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SAS Institute Inc. (pronounced "sass"), headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, USA, has been a major producer of software since it was founded in 1976 by Anthony Barr, James Goodnight, John Sall and Jane Helwig. SAS was originally an acronym for Statistical Analysis System but, for many years, has been used as a tradename to refer to the company as a whole and its line of software products, which have long since broadened beyond the statistical analysis sphere. SAS Institute is one of the largest privately-held corporations in North Carolina and in the software business.

SAS's main and original product was the SAS software package used in statistical analysis, consisting of numerous modules which ran on IBM mainframe computers. In addition to the usual mainframe practice of writing and submitting programs in batch, SAS offered the option, somewhat novel at the time, of a windowed programming environment, where the program being written or edited appeared in one window, the program output appeared in another window, and the program log appeared in a third window.

Graham David Hughes (born 1979) is an adventurer, filmmaker, television presenter and Guinness World Records holder. He is currently presenting the television program “Graham’s World” on the National Geographic Adventure channel, a weekly look into his ongoing quest to break multiple world records by visiting every country on earth without flying.

The Odyssey Expedition is a quest to drop in on every one of the 192 UN member states (plus eight assorted others, in the interest of a round number) without flying. The rules of his trip are: no flying, no private transport (a rule enforced by the Guinness World Records race regulations, which cannot condone a public race in private vehicles) and no travelling to far flung territories and counting them as visiting the motherland.

While on The Odyssey Expedition, Hughes is helping raise funds and awareness for the charity WaterAid.

He has set a new Guinness World Record by visiting "133 countries in one year by scheduled ground transport."

He is set to hold the world record for visiting every UN member state and eight other countries to bring his total count to 200 visited states.Graham Hughes will be the first person to visit every country in one unbroken solo journey and he is still on course for the record for visiting every country in the world in the shortest amount of time, flying or single surface journey.