Lotus was already a Ford partner for their Indy 500 project.

It was powered by the 4. 2 L Fairlane engine with a Colotti transaxle, the same power plant was used by the Lola GT and the single-seater Lotus 29 that came in a highly controversial second at the Indy 500 in 1963.

The Blue Lotus, for example, was inspired by the Mukden incident that resulted in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).

The Lotus Development Corporation was founded by Mitchell Kapor, a friend of the developers of VisiCalc.

1-2-3 was originally written by Jonathan Sachs, who had written two spreadsheet programs previously while working at Concentric Data Systems, Inc. To aid its growth, in the UK, and possibly elsewhere, Lotus 1-2-3 was the very first computer software to use television consumer advertising.

It was cleanly programmed and relatively bug-free, as well as speed gained from being written completely in x86 assembly language ( this remained the case for all versions until 4. 0 when Lotus switched to C ) and wrote directly to video memory rather than use the slow DOS and / or BIOS text output functions.

Lotus 123 became the first " killer app " for PC compatibles, especially as it was available exclusively on that platform and no other computers.

The MX-5 was conceived as a small roadster – with light weight and minimal mechanical complexity limited only by legal and safety requirements ; technologically modern, but a philosophically direct descendant of small British and Italian roadsters of the 1960s such as the Triumph Spitfire, MG MGB, Fiat 124 Sport Spider, Alfa Romeo Spider and Lotus Elan.

With this, he proclaimed that devotion and practice based on the Lotus Sutra was the correct form of Buddhism for the current time.

This choice, as Nichiren himself explained, was rooted in passages from the Lotus Sutra.

The Eternal Buddha of the Lotus Sutra was revealed in an imagery of a grand ceremony, which Nichiren regarded as the central doctrine of the Lotus Sutra.

A personal version of Lotus Notes was also included, with a number of template databases for contact management, brainstorming, and so forth.

Lotus 1-2-3 was the leading spreadsheet when DOS was the dominant operating system.

The Chinese scholar A ' de noted this was because the Lotus Sutra says Avalokitesvara takes on the visage of whatever being that would best help pervade the dharma.

Vajrapani's Yaksha-like Narayana form was eventually equated with one of the four staff-wielding " Kimnara Kings " from the Lotus Sutra in 1575.

In 2011, the prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef in Northwestern United States, was presented to Andy Ricker of restaurant " Pok Pok " in Portland, Oregon, and for Best Chef in Southwestern United States to Saipin Chutima of restaurant " Lotus of Siam " in Winchester, Nevada.

Paul Gravett has also noted that the use of detailed reference material and a picture archive, which Hergé implemented from The Blue Lotus onwards, was " a turning point ... in the maturing of the medium as a whole ".

It was serialised from 1921 to 1928 and was adapted into the first wuxia film, The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple ( 1928 ).

Hunt believed that it was Patrese's muscling past that caused the McLaren and Lotus to touch, but Patrese argues that he was already well ahead of the pair before the accident took place.

Images which later displayed attributes of both genders are believed to be in accordance with the Lotus Sutra, where Avalokitesvara has the supernatural power of assuming any form required to relieve suffering, and also has the power to grant children ( possibly relating to the fact that in this Sutra, unlike in others, both men and women are believed to have the ability to achieve enlightenment.

To eliminate any possible doubts, Nichiren decided to spend some time at Mount Kōya, the centre of esoteric Buddhism, and also in Nara, Japan ’ s ancient capital, where he studied the Ritsu sect, which emphasized strict monastic discipline and ordination. During this time, he became convinced of the pre-eminence of the Lotus Sutra and in 1253, returned to Seichoji.

The IBM System i includes an extensive library-based operating system, i5 / OS, and is also capable of supporting multiple instances of AIX, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.

In Britain 2-litre sports cars were initially popular ( the Bristol engine being readily available and cheap ), subsequently 1100 cc sports racers became a very popular category for young drivers ( effectively supplanting 500 cc F3 ), with Lola, Lotus, Cooper and others being very competitive, although at the other end of the scale in the early to mid 1960s the national sports racing scene also attracted sophisticated GTs and later a crop of large-engined " big bangers " the technology of which largely gave rise to Can-Am but soon died out.

The Locost is not to be confused with the similarly named Locust which is also a Lotus Seven inspired car.

* IBM's Lotus Symphony, with a new interface based on Eclipse was also donated in 2012 to Apache and should be merged with OpenOffice 4

Kapor was also the fundamental architect of the " free-form " database application, Lotus Agenda.

" It is also referenced in the fifth chapter of Ulysses by James Joyce, also titled " Lotus Eaters ," and in the sixth chapter of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence.

More importantly, he also sent Bruce Blumberg, one of NeXT's software experts, to teach the Lotus team about NeXTSTEP.

Taligent also created a set of Java-and JavaBeans-based development tools called WebRunner, a groupware product based on Lotus Notes called Places for Project Teams, and licensed various technologies to Sun which are today part of Java, as well as to Oracle Corporation and Netscape.

Much later, in conjunction with Ray Ozzie's Iris Associates, Lotus also released a groupware and email system, Lotus Notes.

This period also saw the release of Manuscript, a word processor, Lotus Agenda, an innovative personal information manager ( PIM ), which flopped, and Improv, a groundbreaking modeling package ( and spreadsheet ) for the NeXT platform.

There also was ( circa 1995 ) the assertion by one Lotus cc: Mail employee that " Quattro Pro " was taken from the Italian word " quattro ", or number four, thus asserting that it was one better than Lotus 1-2-3.

The " Zine " publishing company, Microcosm Publishing, is also located in Bloomington, as is the renowned Lotus Festival of World Music, which occurs each fall.

) That journey was chronicled in Rodger Kamenetz ' book The Jew in the Lotus, now also a documentary film.

Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō ( 南無妙法蓮華經, also Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō ; To Honour / devote oneself to the Wonderful Law of the Lotus Sutra or Glory to the Sutra of the Lotus of the Supreme Law!

In Mysterious Mr. Moto another agent, Lotus Liu ( also played by Lotus Long credited as Karen Sorrell ), pretends to fall for his charms so they can be alone to compare notes in their investigation.

* R Abell: " Single Valve Internal Combustion Engine Design and Operation ", SAE Journal, Oct 1923, pp 301-309 ( Another type of non-poppet valve, used also by Lotus in a 2-stroke engine-SAE paper 920779 )

Intel, Lotus Development and Carnegie Mellon University are among many organizations reported to form policies specifically disallowing Doom-playing during work hours.

Precise interpretations of Nam ( u )- Myōhō-Renge-Kyō, how it is pronounced, and its position in Buddhist practice differ slightly among the numerous schools and sub-sects of Nichiren Buddhism, but " I take refuge in ( devote or submit myself to ) the Wonderful Law of the Lotus Flower Sutra " might serve as a universal translation.

Hu Shi, an important figure in Chinese language reform in the early 20th century, wrote that the Vimalakīrti Sūtra was among Kumārajīva's three most influential translations ( the other two being the Diamond Sūtra and Lotus Sūtra ).

The 550 is among the most frequently reproduced classic automobiles, like the AC Cobra and Lotus Seven.

The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple is among the longest films ever produced and the longest major release, running 27 hours in total.

PLATO Notes, created by David R. Woolley in 1973, was among the world's first online message boards, and years later became the direct progenitor of Lotus Notes.

That year he raced a Jim Russell Driving School entered Lotus 59 in British Formula Three, beating Carlos Pace and works Lotus driver Dave Walker, among others, to a victory at a BARC Championship round at Silverstone.

The built-in software suite runs from ROM and includes Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, a calendar, a phone book, a terminal, Lotus cc: Mail and a capable scientific / business calculator ( among other applications ).

Shike posits a clan of grey-clad warrior monks, the " Zinja ", which, it is stated by Abbot Taitaro, is related to several other secret societies throughout history, including specifically the White Lotus Society in China, the Hashishim ( assassins ) in the Middle East, and the Knights Templar in Europe, among others.

Between 2007 and 2008, a decade after the pioneering artists first established neurofunk's technical soundscape, the style was enhanced with a series of diverse, forward thinking debut albums set to redefine its concept production with the rough-cut antics of Break The System by Gridlok ( Project 51 / CD / 2007 ); the minimal techno-funk fueled Psycho by Phace ( Subtitles Music / 2007 ); the blending of rhythmic guitar chord progressions on Black Lotus by Mindscape ( Citrus Recordings / 2007 ); the melodic experiments of My Light Year by Telemetrik ( BSE Recordings / 2008 ), the highly conceptual and intensive Nobody's Out There by The Upbeats ( Bad Taste Recordings / 2007 ), and the innovative Black Box singles compilation ( Syndrome Audio Recordings / CD / 2008 ), featuring various artists and highlighting remixes by second and third-wave producers, among the second-wave, Phace and Misanthrop contrasting the rhythmic grit of third-wave producers Chook, Dose & Menace.