John Chambers

“How would our lives change,” wondered entrepreneur Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard in 1987, “if everyday people had a stable, high-speed data connection to the Internet?” While he wasn’t the first to imagine a world of digital connectivity, Yassini-Fard was in the vanguard by creating the cable modem, which transformed residential Internet access from its slow, frustrating dial-up origins to a fast, always-on, and extraordinary connectivity tool by harnessing the existing infrastructure of the residential cable network. The Accidental Network tells the untold story of the invention of the cable modem by the small, struggling tech company LANcity in the early 1990s, illustrating how Yassini-Fard overcame a cascade of technical challenges, investment community naysayers, and unnerving business obstacles to create the cable modem technology that has changed the way billions of individuals across the globe now manage their daily lives and commerce. The cable modem delivered broadband, with speeds ranging from 10 megabit per second (Mbps) to 10 gigabit per second (Gbps)—a big leap from the dial-up speeds of 56 kilobits per second (Kbps). This hardware, along with the adoption of the DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) standard, engendered the modern revolution in broadband internet access. Shunned by venture capitalists and surviving on a shoestring budget, Yassini-Fard and his colleagues were willing to bet it all (including the deed for Yassini-Fard’s home) on the creation of the cable modem and the pursuit of its widescale global adoption. The Accidental Network is both a valuable history of technology innovation and an engrossing account of business conducted at high speed. The book details Yassini-Fard’s journey from electrical engineer to entrepreneur in the race to secure technology partners, create a wholly new marketplace, and convince cable industry executives that there was money to be made in transmitting data to households at a time when skepticism about the reach of personal computing was the norm. Written from the lens of an Iranian immigrant and WVU alum known as “the father of the cable modem,” this book reveals how a perfect storm of forces—the rise of cable television, the onset of the personal computing era, a growing awareness of the Internet for information and commerce, and the development of the cable modem—converged to usher in the age of broadband access.

The old shall destroy the young Grandpa Earnest is dragged from his home and banished to Withered Oaks-a nursing home for seniors with magical powers. While there, he discovers a demon-worshipping cult bent on revenge against the young for their cruel and heartless ways. Earnest's granddaughter, Arica, is the only one who sympathizes with his plight. She breaks into the facility to rescue him. But will Earnest accept her help, or will he join the cult and deliver sweet payback to the young for their crimes against the old?

"Action-packed and funny as hell. Cold War is high-concept bizarro done right " - Danger Slater, author of Moonfellows and House of Rot. Gordy Beck wants to deal his drug-laced ice cream to children in peace, but standing in his way are rival confection dealers and gangs who want a piece of the action. His brother, Quinton, works for the Sno-Cone Mafia, the chief threat to Gordy's business. When Quinton orders a hit on Gordy, it triggers an all-out war. Gordy enlists the help of his lover (a living ice cream sandwich), and a sentient bag of frosting called the Buttercream Bandit, who uses her Jawbreaker tumors as deadly weapons. In his quest for absolute control of the neighborhood, Gordy must fight off cotton candy slush demons, Sno-Cone henchmen, an overzealous neighborhood watch, and his own brother. Amid icy combat, the brothers must decide which is more important-business or family. But in the end, only one treat lord will reign supreme.

This book sets echocardiography within a routine clinical context. It aims to synthesise guidelines into a pragmatic clinical approach to real patients providing a step-by-step guide to performing, reporting, and interpreting a study. We wrote it imagining we were the calm voice of a senior echocardiographer teaching a junior colleague. This edition has been extensively revised with an expansion of sections on acute, intensive care, and emergency medicine. COVID-19 has necessitated limiting exposure of both patient and operator to infection and caused a huge increase in waiting lists. This has sharpened the debate over matching the level of scan to the clinical question and also highlights the importance of collaboration between clinicians and echocardiographers.Key FeaturesExpanded first chapter on levels of echocardiographyNew sections on COVID-19, cardio-oncology, multivalve disease, and specialist valve clinicsIncorporation of new international guidelines, grading criteria and normal dataGuide to how cardiac CT and magnetic resonance can complement echocardiographyReformatted text and extra diagrams and tables to improve understanding

This book sets echocardiography within a routine clinical context. It aims to synthesise guidelines into a pragmatic clinical approach to real patients providing a step-by-step guide to performing, reporting, and interpreting a study. We wrote it imagining we were the calm voice of a senior echocardiographer teaching a junior colleague. This edition has been extensively revised with an expansion of sections on acute, intensive care, and emergency medicine. COVID-19 has necessitated limiting exposure of both patient and operator to infection and caused a huge increase in waiting lists. This has sharpened the debate over matching the level of scan to the clinical question and also highlights the importance of collaboration between clinicians and echocardiographers.Key FeaturesExpanded first chapter on levels of echocardiographyNew sections on COVID-19, cardio-oncology, multivalve disease, and specialist valve clinicsIncorporation of new international guidelines, grading criteria and normal dataGuide to how cardiac CT and magnetic resonance can complement echocardiographyReformatted text and extra diagrams and tables to improve understanding

John Chambers was brought up on Belfast's notorious Loyalist Glencairn estate, during the height of the Troubles. From an early age he witnessed violence, hatred and horror as Northern Ireland tore itself apart in civil strife. Kneecapping, brutal murders, and even public tarring-and-feathering were simply a fact of life for the children on the estate. He thought he knew which side he was on, but although raised as a Loyalist, he was hiding a troubling secret: that his disappeared mother - whom he'd always been told was dead - was a Roman Catholic, 'the enemy'. In a memoir of rare power, John explores the dark heart of Northern Irish sectarianism in the seventies and eighties. With searing honesty and native Belfast wit, he describes the light and darkness of his unique childhood, and his teenage journey through mod culture and ultra-Loyalism, before an escape from Belfast to London - where, still haunted by the shadow of his fractured family history - he began a turbulent and hedonistic adulthood.A Belfast Child is a tale of divided loyalties, dark secrets and the scars left by hatred and violence on a proud city - but also a story of hope, healing and ultimate redemption for a family caught in the rising tide of the Troubles.

This book prepares a student to study history. Ask the average citizen of Western Civilization his recollection of studying history and you will most likely be met with a horrifying Tale of The Dead. Open a history book, any text, and you will find a story. It might be dry as dirt or as gut-wrenching as a bullfight. Some people think it is the teacher's job to make that story interesting. We submit that your job is much more important.This little booklet answers the question: "Why study history at all?"As one educator put it, this is "for all students but especially those who say 'I hate history.' "

Legendary Silicon Valley visionary and one of the world's greatest business leaders, John Chambers shares the playbook and philosophy that transformed Cisco into a global tech titan and now inspire a new generation of leaders.

We are in Ireland and it's an awfully long time ago. Centuries and centuries. The country is supposed to have gone Christian, but there's still magic in the air, salmon in the rivers, berries in the bushes, druids in the forest, a Worm in the lake, fairy music in the distance. Manchan's mother wants to make a monk of Manchan. Manchan most emphatically does not want to be made a monk of. He'd rather sing songs with his father, or go fishing with his friend, Pagan-of the-Six-Toes, or go charging through the forest with his pet pig, Muck, or go bare-back riding over the bog on the chieftain's mad ram, Balor. Anything fun or adventurous or magical, and absolutely nothing to do with turnips, penance, prayers, monks and chanting. Poor Manchan! The more he mucks about having fun, the more his mother is determined to tame him.

Silicon Valley visionary John Chambers shares the lessons that transformed a dyslexic kid from West Virginia into one of the world's best business leaders and turned a simple router company into a global tech titan. When Chambers joined Cisco in 1991, it was a company with 400 employees, a single product, and about $70 million in revenue. When he stepped down as CEO in 2015, he left a $47 billion tech giant that was the backbone of the internet and a leader in areas from cybersecurity to data center convergence. Along the way, he had acquired 180 companies and turned more than 10,000 employees into millionaires. Widely recognized as an innovator, an industry leader, and one of the world's best CEOs, Chambers has outlasted and outmaneuvered practically every rival that ever tried to take Cisco on--Nortel, Lucent, Alcatel, IBM, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few. Now Chambers is sharing his unique strategies for winning in a digital world. From his early lessons and struggles with dyslexia in West Virginia to his bold bets and battles with some of the biggest names in tech, Chambers gives readers a playbook on how to act before the market shifts, tap customers for strategy, partner for growth, build teams, and disrupt themselves. He also adapted those lessons to transform government, helping global leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to create new models for growth. As CEO of JC2 Ventures, he's now investing in a new generation of game-changing startups by helping founders become great leaders and scale their companies. Connecting the Dots is destined to become a business classic, providing hard-won insights and critical tools to thrive during the accelerating disruption of the digital age.

At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Mrs. Eliza (Elizabeth) Powel asked Ben Franklin what form of government the convention had cooked up. Franklin famously answered: "We have given you a republic, if you can keep it." "Keeping it" is the job of every citizen. Today, politicians and the media find advantage in dividing us up into segments, creating disagreements. This book shows us what our common agreements are and how we can work together. Our prosperity as individuals and as a group depends on this understanding and our recommitment to its principles

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT055564Bury: printed for the author, by P. Gedge, and to be had of T. Hurst, C. Law, London; and W. Barker, Dereham, 1800. xx, 4],328p.; 12

Most think that all there is to "rights" is life-liberty-pursuit-of-happiness because that is all they have been taught. Those important rights are only the beginning but are not even the most basic. Under them are a boatload of rights those depend upon. One is so basic and yet so misused that without it, no other right is possible, but if used too much, will destroy a person's power to exercise any right. And that is just the "inalienable rights." We have rights from living with others and rights from living in a civilization. This book explores Inalienable Rights Contract Rights Property Rights Civil Rights Jury Rights Constitutional Rights States Rights (misnamed; it is "State Powers") Human Rights Before it even looks into these rights, it has to define what is a RIGHT. Why do we even recognize them? Surprisingly, your personal right have everything to do with your value to your family, friends and neighbors. Next the book suggests a "formula" that a person can follow when she or he feels his rights have been violated. Then the various type of rights are explored including examples of violations, possible solutions and even how the Courts have looked at issues. What about Hate Speech? How far can a religion go before it's freedom can be infringed? What is the Second Amendment REALLY about? Finally, the book wraps it all up with what a person can do to Keep his or her Rights. It is not just fighting, no matter what they try to tell you. You can keep your rights, and it is not even that difficult.

Newton’s heretical writings on theology, spirituality, alchemy, and prophecy, uncovered and analyzed. Isaac Newton (1643-1727) is still regarded by the world as the greatest scientist who ever lived. He invented calculus, discovered the binomial theorem, explained the rainbow, built the first reflecting telescope, and explained the force of gravity. In his famous masterpiece, Principia Mathematica, he described the mechanics of the physical universe with unimagined precision, proving the cosmos was put together according to laws. The perfection of these laws implied a perfect legislator. To Newton, they were proof that God existed. At the same time Newton was writing Principia Mathematica, he was writing a twin volume that he might have called, had it been completed, Principia Theologia--Principles of Theology. This other masterpiece of Newton, kept secret because of the heresies it contained, consists of thousands of essays providing equation-incisive answers to the spiritual questions that have plagued mankind through the ages. Examining Newton’s secret writings, John Chambers shows how his brilliance extended into alchemy, spirituality, the search for lost continents such as Atlantis, and a quest to uncover the “corrupted texts” that were rife in the Bibles of his time. Although he was a devout Christian, Newton’s work on the Bible was focused not on restoring the original Jewish and Christian texts but on rediscovering the one true religion that existed prior to the Flood of Noah, when science and spirituality were one. The author shows that a single thread runs through Newton’s metaphysical explorations: He is attempting to chart the descent of man’s soul from perfection to the present day. The author also examines Newton’s alternate timeline of ancient history and his study of prophecy through the Book of Revelations, including his prediction of an Apocalypse in the year 2060 followed by a radically transformed world. He shows that Newton’s great hope was that these writings would provide a moral compass for humanity as it embarked upon the great enterprise that became our technological world.

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Feel your vote doesn't count? Well in a Democracy -- hold on Democracy? It is easy to define a Democracy -- "majority rule." That means 49% of the people are left out. That means you. We instinctively know that is not right and we even see in the US Constitution (Article VI) that our government is supposed to be a Republic. So what is a Republic? Often it is defined as "sort of like a democracy but with representatives." Or "a government ruled by Law," or ... Correct ... sort of. Suppose I tell you I am going to describe a house. I tell you about the front door (the representatives). I tell you about the wonderful back yard (the Law). I have described a few parts of the house, but not THE HOUSE. You want to buy it? I didn't think so. You'll stick with your little hut Democracy, but at least you know what it is. REPUBLIC is not concisely defined. You cannot walk through the rooms of the house, knock on the walls, how well-constructed is this house? We will NEVER regain the republic until the word REPUBLIC is fully defined. That is what this little book does. At the end of it you will know what a republic is. You will be able to show others to the front door, read the floor plan, walk through the rooms of the house and out to the glorious back yard. Come and inspect this house. What are you waiting for?