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BP Building (Antwerp). The BP Building, previously also known as the Axa-Royale Belge Tower, is a suspended-structure office building in Antwerp, Belgium, designed by the Belgian architect Léon Stynen. The building was completed in 1963 and features a unique cantilevered floor structure and cable supports. All of the floors are supported with external cables that are attached to roof beams: the weight of roof beams, all floors, and the external walls are carried by a center core. The building was commissioned by BP and is still referred to as the "BP Building", but is now owned by Buysse & Partners Smart Assets since 2018. Its architecture has been classified as Modernist and Brutalist.

Design
In 1963, well-known Belgian architect Leon Stynen experimented with a technique which allowed a cantilevered facade. All of the floors and the facade of the building are held up with steel cables which are supported from rooftop beams. The design allows for a greater unobstructed interior space. It was Europe's first building which made use of "suspended construction".

The floors are supported by external cables, which allows each floor to have no internal columns. The ten floors are all similar and divided by interior wood-based walls. The facade is a type of curtain wall with metal grids. A restaurant is located on the upper level of the building.

The center concrete columns are  tall, and in addition to supporting the stairway and the duct work, they also support the steel core of two  beams. Nine crossbeams,  long, run perpendicular to the two primary beams. Cables are then hung from the crossbeams, and these support the floors.

Axa-Royale Belge Tower
The building was purchased by Axa Bank Belgium and renamed the Axa-Royale Belge Tower. It underwent a major renovation and most of the original interior is now replaced.

On 5 March 2001 the building was classified as an architectural monument based on historical and architectural value.

Awards
1964 SBUAM Prize Société belge des Urbanistes et Architectes modernistes.

References

1963 introductions
Buildings and structures in Antwerp
Buildings and structures completed in 1963
Modernist architecture
Office buildings completed in 1963
Suspended structures
BP buildings and structures
J. R. Montgomery Company Industrial Complex. The J. R. Montgomery Company Industrial Complex is a historic factory complex located on an island between the Enfield Falls Canal and the Connecticut River in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. It is next to the Windsor Locks Canal State Park Trail. The site has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2017.

Description and history 
The complex was built by J. R. Montgomery Company, which was founded in 1871 and moved to the site in 1881. It was once the country's largest manufacturer of tinsels, in addition to weaving cotton warps and yarns. It had a peak of 500 employees circa 1920. It fabricated metallic and plastic threads and wires from the 1920s onward. The metal threads were used in a wide range of manufactured products from electric razors, pacemakers, and computers.

German investors purchased the company and moved its operations to New Hampshire in 1989. The complex cycled through a series of owners and was ultimately abandoned. A devastating fire caused by arson destroyed two buildings in July 2006, followed by other fires in August 2009 and April 2010. The site was blighted and abandoned until 2020, when it was redeveloped into the privately owned Montgomery Mills Apartments.

The site comprises three main buildings. The oldest is a five-story brick building from ca. 1893 at the northern end. In the middle is a five-story brick building from ca. 1904, while the southern building is reinforced concrete constructed ca. 1920. The three buildings are connected. Ten smaller buildings dating from 1864 to 1977 also shared the site on the northern end, but most succumbed to fire and neglect and have been demolished.

See also 

 National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford County, Connecticut

References 

Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in Hartford County, Connecticut
Buildings and structures in Hartford County, Connecticut
Historic district contributing properties in Connecticut
Windsor Locks, Connecticut
Zhang Yongze. Zhang Yongze (; born March 1969) is a former Chinese politician who spent his entire career in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. He was investigated by China's top anti-graft agency in January 2022. Previously he served as vice chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region and before that, mayor and party secretary of Shannan.

Biography
Zhang was born in Qiubei County, Yunnan, in March 1969. In 1987, he was admitted to Chengdu University of Science and Technology, majoring in terrestrial hydrology. He began graduate work at Chengdu University of Science and Technology in 1991 and then Sichuan Union University in 1994. After graduating in 1997, he was assigned to the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences.

Zhang joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March 1997, and got involved in politics in June 1998, and was appointed deputy director of Environmental Protection Bureau of Tibet Autonomous Region, and five years later, he was promoted to the director position. He became mayor of Shannan, in April 2012, and then party secretary, the top political position in the city, beginning in June 2015. In May 2017, he took office as vice chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region, succeeding .

Downfall
On 8 January 2022, Zhang had been placed under investigation for "serious violations of discipline and laws" by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the party's internal disciplinary body, and the National Supervisory Commission, the highest anti-corruption agency of China. On July 7, he was expelled from the CCP and removed from public office.

References

1969 births
Living people
People from Qiubei County
Sichuan University alumni
People's Republic of China politicians from Yunnan
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Yunnan
Huang Ru. Huang Ru (; born November 1969) is a Chinese electronic engineer and scientist of Hui ethnicity who is currently a party member of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). She also served as president of Southeast University, was a former vice president of Peking University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography 
Huang was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu, in November 1969, while her ancestral home in Nan'an, Quanzhou, Fujian. She secondary studied at Wuxi No. 1 High School and Nanjing Zhonghua High School (). In 1987, she was accepted to Southeast University, where she earned her master's degree in electronic engineering in 1994. Then she attended Peking University where she obtained her doctor's degree in 1997.

After university, Huang stayed at Peking University and worked successively as associate professor, full professor, and doctoral supervisor. She was honored as a Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2006. She was appointed as dean of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 2014. She became dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence in April 2019, before becoming vice president in December of that same year.

On 7 January 2022, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and State Council of China appointed her as president of Southeast University, a position at vice-ministerial level. In October 2022, she was elected as an alternate member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

In January 2025, Huang was transferred to the National Development and Reform Commission as a party member, retaining her position at vice-ministerial level.

Publications

Honours and awards 
 2010 State Technological Invention Award (Second Class) for new devices and technologies of nano scale silicon-based integrated circuits and their applications
 2013 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for process development and industrialization of 65-40 nm complete sets of VLSI products
 7 December 2015 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

References 

1969 births
Living people
Hui people
People from Nanjing
Scientists from Jiangsu
Chinese engineers
Chinese women engineers
Chinese electronics engineers
Southeast University alumni
Peking University alumni
Presidents of Southeast University
Academic staff of Peking University
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
TWAS fellows
Alternate members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Roger A. Markle. Roger A. Markle (December 12, 1933 – January 2020) was an American mining engineer and executive. He served as the 15th director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. He later served as the president and vice chairman of Quaker State and the executive vice president of NERCO.

Early life
Roger A. Markle was born on December 12, 1933, in Sidney, Montana to Forrest Markle. He attended a one-room schoolhouse up until eighth grade. He then attended Montana School of Mines for two years while working weekends at mines in Butte. He then moved to Fairbanks, Alaska and enrolled at the University of Alaska. Markle graduated from the University of Alaska with a Bachelor of Science in mining engineering in 1959. He graduated from Stanford University in 1965 with a Master of Science in mining management. He then graduated from the University of Chicago in 1971 with a Master of Business Administration.

Career
Markle served in the U.S. Navy. He was honorably discharged in 1954.

Markle worked as a mill superintendent, chief mine engineer and then general superintendent with Alaska Mines & Minerals, Inc. from 1958 to 1961 at the Red Devil Mine near Red Devil, Alaska. He then worked as an instructor of adult education at the University of Alaska from 1962 to 1964. From 1965 to 1974, Markle worked at Standard Oil and its subsidiaries in varying positions relating to mining. He started as a project manager in Denver and ended as a manager of mine development. From 1974 to 1978, he served as the president of the western division of the Valley Camp Coal Company.

In 1978, President Jimmy Carter nominated Markle as the director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. He assumed the position on September 1, 1978, and resigned the post on April 11, 1979, for personal reasons. Lindsay D. Norman assumed the role of acting director following his resignation. In 1979, he returned to the Valley Camp Coal Company, which was then owned by Quaker State, as a director, president, and chief executive officer. He was named president of Quaker State in 1982. In January 1988, Markle was named vice chairman. He served as president until May 1988. He retired from Quaker State in 1989.

In 1990, Markle became executive vice president of NERCO. He retired shortly before the company was sold to Kennecott Utah Copper in 1993.

Personal life and death
Markle married Mary E. (d. 2014) around 1971. She had two daughters from a previous relationship.

After retiring, Markle and his wife lived in Vancouver, Washington, Atlantic Beach, North Carolina and, finally, Sun City, Arizona. Markle died in January 2020 in Sun City.

Legacy
Between 2014 and 2020, Markle gave $2.1million to create the Roger A. Markle Climate Change Adaptation Endowment at the University of Alaska. He created the endowment to support people living in the Arctic that may be impacted by climate change.

References

1933 births
2020 deaths
People from Sidney, Montana
University of Alaska Fairbanks alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of Chicago alumni
University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty
United States Navy sailors
Standard Oil
United States Bureau of Mines personnel
American mining engineers
Shoulder dolly. A shoulder dolly, also known as moving straps, lifting straps, furniture moving straps, and similar names, is a lifting strap and harness used in transport and logistics which allows moving personnel to distribute the load more evenly on the shoulders and hips so that heavy lifts can be performed with less risk of back injury. They are often used in pairs by two people carrying an object between them, and are sometimes used by moving companies. In 2019, a shoulder dolly made by a British manufacturer was named a finalist in Tomorrow’s Health & Safety Awards 2019, which is part of a digital magazine for the British health and safety industry.

A forearm lifting strap or forearm "forklift" strap is a somewhat similar device but places the weight on the forearm instead of the shoulder and hips.

Mechanism 
Shoulder dollies can promote proper lifting techniques by encouraging the use of legs for lifting, thereby reducing the risk of injury and back strain. They also help utilize the body's stronger muscle groups and give better leverage. According to one source, the leg muscles are less prone to getting tweaked and injured compared to the back due to the additional weight during a lift.

Compared to wheeled moving 
Compared to a trolley, a lifting strap can make it easier to move objects past uneven surfaces such as steps and stairs. Shoulder dollies are sometimes also used together with a wheeled trolley to pass varied terrain where it is possible to take advantage of benefits from both transportation methods when suited.

Safety 
Shoulder dollies can be a safety hazard if used incorrectly. They should not be used by persons with physical limitations or injuries. Safety boots may be recommended.

Shoulder dollies are often made of straps with padding at the points of contact with the body, and should preferably be sewn together in the back so that the straps do not easily slip to the side and off the shoulders during lifting. The sling is often attached to the object being carried via a lifting hook.

See also 
 Manual handling of loads
 Hand truck

References

External links 
 Video demonstration of moving a washing machine through stairs with a shoulder dolly - YouTube

Tools
Moving and relocation
San Juan Ecological Corridor. The San Juan Ecological Corridor (Spanish: Corredor Ecológico de San Juan, shortened to CESJ) is a project dedicated to the preservation of an ecological corridor in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, designated under Law No. 206 on August 28, 2003.

Overview 
The San Juan Ecological Corridor constitutes approximately 1,000 cuerdas (971 acres) of secondary forests, protected natural zones and green spaces within the municipality of San Juan, particularly throughout the barrios (districts) of El Cinco, Cupey, Río Piedras (Pueblo) and Sabana Llana Sur, and it includes the University of Puerto Rico Botanical Garden and Research Station. The geography consists of karst hills, highlands, valleys and plains with elevations ranging from 32 feet (10 m) to 377 feet (115 m) above sea level. This ecological corridor is important for the protection of the Piedras River hydrographic basin and the San Juan Estuary drainage ecosystems.

Constituents 
The following protected areas are included in the San Juan Ecological Corridor:

 Cupey Arboretum
 Doña Inés Mendoza Urban Forest
 Los Capuchinos Forest
 New Millennium State Forest
 Old Piedras River Aqueduct
 University of Puerto Rico Botanical Garden

See also 
 Protected areas of Puerto Rico

References 

Protected areas of Puerto Rico
Forests of Puerto Rico
Geography of San Juan, Puerto Rico
2003 establishments in Puerto Rico
Protected areas established in 2003
University of Puerto Rico
Ecological connectivity
Lindsay D. Norman. Lindsay D. Norman (born 1938) is an American mining engineer and educator. He served as the 16th director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. He also worked as an executive for Jones and Laughlin Steel Company and Chase Manhattan Bank. He later served as president of  Montana Technical Institute and Massachusetts Bay Community College.

Early life
Lindsay D. Norman was born in 1938 in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. Norman was raised on a farm in Eastern Shore, Maryland. He attended the University of Maryland and graduated with a bachelor's degree in metallurgy and chemical engineering in 1960 and a master's degree in metallurgy and nuclear engineering. He also received a PhD in 1970 in materials science and physics from the University of Maryland.

Career
Norman began his career at DuPont around 1961. He worked part-time for the U.S. Bureau of Mines as he was working on his master's degree.

Norman worked as an assistant director at the Bureau of Mines for five years. Norman was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as director of the Bureau of Mines in 1979. He served in that role until March 1981, when he was replaced by President Ronald Reagan.

After leaving the Bureau of Mines, Norman worked as vice president of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company in Pittsburgh from 1981 to 1984. He later worked as a vice president and technical director at Chase Manhattan Bank from 1984 to 1986 in New York City.

Norman served as chancellor of Montana Technical Institute in Butte, Montana starting on July 1, 1986. He also served on the board of Pegasus Gold Inc. starting in 1987 and became the board chairman in August 1995. He resigned from Montana Tech when it merged into Montana University in 1998, and then served as a consultant for Montana University. Norman became president of Massachusetts Bay Community College in 1999. He retired in October 2004.

Personal life
Norman is married to Linda, and together they have five children: Julie, Lindsay, Jessica, Jocelyn and David. His wife was a professor and department head at Montana Tech.

Awards
Norman received the 1986 Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award and the 1994 Engineering Centennial Medal from the University of Maryland.

References

Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
1938 births
People from Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
University System of Maryland alumni
DuPont people
United States Bureau of Mines personnel
Montana Technological University faculty
American mining engineers
IMOCA 60 Bonduelle 2. The IMOCA 60 Class yacht Bonduelle 2, FRA 59 was designed by Marc Lombard and launched in the April 2004 after being built by JMV based in Cherbourg, France. The boat was lost during the 2008-2009 Vendee Globe following the loss of the keel bulb. The skipper Jean Le Cam was rescued by fellow competitor Vincent Riou.

Racing results

Gallery

References 

Individual sailing vessels
2000s sailing yachts
Sailing yachts designed by Marc Lombard
Vendée Globe yachts
IMOCA 60 yachts
IMOCA 60 Sill 2. The IMOCA 60 Class yacht Sill-Veolia, FRA 29 was designed by Marc Lombard and launched in the 26 April 2004 after being built JMV based in Cherbourg, France.

Names and Ownership 
Former names: Sill 2, Sill et Veolia, Veolia Environnement, VE 1, Neutrogena, Saveol, Ethical Power, Vivo A Beira, Kattan

Current name: Partage, Skipper: François Guiffant.

Racing results

References 

Individual sailing vessels
2000s sailing yachts
Sailing yachts designed by Marc Lombard
Vendée Globe yachts
IMOCA 60 yachts
IMOCA 60 Sill. The IMOCA 60 Class yacht SILL PLEIN FRUIT, FRA 29 was designed by Marc Lombard and launched in the 1999 after being built MAG based in France. The boat was lost in 2006 Velux 5 Ocean Race, when he was rescued by fellow competitor Mike Golding deep in the Southern Ocean. The written off hull was found nine years later washed up, 10,000 miles from where it was abandoned.

Racing results

References

Individual sailing vessels
1990s sailing yachts
Sailing yachts designed by Marc Lombard
Vendée Globe yachts
IMOCA 60 yachts
IMOCA 60 Ecover 2. The IMOCA 60 class yacht Ecover 2, GBR 3 was designed by Owen Clark Design, built by Southern Ocean Marine in New Zealand, and launched in 2003.

Racing results

References 

2000s sailing yachts
Sailing yachts designed by Owen Clarke Design
Sailing yachts designed by Merfyn Owen
Sailing yachts designed by Allen Clarke
Vendée Globe yachts
IMOCA 60 yachts
Sailboat types built in New Zealand
Southern Ocean Marine
Materials Science and Engineering A. Materials Science and Engineering: A — Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It is the section of Materials Science and Engineering dedicated to "theoretical and experimental studies related to the load-bearing capacity of materials as influenced by their basic properties, processing history, microstructure and operating environment" and is published monthly by Elsevier. The current editor-in-chiefs are H. W. Hahn (University of Oklahoma), E. J. Lavernia (Texas A&M University), and B. B. Wei (Northwestern Polytechnical University).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed and abstracted in the following bibliographic databases:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 6.4, ranking 9th out of 79 in the category 'Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering'.

References

External links
 

Physics review journals
Materials science journals
Elsevier academic journals
Academic journals established in 1993
English-language journals
Monthly journals
Limbric. Limbric was a kind of cotton cloth with a fine warp and a soft, lustrous weft. Limbric has a peculiar construction with more pick density than the ends per inch. The fabric was used for dresses and casement curtains. Made in Limbrick, Lancashire, England originally. Standard dimensions of 72x100 were used, with a warp of 64s and a weft of 30s. The superior quality of cloth was produced by using combed yarns.  

Moreen was another ribbed structure that was similar to Lambric.

References 

Woven fabrics
IMOCA 60 Group 4. The IMOCA 60 class yacht Group 4 was designed by Finot-Conq, made by JMV in Cherbourg in France, and launched in 1998. It was the runner-up in the 2001 Transat Jacques Vabre.

Racing Results

References 

1990s sailing yachts
Sailing yachts designed by Finot-Conq
Sailboat type designs by Groupe Finot
Vendée Globe yachts
IMOCA 60 yachts
Sailboat types built in France
Carl Hering. Carl Hering (Philadelphia, 19 March 1860 – 10 May 1926) was an American engineer involved in studies on electric batteries and electric furnaces. He also made discoveries on electromagnetic force.

Biography 
He was one of the sons of Constantine Hering, a pioneer of homeopathy in the United States. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he earned his Bachelor's degree in 1880 and then stayed on to teach mathematics and mechanical engineering. In 1883, he began his studies in electrical engineering as Erasmus Kittler's first assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of TU Darmstadt, Germany, where the first chair of electrical engineering had been created the year before.

Upon his return to Philadelphia in 1886, he founded a consulting firm that he continued until his death, specializing in work on electric furnaces and electrolysis, electrochemical and electrophysical processes. In 1887, he obtained his Master of Science also at the University of Philadelphia. In 1889, he participated in the World Exposition in Paris on behalf of the American government and around 1890, he studied the possibility of making electric batteries, obtaining several patents on the subject.

In 1902, together with E. F. Roeber, C. J. Reed, and J. W. Richards, he founded the American Electrochemical Society, of which he was president from 1906 to 1907. He was appointed officer of Public Education by the French government in 1889 and decorated a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1891.

In 1908, Carl Hering developed an experiment on electromagnetic induction to study its fundamental laws, an experiment similar to later Blondel's experiments.

Honors and awards 

 1891: Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor

Bibliography 

 
 
 Hartmut Grabinski: Der Heringsche Versuch: Mythen und Fakten (1908). In: Electrical engineering 1997, Band 80, Nr. 5, S. 285–290,

See also 
 Hering's Paradox
 Maxwell–Lodge effect
 Riccardo Felici

References 

1860 births
1926 deaths
19th-century American engineers
20th-century American engineers
American electrical engineers
Scientists from Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
American consultants
Knights of the Legion of Honour