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  Janus, A Moon of Saturn
Janus [JAY-nus] is the sixth satellite of Saturn.
Janus and Epimetheus may have formed from a disruption of a single parent to form co-orbital satellites.
This image of Janus was acquired by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on November 12, 1981.
www.solarviews.com /eng/janus.htm   (426 words)

  
  Janus
Janus is the Roman god of gates and doors (ianua), beginnings and endings, and hence represented with a double-faced head, each looking in opposite directions.
Janus also represents the transition between primitive life and civilization, between the countryside and the city, peace and war, and the growing-up of young people.
Janus was represented with two faces, originally one face was bearded while the other was not (probably a symbol of the sun and the moon).
www.pantheon.org /articles/j/janus.html   (420 words)

  
 Janus - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
JANUS, in Roman mythology one of the principal Italian deities.
He considers it probable that the three-headed Janus was a triple oak-god worshipped in the form of two vertical beams and a cross-bar (such as the tigillum sororium, for which see HoRATII); hence also the door, consisting of two lintels and side-posts, was sacred to Janus.
Janua may be an adjective, janua foris meaning a door with a symbol of Janus close by the chief entrance, to serve as a protection for the house; then janua alone came to mean a door generally, with or without the symbol of Janus.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Janus   (963 words)

  
 Janus
Janus was written by myself and Howard Derby for a class at Caltech in 1982 (or thereabouts).
Janus was fully implemented as described as is bug-free (to our knowledge) despite the disclaimer in the document that it is a "throw-away piece of code." If it still exists, it is on backup tapes somewhere at Caltech.
Janus is a compiler and interpreter for the time-reversible language Janus.
www.cise.ufl.edu /~mpf/rc/janus.html   (1273 words)

  
 Astronomy News
Janus may be a porous body, composed mostly of water ice.
Enceladus hangs in the distance as the pitted ring moon Janus, rounds the outer edge of the F ring.
The view was acquired with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 25, 2006 at a distance of approximately 145,000 kilometres from Janus and at a Sun-Janus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 62 degrees.
www.activeboard.com /forum.spark?forumID=58381&subForumID=163878&action=viewTopic&commentID=3370290   (705 words)

  
 Janus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Janus was the god of gates and doorways, depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions; also the root of the English word "January".
Dollfus is credited with the discovery of Janus but it's not really certain whether the object he saw was Janus or Epimetheus and his observations led to a spurious orbit.
Janus is extensively cratered with several craters larger than 30 km but few linear features.
www.nineplanets.org /janus.html   (248 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - SEC accuses three ex-Janus executives of allowing market-timing trades   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Janus spokeswoman Shelley Peterson said the allegations were between the SEC and the three men and that the company was not involved.
Janus reached a $226.2 million settlement with state and federal regulators in 2004 after the SEC alleged the company allowed 12 entities to use marketing-timing practices.
Janus' operations group spotted the activity and asked for it to be halted in January 2002, the SEC said.
usatoday.com /money/companies/management/2006-08-01-janus_x.htm?csp=34   (441 words)

  
 Janus: Roman God of Beginnings
Originally, Janus was portrayed with one bearded face and the other clean-shaven, which may have symbolized the moon and the sun, or age and youth.
Janus also had a temple on the Forum Olitorium and some time during the First Century, yet another temple was built in his honor on the Forum of Nerva.
Janus was well-respected and highly-regarded as a God by the ancient Romans and his dual-faced image could be found on most city gates and many Roman coins.
www.novareinna.com /festive/janus.html   (698 words)

  
 Cyprus History: Lusignan Period - The Reign of Janus
The reign of King Janus for thirty-four years was one long struggle with the Genoese and the Moslems.
This drew upon Cyprus the vengeance of the Mamelukes, who were still seeking to retaliate for the sack of Alexandria by Pierre I. In the midst of war, Cyprus was for the third time attacked by plague, and the consequent weakness of the island gave the sultan the opportunity for which he had waited.
After a captivity of ten months King Janus was released on payment of an enormous ransom, the promise of an annual tribute to Egypt, and recognition of the suzerainty of the Sultan.
www.cypnet.co.uk /ncyprus/history/lusignan/4janus.htm   (442 words)

  
 Janus, God of Beginnings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Janus is the Roman god known as the custodian of the universe.
Janus also represents the transition between primitive life and civilization, between rural and urban existence.
Janus was considered to be a great king during the Golden Age and brought the people peace and great wealth.
www.meridiangraphics.net /janus.htm   (332 words)

  
 Janus Systems
Janus Systems has captured the essence of this paradigm in the Janus GridEX and Janus ButtonBar the first on a series of ActiveX control designed for Visual Basic.
Janus GridEX 2000, has built-in multilingual sorting capabilities, the columns can be sorted as strings, numbers or dates (even while grouped).
Janus GridEX 2000 is a data-aware, fully editable component that hooks directly to databases, by using either Data Access Objects (DAO 3.6) or the new ActiveX Data Objects (ADO 2.x).
www.janusys.com /janus/beta/products.htm   (311 words)

  
 Spitzer, Salazar Announce Market-timing Settlement with Janus Capital Management, LLC
Janus, a mutual fund adviser headquartered in Denver, Colorado is the ninth largest mutual fund company in the nation.
In addition, Janus has agreed to pay $1 million to be held in trust by the Colorado Attorney General to be used for consumer and investor education and future enforcement activities.
Janus has also agreed to significant corrective measures designed to create greater board and adviser accountability and to prevent the kinds of abuses that gave rise to these investigations.
www.oag.state.ny.us /press/2004/apr/apr27a_04.html   (640 words)

  
 GGC - Schempp-Hirth Janus
The Janus has a glassfibre monocoque fuselage with bonded-in foam bulkheads, and this is similar to the Nimbus 2's but the cockpit section is lengthened to accommodate the two pilots in tandem with dual controls under a hinged one-piece canopy.
Dual controls enable the Janus to be used for training and it is particularly suitable for cross-country instruction as it meets the requirements for a high-performance aircraft, complete with flaps and tail brake parachute.
The Janus M prototype, D-KIBO, first flew in 1978 and is a motorised version with a 55hp Hirth O-28 engine mounted on a pylon aft of the cockpit end retracting into the fuselage.
www.gliding-in-melbourne.org /janus.htm   (626 words)

  
 Shock therapy for Janus - Jan. 18, 2002
Janus Mercury's Warren Lammert, who's also a member of the firm's executive investment committee, took the first whirl.
Janus often boasts of the lengths it goes to understand a company -- analysts stocking shelves at Walgreen's, for example, or venturing into operating rooms to watch surgeons implant Guidant's stents.
He's working with Janus' energy analyst to reconstruct their financial models; he may even hire an accounting professor familiar with Enron to help Janus managers hunt for errors in their interpretations of the company's complex accounting.
money.cnn.com /2002/01/18/funds/mag_janus   (1543 words)

  
 Mythography | The Roman God Janus in Myth and Art
Janus was the god of gates in Roman mythology.
The god Janus has a distinctive appearance in art, as he is often depicted with two faces.
From his role as the guardian of gates and his position as the god of beginnings, to the honor of having the first month of the year named after him, it is clear that Janus played a significant part in Roman myth and religion.
www.loggia.com /myth/janus.html   (382 words)

  
 Janus (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Janus was observed by Dan Pascu on February 19, 1980 (S/1980 S 1, IAUC 3454), and then by John W. Fountain, Stephen M. Larson, Harold J. Reitsema and Bradford A. Smith on the 23rd (S/1980 S 2, IAUC 3456).
The orbital relationship between Janus and Epimetheus can be understood in terms of the circular restricted three-body problem, as a case in which the two moons (the third body being Saturn) are similar in size to each other.
A faint dust ring is present around the region occupied by the orbits of Janus and Epimetheus, as revealed by images taken in forward-scattered light by the Cassini spacecraft in 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Janus_(moon)   (1143 words)

  
 Janus: Janus Home Page
Janus provides access to catalogues of a growing proportion of the archives held throughout Cambridge.
If you are using Janus for the first time, you may wish to read our information for new users before exploring further.
In the left hand search box there are four options for accessing the catalogues held within Janus.
janus.lib.cam.ac.uk   (183 words)

  
 Janus (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His two faces (originally, one was always bearded, one clean-shaven; later both bearded) originally represented the sun and the moon, and he was usually shown with a key.
The Irish trad-rock band Bushplant have named their forthcoming album Janus to acknowledge the dual nature of their sound, gaining inspiration by looking backwards to their Irish traditional roots while looking forward to its continual evolution in a rock context.
Janus Films is a U.S. film distribution company founded in 1956 that distributes classic cinema, specializing mostly in foreign films.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Janus_(mythology)   (1048 words)

  
 Janus
The temple of Janus in Rome was situated in a street named Argiletum, an important road that connected the Roman Forum and the residential areas in the northeast.
Janus also has a temple at Rome with double doors, which they call the gates of war; for the temple always stands open in time of war, but is closed when peace has come.
When the senators have irrevocably decided for battle, the consul himself, a figure conspicuous in Quirine toga of State and Gabine cincture, unbolts these gates, and their hinge-posts groan; it is he who calls the fighting forth, then the rest of their manhood follows, and the bronze horns, in hoarse assent, add their breath.
www.livius.org /ja-jn/janus/janus.html   (1259 words)

  
 About Janus
Janus is the Roman god of gates and doors, beginnings and endings, represented with a double-faced head, each looking in opposite directions.
Janus also represents the transition between primitive life and civilization, between the countryside and the city, peace and war, and the maturing of young people.
Janus brought the people of Latium a time of peace and welfare; the Golden Age.
www.janusjewels.com /about_janus.htm   (390 words)

  
 Markets: Quote Snapshot
Janus Capital Group Inc. derives all of its revenue and net income from its Investment Management segment, which provides investment management and administrative services to mutual funds, separate accounts and institutional clients in both domestic and international markets.
Janus' core competency is in growth equity and risk-managed investing.
Janus has aligned the channel to focus resources on distributor needs rather than product/performance-driven sales, and is targeting product platforms that tend to have high asset retention rates in order to enhance long-term returns and margin.
money.cnn.com /quote/snapshot/snapshot.html?symb=JNS   (480 words)

  
 Janus from progressive rock in 1971 to classical rock in 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Janus from progressive rock in 1971 to classical rock in 2001
As well as forming the core of Janus, Paul Phoenix is very active with the Kings Singers.
Natalie Brown is working solo and with a trio, and Dean Houston works throughout the UK as a solo artist.
www.janus-music.com   (229 words)

  
 Janus Is Looking Forward
Nearly 70% of Janus' equity funds were in the top half of their category over a one-, three-, and five-year period ending in May, according to fund tracker Morningstar (MORN).
David Decker of Janus Contrarian and Jonathan Coleman of Janus Enterprise (JAENX) were named co-chief investment officers of the domestic equity group.
One of Janus' standout funds is the go-anywhere Janus Contrarian (JJVAX), which can invest in domestic and foreign companies of all sizes.
businessweek.com /magazine/content/06_26/b3990110.htm?...   (980 words)

  
 ISL test9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The JANUS project is aiming to make human-to-human communication across language barriers easier.
Unlike a human interpreter, JANUS can also access databases to automatically provide additional information such as train schedules or city maps to the user.
JANUS is used as CMU's system in the CSTAR-II consortium, where a number of international partners develop speech translation between English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Korean.
www.is.cs.cmu.edu /mie/janus.html   (237 words)

  
 Slashdot | Microsoft's Janus DRM Software Officially Unveiled
Janus [pantheon.org] looks in two directions, not many; thus the pejorative usage indicating that the abusee is "two-faced".
Janus had two faces, one to look out for evil doers as a guard and the other to look in to safeguard the residents from harm.
Here, Janus looks into the home to spy on the residents and make sure they don't use digital media "improperly" and looks out to safeguard the interests of the outsider industries coming into the home with their digital media.
slashdot.org /articles/04/05/03/1814248.shtml?tid=109&tid=187   (7364 words)

  
 Janus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Janus is the sixth of Saturn's known satellites:
Dollfus is credited with the discovery of Janus but it's not really certain whether the object he saw was Janus or Epimetheus.
It was not until the Voyager spacecraft arrived in 1980 that accurate positions were obtained to distinguish the two.
kvtr.elte.hu /tnp/nineplanets/janus.html   (230 words)

  
 Janus seeks approval to reorganize money market funds - The Denver Business Journal:
Janus Investment Fund wants to reorganize two money market funds, and in February will ask shareholders for their blessing.
Janus said the fee structure of all share classes of each money market fund will remain the same after the reorganiztion.
Janus said net assets of the Janus Money Market Fund will drop to $1.4 billion from $7.8 billion with the removal of the institutional and service shares.
denver.bizjournals.com /denver/stories/2006/12/11/daily54.html   (653 words)

  
 'Essential Art House': Janus Films presents 50 years of foreign classics - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Janus was founded in 1956 by Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey, who had begun showing foreign films a few years earlier at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Mass.
Saul Turell and William Becker, fathers of Janus Films' current caretakers, bought the company in 1965, continuing to release new foreign films as well as acquiring classics from decades past for the Janus library.
A Janus retrospective opens Wednesday at Cambridge's Brattle, with similar Janus film series touring through next year in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Toronto and other cities.
usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2006-10-23-janus-classics_x.htm?csp=34   (795 words)

  
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 Microsoft's iPod killer? | CNET News.com
Sources say the technology--code-named Janus and originally expected more than a year ago--was recently released in a test version to developers and that a final release is now expected as soon as July.
Janus would add a hacker-resistant clock to portable music players for files encoded in Microsoft's proprietary Windows Media Audio format.
The Janus release comes as Microsoft is prepping its own commercial music service, which is expected to launch on its MSN Internet service this year and may include a subscription component along with the ability to purchase downloads.
news.com.com /2100-1027_3-5183692.html   (1598 words)

  
 Janus Software
The time has come to combine the best of both traditions and to create a range of solutions that combine the stability and scaleability of the Unix world with the user friendliness and productivity of personal computing.
Janus Software is the leading distributor of the Firebird relational database and Firebird based business solutions, such as the Compiere ERP+CRM system.
Janus Software is the lead developer of Firebird's Oracle-mode, nick-named 'Fyracle'.
www.janus-software.com   (294 words)

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