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Daiichi Kosho Company. is a Japanese electronics and aircraft manufacturer that was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Tokyo. As an electronics manufacturer the company specializes in karaoke equipment.

History
Between about 1992 and 2003 the company branched into the design and manufacture of paramotor harnesses, canopies and engines. The company produced several designs of aircraft engines, including the DK 472. The company's foray into aircraft production did not result in the projected market size and the company exited the field in about 2003.

In 1997, Daiichi Kosho entered into the Japanese music industry through the launching of its own record label, Gauss Entertainment (which merged with now-subsidiary Tokuma Japan Communications in 2005). In 2001, the company acquired two other record labels: Nippon Crown (former subsidiary of the Mitsubishi keiretsu) and Tokuma Japan Communications (former subsidiary of Tokuma Shoten). On April 1, 2010, Nippon Crown and Tokuma Japan Communications formed the music distribution company Crown Tokuma.

Aircraft

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Aircraft manufacturers of Japan
Manufacturing companies based in Tokyo
Mass media companies based in Tokyo
Manufacturing companies established in 1973
Japanese companies established in 1973
2001 mergers and acquisitions
Japanese brands
Karaoke
Music companies of Japan
Paramotors
Shinagawa
VEF JDA-10M. The VEF JDA-10M was a Latvian twin-engine, multipurpose aircraft built in 1939 by VEF. It remains the only twin-engine aircraft ever built in Latvia. The builder of JDA-10M was Latvian-American engineer Jānis Akermanis (John D. Akerman), a professor at the University of Minnesota.

Design and development
Construction started in 1937, but the first flight of the JDA-10M was on September 4, 1939. After the beginning of the Second World War it was planned to transform the airplane into a light bomber for military purposes. This work was halted by the Soviet occupation of Latvia in June 1940. Only one prototype was built, and its fate remains unknown.

The VEF JDA-10M was of primarily wooden construction, with fixed conventional landing gear.

Specifications (JDA-10M)

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References 

1930s Latvian military aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
VEF aircraft
Geoffrey Gaut. Geoffrey Charles Gaut CBE (12 October 1909 – 18 August 1992) was a scientist in Britain's early semiconductor industry.

Early life
Gaut was born in Penwortham, Lancashire.

He was educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester. He went to University College, Oxford, gaining a degree in Chemistry. He remained at Oxford and researched colloidal materials. During six years at Oxford, he was a member of the Oxford University Air Squadron, where he learned to master aerobatics.

Career

Plessey
He joined Plessey in 1934, as the second graduate employee at the company, earning £6 a week, and rose to Chief Chemist. By the start of World War II, he was in charge of all the company's research and development. He volunteered to join the RAF, passed the necessary tests, and was commissioned as an officer. When Allen Clark, of Plessey, was told of this, he coerced the RAF to stop Gaut's commission. Gaut would later work with Allen's brother, John Clark. He would later qualify as a helicopter pilot aged 58.

He set up a new research laboratory at Caswell House in Northamptonshire, which became the Caswell Research Laboratories. He became the Director of the site, followed later by Derek Roberts. In 1948 the researchers invented radar absorbent material. Britain's first research into solid-state silicon devices was begun in 1952, and in the late 1960s Gunn diodes were developed.

On 8 January 1963, he joined Plessey's board of directors as Director of Research, becoming Director of Technology in 1969. He retired in 1985.

British research
He was a board member of the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) for many years from April 1966.

Personal life
He married in 1937 and had a son and daughter. He was appointed CBE in the 1973 New Year Honours. He was an organist and pianist.

References

External links
 Obituary in The Independent

1909 births
1992 deaths
Alumni of University College, Oxford
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
English chemists
People educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester
People from Penwortham
Military personnel from Lancashire
Royal Air Force officers
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
RLX Technologies. RLX Technologies was a computer company based in The Woodlands, Texas. Founded in 1999 by Christopher Hipp, one of the inventors of the blade server, and former Compaq employees, the company pioneered the use of blade servers, a compact, stripped-down computer server that includes all of the necessary components to operate as a computer while taking up minimal space on a standard 19-inch rack and minimizing power consumption. It became part of Hewlett-Packard in 2005.

History
RLX was first founded in 1999 as RocketLogix, Inc. with a connection to a Dallas-based investment firm, Cracken, Harkey & Co. After Hipp convinced the firm that there was a need for a new efficient web server concept, they agreed to build an investment profile for RocketLogix. Former Compaq executives helped to raise money, including Rod Canion (founder and CEO of Compaq) and Robert W. Stearns (former Compaq SVP of Corporate Development, now at venture capitalist firm Sternhill Partners).

After development of their blade architecture, the company changed its name in 2001 to RLX Technologies. This change coincided with the company's move to The Woodlands. Former Compaq executives Gary Stimac and Michael S. Swavely became CEO and President of RLX, respectively.

In 2004 RLX decided to shift their focus away from hardware development and focus their efforts solely on their blade server management system, Control Tower. This shift was necessitated by a decline in the server market, largely due to the dotcom gloom.

Christopher Hipp and David Kirkeby applied for a patent on their design on July 20, 2000, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded patent 6411506 for a "High density web server chassis system and method" on June 25, 2002.

After 5 years of operation, RLX was bought by Hewlett-Packard in October 2005.

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1999 establishments in Texas
2005 disestablishments in Texas
2005 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1999
American companies disestablished in 2005
Computer companies established in 1999
Computer companies disestablished in 2005
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct software companies of the United States
Hewlett-Packard acquisitions
Software companies established in 1999
Software companies disestablished in 2005
Link Aviation Devices. Link Aviation Devices was a manufacturer of aircraft simulators. The company is most notable for inventing the Link Trainer, and is credited with starting the flight simulator industry. It is currently a subsidiary of CAE Incorporated.

History 
Ed Link founded the company in 1929 in Binghamton, New York, after experimenting with the compressed air used in the products of his father's Link Piano and Organ Company. The company's Link Trainer saw widespread service as an aircraft simulator during and after World War II. As a result, Link Aviation became one of the leading manufacturers of aircraft simulators in the world.

In 1954, Link Aviation was purchased by the General Precision Equipment Corporation. It, in turn, was purchased by Singer Corporation in 1968 and Link became the Simulation Products Division and later the Link Flight Simulation Division. The reincorporated Link Military Simulation Corporation was sold in 1988 to CAE Industries, which became CAE-Link. CAE-Link was purchased by General Motors' Hughes Electronics Corporation in 1995. After only three years, it was bought by Raytheon. Then, in 2000, it was acquired by L-3 Communications and named L-3 Link Simulation & Training. Finally, 26 years after it was sold by the company, it was repurchased by CAE in 2021.

Products

Trainers 
 AVCATT
 Link Trainer
 School Trainer – Light airplane trainer. Intended for use in elementary school through college.
 C-11B – Used for training for the Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star.
 E-26 – Flexible gunnery trainer.
 GAT-1 – General aviation trainer.
 GAT-2 – Light twin engine procedural trainer. Flying characteristics resemble the Beechcraft Baron, Cessna 310, and Piper Aztec.
 GAT-3 – Twin jet trainer
 Model 60 – Private and business airplane trainer.
 MB-5 – Flight simulator for the F-102A
 MB-42 – Flight simulator for the F-106A
 ME-1 – Basic jet instrument flight trainer. Developed from the T-37 cockpit.
 P-1 – Constructed from a T-6G cockpit and mounted on a modified C-8 base. A slightly modified version was known as the 1-CA-2 by the U.S. Navy.
 T-4 – Instrument flight trainer for the T-37.
 T-7 – Instrument flight trainer for the T-38.
 Unknown – Trainer for the North American SNJ called the 2-F-10 by the U.S. Navy.

Other 
 A-12 sextant

References

Further reading

External links 
 Link Training & Simulation
 Life After Link

Aerospace companies of the United States
Companies based in Binghamton, New York
James Owen Dineen. James Owen Dineen (July 24, 1920 – September 21, 1975) was a Canadian engineer, university administrator and the twelfth President of the University of New Brunswick.

Born in Hampton, New Brunswick, he graduated from the Hampton Consolidated School in 1936. At the age of 16 he entered the University of New Brunswick, having been awarded a Beaverbrook Scholarship. Dineen graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1940. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford but was unable to take it up because of the Second World War. Instead of going to Oxford he went to the University of Toronto with a Leonard Fellowship subsequently taking a position as a radio instructor in Hamilton, Ontario. He returned to the University of New Brunswick to instruct airmen and sailors at the UNB Radio School.

Dineen was appointed Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1942, Associate Professor in 1946 and Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1951. In 1957 he became Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. Research and graduate programs were strongly encouraged by Dineen in the Electrical Engineering Department and in the Faculty of Engineering as a whole.

He was appointed as Acting President of the University in 1969 succeeding Colin B. Mackay. On January 1, 1970 he was appointed as the 12th President of the University of New Brunswick for a 6-year term. Ill health forced him to relinquish that position in September 1972. He died three years later. Dineen's presidency was notable for his commitment to an open and collegial approach, integrity, and leadership. He won wide respect among faculty members and students.

The Engineering Institute of Canada elected Dineen as a Fellow  in 1971 and in 1974 it awarded him the Julian C. Smith medal in recognition of his contributions to engineering in Canada. He received honorary doctoral degrees from five Canadian universities: McMaster University 1968; St. Thomas University (New Brunswick) 1970; University of New Brunswick 1970; Université de Moncton 1972; Nova Scotia Technical College 1973. He was made an Honorary Member of the Canadian Institute of Surveying (now Canadian Institute of Geomatics) in 1974. He was awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal in 1967.

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1920 births
1975 deaths
Canadian academics in engineering
People from Hampton, New Brunswick
Presidents of the University of New Brunswick
Bernard Lamarre. Bernard Lamarre,  (6 August 1931 – 30 March 2016) was a Canadian engineer and businessman.

Born in Chicoutimi, Quebec in 1931, Lamarre received a Bachelor of Applied Sciences in Civil Engineering from the École Polytechnique de Montréal, an affiliate college of Université de Montréal, in 1952. He received a Master of Science degree from Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1955 and was a recipient of the Athlone Fellowship. He started work as a soil mechanics engineer with the firm of Lalonde & Valois eventually becoming president and chief executive officer of the firm now called Lavalin Group. He was president of Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec from 1993 to 1997.

Honours
In 1985, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition for "his numerous and varied accomplishments" which "earned him a remarkable reputation as an engineer, businessman, and patron". He was also made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec and was promoted to Grand Officer in 2013. He was awarded a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa from Concordia University. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering and the Engineering Institute of Canada.

References

External links
 Bernard Lamarre at The Canadian Encyclopedia

1931 births
2016 deaths
Alumni of Imperial College London
Canadian engineers
Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada
Grand Officers of the National Order of Quebec
Officers of the Order of Canada
People from Saguenay, Quebec
Université de Montréal alumni
Paraborne Backplane. The Paraborne Backplane is an American paramotor that was designed by Scott Alan and produced by Paraborne Aviation of Kissimmee, Florida for powered paragliding.

Design and development
As production of the Daiichi Kosho Whisper, for which Paraborne acted as US distributor, came to a close, the company developed its own derivative design, replacing the Daiichi Kosho DK 472 engine with a Hirth powerplant of similar output.

The Backplane was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules. It features a paraglider-style high wing, single-place accommodation and a single  Hirth F-33 engine in pusher configuration. Original factory canopy options included the Ranger or the Seal designs. As is the case with all paramotors, takeoff and landing is accomplished on foot.

The aircraft was not a commercial success, production was halted and the company went out of business in about 2004.

Specifications (Backplane)

References

1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Paraborne Aviation. Paraborne Aviation was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Kissimmee, Florida. Founded by Scott Alan, the company specialized in the design and manufacture of paramotors.

Paraborne started off as the US distributor for the Goodwin Buckshot wheeled powered parachute design and the Daiichi Kosho Company's foot-launched Beat and Whisper paramotors. When Daiichi Kosho ceased production Alan designed his own derivative aircraft, the Paraborne Backplane, but it was not a commercial success and Paraborne ceased produced and went out of business in about 2004.

Aircraft

References

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Timestamping (computing). In computing, timestamping refers to the use of an electronic timestamp to provide a temporal order among a set of events.

Timestamping techniques are used in a variety of computing fields, from network management and  computer security to concurrency control. For instance, a heartbeat network uses timestamping to monitor the nodes on a high availability computer cluster.

Timestamping computer files (updating  the timestamp in the per-file  metadata every time a file is modified) makes it possible to use efficient build automation tools.

See also
 Trusted timestamping
 Timestamp-based concurrency control
 Lamport timestamp

References

Computer network security
Concurrency control
Transaction processing
Glidersport LightHawk. The Glidersport LightHawk is an American mid-wing, T-tailed, single-seat, microlift glider under development by Glidersport.

Design and development
The LightHawk is made from composites. Its  span wing employs a large wing area of  to produce a low wing loading to allow the aircraft to make use of small and light sources of lift. The construction gives a very low empty weight of just .

The aircraft first flew in 2002 and certification was initially forecast for 2011, and then for late 2012, but had not been completed as of December 2015.

Specifications (LightHawk)

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References

External links

2000s United States sailplanes
Aircraft first flown in 2002
T-tail aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Termite shield. A termite shield is a sheet metal fabrication used in light frame construction to reduce the movement of termites from the soil into wood framing members such as floor joists and studs. Although there are several types of non chemical termite barriers now in use, termite shields are the original.

Materials 
Termite shields can be made up of various materials. One type of termite shield is made from various sheet metals including galvanized steel, terne, copper, or aluminum.  The metal is formed to fit between the top of the foundation wall and the bottom of the wood sill plate.  The edges of the termite shield are typically hemmed, extended slightly beyond the face of the wall, and turned down to form a drip edge which diverts water running down the face of the wall and reduce the movement of subterranean termites from the soil up into the wood framing members. Termite shields will not protect a building from termite activity, but help make termite activity more visible.

Lately, granite and Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) shield can be installed into tiny brick open spaces where termites can enter the building surrounding the whole perimeter of the property. The termite shield is too thick for the termites to chew and penetrate the material forcing the termites to migrate into the open where they can be more easily eradicated. The benefits of using this type of material is that they are sustainable to the environment being awarded Environmental Choice Declaration from the Environmental Labelling Association. Other benefits include being cheaper than metals, and can be coupled with other shield protection systems.

Problems 
One problem with termite shields is the gaps which exist at seams and at openings where steel reinforcing bars penetrate the metal shield.  Since many species of subterranean termites can enter through openings >1/20 Inch (1.27 mm), these gaps must be sealed with a sealant known to block termites.  Additionally, termite barrier sealant should be used underneath the shield, so termites are forced to go to the exterior of the structures.

Other materials 

There are two other materials called "termite barriers" rather than "termite shields" which have been evaluated by the International Code Council.  One is a waterproofing membrane with non-chemical termite barrier sealant, and the other is a wire mesh. (See Termite barriers)

References 

Building
Insect control
Evi. Evi or EVI may refer to:

People 
 Evi (Midianite king)
 Evi (given name)

Other uses 
 Evi (Evi van Lanschot), Van Lanschot Kempen's online investment and savings platform
 EVI (European Vaccine Initiative)
 Evi (software), a British software developer
 .evi, the filename extension used by Envoy (WordPerfect)
 EVI, the ICAO airline designator for the Royal Australian Air Force's transport squadron No. 34
 Enhanced vegetation index
 Evacuation Immediate, a warning issued through the United States Emergency Alert System
 Electronic Valve Instrument, a fingering mode for the EWI wind controller
 Electric vehicle infrastructure

See also
 Eevee, a Pokémon
 Eevee (band), a Philippine band formed in 2004
 Evie (disambiguation)
 Eve (disambiguation)
 Ive (disambiguation)
 Ivy (disambiguation)
 Ivey (disambiguation)
 Evy (disambiguation)
 Yve
Sex Life of Robots. Sex Life of Robots is an animated short film directed by Michael Sullivan and produced by Richard Skidmore. The film shows imaginary sexual activities among robots.

The plot of Sex Life of Robots is centered on a baby robot and a mother robot who are looking for pornography in the computer of their home. In this process, scenes of sexual intercourse among robots is shown in their computer screen.

Sex Life of Robots was made using stop motion animation technique. The design of the robots shown in the film were based on toys such as, among others, the fashion doll Barbie and the G.I. Joe action figures. The film was edited by its producer Richard Skidmore.

According to director Sullivan, "It's supposed to be like a silent robot porno movie from another planet." Although the film is a kind of pornography, according to Wired columnist Dylan Tweney, Sex Life of Robots "exhibits a high degree of artistry" which is full of "gritty, industrialized atmosphere". The New York magazine described the film as "art-porn". According to online news portal Terra Chile, the character of robot mother was inspired by American singer-songwriter and actress Debbie Harry.

A trailer of the film was uploaded on YouTube, but it was later removed because its pornographic nature created controversy. Sex Life of Robots was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2006.

The Tribeca Film Festival commented on the film, "Romance is swept aside by the mechanical imperative to inject robot sperm into robot eggs in this two-minute teaser of The Sex Lives of Robots. Lascivious machinery and a larger-than-life Deborah Harry robot drives this one-note plot to its inevitable climax."

References

External links

2000s pornographic films
American animated short films
Pornographic animation
2000s stop-motion animated films
Animated films about robots
2000s American films
Phoenix Industries B1Z ParaFlyer. The Phoenix Industries B1Z ParaFlyer (sometimes called the B12 or B1-Z) is an American paramotor that was designed and produced by Phoenix Industries of Southampton, New Jersey for powered paragliding.

The aircraft is out of production and the company no longer in business.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules. It features a rectangular paraglider-style wing, single-place accommodation and a single  Zenoah G-25 engine in pusher configuration, with recoil start. As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot.

Two different canopies were factory options. The smaller is  area for pilots up to  and the larger  area for pilots up to .

The aircraft can be modified into a powered parachute by the addition of a wheeled cart that mounts the engine package. The cart weighs .

Specifications (B1Z ParaFlyer)

References

1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Phoenix Industries aircraft
TCX Technology. TCX Technology is the brand name for a hydrocarbon-based ethanol production process developed and marketed by Celanese Corporation. Celanese researchers developed the TCX Technology in its Clear Lake City, Texas plant under the direction of its CEO to create a fuel that helps countries reduce their need to import oil and gas.
Celanese launched the TCX Technology in November 2010 and plans to invest $700 million to build one-to-two plants in China and one in Texas that will produce TCX-based ethanol. Celanese expects to produce approximately 300 million gallons of TCX ethanol by 2016.

Process
In the TCX process, natural gas or other hydrocarbons are first converted to acetic acid. Thereafter, acetic acid is hydrogenated (presumably obtained by methane reforming) to give ethanol; a supported platinum-tin catalyst for this purpose was patented by Celanese. Starting from coal, it is gasified. Impurities such as mercury and cadmium are removed, before further reaction.

Celanese claims to be able to produce hydrocarbon-based ethanol for a cost of $1.50 to $1.75 per gallon.

Uses

TCX can function as a fuel additive to operate vehicles and in industrial-grade applications to manufacture paints, coatings, inks and pharmaceuticals. It is intended for use in countries or regions wanting to lessen dependence on imported energy and with easy access to plentiful hydrocarbons. These include China, Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America, United States and other developing and growing countries.

References

External links

 Official product site
 Official company site

Fuel production
Ethanol fuel