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James E. Barlow. James E. Barlow (October 14, 1881 – October 4, 1958) was an American civil engineer and city manager.

Education and civil engineering
Barlow was born in 1881 in Somerville, Massachusetts. He graduated from Phillips Andover Academy the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1905 and taught at the university for a year and at Brooklyn Polytechnic for three. Trained as a civil engineer, Barlow worked on the construction of the Catskill Aqueduct in upstate New York. He later worked on the original Charles River Dam in Massachusetts.

City Manager
In 1914, Barlow was the first city manager of Dayton, Ohio, which was the first major city to adopt the system. In 1921, he became the first city manager of New London, Connecticut.  In 1928, Barlow replaced Harry Brinkerhoff as Portland, Maine's second city manager. As city manager of Portland during the Great Depression, Barlow was known for opposing tax increases intended to provide jobs to unemployed residents.

Anti-union activities
Barlow was known for his opposition to organized labor. Following the passage of the federal Taft–Hartley Act of 1947, Barlow became the foremost proponent of enacting a right-to-work law in Maine. The "Barlow bill" was defeated in a statewide vote on September 13, 1947.

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1881 births
1958 deaths
Phillips Academy alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
American civil engineers
People from Somerville, Massachusetts
People from Dayton, Ohio
People from New London, Connecticut
City managers of Portland, Maine
Right-to-work law
Anti-union sentiment
Biofabrication. Biofabrication is a branch of biotechnology specialising in the research and development of biologically engineered processes for the automated production of biologically functional products through bioprinting or bioassembly and subsequent tissue maturation processes; as well as techniques such as directed assembly, which employs localised external stimuli guide the fabrication process; enzymatic assembly, which utilises selective biocatalysts to build macromolecular structures; and self-assembly, in which the biological material guides its own assembly according to its internal information. These processes may facilitate fabrication at the micro- and nanoscales. Biofabricated products are constructed and structurally organised with a range of biological materials including bioactive molecules, biomaterials, living cells, cell aggregates such as micro-tissues and micro-organs on chips, and hybrid cell-material constructs.

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Biological engineering
Biotechnology
Dope.security. dope.security is an American cybersecurity company founded in 2021. Based in Mountain View and Cork, the company focuses on secure web gateways.

History
dope.security was founded by former Forcepoint and Symantec software engineer Kunal Agarwal on May 4, 2021. Following the shift of many companies to remote work following the COVID-19 pandemic, Agarwal founded dope.security to adapt secure web gateways to a growing market of workers accessing company servers through cloud computing or home Internet rather than centralized office networks. Speaking with TechCrunch, Agarwal recalled that during his engineering career, he encountered customers who complained about outages and other performance issues from existing secure web gateways that relied on data centers.

In September 2022, Boldstart Ventures provided the initial $4 million seed investment for dope.security, which began operations with 30 employees. With its headquarters in Mountain View, California, dope.security also has operations in Cork, Ireland.

Google Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, and Preface helped raise an additional $16 million to fund internal, endpoint-based secure web gateway technology development for dope.security in March 2023.

Products
The main dope.security product is the Fly Direct Secure Web Gateway (dope.swg), which is based at a communication endpoint rather than stopover data centers. The zero trust security model of dope.swg is compatible with Office 365 and Google Workspace.

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Companies based in San Francisco
2021 establishments in California
Software companies based in California
F1E. F1E or variant, may refer to:

Aerospace
 North American F-1E Fury, a U.S. fighter plane
 Dassault Mirage F1E, a French fighter plane from Dassault, variant of the Mirage F1
 Falcon 1e (F1e), a proposed space launch rocket from SpaceX, a variant of the Falcon 1
 F1E, a competition sports class of flying model aircraft; see Free flight (model aircraft)

Other uses
 Apricot Computers F1e, a personal computer
 F1e, a subgroup of Haplogroup F (mtDNA)

See also

 F1 (disambiguation)
 E1F vacuum tube, an acorn tube 
 FLE (disambiguation) and "fle", "Fle"
 FIE (disambiguation)
Flowability. Flowability, also known as powder flow is a property that defines an ability of a powdered material to flow, related to cohesion.

Powder flowability depends on many traits:
 the shape and size of the powder particles due to intermolecular force,
 porosity
 electrostatic activity
 hygroscopy
 bulk density
 angle of repose
 presence of glidants
 oxidation rate (of a metallic powder)
 humidity

ISO 4490:2018 norm (and its precedent, ISO 4490:2014) standardizes a method for determining the flow rate of metallic powders. It uses a normalized/calibrated funnel, named Hall flowmeter.

See also 
 Fluid mechanics
 Soil mechanics
 Cohesion (geology)
 angle of repose

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Condensed matter physics
Intermolecular forces
Physical phenomena
Mechanics
Geotechnical engineering
Fluid mechanics
Kinara (company). Kinara is an American semiconductor company that develops AI processors for machine learning applications.

History
Kinara was founded in 2013 by Rehan Hameed, Wajahat Qadeer and Jason Copeland as CoreViz. The company was rebranded as Deep Vision, and raised $35M in a series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. In 2022 Deep Vision rebranded as Kinara. The company has a development base in Hyderabad, India.

Kinara has partnerships with NXP Semiconductors and Arcturus Networks. In December 2023 they began a collaboration with Ampere and Mirasys. Kinara is a member of the AI Platform Alliance which is led by Ampere and is made up of 8 other companies. In April 2023, Kinara announced a partnership with ENERZAi, a company that offers technology to compress AI models.

Kinara has a partnership with Awiros, which showed its first results in January 2023 at the Consumer Technology Association’s CES annual trade show.

Products
In 2020, the company announced its first product, the Ara-1 Edge AI Processor. The product uses a polymorphic dataflow architecture. The Ara-2 was launched in December 2023 and is 5 to 8 times faster than its predecessor.

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External links
Kinara

Semiconductor companies of the United States
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Computer companies of the United States
Computer hardware companies
Zhou Zhixin. Zhou Zhixin (; born August 1965) is a Chinese scientist and university administrator, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and currently president of the Space Engineering University.

He is an alternate member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography
Zhou was born in Taihu County, Anhui, in August 1965. He attended Taihu High School. He graduated from the PLA Institute of Electronic Engineering before gaining a master's degree and a doctor's degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology.

Zhou became a researcher at the Beijing Institute of Remote Sensing Information in 1999, and finally becoming its director.

In November 2017, Zhou was appointed president of the newly founded Space Engineering University.

Honours and awards
 2008 State Technological Invention Award (Second Class) 
 2008 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class) for the space information direct support application test system
 2009 Science and Technology Innovation Award of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
 2014 State Science and Technology Progress Award (SSpecial)
 7 December 2015 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

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1965 births
Living people
People from Taihu County
Scientists from Anhui
Harbin Institute of Technology alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
People's Republic of China politicians from Anhui
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Anhui
Alternate members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Slavko Krajcar. Slavko Krajcar (14 January 1951 - 18 June 2021) was a Croatian electrical engineer, former dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing and member of Governance of the Croatian Academy of Engineering.

Early life, education and career

He was born in Krajcar Breg, municipality Žminj, Croatia. He attended high school in Pula and went on to graduate from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and became an electrical engineer in 1973. He received his PhD in 1988, and became full professor in 2002. He had been working on University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Energy and Power Systems for his entire career, more than 46 years.

After serving as an assistant dean in the period 1991-1991 and as a vice dean between 1996.-98,  he served, as well, as the dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in two terms, in the period 1998–2002, and as a head of the Department of energy and Power Systems from 2002 to 2006 year.

Memberships

He was active member of many professional and other organisation, a full member and member of the management board of the Croatian Academy of Engineering, the president of the Croatian Lighting Society, active member of CIGRE, CIRED, IEEE, and others. 

In addition to his profession, he was also very active in culture, for two terms he was the president of the society "Čakavian Parliament", and among other things, he published two collections of his poems.

Prof. Krajcar was one of the leading figures in making Croatian Energetic Strategy (which the Parliament accepted in 2010) and the Energetic Efficiency Strategy (2008), his expertise made a significant contribution to Croatian politics in the energy sector, and he was one of the pioneers of the energy transition in Croatia. He did not refuse invitations to many interviews, radio  and TV shows  and round tables.

Awards

Slavko Krajcar received numerous prestigious awards and recognitions for his exceptional scientific work, including golden plaque "Josip Lončar" from the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing for many years of dedicated teaching and research, special award for the reconstruction and development of the University Computing Center (SRCE), the HO CIRED award for great professional contribution to the development of electricity distribution (lifetime achievement award), the HRO CIGRE award for overall contribution to the power industry in the Republic of Croatia (lifetime achievement award) and also the ‘’Nikola Tesla’’ Croatian IEEE Section award for outstanding contribution to science, education and the profession in the field of electrical engineering and computing and significant achievements in electrical engineering and information technology.

He died in Fuškulin, Croatia at the age of 71.

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2021 deaths
1951 births
Engineers from Zagreb
University of Zagreb alumni
Academic staff of the University of Zagreb
Kaikado. Kaikado is a company located in Kyoto, Japan that manufactures and sells hand-made metal canisters and tea caddies. The items have been made by members of the Yagi family for six generations.

The company manufactures tea canisters called chazutsu in Japanese (cha is the Japanese word for tea, zutsu for canister) out of copper, brass or tin, using designs that have not changed since the company opened in 1875. One important feature of the canisters is the tight fit between the lid and the container, ensuring it remains airtight, to ensure the tea contained inside stays fresh.

The workshop is located beside the Kamo River in a quiet alley in Kyoto.  The hand-manufacturing process involves 130 to 140 steps, using a process that has remained unchanged since the company opened. Many of the dies and molds used today from the early years of the company.

Company history 
The company opened in 1875, when Japan first opened to the world, allowing for the import of items such as tin from England for the first time. At the time, tea canisters were made of ceramic or earthenware. The metal canisters were considered revolutionary for the time, as they kept air out due to their double-walled construction and tight-fit lid. Their construction allowed the tea leaves to retain their flavor and quality for up to a year. The canisters appear straight, but have a slight bulge, a feature, that improves airtightness and a lid that slides shut by itself, owing to the precision of manufacture.

Products and Manufacturing
In 2022, the company's workshop employs a team of eight full-time artisans, most having an art school background; with office staff, the company employs 15 people. The family-run business is currently run by Takahiro Yagi (a sixth generation descendant of founder Kiyosuke) who works with his father Seiji and the other craftspeople in the shop. The skills are not formally taught to the craftsman, instead they learn by being shown how to work the metal; they develop the skills on their own by making the items one at a time.

Yagi can produce around 10 canisters a day, and the company makes around 40 canisters a day. The company also makes copper tea pots, first made in collaboration with Danish studio OEO. The collaboration was meant to update products or create new ones for an international market; Kaikado was one of six Japanese companies involved in the process. OeO “tweaked the basic shapes and designed a range that includes various jugs, containers and serving trays made from brass, copper and wood” as part of the collaboration.

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Japanese companies established in 1875
Programme Yarrow. Programme Yarrow is a British government contingency plan to deal with possible nationwide power blackouts. The plan includes scenarios where power supply is severely compromised for up to a week. The plan was originally developed in 2021 to address the possibility of a major failure of the  National Grid.

The plan was stress tested by government in late 2022 to deal with possible outages caused by fuel shortages as a consequence of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Another exercise, Noble Birch, had been conducted in previous months to test the practicality of government continuity in the absence of power.

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Emergency management in the United Kingdom
Koji Sekimizu. Koji Sekimizu (born 3 December 1952) is a Japanese official who was Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization between 2012 and 2015, as well as Chancellor of the World Maritime University.

Education
Sekimizu attended school in Yokohama. He studied a Bachelor's degree in Engineering at Osaka University and then obtained a Master's degree in Engineering from Osaka University in 1977.

Early career
In 1977, he was appointed at a ship inspectior for the Ministry of Transport in Japan. In 1979, he became responsible for IMO safety planning regulations at the Ministry of Transport Ship Bureau. In 1980, he began attending meetings at the IMO in London. He eventually rose to become Deputy Director of Maritime Safety Standards in 1986.

In 1989, Sekimizu joined the IMO as a technical officer. In 1992, he became Head of Technology in the Maritime Safety Division. In 1997, he became the Senior Deputy Director of the Maritime Environment Division. In 2004, he was appointed as the Director of the Maritime Safety Division at the IMO.

Secretary-General of the IMO

On 28 June 2011, he was elected Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization. This appointment was confirmed on 1 December 2011 and he became the eighth Secretary-General of the IMO. He began his term as Secretary-General on 1 January 2012.

In July 2012, in response to the Costa Concordia disaster, he stated that the IMO needed to seriously consider the lessons to be learnt [from the accident] and, if necessary, re-reexamine the requirements on the safety of large passenger ships.
In September 2012, he argued for enhanced safety regulations for passenger shipping in the maritime industry. In June 2013, in Oslo, he advised audiences of the IMO development of the Polar Code.

In 2015, he stated clearly that the IMO must help prevent migrants from being sent to unsafe ports, specifically in the Mediterranean. In 2015, Sekimizu also said that shippers should not be responsible for capping their environmental emissions. In April 2015, he welcomed Zambia as the newest IMO member State.

Seikimizu served as Secretary-General until 31 December 2015. He was succeeded on 1 January 2016 by Kitack Lim. On his retirement from the IMO at the end of 2015, he was the last Japanese official to lead a UN specialised agency until the appointment of Masahiko Metoki to the Universal Postal Union in 2022.

In 2016, following his retirement he received the International Maritime Prize for his contributions at IMO.

Personal life
He is married, with a daughter, son and two grand-daughters.

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Living people
International Maritime Organization people
Japanese officials of the United Nations
1952 births
Osaka University alumni
List of bridges in France. This list of bridges in France lists bridges of particular historical, scenic, architectural or engineering interest. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included.

Historical and architectural interest bridges

Major road and railway bridges 
This table presents the structures with spans greater than 100 meters (non-exhaustive list).

Notes and references 
 Notes

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 Others references

See also 

 List of bridges in Paris
 List of medieval bridges in France
 Transport in France
 Roads in France
 Highways in France
 Rail transport in France
 Geography of France
 :fr:Liste des ponts de France protégés aux monuments historiques  - List of bridges in France protected as historical monuments
 Charenton Metro-Viaduct
 Crueize Viaduct

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Further reading
Aloha 8.5. The Aloha 8.5 is a Canadian sailboat that was designed by Edward S. Brewer as a cruiser and first built in 1983.

The design is a development of the Aloha 28, incorporating five new opening ports on each side of the main cabin, additional brightwork and a new rig.

Production
The design was built by Ouyang Boat Works in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, from 1983 to 1989, under its Aloha Yachts brand, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Aloha 8.5 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder, with a partial skeg, controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel.

The boat is fitted with a Westerbeke diesel engine of  for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .

The design has sleeping accommodation for five people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, two straight settee berths in the main cabin with one that folds into an upper berth on the port side. The galley is located on the starboard side at the companionway ladder. The galley is L-shaped and is equipped with a two-burner stove and a sink, with an ice box opposite on the port side. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the port side.

The design has a hull speed of .

Operational history
The boat is supported by an active class club, the Aloha Owners Association.

In a 1985 review for Canadian Yachting, Carol Nickle & Bryan Gooderham wrote, "key parameters such a sail area, displacement and ballast are all moderate. The beam is narrower than in some modern designs, but is carried well down toward the waterline. The wide waterline beam, combined with gently curving underbody sections and slight fullness in the bows, results in plenty of interior volume. Its underwater profile shows a fairly shallow, swept-back fin keel and a stout skeg leading into the transom-hung rudder. The shallow draft is no doubt handy for gunkholing and the skeg improves tracking ability and ease of steering."

See also
List of sailing boat types

Related development
Aloha 28

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Keelboats
1980s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Edward S. Brewer
Sailboat types built by Ouyang Boat Works
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program. The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) was established in 1977 by the United States Congress as part of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977. The original stated purpose for NEHRP was "to reduce the risks of life and property from future Earthquakes in the United States through the establishment and maintenance of an effective earthquake hazards reduction program." Congress periodically reviews and reauthorizes NEHRP, with the most recent review happening in 2018. 

NEHRP supports basic research that expands our knowledge of earthquakes and their impacts. 

The four basic earthquake hazard reduction goals of NEHRP have remained the same since its creation:

 Develop effective practices/policies and accelerate their implementation.
 Improve techniques for reducing vulnerabilities of facilities and systems.
 Improve earthquake hazards identification and risk assessment methods and their use.
 Improve the understanding of earthquakes and their effects.

To accomplish these goals, NEHRP developed the Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction to advise congress on the programs progress in relation to:

 Improved design and construction methods and best practices
 Land use controls and redevelopment
 Prediction and early-warning systems
 Coordinated emergency preparedness plans
 Public education/involvement programs

Primary NEHRP agencies
NEHRP has four designated federal agencies that contribute to the program:

 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of the United States Department of Homeland Security
 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the United States Department of Commerce (NIST is the lead NEHRP agency)
 National Science Foundation (NSF)
 United States Geological Survey (USGS) of the United States Department of the Interior
The majority of NEHRP's research activities are accomplished through the National Science Foundation funding of earthquake-related research in earth sciences, social sciences and engineering. NSF also provides post-earthquake empirical research using reconnaissance teams. These teams visit affected regions documenting the impacts, performance of construction and response/recovery. 

FEMA's primary role is to implement and distribute the final research products of NEHRP. This is done through the creation of a variety of published materials made available to 3rd parties.

Recent research 
In 2020, NHERP and its partner agencies published "The 2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures." The report comprises a summary of a 5 year research project and includes 37 recommended changes to American Society of Civil Engineers/SEI section 7-16 (Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures), nine white papers and associated commentary.

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Research projects
Government agencies established in 2006
Earthquake and seismic risk mitigation
Disaster preparedness in the United States