LOCbook is a Linux based suite of accounting applications. It is distributed as free software, but requires IBM Informix 4GL and SE or IDS database. Development began in 2005 and it was originally used as an in-house accounting program by a Shell Oil jobber. With the popularity of free software and the lack of it available for the petroleum wholesale market, the developer released the suite as a low-cost alternative.
The petroleum wholesale market generates $750 billion in annual revenue and the USA had 121,446 gas stations in 2002 according to the Census. Additionally the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) represents 144,000
convenience stores in the U.S. and abroad, as well as wholesalers, distributors and suppliers. Despite the size of this industry it was unserved in the free accounting software market. To date this is the only free accounting software available for petroleum marketers.
The following modules are included in the software suite:
* Accounts Payable
* Accounts Receivable
* Retail Sales (Includes pricebook for POS barcode scanning)
* Fuel Management
* Sales
* Inventory
* General Ledger
* Tax Control
* Fuel Dispatch
* Payroll
The petroleum wholesale market generates $750 billion in annual revenue and the USA had 121,446 gas stations in 2002 according to the Census. Additionally the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) represents 144,000
convenience stores in the U.S. and abroad, as well as wholesalers, distributors and suppliers. Despite the size of this industry it was unserved in the free accounting software market. To date this is the only free accounting software available for petroleum marketers.
The following modules are included in the software suite:
* Accounts Payable
* Accounts Receivable
* Retail Sales (Includes pricebook for POS barcode scanning)
* Fuel Management
* Sales
* Inventory
* General Ledger
* Tax Control
* Fuel Dispatch
* Payroll
A NEW CONCEPT.
We have found that language has no direct word corresponding to the emersion of man through animal nature.
After discoveries of fossil species belonging to the human family, but possessing neither his skull development nor his genius, words coming from latin homo appeared (hominidae, hominid). But these neologisms have their place only in taxonomy (the Science of Classification) and do not express the profound nature of the question.
In the same way the word "hominization", currently used since 1950, means the evolutionary development of human characteristics that differentiate man from his primate ancestors and does not point to the main characteristics of man himself.
Probably because he felt this deficiency Teilhard de Chardin invented the words "hominisé" and "hominoïde", but both are not totally cleared from a phylogenetic connotation based on natural evolutionary relationships.
So, we had to find a word whose characteristics would be proper to man only. For the animal we have "animality" (the animal nature), the essential nature of a god îs "deity". Between god and animal, man should have his place wilh the word "hominity" which could be defined as all the characteristics proper to man, attaining to the beautiful formula of the philosopher "I think, so I am".
The extreme variation in morphology and size in Australopithecus afarensis (Hadar, Laetoli and Garusi hominids) has to say about the evolution leading to hominity.
Hominid fossils discoveries have provided several australopithecine species, from 1 to 5 million years (Myr), with some human characteristics. The record is still fragmentary and there are many morphological gaps, however comparison of the fossils establishs a divergence of forms from character displacement with time that can be attibuted to an evolutionary pressure on successive and competing species.
When Man Began.
The features of Garusi hominid indicate a possible derived position of the exagerate prognathism of Hadar hominids. This derived position can be opposed to the other derived position in a high position of the anterior masseter origin in Australopithecus africanus - A. robustus - A. boisei. In the two cases we observe a departure from the primitive condition suggested in the Garusi hominid.
We have found that language has no direct word corresponding to the emersion of man through animal nature.
After discoveries of fossil species belonging to the human family, but possessing neither his skull development nor his genius, words coming from latin homo appeared (hominidae, hominid). But these neologisms have their place only in taxonomy (the Science of Classification) and do not express the profound nature of the question.
In the same way the word "hominization", currently used since 1950, means the evolutionary development of human characteristics that differentiate man from his primate ancestors and does not point to the main characteristics of man himself.
Probably because he felt this deficiency Teilhard de Chardin invented the words "hominisé" and "hominoïde", but both are not totally cleared from a phylogenetic connotation based on natural evolutionary relationships.
So, we had to find a word whose characteristics would be proper to man only. For the animal we have "animality" (the animal nature), the essential nature of a god îs "deity". Between god and animal, man should have his place wilh the word "hominity" which could be defined as all the characteristics proper to man, attaining to the beautiful formula of the philosopher "I think, so I am".
The extreme variation in morphology and size in Australopithecus afarensis (Hadar, Laetoli and Garusi hominids) has to say about the evolution leading to hominity.
Hominid fossils discoveries have provided several australopithecine species, from 1 to 5 million years (Myr), with some human characteristics. The record is still fragmentary and there are many morphological gaps, however comparison of the fossils establishs a divergence of forms from character displacement with time that can be attibuted to an evolutionary pressure on successive and competing species.
When Man Began.
The features of Garusi hominid indicate a possible derived position of the exagerate prognathism of Hadar hominids. This derived position can be opposed to the other derived position in a high position of the anterior masseter origin in Australopithecus africanus - A. robustus - A. boisei. In the two cases we observe a departure from the primitive condition suggested in the Garusi hominid.
JahSun is the co-founder and CEO of the 501(c3) non-profit hydro-philanthropic organization Water Charity. He is also the founder and president of the Omniverse 9 record label.
Among other things, he is a published author of both fiction & nonfiction, a producer, musician, composer, poet, philosopher, and futurist.
Water Charity has done water projects in over 60 countries around the world to help alleviate the suffering caused by lack of access to clean drinking water, including hundreds done under their Appropriate Projects Initiative.
* "Unsafe water kills more people than war plus all other forms of violence combined, including war." - JahSun speaking to Rotary International (quoting United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on March 22nd, 2010 aka World Water Day, a day made possible by the work of Water Charity and other hydro-philanthropic organizations.)
Among other things, he is a published author of both fiction & nonfiction, a producer, musician, composer, poet, philosopher, and futurist.
Water Charity has done water projects in over 60 countries around the world to help alleviate the suffering caused by lack of access to clean drinking water, including hundreds done under their Appropriate Projects Initiative.
* "Unsafe water kills more people than war plus all other forms of violence combined, including war." - JahSun speaking to Rotary International (quoting United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on March 22nd, 2010 aka World Water Day, a day made possible by the work of Water Charity and other hydro-philanthropic organizations.)
SCIT Labs
SCIT Labs is a software company that developing and commercializing threat independent cyber security solutions for the government and commercial markets. Its core products (the SCIT product-line) are based on the principle of intrusion tolerance.
The company has been founded by Dr Arun Sood of George Mason University in 2007. It has its headquaters in Northern Virginia.
SCIT technology
SCIT provides business and mission resilience; the ability to work through an attack without having to know the specific threat or attack methodology. Current security products and services focus on [. Their approach is reactive and dependent on recognizing the threat signature. Unfortunately, the adversaries are always a step ahead with new threats and new malware, leading to an unrecognized threat. SCIT Labs solution is a paradigm shift - their focus is on limiting damage and automated recovery to a known good state. Though DARPA has supported intrusion tolerance research, SCIT is the first commercial intrusion tolerance solution.
SCIT addresses the problem and reduces the risk from not having correct threat signatures for known threats and no threat signatures for unknown threats. SCIT provides a dynamic virtual environment for the server application / OS, shortens exposure to the internet, and routinely restores to a known good state.
SCIT can be provided as software or as hardware appliance. SCIT has minimal impact on server performance. SCIT software is loaded onto the server and requires very little administrative oversight, and its operation is transparent to the server operation. (Load and forget software that runs in the background).
SCIT’s competitive edge is that it provides a new cost effective layer of defense against known and unknown threats for servers. SCIT augments IDS and IPS operations because it does not rely on threat signatures or characteristics or packet inspection. By providing protection against unknown threats, SCIT provides protection that other security defenses do not. SCIT automatically reinstates an uncompromised version of the server application / OS every minute; SCIT automatically deletes malware installed on the server without detecting the presence of malware; reduces IT support costs by providing alternate incident management strategies and by avoiding rebuilding web servers after an attack.
Intrusion tolerance recognizes that malware invasions are a certainty in today’s network environment and SCIT provides an effective defense by continually refreshing, pristine virtual SCIT layer placed between the external and internal hardware/software layers. While current servers are sitting ducks, SCIT uses dynamic approaches to protect the servers and reduce risk of compromise to IT operations.
SCIT Labs is licensing the SCIT technology from George Mason University.
Methods of machine virtualization, multiplexing and the optimization of system-specific exposure times are all covered by . SCIT uses virtualization technology, SCIT rotates pristine virtual servers and applications every sixty seconds or less.
In the graphic shown here, five online virtual servers (shown in red) are processing transactions while three offline servers are being cleaned and restored to a pristine state. Every minute a pristine “green” server is swapped out with a “red” server and the SCIT rotation cycle begins again.
SCIT Labs is a software company that developing and commercializing threat independent cyber security solutions for the government and commercial markets. Its core products (the SCIT product-line) are based on the principle of intrusion tolerance.
The company has been founded by Dr Arun Sood of George Mason University in 2007. It has its headquaters in Northern Virginia.
SCIT technology
SCIT provides business and mission resilience; the ability to work through an attack without having to know the specific threat or attack methodology. Current security products and services focus on [. Their approach is reactive and dependent on recognizing the threat signature. Unfortunately, the adversaries are always a step ahead with new threats and new malware, leading to an unrecognized threat. SCIT Labs solution is a paradigm shift - their focus is on limiting damage and automated recovery to a known good state. Though DARPA has supported intrusion tolerance research, SCIT is the first commercial intrusion tolerance solution.
SCIT addresses the problem and reduces the risk from not having correct threat signatures for known threats and no threat signatures for unknown threats. SCIT provides a dynamic virtual environment for the server application / OS, shortens exposure to the internet, and routinely restores to a known good state.
SCIT can be provided as software or as hardware appliance. SCIT has minimal impact on server performance. SCIT software is loaded onto the server and requires very little administrative oversight, and its operation is transparent to the server operation. (Load and forget software that runs in the background).
SCIT’s competitive edge is that it provides a new cost effective layer of defense against known and unknown threats for servers. SCIT augments IDS and IPS operations because it does not rely on threat signatures or characteristics or packet inspection. By providing protection against unknown threats, SCIT provides protection that other security defenses do not. SCIT automatically reinstates an uncompromised version of the server application / OS every minute; SCIT automatically deletes malware installed on the server without detecting the presence of malware; reduces IT support costs by providing alternate incident management strategies and by avoiding rebuilding web servers after an attack.
Intrusion tolerance recognizes that malware invasions are a certainty in today’s network environment and SCIT provides an effective defense by continually refreshing, pristine virtual SCIT layer placed between the external and internal hardware/software layers. While current servers are sitting ducks, SCIT uses dynamic approaches to protect the servers and reduce risk of compromise to IT operations.
SCIT Labs is licensing the SCIT technology from George Mason University.
Methods of machine virtualization, multiplexing and the optimization of system-specific exposure times are all covered by . SCIT uses virtualization technology, SCIT rotates pristine virtual servers and applications every sixty seconds or less.
In the graphic shown here, five online virtual servers (shown in red) are processing transactions while three offline servers are being cleaned and restored to a pristine state. Every minute a pristine “green” server is swapped out with a “red” server and the SCIT rotation cycle begins again.