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Shuah Khan. Shuah Khan is an American software engineer recognized for her contributions to the Linux kernel. In 2019, she became the first female Linux Foundation Fellow, joining notable figures such as Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman as the third fellow at the time.

Early life and education 
Born in India, Khan obtained a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering and a master's degree in computer science from Colorado State University. After completing her education, she worked at Bell Labs, followed by 13 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and 5 years at Samsung.

Linux kernel contributions 
Khan made her first contribution to the Linux kernel in 2011, by adding a new device driver for the LED sub-system as part of the Android Driver Mainlining effort. Khan has served on the Linux Technical Advisory Board (TAB) and as chair of the ELISA Project Technical Steering Committee. As of October 2024, she maintains the Kernel Selftest (kselftest) framework, the USB over IP driver, the CPU power monitoring subsystem, and the Virtual Media Controller driver. She has significantly contributed to kselftest, a regression testing suite for the Linux kernel.

In the early stages, testing in the kernel was mostly limited to build and boot tests. Khan introduced a more comprehensive testing framework to detect regressions earlier, before they could impact users. Her efforts resulted in "kselftest", which enables developers to run sanity tests and ensure the stability of their changes. This framework is now integrated into KernelCI and the 0-day test service. Describing herself as a generalist, she has also worked on the media subsystem by solving shared device resource management problems impacting components of the Media Controller Device Allocator API.

In 2020, Khan provided a "Signed-off-by" tag for a patch recommending inclusive terminology in the Linux kernel. This change was approved and merged by Linus Torvalds. The patch advised developers to avoid terms such as "master", "slave", "blacklist", and "whitelist". Alternatives such as primary/secondary, denylist/allowlist, and blocklist/passlist are suggested.

Khan has presented several times at the annual Linux Kernel Developers Summit.

Community involvement 
Khan also leads the Community Bridge Program, which aims to empower open-source developers by providing tools for funding, improving security, and promoting diversity. She advocates for increasing the participation of women in the kernel community.

Publications

References 

Living people
American computer programmers
American software engineers
Indian computer programmers
Indian software engineers
Linux Foundation fellows
Linux kernel programmers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Maxus eTerron 9. The Maxus eTerron 9 is an electric pickup truck produced by Chinese automaker Maxus since 2024.

It was presented on 17 September 2024 at the IAA Transportation in Hanover, announcing its arrival on the European market.

Overview 

The eTerron 9 offers a towing capacity of 3.5 tonnes and a payload of  in its  long rear dump body, which extends to 2.4 with the tailgate down. It offers an electrically opening frunk (front trunk) with a capacity of 236 dm3 with two integrated seats.

Powertrain 
The truck is equipped with two electric motors ( at the front and  at the rear) for a combined power of , powered by a LFP battery with a capacity of . It supports direct current (DC) fast charging up to , allowing it to charge from 20% to 80% in 40 minutes.

Safety

References 

eTerron 9
Cars introduced in 2024
Electric trucks
Pickup trucks
All-wheel-drive vehicles
Albert L. Weimorts Jr.. Albert Lee Weimorts Jr. (6 March 1938 – 21 December 2005) was an American engineer who was known for his design of some of the most powerful conventional bombs for the United States Armed Forces. Notably, he created the GBU-43, or "mother of all bombs", which is the largest non-nuclear bomb in the inventory of the US Armed Forces, and earlier conceived of the GBU-28, both for use in wars in the Middle East.

Weimorts died of brain cancer in 2005, not living to see use of the MOAB, though it would later be used in 2017 in Afghanistan.

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1938 births
2005 deaths
American engineers
Rock Chuck Bullet Swage. Rock Chuck Bullet Swage (later abbreviated RCBS) is a handloading equipment manufacturer operating in Oroville, California.  The company originated during the sporting ammunition shortage caused by World War II, became a widely recognized manufacturer of handloading equipment, and has subsequently been purchased by Hodgdon Powder Company.

History 

As U.S. factories prioritized military ammunition production during the Second World War, hunting ammunition became scarce.  In 1943 Fred Huntington was unable to find suitable varmint hunting ammunition for shooting rock chucks.  Working in the back room of his father's Oroville laundromat, Huntington devised a swaging machine converting spent .22 rim-fire cartridge cases into jackets for soft-point bullets.  Huntington's swaging dies became popular after the war as returning soldiers used their firearm skills for hunting.  Huntington opened a small machine shop in Oroville in 1948.  A larger building was required by 1954, and the factory had grown to  by 1958.

The Oroville factory expanded to  with over 150 employees producing bullet casting equipment, powder measures, and reloading presses with dies for removing spent primers and resizing fired centerfire ammunition cartridge cases before seating new primers and bullets.  RCBS became part of the Sporting Equipment Division of Omark Industries in 1976.  Omark published the RCBS Cast Bullet Manual in 1986.  Blount sold RCBS to Alliant Technosystems in 2001, which spun off RCBS as part of Vista Outdoor in 2015.  Hodgdon Powder Company purchased RCBS in 2024.

References

External links 
RCBS official site

Manufacturing companies based in California
Universal Engineering & Science College. The Universal Engineering & Science College (UESC) is a private engineering college in Chakupat in the Lalitpur District of Nepal. Established in 2000, UESC is affiliated with Pokhara University. The college offers various undergraduate and postgraduate programs, emphasizing practical and research-based engineering education. These programs are conducted under the academic guidelines of Pokhara University.

References 

 

Engineering colleges in Nepal 
Pokhara University
222 Squadron PN. 222 ASW Squadron also known as the Stingrays is a helicopter squadron from the Pakistan Naval Air Arm which specializes in Anti-submarine warfare. It is stationed at PNS Mehran in Karachi and flies Harbin Z-9EC helicopters out of its home base and various ships of the Pakistan Navy.

Established in 1994 with three Westland Lynx armed choppers acquired from the UK, the 222 Squadron started flying operations from PNS Mehran but faced problems with its Lynx helicopters due to shortage of spares such that by 2008, the squadron had grounded them. In 2009, the Navy purchased 6 modern Z-9EC multi-purpose choppers which were manufactured by Harbin and allotted them to the 222 Squadron. Equipped with Radars, ESM and Sonar equipment, the induction of Z-9ECs restarted flying operations in the 222 squadron.

See also 
 HSC-5

References 

Aircraft squadrons of the Pakistan Navy
Military units and formations established in 1943
Shoaib Ahmed Malik. Shoaib Ahmed Malik is a lecturer in science and religion at the University of Edinburgh. He is an editorial board member of the journal Theology and Science and executive committee member of the International Society for Science and Religion. He is serving as the chief editor of Palgrave Macmillan's "Islam and Science" book series.

Biography
Shoaib Ahmed Malik holds a bachelor of engineering (BEng) and a Master of Science (MSc) in science and religion. He earned a postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) before completing a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Nottingham. He later obtained a PhD in theology from the University of St Mary's, Twickenham. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion (FISSR) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

Works
 As author 
 Atheism and Islam: A Contemporary Discourse (2018) 
 Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm (2021)
 Reviews:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
As editor 
 Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New Frontiers in Science and Religion (2024) with Jörg Matthias Determann
 Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions: History, Metaphysics, and Science (2024) with E.V.R. Kojonen
 New Frontiers in Islam and Evolution: Scriptures, Scholars, and Societies (2024) with David Solomon Jalajel

References

Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
World Space Award. The World Space Award (also known as IAF World Space Award) is presented by International Astronautical Federation to an eminent individual or team at the IAC Congress, after a nomination process, that has made an exceptional impact to the progress of the world space activities by their outstanding contributions in the fields of space science, technology, medicine, law, or management over the period of time. it is often described as the "world's highest aerospace award", first awarded in 2013.

Past recipients

References 

Awards established in 2013
Bert Whittington (engineer). Herbert William Whittington (21 September 1945 – 11 March 2002) was a Scottish electrical power engineer and energy expert who was a professor at the University of Edinburgh. Born in Glasgow, he graduated with his Bachelors and PhD degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Strathclyde, in 1967 and 1970, respectively.

Career 
On graduation he joined the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) as a research officer. In 1973 he then joined the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer and was subsequently promoted to a Personal Chair in electrical power engineering in 1994.

Whittington's academic interests and activities were broad. His research career began in high voltage systems at the University of Strathclyde and the CEGB Central Electricity Research Laboratory in Leatherhead. At Edinburgh, he became interested in condition monitoring of equipment including debris detection in lubrication oil which resulted in a number of patents.

With Harold Dickinson he initiated a research programme at Edinburgh on rural electrification in developing countries. He later concentrated on energy policy in the UK including a sabbatical with the Scottish Executive. He was appointed as a special adviser on energy policy to the House of Commons Select Committee on Trade and Industry

Whittington was active in professional committee work for UK and European engineering organisations. He was a member of the Senate of the Engineering Council and he was Chairman of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Scotland, during which he was central to the establishment of the Scottish Engineering Centre at the Teacher Building in Glasgow.

Alongside his engineering career, Whittington was a talented footballer, playing professionally for Ayr United while studying at Strathclyde.

Recognition

In recognition of his contributions to electrical power he was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1991, Fellowship of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts and Chartered Engineer.

Following his death in 2002, the University of Edinburgh formally renamed the Established Chair in Electrical Engineering, held by Ewart Farvis and John Mavor, as the Bert Whittington Chair of Electrical Power Engineering. The first holder of the post was Professor Janusz Bialek (2003–2009) and the incumbent is Professor Gareth Harrison (2011-present).

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1945 births
2002 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Scottish engineers
Crossley Mancunian. The Crossley Mancunian was a commercial vehicle chassis produced by Crossley Motors from 1934 until 1941. It was of the front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout with forward control, sold as a bare chassis including engine, transmission and driving controls, and was intended to be fitted with double deck bodywork built either by Crossley or by an outside coachbuilder.

Crossley Motors had produced rolling chassis suitable for buses since 1928, and the principal models of the early 1930s were the Alpha and Condor, intended for single- and double-deck bodywork respectively. Crossley had also been manufacturing diesel engines (also known as oil engines) from 1930, which were available as an option on the Alpha and Condor models. Crossley's factories were in and around Manchester, and Manchester Corporation had a policy to support local industry – hence, Crossley's biggest customer for its bus chassis was Manchester Corporation Transport (MCT).

In the early 1930s, MCT produced a double-deck bus chassis specification, and to satisfy that, Crossley developed the Mancunian chassis. This used a new version of their oil engine, utilising a Ricardo Comet cylinder head, and having a displacement of ; other changes from the design of the Condor included the gearbox, which was fitted to the rear of the engine instead of part-way along the chassis. The Mancunian was launched in 1934, and having provided the specification the principal customer was therefore MCT, which took well over 400. Other customers bought far fewer, and included Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation (which took 18), Maidstone Corporation (12), Northampton Corporation (11), Warrington Corporation (11), Salford Corporation (9) and Oldham Corporation (6). Several other towns bought one or two each.

Production ended in 1941, by which time a little over 500 had been built – about seventy that were on order (mainly for MCT) at the outbreak of war were subsequently cancelled. In addition, 22 of the Crossley Alpha single-deck chassis (twenty for MCT in 1937 and two for Sunderland Corporation in 1939) were badged as Mancunians since they were equipped with the same engine and transmission.

Sources

Buses of the United Kingdom
Double-decker buses
Vehicles introduced in 1934
Half-cab buses
Satin spar. Satin spar, less commonly atlas spar, is a trivial, partly obsolete name for fibrous varieties of two minerals, gypsum and calcite, possessing a characteristic silky (satin) luster. Despite their very low hardness (2 or 3 on the Mohs scale), both atlas (satin) spars (especially selenite) are widely used as ornamental stones.

It should be understood that both of the listed minerals, despite their name of “spars”, do not strictly belong to the number of the most well-known under this name feldspars — both from the point of view of chemical composition and from the standpoint of classical mineralogy.

Main minerals and varieties 
 Selenite is a fibrous variety of gypsum, the most common form of satin spars;
 Gypsum, satin spar in the form of a lustrous fibrous variety, not, however, defined as selenite;
 Calcite or calcite spar is a fibrous variety superficially resembling selenite, but much less common in nature;
 Aragonite is one of the polymorphic natural varieties of calcite, sometimes having the same satin effect.

Satin Spars Gallery

See also 
 Feldspars
 Azure spar
 Moonstone
 Belomorite
 Albite
 Tiger eye

References 

Set index articles on minerals
Calcium minerals
Carbonate minerals
Sulfate minerals
Mining terminology
Mineral groups
Rhoda Gumus. Rhoda Gumus is a Nigerian professor of chemical engineering. She is a Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria. She was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari and confirmed by the Nigerian Senate on 2 February 2022.

Education 
Gumus was born on 21 July 1953 in Koroama town of Bayelsa State. She studied for a Higher National Diploma from the College of Science and Technology, Rivers State  and a Master of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Rivers State University of Science and Technology. She further obtained a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Loughborough University, UK.

Controversy 
Gumus's appointment as a National Electoral commissioner by President Buhari became controversial in 2022 due to allegations that she was a member of the All Progressives Congress. A purported "party membership card" was widely reported and copiously reproduced by newspapers across Nigeria as belonging to Gumus. The main opposition party in Nigeria, the People's Democratic Party rejected her appointment and confirmation by the Senate. Citizens wrote several petitions against her nomination and the senate was criticised for not publicly addressing those petitions before her confirmation. Gumus denied membership of any political party. She threatened legal action against the Concerned Nigerians Group (CNG) a civil rights group and other news sources who had carried the news and demanded a retraction. The CNG however replied that they were willing to meet in court over the allegations.

During the Edo State Governorship election which took place on 21 September 2024, Gumus was reported as saying "I am in charge, I wont take bribes...nobody will try me". The election is keenly contested between All Progressives Congress, the People's Democratic Party and the Labour Party and Gumus' statement comes against the backdrop of perceptions that Nigeria's partisan elections are heavily influenced by corruption.

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Nigerian chemical engineers
People from Bayelsa State
Living people
1953 births
111 Squadron PN. 111 ASW Squadron also known by their nickname the Sharks is a helicopter squadron of the Pakistan Naval Air Arm. It is based at PNS Mehran and operates Westland Sea King helicopters deployed aboard various ships of the Pakistan Navy. The squadron was established in September 1974 at its home base as an Anti-submarine warfare squadron.

History 
On 28 September 1974, Pakistan inducted Sea King Mk. 45/45A helicopters as part of modernization project for the navy which resulted in the 111 ASW Squadron being established. These Sea kings were capable of Anti-submarine & Anti-surface warfare which could fire AM-39 Exocet anti-ship missiles, Mk. 46 Torpedoes and depth charges.

Other than its primary wartime role, the squadron is also assigned secondary duties such as SAR, MEDEVAC, HVBSS, Para Drop and VVIP/Passenger transport. In 2021, the squadron's fleet was enlarged with acquisitions of 10 ex-Qatari Sea Kings which included 5 Mk.3A ASW/ASV capable Sea kings and 5 Mk. 2A Commando variants.

Operational history 
The squadron has took part in various military exercises and operations throughout the years. It has conducted several recue operations during the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and 2010 floods.

In the 2020 Karachi floods, the squadron's Sea Kings conducted 30 humanitarian relief and rescue missions in which more than 450 people were rescued from flooded areas.

See also 
 HSC-5

References 

Aircraft squadrons of the Pakistan Navy
Military units and formations established in 1974
Michael Keller (sound engineer). Michael Keller is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Elvis.

Selected filmography 
 Elvis (2022; co-nominated with David Lee, Wayne Pashley and Andy Nelson)

References

External links 

Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
American audio engineers
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
Carlson-Lynch Vertipactor. The Carlson-Lynch Vertipactor was an experimental VTOL aircraft designed and built by two American inventors — Ivar Carlson and John Lynch — in the early 1920s and tested at Curtiss Field, Long Island, New York. It did not fly.

Design and development
The Vertipactor was a wingless airplane, designed to rise vertically by virtue of the slipstream from two propellers interacting with a canopy covering the aircraft, pushing the aircraft in a vertical direction upwards. The craft was fitted with a large canopy which enveloped the whole craft.  The canopy had two vertical side walls connected to an arch at the top of the craft and was open at each end. Propellers at each end of the craft would force air into the Vertipactor and with the propwash then moving downwards, generating a lifting thrust. Within the canopy was a box-like girder fuselage, with a 200 hp Curtiss engine and propeller fitted at each end. The craft was fitted with a four-wheeled undercarriage.

In 1922, Carlson was granted patent No. 1,405,667, for an "Aeroplane", embodying the principle behind the Vertipactor.

Operational history
The craft was said by its inventors that, in December 1922, it made a flight lasting 15 minutes, rising to an altitude of .  Contemporary newspaper reports from July 1923 indicated that the craft would be undergoing formal testing at Curtiss Field (now known as Columbia Field), near Mineola, Long Island, New York, however the outcome of those tests are not known. A February 1924 magazine article appears to have been the last time the craft had been mentioned in the press, but without mention being made of it having flown.

Specifications

See also

References

1920s United States experimental aircraft
Twin-engined push-pull aircraft
Unflown aircraft
VTOL aircraft
Aircraft with fixed quad landing gear
Fire Information for Resource Management System. Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) is a free web mapping platform offered by NASA as part of its Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program. It displays active fire locations in near real-time overlaid on a map.

While created to monitor wildfires, it has also been used to report on fires due to military conflicts such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Tigray war.

Specifications

Satellites 
The data is collected via satellites in sun-synchronous orbit, making each satellite pass over the same location on Earth on the same time every day. Each satellite crosses equator from North to South twelve times a day thus also from South to North twelve times a day.

Instruments 
The data is collected via MODIS (on board Terra and Aqua) and VIIRS (on board Suomi NPP,  NOAA-20 and NOAA-21) satellite instruments. The spatial resolution of the MODIS instrument is 1 km × 1 km and 375 m × 375 m for VIIRS. This sets a lower limit on how accurately fires can be placed and whether a detection stems from a single larger or multiple smaller fires.

Website 
The data collected by FIRMS are presented as a free web mapping service, with the active fire locations if any overlaid on a map. The detections are displayed on top of a static background layer and each visualized detection is clickable to display its data, such as detection time, coordinates, satellite and instrument. The default static background layer consists of higher resolution satellite imagery with terrain details called Blue Marble in reference to The Blue Marble.

Development 
FIRMS was developed by the University of Maryland in 2007 with NASA funds and from 2010 to 2012 a version of it was run by the UN's FAO.

On 31 January 2023 NASA entered into a Space Act agreement with GIS software company Esri. The purpose of the agreement is to further improve global access to NASA's geospatial data via Esri's ArcGIS software and via Open Geospatial Consortium data-formats.

See also
 NASA WorldWind

References

External links 
 

NASA
Internet properties established in 2021
 
Emergency management
Web mapping