omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Puketi hydroelectric power plant. The Puketi hydroelectric power plant was a micro hydropower plant constructed near the village of Puketi in Suriname, with a capacity of . The plant provided electricity between 1981 and 1987 before it went into disrepair. According to hydrologist Rudi van Els, the plant could be rehabilitated, but efforts are now focussed on the construction of the Gran Olo hydroelectric power plant nearby.

History 
Construction of the micro-hydro plant started in 1980 and was completed in 1981. The plant was opened on 7 December 1981 by President Henk Chin A Sen, and electricity was provided from that day to the villages of Puketi and Futupasi. Electricity meters were installed in the houses connected to the network, and an officer of the Dienst Elektriciteitsvoorziening (DEV) of the Ministry of Natural Resources traveled from Paramaribo to Puketi every few months to collect the bills. After initial plans to use the energy for a cassava mill and a sawmill were abandoned, neighboring villages began pressing for access to the network. In 1985, work began on a  long 12 kV overhead power line between Puketi and the Ndyuka capital of Diitabiki, which was also to connect the villages of Moitaki, Jawsa and Mainsi to the grid.

The power consumption of the villages combined exceeded the average of 33 kW produced by the plant, which caused the supply of electricity to be unreliable. To make matters worse, the overhead power line was constructed without lightning conductors, which made it prone to outages. During the Surinamese Interior War, which lasted from 1986 to 1992, the interior of Suriname was out of reach for technicians from Paramaribo, and as such the power plant stopped working somewhere in 1987.

In 1995, INGRO NV Engineering consultants proposed to rehabilitate the power plant, but nothing substantial happened before a delegation of the Anton de Kom University of Suriname visited the site in September 2003. This delegation under the leadership of professor Sieuwnath Naipal was sent by the Ministry of Regional Development to investigate the possibilities for hydroelectric power in the area, but rather than proposing the rehabilitation of the existing facility, Naipal set up a follow-up mission in February 2004 to investigate other sites nearby with the potential to generate more electricity. Going by the advice of Naipal and his team, the Ministry of Regional Development eventually decided to construct the Gran Olo hydroelectric power plant nearby. Although the most effort is now dedicated to the construction of the latter plant, the rehabilitation of the old Puketi hydroelectric power plant remains a possibility.

Technical specifications 
The power plant operated on one Michell-Bánki cross-flow turbine. The minimum hydraulic head was set at  and the maximum head at . The maximum flow rate was calculated for .

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Hydroelectric power stations in Suriname
Sipaliwini District
Energy infrastructure completed in 1981
1981 establishments in Suriname
Abtswoudse Bos. The Abtswoudse Bos is man-made park and land art project, opened in 2000, of about 190 ha. It lies south of the Tanthof neighbourhood in Delft, east of Schipluiden and north of Overschie.

The Abtswoudse Bos is situated in a polder and has trees, bushes, footpaths, cycling roads, ditches, lakes, and small ponds. The area's waters contain many aquatic plants, like reeds, underwater plants, and floating plants. The polder used to consist of meadows.

Mother Earth 
In the centre of the park lies Moeder Aarde (Dutch for Mother Earth). It consists of an artificial hill of about 200 meter wide, 170 meter long and 5 meter high, resembling a human figure. Around this hill is a meadow with planted ashes. In the center of Mother Earth is a circular pond. Bushes with berries have been planted on the arms and legs. The knees, hands, and feet have stayed open. The footpaths on the hill are meant to resemble blood veins.

References

Delft
Land art
Nilesh Cabral. Nilesh Cabral (born 10 July 1972)  is an Indian politician and a former cabinet minister in the Government of Goa headed by Manohar Parrikar. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and represents the Curchorem constituency in the  Goa Legislative Assembly. Cabral had held the portfolios of Power, Non-Conventional Energy, Law & Judiciary as well as Legislative Affairs.

Personal life
Nilesh Cabral was born on 10 July 1972. An engineer, Cabral earned a Diploma in Mining and Mine Surveying from the Government Polytechnic, Panaji in 1992.

By profession, Cabral is a transport contractor as well as barge owner. He owns several trucks and earth moving machines. He is the Chairman of the Goa Chess Association since June 2017.

Career

Cabral was once a close confidante of Shyam Satardekar and also worked for the latter's victory in the 2007 Goa Legislative Assembly election. But later, differences arose between Satardekar and Cabral. Cabral first contested the 2012 Goa Legislative Assembly election from Curchorem as a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party, defeating Shyam Satardekar of the Indian National Congress. In 2012, Cabral was seen as an "outsider" as he did not belong to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh cadre. After his victory in the 2012 Goa Legislative Assembly election, Nilesh Cabral was appointed the Chairman of the Goa Tourism Development Corporation. He served in this position from 24 April 2012 to 9 January 2017.

He successfully contested the 2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election and was elected from the Curchorem constituency as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. He was once again appointed the Chairman of the Goa Tourism Development Corporation in April 2017 and held the post till 7 November 2018.

Since 24 September 2018, Cabral is the Cabinet Minister of Power, Non-Conventional Energy, Law & Judiciary as well as Legislative Affairs in the Government of Goa.

In 2020, Cabral said that he was ready to debate with his Delhi counterpart over the electricity models in their respective jurisdictions, and not with an official of the Delhi Jal Board. Raghav Chadha traveled from Delhi to Goa to debate; however, later on, the debate took place between Valmiki Naik and Nilesh Cabral
 In 2022, Cabral won the assembly election on BJP ticket from Curchorem constituency.

Nilesh Cabral has resigned from the Pramod Sawant-led state cabinet 19 November 2023.

References

External links 
 Goa Environment Minister Responds To Protests In Goa | Faye D'Souza

Goa MLAs 2022–2027
Living people
People from South Goa district
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Goa
Goa MLAs 2017–2022
1972 births
Glossary of artificial intelligence. This glossary of artificial intelligence is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to the study of artificial intelligence (AI), its subdisciplines, and related fields. Related glossaries include Glossary of computer science, Glossary of robotics, and Glossary of machine vision.

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Lauren Bowker. Lauren Bowker (born 16 September 1985) is an English designer, particularly known for her colour-change inks. Born in Rossendale, Lancashire, Bowker now resides in London, United Kingdom.

Bowker is a designer, inventor, director and speaker who works with museums, galleries, institutes and industries across the world, specialising in material science and design. Bowker is the founder and creative director of THEUNSEEN, a material innovation research and development house that develops intelligent materials using colour to visualise data.

She is also the inventor of a number of colour-change inks and compounds, launched an environment-responsive colour change fashion collection into Selfridges department store in October 2015, and is one of the creators of her own version of color changing hair dye "FIRE" in January 2017. In June 2017, Bowker presented a T-Shirt range responsive to climate change at the UN Nature summit on World Environment Day in Washington.

Bowker is Editor at large of Science for Dazed, a Creative Review creative leader and winner of the most innovative brand award at the WGSN Futures award 2016.

Bowker's skin-based beauty products are set to be launched in 2019. The products include, Atmo Spheres, a colour pigment for the cheeks, eyes, lips and skin that changes when it comes into contact with heat, a breeze or seasonal temperature changes; Soul Shades, a skin-accentuating blusher that responds to skin's natural temperature fluctuations; and Helio Veil, a self-forming freckle base activated by UV rays.

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British fashion designers
1985 births
Living people
People from Salford
English magazine editors
21st-century British inventors
Women inventors
British women magazine editors
English women editors
English women fashion designers
People from the Borough of Rossendale
Johann Reinhard Blum. Johann Reinhard Blum (28 October 1802, Hanau – 21 August 1883, Heidelberg) was a German mineralogist.

From 1821 he studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Marburg, receiving his habilitation for mineralogy in 1828. In 1838 he became an associate professor, and in 1856, a full professor of mineralogy at the University of Heidelberg. For many years he was director of the university's mineral collection. In 1871 he was a founding member of the Oberrheinischen Geologischen Vereins (Upper Rhine Geological Association).

He is best remembered for his pioneer research of pseudomorphs, and was the author of a landmark textbook on the subject, titled "Die Pseudomorphosen des Mineralreichs" (1843). In his studies on the origins of pseudomorphs he was among the first to demonstrate the significance of chemistry in several pseudomorphic processes. In 1861 he described the mineral rösslerite, named in honor of its discoverer, Karl Rössler. With chemist Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Delffs, he described leonhardite, a name given for a partially dehydrated, opaque laumontite. He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1882.

Selected works 
 Lehrbuch der Oryktognosie, 1832 – Textbook of oryctognosy (a former name for mineralogy).
 Taschenbuch der Edelsteinkunde für Mineralogen, Techniker und Juweliere (as editor, 1834) – Gemology for mineralogists, technicians and jewelers.
 Lithurgik, oder Mineralien und Felsarten, 1840 (a detailed economic mineralogy).
 Die Pseudomorphosen des Mineralreichs, 1843 – Pseudomorphs of the mineral kingdom; Blum's magnum opus.
 Die Einschlüsse von Mineralien in Krystallisirten Mineralien, 1854 – The inclusions of minerals in crystallized minerals.
 Handbuch der lithologie oder gesteinlehre, 1860 – Handbook of lithology.
 Dritter Nachtrag zu den Pseudomorphosen des Mineralreichs, 1863 – Third addendum on pseudomorphs of the mineral kingdom.
 Die mineralien nach den krystallsystemen geordnet, 1866 – Minerals according to the ordered crystal system.

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1802 births
1883 deaths
People from Hanau
Heidelberg University alumni
Academic staff of Heidelberg University
University of Marburg alumni
German mineralogists
Crystallographers
Chen Shilu. Chen Shilu (; 24 September 1920 – 24 April 2016) was a Chinese flight mechanics expert, educator and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).

Biography
Chen was born in Dongyang County, Zhejiang. He obtained a bachelor's degree of aeronautical engineering from National Southwestern Associated University in 1945. He became a teaching assistant in National Southwestern Associated University (1945–1946) and Tsinghua University (1946–1948) after his graduation. He taught at National Chiao Tung University as a lecturer in 1948. Chen moved to Eastern China Aeronautics Institute in 1952 due to the adjustment for university colleges and departments in China. He went to Soviet Union in 1956 by the Chinese government sponsorship and obtained a master's degree from Moscow Aviation Institute in 1958.

Chen returned to Northwestern Polytechnical University and founded the Department of Aerospace Engineering in 1959. Chen's research was mainly in the field of flight mechanics and fostered China's first and second doctors in flight mechanics. He became the foreign academician of Russian Academy of Astronautics on 29 March 1994. On 24 November 1997, Chen was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering for his achievements in flight mechanics.

Chen died on 24 April 2016 at the age of 95 in Xi'an.

Notes
Eastern China Aeronautics Institute was relocated to Xi'an and renamed as the Xi'an Aeronautics Institute in 1956. Xi'an Aeronautics Institute was merged to form the Northwestern Polytechnical University in 1958.

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1920 births
2016 deaths
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Scientists from Jinhua
Moscow Aviation Institute alumni
Academic staff of Tsinghua University
Academic staff of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Academic staff of the Northwestern Polytechnical University
People from Dongyang
Engineers from Zhejiang
Itschak Shrem. Itschak Shrem (Hebrew: יִצְחַק שְׁרֵם; born 1947) is an Israeli entrepreneur and businessman with experience in the fields of investment banking, venture capital, finance, insurance and technology, among others; involving both public and private entities.

He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Nano Dimension Ltd, a 3D printers for a printed circuit board company, listed on TASE and NASDAQ, the Chairman of the Board of Sphera Funds Management Hedge Fund and a Board Member of Sphera Global Healthcare.

Education 
Itschak Shrem was born in Tel Aviv. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Bar-Ilan University and an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University. He is married and has four children.

Career 
Shrem started his professional life working in Clal Israel LTD – an Israeli conglomerate – holding various capacities, including Chief Operating Officer in charge of the group’s capital markets and insurance businesses. He established Clal Insurance, the largest insurance company in Israel that in 2015 constituted 25% of the Israeli insurance market.

In 1991 he left Clal and established Dovrat Shrem, a private investment house, and the brokerage DS Investments Ltd which later merged with Meitav Dash.

In 1993, he founded Pitango Venture Capital Fund, that over the years invested mainly in the technology industry and managed in 2016 more than 2 billion dollars.

In 2002, Shrem established four technology funds in Canada.

In 2004, he established Sphera Hedge Fund, that in 2015 managed 1 billion dollars in assets, and he is still a part of the General Partner.

In 2005, Shrem was selected by the Korean Ministry of Communications to manage a 100 million dollars fund, investing in Israel and in Korea, together with a local partner. In this year Shrem, along with an Israeli partner, established a Venture Capital Fund with major investments in Singapore and in Korea. That year he also established a partnership with Marubeni, a multibillion-dollar holding company in Japan.

Other positions:

Shrem served on the board of directors of Ormat Industries Ltd (Listed on TASE) and Retalix Ltd, until it was sold for approximately 1 billion dollars to NCR, a NASDAQ listed company.

He was also Chairman of the Board at Shrem Fudim Group Ltd, Leader Holdings and Investments Ltd, an acting director of Greenstone Industries Ltd and Polar Communications Ltd, a board member of the Israeli Stock Exchange in Tel Aviv and of Eden Springs Ltd, both listed in TASE.

Philanthropy 
In the last few years Shrem served as a director in the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, and as a board member of the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Foundation, Weizmann Institute of Science and the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center. He is also active in several other charity organizations, and an avid arts' supporter.

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1947 births
Living people
Bar-Ilan University alumni
Businesspeople in software
Israeli chief executives
Israeli investors
Israeli Jews
People from Tel Aviv
Technology company founders
Israeli company founders
Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan. The Maharashtra government in India has launched a water conservation scheme named Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan to make Maharashtra a drought-free state by 2019. The  programme aims to make 5000 villages free of water scarcity every year.

The key aim of Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan is to establish belief in a farmer that "every drop of rainwater is owned by me and it should percolate in my land".

The flagship programme launched by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan aims to bring water empowerment to 25,000 drought-affected villages in Maharashtra within next five years. The programme Jalyukt Shivar was initiated by Pankaja Munde. With the passing time, the scheme has been going strong with villages building infrastructure and making the programme one of the largest Government initiatives in terms of public participation.

Logo
The Water Conservation Department of Maharashtra government conducted a logo competition on the Maharashtra MyGov Portal with an objective to widen its scope of public participation in flagship program.

Mr Kishor Gaikwad received an award in Mumbai for best design by Hon. Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis on 4 January 2018.

References

External links
 The World Bank's work and publications on water resources
https://web.archive.org/web/20160625203049/http://www.ctara.iitb.ac.in/tdsc/GR/JYS_GR_english.pdf
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/taskforcemaha-agrarian-crisis-submits-report-to-govt_5477941.html
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/govt-spends-rs-1400-crjalyukt-shivar-abhiyaan-so-far_3659501.html
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/maharashtra/wardha-and-nagpur-villagers-rejoice-as-jalyukt-shivar-projects-yield-results/

Water resource management in India
Environment of Maharashtra
Rural development in India
2015 in India
Government schemes in Maharashtra
Economy of Maharashtra
Ecogrid. Ecogrid, known as Ecoraster to most of Europe, is a type of plastic, permeable paving grid used in the construction of parking lots, walkways and other outdoor surfaces. 

Ecogrid is marketed as a green technology because it is designed to reduce harmful stormwater runoff and is made with post-consumer plastic to reduce waste.  Ecoraster was trade marked by Purus Plastics in 2008.  

Ecogrid is made from specially selected plastics that are recycled in their Bavarian production centre. It has a locking mechanism that secures one grid to the next. There are many fill types for this kind of grid system but mainly they are:
Grass
 Gravel
 Resin bound stone
 Resin bound rubber crumb
 Soil

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Pavements
Road infrastructure
Stewart Tresilian. Stewart Tresilian (9 January 1904 – 20 May 1962) was a British mechanical engineer, who played a significant role in the early development of British aero engines during World War II.

Early life
He gained a BA degree in engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Career

Rolls-Royce
In the 1920s he worked at Rolls-Royce on aero-engines. In the early 1930s he worked as the chief assistant to Arthur Rowledge at Rolls-Royce on the R engine.

Lagonda 
In 1936 Tresilian was invited by W.O. Bentley to follow him from Rolls Royce to Lagonda to become chief designer. The V12 Lagonda Tresillian designed followed the general principles he had set out at Rolls Royce for a new but unbuilt version of the Phantom III. Despite a lack of funding and development the V12 Lagonda was a great success.

Templewood Engineering 
For around a year, from 1938 to 1939, he worked as an independent consultant under the name 'Templewood Engineering', an owned subsidiary of High Duty Alloys Ltd. Wallace C. Devereux set up this offshoot company in order to market their Hiduminium range of high-performance aluminium alloys to the motor-racing industry. One of Tresilian's innovations was to encourage the use of these alloys as extrusions, as well as the previous forgings.

Armstrong Siddeley
In 1939 he became the Chief Engineer of Armstrong Siddeley, based north of Coventry (now Rolls-Royce Ansty).

British Racing Motors
Tresilian designed an oversquare twin-cam 2.5-litre four-cylinder for the BRM P25 Formula One car. Tresilian subsequently designed the BRM P48, BRM's first rear-engined Formula One car.

References

External links
 Biography at grandprix.com
 

1904 births
1962 deaths
Armstrong Siddeley
British mechanical engineers
Rolls-Royce people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Andreas Flocken. Andreas Flocken (born 6 February 1845 in Albersweiler, Rheinpfalz; died 29 April 1913 in Coburg) was a German entrepreneur and inventor.

Life 
Until 1868 Flocken worked for German company Heinrich Lanz AG in Mannheim. Then he worked for company Schoppers in Zeulenroda. Since 1879, Flocken and his family lived in Coburg. In 1880, Flocken started his own company in Coburg.
The Flocken Elektrowagen of 1888 by German inventor Andreas Flocken is regarded as the first real electric car of the world.

Literature 
 Harald Linz, Halwart Schrader: Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie. United Soft Media Verlag GmbH, München 2008, 
	
 Halwart Schrader: Deutsche Autos 1885–1920. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart,

External links 
 Haag Engineering: Flocken Elektrowagen, Coburg

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19th-century German inventors
German electrical engineers
Businesspeople from Mannheim
People from Südliche Weinstraße
People from Coburg
1845 births
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German businesspeople in transport
Engineers from Rhineland-Palatinate
National Union of Lock and Metal Workers. The National Union of Lock and Metal Workers (NULM) was a trade union representing workers involved in the manufacture of metal items in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1889 in Willenhall as the National Amalgamated Lock, Latch and Key Smiths' Trade Society, soon renaming itself as the National Amalgamated Lock Maker and Metal Workers' Trade Society to better reflect its membership, which peaked at 2,000 in 1900, falling back to only 180 ten years later.

In 1890, the Wednesfield Spring Trap Makers' Society was established.  Although it later dropped "Wednesfield" from its name and sought to recruit workers in the field elsewhere, its membership remained tiny, reaching a maximum of 126 in 1900, and declining to 68 in 1910.  By 1924, it was close to dissolution but survived by formally associating with the Lock and Metal Workers, which took its final name of the "National Union of Lock and Metal Workers" the following year.    The Spring Trap Makers' Society remained separately registered and separately affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, but its administration and leadership was combined with the Lock and Metal Workers.

The NULMW participated in the Joint Industry Council for the Lock, Latch and Key Industry, and grew significantly; although never a large union, it had 7,000 members by 1984.

The Spring Trap Makers' Society was moribund by the 1980s, existing only to deal with legacy matters for former workers in the industry.  It was eventually dissolved in 1988.  The NULMW eventually merged into the Transport and General Workers' Union in 2004.

General Secretaries
1911: George Bellamy
1940: Bob Gerrard
1959: John Martin
1987: Michael Bradley
1991: Ray Ward

Further reading
Brian Stenner, The Lockmakers (1989). Oxford: Malthouse Press.

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Trade unions established in 1889
1889 establishments in the United Kingdom
Trade unions disestablished in 2004
2004 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Metal trade unions
Transport and General Workers' Union amalgamations
Trade unions based in the West Midlands (county)
Wednesfield