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WILLIAM STEAD

William Thomas Stead was an English journalist. He was born in 1849 at Embleton, Durham and died in 1912. The son of a Congregational minister he was educated at Silcoates School, Wakefield. Leaving a merchant's office to edit 'The Northern Echo' at Darlington in 1871 he left there in 1880 to be an assistant editor of the 'The Pall Mall Gazette' and in 1883 became editor. He left 'The Pall Mall Gazette' in 1889 and in 1890 founded 'The Review of Reviews', and in 1895 started a penny Masterpieces Library. He was a passenger on board the Titanic and drowned when it sunk in 1912.
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ECHO

In Greek mythology, Echo was a mountain nymph and a servant of Hecate. The daughter of Air and Earth. Because of her love of Narcissus, she pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.
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HALLOWEEN

Halloween (All Hallow Even) was the last night of the British Celtic year (equivalent to the modern new year's eve) - October the 31st, later adopted as the Eve of All Saints by the Christian church in Britain when the Pope of Rome in 610 ordered that the heathen Pantheon should be converted into a Christian church and dedicated to the honour of all martyrs.

Halloween was a Celtic fire festival and a day on which the spirits of the dead revisited their old homes and evil spirits roamed the land. Superstition, based in part upon the reality that November the 1st (Samhain) ushered in the cold, dark months of winter, encouraged the Celts to placate the spirits of nature at Halloween, lest the next year's crops should fail, and because of the presence of so many spirits at large at this time, and the strong supernatural forces at work, it was a time for divination. Later, games were held throughout Britain for teenagers, including apple and sixpence bobbing, success at these games being thought to guarantee good fortune for the coming year and to enable divination with regard to forthcoming marriages. In early Ireland, it is reported that children were sacrificed to placate the evil spirits at Halloween, but this is more probably propaganda than a reality. During the 19th century Irish immigrants introduced to America the concept of mischief on Halloween, with young men playing tricks on residents and demanding a treat lest they should play a trick on them - an echo of sacrifices of foods to the spirits so as to placate them. This practise having originated in the North of England, while elsewhere young people demanded of their elders to be shown a magic trick or receive a treat by way of a forfeit by the elder.

Welsh tradition had it that on Halloween, an evil spirit sat on every stile. While in Scotland the notion of the goblin was invented, which only came out on Halloween. Modern Halloween is not, as is popularly thought, an American invention, but a survival of an old British festival. Sacrifices are still made to placate the witches, goblins, ghosts and other supernatural spirits, though these now generally take the form of sweets given to costumed children dressed as representations of the spirits, that call from house to house demanding of those devoid of supernatural powers (proven by performing a trick) tribute (a treat) so as to ensure good fortune the following year.
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NARCISSUS

In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a beautiful youth who rejected the love of the nymph Echo and was condemned to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool. He pined away and in the place where he died a flower sprang up that was named after him.
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COOL EDIT

Cool Edit by Syntrillium Software Corporation is a waveform editor for the IBM PC running the Windows operating system with features such as: echo, flange, reverb, stretch/pitch change, compress, brainwave synchronizer, noise reducer, envelope, filter and distortion.
Cool Edit supports batch scripting for automating tasks and supports almost every file format (including mpeg-3 and windows wav), and is used by the BBC for editing radio programs. Cool Edit was first released in 1992 by David Johnston.
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ECHO

An echo is the repetition of a sound caused by the reflection of sound-waves at some moderately even surface, as the wall of a building. The waves of sound on meeting the surface are turned back in their course according to the same laws that hold for reflection of light. In order that the echo may return to the place from which the sound proceeds the reflection must be direct, and not at an angle to the line of transmission, otherwise the echo may be heard by others but not by the transmitter of the sound. This may be effected either by a reflecting surface at right angles to the line of transmission, or by several reflecting surfaces which end in bringing the sound back to the point of issue. Sound travels about 1125 feet in a second; consequently, an observer standing at half that distance from the reflecting object would hear the echo a second later than the sound. Such an echo would repeat as many words and syllables as could be heard in a second. As the distance decreases the echo repeats fewer syllables until it becomes monosyllabic. The most practised ear cannot distinguish in a second more than from nine to twelve successive sounds, so that a distance of not less than 60 feet is needed to enable a common ear to distinguish between the echo and the original sounds. At a near distance the echo only clouds the original sounds, and this often interferes with the hearing in churches and other large buildings. Woods, rocks, and mountains produce natural echoes in every variety, for which particular localities have become famous.
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ECHO SOUNDING

Echo Sounding is measurement of the depth of the ocean by directing a sonic or ultrasonic pressure wave vertically downward and determining the time taken before the echo is received.
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SAMPLE WRENCH

Dissidents Sample Wrench is an audio sample editor for the IBM PC running the Windows operating system. It supports all Windows sound-cards and a variety of MIDI-based keyboard and rack-mount samplers. Sample Wrench enables you to edit mono or stereo sounds with 24 bit better than CD quality and fidelity. Numerous special effects and processes are provided including reverb, flange, chorus, echo, amplitude modulation, frequency modulation, rectify, arbitrary transfer functions, invert, reverse, hand-drawn amplitude envelopes, pitch shift, time stretch, amplitude compressor/limiter/ expander, bass and treble EQ, filters, parametric EQ, spectral warp, resynthesis, FFT analysis, sample rate transposition, cross multiply, integrate, differentiate, dedicated looping tools, noise gate, grunge, noise reduction, click and pop removal for digitally remastering old vinyl records, impulse (acoustical) modeling, convolution and harmony.
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SOFTERM PC

Softerm PC is a powerful communications manager and terminal emulation program. It emulates more than 40 popular terminals and communicates to a variety of host computers and information services. In terminal-emulation mode, Softerm PC provides all keyboard and display functions. It can capture data to disk or print in transparent mode, which captures all data received, or line mode, which captures each line on the screen after it is displayed. Send-file function transmits data from disk as if it were typed on the keyboard.
Softerm PC offers various remote file transfer modes, including a character protocol which provides maximum flexibility for text file transfers. Streaming and block-modes are supported. Transmit options include fixed or variable block size, end-of-block terminator, acknowledgment of character strings, end-of-block delay and character echo wait. Softerm PC supports the concurrent operation of up to four communications ports and three printer ports through background processing queues. Speeds of up to 115K bps are supported, with PCs connected locally or remotely through standard manual or autodial modems. Softerm PC is written in assembly language for fast response and efficient operation.
Softerm PC includes disk and file utilities to display, print, or copy any file. The product supports automatic dialling in terminal and file transfer modes. A built-in phone book allows numbers to be accessed by user-defined names. Keyboard macros can be defined to send frequently used sequences of characters. You can toggle between Softerm PC and another application, such as Lotus 1-2-3.
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CARBUNCLE

Carbuncle is a dangerous memory resident companion virus. It is a COM file 622 bytes long. On execution it checks the system time, and depending on the current seconds value it either jumps to an infection routine or calls the trigger function.
In the infection routine the virus creates the file CARBUNCL.COM with the READONLY and HIDDEN attributes set and writes itself (622 bytes) into that file. If this file is present, the virus overwrites it if this file is not a READONLY one. If this file is READONLY, the virus tries to create and overwrite it but fails because it doesn't check/clear the file attributes. Then the virus searches for EXE files by using DOS functions FindFirst/FindNext and the mask '*.exe' and infect them. On infection the virus renames the EXE file to CRP and creates a batch companion file with the name of the infected program and a . BAT extension.
As the result, after infection of one EXE file there are two files with the same name and CRP and BAT extensions. Of course, CARBUNCL.COM is in the same directory also. The companion batch file contains six lines of DOS commands. If the file FILENAME.EXE was infected, the companion FILENAME.BAT contains these lines: @ECHO OFF CARBUNCL RENAME FILENAME.CRP FILENAME.EXE FILENAME. EXE RENAME FILENAME.EXE FILENAME.CRP CARBUNCL
If the user tries to execute the EXE program, DOS will execute the companion BAT file virus. On the first line of this BAT file the virus disables DOS echo for more invisibility. The instruction of the second line calls the main virus body from CARBUNCL.COM file, the virus searches for non-infected files and attacks them. The lines from the third to the fifth force DOS to execute the infected EXE that is hidden by a CRP extension. This file is renamed to an EXE extension, then it is executed as an EXE and then it is renamed back to CRP. And as the last action the BAT file executes the COM virus again. If the current seconds value of system times is lesser or equals than 16, the virus calls trigger subroutine. This code searches for the first five CRP files and overwrites them by the virus body. As the result these files are not recoverable and should be deleted. In another case they will spread the virus on execution. The virus contains the internal text strings which are in use on searching for not infected files and on creating BAT companion: *.crp CARBUNCL. COM BAT*.exe CRP @ECHO OFF CARBUNCL RENAME It also contains the 'copyright' string: PC CARBUNCLE: Crypt Newsletter 14
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