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|}Lübeck (F269) is the tenth ship of the Braunschweig-class corvette of the German Navy.

 Developments 

The K130 Braunschweig class (sometimes Korvette 130''') is Germany's newest class of ocean-going corvettes. Five ships have replaced the  of the German Navy.

They feature reduced radar and infrared signatures ("stealth" beyond the s) and will be equipped with two helicopter UAVs for remote sensing. Recently, the German Navy ordered a first batch of two UMS Skeldar V-200 systems for the use on the Braunschweig-class corvettes. The hangar is too small for standard helicopters, but the pad is large enough for Sea Kings, Lynx, or NH-90s, the helicopters of the German Navy.

The German Navy has ordered the RBS-15 Mk4 in advance, which will be a future development of the Mk3 with increased range —— and a dual seeker for increased resistance to electronic countermeasures. The RBS-15 Mk3 has the capability to engage land targets.

In October 2016 it was announced that a second batch of five more frigates is to be procured from 2022 to 2025. The decision was in response to NATO requirements expecting Germany to provide a total of four corvettes at the highest readiness level for littoral operations by 2018, and with only five corvettes just two can be provided.

In September 2017, the German Navy commissioned the construction of five more corvettes in a consortium of North German shipyards. Lürssen will be the main contractor in the production of the vessels. The contract is worth around 2 billion euros. In April 2018, the German government announced the specific arrangements under which the five new K130s would be built.

 Construction and career Lübeck'''s construction started in 2020 and later laid down in December 2020 by Lürssen-Werft in Bremen.

References 

Corvettes
Stealth ships
Braunschweig-class corvettes
Ships built in Bremen (state)
SNCF Class CC 21000. The CC 21000 was a class of electric locomotives in service with the French railways SNCF, built by Alsthom in 1969 and 1974. It was a dual voltage version of the CC 6500 class working off both 1500 V DC and 25 kV 50 Hz AC. Initially allocated to Dijon, the first two, CC 21001 and CC21002, were fitted with cab signalling to allow them to operate test trains on the new high speed lines.

Amtrak

In 1977, Amtrak borrowed SNCF CC21003 for testing purposes.  This engine was rebuilt by Alstom with its transformer and electrical components replaced with those compatible with Amtrak's 25 Hz traction power system, taller pantographs, Amtrak's cab signaling system, US style couplers, a bell, and other components required by the AAR for operation on US railroads. The X996 was equipped with a Nathan P01235 air horn, the same horn used on the more well known E60s This engine and a Swedish SJ Rc4 were imported and tested by Amtrak to determine the best design to replace the aging PRR GG1's operating on their Northeast Corridor.  They were numbered by Amtrak as X996 and X995 respectively. However, the X996's suspension system proved unsuitable for the relatively rough US track construction, and despite modifications made over the course of testing, the engine's performance was deemed unsatisfactory for Amtrak's use.  Thus, Amtrak favored the Rc4 design, which would serve as the basis for their EMD AEM-7.  After testing was completed, X996 was returned to France, reverted to its pre-Amtrak appearance and specifications, and continued to operate on the SNCF.

Disposal
The CC 21000's were rebuilt into class CC 6500 in 1995 and 1996, taking the numbers CC 6575–CC 6578. All were withdrawn by 2005. CC 21003 was turned into 6577 and was withdrawn and scrapped in 2005. CC 6575 (Formerly 21001) is preserved on static display at the SNCF Nimes Depot in Nîmes, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, approximately 45.6km Northeast from Montpellier, France.

References

21000
C-C locomotives
21000
21000
CC 21000
Standard gauge locomotives of France
Passenger locomotives
German corvette Augsburg. Augsburg (Pennant number F268) is the ninth ship of the s of the German Navy.

Developments 

The K130 Braunschweig class (sometimes Korvette 130) is Germany's newest class of ocean-going corvettes. Five ships have replaced the  of the German Navy.

They feature reduced radar and infrared signatures ("stealth" beyond the s) and will be equipped with two helicopter UAVs for remote sensing. The German Navy ordered a first batch of two UMS Skeldar V-200 systems for the use on the Braunschweig-class corvettes. The hangar is too small for standard helicopters, but the pad is large enough for Sea Kings, Lynx, or NH-90s, the helicopters of the German Navy.

The German Navy ordered the RBS-15 Mk4 in advance, which will be a future development of the Mk3 with increased range —— and a dual seeker for increased resistance to electronic countermeasures. The RBS-15 Mk3 has the capability to engage land targets.

In October 2016 it was announced that a second batch of five more frigates is to be procured from 2022 to 2025. The decision was in response to NATO requirements expecting Germany to provide a total of four corvettes at the highest readiness level for littoral operations by 2018, and with only five corvettes just two can be provided.

In September 2017, the German Navy commissioned the construction of five more corvettes in a consortium of North German shipyards. Lürssen are the main contractor in the production of the vessels. The contract is worth around 2 billion euros. In April 2018, the German government announced the specific arrangements under which the five new K130s would be built.

Construction and career 
Augsburg was laid down on 13 July 2021 and is currently under construction by Lürssen-Werft in Bremen.

References 

Corvettes
Stealth ships
Braunschweig-class corvettes
Nova 33. The Nova 33 is a Swedish sailboat that was designed by Peter Norlin as a cruiser and first built in 1981.

The boat is often referred to as the Albin Nova, Albin 10 Metre, Albin 99 Nova and the Albin Nova 33. It was marketed by the manufacturer as the Albin Nova 33.

Production
The design was built by Albin Marine in Sweden between 1981 and 1997. Some later boats were produced by Express Production AB, also of Sweden. In total about 500 boats were completed, but it is now out of production.

Design

The Nova 33 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim. It has a 7/8 fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars, a keel-stepped mast, wire standing rigging and a single set of swept spreaders. The hull has a raked stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces  and carries  of cast iron ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel.

The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar 2GM diesel engine of  for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .

The design has sleeping accommodation for six people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, an L-shaped settee and a straight settee in the main cabin and an aft cabin with a double berth on the starboard side. The main cabin also has a drop-leaf table. The galley is located on the port side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is L-shaped and is equipped with a two-burner stove and a double sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the starboard side.

For sailing the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker. It has a hull speed of .

Operational history
The boat is supported by an active class club based in Sweden, that organizes racing events, the Novaförbundet (English: Nova Association).

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

Keelboats
1980s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Peter Norlin
Sailboat types built by Albin Marine
Sailboat types built by Express Production AB
Nicos Ladommatos. Nicos Ladommatos is a British mechanical engineer. From 2004, he was the Kennedy Professor for Mechanical Engineering and Head of Department for UCL Mechanical Engineering. In his career, he authored or co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed papers., specialising in the areas of combustion, combustion engines, fuel development and future fuels.

Academic career 
Ladommatos studied for his first degree in Mechanical Engineering at Queen Mary College (University of London). This was followed by an MSc in Thermal Power and PhD from Imperial College in Energy Utilisation. Following his studies, Ladommatos worked as a Project Engineer with multinational professional services firm Arup. In 1984, he became a Mechanical Engineering Lecturer at Brunel University

He became Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Brunel in 1994. He then went on to become Dean of the Faculty of Technology & Information Systems between 1998 and 2001 and then Pro-Vice Chancellor, Research & Enterprise between 2001 and 2003, all at Brunel University.

In 2004, Ladommatos began working at UCL where he held the position of Kennedy Chair and was the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering until September 2013. Throughout this time, he continued his research in combustion and fuels.

Societies and Institutions 

 Chartered Mechanical Engineer (CEng) 
 Member of the Energy Institute
 Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE)
 Member, Academic Standards Committee, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1997-2002)
 Member of the EPSRC College of Assessors (2000 – to date)
 Chairman of UNICEG (Universities Internal Combustion Engines Group) (2001 - 2003)
 Member, Editorial Board of International Journal of Engine Research (2003 - to date)

Publications 
Ladommatos co-authored the book Engine Instrumentation, Flow and Combustion Diagnostics with Professor H. Zhao, published in 2001 by SAE.

Ladommatos has authored and co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications, with a focus on the areas  of combustion, combustion engines, fuel development, and future fuels.

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Academics of University College London
20th-century British engineers
21st-century British engineers
British university and college faculty deans
Academics of Brunel University London
Alumni of Queen Mary University of London
Alumni of Imperial College London
British mechanical engineers
SNCF Class CC 14100. The SNCF Class CC 14100 was a class of 25 kV 50 Hz AC electric centre cab locomotives designed to haul heavy freight trains in the northeast of France and cross-border traffic into Luxembourg. A total of 101 locomotives were produced, numbered CC 14101 – CC 14202.

Service use
Introduced at the time when steam traction was being phased out, the torque of these locomotives was exceptional. During tests, a CC 14100 started a train weighing  on an 1.1% slope, and a  train on a 0.5% slope. Their slow speed of  became a liability in later years and by 1986 individual locomotives were being withdrawn as they came due for overhaul or major repairs. The last members of the class survived until 1997, mainly on shunting duties.

Preservation
CC 14161 is on display on a short length of track next to a supermarket car park in Conflans-en-Jarnisy. CC 14183 is at the Carreau Wendel Museum at Petite-Rosselle.

References

14100
C-C locomotives
14100
CC 14100
Standard gauge locomotives of France

Freight locomotives 
Railway locomotives introduced in 1954
25 kV AC locomotives
Alacrity 19. The Alacrity 19 is a British trailerable sailboat that was designed by Peter Stevenson as a cruiser and first built in 1960.

The Alacrity 19 is a fibreglass development of the wooden Alacrity 18. The design was developed into the Vivacity 20 in 1963.

Production
The design was built by Hurley Marine and later Russell Marine in the United Kingdom, with more than 700 built, but it is now out of production. The boat was also imported into the United States by Wells Yachts.

Design
The Alacrity 19 is a recreational keelboat, initially built of wood and later of fibreglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed dual fin keels. It displaces  and carries  of iron ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keels. It is normally fitted with a small  outboard motor for docking and manoeuvring.

The design has sleeping accommodation for three people, with a single berth on the port side of the bow and two straight settees in the main cabin. The galley is located on the starboard side opposite the bow berth. The head is located under a hanging locker just aft of the bow cabin on the port side.

The design has a PHRF racing average handicap of 378.

Variants
Alacrity 18
Model was built of wood.
Alacrity 19
Model was built of fibreglass and is more than a foot longer in length overall. It was built in Mark I, Mark II and a Weekender variants.

Operational history
In a 2010 review, American Steve Henkel compared the boat to the Windrose 18 and the Hunter 18.5. He wrote that hull design "indicates a nice shape for fast sailing, except for her pair of stubby keels ... the relatively large wetted surface of which would deter from good performance ... Best features: About the best we can say is that the Alacrity is a nice boat for her vintage ... Worst features: Her two comp[petitor]s, with their shallower board-up drafts, would be easier to launch and retrieve at a ramp. With her shallow twin keels of iron, which rusts, each weighing a mere 240 pounds, she is probably least weatherly, most tender, and slowest in light air compared to her lighter comp[petitor]s with their deeper centerboards, beamier hulls, bigger sail areas, etc—all in all not the boat to seek if performance is at all important to you."

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

Keelboats
1960s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
Sailboat type designs by Peter Stevenson
Sailboat types built by Russell Marine
Sailboat types built by Hurley Marine
Shekhar Bhansali. Shekhar Bhansali is the division director in Electrical, Communication and Cyber Systems (ECCS) at the National Science Foundation. He also serves as an Alcatel-Lucent Professor and Distinguished University Professor in the Florida International University (FIU) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Bhansali’s main research interests are in nanotechnology, biosensors, and microfluidics. He holds 40 patents, has published over 300 publications, and has advised more than 40 Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows in research. He was elevated to a Fellow of the IEEE in 2023.

Education 
Bhansali received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in metallurgical engineering at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He then received his Master of Technology (M.Tech) from Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Ph.D. in electrical engineering at RMIT University Australia.

Career 
Shekhar Bhansali began his career in 1995 as a lecturer in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He came to the United States in 1988 and joined CMSM, ECECS Department, University of Cincinnati as a research faculty. In 2000, he joined University of South Florida and led a number of inter-connected interdisciplinary graduate student research and training programs, including NSF-IGERT, NSF’s Bridge to the Doctorate and Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Fellowship Programs to increase diversity, retention and graduation rates.

Awards 

 Top Scholar Award from FIU in 2014
 William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award in 2011 and 2009
 Mentor of the Year Award from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2009
 Outstanding Mentor Award from the McKnight Foundation in 2004
 NSF Career Award in 2003
 In 2018, Bhansali has named as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Inventors.
 Elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2023 "for contributions to portable real-time sensing devices for continuous monitoring".

Books 

 Mems for Biomedical Applications
 Chemical Sensors 7 -and- MEMS/NEMS 7

References

External links 
 Research Programs
 Journal Publications
 Conference Publications
 Patents
 Shekhar Bhansali Google Scholar

Living people
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Florida International University faculty
Indian emigrants to the United States
Indian computer scientists
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the IEEE
Desert Falcon. Desert Falcon is a scrolling shooter developed by General Computer Corporation for the Atari 7800 and Atari 2600 and published by Atari Corporation in 1987. It was initially announced in 1984, prior to being named Desert Falcon, as one of the planned launch titles for the 7800. A cartridge version for Atari 8-bit computers, with XEGS-styled packaging, followed in 1988.

Designed by Bob Polaro, who also programmed the Atari 2600 version, Desert Falcon is loosely based on ancient Egyptian mythology. The diagonally-scrolling isometric graphics had reviewers comparing it to Zaxxon from 1982.

Plot
Players take on the role of a falcon, striving to collect the Pharaoh's scattered treasures in the desert to earn points.

Gameplay
The game uses a scrolling, isometric perspective. Vultures, warriors, flying fish, and other creatures guard treasures and try to stop the player. At the end of each level, the player faces a large, howling sphinx before moving forward. The falcon can shoot arrows to eliminate foes and defeat the sphinx.

Throughout the game are hieroglyphs in the sand. Landing and hopping over three hieroglyphs unlock what are labeled "super powers" in the manual. The specific combination of collected hieroglyphs determines the acquired ability, including invincibility, teleportation to a level's end, bonus points, a decoy to mislead enemies, and an air bomb that annihilates all airborne opponents.

Development
The game was revealed in 1984 as part of the Atari 7800 announcement. It was referred to as both Sphinx and Nile Flyer.

Reception
Reviewing the Atari 8-bit version for ANALOG Computing in 1989, Matthew J.W. Ratcliff wrote, "Desert Falcon has good graphics, cute sound effects, and a tired, boring theme." He cited Zaxxon several times, calling Desert Falcon a visually different spin on the same gameplay. New Atari User wrote, "The scrolling in Desert Falcon isn't quite as smooth as it could be," but complimented the animation of the falcon and the use of shadows. In Antic, David Plotkin wrote, "The manual describes a wide variety of enemies. Unfortunately, except for some flying triangles, they all looked pretty much alike". He still concluded with "It has excellent graphics and is very playable."

After playing the 7800 cartridge, Len Poggiali of Current Notes described it as "an average arcade game with a below average plot and above average visual appeal."

References

External links

Review of the 7800 version from GamePro issue 1
Review in Power Play (German)

1987 video games
Atari 2600 games
Atari 7800 games
Atari 8-bit computer games
General Computer Corporation games
Scrolling shooters
Single-player video games
Video games about birds
Video games based on Egyptian mythology
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in ancient Egypt
Video games with isometric graphics
Deb Niemeier. Deb A. Niemeier is an American transportation engineer known for her work on measuring vehicle emissions and its impact on the air quality in nearby neighborhoods, on the effects of carbon dioxide on climate change, on gender differences in commuting behavior, and on the quantification of transport accessibility. She is James & Alice B. Clark Distinguished Chair Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Education and career
Niemeier is originally from Texas, and majored in civil engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 1982. After working as a consultant in Maine, she returned to graduate school at the University of Washington, where she completed a Ph.D. in 1994 under the supervision of Scott Rutherford.

She became a faculty member in civil engineering at the University of California, Davis, where her service included terms as department chair, Director of the John Muir Institute, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, and editor-in-chief for the journals Sustainable Cities and Society and Transportation Research Part A. She moved from Davis to the University of Maryland as Clark Professor in 2019.

Recognition
Niemeier was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015. In 2017, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering "for developing groundbreaking tools to characterize the impact of transportation emissions on air quality and environmental justice". In 2021 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American civil engineers
American women engineers
Environmental engineers
Transport engineers
University of Texas at Austin alumni
University of California, Davis faculty
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Members of the American Philosophical Society
21st-century American women
Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureates
Power Construction Corporation of China. Power Construction Corporation of China, branded as PowerChina, is a wholly state-owned enterprise administered by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and part of the heavy and civil engineering construction industry.

PowerChina overseas brands include Sinohydro, HydroChina, HDEC, SEPCO and SEPCO III. PowerChina has involvement in over 100 countries including involvement in projects such as

 HydroChina Dawood Wind Power Project, Pakistan
 Nam Ou river cascade dams, Laos
 Dau Tieng Solar Power Project, Vietnam
 Melaka Gateway, Malaysia
 Lamu Coal Power Station, Kenya
 Ayago Hydroelectric Power Station, Uganda
 Kiba Hydroelectric Power Station, Uganda
 Karuma Hydroelectric Power Station, Uganda
 Merowe Dam, Sudan
 Pwalugu Hydroelectric Power Station, Ghana
 Pakistan Port Qasim Power Project
 Zimbabwe-Zimbabwe Plant
 Upgrade of Highway 2, Israel

Involvement with projects within China includes the Three Gorges Project, Zouxian Power Station, Longyuan Rudong Intertidal Wind Farm, Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway and Line 12 of Shenzhen Metro.

In November 2020, Yan Zhiyong, chairman of the PowerChina, as well as Chinese state media, announced the construction of a "super" dam on the Yarlung Zangbo, three times larger than the current largest hydroelectric project in the world, also Chinese, the Three Gorges Project.

References

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Government-owned companies of China
Chinese companies established in 2009