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Wills Wing. Wills Wing, Inc. (legally Sport Kites, Inc) is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Orange, California and previously located in Santa Ana, California. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of hang gliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft, plus hang glider harnesses and accessories.

The company was founded in 1973 by brothers Bob and Chris Wills.

The company sells a line of hang gliders including training and beginner gliders, intermediate and competition wings.

History

The company was formed as Sport Kites, Inc in 1973 and started doing business under the name Wills Wing in 1978.

In 1973 Chris Wills took first place and Bob Wills won second place in the first US National Hang Gliding Championships. The next year Bob Wills won first place and Chris Wills took second place at the second US Nationals.

Chris and Bob Wills' brother, Eric Wills, was killed in a hang gliding accident in 1974.

Chris Wills left the company in 1976 to attend medical school and pursue a career as a physician. Bob Wills was killed in a hang gliding accident while making a Jeep commercial on 24 June 1977. The majority ownership of the company was then sold to Rob Kells, Linda and Mike Meier and Steve Pearson. Kells died of prostate cancer in 2008.

By 1984 the company had become the largest hang glider manufacturer in North America and then later in the world.

The company also provides Wills Wing U2 and T2 gliders to Tecma Sport of Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny, France for the European market.

A Wills Wing XC-185 hang glider is on display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, while another Wills Wing glider is in the US Southwest Soaring Museum in Moriarty, New Mexico.

In 2012 Wills Wing Team Pilot Dustin Martin set a new world record for Cross Country Open Distance in a Hang Glider of 475 miles flying a Wills Wing T2C 144.

In June, 2021 Wills Wing announced that they will be "winding down operations and preparing to shut down production at our Orange facility as part of a process of closing down the Company" with a "successor entity" to be formed in Valle do Bravo, Mexico.

Aircraft 

List of aircraft built by Wills Wing:

Hang gliders
Current Production
Wills Wing Alpha
Wills Wing Falcon 
Wills Wing Sport 3
Wills Wing U2/U2C
Wills Wing T2/T2C

Out of Production
Wills Wing Alpha(Original)
Wills Wing Attack Duck
Wills Wing Condor
Wills Wing Duck
Wills Wing Fusion
Wills Wing Harrier
Wills Wing HP
Wills Wing HP AT
Wills Wing Omega
Wills Wing Omni
Wills Wing RamAir
Wills Wing Raven
Wills Wing Skyhawk
Wills Wing Spectrum
Wills Wing Sport
Wills Wing Sport American
Wills Wing Sport AT
Wills Wing Sport 2
Wills Wing SST
Wills Wing Super Sport
Wills Wing Talon
Wills Wing Ultra Sport
Wills Wing XC
Wills Wing Eagle
Paragliders
Wills Wing AT 123
Wills Wing AT 223

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Aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Hang gliders
Paragliders
Manufacturing companies established in 1973
1973 establishments in California
Richard W. Johnson (oceanographer). Richard W. Johnson (1929 in El Cajon, California – January 11, 2016 ) was an American oceanographer.

He worked at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California for over 50 years, beginning in 1956. He was a Principal Development Engineer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography Visibility Lab and Marine Physical Lab. In this position, he was the head of MPL's Atmospheric Optics Group, as well as the PI for the group for many years. 
 
He was born in 1929 in El Cajon, California. He served in the Army during the Korean War, from 1950 to 1954, working on an island in the Aleutian Chain to open up an airstrip. Soon after his release, he joined SIO's Visibility Lab in 1956 as a young engineer. He worked in the Atmospheric Optics Group (AOG), helping acquire airborne radiometric measurements in areas as far reached as Australia (in support of NASA’s Gemini program) and Thailand. He became head of the AOG in 1972, serving as PI on many projects, and was also named Asst. Director of the Visibility Lab. His favorite project involved an instrumented C-130 aircraft, on which our group mounted radiometric and meteorological instrumentation mostly developed at the Vis Lab. He managed and flew deployments all over the US and in several European countries.
 
When the Visibility Lab closed in the mid-1980s, the AOG joined SIO’s Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL), where he continued leading the AOG. This was about the time that he developed the concept of the first digital Whole Sky Imager, which eventually was able to measure and detect cloud distributions day and night. He retired in 1991, but continued working part-time for several years and then volunteered with the group until 2012. During this time he developed a concept for a zooming fisheye capability,

which was patented by University of California San Diego.

Selected publications
 Johnson, Richard W. "Daytime visibility and nephelometer measurements related to its determination." Atmospheric Environment 15.10 (1981): 1835–1845.
 Johnson, Richard W., Wayne S. Hering, and Janet E. Shields. Automated Visibility & Cloud Cover Measurements with a Solid State Imaging System. No. MPL-U-26/89. SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY SAN DIEGO CA MARINE PHYSICAL LAB, 1989.
 Duntley, Seibert Q., Richard W. Johnson, and Jacqueline I. Gordon. "Airborne measurements of optical atmospheric properties, summary and review, 2." Final Report, 1 Sep. 1972-31 Jul. 1975 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA. Visibility Lab. 1 (1975).
 Duntley, Seibert Q., Richard W. Johnson, and Jacqueline I. Gordon. "Airborne measurements of atmospheric volume scattering coefficients in northern Europe, fall 1976." Interim Report Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA. Visibility Lab. 1 (1978).

References

American oceanographers
Scripps Institution of Oceanography faculty
1929 births
2016 deaths
USS Fort Lauderdale. USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28) is the twelfth Flight I  ship of the United States Navy. The ship is the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Design
Fort Lauderdale features design improvements developed in connection with the Navy's development of a next-generation dock landing ship, known as the . The LX(R) is intended to replace current  and  dock landing ships. In 2014, the Navy commenced design of LX(R) based on a modified San Antonio-class design. Because this design work is in progress, the Navy has created design innovations and cost-reduction strategies around the San Antonio-class design, and the Navy believes that it can apply these innovations and strategies to Fort Lauderdale, allowing her to be built at reduced cost. The main design features intended to reduce the cost of Fort Lauderdale compared to the San Antonio-class on which she is based are simplified bow works, replacement of the forward and aft composite masts with steel masts, removal of structures from the boat valley, and a stern gate which is open at the top. This will make Fort Lauderdale a "transitional ship" between the current San Antonio-class design and future LX(R) vessels.

Fort Lauderdale incorporates high temperature superconductor-based mine protection degaussing system built by American Superconductor to reduce the magnetic signature of the ship.

History
On 9 March 2016, the ship was given the name Fort Lauderdale, and the contract to build her was awarded to HII's Ingalls Shipyard on 19 December 2016. Fort Lauderdale keel was laid down on 13 October 2017, at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. She was launched on 28 March 2020, and her acceptance trials were completed on 31 January 2022. The ship was commissioned during a ceremony in her namesake city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on 30 July 2022. She arrived at her homeport in Norfolk, Virginia on 4 August 2022.

In June 2024, Fort Lauderdale was part of Maryland Fleet Week at Baltimore Inner Harbor.

References 

San Antonio-class amphibious transport docks
Proposed ships of the United States Navy
2020 ships
Raymond Ogden. Raymond William Ogden  (born 19 September 1943) is a British applied mathematician. He is the George Sinclair Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Glasgow.

Education
Ogden earned his BA and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge in 1970, under the supervision of Rodney  Hill. His thesis was entitled On Constitutive Relations for Elastic and Plastic Materials.

Work 
Ogden's research has been focused on the nonlinear theory of elasticity and its applications. His theoretical contributions include the derivation of exact solutions of nonlinear boundary value problems, for both compressible and incompressible materials, and an analysis of the linear and nonlinear stability of pre-stressed bodies and related studies of elastic wave propagation.

In the field of applications, Ogden worked on modelling the elastic and inelastic behaviour of rubber-like solids. He has also made contributions to the biomechanics of soft biological tissues, the electroelasticity and magnetoelasticity of electromechanically sensitive elastomeric materials, and the effects on residual stress in materials that are capable of large elastic deformations.

His book, Non-Linear Elastic Deformations, published in 1984 and reissued in 1999, has become a standard reference in this branch of solid mechanics.

Awards and honours 
Ogden was awarded the ASME Koiter Medal in 2005 and the Prager Medal of the Society of Engineering Science in 2010. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2006.

In 2016, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) awarded Ogden the  Timoshenko Medal.

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1943 births
20th-century British mathematicians
21st-century British mathematicians
Academics of the University of Glasgow
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Fellows of the Royal Society
Living people
Bosch Smart Manufacturing Conclave. Bosch Smart Manufacturing Conclave (BSM) is an annual event and an invite only conference aimed to bring Industry 4.0 leaders and smart manufacturing practitioners from India and Europe. The first event was held in Mumbai on November 5, 2015 with over 300 attendees (Elite industry leaders) and an additional 50,000 people were expected to follow this event online.

In 2015, BSM was inaugurated by Mr. Amitabh Kant (Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry) and the program included keynotes from Stefan Aßmann (Senior Vice President, Connected Industry, Robert Bosch GmbH) and Alexander Verl (Chairman of the Board, Fraunhofer Future Foundation, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft).

References

Bosch to host Smart Manufacturing Conclave in Mumbai

External links
 Bosch Smart Manufacturing Conclave

Trade associations based in the United Kingdom
International conferences
DX cluster. A DX cluster is a network of computers, each running a software package dedicated to gathering, and disseminating, information on amateur radio DX (long-distance contact) activities.

The computers comprising the network are called nodes, the network itself being termed a cluster of nodes. The nodes may be connected either via radio links or through the internet. Internet nodes generally connect using the telnet protocol.

The system acts as an aggregator of information, accepting input from various sources, then making that data available to any user who is connected to the network.

History
The first DX cluster software, PacketCluster was realized by US radio amateur Dick Newell, AK1A in the late 1980s, and quickly became popular as a means of exchanging DX-related information. Before the internet became widely available, the nodes running the cluster software would connect via radio links at certain frequencies allocated within the amateur radio bands. Users of the system would then connect to a node using frequencies different from those used by the nodes.
 
When the internet became widely available, the system was expanded to make use of telnet connections to internet nodes, in addition to the already established packet radio nodes. Users of internet nodes connect to a particular node using telnet client software.

DX cluster software
A number of DX cluster software packages are available, among which are:
 PacketCluster - the original, and still widely used, radio packet cluster software
 DX Spider - the most widely used of the internet-based cluster software packages
 CC Cluster
 Clusse - older cluster software

References

Amateur radio
Uppur Thermal Power Project. Uppur Supercritical Thermal Power Project is located in Uppur and near Tiruvadanai, Ramanathapuram District in Tamil Nadu. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of TANGEDCO. This project is being constructed by BHEL, L&T and Reliance Infrastructure.

Construction
RIL was awarded the engineering, procurement and construction contract in the BoP package and allied civil works, BHEL was awarded the boiler, turbine and generator contract and L&T was awarded the seawater intake and outfall system contract.

Materials for erection brought to the site and foundation process under progress. Foundation for two units of plant under Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited has already been completed. ESP 1 & ESP 2 foundation completed. The project is on hold  at present.

Installed Capacity

See also

References

Coal-fired power stations in Tamil Nadu
Hannu Toivonen (professor). Hannu Tauno Tapani Toivonen (born 1967 in Helsinki) is a Finnish computer scientist and professor at the University of Helsinki.

Research and teaching 
Hannu Toivonen's research area is artificial intelligence and data science, especially data mining and computational creativity, along with their applications. He was chair of the programme committee for The International Conference on Computational Creativity in 2015 and for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) in 2014.

Publications 

Toivonen has published over 200 scientific articles, which have been referenced over 26,000 times in total. The most referenced articles primarily discuss the methods and theory of data mining; other referenced articles include material on context-aware mobile applications, probabilistic logic programming, paleoecology, and gene mapping. Toivonen holds 10 patents.

Career 

Toivonen completed his PhD on data mining in 1996. He has carried out research for Nokia in 1990–1993 and 1999–2003, and at the University of Helsinki 1993–1999 and 2002 onwards.

Toivonen has been a professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki since 2002. In 2005–2006, he visited the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany. Toivonen was head of the Department of Computer Science in 2007–2009 and vice-dean for academic affairs of the Faculty of Science in 2018-2021.

Honours 

 Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland.
 Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
 Member of the Finnish Academy of Technical Sciences.
 Honorary member of the computer science student association TKO-äly ry.

References

External links 

 Hannu Toivonen’s homepage
 The website of Hannu Toivonen’s research group Discovery
 Hannu Toivonen’s publications in Google Scholar
Hannu Toivonen in the research portal of the University of Helsinki

Academic staff of the University of Helsinki
Finnish computer scientists
1967 births
Living people
SACEM (railway system). The Système d'aide à la conduite, à l'exploitation et à la maintenance (SACEM) is an embedded, automatic speed train protection system for rapid transit railways. The name means "Driver Assistance, Operation, and Maintenance System".

It was developed in France by GEC-Alsthom, Matra (now part of Siemens Mobility) and CSEE (now part of Hitachi Rail STS) in the 1980s. It was first deployed on the RER A suburban railway in Paris in 1989.

Afterwards it was installed:
 on the Santiago Metro in Santiago, Chile;
 on some of the MTR lines in Hong Kong (Kwun Tong line, Tsuen Wan line, Island line, Tseung Kwan O line, Airport Express and Tung Chung line), all enhanced with ATO,
 on Lines A, B and 8 of the Mexico City Metro lines in Mexico City; and 
on Shanghai Metro Line 3. 
In 2017 the SACEM system in Paris was enhanced with Automatic Train Operation (ATO) and was put in full operation at the end of 2018.

The SACEM system in Paris is to be enhanced to a fully fledged CBTC system named NExTEO. First to be deployed on the newly-extended line RER E in 2024, it is proposed to replace signalling and control on all RER lines.

Operation

The SACEM system enables a train to receive signals from devices under the tracks. A receiver in the train cabin interprets the signal, and sends data to the console so the driver can see it. A light on the console indicates the speed control setting: an orange light means slow speed, or ; a red light means full stop. If the driver alters the speed, a warning buzzer may sound. If the system determines that the speed might be unsafe, and the driver does not change it within a few seconds, SACEM engages the emergency brake. SACEM also allows for a reduction in potential train bunching and easier recovery from delays, therefore safely increasing operating frequencies as much as possible especially during rush hour.

References

External links 
 Operation principles and examples with pictures in Hongkong

Embedded systems
Rapid transit
Railway signalling
Europactor Algeria. Europactor Algeria Spa. is an Algeria-based manufacturer of compaction heavy equipment. It is a partnership between the Spanish firm Europactor S.L. and the Algerian Sofare Spa., a subsidiary of the ENMTP Group.

History
In January 2008 ENMTP began negotiations with the Zaragoza-based Europactor S.L. to create a new company based in Aïn Smara,  Constantine Algeria. In April of that year an agreement was signed, with Sofare owning 60% and Europactor S.L. 40% of the shares of the new company. 
In 2013 the factory was ready and started manufacturing several models of road rollers.

Models
The Aïn Smara facility manufactures several models of road rollers, including five types of single-drum compactors, ranging from 3 to 20 tons, and one 12-ton double-drum compactor. All the models are equipped with water-cooled engines, which are manufactured by the Oued Hamimine company of Constantine.

References

Manufacturing companies established in 2008
Companies based in Constantine, Algeria
Government-owned companies of Algeria
Algerian brands
ENMTP
2008 establishments in Algeria

Companies of Algeria
IEEEmadC. IEEEmadC (Mobile Applications Development Contest) is an international contest organized by volunteers for IEEE student members across the globe. The main goal is to educate and encourage students to pursue their future career as mobile application developers, develop their engineering, social and team skills and consequently become more competitive in the labor market. The contest is organized online with three phases: Education and Idea, Development and Judging stage. Teams up to three IEEE student members are invited to devise and develop mobile applications. Develop a mobile app and win big prizes SIX criteria will be judged: UI Design, User Experience, Usefulness, Availability, Number of supported platforms and Open source support.

History

IEEEmadC started in the fall of 2013 from University of J.J.Strossmayer Student Branch in Osijek, Croatia. Contest was founded by Josip Balen, Luka Horvat and Igor Bedek with support from IEEE R8 Student Activities Committee. The first iteration of the contest was for IEEE students in Europe, Africa and the Middle East (Region 8). The second iteration of the contest was organized worldwide for IEEE student members in all 10 IEEE regions. IEEEmadC is enjoying its 3rd year of competition in 2016.

Received honours

Contest stages

Education stage

The main goals of the Educational stage are to educate and encourage students to become MAD (Mobile Application Developers), develop their engineering, social and team skills and consequently become more competitive in the labor market. During this stage IEEEmadC ambassadors with experts from industry organize webinars on mobile application development. Furthermore, with help from university professors they are organizing technical workshops and lectures in their local IEEE sections, universities and IEEE student branches around the globe.

Idea stage

In this stage students are able to register by submitting their ideas about mobile applications that they would like to develop. All ideas will be evaluated within few days from submission and if accepted, participants can start with the application development.Apply Now.

Development stage

Teams whose ideas have been approved will be eligible to submit their apps and other necessary attachments:
Screenshots of the working application (minimum 4)
 Link to the short video showing features of the application (between 30-120 sec.)
 Application installation files (.apk, .ipa, .xap...)
 Short (450 words max.) description of usefulness and technical approach and tools used while developing the application
 Link to the online repository(s) of the application (if the code is published online)

External links
IEEEmadC website

References 

Programming contests
Poste Adélard-Godbout. The Poste Adélard-Godbout is a 120 kV electrical substation in Old Montreal. Canada's oldest substation, it has been in continuous operation since 1901. It contains two stories above ground and one below ground. It has a facade in clay brick with grey stone ornaments.

Designed by Maurice Perrault, it was built between 1901 and 1904. Initially it received 12 kV current from the now defunct Lachine hydroelectric generating station. Later it received 25 kV from a generating station in Chambly (demolished in 1964).

It was built by the Montreal Light, Heat & Power Company (MLHPC) and became the property of Hydro-Québec in 1944 during the nationalization of Quebec's electrical infrastructure.

Originally Poste Central-1, in 2007 it was renamed after former Premier of Quebec Adélard Godbout on the 50th anniversary of his death.

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1901 establishments in Canada
Old Montreal
Infrastructure completed in 1904
Digital architect. A digital architect is a person who designs business processes in the digital era to improve customer experience, increase profitability, and improve competitive position.

Focus areas 
Digital architects focus on: 

 Customer experience; 
 Cloud, webscale, iot; 
 Data science including analytics; 
 Business, application, information, technology and security architecture; 
 Artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience, robotics and artificial creativity;  
 Traditional science and mathematics including physics, quantum physics, chemistry and biology; and 
 Digital 3D printing and nano-manufacturing (source of definition: Gary Trenchard).

The business case for a digital architect role within enterprise:

See also

References

Computing and society