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Andromedia. is a 1998 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike. The film features the Japanese musical groups Speed and Da Pump.

Plot
High school students Mainosuke "Mai" Hitomi and Yuu kiss for the first time. Later that same day Mai is hit by a truck and killed. Her scientist father, Toshihiko Hitomi, uses a scan of her memories created before her death to construct an AI copy of her, named "Ai". Soccer, the CEO of the American tech company Digital Ware, wishes to awaken his own AI and sends an agent to shoot Toshihiko and steal his software, but Toshihiko sends Ai through the modem to safety before dying. Ai finds Yuu through a school computer terminal nicknamed "Icon" that has been enhanced by Satoshi Takanaka, Mai's genius half-brother with a terminal brain disease. Yuu transfers Ai to his laptop, through which she interacts with him and Mai's old friends, including Rika, who is jealous of Yuu's love for Ai. Soccer sends Satoshi and others to chase down Yuu and capture Ai.

Cast
Hiroko Shimabukuro as Mai & Ai
Eriko Imai as Yoko
Takako Uehara as Rika
Hitoe Arakaki as Nao
Kenji Harada as Yuu
Ryô Karato as Satoshi Takanaka
Christopher Doyle as Sakkaa/Soccer
Tomorowo Taguchi as Gôda
Issa Hentona as Tooru
Shinobu Miyara as Hiroyuki
Yukinari Tamaki as Kazuma
Ken Okumoto as Daiki
Anna Ide as Mai as a child
Akihiro Yoshikawa as Yuu as a child
Kazuki Kitamura as Sada
Michelle Gazepis as Sakkaa's/Soccer's secretary
Hiromi Suzuki as Mai's mother
Naoto Takenaka as Kurosawa
Tsunehiko Watase as Toshihiko Hitomi/Mai's father/Ai's creator

Release
Andromedia was distributed theatrically in Japan by Shochiku on July 11, 1998. The film was released on DVD and VHS in Japan by Toy's Factory and in the United States by Pathfinder Pictures.

Reception
Tom Mes, author of Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike, described Andromedia as the "most unabashedly commercial film" Miike had made at this point in his career.

Notes

References

External links

 

1990s science fiction action films
Films directed by Takashi Miike
Films about artificial intelligence
Films about consciousness transfer
Films set in Detroit
Films set in Kamakura
Films set in Toronto
1990s Japanese-language films
Japanese high school films
Japanese science fiction action films
1990s English-language films
1990s Japanese films
1998 science fiction films
English-language science fiction action films
DBAG Class 425. The Class 425 and Class 426 EMUs are a class of electric multiple units built by a consortium of Siemens, Bombardier and DWA, and are operated by DB Regio in Germany. They are essentially the same vehicle design, but the Class 425 EMU consists of four carriages, whereas the Class 426 EMUs only have two carriages.The class 425 has been produced in HO scale by Brawa and N scale by Kato Precision Railroad Models.

Description
It is a high-powered, light-weight vehicle with high acceleration for short- and medium-distance services with frequent stops. The aluminium superstructure was built as flat as possible, both to minimize drag and to ease automated cleaning. The acceleration is achieved by distributing traction motors among eight of the train's ten axles.

The Class 425 are similar to Deutsche Bahn's Class 424 and Class 423 trainsets.

A Class 425 unit consists of four cars that share three jacobs bogies and can only be separated at maintenance facilities. The inner two cars are designated as Class 435. A 425 unit typically consists of the following cars, where x is the unit's number:
 425 x
 435 x
 435 (x+500)
 425 (x+500)
e.g. 425 153 + 435 153 + 435 653 + 425 653. Different consists usually occur when the remains of partially destroyed units are combined to form one intact EMU.

See also
Express Rail Link, a Malaysian railway line which uses trains derived from the ET 425
NS Sprinter Lighttrain, a Dutch regional train derived from the ET 425

References

Electric multiple units of Germany
Articulated passenger trains
Bombardier Transportation multiple units
15 kV AC multiple units
Siemens multiple units
25 kV AC multiple units
Electric multiple units of Malaysia
Train-related introductions in 1999
Ron Brenneman. Ronald Alvin Brenneman (born 4 June 1946) was the president and chief executive officer of Petro-Canada. He has been a director at the company since 2000.  His annual compensation for 2005 was $2.68 million CAD. Prior to joining Petro-Canada, he was also a director at Scotiabank and Bell Canada Enterprises. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1968 with a degree in chemical engineering. He also received a Master of Science degree from the University of Manchester and completed the Senior Executive program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

References

Living people
Canadian chief executives
Petroleum industry in Canada
University of Toronto alumni
Alumni of the University of Manchester
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
1947 births
Canadian corporate directors
Directors of Scotiabank
Petro-Canada people
Marcus Wallenberg-hallen. Marcus Wallenberg-hallen (The Marcus Wallenberg Hall) is a vehicle museum in Södertälje, in the Swedish province of  Sörmland.

Background

The museum is situated on Nyköpingsvägen, together with the head office of Scania AB, alongside the lake Saltskogsfjärden, which the locals call Scaniasjön.

The museum is named after the late financier Marcus Wallenberg, Sr., who contributed to the development of Scania in the early 20th century. The ‘’Marcus Wallenberg-hallen’’ is Scania’s visitor centre.

Exhibits

A varied series of early Vabis, Scania-Vabis and Scania vehicles can be found in the museum. Among other items, there is an example of the first mass-produced Swedish private car, from the year 1903. There are bicycles, motorcycles, military vehicles, tanks, trucks and buses. There are even railway wagons that belonged to Statens Järnvägar (Sweden’s state railway) and are a working monument to Sweden’s railways from the early 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century. The exhibits have been restored to their original condition. A little less than half of the museum is made up of newer vehicles, produced in the 21st century.

References
 This article is based on a translation of an article from the Swedish Wikipedia.

External links
 Scania Museum at Södertälje
Södertälje

Södertälje Municipality
Automobile museums in Sweden
Military and war museums in Sweden
Scania AB
Railway museums in Sweden
Museums in Stockholm County
Bedford OXA. The Bedford OXA was a British heavy improvised armoured car, produced during the Second World War.

Development 

It was developed by mounting an armoured body onto a Bedford OXD 30cwt (1.5 ton) truck chassis, armed with a Boys anti-tank rifle.

Its official designation was "Lorry 30cwt Anti-Tank". A total of 948 units were built in 1940–1941.

Operational use 
The vehicle was used by regular British Army units in 1940 and British Home Guard units until 1942.

See also
Armadillo armoured fighting vehicle
Bison concrete armoured lorry
Standard Beaverette

References

World War II armoured cars
World War II armoured fighting vehicles of the United Kingdom
OXA
Armoured cars of the United Kingdom
Military vehicles introduced from 1940 to 1944
List of Intel Pentium D processors. This is a list of Intel Pentium D processors, based on the NetBurst architecture and targeted at the consumer market. Two generations were released, using the Smithfield and Presler cores and branded as 8xx- and 9xx-series respectively, as well as Pentium Extreme Edition 840, 955, and 965.

Dual-core desktop processors

Pentium D

"Smithfield" (90 nm) 
 All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Intel 64, XD bit (an NX bit implementation)
 Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST) supported by: 830, 840
 Steppings: A0, B0
 Package size: 37.5 mm × 37.5 mm
 Die size: 206 mm2

"Presler" (MCP, 65 nm)  
 All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Intel 64, XD bit (an NX bit implementation)
 Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST) supported by: C1 & D0 steppings
 Intel VT-x supported by: models 9x0
 Steppings: B1, C1, D0
 Package size: 37.5 mm × 37.5 mm
 Die size: 2 × 81 mm2

Pentium Extreme Edition

"Smithfield" (90 nm) 
 All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Hyper-Threading, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST), Intel 64, XD bit (an NX bit implementation)
 Stepping: A0
 Package size: 37.5 mm × 37.5 mm 
 Die size: 206 mm2

"Presler" (MCP, 65 nm) 
 All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Hyper-Threading, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST), Intel 64, XD bit (an NX bit implementation), Intel VT-x
 Steppings: B1, C1
 Package size: 37.5 mm × 37.5 mm 
 Die size: 2 × 81 mm2

See also 
 List of Intel Pentium processors
 Pentium 4
 Pentium D
 Pentium Extreme Edition

References

External links 
 Intel 2006 dual-core roadmap
 Intel Pentium D processor (comparison tool from Intel site)

Pentium D
Intel Pentium D
PDE surface. PDE surfaces are used in geometric modelling and computer graphics for creating smooth surfaces conforming to a given boundary configuration. PDE surfaces use partial differential equations to generate a surface which usually satisfy a mathematical boundary value problem.

PDE surfaces were first introduced into the area of geometric modelling and computer graphics by two British mathematicians, Malcolm Bloor and Michael Wilson.

Technical details
The PDE method involves generating a surface for some boundary by means of solving an elliptic partial differential equation of the form

Here  is a function parameterised by the two parameters  and  such that  where ,  and  are the usual cartesian coordinate space. The boundary conditions on the function  and its 
normal derivatives  
are imposed at the edges of the surface patch.

With the above formulation it is notable that the elliptic partial differential operator in the above PDE represents a smoothing process in which the value of the function at any point on the surface is, in some sense, a weighted average of the surrounding 
values. In this way, a surface is obtained as a smooth transition between 
the chosen set of boundary conditions. The parameter  is a special design parameter which controls the relative smoothing of the surface in the  and  directions.

When , the PDE is the biharmonic equation: . The biharmonic equation is the equation produced by applying the Euler-Lagrange equation to the simplified thin plate energy functional . So solving the PDE with  is equivalent to minimizing the thin plate energy functional subject to the same boundary conditions.

Applications
PDE surfaces can be used in many application areas. These include computer-aided design, interactive design, parametric design, computer animation, computer-aided physical analysis and design optimisation.

Related publications
M.I.G. Bloor and M.J. Wilson, Generating Blend Surfaces using Partial Differential Equations, Computer Aided Design, 21(3), 165–171, (1989).
H. Ugail, M.I.G. Bloor, and M.J. Wilson, Techniques for Interactive Design Using the PDE Method, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 18(2), 195–212, (1999).  
J. Huband, W. Li and R. Smith, An Explicit Representation of Bloor-Wilson PDE Surface Model by using Canonical Basis for Hermite Interpolation, Mathematical Engineering in Industry, 7(4), 421-33 (1999). 
H. Du and H. Qin, Direct Manipulation and Interactive Sculpting of PDE surfaces, Computer Graphics Forum, 19(3), C261-C270, (2000).
H. Ugail, Spine Based Shape Parameterisations for PDE surfaces, Computing, 72, 195–204, (2004).
L. You, P. Comninos, J.J. Zhang, PDE Blending Surfaces with C2 Continuity, Computers and Graphics, 28(6), 895–906, (2004).

External links
 Simulation based design, DVE research (University of Bradford, UK). (A java applet demonstrating the properties of PDE surfaces) 
 Dept Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds details on Bloor and Wilsons work.

Surfaces
Computer graphics
Elliptic partial differential equations
Computer-aided design
Multivariate interpolation
Allan–Robinson reaction. The Allan–Robinson reaction is the chemical reaction of o-hydroxyaryl ketones with aromatic anhydrides to form flavones (or isoflavones).

If aliphatic anhydrides are used, coumarins can also be formed. (See Kostanecki acylation.)

Mechanism 

The o-hydroxyaryl ketone first undergoes tautomerization to form the respective enol. The pi electrons of the double bond then attack the electrophilic carbon of the anhydride; a carboxylate anion is subsequently lost as a leaving group. The carboxylate anion then attacks an alpha hydrogen to form an enol. The nucleophilic hydroxyl group then attacks the carbonyl carbon to form a six-membered heterocyclic ring. A proton is abstracted from the hydroxyl group of the enol to form a ketone, and the remaining hydroxyl group is lost as a leaving group in a concerted step to afford the final product.

See also
 Baker–Venkataraman rearrangement
 Kostanecki acylation
 Robert Robinson (organic chemist)

References

Carbon-carbon bond forming reactions
Heterocycle forming reactions
Name reactions
NIR Class 3000. The 3000 Class (C3K class) is a class of diesel multiple unit in service with NI Railways.

History 
At the beginning of the 21st century, the majority of rail services in Northern Ireland continued to be operated using Class 80 DEMUs, which had been in service since the mid-1970s, and were becoming increasingly harder to maintain. NIR had not procured new rolling stock since 1994, when, in conjunction with Iarnród Éireann, it purchased locomotives and coaches for the Enterprise service.

As part of a major investment programme in the railways in Northern Ireland, NI Railways placed an order totalling £80 million, the largest single investment in rolling stock ever made by NIR, with CAF for 23 3-car DMUs in 2002.

The new trains entered service in 2004 and 2005, gradually replacing most of the existing 80 Class units  on the network (the main exception being services between Belfast and Larne, which were still provided by the Class 450 DMUs). The trains are capable of speeds of up to 145 km/h (90 mph), with 201 seats. (including 15 on tip-up seats) and have standing room for 280 passengers crush laden. The sets are numbered 3001-3023. All vehicles are powered. The individual cars are 3301 to 3323, 3501 to 3523 and 3401 to 3423. The end vehicles on each unit have cabs. 3001 is formed 3301-3501-3401 up to 3023 being formed 3323-3523-3423.

The first six units (3001-3006) are fitted with CAWS and communication equipment compatible with the rail network in the Republic of Ireland. This enables these units to be used as required on cross-border services.

Accidents and incidents 
On Thursday 2 August 2007, unit 3014 hit a tractor, killing the tractor driver, and severely damaging the front of the train (3414).

On Thursday 4 February 2016, two 3000 Class units formed a train that struck an excavator bucket on the line at Knockmore Junction, County Antrim whilst travelling at . The leading vehicle (3413) was severely damaged and a passenger was injured. The unit 3013 was returned to revenue service in November 2018.

On Friday 9 August 2019, No. 3019 hit a tree just south of Antrim, damaging the front of the train (3419).

On Wednesday 18 December 2019, No. 3006 hit a tree near Mossley West, severely damaging the leading vehicle, 3406.

On Tuesday 14 May 2024, No. 3008 hit a tree on a Derry~Londonderry service.

Refurbishment 

Phase 1 of the refurbishment programme was begun during the financial year 2009/10 and cost an estimated £1.2 million. At the time, the trains were approximately 5–6 years old.  By the time this was completed, the 20 new Class 4000 units were already coming into service. The refurbishment involved re-liverying the trains in the refreshed corporate branding. NI Railways has also started to refurbish its 3000 Class in November 2018, and is scheduled to refurbish all the twenty-three 3000's. The refurbishment program is expected to run until 2021.

Fleet details

Gallery

References 

3000
CAF multiple units
RoboWar. RoboWar is an open-source video game in which the player programs onscreen icon-like robots to battle each other with animation and sound effects. The syntax of the language in which the robots are programmed is a relatively simple stack-based one, based largely on IF, THEN, and simply-defined variables.

25 RoboWar tournaments were held in the past between 1990 until roughly 2003, when tournaments became intermittent and many of the major coders moved on.  All robots from all tournaments are available on the RoboWar website.

The RoboWar programming language, RoboTalk, is a stack-oriented programming language and is similar in structure to FORTH.

Programming features
RoboWar for the Macintosh was notable among the genre of autonomous robot programming games for the powerful programming model it exposed to the gamer. By the early 1990s, RoboWar included an integrated debugger that permitted stepping through code and setting breakpoints. Later editions of the RoboTalk language used by the robots (a cognate of the HyperTalk language for Apple's HyperCard) included support for interrupts as well.

History
RoboWar was originally released as a closed source shareware game in 1990 by David Harris for the Apple Macintosh platform. The source code has since been released and implementations are now also available for Microsoft Windows.  It was based upon the same concepts as the 1981 Apple II game RobotWar.

Initially tournaments were run by David Harris himself. Between 1997 and 2001, Lucas Dixon helped run tournaments and maintained the code, and eventually they were run by Eric Foley.

See also

Core War
RobotWar
Crobots
Robot Battle

References

External links

 RoboWar 5 - Home of the recent Microsoft Windows version and original Macintosh version
 RoboWar project page at SourceForge.net
 RoboWarX - An implementation written in C#
  JSRoboWar - Runs in a HTML5-compatible web browser
 RoboWar on the Programming Games Wiki

Classic Mac OS games
Open-source video games
Programming games
Windows games
Artificial life models
Programming contests
1990 video games
Video games about robots
Video games developed in the United States
Commercial video games with freely available source code
TRIC Tools. TRIC Tools, Inc., headquartered in Alameda, California, is an infrastructure and environmental technology company that designs, produces and sells proprietary tools and systems for the "non-invasive" rehabilitation and replacement of sewer, water, gas and other difficult to access underground pipes.

The company's portable trenchless system is designed to replace pipes with minimal disruption to business activities. It is sold as alternative to the conventional digging of holes in the earth or the destruction of trees, streets and driveways. The company claims that its product has been sold to more than 500 piping and drain cleaning customers in the United States and abroad.

TRIC has been granted several U.S. patents:
6,305,880 - Device and Method for Trenchless Replacement of Underground Pipe - Issued October 23, 2001
6,524,031 - Device and Method for Trenchless Replacement of Underground Pipe - Issued February 25, 2003 
6,793,442 - Device and Method for Trenchless Replacement of Underground Pipe - Issued September 21, 2004
6,799,923 - Trenchless Water Pipe Replacement Device and Method - Issued October 5, 2004

Patents on the TRIC technology have also been granted in Australia, Brazil, Mexico and New Zealand. Patent applications are pending in Canada, Japan, and Norway.

See also
Pipebursting

External links

Companies based in California
Companies based in Alameda County, California
Zinc bromide. Zinc bromide (ZnBr2) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula ZnBr2.  It is a colourless salt that shares many properties with zinc chloride (ZnCl2), namely a high solubility in water forming acidic solutions, and good solubility in organic solvents. It is hygroscopic and forms a dihydrate ZnBr2·2H2O.

Production
ZnBr2 · 2H2O is prepared by treating zinc oxide or zinc metal with hydrobromic acid.   
 ZnO + 2HBr  +  H2O  →   ZnBr2·2H2O
 Zn + 2HBr  →   ZnBr2 +  H2

The anhydrous material can be produced by dehydration of the dihydrate with hot CO2 or by reaction of zinc metal and bromine. Sublimation in a stream of hydrogen bromide also gives the anhydrous derivative.

Structure
ZnBr2 crystallizes in the same structure as ZnI2: four tetrahedral Zn centers share three vertices to form “super-tetrahedra” of nominal composition {Zn4Br10}2−, which are linked by their vertices to form a three-dimensional structure. The dihydrate ZnBr2 · 2H2O can be described as ([Zn(H2O)6]2+)2([Zn2Br6]2-).

Gaseous ZnBr2 is linear in accordance with VSEPR theory with a Zn-Br bond length of 221 pm.

Uses
Zinc bromide is mainly used in servicing oil and natural gas wells, solutions of zinc bromide are used to displace drilling mud when transitioning from the drilling phase to the completion phase or in well workover operations.  The extremely dense brine solution gives the fluid its weight of 20 pounds/gallon, which makes it especially useful in holding back flammable oil and gas particles in high pressure wells.  However, the high acidity and osmolarity cause corrosion and handling problems.  Crews must be issued slicker suits and rubber boots because the fluid is so dehydrating.

It is the electrolyte in the zinc bromide battery.

Zinc bromide solutions can be used as a transparent shield against radiation. The space between two glass panes is filled with a strong aqueous solution of zinc bromide with a very high density, to be used as a window on a hot cell. This type of window has the advantage over lead glass in that it will not darken as a result of exposure to radiation. All glass will darken slowly over time due to radiation, however this is especially true in a hot cell, where exceptional levels of radiation are present. The advantage of an aqueous salt solution is that any radiation damage will last less than a millisecond, so the shield will undergo self-repair.

In the laboratory
In organic chemistry anhydrous ZnBr2 is sometimes used as a Lewis acid.

Safety
Safety considerations are similar to those for zinc chloride, for which the toxic dose for humans is 3–5 g.

See also
Zinc chloride
Zinc fluoride
Zinc iodide
Cadmium bromide

References

zinc
Metal halides
bromide
Raad-1. Raad-1 ('Thunder-1') is an Iranian self-propelled howitzer.

History
In May 1996, Iran claimed to have successfully tested its first locally made self-propelled howitzer, the 122 mm Raad-1 ("Thunder-1").

The Raad-1 did not enter production. Analysts think most likely it was just a prototype used to develop the Raad-2.

Description
It is armed with 122 mm 2A18 howitzer from 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer or a modification of one with an effective firing range of 15,200 meters. The turret is also from the 2S1 Gvozdika. It uses the Iranian-made Boragh APC chassis, a conversion of either the Russian BMP-1 or Chinese Type 86 (WZ-501) IFV. The engine is believed to be the 12.8 l German BF8L diesel engine, but this is not known for sure.

See also
Tanks of Iran
Raad – Iranian anti tank missile.
Raad-2

References

Self-propelled artillery of Iran
Military vehicles introduced in the 1990s
List of Intel Pentium M processors. This is a list of Intel Pentium M processors. They are all single-core 32-bit CPUs codenamed Banias and Dothan, and targeted at the consumer market of mobile computers.

Mobile processors

Pentium M

"Banias" (130 nm)   
 All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)
 Die size: 83 mm2

"Dothan" (90 nm)   
 All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)
 PAE, XD bit (an NX bit implementation): supported by C0 stepping
 Die size: 87 mm2
 Steppings: B0, B1, C0
C1 stepping Pentium M's are fabbed on a 65 nm process with an actual C0 stepping

See also

 List of Intel Pentium processors
 List of Intel Pentium 4 processors § Mobile processors
 Pentium M (microarchitecture)

References 

Pentium M
Intel Pentium M