omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Rising Star (ship, 1991). Rising Star  (USAF TG-71-9001) is a tugboat operated by the United States Air Force to assist cargo vessels supplying Thule Air Base, in northern Greenland. The tugboat is only operated during the period of three months or less that the port is ice-free. For the remainder of the year the vessel is pulled up on the beach. Rising Star is the Air Force's only tugboat.

History  
Built in 1991 at the Swiftships yard in Morgan City, Louisiana, Rising Star is  long and powered by two two-stroke diesel engines, capable of generating  each.

Rising Star is the only tugboat in the U.S. Air Force. In the summertime, the 71-foot tugboat escorts fuel tankers and cargo ships, aligns them with the pier, and moves icebergs out of the way as vessels enter North Star Bay. The tugboat is also used for sightseeing tours of the surrounding bays and fjords during the summer. In the winter, it is hauled onto shore.  

In 2020, the tugboat was used to save a sinking ship and its crew of six, 50 kilometers south of base, towing the distressed ship back to the port at Pituffik.

References

External links

1991 ships
Ships of the United States Air Force
Tetraanthraporphyrin. Tetraanthraporphyrin, or tetraanthra[2,3]porphyrin (TAP), is a representative of extended porphyrins.
Despite promising properties, tetraanthraporphyrins have until recently been little studied. As was theoretically predicted,
extension of pi-electronic system results in the case of TAPs in the destabilization of the third LUMOs and the first HOMOs that makes it unstable against oxidation and reduction.

Synthesis

The first representative of the TAP family was prepared by Kobayashi and co-workers, using high-temperature template condensation method, which resembles the classical procedures of phthalocyanine synthesis. Melting of anthracene-2,3-
dicarboxyimide with sodium biphenylacetate in the presence of zinc acetate resulted in the formation of zinc complex of triarylsubstituted TAP. The synthesis of both meso-unsubstituted and meso-arylsubstituted TAPs was reported by Ono and coworkers using a common approach to extended porphyrins relying on thermal retro-Diels−Alder extrusion of ethylene
from bicyclo[2.2.2]octadiene-annelated porphyrins. Thus obtained materials were reported to be poorly soluble and unstable toward photooxidation.
An obvious drawback of reported syntheses of TAPs is a need for harsh conditions of condensation or aromatization steps, which are poorly compatible with the emerging huge and fragile TAP system. This results in low yields and poor quality of the obtained materials and limits opportunities of introducing functionality to improve solubility and stability or to modulate optical properties.

As an advanced method delivering tetraanthraporphyrins, the dihydroisoindole method based on an oxidative aromatization of the closest partially hydrogenated porphyrin precursor was applied. It warrants that the conditions of aromatization of
the annelated system are as soft as possible and occur spontaneously along with the aromatization of the porphyrinogen
intermediates

Structure
The geometry of TAP like all known geometries of tetraarylporphyrins is distorted to take a very characteristic “saddle” shape.

Optical properties
Tetraanthraporphyrin exhibit strongly red-shifted and hyperchromic absorption bands. The maximum of absorption is about 830 nm. The molar extinction coefficients reach 10−5 scale. Very strong red-shift of absorption by about 90 nm upon protonation of nitrogen atoms and blue-shift by 20−40 nm upon metal insertion are observed.

References

External links
Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC # 900743)

Macrocycles
Tetrapyrroles
86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron. The 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (86 AES) is a unit of the United States Air Force. It is part of the 86th Operations Group, 86th Airlift Wing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. It is a component of Third Air Force and United States Air Forces Europe.

The 86 AES provides operational aeromedical evacuation for U.S. troops in the United States European Command and United States Africa Command areas of responsibility using, primarily, Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, Gates Learjet C-21A and Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules aircraft.

The squadron was constituted as the 86 Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron on 27 May 1994, and activated on 16 August 1994.

The unit is manned by Flight Nurses, Medical Service Corps officers and Aeromedical Evacuation Technicians; as well as medical administration and logistics technicians.

History 
Major operations the squadron has participated in include:
 Operation Enduring Freedom
 Operation Iraqi Freedom
 Operation Unified Protector
 Operation Unified Response
 Operation Joint Endeavor
 Operation Allied Force
The 86 AES provided AE coverage for deployed US and NATO forces. This included the airlift of former prisoners of war Specialist Steven Gonzales and Staff Sergeants Christopher Stone and Andrew Ramirez, to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, from Zagreb, Croatia. They had been captured by Serbian forces while patrolling in the Republic of Macedonia, during Operation Allied Force.
 Operation Deliberate Force
 Bombing of USS Cole
On October 12, 2000, crew from the 86 Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron and CCATT team members from Landstuhl Regional Medical launched on C-9 Nightingales from the 75th Airlift Squadron to Djibouti and Yemen. In total 28 Sailors were airlifted back to definitive care in Germany by 14 October 2000.
 Bombing of the Khobar Towers

Partnership Building
Since it is uniquely situated among active duty USAF AE units, the 86 AES participates regularly in partnership building visits with allied nations.
 Poland
 Germany
 Norway

Lineage
 Constituted as the 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron on 27 May 1994
 Activated on 16 August 1994

Assignments
 86th Operations Group, 16 August 1994 – present

Stations
 Ramstein Air Base, Germany, 16 August 1994 – present

Major Unit Awards
 Mackay Trophy
 Air Mobility Rodeo 2009 - Best Aeromedical Evacuation Team

Historical Unit Patches

References

 Much of this text in an early version of this article was taken from pages on the Ramstein Air Base website, which as a work of the U.S. Government is presumed to be a public domain resource. That information was supplemented by:

External links
 Ramstein AFB Home Page
 
 

Aeromedical evacuation squadrons of the United States Air Force
Military units and formations established in 1994
C5H6O3. {{DISPLAYTITLE:C5H6O3}}
The molecular formula C5H6O3 (molar mass: 114.10 g/mol, exact mass: 114.0317 u) may refer to:

 2-Oxopent-4-enoic acid (2-oxopent-4-enoate)
 2,3,4-Pentanetrione, the simplest linear triketone
St Croix Pietenpol Aircamper. The St Croix Pietenpol Aircamper is an American homebuilt aircraft, an adaptation of the classic 1920s Pietenpol Air Camper, re-designed by St Croix Aircraft of Corning, Iowa. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a partial kit and in the form of plans for amateur construction.

Design and development
St Croix Aircraft principals Chad and Charles Wille had built several Pietenpol Air Campers starting in 1941. The St Croix version of the Pietenpol Aircamper is longer and heavier than the original design, with slightly more wingspan.

The St Croix Pietenpol Aircamper features a cantilever strut-braced parasol wing, two-seats in individual tandem open cockpits with windshields, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made with a wooden structure, with some steel parts and its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its  span wing is supported by cabane struts and lift struts and has a wing area of . The cabin width is . The acceptable power range is  and the standard engine used is the  Ford Model A automotive conversion powerplant.

The St Croix Pietenpol Aircamper has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for the pilot, passenger and baggage is . The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off and landing roll with a  engine is . The designer estimated the construction time from the supplied partial kit and plans as 1000 hours.

The design was later further developed into a biplane, by adding lower wings to the parasol Aircamper, resulting in the St Croix Pietenpol Aerial.

Specifications (St Croix Pietenpol Aircamper)

References

Aircamper
1960s United States sport aircraft
1960s United States ultralight aircraft
1960s United States civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Dropleton. A dropleton or quantum droplet is a quasiparticle comprising a collection of electrons and holes inside a semiconductor. Dropletons give the first known quasiparticle characterization where the quasiparticle behaves like a liquid. The creation of dropletons was announced on 26 February 2014 in a Nature article, which presented evidence for the creation of dropletons in an electron–hole plasma inside a gallium arsenide quantum well by ultrashort laser pulses. Their existence was not predicted before the experiment.

Despite the relatively short lifetime of about 25 picoseconds, the dropletons are stable enough to be studied and possess favorable properties for certain investigations of quantum mechanics. They are approximately 200 nanometers wide, the size of the smallest bacteria, for which reason the discoverers have expressed hope that they might one day actually see quantum droplets.

References

Quasiparticles
2014 in science
Green Charge Networks. Green Charge Networks LLC is an energy storage company based in Santa Clara, California. Founded in 2009, Green Charge uses predictive software to try to reduce peak demand charges for businesses.

Projects
The first pilot GreenStation reduction system was installed in July 2011 at a 7-Eleven in New York. GreenStation survived Hurricane Sandy. It has saved a 7-Eleven store 56 percent on their utility bills during New York's 2013 summer heat wave.

In March 2014, Green Charge announced that it had signed 1.5 MW of energy storage projects with 7-Eleven, Avis, Walgreens and others.

Funding
Green Charge received $12 million in a grant from the United States Department of Energy in 2011. The company received further funding from angel investor Richard Lowenthal, founder and CTO of car charging network ChargePoint, in December 2013. In March 2014, Green Charge received $10 million in financing from TIP Capital to finance energy storage projects for their customers with zero upfront cost. In July 2014, Green Charge secured $56 million in capital from K Road DG.

In May 2016, Engie acquired an 80 percent stake in Green Charge.

References

Energy storage
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Companies based in Santa Clara, California
Renewable resource companies established in 2009
2009 establishments in California
American companies established in 2009
Tungaloy Corporation. is a company that specializes in production and sales of metal cutting tools as well as industrial products.  Headquartered in Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan, it was the first company in the country to succeed in developing superhard alloy. Tungaloy is a member of the International Metalworking Companies (IMC), which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway.  In November 2011, the company celebrated the opening of its new production facility in Japan; as the Chairman, President, and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett took part in the ceremony.

History
August 2008 marked a turning point for the company, as Tungaloy became a member of the International Metalworking Companies (IMC), owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.  This acquisition led to rapid installation of latest machinery and automation in its production facilities as well as advanced its R&D laboratories.  In 2010, Tungaloy’s headquarters, marketing, production, and R&D functions gathered in Iwaki, Fukushima in Japan to streamline communication channels and improve synergy between the departments.  The company celebrated the opening of its new production plant in 2011 with the presence of Warren Buffett, which turned into his first visit to Japan.

Products
Metal cutting tools, steel products, wear resistant tools, civil engineering tools, and friction materials.

Serving industries
Automobile, construction, die and mould, aerospace, infrastructure, oil and gas, medical, and power, rail and shipbuilding.

International plants and offices
Japan, US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Spain, Sweden, Russia, Poland, UK, Hungary, Turkey, the Netherlands, Croatia, China, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, South Korea, Malaysia, and Australia.

See also
International Metalworking Companies
Berkshire Hathaway
Warren Buffett

References

External links
Tungaloy Corporation Website

Manufacturing companies established in 1934
Tool manufacturing companies of Japan
Multinational companies
Japanese brands
1934 establishments in Japan
Berkshire Hathaway
Companies based in Fukushima Prefecture
Iwaki, Fukushima
Richard Quesnel. Richard Quesnel (born 1955) is a Canadian entrepreneur and mining engineer; currently Executive Chairman of Consolidated Lithium Metals, and board member of directors at Sama Resources.

Richard Quesnel was born in Quebec, Canada. He has a Bachelor of Science in mining engineering from Mcgill University, is a member of the Order of Engineers of Quebec, and speaks English/French.

Career

Throughout his 40-year mining career as a professional engineer and entrepreneur, Quesnel has contributed to the successful development of several large scale gold, copper, nickel and iron ore mining projects around the world.

Consolidated Thompson: Bloom Lake (President and CEO)
Taseko Mines: Gibraltar Mine (General Mine Manager)
Redpath: Montcalm Mine (Project Manager)
Barrick Gold: Meikle Mine (Mine Manager)
Québec Cartier Mining Company: Mount Wright (Mine Manager)
Placer Dome: Sigma Mine (Senior Mining Engineer) 

In his capacity for over 5 years as president and chief executive officer of Consolidated Thompson, Richard Quesnel was responsible for the development of Consolidated Thompson's Bloom Lake iron ore deposit which came into commercial production in early 2010, three years after completion of the feasibility study.

Insider trading convictions, appeal, and acquittal

According to the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), Quesnel purchased 30,000 shares of Consolidated Thompson-Lundmark Gold Mines Limited (now Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines Limited) on two occasions in March 2006 while in possession of undisclosed information regarding the Bloom Lake mine feasibility study.

On November 17, 2010, the Hon. Judge Juanita Westmorelant-Traoté of the Court of Quebec, district Montreal, found Richard Quesnel guilty of these charges. On May 6, 2011, Judge Juanita Westmorelant-Traoté of the Court of Quebec, district of Montreal, imposed $132,974 in fines against Richard Quesnel.

Legal counsel advised Quesnel these judgement were erroneous in law and informed him of the compelling grounds for appeal in which Richard Quesnel intended to vigorously pursue.

Richard Quesnel appealed these insider trading convictions to the Quebec Superior Court. On June 12, 2012, the Hon. Rejean F. Paul rendered judgment, granting Richard Quesnel's appeal and acquitting him of all insider trading charges.

The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) subsequently applied to the Quebec Court of Appeal, seeking leave to appeal Richard Quesnel's acquittal. On August 15, 2012, the Hon. Jacques Dufrense of the Quebec Court of Appeal rendered judgment denying the Application for Leave. This judgement rendered, acquitted Richard Quesnel fully of all insider trading charges.

References

External links
[consolidatedlithium.com Consolidated Lithium Metals]

Canadian mining businesspeople
McGill University alumni
Businesspeople from Quebec
1955 births
Living people
Michael Chippendale. Michael W. Chippendale (born April 25, 1969 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American politician and a Republican member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives representing District 40 since being elected in November 2010. Chippendale currently serves as the House Minority Leader.

Education
Chippendale attended the Community College of Rhode Island, earned his AS in mechanical engineering technology from New England Institute of Technology, and studied Business Management Johnson & Wales University.

Professional
Chippendale is the CEO and a partner of Intrepid Enterprises, LLC. Intrepid Enterprises is a real-estate management firm in Rhode Island that specializes in the rehabilitation, operation, and management of commercial and residential properties within the state of Rhode Island. Chippendale has been a Real Estate investor since 1992 and also works as a consultant on contract manufacturing jobs in the trade show exhibit, point of purchase display, and custom furniture design, engineering and manufacturing industry. Chippendale has been active in this industry since 2002.

Political career 
In 2018 Chippendale was unanimously elected by his Republican Colleagues to serve as House Minority Whip, and was unanimously reelected to that post following the 2020 election where he served with House Minority Leader and former House Minority Whip, Blake Filippi.

Chippendale currently serves on the House Committee on Oversight, the House Committee on Corporations, the House Committee on Conduct and the Permanent Joint Committee on Healthcare Oversight. Past committee assignments include the RI State Lottery Commission, Vice Chairman of House Oversight, Secretary of House Oversight, House Committee on Labor, House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, House Judiciary Committee and the House Rules Committee.

Temporary appointments included; Chairman of the House Committee to Review and Recommend Changes to the RI Department of Health Medical Board of Licensure and Discipline in 2015, and the COVID Vaccine Task Force in December 2020.

Chippendale became House Minority Leader on June 23, 2022, following Blake Filippi announcing that he would non seek reelection to the position of House Minority Leader and immediately stepped down.

Elections

References

External links
Official page at the Rhode Island General Assembly
Campaign site
Michael Chippendale at Ballotpedia
Michael W. Chippendale at the National Institute on Money in State Politics

1969 births
Community College of Rhode Island alumni
Johnson & Wales University alumni
Living people
Republican Party members of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
People from Foster, Rhode Island
Politicians from Providence, Rhode Island
21st-century members of the Rhode Island General Assembly
Boeing Black. Boeing Black is a secure Android smartphone built by Boeing and BlackBerry Limited, targeted for (United States) government and military defense communities as well as people "that need to keep communications and data secure." On February 27, 2014, Boeing filed with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

Features
According to Boeing Defense, Space & Security Division, The Black has embedded hardware security features, can be configured through software policies, and has endless modularity capabilities. The phone can self-destruct if it is tampered with, and will feature two slots for SIM cards.

References

See also 
 Boeing Black Smartphone

Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones
Boeing
BlackBerry Limited smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2014
St Croix Sopwith Triplane. The St Croix Sopwith Triplane is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by St Croix Aircraft of Corning, Iowa. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit or in the form of plans for amateur construction. The aircraft is a full-size replica of the 1916 Sopwith Triplane fighter aircraft.

Design and development
The aircraft features a cantilever strut-braced triplane layout, a single-seat, with an optional two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The St Croix Sopwith Triplane differs from the original 1916 design in that it employs a welded steel tube fuselage, modern engine installation and other minor details.  The Triplane is all covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its  span wing uses strut and cable-bracing and has a wing area of . The cabin width is . The acceptable power range is  and the standard engine used is the  Lycoming O-435 powerplant.

The St Croix Sopwith Triplane has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for the pilot, passengers and baggage is .

The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a  engine is  and the landing roll is .

The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 4000 hours.

Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that 25 kits had been sold and 15 aircraft were completed and flying.

Specifications (St Croix Sopwith Triplane)

References

External links

Sopwith Triplane
1990s United States sport aircraft
1990s United States civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Triplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Replica aircraft
Certificate of Financial Responsibility. The Certificate of Financial Responsibility (COFR) program was created to ensure that tankers, barges, and other vessels used to transport oil and chemical-based products on U.S. should bear any ensuing cleanup costs from spills or leaks.  This is based on the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and other environmental statutes.

Administration
The COFR program is administered by The U.S. Coast Guard’s National Pollution Funds Center (NPFC). The Vessel Certification Division of the NPFC ensures that responsible parties are identified and held responsible for the expenses incurred during a water pollution incident.

A COFR is issued to vessel operators once they have shown the can pay cleanup and damage costs up to the liability limits required by the Oil Pollution Act.

Conditions of Compliance
With a few limited exceptions, vessels greater than 300 gross tons and vessels of any size that are transferring oil between vessels or shipping oil in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) are required to comply with the COFR regulations in order to operate in U.S. waters.

Penalties
Operators who do not comply with the COFR requirements are subject to:

Detainment
Denial of entry into U.S. ports
Civil penalties of up to $32,500 per day
Seizure or forfeiture of the vessel

See also
Shoreline Managers

Notes

Pollution