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Garland Aerospace. Garland Aerospace Pty Ltd was an Australian aircraft manufacturer based in Camden, New South Wales and founded by Kenneth Sydney Garland. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft.

The company was founded in about 2013 and seems to have gone out of business in 2016.

History
Kenneth Garland holds the rights to the Sadler Vampire SV-2 design and had also acquired many of the drawings, tooling and parts for the design through his company Aero.V.Australia. Aero.V.Australia was an aircraft maintenance and repair company, that seems to have been formed in 2006 and gone out of business in 2013. Garland Aerospace was formed to develop the 1980s vintage Sadler Vampire design into the Garland Vampire. Three versions were produced, the GA-1 for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles category, the GA-2 an updated version for the homebuilt market and the GA-3 with more power and a higher gross weight.

Garland Aerospace was also engaged in developing a whole range of new aircraft designs. These included the GA-5 Warlang, a UAV version of the Vampire; the GA-6 Torana, a two seat design based on the Goair Trainer; the GA-7 Winjeel, a two-seat aircraft with conventional landing gear; the GA-8 Woomera, a new Vampire-based design for the US ultralight category, to be powered by a Compact Radial Engines MZ202  two stroke engine and the GA-9 Starship, a new design based on the Vampire with a Rotax 914 turbocharged  powerplant and retractable landing gear. There is no evidence that any of these aircraft were ever taken beyond the concept stage.

The company also provided aircraft construction technique classes to prospective aircraft builders in subjects including sheet metal, woodworking, aircraft fabric covering, welding, fibreglass construction and aircraft painting and finishing. The company also sold aircraft parts and piston aircraft engines.

Aircraft 
Summary of aircraft built by Garland:
Garland Vampire

References

External links
Company website archives on Archive.org

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Australia
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Australian companies established in 2013
Paul-Gustave Froment. Paul-Gustave Froment (born 3 March 1815 in Paris; died 1865) was a French mechanic, instrument maker and inventor.

Life

He was born in Paris and was educated at the Collège Sainte-Barbe and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Having demonstrated from childhood talent for technology, his father decided to let him study at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He later moved to Britain to continue his studies in Manchester.

He was also one of the earliest photographers, working with the Direct Positive Process. 

On his return to France, his intention was to build steam engines but he was prevented from doing so by lack of funds.  Instead, he opened a Paris workshop in 1844 where, among other things, he worked on a telegraph with written and keyboard signals, improved Gaetan Bonelli's electric loom, and helped William Hughes improve his early typewriter.

He worked on several projects with Léon Foucault, most famously the Foucault pendulum for Foucault's 1851 demonstration. Other projects with Foucault included the gyroscope, and the rotating mirror used by Foucault to measure the relative speed of light in air and water.

In 1854 he built a simpler and improved version of Charles Shepherd's electromechanical clock.

He is best known for designing early electric motors for industrial use, for which he was awarded the valuable Volta Prize in 1857. In his design electromagnets were energized to attract iron rods attached to a rotating flywheel. At the moment that an iron rod reached the electromagnet, the power to the solenoid was interrupted until the next iron rod approached the electromagnet.

On his death in 1865 he was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

References

 Article based on equivalent articles on French, Dutch and German Wikipedia

External links
 Froment motors

1815 births
1865 deaths
Engineers from Paris
19th-century French inventors
Head of Franz Kafka. The Head of Franz Kafka (), also known as the Statue of Kafka, is an outdoor kinetic sculpture by David Černý depicting Bohemian German-language writer Franz Kafka, installed on 31 October 2014 outside of the Quadrio shopping mall in Prague, Czech Republic. 

The price was 30 million crowns, paid by the investor CPI Property Group together with the adjacent Quadrio complex. 

Kafka himself worked in the nearby building of a saving bank.

Description 
The kinetic sculpture is 10.6 metres tall and made of 42 rotating stainless steelpanels weighting 24 tonnes in total. Each layer is mechanized and rotates individually. Inside, there are 21 motor modules and 1 kilometre of cables.

The programming of the sculpture's movements can be changed and the artist can create new choreographies. The flip side of this is the high maintenance, as servicing must be done every fortnight.

Criticism 
Critics point out that the statue is more an advertising billboard for the mall than a work of art. Critics charge that the statue lacks a connection to Kafka's work, and that this shiny, glittering, and fascinating attraction lacks humility and sensitivity. When viewers look at the visually attractive and technologically perfect sculpture, they miss the lost and brooding soul of Franz Kafka.

Others disagree, arguing that the complexity of the steel panels and the change of form of the statue in time captures Kafka's work quite well. The statue attracts lots of visitors, so it has increased Kafka's presence in Prague.

References

External links

 

2014 sculptures
Busts of writers
Cultural depictions of Franz Kafka
Heads in the arts
Kinetic sculptures in the Czech Republic
Monuments and memorials in Prague
New Town, Prague
Outdoor sculptures in Prague
Sculptures of men in the Czech Republic
Works about Franz Kafka
Kristine Svinicki. Kristine L. Svinicki (born September 6, 1966) is an American nuclear engineer and the 16th and former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Early life and education
Svinicki, who is one of seven siblings, was born in Jackson, Michigan. Both of her parents died when she was a teenager. She earned a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Michigan in 1988.

Career
Svinicki began her career as an energy engineer for the state of Wisconsin at the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. She worked as a nuclear engineer in the U.S. Department of Energy's Washington, D.C. Offices of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology, and of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, as well as its Idaho Operations Office. She served as a staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee for Sen. John Warner and Sen. John McCain.

Svinicki has a history of making political donations to Republican candidates.

She was sworn in as a commissioner of the NRC on March 28, 2008, and for a second term ending June 30, 2017. She was designated chairwoman by President Donald Trump on January 23, 2017. On June 26, 2017, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to a five-year term as the NRC's chairperson.
She resigned as Commissioner and chairwoman on January 20, 2021.

At the time of her departure from the NRC, she thanked President Trump: “I was humbled when President Trump designated me NRC Chairman on Inauguration Day four years ago. After nine years of service as a Commissioner, I hope I put my prior experience to good effect and that my work as Chairman has fulfilled, in some small measure, the confidence the President expressed in my capabilities in offering me this opportunity to lead.”

References

External links
NRC Profile Page 

1966 births
Living people
Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials
People associated with nuclear power
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
George W. Bush administration personnel
Obama administration personnel
First Trump administration personnel
United States congressional aides
William Orr Leitch. William Orr Leitch FRSE FRSGS MICE (d.1948) was a Scottish civil engineer responsible for building sections of the Peking-Mukden railway and consequently serving as both its Chief Engineer and Manager. He was involved in the Mukden Incident of 1931.

Life
Little is known of his early life other than that he was "from Edinburgh".

In 1937 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Gilbert MacIntyre Hunter, Douglas Guthrie, Alfred Henry Roberts, and Sir Thomas Hudson Beare.

He died on 27 January 1948.

Family

He married Katherine MacIntyre, sister of Major Hugh Ross MacIntyre DSO Mc and bar.

Publications

Railway Construction in North China (1905)

References

 

1948 deaths
British civil engineers
Engineers from Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Scottish non-fiction writers
Xian Jun Loh. Xian Jun Loh (; born 1981) is a Singaporean polymer chemist who works in the inter-disciplinary field of biomaterials. He is the Executive Director of the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research and a professor at the Nanyang Technological University. He is currently the President of the Singapore National Institute of Chemistry.

Professor Loh Xian Jun was elected a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, working on smart biomaterials that identify and target cancer cells. He is also credited with the invention of a customisable, fabric-like power source for wearable electronics. He has also worked with a major Japanese company, LION Corporation, for the development of new anti-microbial compounds for detergents.

During the COVID pandemic, he co-invented a smart mask that allows for the remote monitoring of vital signs of patients.

Education
Loh graduated with a bachelor's in applied sciences in 2006 and a PhD in 2009 from National University of Singapore. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

Books
 Polymeric and Self Assembled Hydrogels : From Fundamental Understanding to Applications; Editors: Xian Jun Loh, Oren A. Scherman; Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
 In-Situ Gelling Polymers: For Biomedical Applications; Editor: Xian Jun Loh; Publisher: Springer
 Polymers for Personal Care Products and Cosmetics; Editor: Xian Jun Loh; Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Functional Materials from Lignin; Editor: Xian Jun Loh; Publisher: World Scientific
Biodegradable thermogels; Editor: Xian Jun Loh; Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry

Editorial Services and Scholarly Leadership
 World Scientific Annual Review of Functional Materials (ISO4 Abbreviation: World Sci. Ann. Rev. Funct. Mater.; WSARFM); Editor-in-Chief: Xian Jun Loh; Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

References

Singaporean chemists
Living people
1981 births
Fellows of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Diamond DART 280. The DART 280 is a four-seat light-single piston-engined helicopter concept by Austrian Diamond Aircraft.

Development

Launched at the April 2017 AERO Friedrichshafen, its first flight was scheduled for October 2018 and certification a year later.
Its development was later put on hold until it has a viable market.

Design 
Intended to compete with the Robinson R44, the composite aircraft will have a 280shp (208kW) four-stroke jet-fuel engine, energy absorbing retractable landing gear and a shrouded electric tail rotor.
The  MTOW helicopter could haul a  payload, cruising at  while burning  of fuel per hour.

Specifications

See also

References

External links
 Diamond Aircraft Industries

Dart 280
2010s Austrian helicopters
Single-engined piston helicopters
Proposed aircraft of Austria
Mitchell Lewis Building. The Mitchell Lewis Building is a historic building in Racine, Wisconsin, and a former office building and automobile factory for the Mitchell Motor Company. Designed by the local architectural firm of Guilbert and Funston, it was built in 1910 at 815 Eighth Street, alongside the Chicago and North Western railroad track. After the Mitchell company went out of business in 1923, the factory was used by Nash Motors until 1929, when it was sold to the J.I. Case company, which used it as a warehouse. Later owned by Massey-Harris, it was used to build tanks during World War II. In 1960, the building was acquired by Jacobsen Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Textron, which closed the factory on June 29, 2001. Madison-based firm Gorman and Company, also responsible for the Belle Harbor lofts conversion in Racine, purchased the vacant building and converted it into apartment lofts, which opened October 13, 2004. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places the following year.

References

Buildings and structures in Racine, Wisconsin
National Register of Historic Places in Racine County, Wisconsin
Industrial buildings completed in 1910
Event storming. Event storming is a workshop-based method to quickly find out what is happening in the domain of a software program.
Compared to other methods it is extremely lightweight and intentionally requires no support by a computer.
The result is expressed in sticky notes on a wide wall.

The business process is "stormed out" as a series of  domain events which are denoted as orange stickies.
It was invented by Alberto Brandolini in the context of domain-driven design (DDD).
Event storming can be used as a means for business process modeling and requirements engineering.
The idea is to bring together software developers and domain experts and learn from each other.
The name was chosen to show that the focus should be on the domain events and the method works similar to brainstorming or agile modeling's model storming.

Requirements
It is important for an event storming workshop to have the right people present.
This includes people who know the questions to ask (typically developers) and those who know the answers (domain experts, product owners).

The modeling will be placed on a wide wall with a roll of paper rolled out on it.
The sticky notes will be placed on this paper.
You will require at least 5 distinct colors for the sticky notes.

Steps

The first step is to find the domain events and write them on orange sticky notes.

When all domain events are found the second step is to find the command that caused each of the domain events. Commands are written on blue notes and placed directly before the corresponding domain event.

In the third step the aggregates within which commands are executed and where events happen are identified.
The aggregates are written in yellow stickies.

The concepts gathered during an event storming session fall into several categories, each with its own colour of sticky note:

 An event that occurs in the business process. Written in past tense.
  A person who executes a command through a view.
  Processes a command according to business rules and logic. Creates one or more domain events.
  A command executed by a user through a view on an aggregate that results in the creation of a domain event.
  Cluster of domain objects that can be treated as a single unit.
  A third-party service provider such as a payment gateway or shipping company.
 A view that users interact with to carry out a task in the system.

Example notes
These are examples, these would be different for different organizations.

Domain events

Actors

Commands

Aggregates

External systems

Views

Errors

Example
Users
CreateAccount
AccountCreated
Signup

Result
As a result, the business process can be seen on the modeling space.
But more important is the knowledge that was built in the minds of the participants.

References

External links
 https://miro.com/miroverse/event-storming/

Collaboration
Group problem solving methods
Software architecture
Software design
Mongoose OS. Mongoose OS is an Internet of Things (IoT) Firmware Development Framework available under Apache License Version 2.0. It supports low power, connected microcontrollers such as: ESP32, ESP8266, TI CC3200, TI CC3220, STM32 (STM32L4, STM32F4, STM32F7 series). Its purpose is to be a complete environment for prototyping, development and managing connected devices.

It is designed to reduce the time and costs associated with IoT projects.

Mongoose OS serves as the gap between Arduino firmware suitable for prototyping and bare-metal microcontrollers' native SDKs.

It is developed by Cesanta Software Ltd., a company based in Dublin (Ireland), and is dual licensed.

Features 
 User friendly Over the Air (OTA) updating of embedded ICs.
 Secure connectivity and crypto support
 Integrated Mongoose Web Server
 Programming in either JavaScript (integrated mJS engine) or C.
 Integration with private and public clouds: AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure IoT, Google IoT Core, IBM Watson IoT, Mosquitto, HiveMQ, etc.

License 
Mongoose OS is Open Source and dual-licensed:
 Mongoose OS Community Edition - Apache License Version 2.0
 Mongoose OS Enterprise Edition - Commercial License

References

External links 

 

Embedded operating systems
Free software operating systems
Internet of things
Experimental Craft Hydrofoil No. 4 (XCH-4). The Experimental Craft Hydrofoil No. 4 (XCH-4) was a high speed hydrofoil of the United States Navy. In 1947 the Bureau of Ships in association with the Office of Naval Research subsidized the construction of a number of small watercraft to explore several different types of foils and foil control-system configurations. The XCH-4 (sometimes referred to as "The Carl Boat") was designed by John H. Carl and built, in 1953, by Dynamic Developments Inc., a former associate of the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation. 

The XCH-4 employed three struts with "ladder" type hydrofoils. The foils were swept back approximately 45 degrees and have considerable dihedral providing a very stable ride even in moderately rough seas. The design eliminated drag inducing water propeller drive systems in favor of aircraft type propellers powered by two Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior radial engines and in 1955 the vessel set a world speed record 78 knots.

See also
HD-4
 , auxiliary minesweeper (1939–1940)
 , experimental hydrofoil (1957–1962)

References

Hydrofoils of the United States
1953 ships
Radioactivity Fixatives. Radioactivity or radionuclide fixatives are specialized polymer coatings used to “fix” radioactive isotopes or radioactive material to surfaces. These fixatives, also known as permanent coatings in the radioactive contamination control field, have been used for many decades in facilities processing radioactive material to control radioactive contamination. There has been increased interest in these fixatives or coatings recently due to the growing concern of contamination from a radioactivity dispersal device (RDD also known as a dirty bomb) and because radioactivity fixatives in use today lose the ability to contain the radioactivity to the surface during a fire.

Radioactivity fixatives reduce or eliminate the movement of radionuclides from surfaces thereby lowering the health risk of inhalation or other exposure to radioactive isotopes. There are many articles on the use of radioactive fixatives with a review article from 1983 often used as a reference. A more recent review article looks at the use of these radioactive fixatives for use after the detonation of a RDD. Current research is investigating new coatings that are effective at containing radioactive material to the surface during and after fires.

References 

Radioactivity
Treval Clifford Powers. Treval Clifford Powers (1900-1977) was a 20th-century materials scientist considered "the father of the modern science of cement-based materials." He made contributions to the understanding of the structure of fresh and hardened cement paste and achieved fundamental results on concrete rheology, workability, consistency, durability, shrinkage and swelling, creep, and resistance of concrete to frost, sulfates and abrasion. He was the father of systems theory pioneer William T. Powers.
      
Born on February 8, 1900, in Palouse, Washington, Powers studied chemistry at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, a small private college founded in 1846. From 1930 until his retirement in 1965 he conducted research at the famous PCA (Portland Cement Association) Laboratories (located initially in Chicago and later in Skokie, Illinois). For many years until his retirement in 1965 he served as the PCA Director. His stellar research achievements earned him top honors. The ACI (American Concrete Institute) bestowed on Powers its highest award, the Wason Medal for Materials Research; in fact, it did so three times, in 1933, 1940 and 1948, which is a singular case in ACI history testifying to his fundamental contributions. In 1957, Powers received the S.E. Thompson Award from the ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) and, in 1976, the Arthur R. Anderson Award from the ACI. In 1961 he became an Honorary Member of ACI and, also in 1961, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Toledo. During 1967-68 he lectured as visiting professor at the University of Toronto. He died on June 30, 1997, in Green Valley, AZ. The founding conference of IA-ConCreep at M.I.T. in 2001 was dedicated to Powers, to honor his memory.

References

American materials scientists
1900 births
1997 deaths
Willamette University alumni
People from Palouse, Washington
Nenad Medvidović. Nenad Medvidović is a Professor of Computer Science and Informatics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. He is a fellow of the IEEE and an ACM Distinguished Member. He was chair of ACM SIGSOFT and co-author of Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice (2009). In 2008, he received the Most Influential Paper Award for a paper titled "Architecture-Based Runtime Software Evolution" published in the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering 1998.  In 2020, he received the Most Influential Paper Award for a paper titled "An architectural style for solving computationally intensive problems on large networks" published in the ACM/IEEE Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems 2007. In 2017, he received an IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Best Paper Award for his paper titled "Continuous Analysis of Collaborative Design".

He received a PhD from UC Irvine in 1999.

Bibliography
 Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice 2009. Wiley,

References

External links
Website

Living people
American computer scientists
University of Southern California faculty
American computer programmers
Computer science writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
SNCF Class BB 8700. The Class BB 8700 electric locomotives were rebuilt from the BB 8500 (or BB 88500) as the first subseries for the growth in Maurienne.

Indeed, while the CC 6500 participated in this task, the reorganization of traction in Maurienne had led them to other services. Since the BB 8500 had been restricted for some years to , as a result of their poor suspension and for the comfort of the drivers, it was decided to re-use twenty for Maurienne. These were renumbered as Class BB 8700.

Conversion
The conversion consisted particularly in the modification and expansion of the driving cabs at one end, by removing an air compressor. The BB 8700 were permanently coupled to run in pairs, with the unmodified cabs remaining in the middle, at the permanent coupling. Limited to  and on a limited route, their discomfort was more bearable for the driving personnel.

Service
These locomotives, assigned to freight activity and attached to the Chambéry depot, were used exclusively on the Maurienne line for banking freight trains. They ran exclusively as paired units.

By 2005, the end of their career related to the reorganization of Fret SNCF and pushed them quickly towards withdrawal. Banking locomotives became less necessary with the introduction of the more powerful Class BB 36000. If the occasion arose, a Class BB 7200 was used.

See also
 List of SNCF classes

References

Further reading

Standard gauge electric locomotives of France
SNCF locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 2001
B-B locomotives

Freight locomotives 
Rebuilt locomotives