Fail-safe

A fail-safe or fail-secure device is one that, in the event of a specific type of failure, responds in a way that will cause no harm, or at least a minimum of harm, to other devices or to personnel.

Fail-safe and fail-secure are similar but distinct concepts. Fail-safe means that a device will not endanger lives or property when it fails. Fail-secure means that access or data will not fall into the wrong hands in a failure. Sometimes the approaches suggest opposite solutions. For example, if a building catches fire, fail-safe systems would unlock doors to ensure quick escape and allow firefighters inside, while fail-secure would lock doors to prevent unauthorized access to the building.

A system's being "fail-safe" means not that failure is impossible or improbable, but rather that the system's design prevents or mitigates unsafe consequences of the system's failure. That is, if and when a "fail-safe" system "fails", it is "safe" or at least no less safe than when it was operating correctly.

Failsafe (UK band)

Failsafe are an English melodic rock band whose current line up has been together since 2005, although the foundations of the band were laid in 2000. They are based in and around Preston, England. So far they have released three albums independently, with their third produced by Dave Eringa.

History

Beginnings

Based in the North West England city of Preston, the various members brought their own individual influences and styles to the band. Forming in spring 2000, the school friends were originally known as Duck Hunt after the NES game.

After a number of line up changes the band began to tour, sharing the stage with the likes of Paramore, Cute Is What We Aim For, A Wilhelm Scream, Idlewild, The Bouncing Souls, Flogging Molly, Boysetsfire, Allister, Rx Bandits, Belvedere, Capdown, The Aquabats, Spunge, A Day To Remember, Armor for Sleep, Anti-Flag and Phinius Gage.

The debut album, What We Are Today, was released late in 2005 and received positive reviews from magazines like Metal Hammer, Kerrang! and Big Cheese.

Failsafe (American band)

Failsafe is an American mainstream rock band from Kansas City, Missouri, that was formed in late 2007 by Dylan Sean Maloney. Failsafe has become known for their energetic live performances and catchy, hard-hitting songs.

History

Formation (2007)

Failsafe is a mainstream rock band from Kansas City, Missouri that was formed in late 2007 by vocalist/guitarist Dylan Sean Maloney. The band, originally a trio consisting of Maloney and long-time friends Nick Faulconer (drums) and Chris Ellis (bass), soon added guitarist Brett Johnson to the team in search of a fuller sound. Beginning their career as a cover band, Failsafe played numerous local shows covering various songs by their favorite artists, while working on their own original material.

In a radio interview with KC Music Live, Dylan Sean Maloney speaks of the origin of the name Failsafe:

"The name of our band is Failsafe. The music we write as a group often deals with real-life problems and complicated issues that young people go through every day. Although we don't explicitly talk about these issues, the meanings can be found in our music. Since the word 'failsafe' essentially means 'fallback,' or simply 'backup plan,' it symbolizes our way of expressing the angst, pain, joy, and confusion of dealing with life's issues. So in that way, writing, recording, and performing music is our 'fallback,' or Failsafe."

Névé

Névé /neɪˈveɪ/ is a young, granular type of snow which has been partially melted, refrozen and compacted, yet precedes the form of ice. This type of snow is associated with glacier formation through the process of nivation. Névé that survives a full season of ablation turns into firn, which is both older and slightly denser. Firn eventually becomes glacial ice–the long-lived, compacted ice that glaciers are composed of. Glacier formation can take days to years depending on freeze-thaw factors. Névé is annually observed in skiing slopes, and is generally disliked as an icy falling zone.

Névé has a minimum density of 500 kg/m³.

Névé can also refer to the alpine region in which snowfall accumulates, becomes névé, and feeds a glacier.

See also

Névé may also refer to Washington State's Névé Glacier located in North Cascades National Park.

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NV, nv or Nv may refer to:

Naamloze vennootschap

Naamloze vennootschap (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈnaːmloːzə ˈvɛnoːtsxɑp]; usually abbreviated N.V. or NV) is a public company, usually only used in the Netherlands, Belgium, Indonesia, and Suriname. The company is owned by shareholders, and the company's shares are not registered to certain owners, so that they may be traded on the public stock market.

The phrase literally means "nameless partnership" or "anonymous venture" and comes from the fact that the partners (the shareholders) are not directly known. This is in contrast to the term for a private limited company, which is called besloten vennootschap (an "exclusive" or "closed partnership", one in which stock is not for sale on open markets).

The naamloze vennootschap is a legal entity in the Netherlands, Belgium, Aruba, Curaçao, Suriname, St. Maarten, and Indonesia, although in Indonesia the Indonesian translation Perseroan Terbatas (PT) is more commonly used.

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EN

EN, En or en can mean:

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