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Chen Qingru. Chen Qingru (; December 3, 1926 – 26 May 2021) was a Chinese scientist specializing in mineral processing. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Chen was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, on December 3, 1926. In 1948, he was admitted to Tangshan Jiaotong University (now Southwest Jiaotong University), where he majored in the Mining Department. After graduating in September 1952, he joined the faculty of Beijing Institute of Mining and Technology. In December of that same year, he was sent to study at Moscow Institute of Mining at the expense of the Chinese government. He returned to China in December 1960 and continued to teach at Beijing Institute of Mining and Technology. In June 1975, he was transferred to Sichuan Institute of Mining and Technology as deputy director of its Department of Mining Machinery, and held that office until 1980. In September 1980, he moved to China University of Mining and Technology as department head of Coal Comprehensive Utilization System. In January 1987, he became director of the university's Mineral Processing Engineering Research Center. He died of illness in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, on May 26, 2021, aged 94.

Honours and awards
 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
 2010 IOC Chairman's Lifetime Achievement Award
 2010 Kentucky Colonelship

References

Bibliography

1926 births
2021 deaths
People from Hangzhou
Engineers from Zhejiang
Southwest Jiaotong University alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Victoria Bridge, Mandi. Mandi in Himachal Pradesh is popularly known as "Choti Kashi" due to its resemblance with Kashi. The famous Victoria Bridge of here links Purani Mandi and Mandi town. The majestic ruler of Mandi, Raja Vijay Singh built this mesmerizing bridge with the help of Britishers in 1877. The Bridge reminds the hanging Victoria Bridge on Thames River. It is like stylistic Jhulla bridges but surprisingly it can carry small vehicles. However, as this is a value bridge Government of Himachal Pradesh, built and inaugurated another bridge named Sardar Patel Bridge in 2019 (or New Victoria Bridge) near Victoria Bridge and it was opened for transport. Victoria Bridge was closed for all means of transport after its 142 years of service.

In 2020, a majestic thanksgiving ceremony was organized by Himachal Pradesh Government's Mandi branch, Mandi council and National Culture Fund. The Bridge was decorated with flowers and carpets and a worshipping "yagna" ceremony was offered. This gentle gesture was done to show respect to the Majestic bridge which suffered so much onslaughts of river flood but stood tall and gave service for 142 years. The bridge would be maintained and rigorously repaired, assured Ministry, as it is cynosure of Tourism Industry.

References

Buildings and structures in Mandi district
Bridges in Himachal Pradesh
British-era buildings in Himachal Pradesh
Evergreen A-class container ship. The Evergreen A class (or Ever A) is a series of 13 container ships being built for Evergreen Marine. The largest ships have a maximal theoretical capacity of around 24,004 TEU and are among the largest container ships in the world. Six ships are being built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. Another seven will be built by China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) at two shipyards in China.

As of August 2021, the record for most containers loaded onto a single ship is held by the Ever Ace, which carried a total of 21,710 TEU of containers from Yantian to Europe.

List of ships

See also 
 Ever G-class
 Ever E-class
 Ever S-class
 Ever L-class
 Ever B-class
 Ever F-class
 Ever M-class
 HMM Algeciras-class
 Triton-class container ship
 Thalassa Hellas-class container ship

References 

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Evergreen Group container ship classes
Ships built by Samsung Heavy Industries
Irwin 25. The Irwin 25 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Ted Irwin as a cruiser and first built in 1969.

Production
The design was built by Irwin Yachts in the United States from 1969 until 1976, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Irwin 25 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig; a spooned, raked stem; a raised counter, plumb transom; an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel with a retractable centerboard. A fixed fin keel model was also available. It displaces  and carries  of lead ballast.

The keel-equipped version of the boat has a draft of , while the centreboard-equipped version has a draft of  with the centerboard extended and  with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water or ground transportation on a trailer.

The boat is normally fitted with a small  outboard motor, or an inboard motor for docking and maneuvering.

The design has sleeping accommodation for four to six people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, two straight settees in the main cabin, one of which can convert to a double with the drop-down dinette table, and an aft quarter berth on the port side. The galley is located on the starboard side abeam the companionway ladder. The galley is equipped with a fold-down two-burner stove, an icebox and a sink. The enclosed head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the port side. Cabin headroom is . The fresh water tank has a capacity of 

The design has a PHRF racing average handicap of 228 and a hull speed of .

Operational history
The boat is supported by an active class club, the Irwin Yacht Owners.

In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "Ted Irwin grew up in St. Petersburg, FL, and as a kid sailed boats in Tampa Bay. As a young man, he worked briefly in the plant of Charlie Morgan's Morgan Yacht Corp. That experience may have rubbed off a bit on the design of his Irwin 25 (introduced in 1968), which to a great extent resembles the Morgan 24/25 ... introduced in 1965. Both boats were popular club racers in the later 1960s and 1970s, but somehow the Morgan usually had the edge. The Irwin has the same displacement but a bit more ballast, a foot shorter waterline but a longer LOD as her overhangs are not as chopped off as the Morgan's; she has many similarities below the waterline, including a high aspect ratio centerboard ... her headroom gains an inch due to her doghouse, and her PHRF is a scant three seconds per mile higher. She was available as a keel/centerboarder ... or with a full keel (4' 0" draft, 1825 lbs. ballast). She had a choice of layouts: settee berths and a portside quarter berth ... or a dinette arrangement. Best features: None notable. Worst features: Centerboards and pendants on these boats are prone to problems,"

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links
Photo of an Irwin 25
Photo of an Irwin 25

Keelboats
1960s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
Sailboat type designs by Ted Irwin
Sailboat types built by Irwin Yachts
Volkswagen of South Africa. Volkswagen of South Africa (Pty.) Ltd. is the South African subsidiary of German automotive manufacturing company Volkswagen Group based in Kariega (previously Uitenhage), Eastern Cape.

History
As early as the 1930s, the manufacturer Studebaker had explored the possibilities of an assembly plant in South Africa. In 1947, an assembly plant was built in Uitenhage near Port Elizabeth.

At around the same time, Klaus von Oertzen, a former executive member of Auto Union, tried to get DKW models assembled in South Africa. Despite his considerable commitment, this attempt was just as unsuccessful as his first attempt to export Volkswagen models to South Africa. After renewed efforts and lengthy negotiations, production of the Beetle began on 31 August 1951 at South Africa Motor Assemblers and Distributors (SAMAD) in Uitenhage.

Volkswagen acquired a blocking minority in SAMAD in 1956. At the same time von Oertzen became the chairman of the board of SAMAD; he was nominally supposed to be followed by Heinrich Nordhoff in 1963. In 1966, SAMAD was renamed Volkswagen of South Africa Limited at an extraordinary general meeting. In 1966, SAMAD, in which Volkswagenwerk AG held 63% of the shares at the time, had around 2,460 employees and sold 21,888 vehicles. With 36,315 vehicles, Volkswagen became the best-selling brand in South Africa for the first time in 1973. In 1974, the plant became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group.

In 2011, the plant in Uitenhage was the only non-European plant, besides the subsidiary in Mexico, that exported vehicles. From 2008 to 2013, Volkswagen was the market leader in the South African passenger car market. In 2015, Volkswagen of South Africa had 5600 employees.

In November 2024, Volkswagen announced its GenFarm project in Rwanda, an initiative to empower the agriculture landscape with electric-powered mobility especially for farming activities. Through this project, farmers can book electric-powered tractors that included trained drivers for their agricultural needs.

Uitenhage Plant production

Current 

 Volkswagen Polo (1996–present)
 Volkswagen Polo Vivo

Former 

 Volkswagen Golf (1984–2013)
 Volkswagen Citi Golf
 Volkswagen Jetta/Fox (1982–2010)
 Volkswagen Transporter/Kombi
 Volkswagen Beetle

References

External links 
 

Volkswagen Group
Car manufacturers of South Africa
South African subsidiaries of foreign companies
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1946
1946 establishments in South Africa
Economy of the Eastern Cape
Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality
Shannon Estenoz. Shannon Aneal Estenoz is an American environmental activist and government official who served as assistant secretary of the interior for fish and wildlife and parks in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2025.

Early life and education 
Estenoz is a native of Key West. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in international affairs and Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Florida State University.

Career 
Estenoz previously served as a member of the South Florida Water Management District Governing Board. She also worked for the World Wildlife Fund and National Parks Conservation Association. She most recently worked as the CEO of the Everglades Foundation and served as director of the United States Department of the Interior's Office of Everglades Restoration Initiatives during the Obama administration.

Interior Department Nomination
Estenoz was nominated by President Biden to serve as assistant secretary of the interior for fish and wildlife and parks on April 27, 2021. Hearings on her nomination were held before the Senate's Environment Committee on May 12, 2021. Another hearing was held before the Senate's Energy Committee on May 18, 2021. Both the Environment Committee and Energy Committee favorably reported the nominations on May 26, 2021, and May 27, 2021, respectively. On June 24, 2021, she was confirmed in the United States Senate by voice vote. She was sworn in on July 12, 2021.

Personal life 
Estenoz and her husband, Richard Grosso, have two children. Grosso is an environmental attorney.

References 

Living people
People from Key West, Florida
Florida State University alumni
Obama administration personnel
Biden administration personnel
United States Assistant Secretaries of the Interior
Year of birth missing (living people)
Xiuping Jia. Xiuping Jia is a Chinese-Australian electrical engineer and image processing researcher whose topics of interest include image classification, photogrammetry, remote sensing, and hyperspectral imaging. She is an associate professor of electrical engineering in the School of Engineering and Information Technology at the Australian Defence Force Academy (Canberra) campus of the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She also held an affiliation with the Sino-Australian Joint Research Center for Coastal Zone Management, a joint research project of UNSW with the Ocean University of China.

Education and career
Jia earned a bachelor's degree in 1982 from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. She joined the UNSW Australian Defence Force Academy School of Engineering and Information Technology in 1988, earning a PhD in 1996 from the University of New South Wales.

Recognition
Jia was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2021, "for contributions to feature mining and classification of hyperspectral images".

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese electrical engineers
Chinese women computer scientists
Australian computer scientists
Australian electrical engineers
Australian women computer scientists
Computer vision researchers
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications alumni
University of New South Wales alumni
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
Fellows of the IEEE
Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus. OOO Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus was an automobile manufacturer based in Sestroretsk, Russia. The company was an wholly-owned subsidiary of the South Korean Hyundai Motor Company and is considered to be the first full-fledged automobile plant of a foreign automobile plant in the Russian Federation.

History

Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus was established on 29 February 2008 and the foundation stone was laid on 5 June.

The press shop was able to start the test run on 19 May 2010. On the occasion of the test run, a small opening ceremony was held among the workforce. A short time later, the pre-production of the new Solaris began, a model that is located as a hatchback in the small car segment and as a sedan in the compact class. The design of the model comes from the Fluidic Sculpture concept study. The engines used come from the Gamma series. The first presentation of the Solaris models took place in August 2010 at the Moscow International Automobile Salon.

Series production finally started with an annual capacity reduced to 105,000 units. With the introduction of the 5-door, the capacity increased to 150,000 units. At full capacity, up to 200,000 automobiles can be produced per year.

In December 2020, Hyundai has completed the acquisition of a decommissioned General Motors manufacturing plant in Shushary, Saint Petersburg, making it the second plant for HMMR.

In September 2021, the Hyundai WIA division opened a car engine manufacturing plant in Saint Petersburg, the biggest in Russia and the fifth in the world. The new plant is designed to produce about 330,000 engines for Hyundai Solaris and Creta as well as for Kia Rio by the end of the year 2021. The construction of the plant began in December 2019.

On 27 September 2023, Hyundai sold the Saint Petersburg factoryto AGR Automotive, a subsidiary of Russian company Art-Finans. Assembly operations restarted in mid-2024 under the new ownership, using unassembled kits enough to produce around 70,000 vehicles.

Production 

 Hyundai Solaris (2011–2022)
 Kia Rio (2011–2022)
 Hyundai Creta (2016–2022)

See also 
 List of Hyundai Motor Company manufacturing facilities

References

External links 
 Official website

Hyundai Motor Company
Car manufacturers of Russia
Motor vehicle assembly plants in Russia
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2008
2008 establishments in Russia
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 2023
2023 disestablishments in Russia
Russian subsidiaries of foreign companies
Kishor S. Trivedi. Kishor Shridharbhai Trivedi is an Indian-American computer scientist who is currently the Hudson Chaired Professor in department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University.

Education 
Kishor S. Trivedi was born in India. He graduated from Indian Institutes of Technology Bombay in 1968 with B.Tech. in electrical engineering.  He received a master's degree in computer science in 1972, and a PhD in computer science, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)  under supervision of James Evans Robertson and J. Richard Philips.

Career 
Kishor S. Trivedi is currently the Hudson Chaired Professor in department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University. He has been on the Duke faculty since 1975.

Books 
He wrote three well-known books including the bluebook "Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing and Computer Science Applications", redbook "Performance and Reliability Analysis of Computer Systems: An Example-Based Approach Using the SHARPE Software Package" and whitebook "Queueing Networks and Markov Chains". In addition to these three books, he recently wrote a greenbook "Reliability and Availability Engineering".

Publications 
He has published more than 500 articles in international conferences, journals.

Honors 
He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellow and a Life fellow of IEEE. He received 2008 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award “For pioneering contributions to the understanding of the phenomena of software aging and software rejuvenation." He is an elected member of the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerance.

References 

American electrical engineers
Duke University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Generative Design in Minecraft. GDMC (short for Generative Design in Minecraft) is a programming competition to create procedurally generated settlements in Minecraft. The competition is organized by academics from New York University, the University of Hertfordshire and the Queen Mary University of London.

Organisers 
 Michael Cerny Green (New York University)
 Christoph Salge (University of Hertfordshire)
 Rodrigo Canaan (New York University)
 Christian Guckelsberger (Queen Mary University of London)
 Julian Togelius (New York University)

References

External links 
 
 Official Wiki
 

Programming contests
Recurring events established in 2018
Kabini bridge. Kabini Bridge is a historic bridge in Karnataka, India constructed by local chieftain Dalvoy Devraj in 1730, spanning the Kabini River. It was laid over with a metre-gauge link connecting Mysore to Nanjangud in 1899. The bridge is 225 meters long with 56 piers and is built in Gothic style. The last metre gauge train to run over it was on January 17, 2007, after which the bridge was closed to traffic. 

The Mysore division of the South Western Railway has stated that they will renovate the bridge.

See also 
 List of bridges in India
 List of bridges in Karnataka

References 

Bridges in Karnataka
Anastassia Alexandrova. Anastassia N. Alexandrova is an American chemist who is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research considers the computational design of functional materials.

Early life and education 
Alexandrova was the Winner of the Russian Regional Student Olympiad in Chemistry in 2000. She attended the Saratov State University for her undergraduate studies, where she was awarded a scholarship from the Government of Russia for outstanding performance in science. She moved to the United States for her graduate studies at Utah State University, where she studied aromatic clusters using Ab initio genetic algorithms. In particular, she developed the Gradient Embedded genetic Algorithm (GEGA) to identify the minima of atomic clusters. After earning her doctorate, Alexandrova moved to Yale University, where she joined the laboratory of William L. Jorgensen. She also worked in the laboratory of John C. Tully where she studied the photochemistry of DNA fragments.

Research and career 
Alexandrova was appointed to the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2010. She develops multi-scale modeling methods to better understand novel functional materials. The materials considered by Alexandrova included quantum dots, artificial metalloenzymes, heterogeneous catalysis and ultra hard alloys. She makes use of various computational models, including density functional theory, molecular dynamics and ab initio quantum chemistry methods. Alexandrova spent 2016 as a Fulbright Program scholar at the École Normal Supérieure where she focused on computational catalysis.

Awards and honors 
 2014 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
 2015 American Chemical Society Rising Star Award
 2016 Fulbright Fellow at the École normale supérieure
 2018 University of California, Los Angeles Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Awards
 2019 University of California, Los Angeles Distinguished Teaching Award for Senate Faculty
 2020 American Chemical Society Physical Chemistry Division Early Career Award in Theoretical Chemistry 
 2021 Max Planck-Humboldt medal, for scientists with outstanding potential outside Germany.
 2023 Brown Investigation Award by the Brown Science Foundation

Selected publications

References 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American people of Russian descent
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Saratov State University alumni
Utah State University alumni
21st-century American chemists
Rolls-Royce Silent Shadow. The Rolls-Royce Silent Shadow is an upcoming full-size luxury car manufactured by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. It is intended to be one of company's few upcoming electric vehicles. Although the exact date of the car is yet to be announced.

Overview
The Silent Shadow is prefigured by the Rolls-Royce 103EX Concept car, which was presented in 2016 on the occasion of the centenary of the parent company BMW. On 31 May 2021, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars announced the name of one of their electric vehicles in history. The Silent Shadow is named after the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow which was produced between 1965 and 1980.

References

Full-size vehicles
Silent Shadow
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Limousines
Sedans
Electric car models
Upcoming car models
Airbus MAVERIC. The Airbus MAVERIC (Model Aircraft for Validation and Experimentation of Robust Innovative Controls) is an experimental blended wing body (BWB) unmanned aerial vehicle.  It was built as a demonstrator for a possible full-scale BWB airliner. Airbus claims that this design can reduce fuel consumption by up to 20%.

Design and development 
According to an Airbus press release, development of the MAVERIC began in 2017 as part of the AirbusUpNext research program.  The primary purpose of the MAVERIC is to research controllability improvements for blended wing body aircraft.  The MAVERIC is a radio-controlled aircraft and has a wingspan of 3.2 meters.  Power is provided by two engines mounted over the rear of the aircraft, with each having a vertical stabilizer, creating a twin tail arrangement.

According to Airbus, a full-scale development of the MAVERIC would have fuel consumption reduced by 20% compared to single-aisle airliners.  The location of the engines above the fuselage would also reduce noise pollution.

Operational history 
The MAVERIC made its first flight in June 2019 at an undisclosed location in France.  The public reveal of the aircraft took place on February 11, 2020, at the Singapore Airshow, where it was announced that the research program would continue until the second quarter of that year.

On September 21, 2020, Zero Emissions Day, Airbus revealed three concepts for the hydrogen-powered Airbus ZEROe; the largest of which was a blended wing aircraft based on the MAVERIC.

Specifications (MAVERIC)

See also

References 

Airbus aircraft
Blended wing body
2010s international experimental aircraft
International unmanned aerial vehicles
Twinjets
Fuxing Suspension Bridge. The Fuxing Suspension Bridge () is a suspension bridge connecting Dongshi District and Xinshe District in Taichung, Taiwan.

History
The bridge was opened in 2013.

Technical specifications
The bridge spans over a length of 150 meters over Dajia River.

See also
 List of bridges in Taiwan

References

2013 establishments in Taiwan
Bridges completed in 2013
Buildings and structures in Taichung
Suspension bridges in Taiwan
Tourist attractions in Taichung