

The metric can be used to determine […]

XKO Group PLC are a full-services IT company based in the UK. They employ approximately 600 people and have offices in Chertsey, London, Milton Keynes, Whiteley, Rugby, York, Lutterworth, Manchester, Solihull and Borehamwood.

Software Products

X3 - ERP businuess solution.

Xeres - ERP businuess solution.

Varius - Web Content Management System

External link

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Under German law, the Geschmacksmuster (”aesthetic model”) is a form of intellectual property that extends industrial design rights over the visual design of objects that is not purely utilitarian. The term of a Geschmacksmuster is twenty years, compared to twenty-five years for a community design.

See also

Design patent

Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt […]

Software sold. Roxio

Roxio is a division and brand of Sonic Solutions. It was originally a digital media company created from the 2001 spin-off of Adaptec’s Software Products Group followed by the 2002 acquisition of MGI Software. Roxio’s management chose to pursue the digital music download and subscription market at the expense of Roxio’s CD and DVD products, […]

In business, an independent business as a term of distinction generally refers to privately-owned companies (as opposed to those companies owned publicly through a distribution of shares on the market). Independent businesses most commonly take the form of sole-proprietorships. “Independent” is frequently used to distinguish one-of-a-kind businesses from corporate chains, indeed dozens of communities […]

Organize. Series (botany)

In botany, a series is a subdivision of a genus. It is typically used to help organize very large genera, which may have hundreds of species. Its rank is below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.

It gets a two part name (binary name), consisting of the name of the […]

The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a supporting library for the Apache web server. It provides a set of APIs that map to the underlying operating system. Where the OS doesn’t support a particular function, APR will provide a replacement. Thus, the APR can be used to make a program truly portable across platforms.

APR was […]

The Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS) is a project of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to classify mathematical software by the type of problem that it solves.
GAMS indexes Netlib, and also some proprietary software packages.

External links

Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS project home page.)

When a non-life insurance company closes a contract to provide insurance against loss, the revenues (premiums) expected to be received over the life of the contract are called gross premiums written. Insurance companies often purchase reinsurance to protect themselves against the risk of a loss above a certain threshold; the cost of reinsurance (reinsurance premiums) […]

Microcomputers and. DVK

DVK (Russian: ДВК which stands for Dialogue Computing Complex) is a Russian clone of PDP-11 minicomputer.

The design is also known as Electronika MS-0501 and Electronika MS-0502.

Earlier models of DVK series were based on K1801BM1 or K1801BM2 microprocessors with 16 bit address bus. In older models KM1801BM3 microprocessor was used with 22 bit extended address bus.

[…]

Twenty. Abraham McClellan

Abraham McClellan was an American politician that represented Tennessee’s second district in the United States House of Representatives. He was born at “White Top” on Beaver Creek, Tennessee on October 4, 1789. He attended the common schools, graduated from Washington College in Tennessee, and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was a member of the Tennessee […]

The following comparison of accounting software documents the various features and differences between different accounting software packages.

Package

Licence

Windows

Mac OS X

Linux

Market focus

Type

Structure

Adempiere

GPL

Mid-market

ERP, CRM, POS

Web based

Adminsoft

Freeware and Proprietary

Small to Mid-market

 ?

stand alone

Compiere

GPL

Mid-market

ERP, CRM, POS

Web based

GnuCash

GPL

[…]

Banquet Foods was a company that sold food products - primarily frozen chicken - and still exists as the brand name on many prepared chicken products sold by ConAgra Foods. Banquet was founded in 1966 through the merger of Bright Foods of Turlock, California, and FM Stamper of Moberly, Missouri. Soon after that, […]

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To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 3.2 years and 32 years (108 seconds and 109 seconds). See also times of other orders of magnitude.

Shorter times

3.3 years — half life of rhodium-101

4 years — full term of the President of the United States

4.6 years […]

A comparison sort is a type of sorting algorithm that only reads the list elements through a single abstract comparison operation (often a “less than or equal to” operator) that determines which of two elements should occur first in the final sorted list. The only requirement is that the operator obey the three defining properties […]

Behind the Times is an EP by AFI released on 11 June 1993 on Key Lime Pie Records. This release was limited to 560 copies, which comprises various test pressings, the 1st pressing of 400 and a 2nd pressing of 100 all on black vinyl, they can be distinguished, as the first pressing of the […]

Vinclozolin is a common fungicide used in vineyards. It is a known endocrine disruptor.

Recent scientific findings have shown that exposure in rats can lead to alterations in DNA that last for four generations. These observations, however, should be viewed with caution as they were not confirmed in a larger study over three generations.

External […]

Aryan languages may refer to the following:

Indo-Iranian languages

Indo-Aryan languages, a branch of Indo-Iranian languages

Aryan languages is also used by 19th century linguists to refer to Indo-European languages, but this use of the term is obsolete in modern linguistic literature.

A callshop is a business that physically provides phones for the purpose of making long-distance telephone calls.

Contents

1 Typical Call Shop Scenarios

1.1 Prepaid:
1.2 Postpaid:
1.3 Illustration:

Typical Call Shop Scenarios

Prepaid:

Customer visits the Call Shop.

Customer pre-pays the operator for the call.

The operator will then activate a phone booth for the customer using the Call Shop billing […]

The Liouho Night Market (六合夜市) is a tourism night market in Kaohsiung, and one of the great night markets in Taiwan.
It’s famous for its various choices of food and local dishes, which attract tourists from many countries.
Multiple vendors and patrons fill the market at night. Tourists barter with locals for seafood, handicrafts, clothing, knives, […]

The maximum segment size (MSS) is the largest amount of data, specified in bytes, that a computer or communications device can handle in a single, unfragmented piece. For optimum communications, the number of bytes in the data segment and the headers must not add up to more than the number of bytes in the maximum […]

The PAST Foundation is a small federal 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational foundation in the United States. PAST is an acronym for Partnering Archaeology with Science and Technology. The PAST Foundation’s mission is to promote a better understanding of history and culture by teaming professional anthropologists and historians with the public to explore potential cultural sites both […]

Sage. Sage Derby cheese

Sage Derby, pronounced “darby”, is a green veined, semi-hard cheese with a mild sage flavour. The first Sage Derby production began in the seventeenth century in England. The green colour comes from sage and colouring added to the curds, producing a marbling effect and subtle herb flavour. The colour is obtained either by mixing […]

The Sideboard was a magazine published by Wizards of the Coast that covered Magic: The Gathering tournaments and expert play. After six years of publication, it ceased its print activities and much of the content from The Sideboard (along with the content from its website) was folded into magicthegathering.com.

Originally titled “The Duelist Sideboard“, the first […]

Program for. Triple P

The ‘Triple P - Positive Parenting Program’ is a parent education program based on behaviourism. The Triple P program was developed by Professor Matthew Sanders and colleagues in Australia, from the Parenting and Family Support Centre in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland. The program is aimed at parents of pre-adolescent children.

External […]

Louisburg is an unincorporated community in Grant County, Wisconsin within the town of Jamestown. The zipcode is 53811. Louisburg Creek flows through the area.

Louisburg is located 1.5 miles east of Kieler, 2.5 miles southeast of Dickeyville, 8 miles west of Cuba City and 10 miles northeast of Dubuque, Iowa. There are approximately […]

Originally sold. CKFX-FM

“CKFX” redirects here. A now-silenced shortwave transmitter of Vancouver station CKWX also used the CKFX callsign.

CKFX-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 101.9 FM in North Bay, Ontario. The station airs a rock music format under the brand name The Fox.

The station was originally launched in Iroquois Falls, Ontario in 1922, as CFCH, […]

A rhoptry is a specialized secretory organelle. Rhoptries, as well as micronemes, are characteristic of the motile stages of Apicomplexa protozoans, (specifically merozoites), and are usually located toward the apical end of the organism. These structures can vary in number and shape, and contain numerous enzymes that are released during the penetration process.

A Club Championship system is a sports competition where more than one team is fielded by clubs in the competition. An example of its use is in club rugby competitions in Australia where clubs may have several grades.

A club championship is useful because it allows a comparison of the entire club’s strength against another, rather […]

Small business software has been for many years any software that a small business owner could appropriate to get jobs done. Over the past twenty years, however, the most pressing issue for small businesses has been to organize their financial records mostly due to government requirements in tax reporting. Therefore, the only software that has […]

The Financial Times Deutschland is a German-language financial newspaper based in Hamburg, Germany, and is published by both [[Gruner + Jahr]] and Pearson.

The Financial Times Deutschland contains four sections: Business, Politics & Economy, Finance, and Agenda (Comment, Analysis, Sport, Culture).

The Financial Times Deutschland was founded in February 2000, and the circulation in the second quarter […]

Paperback Software International Ltd. was a software company founded in the 1980s by Adam Osborne, Paperback Software was dedicated to the proposition that computer software cost too much, and that software such as word processors and spreadsheets should be available in the US$20 range. The company was found guilty by a US court of copyright […]

Now Up-to-Date & Contact is calendar and contact software from Now Software.

The product was originally a Mac-only software product, but has recently been introduced to Microsoft Windows as well.

After many years of techical decline this product is being axed and replaced with Nighthawk.

External links

Now Software

Burk and similar may refer to:

Burking - a particular method of suffocation

Burk, Bavaria, in the Ansbach district, Bavaria

A part of Bautzen, Saxony

A part of Forchheim (Oberfranken), Bavaria

A part of Marktoberdorf, in the Ostallgäu district, Bavaria

A part of Seeg, in the Ostallgäu district, Bavaria

See also

Burck

Burke

Bourke

“Business” is a song by the rapper Eminem, released in 2003 as a single internationally, except in the U.S.. It was from his worldwide hit album, The Eminem Show, which was released in 2002. In the song, Eminem talks about him and Dr. Dre working together like Batman & Robin (as suggested in the music […]

ISO 6346 is an international standard for assigning unique codes to freight containers, commonly known as BIC codes.

The structure of an ISO 6346 code is:

owner code, consisting of three capital letters

product group code, consisting of one of the following three capital letters:

U - for all freight containers
J - for detachable freight container-related equipment
Z […]

Jefferson North Assembly is a Chrysler automobile factory in Detroit, Michigan. The factory opened in 1991 as a major commitment to the downtown Detroit area by Chrysler. It was home to the Jeep Grand Cherokee from the start, and continued through three generations of product.

Current products:

Jeep Grand Cherokee

Jeep Commander

CareerBuilder.com is the largest online job site in the United States. The site posts more than 1.5 million jobs and is updated with new jobs daily. More than 21 million unique vistors come to the site every month to search for opportunities in every industry, field and job type. Employers purchase 1 month job postings […]