Abstract: An ice maker includes a dry compartment and a wet compartment adjacent to the dry compartment and including: an evaporator case sized to receive an evaporator, the evaporator case including: a plurality of interior panels joined to each other with snap-fit joints, each of the snap-fit joints including a tab and defining a slot, each of a plurality of seams formed between the interior panels defining a foam-tight seal and a water-tight seal; and a plurality of exterior panels, each of the plurality of exterior panels joined to a mating interior panel of the plurality of interior panels with slide joints, wherein the evaporator case is integrally insulated with blown foam insulation positioned between each of the plurality of exterior panels and a corresponding interior panel.

Abstract: An ice maker includes a dry compartment and a wet compartment adjacent to the dry compartment and including: an evaporator case sized to receive an evaporator, the evaporator case including: a plurality of interior panels joined to each other with snap-fit joints, each of the snap-fit joints including a tab and defining a slot, each of a plurality of seams formed between the interior panels defining a foam-tight seal and a water-tight seal; and a plurality of exterior panels, each of the plurality of exterior panels joined to a mating interior panel of the plurality of interior panels with slide joints, wherein the evaporator case is integrally insulated with blown foam insulation positioned between each of the plurality of exterior panels and a corresponding interior panel.

Abstract: Various systems, methods, and programs embodied on a computer readable medium that facilitate monitoring of services and/or servers. In one embodiment, an amount of data is stored in at least one storage device, the data being generated by a plurality of services executed on a plurality of servers, and/or by the servers upon which the services are executed. A plurality of monitoring applications are executed in a monitoring server, the monitoring applications being configured to perform a plurality of monitoring functions with respect to at least a portion of the data to provide information associated with an operating condition of the services and/or the servers. An interface layer surrounds the monitoring applications in the monitoring server. The interface layer defines a messaging format that is used by external devices to interact with the monitoring applications.

Abstract: Various systems, methods, and programs embodied on a computer readable medium that facilitate monitoring of services and/or servers. In one embodiment, an amount of data is stored in at least one storage device, the data being generated by a plurality of services executed on a plurality of servers, and/or by the servers upon which the services are executed. A plurality of monitoring applications are executed in a monitoring server, the monitoring applications being configured to perform a plurality of monitoring functions with respect to at least a portion of the data to provide information associated with an operating condition of the services and/or the servers. An interface layer surrounds the monitoring applications in the monitoring server. The interface layer defines a messaging format that is used by external devices to interact with the monitoring applications.

Abstract: Various systems, methods, and programs embodied on a computer readable medium that facilitate monitoring of services and servers. In one embodiment, an amount of data is stored in at least one storage device, the data being generated by a plurality of services executed on a plurality of servers, and by the servers upon which the services are executed. A plurality of monitoring applications are executed in a monitoring server, the monitoring applications being configured to perform a plurality of monitoring functions with respect to at least a portion of the data to facilitate an assessment of an operating condition of the services and the servers. An interface layer surrounds the monitoring applications in the monitoring server. The interface layer defines a messaging format that is used by devices external to the interface layer to interact with the monitoring applications.

Abstract: A hair brush includes a body, a cushion pad, and a plurality of bristles. The body includes at least a partial cavity at a first end, and the cavity includes a front portion, a rear portion, and a plurality of apertures. A cushion pad having a first surface is disposed near the front portion of the cavity when the hair brush is in a user position, and is disposed near a second surface located near the rear portion of the cavity when the hair brush is in a cleaning position. The plurality of bristles are disposed on the cushion pad, and have a first end that bristles extend substantially perpendicular from the first surface of the cushion pad through the apertures in the front portion of the body.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for controlling pay telephones. In one implementation a system is provided. The system includes a pay telephone coupled to a telephone server using a telephone line. The system also includes a local control unit located in proximity to the pay telephone and coupled between the pay telephone and the telephone server, the signaling unit configured to provide signaling voltages associated with pay telephone operation.

Abstract: Systems and methods for wireless communications are provided. In one implementation a communications system is provided. The communications system includes a wireless access point connected to a public switched telephone network “PSTN”. The wireless access point is configured to provide wireless communication allowing a wireless user access device to communicate data through the PSTN connection. The communications system also includes a device coupled to the wireless access point. The device has one or more primary functions unrelated to public communication.

Abstract: An on-demand power-operating door arrangement includes a supporting structure forming a passage, a door mounted to the supporting structure for closing the passage, and a power operator for operating the door. The power operator includes a motor, and a linkage operably connected to the motor and arranged to move the door to the passage-opening position. The door is manually swingable from a closed position to an open position independently of the linkage. The linkage and the door are returned from the door-opened position by respective springs, the spring which returns the door being weaker than the spring which returns the linkage.

Abstract: A hair brush includes a body, a cushion pad, and a plurality of bristles. The body includes at least a partial cavity at a first end, and the cavity includes a front portion, a rear portion, and a plurality of apertures. A cushion pad having a first surface is disposed near the front portion of the cavity when the hair brush is in a user position, and is disposed near a second surface located near the rear portion of the cavity when the hair brush is in a cleaning position. The plurality of bristles are disposed on the cushion pad, and have a first end that bristles extend substantially perpendicular from the first surface of the cushion pad through the apertures in the front portion of the body.

Abstract: A hair brush may include a body having a receiving portion at a first end. A cushion pad having an inner surface and an outer surface may be disposed in the receiving portion, and may include a plurality of bristle anchors having an aperture. A plurality of bristles may be tufted into each of the apertures.

Abstract: Disclosed is a position independent code system that enables a programmable digital data processing system to invoke and execute procedures and access data that are loaded into system memory at addresses that are not specified by the program code and are not determined until the program code is compiled, linked and loaded into system memory. The coded call sequence instructions that are provided by the disclosed position independent code allow a procedure to call another procedure and are based upon the value that is stored in a dedicated register (or equivalent memory space) of the system and memory offset pointers, which are determined during system compilation and linking of program code and which indicate the memory location of the calling procedure and the call sequence of the calling procedure relative to the memory location at which the system stores the address of the procedure being called. When a call sequence is executed, the address of the called procedure is transferred to the dedicated register.

Abstract: A procedure state descriptor system for generating state reports of the progress of the invocation process for procedures executed on a digital data processing system is disclosed. The procedure state descriptor system includes a procedure descriptor generator process that generates a procedure descriptor for each procedure. Each procedure descriptor contains a number of offset values that are offset addresses from the start of the procedure to locations in the procedure that are the demarcations between states of the invocation process for the procedure. When a particular procedure is invoked for execution, a procedure state analyzation process accesses the procedure descriptor offset values for the procedure, the memory address of the start of the procedure, and the address of the next instruction to be executed in the procedure. The procedure state analyzation process then determines the difference between the address of the instruction to be next executed and the starting address of the procedure.

Abstract: A method and arrangement for providing each thread of execution (28, 30, 32 and 34) of a multi-threading digital data processing environment with private copies of each set of initialization data (regions 60-1 through 60-4 and 62-1 through 62-4) that is required by procedures (44, 46) which are executed in the context of more than one of the threads. The regions (duplicate data copies) are generated from templates (56, 58) that include a base or original copy of the required set of initialization data. The templates are formulated during operation of the digital data processing system to compile, link and load the procedures and are each identified by a region descriptor (72) which includes a region index (a non-negative integer) and the memory address of the template. Regions are created when the initialization data of the region is required by a procedure that is executing within the context of a thread (i.e.