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Meridian 09/12/2004 09:24 PM
Project Reclassification and Beginnings of Development

Burger Joint at Le Parker Meridian

Burger Joint at Le Parker Meridian 03/17/2005 03:16 AM

After ice skating with friends in Central Park the other day, we hit the Burger Joint in Le Parker Meridien hotel for some much needed sustenance. This is one of those classic New York juxtapositions, a burgers-only greasy spoon (dinner: $8) in a midtown four-star hotel (rooms start at $300/night)...kinda like discovering an In-N-Out Burger in a Four Seasons hotel. Duck behind the curtain in the lobby and you'll find good burgers, beer (Sam Adams only), and an eclectic music mix (Bobby McFerrin, Edwin Starr's War, and some opera).

After we ate, JCN inquired at the counter how such an odd arrangement came to be. A hip bar previously occupied the space, but the bartender left and took a bunch of his clientele with him. The space lay fallow for a time while they figured out what to do with it, but renovating the space and building up a new clientele was too daunting for them. Someone had the idea of putting a burger place in there, so they put walls on the space and gave it a try. Judging by the full house in there and the terrific lines at lunchtime on weekdays, it's succeeded pretty well.

Meridian to trial online power meters

Meridian to trial online power meters 09/20/2004 06:43 AM
News.nzcity.co.nz - Mon Sep 20, 10:57 am GMT

Nortel Meridian 1, CS1000 and BCM
Service and Support

Nortel Meridian 1, CS1000 and BCM
Service and Support 06/05/2005 11:17 PM
Enterprise Systems Corporation of Houston, Texas (http://www.enter-sys.com) provides Nortel Authorized Service, Installation and Support of Nortel Meridian 1, Succession, CS1000, BCM, Symposium and CallPilot hardware and software nationwide. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2005]

MINMETAL Chile Selects Cyco AutoManager
Meridian

MINMETAL Chile Selects Cyco AutoManager
Meridian 08/04/2004 02:42 AM
MlNMETAL S.A., one of Chile's largest engineering and construction management companies, has selected Cyco AutoManager Meridian for the management of all its engineering data and related administrative documentation. [PRWEB Aug 4, 2004]

Smart enters wireless Internet market
with Meridian buy-in

Smart enters wireless Internet market
with Meridian buy-in 09/02/2004 06:44 AM
INQ7.net Sep 2 2004 10:42AM GMT

Breakthrough Mobile Meridian Product
Monitors Wireless Network Performance,
Tracks Issues

Breakthrough Mobile Meridian Product
Monitors Wireless Network Performance,
Tracks Issues 03/14/2005 04:44 PM
Mobile Meridian announced the release of its flagship product Meridian One, which provides wireless carriers with precise performance metrics and the ability to accurately locate issues throughout the network. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]
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Piper Malibu Mirage Transition Training
in Vero Beach, Florida

Piper Malibu Mirage Transition Training
in Vero Beach, Florida 02/07/2005 01:15 AM

I'm just finishing up transition training for the Piper Malibu Mirage airplane down in Vero Beach, Florida.  Vero Beach is the home of New Piper Aircraft, manufacturer of the Malibu, and is located on the SE Atlantic coast of Florida, halfway between Cape Canaveral and Miami/Ft. Lauderdale.

The Malibu is interesting because it is a personal airplane that actually can do most of the things that non-pilots believe any personal airplane ought to be able to do.  Imagine telling Joe Random that you own a small airplane.  He will imagine that this machine could get you from any place in the U.S. to any other place within a day or two.  Joe's imagination would conjure up an airplane that could fly through clouds, fly above the clouds, keep the occupants comfortable inside, and not inflict too much noise on the passengers.  An actual small airplane, e.g., a brand new $250,000 Cessna 172 or $400,000 Piper Saratoga (JFK, Jr's plane), can't do any of these things.  A basic airplane will have a basic piston engine that loses power the higher one climbs into the thin air of high altitudes, which contains fewer molecules of oxygen for combustion per unit volume.  Thus the little Cessna, for example, goes slower and slower as it climbs higher until finally it is using almost all of its feeble power to climb rather than to move forward.  A 172 isn't practical to operate above about 14,000'.  Clouds typically extend up to around 20,000' and therefore the Cessna is condemned to fly through the clouds rather than above them.

What's wrong with flying through the clouds?  In the summer the clouds contain embedded thunderstorms that can make an airplane impossible to control and it is difficult for a cloud-bound pilot to avoid those thunderstorms because one can't see out of a cloud.  In the winter the clouds contain ice that alters the airfoil and weighs down the airframe to the point that the airplane doesn't have enough power to hold altitude.  At all times of year clouds are typically bumpier than the air above the clouds.  A small plane can still get you places but you may have to wait many days for hazardous weather to clear.  Even with the best weather the average small plane is incredibly noisy, is unpressurized so passengers are exposed to the discomforts of breathing thin air or having an oxygen system stuck up their noses, and has no air conditioning.

The Piper Malibu has two turbochargers attached to its engine, making a total of 350 horsepower nearly up to its service ceiling of 25,000'.  This is high enough to get above most clouds most of the time.  Bleed air from the turbos is fed into the cabin for pressurization.  Two heaters cope with the -40 C temps at altitude while an air conditioner keeps folks cool closer to the ground.  At 25,000' it is so cold that the air isn't capable of holding much water and therefore the risk of accumulating ice is minimal.  However, one might have to climb up or descend down through an icing layer and therefore the Malibu comes with a heated propeller, some heated sensors for the instruments, and rubber boots on the leading edges of the wings and tail.  These rubber boots can be inflated by the pilot to crack ice off.

Basically the Malibu does everything that a jet-powered airplane does without the fuel consumption of a jet or the high initial cost of a jet (the same airframe is available with a jet engine driving a propeller; it is called a Piper Meridian and is about $700,000 more than the Malibu).  Introduced in 1984 only about 1000 have been built, including jet-powered versions.  It is difficult to get insurance for the Malibu because so many have been crashed.  These crashes fall into two categories:  (a) pushing weather, and (b) mechanical failure.  Because the airplane is so capable guys attempt getting through ice and around thunderstorms in a way that would never occur to them in a simpler airplane.  Because the airplane is so complex it is prone to failures that are simply not possible in a basic airplane.  If either turbocharger fails, for example, the engine oil can leak out and the engine will stop.  My old Diamond Star didn't have turbochargers, by comparison.  The Malibu does what an airliner does but without the redundancy.  So you have to be prepared to land the airplane in a field or on a road.  Because of these accidents the insurance companies require professional training before writing a policy.

Half of the training involves ground school in which one learns as much as possible about all of the airplane's systems, e.g., the hydraulic pump and lines that drive the landing gear up and down.  This is important in case you're flying around and the landing gear won't come down or the magic three green lights that indicate "down and locked" won't come on.  This actually happened to me a few times in the last two weeks.  Twice I put the gear lever down and nothing happened.  It turned out that the hydraulic pump circuit breaker had popped.  One, after a 6.5-hour flight at high altitude, I put the gear down and only two of the three lights went on.  A little in-the-air debugging and the last light lit up but the gear might have been down all the time and the switch frozen.

Most of the flight training involves the student wearing special googles or a hood that obscures everything except the instruments on the panel.  This simulates instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), which is where things tend to get challenging.  My instructor was Ron Cox, former head of training for Piper Aircraft and then Simcom and previously a helicopter pilot in Vietnam.  Ron covered up all the instruments with a chart and had me do some turns climbs and descents purely by feel.  "Now you're JFK, Jr.," he noted (kind of odd that JFK, Jr. is the canonical example of a confused pilot even among long-time aviation nerds), and whisked the chart away.  I was supposed to be straight and level.  My body was uncertain as to its orientation relative to gravity.  The instruments showed the airplane in a steep climbing turn, an "unusual attitude" that needed to be corrected with a combination of throttle and yoke.  Many hours were spent doing instrument approaches to various airports on Florida's Atlantic coast.  An instrument approach involves flying to a specified point in space and then flying a specified path in three dimensions down to a point where the pilot either sees the runway or executes a "missed approach" procedure by climbing up and proceeding to a published holding position and driving the airplane around in ovals.

Because so many Malibu engines have quit in flight, a great emphasis is placed on practicing engine failures in the clouds.  You wear the hood and the instructor pulls back the throttle and you have to figure out if there are any airports within gliding distance then set up the airplane for best gliding performance (90 knots) and make it down to a runway without pulling the hood off until the last 1000' or so.  One great thing about the Malibu is that it glides better than 10:1, i.e., if you're up at 25,000' (5 miles) you can glide more than 50 miles horizontally.

I came away from the training with some improved flying skills and an appreciation for all the things that can wrong in a Malibu.  My personal summary:  the airplane can do just about everything that an airliner can do but there isn't much redundancy so it isn't wise to do the things that the airlines do, e.g., overfly truly horrible weather or fly into low instrument conditions.  An airliner will have multiple engines, hydraulic pumps, etc. and will be piloted by two full-time professionals in front.

[Incidentally, last year's hurricanes hit Vero Beach very hard.  It appears that all pedestrian streets were destroyed, along with most sidewalks.  All the bookstores are gone as well as every classical music radio station.  Every person under age 55 not employed in the service industry was apparently killed.  The only things that are left here are gated communities full of rather old rather rich people, strip malls, real estate brokers, urology offices and MRI scanning centers.]

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio
| Billie Piper is Doctor Who helper

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio
| Billie Piper is Doctor Who helper 05/26/2004 04:36 AM
eye candy in the new series of Doctor Who .. Billie Piper is Doctor Who helper .. play the Doctor's sidekick

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Waite Julie Piper

Waite Julie Piper 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
Pulcifer Jeremy .. Volkwijn Donita .. Cabell Hannah .. Berglin Deb .. Kohn Amy

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iPod Hasn't Paid The Piper Yet

iPod Hasn't Paid The Piper Yet 06/02/2004 07:59 PM
Apple at least appears to have learned some lessons from its earlier failures to leverage strong technology and the leading early market share in PCs. By Stephen Ellis, The Australian (via MyAppleMenu)

Billie Piper is Doctor Who helper

Billie Piper is Doctor Who helper 05/24/2004 12:16 PM
Billie Piper will play Doctor Who's assistant when the cult BBC show returns with Christopher Eccleston.

The Pied Piper of Las Vegas Seems to
Have Perfect Pitch

The Pied Piper of Las Vegas Seems to
Have Perfect Pitch 06/03/2004 11:42 PM
In Las Vegas, the job of mythmaker falls to Billy Vassiliadis, adman, huckster, deal maker and fixer extraordinaire.

Doctor Who fans back Billie Piper

Doctor Who fans back Billie Piper 05/28/2004 03:28 AM
The choice of Billie Piper to play Doctor Who's new assistant delights many fans of the science fiction series.

Paying The Piper, Round 2: The Reportory
Grows

Paying The Piper, Round 2: The Reportory
Grows 10/30/2003 12:35 AM
The best music store-jukebox is Apple's iTunes, for a list of reasons as long as a Wagner opera. By David Pogue (New York Times via MyAppleMenu)

USB Piper Upgrades Cisco Systems to
'Outperform'

USB Piper Upgrades Cisco Systems to
'Outperform' 11/06/2003 12:19 PM
Business Week Nov 6 2003 10:53AM ET

Piper Jaffray initiates Apple coverage

Piper Jaffray initiates Apple coverage 04/30/2004 07:12 PM
Analysts at Piper Jaffray on Friday initiated coverage of Apple with a "market perform" rating...

Piper Jaffray: Mac market share to grow
over next two years

Piper Jaffray: Mac market share to grow
over next two years 09/27/2004 10:49 AM
Piper Jaffray said that over the next two years Apple will grow its market share ahead of expectations thanks to greater-than-expected adoption of iPods, which will translate into increased Mac sales...

Piper Jaffray: iTMS key to future Apple
growth

Piper Jaffray: iTMS key to future Apple
growth 08/27/2004 02:15 PM
Piper Jaffray said earlier today that it thinks the iTunes Music Store could emerge as a driver for Apple's shares in fiscal 2005 and 2006...

Piper Jaffray: Macs to gain market share
in 2-3 years

Piper Jaffray: Macs to gain market share
in 2-3 years 03/17/2005 03:05 AM
Piper Jaffray expects Apple to gain share in the PC market over the next two to three years...

Innovo Group to Participate at the Piper
Jaffray Consumer Conference

Innovo Group to Participate at the Piper
Jaffray Consumer Conference 06/05/2005 11:54 PM
Market Wire May 26 2005 10:03AM GMT

James Dean died in a Porsche and boosted
sales; what about JFK, Jr. and Piper?

James Dean died in a Porsche and boosted
sales; what about JFK, Jr. and Piper? 03/17/2005 03:24 AM

At the Ralph Lauren car exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which opens to non-members on March 6, a plaque next to a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder contains the following:

"In September 1955 legendary actor James Dean ... crashed his new 550 Spyder and was killed.  This tragic event immortalized the Porsche name and transformed a relatively small company into a very big business."

So... if it worked for Porsche with James Dean, how come it didn't work for Piper when JFK, Jr. crashed his Saratoga?  If anything you'd expect the truck-like family man's 6-seater Saratoga to have fared better than the rear-engined Porsche, which was notorious for hard-to-handle oversteer.

[Don't rush down to the MFA to see this exhibit.  There are much more interesting car collections at a lot of the U.S.'s car museums, including the one 30 miles west in Stow, Massachusetts at the Collings Foundation.]

Inhibitex to Present at the 17th Annual
Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference

Inhibitex to Present at the 17th Annual
Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference 02/01/2005 09:05 PM
Market Wire Jan 20 2005 9:13PM GMT

Piper Jaffray raises Apple target price
on iPod sales

Piper Jaffray raises Apple target price
on iPod sales 06/01/2004 03:53 PM
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has raised his estimates for Apple based on continued growth of "other" products such as iPods and software...

1st International Symposium on
Roboethics

1st International Symposium on
Roboethics 02/10/2004 03:00 AM
The First International Symposium on Roboethics took place this weekend in Villa Nobel, Sanremo, Italy. Its goal is to "open" a debate about the ethical basis which should inspire the design and development of robots. This debate has been going on for close to a hundred years among builders of actual robots and in science fiction but it's apparently time for mundanes to get involved. Among the questions to be addressed: will smart machines rise up and demand equal rights?, "the definition of the problem of whether a robot can or cannot do harm to a human being", and "Could a robot do 'good' and 'evil'?". Bruce Sterling was there and reports in his weblog that Vatican theologians are suprisingly on top of roboethics issues.

videos from MS research social symposium

videos from MS research social symposium 04/10/2004 09:38 PM
looks like the talks covered all the basics

Wrap-up On The Ottawa Linux Symposium

Wrap-up On The Ottawa Linux Symposium 07/26/2004 12:47 PM

fSONA Presents at Annual WCA Symposium

fSONA Presents at Annual WCA Symposium 01/10/2004 01:37 AM
BC Technology Jan 9 2004 11:26PM ET

Social Tool for Enterprise Symposium

Social Tool for Enterprise Symposium 06/08/2004 05:02 PM
Social Tools for Enterprises Symposium in London. Now that we have the agenda sorted I am happy to announce the 1st, London,


which I am organising with the support of KM Cluster. We think this is a great opportunity to start showing people that social tools (both people tools and software tools) are ready for prime time and deliver bottom line benefits to enterprises.

The event will be held on Monday 12th July at the Bloomsbury Square Training Centre. We've got a great list of people leading sessions which we think will be a cut above the usual chalk & talk conference fare. We really want a conversation to emerge from this event which will help to enlighten people interested in social tools but unsure how to put them to best use in their own contexts.

So we have:

• Stowe Boyd - Corante Research & A Working Model
• Lee Bryant - Headshift
• Prof. Marc Eisenstadt - Knowledge Media Institue
• David Gurteen - Gurteen Knowledge
• Euan Semple - BBC
• Phil Wolff. - A Klog Apart & BlogCount

Paolo and I will also be there.

I think it has the potential to be a great event and a great day I hope that you will come and join us. Please tell all your friends!


[Curiouser and curiouser!]

Looks like a great lineup. I especially pleased Phil is going over - and that Marc Eisenstadt is involved!  But why no Matt?

Symposium offers glimpse at future

Symposium offers glimpse at future 05/29/2004 08:07 AM
USA Today May 29 2004 12:09PM GMT

13th USENIX Security Symposium

13th USENIX Security Symposium 11/15/2003 01:15 PM
NetLib Nov 15 2003 12:06PM ET

Symposium offers glipse at future

Symposium offers glipse at future 05/29/2004 03:30 AM
USA Today May 29 2004 6:56AM GMT

Regional symposium on virtual
instrumentation

Regional symposium on virtual
instrumentation 12/29/2004 06:00 AM
The Star Online Dec 29 2004 9:21AM GMT

Social Tools for Enterprises Symposium

Social Tools for Enterprises Symposium 05/27/2004 03:14 PM

I know there's not much time - but I deplore the conference advisors and sponsors to NOT make this just like every other day-long symposium you've ever attended.  Make it something special, something different, for the children - if for no other reason - to leave them a legacy of innovation.

And mention FOAF!  Hopefully by then the FOAFnet will be interopping away.

So cial Tools for Enterprises Symposium.

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away…

Actually on 11 May 2004, Matt Mower ‘IM’ed me that he and Paolo Valdemarin (both of evectors and k-collector fame) had been talking about arranging a “Social Networking for Enterprises” event in London.

They were inspired by the fact that both Stowe Boyd and I are going to be in Nice, France to present at the iDate conference on 15-16 July 2004. Stowe and I had both, separately, expressed our individual interests in getting together with our EU cohort for some type of event.

Subsequently, on 18 May 2004, there was an IRC chat with a number of folks—including Matt Mower, Marc Canter, Martin Roell, Ross Mayfield (host of the Social Tools for Enterprises Symposium Socialtext space), Paolo Valdemarin, Lilia Efimova, Lee Bryant, Suw Charman, a number of others, and myself. Since that day—many emails and IM chats later—this event has really begun to take shape. Largely thanks to the un-flagging efforts of Matt Mower. Go Matt!

In London, on 12 July 2004, there will be an “event aimed to be a practical get go for CxO’s in Enterprises as to how social tools & methods can help them with problems like insufficient collaboration, low innovation and unmanaged risk” according to some early thoughts from Matt Mower’s weblog…

Stowe posts a link to the venue information for this London Symposium, scheduled to take place at the Bloomsbury Square Training Centre and which is now being organized by KM Cluster.

More as the date continues to draw nearer… (-:=

[The Social Software Weblog]

Australian Simulation to present the
complete Piper Warrior package for
Microsoft™ Flight Simulator

Australian Simulation to present the
complete Piper Warrior package for
Microsoft™ Flight Simulator 07/28/2004 06:27 PM
Mantracourt Jul 28 2004 11:06PM GMT

Social Computing Symposium at Microsoft
March 29-30

Social Computing Symposium at Microsoft
March 29-30 01/24/2004 03:32 AM

I've been invited to be say something at the Soc ial Computing Symposium at Microsoft. I'm looking forward to hanging out with some of my favorite people. (Maybe the first opportunity for me to speak at the same conference as my sister too...) I'm REALLY interested in what Microsoft is thinking about this space, and it appears that they are doing a lot of thinking.

International Symposium on Online
Journalism Home

International Symposium on Online
Journalism Home 05/26/2004 08:51 AM
Simpsio sobre Jornalismo Online .. aqui

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Meridian 1.1.0

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