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Space Dude. Space Dude is a video game developed by Evryware and published by FormGen for MS-DOS computers in 1996.

Plot 
The player controls a cosmic being who must defend the Golden City from the attacks of King Dorf and his army of Hoppers. To save the city, Space Dude must destroy the advancing Hoppers and battle King Dorf in his mothership. There are three ways to destroy hoppers: attacking directly, building and manning a defense post, and capturing one hopper to attack another. Before each attack, Space Dude must evade missiles or alien creatures to get to the attack point. During each attack, Space Dude is required to blast a Hopper multiple times to destroy it.

In direct attacks against Hoppers, Space Dude surfs toward the enemy, lobbing bombs at it and avoiding contact. Once the hero passes the Hopper, it will fire a barrage of shots at him until he turns around. These attacks and counterattacks last until either the Hopper or Space Dude is defeated. When Space Dude builds a defense post, he must haul the building materials to the site while dodging missiles from the Dorf mothership. If the dude can make it to the defense site without being hit by missiles, then he builds the defense post at 100 percent strength. If missiles hit Space Dude in transit, he loses materials and the defense post loses strength.

After building the defense post, Space Dude must man the gun and attack the nearest Hopper. Destroying a Hopper typically requires between 20 and 30 shots. When Space Dude attempts to capture a Hopper, he must break into the machine and destroy the Dorfs inside. Once he dispatches them, the dude can control the Hopper and use it to attack other Hoppers nearby.

Finally, Space Dude can choose to attack King Dorf in the mothership to end the siege. Once inside the mothership, Space Dude must destroy guards to get the king's inner chamber. Once inside the king's lair, Space Dude must hit him dozens of times to defeat him. If Space Dude fails, he will need to attack the mothership again, but King Dorf does not regain strength, so the number of shots necessary to destroy him will remain at the number where Space Dude left off.

Whenever Space Dude loses a battle, he must return to the Golden City to recover. During this recovery time, Hoppers can advance on the city. Once a Hopper reaches the city, Space Dude must destroy it before it launches missiles and sets the city ablaze. When that happens, Space Dude is sent flying back into space and the game restarts.

Gameplay 
In Space Dude, the player has to complete mini-games, in which the player character has to dodge things or shoot. The player can choose their missions with a choice of either repairing defense guns, capturing Hoppers and going to attack.

Reception 
A reviewer for Next Generation criticized the game's lack of a save feature and scored it one out of five stars. Adrenaline Vault said it was a good game for little children.

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1996 video games
Action games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Evryware games
FormGen games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Amapá Biodiversity Corridor. The Amapá Biodiversity Corridor  () is an ecological corridor in the state of Amapá, Brazil. It provides a degree of integrated management for conservation units and other areas covering over 70% of the state.

Organization

The project to establish the Amapá Biodiversity Corridor was presented by Antônio Waldez Góes da Silva, governor of Amapá, at the 2003 Durban World Conference of Protected Areas.
The proposed corridor would include marshland, tropical forest and open spaces of importance in maintaining global biodiversity.
The acts that would lead to conservation measures in the corridor were signed in 2005.

The corridor covers more than 70% of the state, and should allow for coordinated management of conservation units and indigenous territories in the state in line with the principles laid out in the Rio Convention on Biodiversity.
The corridor and the conservation units it contains will be co-funded by the Amapá Fund.
The Amapá Initiative is run by a partnership of the state of Amapá, Conservation International and the Fundo Vale for Sustainable Development. It aims to promote governance and institutions, support sustainable development, and promote consistent policies with decisions based on monitoring and evaluating results.

Extent

The corridor covers , or 72% of the state, in 12 protected areas and five indigenous territories.
The corridor links protected areas in Amapá to protected areas in Pará and in other Guiana Shield countries.
As of 2016 it included 12 federal or state protected areas and five indigenous territories.
The Guiana Shield, and the state of Amapá, have great biodiversity.
More than 180 mammal species have been identified in the protected areas, including the jaguar, giant otter, red-handed howler, giant anteater and Amazonian manatee.

The corridor includes the Juminá, Galibi, Uaça, Parque do Tumucumaque and Waiãpi indigenous territories.
Protected areas include:

Notes

Sources

Ecological corridors of Brazil
Protected areas of Amapá
2003 establishments in Brazil
Clacton Servicing Depot. Clacton Carriage Servicing Depot is a stabling point located in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England. The depot is situated on the western side of the Great Eastern Main Line and is adjacent to  Clacton-on-Sea station.

The depot code is CC.

History
Opened by British Rail in 1981, the depot was built with a three-road dead-end shed. Around 1987, the depot had an allocation of Classes 302, 308, 309, 312 and 313 EMUs. The depot lost its allocation of rolling stock in 1994, and was put to various uses before being scheduled for reopening around 2009.

Present 
As of 2021, stabling is provided for Greater Anglia Class 321 EMUs. The depot currently carries out cleaning and the servicing for the trains, during the night.

In 2020, as part of Greater Anglia's rolling stock update strategy, a train lifting system was introduced so that trains could be lifted up from the depot floor. The previous system could lift a 4 car EMU but has now been upgraded so that they could lift a Class 755 BMU.

References

Bibliography

Rail transport in Essex
Railway depots in England
Streetcar services in Peterborough, Ontario. Two streetcar services operated in Peterborough Ontario in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The Peterborough and Ashburnham Street Railway Company operated from 1893 to 1898, and the Peterborough Radial Railway Company operated from 1902 until 1916.  The Peterborough Radial Railway Company was given a 30-year franchise, but the city took back the system in 1916.

Rolling stock

A streetcar manufacturer already existed in Peterborough, Edison Electric, renamed Canadian General Electric in 1892. This firm built the streetcars for the Peterborough and Ashburnham Street Railway.

Routes

The company's first route ran north–south, from Auburn Mills to Lock Street, passing through the exhibition grounds for the Midland Central Fair. A second route ran along Charlotte Street.

Peterborough was the first city in Ontario to provide streetlights, and the streetcar system shared electrical power with the streetlight system.

See also

 Peterborough Transit
 List of street railways in Canada

References

Rail transport in Peterborough, Ontario
Streetcars in Canada
Electric railways in Canada
Metropolis II (sculpture). Metropolis II (2011) is a kinetic sculpture by Chris Burden at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Description
Measuring almost ,  high, Metropolis II depicts an imaginary city traversed by gravity-powered, custom-cast cars—1,080 miniature vehicles—as well as HO scale electric trains. Materials include building blocks, Lego blocks, and Lincoln Logs.

The cars travel along 18 Teflon-coated tracks, including a six-lane freeway, at scale speeds ranging from bumper-to-bumper to 240 miles per hour. When the cars reach the bottom, they are connected by magnets to three conveyor belts and raised back to the top of the sculpture. Running at capacity, the sculpture can launch about 100,000 cars an hour. An operator stationed in the midst of the sculpture looks for accidents and can push an emergency stop button.

Burden viewed the contrast between its noisy operation and quiet downtime as mirroring the cyclical nature of life in a bustling city. The artist provided a viewing balcony that allows visitors to view the operating sculpture from a quieter distance.

Burden described the piece as a "complicated roller-coaster system" and said that the goal was not to create a literal scale model of a city but to evoke a city's energy.  The work, he said, anticipates the era of driverless cars that Burden believed would put an end to traffic gridlock. Burden was unspecific about which city the sculpture depicts: "It could be Dubai or India or China. I think ultimately it’s any city."

A smaller predecessor,  Metropolis I (2004), is in Japan at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Measuring  , that sculpture employs about 80 Hot-Wheels cars, which tend to fall off the track. Metropolis II cars are custom built and use magnets for traction.  Burden's name is on the tire sidewalls.

Construction, installation 
The sculpture was built by a team of eight people who began work in 2006 in Burden's Topanga Canyon studio, unveiling it there in 2011. It was reinstalled at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Broad Contemporary Art Museum in 2012 in a specially designed gallery with a viewing balcony. Billionaire Nicolas Berggruen purchased the work and loaned it to the museum through 2022.

References

Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2011 sculptures
Kinetic sculptures in the United States
Articles containing video clips
Works by Chris Burden
Ashtadhatu. Ashtadhatu (), also called octo-alloy, is an alloy comprising the eight metals of gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, tin, iron, and mercury, often used for casting metallic idols for Jain and Hindu temples in India.

The composition is laid down in the Shilpa Shastras, a collection of ancient texts that describe arts, crafts, and their design rules, principles and standards. Ashtadhatu is used because it is considered sattivik (virtuous or pure) in Hinduism, and does not decay, and it is also restricted to the production of images for the deities Kubera, Vishnu, Krishna, Rama, Kartikeya, and the goddesses Durga and Lakshmi. 

Its traditional composition, all eight metals are in equal proportion (12.5% each).

See also

References

Hindu iconography
Hindu symbols
Hindu worship
Uncanny Valley (film). Uncanny Valley is a 2015 Argentine short film directed by Federico Heller. The video was released on Vimeo on November 30, 2015.

Plot
In a dystopian future, various people addicted to virtual reality play a first-person shooter video game. Near the end of the film, the virtual reality set of one of the players malfunctions, and it is revealed that the players are remotely controlling battle robots in an actual battlefield, providing skill and tactics. The "targets" that they are shooting are actual people, including civilians. The player who discovered this then disconnects. Shortly thereafter, he is approached by a robot, presumably controlled by another player, and becomes a target.

Reception
Ross A. Lincoln of Deadline Hollywood compared the film to the novels Ready Player One and All You Need Is Kill. Meanwhile, Adi Robertson of The Verge praised the film for its combination of documentary-style footage and in-game video game footage.

After its release, the video was featured as a "Staff Pick" for the Vimeo site. In October 2016, the film won Best Short at Animago. The film was also featured at the Shnit international shortfilmfestival.

References

External links
 

2015 films
2015 short films
2015 science fiction films
Argentine short films
Argentine independent films
2010s dystopian films
Films about virtual reality
Argentine science fiction films
2015 independent films
2010s English-language films
2010s Argentine films
English-language science fiction films
English-language short films
English-language independent films
BRP Malabrigo. BRP Malabrigo (MRRV-4402) is the second ship of the Parola-class patrol vessels of the Philippine Coast Guard.

Design and features
The Philippine Coast Guard clarified that the ship is a law enforcement vessel and is designed to conduct environmental and humanitarian missions, as well as maritime security operations and patrol missions.

The ship was designed with a bulletproof navigation bridge, and is equipped with fire monitors, night vision capability, a work boat, and radio direction finder capability.

The ship will be equipped with communications and radio monitoring equipment from Rohde & Schwarz, specifically the M3SR Series 4400 and Series 4100 software-defined communication radios, and DDF205 radio monitoring equipment. These equipment enhances the ship's reconnaissance, pursuit and communications capabilities.

Construction, delivery & Commissioning
The ship's keel was officially laid down on May 13, 2016, and the ship was launched on October 4, 2016. Then the ship started sea trials starting  in June 2016 until before its delivery.

The ship left Yokohama, Japan on December 2, 2016, and arrived in the Port of Manila on December 8, 2016.

BRP Malabrigo was commissioned during a commissioning ceremony held at Philippine Coast Guard headquarters in Manila on December 22, 2016, with LCDR Geronimo B. Tuvilla being her first commanding officer. The ceremony was attended by the Undersecretary for Maritime Sector of the Department of Transportation Felipe A. Judan and Japan International Cooperation Agency Chief Representative Susumo Ito etc.

Service history 
In April 2018, the BRP Malabrigo rescued a crew of the Chinese vessel MV China Peace named Zheng Le after he suffered an Epilepsy attack while the ship was transiting the waters near Laparan Island in Pangutaran, Sulu. The BRP Malabrigo transported to Zamboanga City for treatment.

In August 2018, the BRP Malabrigo together with the BRP Cape San Agustin (MRRV-4408) found and rescued the wooden-hulled vessel M/L Sabrina carrying 13 people near Mapun Island in Tawi-Tawi. The rescued ship which was later towed to port was travelling from Malaysia with a cargo of Sugar when it encountered mechanical trouble and started drifting at sea.

Gallery

References

External links 

Malabrigo
2016 ships
Ships built by Japan Marine United
Holger Martin. Holger Martin (December 3, 1942 in Achern - November 5, 2016 in Karlsruhe) was a German University lecturer for process engineering.

Academic career 
Holger Martin graduated from the University of Karlsruhe in 1969. In 1973, he graduated from the University of Karlsruhe, where he worked as a professor at the Institute for Thermal Process Engineering until 2008

Scientific activity 
Holger Martin taught drying techniques, heat transfer, heat transfer I and II (mathematical methods of heat transfer) and transport phenomena in beds and fluidized beds at the Chemistry Engineering and Process Engineering faculty of the university Karlsruhe (TH) from 1977 to 2008.

Other areas of activity:
 Lectures on thermal process engineering for biotechnologists at the École supérieure de biotechnologie Strasbourg 1990 to 1996.
 Scientific director of the International Seminar for Research and Teaching in Chemical Engineering and Physical Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) from 1980 to 2004.
 Visiting scientists at the National Laboratory of the Sciences of the Sciences Chimiques (LSGC) of the CNRS in Nancy, France (6 months) 1984/1985.
 Guest professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, with two lectures also at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India February–March 1989.
 Chairman of the Editorial Committee of the VDI - Heat Atlas from 1997 to 2006.
 Chairman of the VDI-GVC Committee for Heat and Mass Transfer 2000 to 2006.
 Staff and Workshop Editor at The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form  under the pseudonym PGS. First post in February 2005. Last post on 16 July 2016.
 Staff at Baumkunde.de  under the pseudonym PGS. First post on 16/11/2012. 3436 posts. Last post in September 2016.

Awards 
 Arnold Eucken Prize, Strasbourg, 1980, from the VDI-GVC.
 French-German Alexander-von-Humboldt Prize (from 1997 Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Prize), Paris, 1984.

Fonts 
  Heat exchanger.  Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, New York, 1988.
  Heat Exchangers.  Hemisphere Publ. Co. Washington DC, 1992.
 Holger Martin with E. U. Schlünder:  Introduction to heat transfer.  8. New edition. In addition,
 Publications in trade journals such as  Archive of Applied Mechanics, Chemical Engineering & Processing, Chemical Engineering & Technology, Chemical Engineering & Technology, Heat Transfer Engineering, International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer , etc.
 * * * Heat Exchanger Design Handbook (HEDH), "Heat Exchanger Design Handbook (HEDH)", "Heat Exchanger Design Handbook (HEDH)", 3.2 Heat Transfer in Fluid Process Engineering,  Ralf Goedecke, Editor, Wiley-VCH, 2006,  Green in Karlsruhe, Special Trees and Shrubs,  BüGa e. V. Ed. Info-Verlag, 2015.

References 

German non-fiction writers
Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
1942 births
2016 deaths
William A. Stickel. William A. Stickel (1893–1944) was a bridge engineer for the Essex County, New Jersey, and the New Jersey State Highway Department (now New Jersey Department of Transportation) who was associated with the construction of numerous bridges throughout the state built in the early part of the 20th century. The William A. Stickel Memorial Bridge is named in his honor.

See also

 Morris Goodkind
 Gilmore David Clarke
 List of crossings of the Hackensack River
 List of crossings of the Lower Passaic River
 List of crossings of the Upper Passaic River
 List of crossings of the Raritan River
 List of bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey
 List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey
 List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey

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1893 births
1944 deaths
Engineers from New Jersey
American bridge engineers
People from Newark, New Jersey
People from East Orange, New Jersey
Lehigh University alumni
20th-century American engineers
Cockfosters Water Tower. The Cockfosters Water Tower is a water tower in Cockfosters Road, north London, on the edge of Trent Park, that is known for its hyperboloid structure. It is adjacent to the Cockfosters Reservoir.

The tower was built in 1968 to a design by the architect Edmund C. Percey of Scherrer and Hicks, and J.W. Milne, chief engineer of the Lee Valley Water Company. It was later owned by Three Valley Water and Veolia Water and as of 2016, is owned by Affinity Water. It incorporates a supporting hyperboloid lattice of reinforced concrete and has a capacity of 1,130 m³. A number of mobile phone masts are located on the roof of the structure.

Percey also designed the grade II listed Tonwell Water Tower (1964).

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Water towers in the United Kingdom
Cockfosters
Hyperboloid structures
Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Enfield
Towers in London
Buildings and structures completed in 1968
John Oldfield (engineer). John Arthur Oldfield (13 January 1937 - September 2002) was a British engineer, and a former senior Ford executive and designer.

Early life
He was born in Stepney. His family moved soon after to Essex, and he had 4 younger siblings. He was the son of George Oldfield and Alice Bunker, who married in Essex in 1935. He attended the Cranfield Institute of Technology (Cranfield University), gaining an MSc.

Career

Ford
He joined Ford in 1958, at the age of 21. In 1970 he was the Ford chassis engineering manager at Dunton.

He became head of the £3bn design project for the Ford Mondeo (CDW27) in May 1986 from Ford Dunton, which was launched in March 1993 at the Geneva Motor Show. The car was made at Genk Body & Assembly in Genk, Belgium, which was to produce around 350,000 a year. At its peak, the Mondeo design team at the Dunton Technical Centre and Merkenich in Germany had 800 engineers. He was head of Mondeo design for six years up to its launch. The design for the Mondeo was agreed at the Merkenich Technical Centre in Cologne. American teams worked on the air conditioning and the automatic gearboxes, and European teams worked on the manual gearboxes. The Ford Zeta engine was developed for the Mondeo.

Ford at Dagenham had lost production of the Sierra in 1989 (moving to Genk), although it still made the Ford Fiesta (third generation) (its 7,000 workers were making around 240,000 a year in the early 1990s). The Sierra would sell 1.3m in the UK. 

He became head of New Products at Ford of Europe in the early 1990s. Ford in the UK is headquartered at Warley, Essex, off the B186, south of Brentwood.

Aston Martin
In February 1994 he became Executive Chairman of Aston Martin in Newport Pagnell, then owned by Ford. Under his chairmanship, production of hand-crafted Aston Martins went from 150 a year to 700 a year. He oversaw the development of the Aston Martin DB7.

He retired on 22 October 1995, due to cancer, having worked for Ford for 37 years; he had been Executive Chairman for twenty months. Inside the automobile industry he was known as Mr Mondeo.

Personal life
In his later years, he lived at Boreham, north-east of Chelmsford. He died in the City of Chelmsford district in 2002, due to motor neurone disease.

See also
 Rose Mary Farenden, Project Manager in the mid-1990s of the Ford Focus
 Lindsey Halstead, former Ford of Europe chairman
 Ian McAllister, Managing Director of Ford UK from September 1991, later Chairman

References

1937 births
2002 deaths
Alumni of Cranfield University
Aston Martin people
British automobile designers
British manufacturing chief executives
Chief executives in the automobile industry
Ford of Europe
Ford Mondeo
Ford people
People from Boreham
People from Rochford District
People from Stepney
Gordon George Styles. Gordon George Styles (born 1964) is a British engineer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and president of Star Rapid, an international provider of rapid prototyping and low-volume manufacturing services.

Early life and education 
Styles was born in Wimbledon, London and grew up in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire in England. He attended the Durham University Business School’s GAP Program, a business development program for entrepreneurs.

Career 
Styles began his career in 1993 at Styles Rapid Prototyping, later known as Styles Rapid Product Development Limited (Styles RPD). STYLES RPD was voted Teesside Small Business of the Year 1996 as well as Gordon Styles being awarded Teesside Business Executive of the Year 1996. Under Styles’ supervision, Styles RPD grew to a nationwide technology company from 10 to 73 employees and nearly $6 million in annual sales. In April 2000, the company was sold to the Japanese company ARRK. After the sale of Styles RPD, Styles invested in Springer Rapid. Due to low-cost competition emerging in China, in 2005 Springer Rapid was closed. Later that year, Styles moved to Dongguan city, located in China on the outskirts of Hong Kong, and founded Star Rapid. In 2018, Star Rapid had more than 250 global employees and a 60,000 ft2 factory space.

References

External links 
 Gordon Styles on PlasticsToday.com
 Gordon Styles on Industrial Equipment News
 "From the Founder of Star Rapid"

Living people
English engineers
1964 births
People from Middlesbrough