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Martin Wachs. Martin Wachs (1941–2021) was an American professor emeritus of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles and of City and Regional Planning and of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He began his career in university teaching in 1968 and retired from teaching in 2006, to work at the Rand Corporation until 2010.

Early years
Martin Wachs was born June 8, 1941. He attended City College, City University of New York, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1963. He received his master's degree (1965) and his PhD in civil engineering from Northwestern University in 1967.

Career
He taught at University of Illinois at Chicago as assistant professor of systems engineering, then as assistant professor of civil engineering at Northwestern University before heading west to California. He was an associate professor in a newly founded Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at University of California, Los Angeles in 1971, the start of a long career in the University of California system. Besides teaching in Los Angeles, he spent 10 years at UC Berkeley, with the Institute of Transportation Studies.

He was one of the earliest scholars to address transportation's relationship to social equity, environmental quality, and community values.

He wrote 180 articles and four books on subjects related to transportation and land use.
Wachs was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for his exceptional scholarship in Architecture, Planning and Design and the Carey Award for service to the Transportation Research Board.

He retired from teaching in 2006, to work at the Rand Corporation until 2010.

In recognition of his extraordinary service, Wachs was honored by the American Institute of Certified Planners and the National Academy of Sciences.

Death
Martin Wachs died at his home in Los Angeles on April 12, 2021, in the midst of collaborating on papers with colleagues.

Books
 Transportation for the Elderly: Changing Lifestyles-Changing Needs. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.
 Ethics in Planning. New Brunswick: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, 1985.
 The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment, and Daily Urban Life, University of Michigan Press, 1992.
 Transportation Planning on Trial: The Clean Air Act and Travel Forecasting. Sage Publications, 1996.

References

UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
2021 deaths
Transport engineers
1941 births
Public transport activists
Zvezda (company). Zvezda LLC is a Russian manufacturer of  plastic scale models of airplanes, military vehicles, helicopters, ships and cars. The company was founded in 1990 by Konstantin Krivenko to produce accurate scale model kits with attention to detail.

History
In 1990 the company started selling its first model kit dedicated to the Soviet Army. 

The company reproduces under licence of Boeing, Tupolev, Kamov, Sukhoi and MiG, some of their models are in the liveries of famous airlines such as Aeroflot and Utair.

Product lines  
Zvezda produces a large number of kits in various categories, ranging from historical collections with themes including World War I and II; The Middle Ages and the Ancient world of Greeks and Romans; to modern military models as well as a few Science fiction diorama pieces. 

They also produce miniatures for their "Ring of Rule" Fantasy wargame, which is comparable to Warhammer fantasy battles from UK Games manufacturer Games Workshop/Citadel Miniatures, where players can build armies that include Elves, Dwarves, Knights and even Undead, as well as having Character units for said armies. Some of these models, much like the miniatures from other game lines, draw inspiration from common fantasy tropes, and from popular publications which include Conan The Barbarian, and Lord of the Rings.

Aircraft 
Zvezda produces Russian toy airplanes of all periods. It also produces toy airplanes from other nations as well.

Military vehicles

Ships

Note

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Model manufacturers of Russia
1:18 scale models
Manufacturing companies based in Moscow
Peckett OQ Class. The Peckett OQ Class is a class of  steam locomotives built in Bristol, England by Peckett & Sons. Three were built; no. 2124 for Tower Colliery in 1951 and nos. 2150 and 2151 for Mardy Colliery in 1954. No. 2150 has been preserved and is named Mardy Monster. According to Heritage Railway magazine it is "Britain’s most powerful industrial locomotive". This claim may be misleading because it is based on tractive effort rather than horsepower.

Preservation
After being withdrawn in 1976, No. 2150 was preserved by the Swanage Railway in 1979. In 1997 it was purchased by the Elsecar Heritage Railway, returning to service in June 2003. It was withdrawn after its boiler certificate expired in 2013.  Its overhaul was never completed and it was sold in 2020.

References

External links

0-6-0ST locomotives
OQ
Railway locomotives introduced in 1951
Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
Industrial locomotives of Great Britain
Bineswar Brahma Engineering College. Bineswar Brahma Engineering College is a government college, established in 2008 by the Assam Government at Kokrajhar district, Assam. In 2006 Assam Government announced that an engineering college would be set up at Kokrajhar. The college is situated in a village called Chandrapara, which is 5 km from Kokrajhar town. The engineering college is named after the prominent leader of Bodo community and former president of Bodo Sahitya Sabha Bineswar Brahma. The college is affiliated to Assam Science and Technology University, Guwahati, Assam and is accredited by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). The institution is a TEQIP- 3 mapped institute. The institution is the headquarters of the Engineering Council of India (Northeast region)  and CIDC (Northeast region). It is a premier state government Engineering College in Assam, and 3rd in State Engineering College Rankings after AEC&JEC.

Location
Bineswar Brahma Engineering College is situated at Chandrapara, a village which is 5 km from Kokrajhar town.

Academics
The college offers 4-year Bachelor of Engineering courses.

Admissions
Students are taken in for the undergraduate courses through Combined Entrance Examination (CEE) conducted by Assam Science and Technology University.
For lateral entry into the undergraduate courses are done through the Joint Lateral Entrance Examination(JLEE) conducted by the Director of Technical Education, Assam.

Facilities

Computer Center
The Computer Center (CC) in BBEC which caters to the needs of academic departments and various sections of the institute. CC is facilitated with high speed NKN internet connectivity with separate sitting arrangement for Students & Staff.

Library
The College has a well maintained Library with adequate books & staff. There is also has excellent study arrangement for students and faculties.

Canteen
College canteen is available with well maintained.

Medical
The College has sufficient medical facility with professional team.

Bus
The College is providing sufficient bus services for the students & staff with the help of Bodoland Transport Services.

Sports
The college is providing sufficient assistance to boost-up students’ sports spirit. And also, providing adequate sports materials for the same.

Festival
There is an annual festival called Technisia which is held here. Mainly various competitions related to technology and culture take place in this festival. Apart from these various debates and robotic workshops are also held in this festival.

Training and Placement
Training and Placement cell- The training and placement cell of this college looks after the internship training and campus interviews of the students.

References

External links
 Official website

All India Council for Technical Education
2008 establishments in Assam
Educational institutions established in 2008
Engineering colleges in Assam
Universities and colleges in Assam
Education in Kokrajhar district
Water and Sanitation Agency. The Water And Sanitation Agency (WASA)            () is a Governmental body responsible for planning, designing, development and maintenance, repair and operations of water supply and sewerage and draining system, as well as collection of Aquifer Water charges. A compulsory element of this mandate is to provide a safe, reliable and efficient water supply to satisfy the demand of all government and public sectors.

History 
Water And Sanitation Agency (WASA) was established by Lahore Development Authority in 1976.

Structure 
The Water And Sanitation Agency (WASA) is chaired by the Managing Director (MD), currently WASA Lahore headed by Mr Ghufran Ahmed, he has over 30 years of experience in Operations, Public Health, Engineering & Management, and further assisted by three Deputy Managing Directors (DMDs) that are DMD (F&R) Finance, Administration and Revenue, DMD (O&M) Operation & Maintenance, and DMD (E) Engineering.

WASA Faisalabad headed by M.D Amir Aziz, M.D WASA Rawalpindi Mr Muhammad Tanver.

Functions 
Water And Sanitation Agency (WASA) is essentially responsible for Planning, Designing and Construction of Water Supply for:
 Rehabilitation of the existing Water supply System.
 Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage.
 Imposing fines over water wastages in Lahore
 Billing and Collection of monthly fee and Charges for the services provided to its consumer against sewerage & Water etc.
 Undertaking Bulk Production, filtration/treatment, transmission & retail distribution purifying of water.
 Collection, Pumping, Treatment & Disposal of Sewage & Industrial Waste Water.
Enforcement and taking Legal action against defaulters and unauthorized connections as per Law.
Billing & Collection of Aquifer Water charges from Beverages & Water Bottling plants form all over Punjab,  as well as billing of Industrial units, Commercial & Corporate bodies against ground Water (Aquifer) extraction from revelent Districts, also implement the laws regarding Water Conversation as per directions of Hournable SCP & Hournable LHC further assisted by (JWEC ).
Long term planning and development for tapping additional water sources, Trement and diposal station for sewer water & its implementation to meet water supply and sewerage demand projected.
WASA also get Financial, Technical and Recerch assistance from International Banks and Organisations such as JICA, UNDP, WB,  EU,  AIIB, ADB, KfW Development Bank (Germany), PCCC, SPIC (China),  APWASI, DAFT (Australia),          DEP (USA), BWW (Hungary), (GIZ) GmbH German development agency, Danida (DSIF) Denmark & Unicef etc. against Development Projects.

References

External links 
Water And Sanitation Agency

Public benefit corporations
Water companies of Pakistan
Government agencies of Punjab, Pakistan
Micro carbon residue. Micro carbon residue, commonly known as "MCR" is a laboratory test used to determine the amount of carbonaceous residue formed after evaporation and pyrolysis of petroleum materials under certain conditions. The test is used to provide some indication of a material's coke-forming tendencies. The test results are equivalent to the test results obtained from the Conradson Carbon Residue test.

Test method

A quantity of sample is weighed, placed in a glass vial, and heated to 500 °C. Heating is performed in a controlled manner, for a specific period of time, and under an inert (nitrogen) atmosphere . The sample experiences coking reactions, with volatiles formed being swept away by the nitrogen. The carbonaceous residue remaining is reported as a mass percent of the original sample, and noted as “carbon residue (micro).”

Special considerations
If the test result is expected to be below 0.10% (by mass), prior to performing the test,  the sample can be distilled to produce a 10% (by volume) bottoms.
If the sample contains ash-forming constituents and/or non-volatile additives, these will add to the carbon residue value, and be included as part of the total reported carbon residue value.
In diesel fuel, the presence of alkyl nitrates, such as amyl nitrate, hexyl nitrate, or octyl nitrate, causes a higher carbon residue value as compared to untreated fuel. This may lead to erroneous conclusions as to the coke-forming tendencies of the fuel.

Applications

Micro carbon residue offers the same range of applicability as the test to which it is equivalent, Conradson Carbon Residue. Advantages of MCR include better control of test conditions, smaller samples, and less operator attention. Applications include:

For burner fuel, MCR provides an approximation of the tendency of the fuel to form deposits in vaporizing pot-type and sleeve-type burners.
For diesel fuel, MCR correlates approximately with combustion chamber deposits, provided that alkyl nitrates are absent, or if present, that the test is performed on the base fuel without additive.
For motor oil, MCR was once regarded as indicative of the amount of carbonaceous deposits the oil would form in the combustion chamber of an engine. This is now considered to be of doubtful significance due to the presence of additives in many oils.
For gas oil, MCR  provides a useful correlation in the manufacture of gas there from.
For delayed cokers, the MCR of the feed correlates positively to the amount of coke that will be produced.
For fluid catalytic cracking units, the MCR of the feed can be used to estimate the feed's coke-forming tendency.

See also

Conradson carbon residue
Ramsbottom carbon residue

References

Petroleum technology
Petroleum industry
Test equipment
Emerald Pacific Airlines. The Emerald Pacific Airlines () is an aviation company of Taiwan.

History
The company was founded in November 1994. In 1998, the company made a contract with Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) for overhead power line insulator cleaning works.

Services

The company operates in the area of aerial photography, agricultural chemical spraying, disaster relief, overhead power line insulator cleaning, construction rigging and loading etc.

Accidents and incidents
 On 22 November 2015, an Emerald Pacific Airlines Bell 206B helicopter crashed during Taipower overhead power line insulator cleaning in Taishan District, New Taipei killing two people on board.

See also
 List of companies of Taiwan

References

External links
 

1994 establishments in Taiwan
Airlines established in 1994
Airlines of Taiwan
DePriester chart. DePriester Charts provide an efficient method to find the vapor-liquid equilibrium ratios for different substances at different conditions of pressure and temperature. The original chart was put forth by C.L. DePriester in an article in Chemical Engineering Progress in 1953. These nomograms have two vertical coordinates, one for pressure, and another for temperature. "K" values, representing the tendency of a given chemical species to partition itself preferentially between liquid and vapor phases, are plotted in between. Many DePriester charts have been printed for simple hydrocarbons.

Example

For example, to find the K value of methane at 100 psia and 60 °F.

 On the left-hand vertical axis, locate and mark the point containing the pressure 100 psia.
 On the right-hand vertical axis, locate and mark the point containing the temperature 60°F.
 Connect the points with a straight line.
 Note where the line crosses the methane axis. Read this K-value off the chart (approximately 21.3).

References

Chemistry
Chemical engineering
Die Humpty-Dumpty-Maschine der totalen Zukunft. Die Humpty-Dumpty-Maschine der totalen Zukunft (The Humpty-Dumpty machine of the total future) is a bronze sculpture created 2010 by Jonathan Meese, and installed at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany, during 2011–2015.

Creation 
The original concept was "animal with naked woman"; the animal became a machine and the human disappeared. The work of art was first created as a geometric sketch from which a small model was developed. The next step was a large polystyrene model, which was then "ore-machined". The sculpture was cast in the Hermann Noack art foundry. The employees of the bronze foundry were involved in this step to guarantee a stable basic structure on which the details could be built. The final processing of the surfaces including mechanical and chemical treatment was also carried out by the Noack specialists.

According to the artist, models for his work of art were: the Nautilus, Emma the steam locomotive, Lok 1414, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, vehicles from Mad Max films, Ben Hur's chariot, the Snow Queen's sleigh, the Sandman's vehicle and the time machine. Meese characterizes his bronze object as forward-looking: "The baby spaceship flies forward only, without a rear-view mirror, without a railing and without nostalgia, great, great, great."

Reception 

Gallery owner Philipp Haverkampf said that the work is a crazy mixture of time machine, spaceship and the sled of the sandman. When you look at it, you can see bizarre details such as geometric shapes, the Iron Cross and a beer bottle.

According to Der Tagesspiegel, the term 'Humpty Dumpty' in the title refers to the talking egg in Lewis Carroll's children's book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. In the Colonnades Courtyard in front of the Alte Nationalgalerie, the motley flying machine made of pieces as found at flea markets seems like a foreign body between the well-proportioned statues of classical sculpture schools.

Meese's sculpture is part of the educational canon of 100 works in the categories of film/video, music, literature, architecture, and art which the editorial team of Die Zeit compiled from readers' letters in the fall of 2018.

See also

 2010 in art

References

External links
 

2010 establishments in Germany
2010 sculptures
Bronze sculptures in Germany
Outdoor sculptures in Berlin
Sculptures in the Alte Nationalgalerie
South African Class 44-000. The Transnet Freight Rail Class 44-000 of 2015 is a South African diesel-electric locomotive operated by Transnet Freight Rail.

History
In 2014, Transnet Freight Rail ordered 233 GE ES40ACis from General Electric.

The first six were built in the United States by General Electric in Erie, Pennsylvania, in April and July 2015. In October 2015 the first of 227 locally-built locomotives was nearing completion at the Koedoespoort shops in Pretoria, while the first two of the six imported locomotives were undergoing testing on the line between Pyramid South and Warmbad.

The core components, such as the GEVO-12 prime movers, were manufactured in the United States, with locomotive construction and final assembly taking place at Koedoes­poort. The contract required a minimum local content for rolling stock of 55%.

References

External links

Cape gauge railway locomotives
Co-Co locomotives
Diesel–electric locomotives of South Africa
General Electric locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 2015
Transnet Rail Engineering locomotives
Leo Melanowski. Leo Melanowski was an American automotive engineer in the Brass Era.

Melanowski apprenticed at Otto Gasmotoren Gesellschaft in Vienna, and then worked for Panhard & Levassor, Clément-Bayard, and Winton (working on their Bullett racecars as well as acting as manufacturing foreman). He replaced John Robbins as plant superintendent of Waltham Manufacturing Company when Robbins left in 1904. At WMC, he also had the position of a chief engineer.

He left Waltham in 1906, to help racecar driver Joe Tracy starting the Dragon Automobile Company in Detroit. After that failed in 1908, he worked for the Aerocar Company which very soon folded, too.

References
 
 G. N. Georgano (editor): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present.   New York:  Dutton Press, 2nd edition (Hardcover) 1973,  
 

American automotive engineers
20th-century American engineers
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Underground Great Wall of China. The Underground Great Wall of China () is the informal name for the 3,000 mile (5,000km) system of tunnels used by China to store and transport intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

Description 
Due to the great secrecy surrounding the tunnels, not much information about them is publicly available; however, it is believed that the tunnels allow for mobile ICBMs to be shuttled around to different silos, and possibly stored in reinforced underground bunkers. This greatly enhances the ICBM's chance of survival in a direct nuclear strike, which enables their use in a second strike unlike ICBMs based in static nuclear silos which are susceptible to a direct nuclear attack.

A report written by a Georgetown University team led by Phillip Karber conducted a three-year study mapping out China's complex tunnel system, which stretches 5,000 km (3,000 miles). The report determined that the size of the Chinese nuclear arsenal is understated and as many as 3,000 nuclear warheads may be stored in the tunnel network. This hypothetical maximum storage or basing capacity along with Karber's own misconceived suggestions on  fissile material,  resulted in Western media purporting that 3,000 warheads were actually in the facility. The Karber study went on to state that the tunnels are not likely to be breached by conventional or low-yield earth-penetrating nuclear weapons such as the B61-11.

See also 
 816 Nuclear Military Plant
 Iranian underground missile bases

References

External links 
 Strategic implications of China's Underground Great Wall, Karber 2011.Hosted by FAS.PDF

Military installations of China
Syed Saad Andaleeb. Syed Saad Andaleeb is a Bangladeshi-American academic who served as the 3rd Vice-chancellor of BRAC University.

Education and career
Andaleeb obtained his bachelor's in chemical engineering in 1976 and master's in business administration in 1977 from University of New Hampshire. He then earned his Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.

Andaleeb was a distinguished professor of marketing at the Sam and Irene Black School of Business, Pennsylvania State University – Erie, The Behrend College in the United States.

Activities
At the invitation of Philip Kotler, Andaleeb moderated a panel on "Moving to Corporate Social Responsibility as the Next Stage for Company Success" at the World Marketing Summit, which was held in Tokyo from October 13–14, 2015.

References

Living people
Gies College of Business alumni
University of New Hampshire alumni
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Vice-chancellors of BRAC University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Chengdu–Pujiang intercity railway. Chengdu–Pujiang intercity railway, also known as the Cheng-Pu Express Railway, is a regional railway operated by China Railway High-speed within Sichuan province. It will connect the provincial capital of Chengdu with south-western cities along the western edge of the Sichuan Basin to Pujiang. It will start at Chengdu West railway station and will terminate and connect with the planned Chengdu–Ya'an railway at Chaoyanghu railway station. It will be built as a National Railways Class I, double tracked electrified line with a design speed of  and a total length of . Construction and management of this line has been conducted by a joint venture limited liability company between Chengdu Metro and China Railway Chengdu Group.

Profile
Chengdu–Pujiang intercity railway begins in Chengdu at Chengdu West railway station, branching off the Chengdu Ring Railway to travel westwards via Wenjiang, Chongzhou, Dayi County, Qionglai and Pujiang County. Preliminary land acquisition and demolition work was carried out by the end of 2012, allowing for construction to begin. There is a total of 12 railway stations, Chengdu West, Shuangliu North, Wenjiang (elevated), Yangma, Chongzhou (elevated), Longxing, Dayi (elevated), Wangsizhen, Qionglai (elevated), Xilai, Pujiang and Chaoyanghu. The line started to operate on December 28, 2018.

Chaoyanghu will also be served by the planned Chengdu–Ya'an railway.

References

High-speed railway lines in China
Standard gauge railways in China
Rail transport in Sichuan
Transport in Chengdu