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Robert and Company. Robert and Company is an architectural engineering firm based in Atlanta, Georgia with multiple offices in the southern United States.  It was founded in 1917.  Its founder was L.W. "Chip" Robert Jr.

The firm provides multiple services including commercial and military aviation services, architecture, planning, landscape architecture and even providing historic preservation services.

A number of its works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Works include:
Atlanta Civic Center, 1968
 Bell Bomber Plant, now Lockheed Georgia at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Marietta, Georgia
Coca-Cola Baltimore Branch Factory, 1215 E. Fort Ave. Baltimore, MD (Robert & Co.), NRHP-listed
Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, 1958
Hawkes Children's Library of West Point, 100 W. 8th St. West Point, GA (Robert & Co.), NRHP-listed
NAS Chase Field-Building 1001, Independence St., 0.45 mi. S of jct. with TX 202 Beeville, TX (Robert & Company), NRHP-listed
NAS Chase Field-Building 1009, Essex St. 0.68 mi. SSE of the jct. of TX 202 and Independence St. Beeville, TX (Robert & Company), NRHP-listed
NAS Chase Field-Building 1015, Byrd St. 0.82 mi. SSE of jct. of TX 202 and Independence St. Beeville, TX (Robert & Company), NRHP-listed
NAS Chase Field-Building 1040, Enterprise St. 0.37 mi. SSE of the jct. of TX 202 and Independence St. Beeville, TX (Robert & Company), NRHP-listed
NAS Chase Field-Building 1042, Ofstie Rd. 0.6 mi. SSE of the jct. of TX 202 and Independence St. Beeville, TX (Robert & Company), NRHP-listed
NAS Chase Field-Quarters R, Essex St. 0.43 mi. SSW of the jct. of TX 202 and Independence St. Beeville, TX (Robert & Company), NRHP-listed
NAS Chase Field-Quarters S, Essex St. 0.45 mi. SSW of the jct. of TX 202 and Independence St. Beeville, TX (Robert & Company), NRHP-listed
Saratoga Victory Mill, 1821 Gunter Ave. Guntersville, AL (Robert & Co.), NRHP-listed

References

Architecture firms based in Georgia (U.S. state)
Cottonwood Springs Dam. Cottonwood Springs Dam is a dam in Fall River County, South Dakota in the southwestern part of the state, south of the Black Hills.

The earthen dam was constructed in 1969 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with a height of 123 feet and a length at its crest of 1190 feet.  It impounds Cottonwood Springs Creek for area flood control.

The reservoir it creates, Cottonwood Springs Lake, has a water surface of 36 acres and has a maximum capacity of 11,635 acre-feet.  Recreation is year-round and includes camping, hiking, and fishing. Recreation is managed by the Corps of Engineers.

The dam and lake is approximately 6 miles west of Hot Springs, South Dakota. Cold Brook Dam, another Corps of Engineers dam is located about 5 miles northeast.

The dam and reservoir are located within the Cheyenne River watershed.

See also
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Black Hills National Forest

External links
Cottonwood Springs Lake Recreation
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cottonwood Springs Dam

References 

Dams in South Dakota
Reservoirs in South Dakota
United States Army Corps of Engineers dams
Buildings and structures in Fall River County, South Dakota
Dams completed in 1969
Bodies of water of Fall River County, South Dakota
Bairabi Dam. Bairabi Dam is a proposed 80 MW dam  on the Tlawng river near Bairabi Village in Kolasib district in the state of Mizoram in India.

History

Bairabi Hydel Project is a 120 MW project initiated by Brig Ṭhenphunga Sailo  during Mizoram People's Conference government. National Hydroelectric Power Corporation had started the survey and investigation of Detailed Project Implementation in 1982. NHPC prepared the feasibility reported on the basis of field investigations which were completed in 1982-83.

Due to the change in government in 1984, the Congress Government led by Pu Lalthanhawla came to power, Techno-Economic Clearance, Forest & Environment Clearance was pursued but not successful, hence Brahmaputra Board was asked to reinvestigate and prepare a DIPR, who reduced the power project from 120 MW to 80 MW.

The Mizo National Front Government under Pu Zoramthanga came to power in 2000, even though Techno-Economic Clearance and Forest Environment Clearances were received, but due to non availability of funds, no progress was made.

The Congress Government led by Pu Lalthanhawla came back to power in 2008, A MoU was signed between the Government of Mizoram and Sikaria Power Ltd, Kolkata on 10 August 2012 out of which the State Government will receive 13% free and the remaining amount will be sold to the government.

References

Hydroelectric power stations in Mizoram
Dams in Mizoram
Gravity dams
Proposed hydroelectric power stations
Proposed renewable energy power stations in India
Integrated Design Associates. Integrated Design Associates (IDA) is a Hong Kong–based architectural firm set up in 1999 by its founder and principal, Winston Shu. The company is known for their sustainable, "green" designs, and their main body of work comprises international airports.

Concept, completed and future projects

Transportation

 Male International Airport, Maldives (projected 2014)
 Hanimaadhoo International Airport, Maldives (concept design)
 Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, India (2008)
 Departure Kerb Canopy, Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong (2008)
 Jinan International Airport, Jinan, China (2005)
 Hong Kong International Airport Improvement Works, Hong Kong (2002)
 Beijing Capital International Airport, Beijing, China (concept design 2004)
 Shanghai Pu Dong International Airport Phase II, Shanghai, China (concept design)
 Shenzhen Bao An International Airport, Shenzhen, China (concept design)
 Dalian International Airport, Dalian, China (concept design)
 Shenzhen MTR, Shenzhen, China (concept design)
 Hong Kong Heliport, Hong Kong (2008)
 Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, India (2010)
 Hong Kong Heliport, Hong Kong (2008)
 Mactan–Cebu International Airport Terminal 2, Cebu, Philippines (2018)

Retail, commercial, hotel

 Parkview Green (Hotel), Beijing, China (2012)
 Durban's Taichung Project, Taiwan (concept design)

Office

 Parkview Green (Office), Beijing, China (2012)
 The Cameron, 33 Cameron Road, Hong Kong (2008)
 Nortel Wangjing Campus, Beijing, China (2006)
 Sinochem Head Office, Beijing, China (2002)
 Shanghai North Bund Huishan Office Towers B1 and B2, Shanghai, China

Institutional

 ESF Discovery College, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong (2008)
 Hong Kong Housing Authority Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong (2001)

Residential

 One LaSalle, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong (2008)

Industrial

 Hong Kong Business Aviation Centre Hangar, Hong Kong (2007)
 ISA Tianjin Technology Park, Tianjin, China (2007)

Awards
 HKIA Merit Award Outside Hong Kong 2012 – Parkview Green
 Green Building Award Grand Award 2012 – Parkview Green
 International Green Awards 2011 – Parkview Green
 FuturArc Green Leadership Award 2011 – Parkview Green
 WAF Future Project of the Year 2011 – Hanimaadhoo Airport
 WAF Future Project Infrastructure 2011 – Hanimaadhoo Airport
 Perspective Awards Certificate of Excellence 2011 – Parkview Green
 AIA Merit Award 2010 – Hanimaadhoo Airport
 MIPIM Asia Green Building Award 2010 – Parkview Green
 AIA Merit Award for Un-built Project 2010 – Hanimaadhoo Airport
 Quality Building Award Finalist of Residential Category 2010 – One LaSalle
 Hong Kong Institute of Engineers Structural Excellence Award – ESF Discovery College
 LEED Platinum 2009 – Parkview Green
 Top 5 Best Airports Worldwide (Multiple Years) – Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
 AIA Merit Award for Interior Design 2002 – Hong Kong Housing Authority Exhibition Centre
 AIA Honor Award for Un-built Project 2001 – Shenzhen MTR Depot and Office Building

References

Architecture firms of Hong Kong
Vehicle fire suppression system. A vehicle fire suppression system is a pre-engineered fire suppression system safety accessory permanently mounted on any type of vehicle. These systems are especially prevalent in the mobile heavy equipment segment and are designed to protect equipment assets from fire damage and related losses. Vehicle fire suppression systems have become a vital safety feature to several industries and are most commonly used in the mining, forestry, landfill, and mass transit industries.

Parts of a typical system 
A typical vehicle fire suppression system has five key components:

 Fire-detecting linear wire or spot sensors,
 A control panel to detect a fire and alert the operator,
 Actuators discharge automatically or manually to activate the system,
 Tanks filled with fire-fighting agent, and
 A distribution network of tubes, hoses, and nozzles.

To mitigate a fire as soon as it happens, fire-detecting linear wire or sensors are strategically placed around the machine. When the high heat of a fire penetrates the linear wire or is detected by the sensors, a signal is sent to the control panel in the vehicle cab.

The control panel alarms and alerts the driver to quickly evacuate the machine. At the same time, the panel automatically initiates the actuator, which discharges the fire-fighting agent inside the onboard tanks and sends it through a distribution network composed of stainless steel tubing and/or hydraulic hosing. An actuator can also activate the system when pressed manually by the operator. 

At the end of the distribution network, the agent is disbursed into the equipment’s protected areas via nozzles aimed at the machine's high-hazard components, like turbochargers, starters, fuel filters, batteries, alternators, and transmissions to extinguish the fire quickly and efficiently.

References

Fire suppression
CU-RTC-WEB. Customizable, Ubiquitous Real Time Communication over the Web is an API definition being drafted by Bernard Aboba at Microsoft. It is a competing standard to WebRTC, which drafted by a World Wide Web Consortium working group since May 2011.

As of 2024, CU-RTC-WEB is still in the drafting phase, with ongoing discussions and contributions from various stakeholders in the tech community. Bernard Aboba, who serves as a co-chair of the W3C WebRTC Working Group, is actively involved in both CU-RTC-WEB and WebRTC, indicating a commitment to advancing real-time communication standards across platforms.

References

External links
 Draft Proposal at W3C List
 Current Draft 

Web development
Light aircraft pilot licence. The light aircraft pilot licence (LAPL) is a pilot license allowing the pilot to fly small aircraft. It is issued in EASA member states and the United Kingdom. Unlike most other licences, it is not covered by the ICAO framework and is usually not able to be used in other states or regulatory areas.

Privileges

Separate LAPLs are issued for aeroplanes, helicopters, sailplanes (gliders) and balloons.

For aeroplanes, holders of an LAPL may act as pilot in command of single-engine piston aeroplanes or touring motor gliders with a maximum certificated take-off mass of 2,000 kg or less, carrying a maximum of 3 passengers.

For helicopters, holders of an LAPL may act as pilot in command of single-engine helicopters with a maximum certificated take-off mass of 2,000 kg or less, carrying a maximum of 3 passengers.

For sailplanes, holders of an LAPL may act as pilot in command of sailplanes and powered sailplanes.

For balloons, holders of an LAPL may act as pilot in command of hot-air balloons or hot-air airships with a maximum of 3,400 m3 envelope capacity or gas balloons with a maximum of 1,260 m3, carrying a maximum of 3 passengers.

Requirements

LAPL applicants must be at least 17 years old for aeroplanes and helicopters, or 16 years old for sailplanes and balloons.

Recency
To use the licence, an LAPL holder needs to have, in the last 24 months, as pilot of an aeroplane or TMG:
12 hours of flight time as pilot in charge, including 12 take-offs and landings,
refresher training of at least 1 hour of total flight time with an instructor.

Legal basis
The LAPL was introduced in 2012.

European Union and EASA member states 
The EU LAPL is defined in the  Regulation (EU) No. 1178./2011. Compared to the ICAO licence on the level of a PPL the requirements, skill tests, and privileges are lowered. The rules and requirements for the license are stated in Part-FCL of the Regulation (EU) No. 1178./2011.

United Kingdom 
When the United Kingdom left the EASA system at the end of 2020, EASA Part-FCL was retained in UK law as UK Part-FCL. As such, the UK continues to issue LAPLs, however these are not compatible with the EASA LAPL.

See also
EASA pilot licensing
Pilot licensing in the United Kingdom

References

Aviation licenses and certifications
Aviation safety in Europe
Omek Interactive. Omek Interactive was a venture-backed technology company developing advanced motion-sensing software for human-computer interaction in automobiles, casinos and arcades, consumer electronics, video games, health care and digital signage. Omek was co-founded in 2006 by Janine Kutliroff and Gershom Kutliroff.

Company overview
Omek Interactive is an Israeli company that develops gesture recognition and motion tracking software for use in combination with 3D depth sensor cameras.  Omek’s middleware is sensor-independent, supporting multiple cameras including those based on a Structured light and Time-of-flight camera technology.  Omek's software works with the following cameras: PrimeSense-based Microsoft Kinect, PMD Technologies CamCube, SoftKinetic DepthSense, and Panasonic D-Imager.

In July 2011 Intel Capital led their Round C financing with $7 million. Among the investors was Eliyahu Haddad who invested $2 million. Mr. Haddad was also given a seat on the Board. 

Intel confirmed, that it acquired Omek July 16, 2013 for $40 million.

Technology
Omek’s flagship product is the Beckon Development Suite, which converts raw depth data from 3D cameras and turns it into intelligence about humans in the scene, through background subtraction, joints tracking, skeleton identification, and gesture recognition.  The Beckon software solution includes the Gesture Authoring Tool, a machine learning tool that enables developers to create gestures without writing any code.  Beckon is no longer available as a free, non-commercial download from the Omek website.

In March 2012, at the Embedded Vision Alliance Summit, Omek announced the upcoming availability of their Grasp Development Suite.  Grasp focuses on close-range, hand and finger tracking and gesture recognition at distances of 1 meter and less. At the same event Omek also announced support for Texas Instruments’ BeagleBoard-xM evaluation board, a low-cost, low-power, embedded computing platform.

See also
Natural user interface
Human-computer interaction
Gesture recognition
Computer vision

References

External links
Official Website
See Chapter 7: Application Development with the [Omek] Beckon Framework "Meet the Kinect: An Introduction to Programming Natural User Interfaces", by Sean Kean, Jonathan Hall, Phoenix Perry

Gesture recognition
Commercial computer vision systems
Human–computer interaction researchers
Software companies of Israel
Intel acquisitions
Peak Aerospace Me 109R. The Peak Aerospace Me 109R is a family of German replica warbird ultralight aircraft that was designed by Tassilo Bek, and originally produced by Peak Aerospace of Pasewalk. The company since changed its name to Classic Planes GmbH . The design, first flown in 1991, is an 80% scale replica of the Second World War Messerschmitt Bf 109 and is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It features a cantilever low-wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit, retractable conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The first replica was inspired by Bek's inspection of a Loehle 5151 Mustang scale replica fighter at AirVenture in the late 1980s. He was impressed with the scale warbird, but wanted a German aircraft and so returned home and set out to design an Me 109 replica.

The first prototype, registered D-MBAK, was of all wooden construction, powered by a Hirth 2704 producing only  and first flew in 1991. This aircraft achieved  on its low power output, but Bek started a second prototype based on lessons learned in 1992. The second aircraft, registered D-MYBB, first flew in 1992, but was lost in an accident that same year. Bek's third prototype, D-MNBP, was flown in about 1994 and resulted in some kits being sold.

Bek flew a homebuilt category version of the Me 109 in 1996, powered by a Hirth F30 and later a Subaru automotive conversion, which became the prototype of the Me 109R kit aircraft. Bek then sold the company and the new owner ceased development of the Me 109. In 2003 Christian Engelen purchased the project and continued work on the aircraft, officially re-launching it in 2004. Since then production has continued on a demand basis.

The current production version, the Me 109R is made from composites. Its  span wing has an area of  and flaps. Standard engines available include the  Rotax 582 two-stroke, the  Weber Motor MPE 750 and the  D-Motor LF26 four-stroke powerplants.

Variants
Me 109R Microlight
Version for the European microlight class with a gross weight of 
Me 109R Experimental
Version for the homebuilt aircraft class with a gross weight of , stressed for +6/-4g and intended for aerobatics. Powered by an  Rotax 912UL, a  MPE 750 or  D-Motor LF26 boxer engine.

Specifications (Me 109R)

See also
Roland Me 109 Replica - a similar replica
W.A.R. BF-109

References

External links

1990s German ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Lactic acid O-carboxyanhydride. Lactic acid O-carboxyanhydride (lac-OCA) is an organic compound. It is used as a monomer  equivalent to lactic acid or lactide in the preparation of poly(lactic acid). When this monomer undergoes ring-opening polymerization, one equivalent of carbon dioxide gas is released for every lactic acid unit incorporated into the polymer:

This compound is prepared by treatment of lactic acid or its salts with phosgene or one of its equivalents, e.g. diphosgene.

References

Carbonate esters
Monomers
Signed and Encrypted Email Over The Internet. The Signed and Encrypted Email Over the Internet (SEEOTI) initiative is an approach to providing small and medium enterprises with the ability to communicate securely with one another, government defence ministries and major aerospace and defence contractors, allowing them to play a full part in the defence supply chain.

Overview 

SEEOTI implements the secure email specifications defined by the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP).  These support interoperable signing and encryption of email messages in a federated environment. In addition, the security labelling of email messages is supported with a network border guard being able to check labels even though messages are encrypted. This meets the goal of protecting Intellectual Property in the global business environment, which is of particular importance to the UK Cyber Security Strategy as intellectual property is seen as key to the growth of the economy.

Deep-Secure organised a trial of SEEOTI for UK MOD and the UK Council for Electronic Business. This integrated Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) products from TITUS, Boldon James and Deep-Secure to provide the system's email security functionality. Deep-Secure were selected as the overall winner of the UKCeB Excellence Awards 2011 for their work on SEEOTI in February 2012. Deep-Secure and its partners Adept4, Intercede and Trustis are providing a SEEOTI solution as a service. Nexor provide compatible products.

References 

Data security
Email
Institute of Energy Conversion. The Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC), located at the University of Delaware is the oldest solar energy research institute in the world. It was established by Karl Boer in 1972 to pioneer research on thin film solar cells. The IEC performs independent research and collaborates with businesses alongside training undergraduate and graduate students in solar cell engineering. In 2011, the organization was the highest recipient of the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) SunShot Initiative and was awarded five grants totaling $9.1 million to research next generation solar cells to reduce the cost of solar cells by 75 percent by the end of the decade.

References

External links
Official website
relevant publications (Google Scholar)

University of Delaware
Solar energy organizations
Longest linear sequence. In synthetic chemistry, the longest linear sequence, commonly abbreviated as LLS, is the largest number of reactions required to go from the starting materials to the products in a multistep sequence.

This concept is very important when trying to optimize a synthetic plan. Since every reaction step can decrease the yield of the product, reducing the value of the LLS is a good way to increase the quantity of chemicals formed at the end: this can be done by devising quicker methods to couple the fragments or by introducing convergence. However, improving sequences which are not the longest linear one will generally not produce an overall enhancement to the yield of the reaction since the benefits incur in intermediates that were already present in excess, assuming that the yields for each of the steps are roughly equal.

References 

Chemical synthesis
OPmobility. OPmobility is a French automotive supplier. OPmobility operated under the name Plastic Omnium until March 27, 2024.

History
Plastic Omnium was founded by Pierre Burelle in 1946. It began making plastic steering columns for Renault, but soon extended its supply contracts to other carmakers in France and abroad.  In 1995, it made a tender offer for its most important rival in the French industry, Reydel, and then acquired it from its major stakeholder Compagnie Financière de Turenne. According to their website, Plastic Omnium currently has 131 plants and is present in 26 countries.

Divisions

Plastic Omnium Automobile

Two automotive divisions, Auto Exterior Division and Auto Inergy Division (previously: Inergy Automotive Systems). The first provides external plastic elements (thermoplastic and composite) for cars, like bumpers and energy absorption systems, fender and front-end modules. The second provides plastic fuel tank systems and SCR tank systems. In 2011, Inergy purchased the Ford Motor Company's fuel tank manufacturer in United States, Visteon, and became its sixth largest world provider.  The company has plans to introduce more composite materials to reduce the weight of their pieces and gain market advantage.

Plastic Omnium Environment (now called Sulo) 
This centers on waste containerization, urban and road signage and urban planning. Its products include wheeled bins; underground, semi-underground, and aboveground containers; voluntary waste drop-off receptacles and data management systems; equipment for community-use area; urban signage solutions; and road signage solutions, as well as sorted waste services. Plastic Omnium Systemes Urbains in 2012 won its first major contract for its line of sustainable products, when Rio de Janeiro requested the provision of wheeled rubbish bins made with plant-based polyethylene derived from sugar cane. The entity was sold to investors in 2018 and is now called .

Company's share structure
According to Plastic Omnium, at the end of 2011 55.1 percent of it was owned by the parent company, Burelle, 1.6 by the employees, 8.7 was Treasury stock and a 34.6 was for public trade.

References

Auto parts suppliers of France
Manufacturing companies established in 1946
French companies established in 1946
Plastics companies of France
Companies listed on Euronext Paris