omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Frédéric Mazzella. Frédéric Mazzella (born March 9, 1976) is a French entrepreneur and the founder of BlaBlaCar, an online marketplace for carpools.

Early life and education
Mazzella underwent classical piano training and received education at some of the best schools in France. After majoring in maths, physics and chemistry at the Lycée Henri IV, he received a Master of Physics at the École Normale Supérieure (Normale Sup). While studying at Normale Sup, he received an internship in the robotics department of Stanford University, where he worked on designing a virtual tool to allow surgeons on NASA spaceflights practice procedures before performing them on astronauts. In 1999, he enrolled at Stanford in a master's program in computer science.

Mazzella also obtained an MBA from INSEAD which he credits for helping him learn how to manage the then young venture of BlaBlacar.

Career
After completing his degree, he returned to Paris and began working for Kabira. At Kabira, Frédéric quickly demonstrated a high level of ability to perform in any role assigned, quickly moving from Support to Project Management and Pre-Sales. He even composed the music for the on-hold tone on the in-house phone system, demonstrating his multi-faceted talents. It was obvious that he was quickly outgrowing the organisation. In 1999, he also worked as a consultant for Blue Pumpkin, and in 2000, he worked as a research assistant for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone in Japan.

In September 2015, Mazzella was ranked 49th on the WIRED list of top 100 digital influencers.

BlaBlaCar
In December 2003, Mazzella wanted to travel from Paris to visit his family in the French countryside for Christmas but he did not own a car and the trains were fully booked. After his sister made a 150-kilometer detour to collect him, he noticed that most cars going in his direction did not have any passengers. During nights and weekends, he began working on creating a concept to address the issue. By 2006, he bought a website called Covoiturage.fr, French for "carpooling", probably inspired from what is running in one big neighbour country for years.

In 2007, Mazzella enrolled at the Master of Business Administration program at INSEAD.

In 2008, along with Francis Nappez and Nicolas Brusson, he launched BlaBlaCar. In 2015, BlaBlaCar raised $200m bringing total funding to over $300m and valuing the company at $1.6bn.

References

1976 births
École Normale Supérieure alumni
French business executives
INSEAD alumni
Living people
Lycée Henri-IV alumni
Stanford University alumni
Technology company founders
From Fishing Hamlet To Red Planet. From Fishing Hamlet to Red Planet: India's Space Journey edited by P. V. Manoranjan Rao, B. N. Suresh and V. P. Balagangadharan — all of them former scientists of the Indian Space Research Organization — is a book that traces the history of India's space organization, Indian Space Research Organization. 

Its sequel—Ever Upwards: ISRO in Images—a coffee table book on ISRO's history was published in 2019. These two books are considered to be the most authoritative and official history of the Indian Space Research Organisation—the only history books to have been authorized by the space organization.

References

Spaceflight_books
Books about the Indian Space Research Organisation
BCI Citirider. The BCI Citirider is an integrally-constructed high capacity low-floor and low-entry single-decker and double-decker bus produced by BCI Bus since 2015. It is produced at BCI Bus' manufacturing facility in Xiamen, China. The double-decker bus is marketed as both the BCI Excellence and BCI Enterprise in the United Kingdom.

Design
The BCI Citirider single-decker version has a low-entry configuration for its interior whereas the double-decker (twin-axle or tri-axle) version has a full low-floor configuration for its interior.

The Enterprise was launched in the United Kingdom by Ensignbus in July 2016. In the standard, 98-seat specification as ordered by Ensignbus, the Enterprise is fully PSVAR (Public Service Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 2000) compliant, and as such can be used on public bus services as well as private hires.

Operators
Ensignbus, who are also the dealer for the Excellence and Enterprise in the United Kingdom, became the first operator of the type, taking delivery of four examples in August 2016. Aintree Coach Lines also took delivery of a single example in August 2016. Ensignbus had confirmed it would be taking delivery of twelve twin-axle Enterprises from December 2016 onwards.

A Hybrid version registered as LX18DGF, with a Vantage Power hybrid system first came to Camberwell Bus Garage and was being trialled by Go-Ahead London operating on the Route 12 until 15 July 2021. It then reappeared as a spare for River Road Garage in East London until 24 January 2023. In July 2024, it was sold off to Ensignbus. 

In New Zealand, Ritchies Transport (Auckland North & West) and its Ritchies-Murphy operation (Auckland South) operate 43 single deckers and 26 double deckers, Kinetic Group's NZ Bus operation run 14 Double Deckers, and Tranzurban (Tranzit Group) operates 55 single deckers and 47 double deckers. In 2021, Tranzurban converted a BCI double decker from diesel to electric power. Ritchies Transport & Tranzit Group who own InterCity (New Zealand) parent Entrada Travel Group each operate a BCI Citirider Double Decker in Auckland Explorer Bus colours, RT645 and TR3523.

References

External links
Citirider 8 BCI Bus
Citirder 12 BCI Bus
Citirider E BCI Bus

Double-decker buses
Low-floor buses
Low-entry buses
Tri-axle buses
Vehicles introduced in 2015
42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic). 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic) is a Royal Engineers regiment of the British Army. The regiment, formed originally in 1947, provides field deployable geographic services, including geodetic survey, terrain analysis, information management and dissemination and geospatial intelligence (GEOINT).

Organisation 
Today the regiment consists of:

 42 Engineer Regiment, in Wyton
 13 Geographic Squadron
 14 Geographic Squadron
 16 Geographic Support Squadron
 135 Geographic Squadron

History
In February 1947 a cadre of 19 Topographic Squadron RE moved to Egypt and was initially titled as 19 Field Survey Regiment. It later was renamed as 42 Survey Engineer Regiment on 31 August 1948 and was based near RAF Fayid. In 1948, 13 Field Survey Squadron was posted to Egypt and its personnel were absorbed into the regiment. 13 Squadron was assigned the role of map production which remains its core duties to this day. 14 Field Survey Squadron remained in Germany after the Second World War, and provided geographic support to the British Army on the Rhine. This squadron deployed to Northern Ireland in 1973 as an infantry unit and in 1995, the Squadron moved to Ayrshire Barracks, Mönchengladbach before it was eventually reunited with the regiment in July 2013. The engineers lived in Denison Barracks in Hermitage for many years until July 2014 when the regiment in moved to RAF Wyton as part of the Joint Forces Intelligence Group.

The regiment operates the Tactical Information and Geospatial Intelligence Systems (TIGAS) vehicle system as part of the Field Deployable GEOINT (FDG) capability.

On 10 November 2021 the regiment won Best Security, Defence or Law Enforcement IT Project of the Year at the UK IT Industry Awards.

Freedoms
  1997: Newbury, Berkshire.  
  3 July 2018: St Ives, Cambridgeshire.

References

External links
 
 42 Survey Engineer Regiment - British Army units from 1945 on

Regiments of the Royal Engineers
Mks vir. mks_vir (formerly: MkS_Vir) is a Polish antivirus program, created by Marek Sell in 1987.

The original reason for creation of this software was that the solutions existing on the market these times did not satisfy the author's needs. The first versions for DOS were distributed on floppy disks by Apexim, the company in which Marek Sell worked. The updates were issued monthly and sent by mail. Initially, the software delivered to the users was personalized – the main screen contained the serial number and the data of the license owner. Despite that, the program was often used without license and its popularity can be confirmed by appearing Trojan horses, impersonating program updates, which were not issued yet. Later, together with the full version of the software, demo versions were issued, which allowed to use the program for a week. For educational reasons, the program contained descriptions of operation of some viruses (including demonstrations of their graphical and sound effects) and, from the 3.99 version, a lexicon of the viruses popular in Poland. In 1996, it became the winner of the third edition of the Teraz Polska contest.

In 1996, the MKS company, founded by Marek Sell, became the developer of the program. A website of the program and a BBS were created. The company continued the development of the program after the death of the author in 2004. Versions for Microsoft Windows and Unix were created. An online scanner, based on the ActiveX technology, became available on the software website.

After the bankruptcy of the MKS company, in 2011, the property receiver sold the rights to the mks_vir trademark to the ArcaBit company, set up a few years earlier by the former MKS employees. It reactivated the mks_vir product as a free antivirus application.

Officially, the ArcaBit company resigned from the distribution and the support for the software on 2014, March 1. Although they released a brand new version during May 2018.

Some of the program versions:
 3.12 (January 1991 – the first version described in the program history)
 4.00 (April 1993)
 5.00 (July 1994)
 6.00 (September 1998)
 2002
 2003
 2004
 2005 (the last version for DOS)
 2006 (the last version for Windows 98/Me)
 2k7 (the first 64-bit version)
 9 (the last version produced by MKS)
 10 (announced multilingual version – not issued)
 12 (the version based on the ArcaBit engine)
 13.11 (the last version produced by ArcaBit)
 2013 Internet Security (the last version, announced in February 2013 – not issued)

Notes

References 

Antivirus software
Discontinued software
1987 software
Freeware
DOS software
Windows security software
Unix security software
Solaris software
BSD software
Articles with underscores in the title
The Mines Rescue Rules, 1985. The Mines Rescue Rules, 1985  came into force with effect from 2 April 1985 in India, replacing the previous Coal Mines Rescue Rules-1959, to provide for rescue of work persons in the event of explosion, fire etc. in the Mines.  

These rules apply to coal and metalliferous underground mines to provide for the establishment of rescue stations and conduct of rescue work.  In case of  explosion or fire, an inrush of water or influx of gases, services of specially trained men with special rescue apparatuses are required.

Salient features
Chapter I - Preliminary

Chapter II - Rescue Stations and Rescue Rooms

Chapter III - Duties and Responsibilities of Superintendents etc.

Chapter IV - Organisation and Equipment in Mines

Chapter V - Conduct of Rescue Work

Chapter VI – Miscellaneous

See also
 Coal Mines Regulation Act 1908
 Quecreek Mine rescue

References

Further reading
 Mine-rescue-training(MSHA)   

Coal mining law
Mine safety
Safety engineering
Indian legislation
Mining in India
The Curators' Department. The Curators' Department is an independent curatorial consultancy based in Sydney, Australia. It was founded in 2015 by Australian curators Glenn Barkley, Holly Williams and Ivan Muñiz Reed.

Exhibitions 

The directors of The Curators' Department have curated numerous exhibitions in Sydney and around Australia. In 2016 Barkley curated The Australian Ceramics Association Biennial Exhibition, "OVERUNDERSIDEWAYSDOWN", which took place from May - June at Manly Art Gallery & Museum in Sydney. The previous year, Barkley curated "Turn Turn Turn: The Studio Ceramics Tradition at the National Art School" which was held at the National Art School Gallery, Sydney, from June to August 2015 and examined the history of ceramics practice at the school.

In 2015, Muñiz Reed, Williams and Barkley curated the National Visual Arts Showcase, "Right Here Now: A Powerful Regional Voice in Our Democracy" at the Museum of Democracy at Old Parliament House.
 Earlier that year the trio also curated the inaugural Installation Contemporary at the second iteration of the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair at Carriageworks in Sydney.

In 2015 Barkely and Muñiz Reed also curated the exhibitions "Here I Give Thanks: John R. Walker" at the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, and "The Daylight Moon: Rosalie Gascoigne and Lake George" at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery.

Earlier that year Barkley curated the 2015 iteration of Art Month Sydney, which included events and exhibitions at commercial galleries and other venues around the city.

Currently The Curators' Department are working with Kent Buchanan of Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo and Orana Arts, on the artists residency and exhibition project At the Junction of Two Rivers: The Wellington Exchange Project. The project includes artists from the Wellington and Sydney areas, began with a residency in early 2016 and will culminate in an exhibition in October that same year.

Writing and Publications 

As part of his work with The Curators' Department Barkely guest edited Issue #27 of Runway Australian Experimental Art Journal. The issue was themed "Outside" and was launched at the Cementa arts festival in Kandos, NSW. He was also the guest editor of the Journal of Australian Ceramics Volume 55 Number 1.

Consultancy 

The Curators' Department worked with the University of Wollongong and ADM Architects to re-develop the University's Recreation and Aquatic Centre. The new space focuses on the history of the University of Wollongong, incorporating historical material and new media.

Art Valuations 

Barkley is a registered valuer for the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, specialising in Australian and NZ art, art archives, documentation, ephemera, textiles, ceramics, glassware, fibre items, new media, time-based and digital art; Indigenous prints, drawing, textiles, paintings and sculptures, ceramics, glassware, fibre items, new media, digital and time-based art after 1970 and European and American printmaking and artist-books after 1950.

References

External links
 

2015 establishments in Australia
Art curators
Art exhibitions in Australia
Organisations based in Sydney
Bonded seal. In mechanical engineering, a bonded seal is a type of washer used to provide a seal around a screw or bolt. Originally made by Dowty Group, they are also known as Dowty seals or Dowty washers. Now widely manufactured, they are available in a range of standard sizes and materials 

A bonded seal consists of an outer annular ring of a hard material, typically steel, and an inner annular ring of an elastomeric material that acts as a gasket. It is the compression of the elastomeric part between the faces of the parts on either side of the bonded seal that provides the sealing action. The elastomeric material, typically nitrile rubber, is bonded by heat and pressure to the outer ring, which holds it in place. This structure increases resistance to bursting, increasing the pressure rating of the seal. Because the bonded seal itself acts to retain the gasket material, there is no need for the parts to be sealed to be shaped to retain the gasket. This results in simplified machining and greater ease of use as compared to some other seals, such as O-rings. Some designs come with an additional flap of rubber on the internal diameter to locate the bonded seal at the centre of the hole; these are called self-centring bonded washers.

References

 

Seals (mechanical)
EID, S.A.. EID, S.A. (Empresa de Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Electrónica, S.A.) is a Portuguese research and development company, established in 1983. The company is specialized in the fields of electronics, communications and command and control, mainly for Defence use. 

EID is a private owned company. Its shareholder structure is composed by Cohort Plc (80%), idD Portugal Defence (18%) and IAPMEI (2%).

The company makes military communications systems, including its ICCS (Integrated Communications Control System) that is the responsible for the integration and management of all the communications on board a warship, intercom systems for all types of armoured vehicles, field digital switchboards and telephony equipment, etc., besides the design, supply and deployment of large scale turnkey systems at National scales. 

EID's Customers include a number of armed forces in Europe, Africa, South America, Middle East and Asia Pacific. 

The activities of EID are divided by the following lines of business: naval communications, tactical communications, military messaging and systems integration.

In 2012 EID already supplied more than 500 field switchboards and more than 7000 telephone sets to different customers.

Customers 
Nowadays EID’s naval communications systems equip more than 160 warships from 19 Navies around the world.

 : Algerian National Navy

: Royal Australian Navy

: Royal Bahraini Army
: Bangladesh Army
: Belgian Navy
: Brazilian Navy and Brazilian Army
: Cape Verdean Armed Forces (Probably donated by the Portuguese Armed Forces)

: Egyptian Army

: Armed Forces of Guinea-Bissau (Probably donated by the Portuguese Armed Forces)
: Indonesian Navy
: Armed forces of Italy

: Malaysian Army and Royal Malaysian Navy
: Armed forces of Mozambique (Probably donated by the Portuguese Armed Forces)
: Royal Netherlands Navy
: Armed Forces of the Philippines
: Polish Navy
: Portuguese Army, Portuguese Navy and Portuguese Air Force.
: Armed Forces of São Tomé and Príncipe (Probably donated by the Portuguese Armed Forces)
: Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia
: Spanish Navy
: Timor Leste Defence Force (Probably donated by the Portuguese Armed Forces)
: United Arab Emirates Army
 : Royal Navy
: United States Navy

References

Telecommunications companies of Portugal
Defence companies of Portugal
Companies established in 1983
John Andrewartha. John Andrewartha (25 August 1839 – 7 November 1916) was an English architect and civil engineer.

Early life and education
John Andrewartha was born at Falmouth, Cornwall, the son of William Guy and Sarah Elizabeth Andrewartha. He trained as an engineer in the Royal Navy.

Career

Andrewartha began working in the United States in 1865, first based in Louisville, Kentucky, and after 1881 in Austin, Texas. In Kentucky his firm won a design contest in 1866 for the Louisville City Hall. The city's Courier-Journal Building was also his design; it burned down in 1979. Andrewartha also designed the original entrance lodge, stables, clubhouse, and other structures at Churchill Downs, though they have all since been replaced.

In 1872, Andrewartha and two others (the contractor and the site foreman) were charged with manslaughter after the fatal collapse of the Pettit Building in Louisville. But in late 1873, he was listed as the architect for the building of the Fourth Kentucky Lunatic Asylum project.

Among his varied completed projects in Texas were the Austin City-County Hospital (1884), the first public hospital in Texas; the St. John's Home for Negro Orphans in East Austin (1911), the original Montopolis Bridge over the Colorado River (which was washed away in a 1935 flood), and Austin residences such as the Henry Hirschfeld House, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Personal life
Andrewartha married Jemima Louisa Whillier on 11 June 1861 in Alverstoke, Hampshire, England. They had twelve children together; seven of their children lived to adulthood. John was widowed when Jemima died in May 1915 at their home in Austin, Texas; he died the following year, aged 77 years.

References

1839 births
1916 deaths
Architects from Cornwall
American people of Cornish descent
English emigrants to the United States
People from Falmouth, Cornwall
MIDACO. MIDACO (Mixed Integer Distributed Ant Colony Optimization) is a software package for numerical optimization based on evolutionary computing.
MIDACO was created in collaboration of
European Space Agency and EADS Astrium to solve constrained mixed-integer non-linear (MINLP) space applications.
MIDACO holds several record solutions on interplanetary spaceflight trajectory design problems made publicly available by European Space Agency. MIDACO is included in software packages like TOMLAB, Astos, and SigmaXL.

References

External links 
 

Numerical software
Mathematical optimization software
Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists. The Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists (ASWM) was a trade union representing sawyers in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1866 as the Birmingham and District Mill Sawyers and Planing Machine Workers' Trade Society by a group of eighty workers.  From 1877, it aimed to recruit members across the country, changing its name to the "Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists", although it was often called the Mill Sawyers' Union.

Membership gradually grew, to 248 in 1875, and 692 in 1890, and several regional unions merged into it: the London Mill Sawyers and Wood Cutting Machinists' Society, the Scottish Woodcutting Machinemen's Society, and the Yorkshire United Steam Sawyers and Woodcutting Machinists' Society.  Early in the 1910s, it changed its name to the Amalgamated Society of Mill Sawyers and Woodcutting Machinists, then to the Amalgamated Society of Wood Cutting Machinists of Great Britain and Ireland, before returning to the ASWM name in 1919.

The union generally grew through the 20th-century, having 23,000 members by the 1970s.  In 1971, it merged with the National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives to form the Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union.

General Secretaries
1866: Joseph Wild
1877: Lees
 J. Sewell
 Thomas Park
1900s: W. J. Wentworth
1931: John MacKay
1934: James Lyno
1946: Jim Whittaker
1947: Thomas McAndrew
1960: Charles Stewart

References

Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom
1866 establishments in the United Kingdom
Trade unions established in 1866
Trade unions disestablished in 1971
Timber industry trade unions
Trade unions based in Greater Manchester
Freedom 45. The Freedom 45 is an American sailboat, that was designed by Gary Mull and first built in 1987. The design is out of production.

The Freedom 45 is a development of the Freedom 42, created by extending the aft section of the hull.

Production
The boat was built by Tillotson Pearson in the United States for Freedom Yachts, starting in 1987.

Design
The Freedom 45 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a free-standing fractional sloop, an internally-mounted rudder and a fixed wing keel. It displaces  and carries  of ballast. It has a draft of  with the standard winged keel.

The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar 4JH HTBE diesel engine of .

The boat has a PHRF racing average handicap of 99 with a high of 99 and low of 102. It has a hull speed of .

Variants
Freedom 45 AC
Model with an aft cockpit configuration.
Freedom 45 CC
Model with a center cockpit configuration.

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

Keelboats
1980s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Gary Mull
Sailboat types built by Pearson Yachts