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Wax Lake. Wax Lake was a lake in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana that was converted into an outlet channel, the Wax Lake outlet, to divert water from the Atchafalaya River to the Gulf of Mexico.

History
The history of the Wax Lake Outlet, as well as the 20,000 cfs "Charenton Drainage and Navigation Canal", the Avoca Island Cutoff (Avoca Island-Cutoff Bayou drainage channel), and to a lesser extent the Chene, Boeuf, and Black navigation channel, was to provide flood relief to the lower Atchafalaya Basin and Morgan City.

Wax Lake outlet
The Wax Lake outlet is an artificial channel that was created by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1942 to divert 30 percent of the flow from the Atchafalaya River to the Gulf of Mexico and reduce flood stages at Morgan City, Louisiana. The project design flood flow capacity for the outlet is .

Construction
In a reversal of normal building procedures construction of the bridges began first, as well as the Bayou Teche floodgates at Calumet. Including the elevated roadways across the flood basin, and the Southern Pacific Railroad swing bridge in Baldwin as well as the three span K-truss bridge in Calumet, a total six bridges were built on dry land between Baldwin and Calumet. The dredging of the approximately  of Wax Lake Outlet, that begins at Six Mile Lake (Yellow Bayou), and the "Charenton Drainage and Navigation Canal", that began at Bayou Teche in Baldwin, both started in 1941 and was completed in 1942.

Wax Lake Delta

The Wax Lake Delta is a river delta in Louisiana that was formed by rapid deposition of sediment following the creation of a canal through Wax Lake off of the Atchafalaya River in 1942. It is roughly 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Morgan City adjacent to the Atchafalaya delta.

It receives 34 million tons of sediment per year.  In the 64 years between 1941 and 2005, Wax Lake was completely filled with sediment, and the delta prograded approximately 8 km into the sea.

The Wax Lake Delta's distributary channels form via deposition of mouth bars. The first branch to the west is Campground Pass and further south there are the three main branches, East Pass, Greg Pass, and Main Pass. The mid-channel is eroded and deposited downstream at the mouth of the river (usually during a period of higher water flow), which will create a new path of flow around it. There is then an added deposition upstream, thus causing the river to bifurcate. This results in the familiar dendritic pattern.

Because it was entirely created during an observable period and, other than the creation of the canal, was not altered by humans, it has often been in studies of deltaic formation.  In the time since Hurricane Katrina, it has also served and as a model for delta regrowth in the Mississippi River Delta region in order to restore habitat and protect against storm surge.

See also
Atchafalaya Basin

References

River deltas of the United States
Bodies of water of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Wetlands and bayous of Louisiana
Gulf of Mexico
Sedimentology
Lakes of Louisiana
PlaneSense. PlaneSense is a fractional aircraft ownership program managed by PlaneSense, Inc. and based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. As of the beginning of 2020, they managed a civilian fleet of 44 total program aircraft, made up of 36 Pilatus PC-12 aircraft and five Pilatus PC-24 jets. The PlaneSense fractional program provides private air transportation, primarily within the United States, Canada, Mexico, The Bahamas, the islands of the Caribbean and more recently, Cuba. PlaneSense guarantees departure times as soon as eight hours after a flight request, depending on the size of the aircraft share owned for domestic flights on non-peak days. PlaneSense, inc. is not, itself, an air charter provider or commercial air carrier, but charter flights can be arranged through its sister company, Cobalt Air.

History

PlaneSense, Inc., formerly named Alpha Flying, Inc., was founded in 1992. The name was changed on 1 February 2012 to PlaneSense, Inc.. Originally based in Norwood, Massachusetts, Alpha Flying, Inc. was founded by George Antoniadis, initially as a supplemental program to the then Alpha Flying Club, which provided rental and management of high performance piston and turbine powered general aviation aircraft. In 1995, the PlaneSense program was founded, with the first Pilatus PC-12 delivered on 9 September 1995. In 1998, they moved to a facility at Nashua Airport. In 2000, they moved to a facility at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. In 2007, they moved to a new custom built facility at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

The PlaneSense program achieved steady growth since its inception 25 years ago, and it has recently surpassed significant flight benchmarks. Notably, it has exceeded the milestone of 400,000 flight hours.

In 1994, George Antoniadis arranged a visit to Pilatus Aircraft Stans, Switzerland, to view their new turboprop model - the PC-12. He reviewed the PC-12, analyzed its operating characteristics and soon became convinced that it was the airplane he'd been seeking. He placed an order in September 1995 and took delivery of the 20th Pilatus PC-12 off the assembly line.

The Pilatus PC-24 jet entered service in early 2018, with PlaneSense taking delivery of the first production model. Building on the success of the Pilatus PC-12 turboprops, the PC-24 aims to offer PC-12 versatility with turbojet powered performance. PlaneSense is the launch customer with a preliminary order for six jets under contract. Before taking delivery of the PC-24, PlaneSense purchased four Nextant 400XTi aircraft, but now the jet program is dedicated to the PC-24 fleet.

Fleet

External links
PlaneSense
Pilatus Aircraft
Nextant Aerospace

See also
Fractional ownership of aircraft
AirSprint
Flexjet
NetJets

References

Airlines based in New Hampshire
Airlines established in 1995
Companies based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
John Cassidy (chancellor). John Marcus Cassidy , an Australian engineer and pastoralist, was the sixth Chancellor of the University of New England, serving from 2004 until 2008.

Biography
Much of Cassidy’s career was in civil engineering. He studied at the University of Newcastle, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil). His career included stints abroad between 1975 and 1985. In the late 1980s, Cassidy became CEO of the construction company Abigroup. Having built and diversified the company, Cassidy retired as CEO of Abigroup in early 2004. In 1982, Cassidy purchased the grazing property Merilba at Kingstown, where he became associated with the breeding of South Devon cattle, as well as other livestock, and more recent times, the growing wine grapes on the property. 

Cassidy was appointed chancellor by the University Council on 11 December 2003, and was installed at a graduation ceremony the following March. In 2007, Cassidy was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to university administration, to the civil engineering and construction industries, and to the community. He also became involved with other educational institutions, including the New England Conservatorium of Music and the New England Girls School, where in 2006 he underwrote the school’s A$ 4 million debt.

In 2008, Cassidy became embroiled in a dispute with the university vice-chancellor, Alan Pettigrew over the demarcation of roles between the two offices. In June 2008, the staff passed motions of no confidence in the chancellor. Despite attempts at mediation by Sir Laurence Street, on 10 November 2008, it was announced that Cassidy's appointment as chancellor would not be renewed for a second term, and he was replaced by Richard Torbay.

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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People from Armidale
WIFO (Nazi company). Wirtschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft mbh (WiFo, ) was a Nazi Germany-owned company "charged with the construction and operation of solid fuel (natural and synthetic) storage depots."

Chronology
1935 summer: At the suggestion of IG Farben, the Wirtschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft (Wifo, Economic Research Ltd) investigated the Kohnstein mine to centralize a fuel and chemical depot.

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German companies established in 1934
1945 disestablishments in Germany
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1934
Energy companies disestablished in 1945
Defunct energy companies of Germany

Wirtschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft
Conservation Fallout. Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon is a 2006 book by John Wills.

Widespread public opposition accompanied the rise of the U.S. nuclear industry during the 1960s and 1970s. In Conservation Fallout, Wills examines one of the most controversial nuclear projects of the period: Pacific Gas and Electric's  Diablo Canyon Power Plant, which was built in a relatively unsettled, biologically diverse, and scenic part of the central California coast. Wills bases his book on extensive interviews with the individuals involved, as well as on the archives of the Sierra Club, several protest organizations, public agencies, and PG&E.

See also

Anti-nuclear movement in California
Anti-nuclear protests in the United States
Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978
Dark Circle
John Gofman
List of articles associated with nuclear issues in California
List of books about nuclear issues
Nuclear power in the United States
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

References

Anti-nuclear protests in the United States
Books about nuclear issues
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Books about California
2006 non-fiction books
PC Open Architecture Developers' Group. PC Open Architecture Developers' Group (OADG, Japanese: ) is a consortium of the major Japanese personal computer manufacturers. Sponsored by IBM during the 1990s, it successfully guided Japan's personal computer manufacturing companies at that time into standardising to an IBM PC-compatible and open architecture.

History
Before the advent of the IBM PC in 1981 in the United States, there were many different varieties and designs of personal computer. Examples from that era include the Tandy RadioShack and Commodore. These machines were each based upon a different computer architecture and the software programs that ran on them were compatible only with the machine they had been designed for. In Japan, except for the MSX, this situation continued well into the early 1990s, because three of Japan's major electronics manufacturers (NEC, Sharp and Fujitsu) had also designed their own unique personal computers; although NEC with its NEC 9801 was at that time the most successful.

The American computer manufacturer IBM had entered the Japanese market with its own IBM 5550 computer. Japanese-language-capable computers at the time, however, had special requirements in terms of processor capability and screen size, and IBM's JX project, emphasizing compatibility with the IBM PC, enjoyed limited success. The whole situation was felt by many to be hindering the healthy growth of the Japanese computer industry, particularly since domestic and overseas software vendors had to develop, test and support many different software programs to run on the many different kinds of personal computers sold in Japan.

IBM developed the operating software DOS/V in Japan, and licensed it to other Japanese PC manufacturers. To promote the IBM PC architecture on which DOS/V worked, IBM sponsored a consortium which was named the PC Open Architecture Developers' Group (OADG) in 1991 and made public its internal architecture and interfaces. At the height of this enterprise, the consortium included amongst its members the major Japanese PC manufactures, such as Toshiba and Hitachi, and overseas manufacturers such as Acer of Taiwan and Dell of the United States. Together, they not only strove to develop a unified architecture, but also produced a number of DOS/V-compatible application software programs and participated in the major computer shows. By the time Microsoft's computer operating system Windows 95 had arrived in 1995, the IBM PC architecture, using DOS/V, was already a predominant force in Japan.

Members
In 2003, membership included the following companies:

Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
Toshiba Corporation
IBM Japan
Hitachi
Fujitsu
Panasonic Corporation

See also
 AX consortium
 OS/2
 NEC PC-98
 FM Towns
 Toshiba J-3100
 MSX

References

External links
 PC Open Architecture Developers' Group (former official web site)
 Free Standards Group OADG is a member of the Free Standards Group.

Organizations established in 1991
1991 establishments in Japan
Personal computers
Organizations based in Japan
IBM PC compatibles
OADG
John Canny. John F. Canny (born in 1958) is an Australian computer scientist, and Paul E Jacobs and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley. He has made significant contributions in various areas of computer science and mathematics, including  artificial intelligence, robotics, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, computer security, computational algebra, and computational geometry.

Biography
John Canny received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Theoretical Physics from the University of Adelaide in South Australia, 1979, a B.E. (Hons) in Electrical Engineering, University of Adelaide, 1980, a M.S. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983 and 1987, respectively.

In 1987, he joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley.

In 1987, he received the Machtey Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. In 1999, he was the co-chair of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry. In 2002, he received the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Classic Paper Award for the most influential paper from the 1983 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. As the author of "A Variational Approach to Edge Detection" and the creator of the widely used Canny edge detector, he was honored for seminal contributions in the areas of robotics and machine perception.

See also
Canny edge detector
Existential theory of the reals
Kinodynamic planning

Publications
Canny has published several books, papers and articles. A selection:
 1986. A computational approach to edge detection. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,  vol. 8, 1986, pp. 679–698.
 1988. The Complexity of Robot Motion Planning. The ACM Distinguished Dissertation Series, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1988.
 1993. "An opportunistic global path planner". With M. C. Lin. In: Algorithmica vol. 10, no. 2–4, pp. 102–120, Aug. 1993.
 2007. "MultiView: Improving trust in group video conferencing through spatial faithfulness" (Best Paper Prize). With D. T. Nguyen In: Proc. 2007 SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2007, pp. 1465–1474.

References

External links
John F. Canny Homepage at UC Berkeley

Researchers in geometric algorithms
MIT School of Engineering alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
1953 births
Living people
University of Adelaide alumni
Australian computer scientists
Cristina Lopes. Cristina Videira Lopes is a Professor of Informatics and Computer Science at University of California, Irvine.
Prior to being a professor, she was a Research Scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). While at PARC, she was most known as a founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and started aspectj.org. More recently, she has been working in ubiquitous computing, with a focus in 
communication mechanisms that are pervasive, secure and intuitive for humans to perceive and interact with.

Biography
Lopes received a PhD in Computer Science from Northeastern University in 1998 under Karl Lieberherr and Gregor Kiczales.

List of publications

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Year of birth missing (living people)
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University of California, Irvine faculty
Scientists at PARC (company)
SS Empire Airman (1941). Empire Airman was a 9,813 ton tanker that was built in 1941. She was renamed San Wenceslao in 1946 and served until 1959 when she was scrapped.

Description
The ship was  long, with a beam of  and a depth of . She was propelled by a  triple expansion steam engine that was built by the North East Marine Engineering Co (1938) Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne. It could propel the ship at .

History
Empire Airman was built by Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd, Sunderland as yard number 739. She was launched on 18 November 1941 and completed in January 1942. Empire Airman was owned by the Ministry of War Transport and operated under the management of the Eagle Oil and Shipping Company.

War service
Empire Airman was a member of a number of convoys during the Second World War.

HX 178

Convoy HX 178 sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia on 3 March 1942 and reached Liverpool on 17 March.

SL 112

Convoy SL 112 sailed from Freetown on 4 June 1942 and reached Liverpool on 23 June. Empire Airman joined the convoy at sea, being en route from Aruba to Belfast laden with oil and motor spirit.

TAG 19
Convoy TAG 19 sailed from Aruba on 6 November 1942, arriving at Guantanamo on 11 November 1942.

KMS 4

Convoy KMS 5 sailed from the Clyde on 11 December 1942, and reached Gibraltar on 24 December and Bone on 27 December.

MKS 16A

Convoy MKS 16A sailed from Tripoli on 29 June 1943 and reached Gibraltar on 6 July.

From 1944 Empire Airman was under charter to an American oil company to carry aviation fuel. She operated between Williamstown on the Yarra River and various Pacific islands, including New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Post war service
In 1945, Empire Airman was sold to her operators, who renamed her San Wenceslao. She served for thirteen years and arrived for scrapping in Hong Kong on 20 July 1959.

Official number and code letters
Official numbers were a forerunner to IMO Numbers.

Empire Airman had the Official Number 169009 on Lloyd's Register and used the Code Letters BCWX

References

External links
 Photo of SS San Wenceslao

1941 ships
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Empire ships
Ministry of War Transport ships
World War II tankers
Merchant ships of the United Kingdom
Irisbus Arway. The Irisbus Arway (SFR160) is a class of single-decker intercity buses produced by Irisbus in Vysoké Mýto, Czech Republic.

The Arway was a single-decker coach for suburban routes. The bus was designed to replace the MyWay (original Iveco model) and the Ares (original Renault model), whence came the name Arway. The Arway was equipped with a heating and air conditioning (HVAC) system, music and announcement system and also, optionally, a wheelchair lift. It has two doors, with the central one available in single or double width.

The engine was an IVECO Cursor 8, Euro IV standard, with a 7,880 cc displacement, developing 330 or 380 hp, depending on the version. The first Arways were delivered in France in 2006. In Italy, the model is in service with public transport companies at Piacenza, Ferrara, Brescia, Lodi, Rome and Naples and in Spain can be found with various public transport companies including Madrid.

See also 
 List of buses

Buses of France
Coaches (bus)
Intercity buses
Arway
Buses of the Czech Republic
Daniel Dingel. Daniel Dingel (1928–2010) was a Filipino engineer who claimed to have invented a "hydrogen reactor" that could power a water-fuelled car.

Hydrogen reactor car
Dingel said he began working on his hydrogen reactor in 1969, and claimed to have used the device to power his 1996 Toyota Corolla. Dingle claimed that his invention splits hydrogen from water in an onboard water tank, and does not produce any carbon emissions. However, he never revealed the secret to his invention. In an interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Dingel said that he would be willing to reveal the secret of his invention if the buyer would hire 200 Filipinos and their families.

Dingel was known as a vocal critic of Filipino government officials and scientists who refused to support his invention. The Philippines Department of Science and Technology, in turn, has declared his invention a hoax.

Investment by Formosa Plastics Group and estafa case
In November 2000, John Ding Young of Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) sought Dingel out and, convinced that the invention was genuine, signed a "preliminary understanding" with him for several projects. He aimed to have business partners, get an international patent, and commercialize his technology.

In December 2008, Dingel became even more controversial when he was found guilty and sentenced to a maximum of 20 years imprisonment in an estafa (swindling) case filed against him by Young and FPG. In a decision dated December 9, 2008, Judge Rolando How of the Parañaque Regional Trial Court's Branch 257 found him guilty of taking $410,000 from FPG, saying that Dingel "defrauded Young when the inventor failed to fulfill his obligation of developing his 'hydrogen reactor' and creating experimental cars in 2000."

Young claimed that Dingel signed a joint venture agreement with FPG, and initially received $30,000 in goodwill money and $20,000 for research and development. Young said that Dingel then visited the FPG headquarters in Taipei and asked for $300,000 so he could purchase three cars which he would use as prototypes when he returned to the Philippines. Young added that in September 2001 he sent another $60,000 in additional funds, as agreed upon in the joint venture agreement.

Former Solicitor General of the Philippines Francisco Chavez, whom Dingel asked to serve as his counsel, said that he would appeal the court decision before it became final on Christmas Eve 2008.

Dingel died on October 18, 2010, in Las Pinas City, Metro Manila in the Philippines.

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Fraudsters
People from San Fernando, La Union
Water fuel
1928 births
2010 deaths