omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
World's Toughest Fixes. World's Toughest Fixes is an American reality television series that premiered on the National Geographic Channel on September 28, 2008. It featured Sean Riley participating in various "tough fixes"; repairs and renovations done on equipment that is very large or dangerous.  Riley is an expert in heavy duty rigging and load bearing, and works with other specialized engineers to tackle these uniquely difficult jobs. A first season aired 8 episodes beginning on September 26, 2008.  A second season aired 8 episodes beginning on June 4, 2009.  A third season of 7 episodes aired beginning May 6, 2010.  A fourth season aired beginning September 30, 2010.  The first season DVD contains 10 episodes, 2 of which aired in season 2.  The second season DVD contains 11 episodes, 5 of which aired in season 3.

Season 1 episodes
 "Nuclear Turbine" - Susquehanna Steam Electric Station
 "Boeing 767" - An Air Seychelles Boeing 767-300ER has a pressure dome replaced at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
 "High Voltage Power Lines"
 "Thirty-Eight Ton Engine" - DCV Balder thruster
 "Giant Telescope" - Very Large Telescope
 "2000-Foot Tower" - KDLT Tower, a TV antenna in South Dakota
 "Cruise Ship Engine" - Fixing Radiance of the Seas power generator in Grand Bahama Island
 "Interstate Bridge" - Replacing a bridge in Utah (DVD "Bridge Quick Fix")

Season 2 episodes
 "Satellite Launch" - Guiana Space Centre
 "Alaska Oil Pipeline" (DVD S1)
 "Giant Wind Turbine" - Rhode Island
 "50-Ton Rudder" - Curaçao
 "Mississippi River Barge" (DVD S1)
 "Solar Power Plant" - construction of the eSolar Sierra SunTower 5 MW solar energy plant in Lancaster, CA
 "Columbia River Dam"
 "Atom Smasher" - Large Hadron Collider

Season 3 episodes
 "Rocky Mountain Rigging" (DVD S2) - Ski lift in Cody, Wyoming 
 "Extreme Bridges" - UK/London (Tower Bridge) and Scotland (Forth bridges)
 "Fixing Vegas" (DVD S2)
 "Extreme Heights" (DVD S2)
 "Cruise Ship Overhaul" (DVD S2)
 "Philly Mega Transit" - SEPTA operations and repair
 "San Francisco Bridge" (DVD S2) - about the Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge

Season 4 episodes

 "Ultimate Water Ride" - Water coaster at Holiday World & Splashin' Safari
 "Sky High Texas Tower" - Remove an old analog TV antenna in San Antonio, Texas
 "Salt Lake City Sky Bridge" - The City Creek Center Sky Bridge spanning Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City. 
 "Alaskan Salvage" - Sea cowboys removes an old rusty fishing ship (Ocean Clipper) at Saint Paul Island (Alaska)
 "Deep Space Antenna" - Overhauling of the bearings of the DSS 14 Antenna in Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex

See also
Megastructures (TV series)

References

External links
 National Geographic Channel official network website

2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series
National Geographic (American TV channel) original programming
2008 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings
Illinois Section American Water Works Association. The Illinois Section American Water Works Association (ISAWWA) is part of the national American Water Works Association. Established in 1909, the ISAWWA currently represents over 1770 public water supplies of all sizes.  ISAWWA members are administrators, utility operators, professional engineers, contractors, manufacturers, scientists, professors, health professionals, regulators, and ordinary citizens. 

The mission of ISAWWA is the advancement and dissemination of knowledge concerning the practices in the design, construction, operation, and management of water works, and the promotion of public health, safety, and welfare.

External links 
Illinois Section American Water Works Association

Professional associations based in the United States
Littoral rights. In United States law, littoral rights are rights concerning properties that abut static water like an ocean, bay, delta, sea or lake, rather than a flowing river or stream (riparian).  Littoral rights are usually concerned with the use and enjoyment of the shore, but also may include rights to use the water similar to riparian rights.

An owner whose property abuts tidal waters (i.e. oceanfront) owns the land to the mean low water line or 100 rods below mean high water, whichever is less. The land between low water and high water is reserved for the use of the public by state law and is regulated by the state. In certain states, the specific rights afforded under the doctrine of littoral rights may be spelled out by statute or case law. In Florida, for example, littoral rights encompass: "(1) the right to have access to the water; (2) the right to reasonably use the water; (3) the right to accretion and reliction; and (4) the right to the unobstructed view of the water". It has been held by the courts of Florida that "littoral rights are private property rights that cannot be taken from upland owners without just compensation".

In an 1836 speech on the floor of Congress, United States Representative Thomas L. Hamer of Ohio characterized "riparian and littoral rights" as being among the various rights created by the Constitution of the United States.

In 2005, the Michigan Supreme Court overturned an appellate court's decision on lakeshore rights of owners adjacent to the Great Lakes, that had equated wayward beach walking to trespassing.  The Court said that pedestrians could walk along the beach, even though owners of property abutting the Great Lakes own that same land to the current water edge.

References

Real property law
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) is a research center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, headed by Professor Thomas W. Malone, that focuses on the study of collective intelligence.

The Center for Collective Intelligence brings together faculty from across MIT to conduct research on how new communications technologies are changing the way people work together. It involves people from many diverse organizations across MIT including the MIT Media Lab, the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and the MIT Sloan School of Management.

History and mission 
CCI was founded in 2006 by professor Thomas W. Malone. To a great extent, this is a continuation of the research Malone and his colleagues have conducted at the Center for Coordination Science, as well as within initiatives such as "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century."

The center's mission is to find novel answers to one basic research motif: "How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?"

In order to answer this question, the researchers conduct three types of research: 
 Collecting examples and case studies of collective intelligence applications
 Creating new examples and tools that harness the collective intelligence of people
 Systematic studies and experiments

Finally, they also work on developing theories to explain the phenomena of collective intelligence.

The center is sponsored by several corporates and non-profit organizations.

Members 
Professor Thomas W. Malone is the founder and director of CCI. In addition to Malone, the faculty steering committee includes: 
Professor Randall Davis (Research Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), Alex (Sandy) Pentland (Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Science and Director, Human Dynamics Group at the Media Laboratory), and Josh Tenenbaum - Paul E. Newton Associate Professor and Head, Computational Cognitive Science Group (Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences).

The advisory board includes Tim Berners-Lee, Jimmy Wales and Alpheus Bingham (former CEO of Innocentive, Inc.).
The center also has an active community of research scientists, students, scholars and other affiliates.

References

External links

Massachusetts Institute of Technology research institutes
Information society
Collective intelligence
Social information processing
Artificial intelligence laboratories
2006 establishments in Massachusetts
N.M.S.Kamaraj Polytechnic. NMS Kamaraj Polytechnic is a polytechnic college located in Pazhavilai, Kanyakumari District, India.  It is 8 km from N.M.S. Kamaraj Polytechnic College, Pazhavilai was established on 22 September 1982.

This is the only Government aided Polytechnic College in Kanyakumari District.

Courses Offered

Basic Science
Civil Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Automobile Engineering
Computer EngineeringNagercoil.

References

Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu
Universities and colleges in Kanyakumari district
Education in Nagercoil
Educational institutions established in 1982
1982 establishments in Tamil Nadu
New South Wales 72 class locomotive. The 72 class was a class of diesel locomotive built by Chullora Railway Workshops for the New South Wales, Australia, Department of Railways in 1965.

Construction

Locomotive 7201 was a diesel-hydraulic locomotive, with B-B wheel arrangement. Built in the Department of Railways Water Supply Workshops at Chullora, it performed its first light engine trial on 27 August 1965. It was built on the lengthened underframe of an unused 58 class locomotive tender, but using the bogies from a Standard Goods locomotive turret tender. The cab was similar to that of an X200 class and the livery was similar to a 48 class.

The prime-mover was a Cummins VT 12-825-BI; V12 engine, developing 640 horsepower at 2,000 rpm. Power was distributed to the bogies through a Clark C 16911 torque converter with Clark 16421 transmission.

Operations
Following some modifications, it entered service on 8 September 1965 as a shunter at Cooks River Goods Yard. Over the next 6 months, it spent time shunting in yards at Goulburn, Junee, Broadmeadow and Werris Creek, and Port waratah. It even had a brief sojourn on the Yass Tramway. During this time, it re-entered the workshops for modifications and repairs. After this initial period, it spent extended periods at the Rozelle yards, however by 1970 it was regularly struggling with the loads. It was then trialed at the ACDEP carriage sheds where it shunted the carriages from air-conditioned trains. It was deemed a success in this duty and remained there until 2 March 1976 when it suffered a seized engine.

Demise
Being a one-off and therefore non-standard, the decision was made not to repair the locomotive. On 4 August 1976, it was condemned and scrapped in December that year.

References

Further reading

Bo-Bo locomotives
Diesel locomotives of New South Wales
Railway locomotives introduced in 1965
Standard gauge locomotives of Australia
Tert-Butyl hydroperoxide. tert-Butyl hydroperoxide (tBuOOH) is the organic compound with the formula (CH3)3COOH. It is one of the most widely used hydroperoxides in a variety of oxidation processes, like the Halcon process.  It is normally supplied as a 69–70% aqueous solution.  Compared to hydrogen peroxide and organic peracids, tert-butyl hydroperoxide is less reactive and more soluble in organic solvents. Overall, it is renowned for the convenient handling properties of its solutions. Its solutions in organic solvents are highly stable.

Application
Industrially, tert-butyl hydroperoxide is used to prepare propylene oxide.  In the Halcon process, molybdenum-based catalysts are used for this reaction:
(CH3)3COOH  +  CH2=CHCH3  → (CH3)3COH  +  CH2OCHCH3 
The byproduct t-butanol can be dehydrated to isobutene and converted to MTBE.

On a much smaller scale, tert-butyl hydroperoxide is used to produce some fine chemicals by the Sharpless epoxidation.

Synthesis and production 
Many synthetic routes are available, e.g. by the auto-oxidation of isobutane.

Safety
tert-butyl hydroperoxide is potentially dangerous, but explosions are rare.

A solution of tert-butyl hydroperoxide and water with a concentration of greater than 90% is forbidden to be shipped according to US Department of Transportation Hazardous Materials Table 49 CFR 172.101.

In some sources it also has an NFPA 704 rating of 4 for health, 4 for flammability, 4 for reactivity and is a potent oxidant, however other sources claim lower ratings of 3-2-2 or 1-4-4.

See also
Di-tert-butyl peroxide

References

Hydroperoxides
Reagents for organic chemistry
Tert-butyl compounds
Oxidizing agents
Evolution Robotics. Evolution Robotics was an American technological company based in Pasadena, California. It specialized in robotics technologies, with computer vision, localization, and autonomous navigation products.

Evolution Robotics cooperated with Cambridge University for research in vision technology. Software products of Evolution Robotics were licensed by the Korean Institute of Industrial Technology and the Sony Robotics Division and were part of WowWee robots like Rovio.

On September 17, 2012, iRobot acquired Evolution Robotics for $74 Million.

Products 

In January 2010, Evolution Robotics released Mint, a cleaning robot that dusted and wet-mopped hard surface floors. The robot's "wet mopping mode" had a coverage of 93 sq m (1000 sq ft) and 23 sq m (250 sq ft). The Mint lacked a vacuum motor and was one of the quietest floor-cleaning robots. The Mint was described as a "not fully autonomous robot"; hence, a cleaning cloth had to be attached to the cleaning pad before using it. The robot used an indoor navigation system called NorthStar for navigation. Mint used a navigation cube as a beacon for navigation, and the original model could only handle one of these beacons at a time.

On September 14, 2011, Evolution Robotics released a second model, Mint Plus. The robot represented an improved version of the original Mint, supporting multiple NorthStar cubes simultaneously. An additional feature of the robot was the ability to continue work at the same spot if the machine was interrupted during cleaning. Mint Plus featured an automatic cleaning solution dispenser that kept the cloth wet during cleaning. One of the two Mint Plus robots had an installed docking station that functioned as a charging stand where the robot could be placed manually.

In 2013, Mint was rebranded as iRobot Braava.

References

External links 
http://evolution.com/ − Website of Evolution Robotics (archived)

Defunct robotics companies of the United States
Information technology companies of the United States
Defunct companies based in California
Companies based in Pasadena, California
Lisasion. Lisasion is a form of erosion where the earth is eroded by intentional human action.

Lisasion is described by Michael Selby in his book Earth's changing surface: an introduction to geomorphology as "the erosion of land, most commonly along rivers and coastlines, by intentional human action." Lisasion only applies to intentional human action, whereby humans deliberately erode the landscape for reasons including for recreation, hazard management and all forms of construction and demolition.

References 

Geomorphology
International Symposium on Distributed Computing. The International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) is an annual academic conference for refereed presentations, whose focus is the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks. The Symposium is organized in association with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). It and the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) are the two premier conferences in distributed computing research.

The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is presented alternately at DISC and at the PODC.

History
DISC dates back to 1985, when it began as a biannual Workshop on Distributed Algorithms on Graphs (WDAG); it became annual in 1989. The name changed to the present one in 1998.

While the first WDAG was held in Ottawa, Canada in 1985, since then WDAG/DISC has been organised primarily in European locations, one exception being WDAG 1992 in Haifa, Israel. In September 2010, DISC returned to North America for the first time since 1985: 24th DISC took place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. In the same year, its North American sister conference PODC was held in Europe (Zurich) for the first time in its history.

Locations

 2022: Augusta, Georgia, USA
 2021: Freiburg, Germany
 2020: Held virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic
 2019: Budapest, Hungary
 2018: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
 2017: Vienna, Austria
 2016: Paris, France
 2015: Tokyo, Japan
 2014: Austin, Texas, USA
 2013: Jerusalem, Israel
 2012: Salvador, Brazil
 2011: Rome, Italy
 2010: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
 2009: Elche, Spain
 2008: Arcachon, France
 2007: Lemesos, Cyprus
 2006: Stockholm, Sweden
 2005: Kraków, Poland
 2004: Amsterdam, Netherlands
 2003: Sorrento, Italy
 2002: Toulouse, France
 2001: Lisboa, Portugal
 2000: Toledo, Spain
 1999: Bratislava, Slovakia
 1998: Andros, Greece
 1997: Saarbrücken, Germany
 1996: Bologna, Italy
 1995: Mont Saint-Michel, France
 1994: Terschelling, Netherlands
 1993: Lausanne, Switzerland
 1992: Haifa, Israel
 1991: Delphi, Greece
 1990: Bari, Italy
 1989: Nice, France
 1987: Amsterdam, Netherlands
 1985: Ottawa, Canada

See also
 The list of distributed computing conferences contains other academic conferences in distributed computing.
 The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.

Notes

External links
 

Recurring events established in 1985
1985 establishments in Canada
Distributed computing conferences
Theoretical computer science conferences
Adobe Content Server. Adobe Content Server is software developed by Adobe Systems to add digital rights management to e-books. It is designed to protect and distribute Adobe e-books in PDF or EPUB format through Adobe Digital Editions, or applications and devices developed using Adobe's Adobe Reader Mobile SDK, covering a wide range of tablets, smartphones, and dedicated devices.  Adobe Content Server also works in conjunction with Adobe Digital Experience Protection Technology (ADEPT), Adobe's digital rights management scheme.

See also
 Digital Library
 Public Library
 Online shopping
 Publishing
 Adobe Digital Editions

References

Content Server
Digital rights management systems
Pomilio FVL-8. The Pomilio FVL-8 was a biplane fighter aircraft built by Fabbrica Aeroplani Ing. O. Pomilio for Engineering Division of the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps.

Development and design
The FVL-8 was constructed of a wood framework, and covered in plywood. The wings were separated from the fuselage by struts. It was powered by a Liberty 8 engine, and armed by two machine guns. Six prototypes were constructed, the first had its first flight in February 1919. No order for production aircraft was received.

Specifications

References

Bibliography

 

1910s United States fighter aircraft
FVL-8
Engineering Division aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1919
Single-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
New South Wales 79 class locomotive. The 79 class is a diesel-electric locomotive built by General Electric, Erie, United States for the Department of Railways New South Wales in 1943.

Importation
In 1943, during World War II, four diesel-electric industrial shunting type locomotives built by General Electric Company, Erie for the United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) were imported from the United States of America by the Department of Supply under Lend-Lease conditions for use at the Dunheved munitions factory in Sydney. They were four units of 58 units built for the USATC by General Electric numbered 8499-8528 & 7900-7929.

Before entering service in New South Wales, the 4 locos were fitted with buffers and chain coupler to NSWGR standards. The cab profile was also altered to fit within the New South Wales loading gauge. It seems that only one unit was used at the Dunheved facility. Being of the hood type, with a central cab, they could work in either direction without turning.

Operations

In 1945, the BHP became interested in the possible dieselisation at its Australian Iron & Steel works in Port Kembla and one unit was loaned to the company in April. Whilst it proved too light for the tasks of hauling ingots and ladles, it did lead to the commencement of dieselisation five years later.

At the end of that war, they were put into use by the New South Wales Department of Railways as shunters at Sydney Central station and Eveleigh Carriage Workshops. They were numbered 7920 to 7923, these being the numbers allocated by US authorities. In April 1948, the Commonwealth Government took 7921 and 7922 for use at Woomera Rocket Range and 7920 and 7923 were purchased by the NSWGR in September that year.

In 1950, the two owned by the Commonwealth Government were transferred to Commonwealth Railways as the DE Class and used as shunters at Port Augusta and Port Pirie. In July 1975, both were included in the transfer of the Commonwealth Railways to Australian National.

Disposal & preservation
In October 1974, the two NSWGR units were sold to the British Phosphate Commission for use on Christmas Island. In 1979, both were rebuilt by FR Tulk, Perth with Caterpillar D3306 engines and lower profile noses. This railway closed in 1987. 
Following their retirement in the early 1980s, 7921 returned to New South Wales and is preserved at the NSW Rail Museum, Thirlmere, while 7922 is with the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide.

References

Notes

Bibliography

Bo-Bo locomotives
Commonwealth Railways diesel locomotives
General Electric locomotives
Diesel locomotives of New South Wales
Railway locomotives introduced in 1943
Standard gauge locomotives of Australia
Diesel–electric locomotives of Australia