omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Sam Spade (software). Sam Spade is a discontinued Windows software tool designed to assist in tracking down sources of e-mail spam. The same name was also used for a related free web service, that provided access to similar tools. The Sam Spade utility was authored by Steve Atkins in 1997 and was named after the fictional character Sam Spade.

The last fully functional version of the website was available in early 2004 after which it suffered outage problems due to "blackholing of SamSpade.org by several RIRs and general heavy usage."

Query tools 

The main features (query tools) were:
 Zone Transfer – ask a DNS server for all it knows about a domain
 SMTP Relay Check – check whether a mail server allows third party relaying
 Scan Addresses – scan a range of IP addresses looking for open ports
 Crawl website – search a website, looking for email addresses, offsite links, etc.
 Browse web – browse the web in a raw http format
 Check cancels – search your news server for cancel messages
 Fast and Slow Traceroute – find the route packets take between you and a remote system
 S-Lang command – issue a scripting command; useful for debugging scripts
 Decode URL – decipher an obfuscated URL
 Parse email headers – read email headers and make a guess about the origin of the email

References 

1997 software
Anti-spam
Windows security software
Mischtechnik. Mischtechnik or mixed technique is a term spanning various methods of layering paint, including the usage of different substances. The term gained popularity after Max Doerner's 1921 book The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting: With Notes on the Techniques of the Old Masters However, Doerner made some conclusions about the usage by painters and Mischtechnik which today are no longer considered completely accurate.

Egg tempera 
Mischtechnik can be a method of painting with egg tempera, used in combination with oil-based paints and resins to render a luminous, resonant realism. The egg yolk of the egg tempera is a naturally occurring emulsion of water and oil. As such, the old masters found ways of extending the natural advantages of its emulsion to create lean, siccative, smoothly transitional, semi-transparent layers of paint. The visual effects created by working in the mixed technique essentially rely upon the phenomenon of light refracting through many subsequent layers of paint.

One common approach is to transpose the main compositional elements of a value study onto a panel using India ink, then slowly build up volume by alternating egg tempera with an overall glaze of oil paints mixed with resin, producing a jewel-like effect. The technique can be very time-consuming and demanding. It is unforgiving of pentimenti, yet full of delightful surprises, since many unexpected colors can naturally arise during the ongoing glazing process.

History 
In the twentieth century artists such as Otto Dix, Ernst Fuchs and Egon von Vietinghoff, as well as Surrealist and visionary artists such as, Robert Venosa, Philip Rubinov Jacobson, Brigid Marlin or Mati Klarwein, used the technique. Nicolas Wacker taught his own version of the technique at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris during the late 1960s and 1970s. Many contemporary painters credit their knowledge of the technique to him.

See also 
Glaze (painting technique)
Old Master
Oil painting

References

External links
 Brigid Marlin—The method and formulas of the mische technique
 Madeline von Foerster—The process of mische technique

Painting techniques
 PAINTING SEMINARS in the method and formulas of the mische technique

de:Ölmalerei#Mischtechnik
Data-dependent jitter. Data-dependent jitter (DDJ) is a specific class of timing jitter. In particular, it is a form of deterministic jitter which is correlated with the sequence of bits in the data stream. It is also a form of ISI.

Properties
Depending on characteristics of the signal and transmission topology, previously transmitted symbols can affect the edge cross over time. This creates a probability distribution for the timing of the signal edge, which is usually recorded in a PDF.

DDJ's PDF is always a series of pulses at the locations where a specific bit pattern experiences a cross over. Therefore, in order to get an accurate measure of the DDJ in a particular system, a large number of bit patterns must be analyzed (often just a PRBS) unless an analytical solution can be found.

References

Data transmission
Packets (information technology)
General Aircraft Owlet. The General Aircraft GAL.45 Owlet was a 1940s British single-engined trainer aircraft built by General Aircraft Limited at London Air Park, Hanworth.

History
The Owlet was a training version of the Cygnet II built with the aim of producing a cheap primary trainer for the Royal Air Force. The main change was a modified fuselage with tandem open cockpits (the Cygnet had an enclosed cockpit with side-by-side seating). The same outboard wing panels were used, but due to the narrower fuselage the  wingspan was reduced by 24 inches (61 cm) and wing area was reduced.

The Owlet prototype (registered G-AGBK) first flew on 5 September 1940. It did not attract any orders, but was impressed into service (with serial number DP240) with the Royal Air Force as a tricycle undercarriage trainer for the Douglas Boston, which was the primary use to which unmodified Cygnets were also being put.

The only example crashed near Arundel, Sussex on 30 August 1942.

Military operators

 Royal Air Force
 No. 23 Squadron RAF
 No. 605 Squadron RAF

Specifications

See also

Notes

References

 
 

1940s British military trainer aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Owlet
Aircraft first flown in 1940
ROI PAC. ROI_PAC is a software package created by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory division of NASA and Caltech for processing SAR images to create InSAR images, named interferograms. ROI_PAC stands for Repeat Orbit Interferometry PACkage. It is a UNIX based software package. 

Although many sources exist discussing how to install and use the basic features of the program, there was never a complete user manual created on how to use the software.

See also
 Interferometry

External links
The Open Channel Foundation download
Sean Buckley's thesis on algorithms used
University of California, Berkeley guide
Cornell University guide
Georgia Institute of Technology guide
Caltech/JPL ROI_pac Wiki

Physical geography
Synthetic aperture radar
Alvis Tactica. The Alvis Tactica is a 4x4 or 6x6 wheeled military vehicle produced by GKN Defense, Alvis plc and later by BAE Systems Land Systems. The vehicle was designed by Glover Webb and introduced in 1988. It comes in a number of variants including APC and Internal Security and Riot Control. The platform is no longer produced by BAE Systems.

Users
Never an armed military vehicle, the Tactica is also suited for civilian use, namely by police forces. Ideally suited as an armoured personnel carrier the first Tacticas were based on Stonefield chassis and latterly by Mol chassis designed in-house at Glover Webb Limited of Hamble, Hampshire, UK. Variants included ambulances, APCs, water cannons, crowd control, perimeter control, and IEDD.

Variants are in service with the following nations:

  Argentine Army: 10 deployed at United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
  Ghana Army
  Indonesia (12 deployed by police force)
  Mauritius (14 deployed by military)
  Norway - (Norwegian Army, 3 in service as ambulances)
  Saudi Arabia - (Saudi Arabian National Guard and Ministry of Interior)
  - British Army beginning in 1993 in Northern Ireland; now all retired
  1+

See also
 Pinzgauer high-mobility all-terrain vehicle
 RG-12
 M1117 armored security vehicle
 TPz Fuchs
 Véhicule de l'avant blindé
 BOV M11
 BRDM-2
 WZ551
 Anoa
 Ratel IFV
 Fahd

References

External links

 BAE Tactica

Military vehicles of the United Kingdom
Off-road vehicles
Tactica
General Aircraft GAL.47. The General Aircraft GAL.47 was a 1940s British single-engined twin-boom air observation post aircraft, built by General Aircraft Limited at London Air Park, Hanworth.

Design and development
The GAL.47 was a private-venture design of an air observation post (AOP) aircraft. The Fane F.1/40 was the only other competing design. The GAL.47 was a twin-boom configuration with a pusher airscrew. One example was built (test registration T-0224) in 1940 at London Air Park, Hanworth. It was destroyed on 2 April 1942.

Specifications

See also

Notes

References

External links
 Photo at 1000aircraftphotos.com

1940s British military utility aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
47
Twin-boom aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1940
Mercury project. Mercury project may refer to:

 Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program of the U.S., 1958–1963
 Project Mercury (album), by Rosetta and Balboa, 2007
 Mercury (satellite), a series of three U.S. spy satellites launched in the 1990s
 Game Gear console, developed as Project Mercury
 Rocket's Red Glare, a 2000 TV movie originally titled Mercury Project
 Project Mercury, a prototype of Linksys iPhone

See also
 Mercury program (disambiguation)
 Mercury (disambiguation)
Irwin Chanin. Irwin Salmon Chanin ( ) (October 29, 1891 – February 24, 1988) was an American architect and real estate developer, best known for designing several Art Deco towers and Broadway theaters.

Biography
Irwin Chanin was born to a Jewish family, the son of an immigrant from Poland and an immigrant from Poltava, Ukraine.  In 1915, he graduated from Cooper Union with a degree in civil engineering. At Cooper Union he was noted as a founder of Alpha Mu Sigma, a fraternity for Jewish men. 

In 1919, Chanin and his brother Henry founded the Chanin Construction Company. In 1925, they built the 46th Street (now Richard Rodgers) Theatre, the first of six theaters they built on Broadway. This was followed by the Biltmore (Samuel J. Friedman), Majestic, Mansfield (Brooks Atkinson, Lena Horne), Masque (Golden), and Royale (Bernard B. Jacobs). The Chanins also built two apartment buildings on Central Park West: a twin-towered housing cooperative skyscraper named The Majestic in 1930 and The Century in 1931. The brothers developed the Chanin Building in midtown.  They also developed the Lincoln Hotel (now Row NYC Hotel), the Beacon Hotel and Theater, and the World Apparel Center.

Chanin was also known for developing the "Green Acres" section of Valley Stream, New York. Ground broke in 1936 but only Phase I (known as the "old section") was completed before World War II.  After the war construction resumed and the "new section" was completed by 1959.  This section included the balance of the residential homes, the Forest Road Elementary School, the Green Acres Mall, and the Green Acres Garden Apartments.

He was President of Chanin Theatres Corporation, and his brother Henry I. Chanin was Treasurer.  In 1981,  Cooper Union renamed its school of architecture after him. Near the end of Chanin's life, several of his developments were protected as New York City designated landmarks, including the Century Apartments, the Beacon Theatre, and all six of his Broadway theaters.

Personal life
In 1921, Chanin married Sylvia Schofler; she died in 1976. Their children included sons Paul Richard Chanin (died 2009) and Marcy Chanin (died 1997), and daughters Doris Chanin Freedman (died 1981) and Joan Chanin Schwartz. Irwin Chanin died on February 24, 1988. His funeral was held at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in Manhattan.

Notes

References

External links

1891 births
1988 deaths
American people of Polish-Jewish descent
American businesspeople in real estate
College fraternity founders
Elastolefin. Elastolefin is a fiber composed of at least 95% (by weight) of macromolecules partially cross-linked, made of ethylene and at least one other olefin. When stretched to one and a half times its original length, it recovers rapidly to its original length. It therefore will stretch up to 50% and recover. Recent updates to EU fabric labelling directive to include elastolefin in Anex I and II. Low crystallinity polyolefin elastomers that have a cross-linked structure have been developed by the DOW Chemical Company in 2002. The trade name of the elastolefin fibers is DOW XLA, the fibers when under lower stress have the ability to expand when larger strains are applied. The DOW XLA fibers were designed to have high thermal and chemical resistance, stretch performance, and durability.

References

Organic polymers
Polyolefins
Elastomers
Synthetic fibers
PEL (company). Pak Elektron Limited (PEL) is a Pakistani major appliances and electrical equipment manufacturer headquartered in Lahore.

PEL operates in two segments: power and appliances. The former includes manufacturing of power transformers and energy meters, while the latter division assembles and distributes home appliances such as refrigerators and air conditioners.

History
Pak Elektron Ltd (PEL) was founded in 1956 through a technical collaboration with AEG. In 1978, PEL was acquired by Saigol Group and was taken public a decade later. In 2009, PEL became the sole distributor of LG Corporation's home appliances in Pakistan.

In February 2018, the World Bank imposed a 33-month debarment on PEL, its affiliates PEL Marketing, Kohinoor Power Company, and its former general manager, Abdul Waheed Butt, for engaging in collusive practices during bidding on World Bank-financed electricity distribution and transmission improvement projects in Pakistan. As part of Negotiated Resolution Agreements, PEL and Butt acknowledged their roles in the misconduct and agreed to comply with specified corporate compliance conditions for release from debarment. An investigation by the World Bank's Integrity Vice Presidency found that PEL was part of a trade association that conspired to allocate predetermined shares of five contracts by deciding winners in advance and coordinating bid prices; Butt chaired meetings that distributed at least two of these contracts among group members.

In 2020, PEL became a distributor of Panasonic products in Pakistan.

Appliances Division
PEL’s Appliances Division is the flag carrier of the Saigol Group involved in home appliances manufacturing.

PEL Air 
PEL window-type air conditioners were introduced in 1981 in technical collaboration with General Corporation of Japan. Ever since their launch, PEL air conditioners have a leading position in the market. Recognizing the shift in consumers' preference from window-type to split-type air conditioners, PEL has focused its manufacturing efforts on split-type air conditioners.

PEL Refrigerators
The manufacturing of refrigerators started in 1986-87 in technical collaboration with M/s IAR-SILTAL of Italy. Like air conditioners, PEL's refrigerators are also in great demand. Today, PEL Crystal has 30% market share across Pakistan.

PEL Deep Freezers
PEL deep freezer was introduced in 1987 in technical collaboration with M/s Ariston Thermo of Italy.

Power Division
PEL's Power Division consists of three main products:
 Energy meters
 Transformers
 Switchgears

References

External links
 

Saigol Group
Manufacturing companies established in 1956
Consumer electronics brands
Electronics companies of Pakistan
Electrical engineering companies of Pakistan
Home appliance manufacturers of Pakistan
Companies listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange
Companies in the KSE 100 Index
Pakistani brands
Electric transformer manufacturers
1978 mergers and acquisitions
1980s initial public offerings
Pakistani companies established in 1956
Global Ocean Observing System. The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) is a global system for sustained observations of the ocean comprising the oceanographic component of the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS).  GOOS is administrated by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), and joins the Global Climate Observing System, GCOS, and Global Terrestrial Observing System, GTOS, as fundamental building blocks of the GEOSS.

GOOS is a platform for:
 International cooperation for sustained observation of the oceans.
 Generations of oceanographic products and services.
 Interaction between research, operational, and user communities.

GOOS serves oceanographic researchers, coastal managers, parties to international conventions, national meteorological and oceanographic agencies, hydrographic offices, marine and coastal industries, policymakers, and the interested general public.

GOOS is sponsored by the IOC, UNEP, WMO, and ICSU. It is implemented by member states via their government agencies, navies and oceanographic research institutions working together in a wide range of thematic panels and regional alliances.

The GOOS Scientific Steering Committee provides guidance, while Scientific and Technical Panels evaluate Essential Ocean Variable observation systems. The secretariat director, from 2004 to 2011 was Keith Alverson. The secretariat director from 2011–2022 it was Albert Fischer.

Essential ocean variables
Essential Ocean Variables are a collection of ocean properties selected in a way so as to provide the best, most cost-effective suite of data that enables quantification of key ocean processes. They are selected based on their Relevance, Feasibility, and Cost effectiveness. They fall into four categories - physics, biogeochemistry, ecosystems, and cross-disciplinary. Their consistent usage is promoted by agencies such as GOOS and Southern. The EOVs are:

Physics
Sea state
Ocean surface stress
Sea ice
Sea surface height
Sea surface temperature
Subsurface temperature
Surface currents
Subsurface currents
Sea surface salinity
Subsurface salinity
Ocean surface heat flux
Biogeochemistry
Oxygen
Nutrients
Inorganic carbon
Transient tracers
Particulate matter
Nitrous oxide
Stable carbon isotopes
Dissolved organic carbon
Ecosystems
Phytoplankton biomass and diversity
Zooplankton biomass and diversity
Fish abundance and distribution
Marine turtles, birds, mammals abundance and distribution
Hard coral cover and composition
Seagrass cover and composition
Macroalgal canopy cover and composition
Mangrove cover and composition
Microbe biomass and diversity  (*emerging)
Invertebrate abundance and distribution (*emerging)
Cross-disciplinary
Ocean color
Ocean Sound

See also
Integrated Ocean Observing System
Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Sites (GTOS)

References

External links
 GOOS Web 

Oceanography
Earth observation projects
Robert D. Richards. Robert D. Richards is a Canadian-born space entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of Moon Express, Inc., a U.S. company partnered with NASA and developing robotic spacecraft to provide low cost access to the Moon for science, exploration and commerce. He is also the founder and former CEO of Odyssey Moon Limited, an Isle of Man based commercial lunar enterprise and the first official contender in the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE competition.  From 2002-2009 he was the founding Director of the Space Division at Optech Incorporated, providing advanced lidar systems for spacecraft operations and planetary exploration, including NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander and OSIRIS-REx missions.

In 1987 Robert Richards founded the International Space University (ISU) together with Todd B. Hawley and Peter Diamandis and he served as the university's first Associate Administrator for Strategic Planning. He chaired the board's administrative and strategic planning committees during ISU's first phase of development. In 2005 Robert Richards received a Doctorate of Space Achievement (honoris causa) from the International Space University for “distinguished accomplishments in support of humanity’s exploration and use of space.”

Robert Richards co-founded the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) as a student together with Todd B. Hawley and Peter Diamandis in the 1980s. After coining the term "Space Generation", symbolizing a common bond among people born since the beginning of the space age, Robert Richards also co-founded the Space Generation Foundation with Hawley and Diamandis, now succeeded by the Space Generation Advisory Council.

In 2008 Robert Richards joined Peter Diamandis, Ray Kurzweil and others in the founding of Singularity University, an institution based at the NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley, California, focused on graduate and executive level education about exponentially advancing technologies.  Robert Richards remains an active supporter of these organizations.

References

External links
Robert D. Richards' personal website

Living people
Canadian aerospace engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Logic Works. Logic Works Inc. was a software company created by CEO Benjamin C. Cohen based in Princeton, New Jersey. Their flagship product was an IDEF1X modeling and database design tool
called ERwin (ERwin) whose name is formed from an initialism of ER for Entity Relationship and "win", short for windows.  The company also produced BPwin (for business process modeling using IDEF0), ModelMart and TestBytes.

The company went public in October 1995 with an IPO of 3.2 million shares at $11, and was traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol LGWX until its eventual sale. In 1998, Logic Works was acquired by Platinum Technology for $174.8 million in stock, which was in turn acquired by Computer Associates the next year. In 2016, erwin, Inc. was launched as an independent company.

See also
Platinum Technology
AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler
erwin, Inc.

References

Defunct software companies of the United States
Software companies established in 1988
Software companies disestablished in 1998
Companies based in New Jersey
Bimota SB8K. The SB8K is a sportbike made by Italian motorcycle manufacturer Bimota.

The bike was added to the present lineup after the company hiatus in the late 1990s financial crisis. The bike was built with a profusion of light alloys and carbon fiber; the materials employed in the construction of the chassis are the most advanced materials available today. Carbon fiber is used for the fairing, as well as for the construction of the fuel tank, which was built utilizing the same techniques applied to parts for the Motorcycle Grand Prix racebike. Many elements of the SB8K are meticulously machined from aluminum alloy, a distinctive hallmark for all classic and current Bimota products.

The "SB" series means the powerplant beneath the bike frame was taken directly from the Suzuki TL1000R, and has been highly tuned by engineers to deliver more power output & torque at all engine speeds.

The SB8K is the only production bike in the world using Bimota's own radial injector fuel injection (Radial EFI).

The racing version, SB8R participated in 2000 season of Superbike World Championship with Anthony Gobert victory for Race 1 in Phillip Island. This to be the first and only win for Bimota and SB8R.

Chassis

The SB8K has a distinctive frame that wraps around the TL1000R motor, where the upper frame is built of lightweight alloy and the lower footrest section consists of two carbon fibre plates with a box structure to reduce the frame and bike overall weight. The result is a lighter frame with the best possible rigidity over lightness ratio, the frame just weighing 185 kg on road with exceptional rigidity.

References 

SB8K
Sport bikes
Motorcycles introduced in 1998
9F. 9F or 9-F may refer to:

Locomotives
 BR Standard Class 9F, a class of 2-10-0 steam locomotives
 BR Standard Class 9F 92020-9
 BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star
 List of preserved BR Standard Class 9F locomotives
 GCR Class 9F, a class of 0-6-2T steam locomotives

Other uses
 2020 Salvadoran political crisis, commonly referred to as 9F (9 February)
 New York Route 9F, now New York State Route 9G
Fluorine (9F), a chemical element

See also
 F9 (disambiguation)
 February 9
 9ff, a German car tuning company
 Grumman F9F Panther, an American carrier-based fighter aircraft
 Grumman F9F Cougar, an American carrier-based fighter aircraft