Day Light Saving (DST):

The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin during his sojourn as an American delegate in Paris in 1784, in an essay, "An Economical Project."

The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time (called "Summer Time" in many places in the world) is to make better use of daylight. We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening. Countries have different change dates.

According to some sources, DST saves energy. Studies done by the U.S. Department of Transportation in 1975 showed that Daylight Saving Time trims the entire country's electricity usage by a small but significant amount, about one percent each day, because less electricity is used for lighting and appliances. Similarly, in New Zealand, power companies have found that power usage decreases 3.5 percent when daylight saving starts. In the first week, peak evening consumption commonly drops around five percent.

There may also be an economic benefit to DST, as daylight evening hours encourage people to go out and shop, potentially spurring economic growth.

For more information please visit
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html

Advanced-Shipping Notice:

A communication using electronic data interchange (EDI) that manufacturers use to notify wholesalers or retailers about future shipments.
In the EDI X12 system, it is known as the EDI 856 document. The ASN can be used to list the contents of a shipment of goods as well as additional information relating to the shipment, such as order information, product description, physical characteristics, type of packaging, marking, carrier information, and configuration of goods within the transportation equipment. The ASN enables the sender to describe the contents and configuration of a shipment in various levels of detail and provides an ordered flexibility to convey information

SPAM, SPIM and SPIT:

Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send -- most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.
SpIM is a term that has recently been coined to refer to spam sent via instant messenger programs, such as AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger and ICQ. Someone who sends instant messenger spam (SPiM) is referred to as a spimmer, again a play on the term spammer.
SPIT (Spam over Internet Telephony) is one of the foreseen future forms of spamming that Internet authorities are preparing for today. With the increasing use and dependence on the Internet for communications and data transfer, malicious software programmers have taken advantage by creating VoIP bots with the ability to harvest data and advertise massively at a very small cost. These advertising methods include email spams, SPIMS or spams over instant messaging applications, malicious bots that generate pop up ads, initiate redirects, etc.

Poisson distribution:

The Poisson Distribution is a discrete distribution which takes on the values X = 0, 1, 2, 3,... It is often used as a model for the number of events (such as the number of telephone calls at a business or the number of accidents at an intersection) in a specific time period. It is also useful in ecological studies, e.g., to model the number of prairie dogs found in a square mile of prairie.

The Poisson distribution is determined by one parameter, lambda. The distribution function for the Poisson distribution is f(x) = exp(-1*lambda) lambda^x / x!

Inventory Turnover:

Definition: How many times during a period that a business sells its inventory and replaces it.

Also Known As: Turns, Stock Turns, Stock Turnover

Quickly create groups in Lotus Notes:

From the contacts view in your Personal Address Book, you can easily create a group containing names from selected documents.

For example, if I select people in my family, and then choose Tools - Copy Into New Group



Notes create a new Group document, with the values of each contact filled in automatically. All we need to do now is give the group a name, and save and close.




This is very useful if you often find that you are sending emails to the same group of people.

Make Subfile Page to retain its page:

If you select a record from a subfile with multiple pages (e.g. selecting an item from a subfile to change), make your change and then return back to your subfile, the subfile would usually reload from record one to the end, making you page down to the record you had changed. To bring you back to the page you were on, add the following code to your display file and program.
Code
Using PDM, in the control section of your display file, add in the line
@pag 4 0H SFLRCDNBR
@pag is in the NAME column, the 4 is the length, the 0 is the decimal position and the SFLRCDNBR is in the functions column.
In your program, initialize @pag to 1.
When you select the line to change, z-add the rrn to @pag, and your program will return you to the subfile page you were on.