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Lars Rasmussen (software developer). Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen is a Danish computer scientist, technology executive, and the co-founder of Google Maps. He was later the director of engineering for Facebook in London. 

In early 2003, Lars and his brother Jens co-founded a mapping-related startup, Where 2 Technologies, which was acquired by Google in October 2004. Rasmussen became the head of the Google Maps team and worked at Google until joining Facebook in late 2010.

Qualifications
In 1990, Rasmussen graduated from the University of Aarhus with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. He gained his MSc in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Edinburgh in 1992.

Rasmussen began his PhD, working with Mark Jerrum and Alistair Sinclair in the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at Edinburgh, then moved, with Sinclair, to Berkeley, California, USA.

He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998, for his thesis "On Approximating the Permanent and Other #P-Complete Problems".

Where 2 Technologies and Google Maps
In 2003, Lars and his brother, Jens, with Australians Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, co-founded Where 2 Technologies, a mapping-related start-up in Sydney, Australia. This company was bought by Google in October 2004, to create Google Maps. The four of them were subsequently employed by Google in the engineering team at the company's Australian office in Sydney.  Lars and Jens are also the originators of the Google Wave project.

Facebook
On 29 October 2010, Rasmussen announced that he had left Google, and was moving to San Francisco to work for Facebook. At Facebook he was, among other things, the engineering director for the Facebook Graph Search project which is a semantic search engine for the social network. In 2013 he and Tom Stocky were listed as number 79 in The 100 Biggest Stars In Silicon Valley by Business Insider. Rasmussen had been working in the Facebook London office.

Music start-up
On 27 April 2015 Rasmussen announced his departure from Facebook to co-found a music start-up Weav Music Inc with his partner Elomida Visviki.
Lars Rasmussen has since moved to Athens and became an angel investor.

Awards
On 19 October 2010, Lars and Jens Rasmussen were awarded the Pearcey Award for NSW ICT Entrepreneurs of the Year.

In 2020, Rasmussen was named the recipient of the Green Oaks, Libertyville, Mundelein, Vernon Hills Chamber of Commerce second annual Stephanie Smith-Howard Volunteer Heart Award.

Investments
Rasmussen has made personal investments in a number of technology startups including Canva, an online design tool; and Posse, a point of interest-based recommendation service.

References 

Living people
Google employees
Facebook employees
Aarhus University alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Danish computer scientists
Danish expatriates in the United States
Danish expatriates in the United Kingdom
Danish company founders
Danish expatriates in Australia
Year of birth missing (living people)
Thai Aviation Industries. Thai Aviation Industries (TAI) (Thai ไทย: บริษัท อุตสาหกรรมการบินไทย) is Thailand's aircraft repair and maintenance service center. The Thai government approved the establishment of TAI on 23 September 2003, by the Royal Thai Air Force. TAI's headquarters is at Don Muang. TAI started its operation on 29 January 2004.

History
TAI was established in 2003 in anticipation of the increasing opportunity in aviation maintenance service, driven by the surge of aviation activities resulting from the government's policy to make Thailand the aviation hub of the Asia Pacific region. Thailand had no aviation maintenance center before the company was established. The company serves the industry with more than 400 experienced engineers and aviation technicians from the Royal Thai Air Force.

On 23 September 2003, the Thai cabinet approved the project for the Transportation Ministry and Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) to jointly establish the Thai Aviation Industries Company Limited (TAI) with registered capital of 100 million baht. The two major founding shareholders of TAI are the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion (OSMEP), 51 percent, and RTAF welfare, 49 percent.

Thai Aviation Industries Co., Ltd's headquarters at Don Muang started operation on 29 January 2004. The company's service center at Nakhon Sawan Province officially opened on 29 April 2004. The service standard follows the rules of the Department of Civil Aviation. One year later, the company expanded its services to two new maintenance services centers for light planes and aircraft for flight training at the Flying Training School (Nakhon Pathom Province) and Flight 604, Don Muang. The company also set up a tool and measurement testing and calibration center in 2005.

In 2006, TAI opened its Piston Engine Repairing Division (Donmueang), Propeller Repairing Division (DomMueang) and Aviation Electronics Repairing Division (Donnmueang). At the end of the year, the Helicopter Repair Center at Lopburi Province opened.

Thai Aviation Industry aircraft
 RTAF-5
 RTAF-6

See also
 List of aircraft manufacturers

References

External links
 Thai Aviation Industry Company

Royal Thai Air Force
Aviation in Thailand
Aircraft manufacturers of Thailand
Aerospace companies of Thailand
Defence companies of Thailand
Manufacturing companies based in Bangkok
Shuttle valve. A shuttle valve is a type of valve which allows fluid to flow through it from one of two sources. Generally a shuttle valve is used in pneumatic systems, although sometimes it will be found in hydraulic systems.

Structure and function
The basic structure of a shuttle valve is like a tube with three openings; one on each end, and one in the middle. A ball or other blocking valve element (the shuttle) moves freely within the tube. When pressure of a fluid is exerted through the opening at one end it pushes the shuttle towards the opposite end, closing it. This prevents the fluid from passing through that opening, but allows it to flow out through the middle opening. In this way two different sources can provide pressure to a device without the threat of back flow from one source to the other.

In pneumatic logic a shuttle-valve works as an OR gate.

Applications
A shuttle valve has several applications including:
 The use of more switches on one machine: by using the shuttle valve, more than one switch can be operated on a single machine for safety, and each switch can be placed at any suitable location. This application is normally used with heavy industrial machinery.
Winch brake circuit: a shuttle valve provides brake control in pneumatic winch applications. When the compressor is operated the shuttle valves direct air to open the brake shoes. When the control valve is centered, the brake cylinder is vented through the shuttle valve, and the brake shoes are allowed to close.
Air pilot control: converting from air to oil results in locking of the cylinder. Shifting the four-way valve to either extreme position applies the air pilot through the shuttle valve, holding the two air-operated valves open and applying oil under air pressure to the corresponding side of the cylinder. Positioning a manual valve to neutral exhausts the air pilot pressure, closing the two-way valves, and trapping oil on both sides of the cylinder to lock it in position.
Standby and emergency systems: compressor systems  requiring standby or purge gases capability are pressure controlled by the shuttle valve. This is used for instrumentation, pressure cables, or any system requiring continuous pneumatic input. If the compressor fails, the standby tank—regulated to slightly under the compressor supply—will shift the shuttle valve and take over the function. When the compressor pressure is re-established, the shuttle valve shifts back and seals off the standby system until needed again.

References 

Control devices
Valves
SOLID. In software programming, SOLID is a mnemonic acronym for five design principles intended to make object-oriented designs more understandable, flexible, and maintainable. Although the SOLID principles apply to any object-oriented design, they can also form a core philosophy for methodologies such as agile development or adaptive software development.

Principles

Single responsibility principle 
Single-responsibility principle (SRP) states that "[t]here should never be more than one reason for a class to change." In other words, every class should have only one responsibility.

Importance 
Maintainability: When classes have a single, well-defined responsibility, they're easier to understand and modify.
Testability: It's easier to write unit tests for classes with a single focus.
Flexibility: Changes to one responsibility don't affect unrelated parts of the system.

Open–closed principle 
Open–closed principle (OCP) states that "[s]oftware entities ... should be open for extension, but closed for modification."

Importance 
 Extensibility: New features can be added without modifying existing code.
 Stability: Reduces the risk of introducing bugs when making changes.
 Flexibility: Adapts to changing requirements more easily.

Liskov substitution principle 
Liskov substitution principle (LSP) states that "[f]unctions that use pointers or references to base classes must be able to use objects of derived classes without knowing it."

Importance 
 Polymorphism: Enables the use of polymorphic behavior, making code more flexible and reusable.
 Reliability: Ensures that subclasses adhere to the contract defined by the superclass.
 Predictability: Guarantees that replacing a superclass object with a subclass object won't break the program.

Interface segregation principle 
Interface segregation principle (ISP) states that "[c]lients should not be forced to depend upon interfaces that they do not use."

Importance 
 Decoupling: Reduces dependencies between classes, making the code more modular and maintainable.
 Flexibility: Allows for more targeted implementations of interfaces.
 Avoids unnecessary dependencies: Clients don't have to depend on methods they don't use.

Dependency inversion principle  
Dependency inversion principle (DIP) states to depend upon abstractions, [not] concretes.

Importance 
 Loose coupling: Reduces dependencies between modules, making the code more flexible and easier to test.
 Flexibility: Enables changes to implementations without affecting clients.
 Maintainability: Makes code easier to understand and modify.

Origin 
Software engineer and instructor, Robert C. Martin, introduced the collection of principles in his 2000 paper Design Principles and Design Patterns about software rot. The SOLID acronym was coined around 2004 by Michael Feathers.

See also 
 Code reuse
 GRASP (object-oriented design)
 Inheritance (object-oriented programming)
 List of software development philosophies

References 

Software design
Object-oriented programming
Programming principles
Computing acronyms
Mnemonic acronyms

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Joseph Ruston. Joseph Ruston (1835 – 11 June 1897) was an English engineer and manufacturer and Liberal Party politician, though he split from the party over Home Rule and retired.

Ruston was the son of  Robert Ruston a farmer of Chatteris, Isle of Ely and his wife Margaret Seward. He was educated at Wesley College, Sheffield and became an apprentice at the Sheffield cutlery firm of George Wostenholme. On completing his apprenticeship in 1856 with a good commercial training and having a modest inheritance from his father's estate he went into business with Burton and Proctor of Lincoln.  He thus became head of the firm of Ruston, Proctor and Company, agricultural implement makers and engineers. The company grew in size until it employed some 2000 people and in his lifetime produced 20,800 engines, 19,700 boilers, 10,900 threshing machines, and 1350 corn mills.

Ruston was a J.P. and was elected Mayor of Lincoln for 1869–70. He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln in a by-election in June 1884. He was re-elected at the 1885 general election but did not stand again in 1886 because he disapproved of Gladstone's proposals for Home Rule.

His decorations included the Cross of the Legion of Honour and the Order of Osmanieh. He was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1891. He was a benefactor to the town of Lincoln, funding the building of the drill hall for the local volunteers, a children's ward at the Lincoln County Hospital, and the restoration of the monument in Lincoln Cathedral to the memory of Queen Eleanor.

Family
Ruston married Jane Brown in 1859, and lived at Monks Manor. They had a son William and six daughters. Their third daughter Marion Ruston married in 1900 George John Bennett, organist at Lincoln Cathedral.

References

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1835 births
1897 deaths
People educated at Wesley College, Sheffield
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1880–1885
UK MPs 1885–1886
Politics of Lincoln, England
High sheriffs of Lincolnshire
Metaklett. Metaklett (from , "metal" and , "Velcro ribbon") is a fastening material made of steel that acts on a similar principle to conventional hook and loop fasteners. It was developed by Reinz-Dichtungs-GmbH, Technische Universität München, Hölzel Stanz- und Feinwerktechnik GmbH & Co. KG and Koenig Verbindungstechnik GmbH. Metaklett is claimed to support shear strength 35 tonnes per square meter at temperatures up to 800 °C. It consists of two complementary strips of 0.2 mm thick perforated steel with catcher and holes. A second variant consists of two strips with protruding brushes and hooks. There is also a hybrid variant with one metal and one synthetic fleece ribbon.

In the context of the development Dr. Christoph Karl Hein compiled his dissertation "Systematic analysis to metallic hook-and-loop bondings".

Sources 
 Extreme steel 'Velcro' takes a 35-tonne load, New Scientist, 2009-09-04
 German-language website with technical and business details
 Systematische Untersuchungen zu metallischen Klettverbindungen - 

Fasteners
Tamarack Microelectronics. Tamarack Microelectronics was a designer and manufacturer of mixed-signal integrated circuits, primarily Ethernet communications devices. It was founded in 1987 in Hsichih, Taipei. In August 2002 it merged with IC Plus.

Products

Patents

References

1987 establishments in Taiwan
2002 disestablishments in Taiwan
Companies based in Taipei
Companies established in 1987
Fabless semiconductor companies
Semiconductor companies of Taiwan
SZD-49 Jantar K. The SZD-49 Jantar K was a 15m Class glider designed and built in Poland in 1977.

Development
After the FAI Standard class rules had been created and then modified in the early 1970s the FAI decided to add a new 15m class, for gliders with a maximum span of 15m but no other restrictions other than airbrakes limiting the speed to Vne or less. Władysław Okarmus set about designing a new wing, with flaps, for use with the SZD-48-3 fuselage, the resulting offspring was named SZD-49 Jantar K. First flight of the prototype, (SP-2583, X-143), took place at Bielsko in October 1978. All was not well with the SZD-49 during the flight trials and further development was abandoned. The sole prototype was later used as a live teaching aid for advanced students and was successfully modified twice with some success by groups of students from Warsaw University of Technology.

Constructed almost entirely from glassfibre using epoxy resin, the SZD-49 had a welded steel tube centre-section truss to accept the loads from the wings, undercarriage and towing hook. A one-piece forward-opening canopy with integral glare-shield gave access to the cockpit for entry/egress and maintenance. The wings are fitted with full-span flaps with drooping ailerons as well as single-leaf airbrakes extending from top and bottom surfaces of the wing. Ailerons are driven through a patented linkage entirely enclosed inside the wing.

A standard instrument fit and an oxygen system were provided by the manufacturer.

Specifications (SZD-49 Jantar K)

See also

References

1970s Polish sailplanes
SZD aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1978
Igelfors Bruk. Igelfors Bruk AB is a Swedish manufacturer of different forgings, including transmission details for trucks and drawbars for circuit breakers. They also manufacture customer-ready products, including Rescue Axes that are shipped worldwide. The company is a subsidiary owned by the Permec Group, and is situated in a small village called Igelfors, hence the company name. It was founded in 1891, when two local factories, Igelfors Stångjärnsbruk and Nyhammars spikbruk, were merged.

References
Company Website
Permec Group
Industrial History Retrieved 2009-09-04.

Companies based in Östergötland County
Manufacturing companies of Sweden
1891 establishments in Sweden
Richland Collegiate High School. Richland Collegiate High School (RCHS) of Mathematics, Science, and Engineering is a charter high school opened in 2006 at Dallas College in Dallas, Texas.

Students can complete their last two years of high school at Dallas College, Richland Campus, taking college courses and earning college credits with a focus on mathematics, science, or engineering. RCHS students can graduate from Dallas College with an Associate of Arts or Associate of Science degree and a high school diploma, ready to transfer or enter as a first-year student to a four-year university.

The Richland Collegiate High School of Visual, Performing, and Digital Arts opened in the fall semester of 2010.

References

External links 

 Dallas College Website
 Richland Collegiate High School Website

Public high schools in Dallas
Charter high schools in Texas
University-affiliated schools in the United States
Dallas College
Miura-class tank landing ship. The Miura-class landing ship tank is a class of three tank landing ships (LSTs) that served with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) from 1975 to 2002. They were primarily deployed for logistic support but were also used to carry heavy construction equipment such as trenchers.

Description
The three Miura-class tank landing ships (LSTs) had a standard displacement of  and  at full load. They were  long between perpendiculars and  overall with a beam of  and a draft of . Ships in the class were powered by two Kawasaki-MAN V8V 22/30 AMTL diesel engines turning two shafts rated at . This gave them a maximum speed of 
 and they carried enough diesel fuel for a range of  at .  

Vessels of the class carried two Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVPs) and two Landing Craft Mechanized (LCMs). The LCVPs were slung under davits and a traveling gantry crane with folding rails that could be extended over the side handled the two LCMs positioned on the foredeck. The LSTs could carry up to 200 troops or  of cargo, or ten Type 74 main battle tanks.  The Miura class were armed with twin-mounted US Mark 33 /50 caliber guns situated forward in a single turret and a twin-mounted  guns in a single turret placed aft. The LSTs were equipped with OPS-14 air search and OPS-16 surface search radar. For fire control, Miura mounted a 72-1B for the 76 mm guns and US Mk 51 fire control for the 40 mm guns. The other two vessels were equipped with US Mk 63 fire control for the 76 mm guns and US Mk 51 for the 40 mm guns. They had a complement of 118 officers and crew.

Ships in the class

Service history
Three tank landing ships were ordered from Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries and constructed in Tokyo, Japan. The first of the class, Miura entered service in 1975 with the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF), with Ojika following in 1976 and Satsuma in 1977. Primarily used for logistic support, the Miura class has also been used to trial new guns for the JMSDF, which Satsuma did with the OTO Melara 76 mm Compact gun.

Citations

References

External links

 Miura class at Globalsecurity.org

Amphibious warfare vessels of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Tank landing ships
Amphibious warfare vessel classes
Buenos Aires-class destroyer. The Buenos Aires-class destroyers were a group of destroyers built for the Argentine Navy in Britain in the 1930s.

Design

The ships were based on the contemporary G-class destroyers building for the British Royal Navy, with some modifications to suit Argentine requirements.

After World War II these ships were modified by installing two single hand-worked  Bofors guns between the funnels replacing the original anti-aircraft machine guns, and two twin air-cooled Bofors unique to the Argentine and Swedish navies (instead of the more common water-cooled mounts) replacing the after bank of torpedo tubes. Radar and sonar were also fitted at this time and Santa Cruz landed the "B" gun in favor of a pair of Hedgehog anti-submarine weapons. Anti-submarine weaponry was further improved with 4 throwers and 2 stern tracks.

Ships

Operational history 
ARA Corrientes collided with cruiser ARA Almirante Brown in the fog during naval exercises and sank on 3 October 1941, 54 nm northeast of Mar del Plata. 

On 19 September 1955, San Luis, San Juan and Entre Rios supported the cruiser ARA Nueve de Julio when the latter  shelled and destroyed fuel depots at the port of Mar del Plata, in the course of the Revolucion Libertadora. The destroyers' fire kept at bay a group of armed civilians and soldiers attempting to storm the local naval base. Some civilian property was damaged. The destroyer force also shelled the headquarters of the Army Antiaircraft School, north of the city, some hours later.

See also 
 List of ships of the Argentine Navy
 Mendoza-class destroyer

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links 
  Destroyers ("Destructores (Tambien llamados Torpederos)") – Histarmar website (accessed 2017-02-04)

Destroyer classes
 
World War II destroyers of Argentina
Argentina–United Kingdom military relations
Tees Renewable Energy Plant. Tees Renewable Energy Plant is a proposed biomass fueled power station situated on the River Tees at Teesport in Redcar and Cleveland, North East England. The plant will operate alongside other renewable energy units and industrial processes operating in the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC)

Development
The station would burn  of woodpellets per year, sustainably sourced and primarily imported from Europe and America. This would generate 299 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 600,000 homes. If constructed the plant would be one of the largest dedicated wood pellet biomass power station in the United Kingdom, and one of the largest ever biomass-fueled power stations in the world. It is expected to save 1.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, accounting for 5.5% of the UK's renewables target.

Redcar and Cleveland borough council approved the scheme in November 2008, before the government gave their consent in July 2009.  The station is expected to cost £650 million to construct, employing 600 people during its three-year construction period. The station is planned to be opened for commercial operation in 2020.

MGT sold the plant to Macquarie Group and Danish pension fund PKA in 2016, and construction started, with expected completion in 2020.

At 299 MW this is the world's biggest purpose-built biomass power station. It burns up to 1.5 million tonnes of pellets per year, made from around 3 million tonnes of green wood: wood that has been recently cut and therefore has not had an opportunity to dry by evaporation of the internal moisture. Wood is sourced from the USA.

See also

  Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC)

References

Power stations in North East England
Proposed biofuel power stations
Buildings and structures in Redcar and Cleveland
Proposed renewable energy power stations in England
Teesside