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Jerry Kline. Jerry Kline is the founder and former chairman of Innovative Interfaces and SkyRiver Technology Solutions, both based in Emeryville, California, USA.

Personal life
Kline was born in 1951 in Los Angeles, California. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974.

Kline resides in Berkeley, California with his wife.  They have 3 children and 5 grandchildren.

Career
Kline began his career designing and developing software at the UC Berkeley Library, where he worked from 1973 to 1978.

Kline co-founded Innovative Interfaces, Inc., a provider of integrated library system software, in 1978 and began building the company in the spare bedroom of his home. Innovative's first product was a "black box" interface that allowed libraries to download OCLC bibliographic records in the CLSI circulation system without re-keying — a system considered revolutionary at the time.

During Kline's tenure, Innovative has produced a series of library technology offerings.  These included the INNOVACQ Acquisitions and Serials System (1981), the INN-Reach Consortial Borrowing System (1993),  Millennium Integrated Library System (1999),and the Sierra Services Platform (2010).  Kline also founded and launched Sky River Technology Solutions, a bibliographic utility, in 2010.

In February 2012 Kline sold Innovative Interfaces and SkyRiver Technology Solutions to Huntsman Gay Global Capital and JMI Equity.  He left the companies at the end of that year.

The Gerald M. Kline Family Foundation, created in 1999, marked the beginning of Kline's philanthropic activities.  The Foundation has donated to various organizations pertaining to libraries, education, food, public health, housing and environmental issues.  Among the current initiatives undertaken by the Foundation are the Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize for public libraries and the John H. Francis Polytechnic High School Scholarships, enabling graduating seniors to attend college.

References

External links 
 Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
 Innovative Users Group
 SkyRiver Technology Solutions, LLC

1951 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
University of California, Berkeley alumni
American electrical engineers
American computer businesspeople
Engineers from California
International Panel on Fissile Materials. The International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), established in 2006, is a group of independent nuclear experts from 17 countries: Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, South Korea, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It aims to advance international initiatives to “secure and to sharply reduce all stocks of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium, the key materials in nuclear weapons, and to limit any further production”.

The Panel is co-chaired by Alexander Glaser and Zia Mian of Princeton University and Tatsujiro Suzuki of Nagasaki University, Japan. Other members include: Li Bin, José Goldemberg, Frank von Hippel, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Patricia Lewis, Abdul Hameed Nayyar, Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Ramamurti Rajaraman, M.V. Ramana, and Mycle Schneider.
 
The Panel produces an annual Global Fissile Material Report which summarizes new information on fissile material stocks and production worldwide, as well as periodic research reports.

See also
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

References

External links
 International Panel on Fissile Materials website

Nuclear proliferation
Nuclear weapons policy
EGA Master. EGA Master  is a manufacturer of tools for professional/industrial use founded by Iñaki Garmendia Ajuria in 1990 and based in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). Originally specialized in pipe tools it later diversified into a wider product range, including mechanical tools, non-sparking tools, titanium non-magnetic tools, insulated tools and explosion-proof intrinsically safe instruments.  It patented the Basque Wrench, among other worldwide patents. The company has customers in over 150 countries, and was selected in 2011 as one of the top 100 Spanish brands.

The company sells to customers in the oil and gas, mining, automotive, aerospace, civil engineering and construction,  telecommunications and heavy industry sectors.

References

External links
 Official site

Tool manufacturing companies of Spain
Basque companies
Spanish brands
Vitoria-Gasteiz
1990 establishments in the Basque Country (autonomous community)
Lawyers bodkin. A lawyers bodkin or ribbon threader is a tool used in work with stationery.  It is used to bore holes in paper documents so that a connector such as legal tape, a treasury tag or a brass fastener can be threaded through the hole in the documents to bind them together.  A lawyers bodkin is similar to a stitching awl: it consists of a pointed metal shaft with an eyelet near the pointed end connected to a bulb-shaped wooden handle; the shaft is kept attached to the handle by a ferrule.

References

External links
 Description of typical use of a lawyers bodkin from Pelikan website

Stationery
Fasteners
Hudson Project. The Hudson Project is a 345 kV AC underground and submarine power cable system which supplies electric power to New York City from the Bergen Generating Station, in Ridgefield, New Jersey. The cable system was laid by Anbaric Development Partners.

Overview
The system consists of a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) back-to-back station with a transmission rate of 660 MW and DC voltage of 180 kV at 1 Railroad Avenue () in Ridgefield, which is connected by a 230 kV line with the nearby substation. From the static inverter plant the three-phase AC line to Consolidated Edison's W. 49th Street substation at  starts, is in its whole length implemented as underground or submarine cable, buried  in non-navigable and  in navigable sections.

After travelling through the Edgewater Tunnel, the cable enters the Hudson River at Edgewater, New Jersey and runs along the eastern side of the river parallel to the shore until piers 92 and 94, where it enters Manhattan.

Construction of the link started in May 2011 and was completed in June 2013.

The cable was completely removed and replaced in 2017. The Ariadne, a 130-meter cable ship, performed the submarine cable replacement.

See also
Neptune Cable (submarine power cable between New Jersey and Long Island, NY)

References

External links 
Master Electric Transmission Plan for NYC - 2009

Buildings and structures in Bergen County, New Jersey
Buildings and structures in Manhattan
Edgewater, New Jersey
Electric power transmission systems in the United States
Fairview, New Jersey
Hudson River
Ridgefield, New Jersey
Infrastructure in New York City
Electric power transmission systems in New Jersey
Submarine power cables
Port of New York and New Jersey
Consolidated Edison
Public Service Enterprise Group
Energy infrastructure completed in 2013
2013 establishments in New Jersey
2013 establishments in New York City
List of Gemini astronauts. The Gemini astronauts were sixteen pilots who flew in Project Gemini, NASA's second human spaceflight program, between projects Mercury and Apollo.  Carrying two astronauts at a time, a senior command pilot and a junior pilot, the Gemini spacecraft was used for ten crewed missions.  Four of the sixteen astronauts flew twice.

Gemini was the second phase in the United States space program's larger goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" before the end of the 1960s, as proposed by president John F. Kennedy.  As an intermediary step, Gemini afforded its astronauts the opportunity to gain critical spaceflight experience, performing tasks required in the later Apollo program which fulfilled this objective.  Such tasks included rendezvous or station-keeping with other craft, docking, habitation in space over the course of several days, and flying spacecraft with more than one crew member.  Importantly, most individuals who flew as Gemini astronauts returned to space as key personnel in the Apollo program, bringing with them their first-hand experience of the operations carried out during Gemini.  Among the Gemini astronauts, six later walked on the Moon, another five flew to the Moon without landing, and two participated in Low Earth orbit Apollo missions.  Gus Grissom and Ed White were killed in the Apollo 1 disaster, and former Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper did not perform any further spaceflights.

All Gemini astronauts–excluding the Mercury Seven astronauts already included–were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1993.

Astronaut participation in Project Gemini was also a strong predictor for future achievement during the Apollo Program:

 Every Apollo mission commander, including Gus Grissom and with the exception of Alan Shepard, was a Gemini veteran.
 All three crew members of Apollo 11, the first lunar landing-Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin-were Gemini veterans.
 All three of the men who flew to the Moon twice-Jim Lovell, John Young and Gene Cernan-were Gemini veterans.
 With the exception of Elliot See, every member of NASA's second Astronaut Group—the class of nine men selected following the Mercury Seven—flew as a Gemini astronaut.

Key

Notes

References

Astronauts by space program
Gemini
Project Gemini astronauts
SIM-II. The SIM-II () was a 1930s Yugoslav Sports and tourist plane and the plane for the basic training, one-engined, with two crew members. It was designed by Sima Milutinović and built at the "S.Vlajković i sinovi" factory in Belgrade.

Design and development
Aircraft SIM-II was the first independent project of the most prolific designer of the Yugoslav aircraft, engineerSima Milutinović. Project of the school aircraft started Sima Milutinović during his specialization in the French aviation factories in late 1920s, where it attracted a solution that saw the flight school Blerio to the student and teacher sit on the plane next to each other. Upon his return to Yugoslavia, is hard at work, and aircraft that made the project was named SIM-II. Design was started at the end of the 1929 and the beginning of 1930. The prototype was developed in the aircraft factory in Belgrade "S. Vlajković and Sons", directed by the private constructor and with the financial help of his brother while the motor Siemens Sh-14 100 hp purchased on credit. The first test flight took place on 29 May 1930, and conducted by the test pilot Dragisa Stanisavljević, students techniques and reserve military pilot. Following successful factory testing, the commission commands YRAF tests carried out from the Pilot School in Novi Sad. The aircraft was rejected for military service because of lack of robustness and parallel to the seat of a military flight teachers are not used, so for the time entirely new conception of school aircraft collapsed .

Aircraft was high monoplane (parasol wing) with a Siemens engine 100 hp, with two crew members who were sitting side by side (pilot and instructor). The plane was completely wooden fuselage is covered with plywood, and the wings are covered with canvas. The wings are large profiles with rounded ends. On each side, the wings are supported by a pair of inclined struts which relied on the fuselage. The fuel tank was located in the central part between the wings that is, at their junction. Landing gear was fixed with elastic legs and depreciation is carried out using rubber blocks.

Operational history
While the plane was not accepted for military service command YRAF bought and gave him a prototype flight school of the Association of Reserve airmen. The plane was used for several years training reserve pilots in Zemun. During military service, the SIM-II is often borrowed Central Administration Aero Club, which used him for propaganda flights and was the beginning of the 1935 The military authorities handed over the use of Aeroclub. The aircraft was registered civil markings YU-PCV, and flew until 1937. when it was withdrawn from use.

Operators

Yugoslav Aerocub 1 aircraft
Yugoslav Royal Air Force

Specifications

See also

Notes

References

External links
 goldenyears - Yugoslovenski registar civilnih aviona
 - Siemens Zeitschrift November 1928

1930s Yugoslav military aircraft
Trainer aircraft
Alpaero Sirius. The Alpaero Sirius, also called the Noin Sirius, is a French high-wing, strut-braced, pod-and-boom, cruciform tail, single-seat motor glider that was designed by Claude Noin and produced by his company, Alpaero of Châteauvieux, Hautes-Alpes. It was available as plans for amateur construction and also as a kit, but has been discontinued.

Design and development
Named for the star, the prototype Sirius was made from wood, tube and aircraft fabric and first flew in August 1984. The prototype had an  wingspan.

The production Sirius fuselage is predominantly made from fibreglass, with wooden bulkheads. The  span tapered wing has a wooden spar and Styrofoam wing ribs reinforced with fibreglass and features air brakes on the top surface for glidepath control. The wing's leading edge is fabricated from  hot-wire cut foam, laminated with fibreglass. The wing and rudder are fabric covered. The fixed landing gear is a centre-line bicycle gear, with auxiliary wing tip and tail wheels. The main wheel has a drum brake. The  König SC 430 engine, or alternatively the  JPX D-320 engine, is mounted behind the cockpit and beneath the tail boom in pusher configuration and features a propeller guard plate just behind the main wheel. The propeller is a fixed pitch two-bladed design with small diameter. The cockpit width is  and the best glide ratio is 23:1.

In 1998 the design was available as plans for US$220 or as a kit for US$7900. Building time from the kit was estimated as 700 hours.

Variants
Sirius-C
Model for the European microlight category.

Specifications (Sirius)

See also

References

External links

1980s French sailplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Motor gliders
Aircraft first flown in 1984
Virtual Computer. Founded by Alex Vasilevsky, Virtual Computer was a venture-backed software company in the Boston area that produces desktop virtualization products, which combine centralized management with local execution on a hypervisor running on PCs. By running the workload on the PC, Virtual Computer enables companies to have centralized management without servers, storage, and networking required for server-hosted VDI.

History 
Virtual Computer was founded in November 2007 by Alex Vasilevsky. Highland Capital Partners and Flybridge Capital Partners invested $20 million in funding. It was acquired by Citrix in May 2012.

Partnerships 
In March 2011, Virtual Computer announced its collaboration with Lenovo to optimize Virtual Computer's NxTop client virtualization and management solution on Lenovo's business-oriented systems.  These include select models of Lenovo's ThinkCentre A and M series desktops and ThinkPad T and X series laptops.

Virtual Computer's NxTop desktop virtualization solution is compatible with the previous three generations of Intel Core vPro processor family, including the Intel Core vPro i3, i5, and i7 processors, as well as all platforms with Intel Virtualization Technology.

Product 
Virtual Computer's product is the NxTop®  Enterprise.  It released the fourth version 4 of its client hypervisor, NxTop®4  Enterprise, in August 2011. NxTop combines a centralized management system with an enhanced Xen-based client hypervisor to create a single platform for any combination of local desktops, remote VDI sessions, and server- and cloud-based applications. NxTop provides IT control of the end-point through advanced management capabilities in NxTop Center.

Virtual Computer's core technologies include a managed client-hypervisor that runs on a bare-metal PC across a wide set of hardware platforms; a layering technology that pulls apart applications, profiles, and data so they can be managed independently; and a mechanism to tightly integrate a centralized management system with a type-1 managed hypervisor running on end-user PCs.

References

External links 
 Virtual Computer Official Website
 Virtual Computer uses virtualisation to manage laptops
 Client-side virtualization goes bare metal
 Virtual Computer collaborates with Lenovo-NxTop the industry’s best enterprise-class type 1 client hypervisor?

Defunct software companies of the United States
Xaitment. xaitment is a German-based company that develops and sells artificial intelligence (AI) software to video game developers and simulation developers. The company was founded in 2004 by Dr. Andreas Gerber, and is a spin-off of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, or DFKI. xaitment has its main office in Quierschied, Germany, and field offices in San Francisco and China.

Products 
xaitment currently sells two AI software modules: xaitMap and xaitControl. xaitMap provides runtime libraries and graphical tools for navigation mesh generation (also called NavMesh generation), pathfinding, dynamic collision avoidance, and individual and crowd movement. xaitControl is a finite-state machine for game logic and character behavior modeling that also includes a real-time debugger. On January 11, 2012, xaitment announced that it making its source code for these modules available to "all current and future US and European licensees".

On February 22, 2012 xaitment released two new plug-ins, xaitMap and xaitControl for the Unity Game Engine. 
  
The full versions are available for PC (Windows and Linux), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. The pathfinding plug-in is available with a Windows dev environment, but can deployed on iOS, Mac, Android and the Unity Web Player.

Partners 
xaitment's AI software is currently integrated into the Unity game engine, Havok's Vision Engine, Bohemia Interactive's VBS2 Simulation Engine, GameBase's Gamebryo game engine.

Customers 
xaitment sells its AI software products to video game developers and military and civil simulation developers. Current customers include Tencent, gamania, TML Studios, Emobi Games, IP Keys and others. A full list of customers can be found on xaitment's website.

References

External links 
 xaitment.com

Applications of artificial intelligence
Software companies of Germany
Skyharbor Airport. Skyharbor Airport  was a privately owned, public-use airport in Dallas County, Alabama, United States. It was located five nautical miles (5.8 mi, 9.3 km) southwest of the central business district of Selma, Alabama. Since 2011, official FAA records state "Airport closed indefinitely."

Facilities and aircraft 
Skyharbor Airport covers an area of  at an elevation of 125 feet (38 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 6/24 with a turf surface measuring 2,500 by 170 feet (762 x 52 m).

For the 12-month period ending September 19, 1996, the airport had an average of 129 general aviation aircraft operations per week. At that time there were 14 aircraft based at this airport: 93% single-engine and 7% multi-engine.

References

External links 
 Aerial photo as of 30 January 1998 from USGS The National Map

Defunct airports in Alabama
Airports in Dallas County, Alabama
Defunct privately owned airports
Michael Schor. Michael Schor (; 
25 December 1920 – 26 September 2011) was an Israeli engineer who served for 17 years as the CEO of Israel Military Industries (IMI), and was twice the recipient of the Israel Defense Prize.

Biography 
Schor was born in Odessa in the Soviet Union. In 1938, he immigrated to the British Mandate for Palestine (now Israel). Schor joined the Haganah forces and integrated into its arms industry. After completing his studies of chemical engineering at the Technion in 1945, he worked as an experiments engineer in the military industry. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Schor managed the IMI materials plant, and for his work there he was awarded the 1959 Israel Defense Prize. In the 1960s, Schor managed the IMI Department of explosives. In 1967 he was appointed as the deputy director of the IMI while continuing to manage the IMI Department of explosives. In July 1972, Schor was appointed as the CEO of the Israel Military Industries, a position which he maintained until 1989. Afterwards he was a chairman in the IMI during the years 1990–1991. After his retirement, Schor was awarded the 1991 Israel Defense Prize for lifetime achievement.

In 1985, Schor was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the Technion for his unique contribution to the development of the military industries in the field of engineering, management and economics, and in recognition for his part in the strengthening of the Israeli defense establishment.

Married Gabriela and the two share 4 children. Their third child, Arik Schor, was the CEO of Tnuva.

Schor died in 2011 at the age of 91.

References

External links
 Former CEO of IMI Michael Schor died - published on Haaretz on September 27, 2011

1920 births
2011 deaths
Israeli chief executives
Israel Defense Prize recipients
Israeli chemical engineers
Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Tensiometer (soil science). A tensiometer in  soil science is a measuring instrument used to determine the matric water potential () (soil moisture tension) in the vadose zone.  This device typically consists of a glass or plastic tube with a porous ceramic cup and is filled with water.  The top of the tube has either a built-in vacuum gauge or a rubber cap used with a portable puncture tensiometer instrument, which uses a hypodermic needle to measure the pressure inside the tensiometer.  The tensiometer is buried in the soil, and a hand pump is used to pull a partial vacuum.  As water is pulled out of the soil by plants and evaporation, the vacuum inside the tube increases.  When the soil is wetted flow can also occur in the reverse direction: as water is added to the soil, the vacuum inside the tube pulls moisture from the soil and decreases. When the water pressure in the tensiometer is determined to be in equilibrium with the water pressure in the soil, the tensiometer gauge reading represents the matric potential of the soil.

Such tensiometers are used in irrigation scheduling to help farmers and other irrigation managers to determine when to water.  In conjunction with a water retention curve, tensiometers can be used to determine how much to water.  With practice, a tensiometer can be a useful tool for these purposes. Soil tensiometers can also be used in the scientific study of soils and plants.

References
 Rawls, W.J., Ahuja, L.R., Brakensiek, D.L., and Shirmohammadi, A. 1993. Infiltration and soil water movement, in Maidment, D.R., Ed., Handbook of hydrology, New York, NY, USA, McGraw-Hill, p. 5.1–5.51.

External links
 The Experimental Hydrology Wiki Soil matric potential - tensiometer (T4)
 The Experimental Hydrology Wiki Soil matric potential - tensiometer (T5)

Irrigation
Soil physics
Earth observation in-situ sensors