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On June 23, 2009 the enterprise technology of SupportSoft was acquired by Consona Corporation.


1964 Democratic National Convention

Eventually, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Reuther and the black civil rights leaders including Roy Wilkins and Bayard Rustin worked out a compromise: two of the 68 MFDP delegates chosen by Johnson would be made at-large delegates and the remainder would be non-voting guests of the convention; the regular Mississippi delegation was required to pledge to support the party ticket; and no future Democratic convention would accept a delegation chosen by a discriminatory poll.

30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS

Soldiers of the division together with an unspecified Italian unit killed 40 civilians in Étobon, France on 27 September 1944, in retaliation of the support given by villagers to the French partisans.

66th Military Intelligence Brigade

Members of the brigade provide mission support by utilizing databases running on computer clusters and communicate on encrypted networks, such as the NSA-certified TACLANE encrypted network.

Andrew III of Hungary

Afterwards, with his father-in-law's support, he managed to defeat the revolt of Miklós Kőszegi and Matthew III Csák, and occupy the castles of Kőszeg and Pozsony.

Ashizuri-class combat support ship

The Ashizuri was planned to support for two large-sized carriers (Akagi, Kaga and Shōkaku class) in the battlefield.

Assyrians in Georgia

The Assyrians and Yezidi were prepared to move against the Ottomans, whenever the support from Erekle II arrived, but Russian General Totleben changed his mind and turned his detachment back to Kartli.

Beddoe Rees

He was unable to support Asquith’s position of allowing Labour to take office, although he told his electors in Bristol that there was no Liberal principle involved it was merely a matter of being true to the position on which he had fought the last election.

Bremerhaven Army Airfield

The US needed a support point with an harbour, to allow the unhindered support of US forces in the American Occupation Zone in Southern Germany.

Canada 2014

Canada 2014 is the name of a concert tour by the Buffalo-based rock band Goo Goo Dolls, in support of their album Magnetic.

Commando 21

Each of the two Close Combat Company is similar to the previous RM rifle company, having 3 platoon sized troops, but each troop, in addition to three rifle sections, has a manoeuvre support section of five men equipped with General Purpose Machine Gun, Long Range Rifle and 51 mm Mortar.

Commonwealth free trade

Commentators such as James C. Bennett and Brent Cameron have expressed the view that support for either the Anglosphere or the Commonwealth are not incompatible.

Conversion to Judaism

Ananias likewise advised against it, on the grounds that worship of God was superior to circumcision (Robert Eisenman in James the Brother of Jesus claims that Ananias is Paul of Tarsus who held similar views, although this is a novel interpretation lacking support in mainstream scholarship) and that God would forgive him for fear of his subjects.

CVSNT

March Hare Software began sponsorship of the project in July 2004 to guarantee the project's future and to employ the original project manager on CVSNT development and commercial support.

Daniel Island, Antarctica

Named by Eklund for Commissaryman 2d Class David Daniel, U.S. Navy, cook and Navy support force member of the 1957 wintering party at Wilkes Station during the IGY.

Earl Okin

During the 1970s, Okin started to perform as support act in large venues, beginning with folk acts such as Ralph McTell and Fairport Convention, he progressed to open for such varied performers as Jean-Luc Ponty and Van Morrison.

FalconView

As the program matured, United States Special Operations Command adopted PFPS and added capabilities such as the Moving Map functionality (ability to have the map scroll and rotate based on the position information received from a connected GPS navigation device) and helicopter support.

Flometrics

The Pistonless pump is a low pressure pump system originally designed to support NASA projects with the Crew Exploration Vehicle.

Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg

Living in the Netherlands, they became acquainted with Elizabeth's envoy, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and entered into lengthy negotiations with Elizabeth's Court to obtain support for his cause; these efforts failed to garner assistance for renewing the war either from the English queen or in any other quarter.

Harry Potter Alliance

The HPA has also received significant support from the Vlogbrothers, John Green and Hank Green.

Harvey S. Rosen

In 2013, Rosen was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.

Joint Test Action Group

Tool vendors sometimes build products around free software like GCC and GDB, with GUI support frequently using Eclipse.

Kamuta Latasi

The general election held on 25 November 1993 resulted in the members being evenly split in their support of the incumbent Prime Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu and the former Prime Minister Tomasi Puapua.

Lawrence Krader

For his study of the roots of the theory of evolution in the 19th century he received support from the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) during 1963-1975.

Luftstreitkräfte

The duties of such aircraft were initially intended to be reconnaissance and artillery spotting in support of armies on the ground, just as balloons had been used during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 and even as far back as the Napoleonic Wars.

Matti Kovler

In September 2013 Matti was recognized by the Boston Foundation as one of the six winners of the 2013 Brother Thomas Fellowships, “no strings attached” $15,000 bi-annual awards designed to support 6 talented artists making outstanding contributions to their community through excellence in their craft.

Media Luna

In Chuquisaca as well as Tarija, Morales enjoyed majority support in the 2008 referendum only in the rural areas, while the capital cities (Sucre and Tarija respectively) had a majority for recalling Morales.

Meedan

Meedan has received more than $3.2 million in research and development support from IBM to further the development of its Arabic-English Automated Translation technology and to support Meedan’s ongoing work on “a social media sharing platform bridging the Arabic and English speaking communities”.

Meeting Professionals International

HelmsBriscoe has committed to a five-year plan in support of the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Foundation's 25 Years of Giving campaign.

Meta Brevoort

In 1876, she had her final opportunity for a first ascent, but, instead, stayed in the Oberland in order to give more money to her nephew, to support his efforts in the range.

Murder of Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran

The legislation was spearheaded by Morton Klein's Zionist Organization of America but was not a priority of other Jewish groups, who said that it did more to reprimand the State Department rather than support counter-terrorism: by targeting only Palestinian terrorists, they said, it was too narrow in its scope and would not, for example, have been able to deal with the murder of Daniel Pearl.

Muslim Burial Ground, Horsell Common

The monument was restored in the 1990s as a result of financial support from a local resident of Woking, the musician Paul Weller.

Najibullah Lafraie

Organizations that Dr Lafaie has been a member of, such as Jamiat Islami, have been criticised by groups such as the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan and Support Association for the Women of Afghanistan, and as a consequence Lafaie has been targeted by several of these groups.

Nelson Amendment

Democratic Senator Ben Nelson had said he would not support a bill that "doesn't make it clear that it does not fund abortion with government money".

Netezza

In February 2010, Netezza announced that it had opened up its systems to support major programming models, including Hadoop, MapReduce, Java, C++, and Python models.

Organization of the Air Service of the American Expeditionary Force

The Air Service, Second Army Air Service was activated on October 12 with Col. Frank P. Lahm as chief, and the Air Service, Third Army Air Service was created immediately after the armistice to provide aviation support to the army of occupation, primarily from veteran units transferred from the First Army Air Service.

Patrick McCartan

They persuaded Éamon de Valera to support the Philadelphia branch of Clan na Gael against the New York branch led by John Devoy and Judge Daniel Cohalan in their struggle to focus the resources of the Friends of Irish Freedom to Irish independence rather than domestic American politics.

Paul A. Weaver

November 1974 - May 1975, Cessna O-2 Skymaster instructor pilot, 547th and 549th Tactical Air Support Training Squadrons, Hurlburt Field, Fla.

Pel-Air

In 1996 Pel-Air won a contract to provide support to the Royal Australian Navy, resulting in further expansion of the fleet with the acquisition of four Learjets.

San Marco Marine Brigade

Air support for the Brigade employs SH3D Sikorsky Sea King and Agusta-Bell AB 212, grouped in the "Reparto Eliassalto", formerly Amphibious Fight Team of the 4th Helicopters Group, located in Station Aircraft Grottaglie.

Seal of Connecticut

The meaning of the motto was explained on April 23, 1775 in a letter stamped in Wethersfield, Connecticut: "We fix on our Standards and Drums the Colony arms, with the motto, Qui Transtulit Sustinet, round it in letters of gold, which we construe thus: God, who transplanted us hither, will support us".

SENS Research Foundation

On September 16, 2006, Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of the online payments system PayPal, announced that he is pledging $3.5 million to the Methuselah Foundation "to support scientific research into the alleviation and eventual reversal of the debilities caused by aging" (SENS research).

Simon Storey

Storey was also the November pin up for the 2008 Clyde 1 Cash for Kids Charity Calendar which raises funds to support the most vulnerable children in Scottish communities.

Spacifix

July/August 2007: Christina Aguilera's Back to Basics Tour, they will be the support act for the two dates in Auckland.

Stass Paraskos

Despite luminaries of the art world speaking in Paraskos's defence, including Sir Herbert Read and Norbert Lynton, and messages of support from Britain's Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, Paraskos lost the trial and was fined five pounds.

Stephen Courtauld

Courtauld was financial director of Ealing Studios, a trustee of the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden, and provided financial support for the Courtauld Galleries in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.

Storefront Hitchcock

Storefront Hitchcock is the title of a soundtrack album by Robyn Hitchcock, released in support of a film of the same name, which was directed by Jonathan Demme.

Taka Hirose

In June 2012, he once again teamed up with Inoran, and Feeder's support guitarist Dean Tidey, to form the band Muddy Apes.

United States Senate election in New Hampshire, 2008

Political analyst Chuck Todd said that Sununu was one of the most endangered incumbents, due largely to his continuing support of the President's Iraq policy.

Walton, Somerset

There is no evidence in the parish registers or other documents pertaining to Walton to support the popular notion the family of William Henry Smith the founder of W H Smith came from Walton.

William McKendree

In 1830, he lent his support to the Lebanon Seminary, Lebanon, Illinois.


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