omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Brian Valentine. Henry Brian Valentine (born November 28, 1959) is an American software executive and casual poker player. He has held positions at large companies including Intel, Microsoft and Amazon.com.

Early life
Born in Centralia, Washington, he graduated from high school in 1977 and enrolled in Centralia Community College (CCC).  Upon graduating from CCC in 1979 with an associate degree, Valentine then enrolled in the University of Washington's engineering department. Valentine spent one year at UW before taking a leave of absence in 1980.

In the fall of 1981, Valentine enrolled in the Computer Science and Math school at Eastern Washington University (EWU) in Cheney, Washington. In his senior year at EWU, Valentine was selected to develop the software for an automated energy management and control system.

He graduated from EWU with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in May 1983 and took a job as a software engineer at Intel, working on software for in-circuit emulators, and major systems programming for Unix and VMS applications.

Microsoft
In August 1987, Valentine resigned from Intel and took a position at Microsoft after his former Intel colleague Paul Maritz invited him to join. 
He spent the next 19 years launching some of the most widely used software products of their time. He led the team that launched Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5. As a result of his success with Exchange, he was personally asked by Steve Ballmer in 1998 to rescue the then-failing Windows 2000 project. In one year, Valentine was able to successfully deliver Windows 2000 in December 1999. He then went on to lead the teams responsible for Windows XP, XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista.

Amazon
In 2006, Valentine moved to join Amazon.com where he built and led the eCommerce Platform team, before leaving in early 2014.

Post-Amazon
Valentine joined Ivy Softworks, an Innovation Studio in Seattle, in September 2014 where he worked until 2015.

Other ventures
Valentine has two final tables at the World Series of Poker Circuit Tour and nine cashes at the World Series of Poker Tour.

References

Amazon (company) people
Microsoft employees
Living people
Microsoft Windows people
1959 births
People from Centralia, Washington
Amateur poker players
Vanning. Vanning is a type of ore dressing by which ores are washed on a shovel.
Typically, a powdered sample of orestuff is swirled with water on the blade of a shovel and then given a series of upward flicking motions. The heavier ore is tossed up through the water and appears as a crescent shaped patch at the top of the charge with the lighter gangue below. Developed in western England, this process was still in use at a major tin mine and a mine waste collection firm in Cornwall until 1985.

Frue Vanner

In the 19th century the process was automated and used for the separation of ore on an industrial scale. The Frue vanner was one such machine that was widely adopted. It was invented in 1874, by W. B. Frue, Superintendent of the Silver Islet Mine, Ontario, Canada, who spent two years developing the system.

In the Frue vanner a continuous rubber belt 4 feet wide and 27½ feet long passed over rollers to form the surface of an inclined plane on which the orestuff was concentrated. The belt travelled up hill at from 3 to 12 feet per minute while being laterally shaken about 180 to 200 times. The inclination of the belt was from 4 to 12 in. per 12 feet. The belt received crushed orestuff from the stamps via a distributor about 4 feet from its upper end. As it travelled upwards, it met with small jets of water which gradually washed the gangue off the bottom of the belt. As the belt travelled over the top roller with the heavier ore adhering to it, it passed into a box containing water where the ore was deposited. From 3 to 6 gallons per minute of water was required. One machine could treat 6 tons per 24 hours of stuff passing a 40 mesh screen, or 2 vanners to 5 stamps. The Embrey Concentrator and the Triumph Concentrator were similar to the Frue vanner except that the shaking was longitudinal instead of lateral.

King Edward Mine in Cornwall claims to have the only working Frue vanner in the world, restored in 2008.

References

Mineral processing
Markos Sklivaniotis. Markos Sklivaniotis (Greek: Μάρκος Σκληβανιώτης) is a Greek writer and a poet.

He was born in Patras, Greece, 1954.  He studied chemical engineering in Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki and following that he was engaged in research in the University of Leeds, UK, achieving his Ph.D. degree in 1982.  He worked for many years in Patras, In the Municipal Water Utility Sector DEYAP, currently he is retired.

Works

Poems

Books

References
The first version of the article is translated and is based from the article at the Greek Wikipedia (el:Main Page)

External links
All of these two links are only available in the Greek language:
http://www.elogos.gr/lesxi/sklhvaniwths_markos.htm
His information on the water

1954 births
Living people
Poets from Achaea
21st-century Greek poets
Writers from Patras
Greek male poets
21st-century Greek male writers
NASA Environmental Management System. The Environmental Management System (EMS) of NASA was developed under the standards of the ISO 14001. In creating the EMS it was necessary to provide maximum flexibility to each centers of NASA while living up to the standards of the ISO 14001, along with the "Executive Order 13148". The system was designed to benefit by "increased involvement of management and shop level personnel; reduced mission delays; improved procedures; reduction in single point failures; identification of pollution prevention opportunities; improved compliance; and better relationships with regulators and the public".

History
The EMS was tested at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The test study was carried out to evaluate the challenges of the system, including costs, resource requirements, and benefits. 

NASA's EMS development team has received the Circle Award from the White House for "creating an agency wide environmental management system".

Current role
NASA's EMS is a major contributor to the knowledge of Earth; EMS has used satellites and pictures from space to show and display the change over years, and the Goddard Space Flight Center to constantly monitor the changing atmosphere and ecosystem. EMS continues to research the damage black soot has on Earth's climate. Recent findings show that the black carbon or soot is indeed causing harm to the North pole, for example the rapid melting of sea ice, and snow changing the temperature of the atmosphere.

Dorothy Koch of Columbia University, writing in the Journal of Geophysical Research, mentioned that the research "offers additional evidence black carbon, generated through the process of incomplete combustion, MAY may have a significant warming impact on the Arctic", adding that this meant "there may be immediate consequences for Arctic ecosystems, and potentially long-term implications on climate patterns for much of the globe". NASA hopes to soon be able to use satellites in the measuring of public health, in order to investigate how weather, climate, and other environmental factors correlate with the occurrence of chronic and infectious diseases".

References

NASA groups, organizations, and centers
MESUR. MESUR (Mars Environmental SURvey) was a NASA program designed to explore Mars in preparation for human follow-up missions of the Space Exploration Initiative. The only mission of the program that was completed was MESUR Pathfinder.

History
MESUR was a planned set of 16 surface missions on Mars that would also set up a planetary network across Mars and work in conjunction with Mars Observer. The original plan was proposed by NASA Ames, but it would eventually include ideas from the competing JPL proposal. It was envisioned as a low-cost method of surveying Mars, with risk tolerance, since a loss of a spacecraft was not fatal to the program, because of multiple relatively cheap space probes.

MESUR Pathfinder would be the "pathfinder" mission for the MESUR program. MESUR regular missions would start landing in 1999. The multi-year MESUR would have 16 more landers, landing in the projected period of 1999-2003, and lasting 10 years. Launches would start in 1996. Several of the landers would carry Sojourner-class rovers. The entire program was projected at a cost of $1 billion US, with per annum spending restricted to $150 million US, starting in FY1994. They were planned to be low-cost missions to Mars, instead of multibillion-dollar missions.

The rovers and landers would have instruments and cameras to examine surface rocks, search for water, perform seismography, and observe meteorology. The seismology experiments would help determine the internal structure of Mars.

After Pathfinder, in 1999, four landers would be launched in a single rocket. At the next launch window in 2001, four more landers would again launch in on a single rocket. Finally in 2003, the last eight landers would launch on two rockets.

On 26 June 1992, NASA unveiled the prototype for Mars Sojourner, Rocky IV, on the 25th anniversary of the first US lunar lander.

After the loss of Mars Observer, the MESUR program was shelved, and Pathfinder became part of the NASA Discovery Program.

Missions

MESUR Pathfinder

The MESUR Pathfinder was launched on December 4, 1996 by NASA aboard a Delta II. After a 7-month voyage it landed on Ares Vallis, in a region called Chryse Planitia on Mars, on 4 July 1997. During its voyage the spacecraft had to accomplish four flight adjustments on 10 January, 3 February, 6 May and 25 June. The lander opened, exposing the rover called Sojourner that would go on to execute many experiments on the Martian surface.

Although the mission was programmed to last a week to a month, it eventually lasted for almost three months. The final contact with the Pathfinder was at 10:23 UTC on September 27, 1997. Although the mission planners tried to restore contact during the following five months, the successful mission was terminated on March 10, 1998. After the landing, the Mars Pathfinder was renamed the Sagan Memorial Station in honor of the famous astronomer and planetologist Carl Sagan. The mission had exceeded its goals in the first month.

References

Mars Pathfinder
Missions to Mars
NASA programs
Bronze (disambiguation). Bronze is an alloy of copper with any of several other metals, often tin.

Bronze may also refer to:

 Bronze (color), the tint of the metal
 Bronze (horse), a racehorse
 Bronze (racial classification), persons of combined Latin European and Indigenous American ancestry
 Bronze (turkey), a breed of domestic turkey
 Bronze Age, an early period of historical development
 Bronze Night, a series of riots in Estonia in 2007
 Bronze Records, an English independent record label 
 Bronze sculpture, a piece of art made of bronze
 Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a controversial Soviet WW2 Monument in Tallinn, Estonia
 Bronze Sunbird, a species of bird found in Africa
 In chemistry, various mixed oxides with metallic sheen, such as 
 Sodium tungsten bronze 
 Molybdenum purple bronze , A = Li, Na, K, Rb, Tl
 Lucy Bronze (born 1991), English association footballer
 The Bronze (film), a 2015 comedy film
 The Bronze, a fictional nightclub in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

See also
 Bronze Cross (disambiguation)
 Bronze Medal (disambiguation)
 Bronze Medallion (disambiguation), an award in several organizations
 Bronze star (disambiguation)
 Bronz, a musical group
 Bronzer, a tanning product
 Bronzing, a process by which an object is preserved by electroplating with copper
 Compact disc bronzing
HŽ series 1161. The HŽ Series 1161 is an experimental electric locomotive series belonging to Croatian Railways ().

Prototype 
The two units of JŽ 462 (HŽ 1161) series were converted from the JŽ 362 (HŽ 1061) series. The reelectrification of the Zagreb – Rijeka line was planned, involving change from 3 kV DC to . To keep costs down, it was planned to reuse as many parts as possible. Also, newly used parts had to be compatible with the JŽ 441 (HŽ 1141). The modified locomotive had also to comply with the technical regulations.

The bogies were reused, the main frame was reinforced. The traction motors and pantographs had to be modified for the higher voltage.

Newly used parts included: the main transformer, new direction switch, new electrical amplifier, new air compressor and some parts of the pneumatic devices.

It is the first six-axle locomotive at Croatian Railways. The 1061 number was changed to 1161, in order to indicate a new subseries.

History 
 First unit: arrival at Zagreb Workshop on 1980/06/25.
 Second unit: had been waiting at the workshop since 1979/07/28.

Testing program 
On 23 March first test drive was performed.  The unit was permitted into the traffic.  The locomotive was further tested.

Reason for abandoning the serial production 
Serial production never happened. Although Zagreb Workshop showed, that it could do the job, the real full re-electrification of Zagreb-Rijeka line has not happened yet. Croatian Railways do today rent multi-system locomotives in order to drive the whole line non-stop. A power conversion on the total line is slated to be finished soon.

Liveries 

These two locomotives had different liveries. One had the red livery, reassembling the original "ASEA" colouring, and the other one had grey livery with blue stripes. The grey with blue livery was later chosen as Croatian Railways standard company livery.

Possibilities in the future 
The 1061 and subsequently 1161 have reached almost the end of their useful life. Probably, newer and more modern locomotives will be purchased to serve Zagreb-Rijeka line.  Either the experience from this two prototypes will be used to modernise series 1061 to 1161, once Zagreb-Rijeka line gets consistent voltage, or this units just were a successful experiment, but performed in wrong time.

References

External links 
  Characteristics and some description

1161
Bo-Bo-Bo locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1988
25 kV AC locomotives
Bulk temperature. In thermofluids dynamics, the bulk temperature, or the average bulk temperature in the thermal fluid, is a convenient reference point for evaluating properties related to convective heat transfer, particularly in applications related to flow in pipes and ducts.

The concept of the bulk temperature is that adiabatic mixing of the fluid from a given cross section of the duct will result in some equilibrium temperature that accurately reflects the average temperature of the moving fluid, more so than a simple average like the film temperature.

References

Continuum mechanics
Heat transfer
Temperature
Intranet Design Annual. The Intranet Design Annual is a yearly intranet design contest with 10 winners. The contest focuses on usability. The contest was created by Kara Pernice in 2001, and is organised by Nielsen Norman Group who each year publishes a report with detailed case studies on the awarded intranets.

See also 
 Intranet
 Usability

References

Usability
Intranet
2,4,6-Trichlorophenol. 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol, also known as TCP, phenaclor, Dowicide 2S, Dowcide 2S, omal, is a chlorinated phenol that has been used as a fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, antiseptic, defoliant, and glue preservative. It is a clear to yellowish crystalline solid with a strong, phenolic odor. It decomposes on heating to produce toxic and corrosive fumes including hydrogen chloride and chlorine.

Preparation 
2,4,6-Trichlorophenol is produced industrially by the electrophilic chlorination of phenol:

Health effects 
In animal models, consumption of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol leads to an increased incidence of lymphomas, leukemia, and liver cancer. It is classified as Group B2 (probable human carcinogen) by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The technical grade of this substance may contain polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and other contaminants.

Environmental effects
2,4,6-Trichlorophenol is an environmental pollutant that has been found in fresh water lakes such as the Great Lakes.

See also
Trichlorophenol (for other isomers).

References

Cited sources

External links
International Chemical Safety Card 1122
Compound Summary

Disinfectants
Chlorobenzene derivatives
Phenols
Agent systems reference model. The agent systems reference model (ASRM) is a layered, abstract description for multiagent systems.  As such, the reference model
 provides a taxonomy of terms, concepts and definitions to compare agent systems;
 identifies functional elements that are common in agent systems;
 captures data flow and dependencies among the functional elements in agent systems; and
 specifies assumptions and requirements regarding the dependencies among these elements.

The ASRM differentiates itself from technical standards, such as Knowledge Interchange Format, Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language, and those of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents in that it defines the required existence of components of a multiagent system; standards prescribe how they are designed.

Technical approach

The ASRM was technically constructed through forensic software analysis of existing agent-based systems.  Such fielded systems include JaDE, Cougaar, EMAA, NOMADS, Retsina, A-Globe, among others.  In so doing, through empirical evidence, the ASRM motivates its functional breakdown of agent-based systems.

Description of the ASRM layers

History

The ASRM was started in July 2005, with the first draft having been completed in November 2006.  Contributors to the document have included Drexel University, Cougaar Software, Global InfoTek (see also: CoABS), Soar Technology (see also: Soar), Penn State University, University of Southern California, University of South Carolina, the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, University of West Florida, BBN Technologies, Telcordia, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and others.

See also
 4D-RCS Reference Model Architecture
 Agent based model
 Artificial Intelligence
 Complex systems
 Distributed artificial intelligence
 Intelligent agent
 Multiagent system
 Reference model
 Software agent

Further reading

 Version 1.0a of the ASRM
 The Case for a Reference Model for Agent-Based Systems.  Pragnesh Jay Modi, William C. Regli and Israel Mayk.  In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications. June, 2006. Pages 321–325.
 Regli, W. C., Mayk, I., Dugan, C. J., Kopena, J. B., Lass, R. N., Modi, P. J., Mongan, W. M., Salvage, J. K., and Sultanik, E. A. "Development and specification of a reference model for agent-based systems." IEEE Trans. Sys. Man Cyber Part C 39, 5 (Sep. 2009), 572–596.

Reference models

Artificial intelligence engineering
Suffield and Thompsonville Bridge. The Suffield and Thompsonville Bridge was a 5-span iron through truss bridge over the Connecticut River located between present day Suffield, Connecticut, and Thompsonville, Connecticut (Enfield).  It connected Burbank Avenue in Suffield with Main Street in Thompsonville. Its four stone piers still stand today.

History 

In 1889 the Suffield and Thompsonville Bridge Company was granted a charter to construct an iron bridge across the Connecticut River between Thompsonville and Suffield. The Berlin Iron Bridge Company of Berlin, Connecticut, was the contractor for the ironwork, and O.W. Weand of Reading, Pennsylvania, was the contractor for the stonework. The first toll-taker was Nathan Hemenway. Tolls were initially three cents for pedestrians, twelve cents for single teams and fifteen cents for double teams.

The Enfield–Suffield Veterans Bridge opened downstream in 1966, and the Suffield and Thompsonville Bridge closed shortly thereafter. The ironwork was removed, but the four piers remain in the river.

See also
 List of crossings of the Connecticut River

References

External links
 
 Enfield Historical Society

Suffield, Connecticut
Enfield, Connecticut
Truss bridges in the United States
Demolished bridges in the United States
Bridges over the Connecticut River
Bridges completed in 1808
Bridges completed in 1893
Bridges in Hartford County, Connecticut
Road bridges in Connecticut
Former toll bridges in Connecticut
Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway. The Gross Lichterfelde Tramway was the world's first commercially successful electric tram and first public electric tramway used for permanent service. It was built by the Siemens & Halske company in Lichterfelde, a suburb of Berlin, and went in service on 16 May 1881.

Overview
Werner von Siemens had presented the first electric passenger train at the Berlin industrial exhibition two years before. In order to develop the concept, he received the official approval to run an electric tramway line on already existing tracks, which had been used for building the Prussian military academy (Hauptkadettenanstalt) at Lichterfelde West.

The  line started at Berlin-Lichterfelde Ost station on the Anhalt Railway line. Each car was originally equipped with a 180-volt DC  traction motor, the current being supplied via the running rails, in a manner similar to that used by most present-day model railways. Therefore, the  tracks were generally separated from roads, and trespassing was prohibited. 

At level crossings, the rails were dead or switched on only briefly before the approach of the tramcar. Nevertheless, people and horses frequently received electric shocks. It is also believed that, in order to enjoy the sight of glowing metal, young people caused short circuits by putting wire mesh on the tracks, which shut down the operation. 

In 1891, the tramway was equipped with an overhead wire, and the line was extended to Berlin-Lichterfelde West station. There were several further extensions, but operation was discontinued in 1931.

See also
Trams in Berlin
Electromote

References 

railserve.com, The First in Railroads and Trains
The Railway News, Volume 56, Oct. 10, 1891, page 578
engagetechnology.com, History of transportation
germaniatours.net Germany 

Tram transport in Germany
History of rail transport in Germany
Rail transport in Berlin
Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Metre gauge railways in Germany
1881 in transport
1881 in Germany