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George Steers (pilot boat). The George Steers was a 19th-century pilot boat built in 1852 for the New Jersey Pilots' Association. She was designed by the yacht designer George Steers and considered to be one of the fastest boat sailing. She had a popular shorter bow overhang, similar to the celebrated yacht America She was driven ashore on the South Shoals near Barnegat Island in 1865. The pilot-boat A. T. Stewart, was built to replace the George Steers.

Construction and service 

Pilot-boat George Steers No. 6, was built by George Steers in 1852, at the William H. Brown shipyard in East River, New York City, for a company of New Jersey pilots. She was named in honor of George Steers. She was similar to the yacht America, that was built in 1851.

George Steers was launched by moonlight at 12 o'clock on August 9, 1852, at the William H. Brown shipyard at the foot of twelfth street, East River. She left the port under the command of George Steers along with other friends and acquaintances. They went down to White Stone to test out the sails and navigation of the new boat.

Steers made a half hull model of the pilot-boat George Steers, that shows the boat lines and construction details with a deep draft and keel that slopes up to the forefoot. She had a popular shorter bow overhang. This new design had the same lines as the popular yacht America, that was designed by James Rich Steers and George Steers.

Howard I. Chapelle, an American naval architect, considered George Steers, as a "fine example of that designer's final ideas of what a pilot schooner should be." Chapelle thought she was an improvement over the America and that the balance of her ends was exceptional. She is considered to be the finest of pilot-boats ever built, and the fastest boat sailing from the port of New York.

End of service

On February 12, 1865, the George Steers, No. 6, was driven ashore on the South Shoals near Barnegat Island in a northeasterly gale and snowstorm. All five hands perished.

On October 11, 1865, the pilot-boat A. T. Stewart, No. 6, was launched from the shipyard of Edward F. Williams, at Greenpoint, at a cost of $21,000, to replace the George Steers, No. 6, which was lost in February 1865. Her name is from Alexander Turney Stewart the Dry Goods millionaire.

See also
List of Northeastern U. S. Pilot Boats

External links
 George Steers, No. 6, New Jersey Pilot Boat The Mariners' Museum and Park.

References 

Service vessels of the United States
Individual sailing vessels
Schooners of the United States
1852 ships
Pilot boats
Ships built in New York City
Toei 6500 series. The  is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei) in Japan.

Specifications
The trains use SiC–VVVF technology, and are formed as eight-car sets. The interior includes multilingual passenger information displays and security cameras.

The design of the trains revolved around the concept of universal design. This is represented in various features of the trains:

 An open space inside the cars to accommodate passengers with heavy luggage or mobility aids such as wheelchairs
 Widening the space near the doors to facilitate boarding and deboarding at platforms especially during busy times
 Increasing the number of hand straps, handrails, and luggage racks above the seating area

The trains are also fitted with onboard Wi-Fi. In addition, these will be the first trainsets to be equipped with onboard data collection.

Interior

Formation 
The sets are formed as follows.

History
The 6500 series was announced by Toei on 29 October 2020. The first set was delivered in 2020. Test runs are scheduled to start in November 2020. A total of 13 sets, 104 cars, were built by Kinki Sharyo. The 6500 series trainsets made their first trips in revenue service on 14 May 2022, after stations' platforms on Mita Line and Meguro Line were extended to accommodate eight-car trainsets.

The last 6500 series set, 6513, was delivered in August 2022.

On 7 October 2022, Kinki Sharyo announced that the 6500 series received the 2022 Good Design Award.

References

External links

 Press release 

Electric multiple units of Japan
6500
Train-related introductions in 2022
Kinki Sharyo multiple units
1500 V DC multiple units of Japan
AB7 (railway carriage). AB7 is a Swedish passenger car of the 1980s-cars featuring both first and second class seating.
In 2008 SJ decided to refurbish and modify some of their carriages originally built in the 1980s. As a part of the modernization program in 2009-2010, SJ rebuilt all of their AB9 carriages to a more modern version, designated the AB7. The main difference is that the smoking section of the carriages were removed. The carriages feature an open saloon as the seating area, as well as 230 V power outlets and 4 restrooms in each carriage with 2 in each end.

References 

Railway coaches of Sweden
Hexham Bridge, New South Wales. The Hexham Bridge is a pair of road bridges that carry the Pacific Highway across the Hunter River from Tarro to Tomago in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It comprises two separate structures; a steel truss bridge opened on the 17 December 1952 by Acting Minister of Transport George Weir and a concrete bridge opened in 1987.

History
Prior to the construction of the bridge, the Department of Main Roads operated a car ferry to carry the Pacific Highway across the Hunter River. In November 1945, a contract was awarded to build a steel truss bridge with a central lifting span. However, due to a shortage of materials following World War II, it was not completed until December 1952.

A concrete high-level fixed bridge opened to the west of the original bridge in July 1987 to carry northbound traffic, with the original converted to carry southbound traffic only.

References

External links

Bridges completed in 1952
Concrete bridges in Australia
Hunter River (New South Wales)
Road bridges in New South Wales
Steel bridges in Australia
Vertical lift bridges in Australia
1952 establishments in Australia
Pokémon Project Studio. Pokémon Project Studio is a creation studio package for Microsoft Windows, released on November 9, 1999, in North America. It was licensed by Nintendo of America, Inc., developed by Leisure Concepts and published by The Learning Company, with their then-parent Mattel Interactive handling distribution and publication in Europe. The package has two versions, Pokémon Project Studio Red and Pokémon Project Studio Blue, and includes the Pokémon from the Game Boy games Pokémon Red and Blue along with art of human characters from the Pokémon anime series.

Gameplay
From the main menu users can choose the type of media they wish to create including greeting cards, signs, birthday kits, banners, photos, stationery, envelopes, calendars, paper crafts, certificates and stickers. The user can use several included images and templates or they can import custom images into the picture. Each CD contains 81 different Pokémon. The kind of Pokémon they get depends on whether they are running the Red CD or the Blue CD. For example only the Red CD has Mewtwo, while Raichu only appears in the Blue CD.

Educational goals
The package was targeted at families with the aim of introducing the Pokémon franchise to parents unfamiliar with it, while children enjoy exercising their creativity and imagination.

Reception

Critical reception
The game received favorable reviews, from parents and children alike. Kids Domain praised the game for its easy navigation and attractive look, while irritated by the inability to access the ready-made content. One disappointment highlighted by a PC Accelerator reviewer was the inability to use all the available Pokémon without having to swap CDs.

Commercial performance
In November 1999, the Red and Blue editions of Pokémon Studio were both among the top ten best-selling PC games of the month.

By mid-2000, Nintendo held a Pokemon ProjectROM Contest, which required contestants to write essays on their two Pokémon characters, with the prizes including the two Pokémon Project Studio CDs. Both the Red and Blue versions were also sold together as value packs. By December 2000, Hewlett-Packard sold DJ840C ink-jet printers with free copies of the games.

References

1999 video games
Children's educational video games
The Learning Company games
Pokémon games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games
Single-player video games
Pont Dénommée. The pont Dénommée is a covered bridge in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada.

Among the last in Quebec, 34 covered bridges were constructed in Abitibi, and are associated with the colonisation of the region in the early 1900s. Today fewer than half of them are extant.

The single-lane bridge is of Lattice truss bridge design. This design was modified by the Quebec Ministry of Colonisation and was used for more than 500 covered bridges in Quebec.

Built in 1933, it replaced an earlier bridge which was destroyed during flooding. It was lengthened by 10 metres in the 1950s, and renovated in 1986. The capacity is 10 tonnes. It is named after pioneer Albert Dénommée. It is closed to traffic in the winter since 1975.

The bridge does not benefit from any provincial or municipal protection.

See also 

 List of covered bridges in Quebec

References 

Buildings and structures in Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Bridges completed in 1933
Covered bridges in Canada
Road bridges in Quebec
SJ B7. B7 is a Swedish second-class passenger car of the 1980s-car series.

History 
The first B7 carriage was delivered in 1979 and is today making up the majority of SJ's passenger carriages together with the A7 carriage. The last of the 171 carriages was delivered in 1990.

Some of the carriages were in 1990s rebuilt into other types of passenger cars, but when SJ initiated their modernisation program in the late 2000s they were rebuilt again to match the B7 standard. The upgrades made during the modernisation include 230 V power outlets, new seating as well as an overall modernised interior design. The carriages were also repainted into SJ's current black livery. The carriages are easily distinguishable from other types by the white stripes around the doors.

References 
B7 på Järnväg.net

Railway coaches of Sweden
Fukuda Hikari Research-2 Motor Glider. The Fukuda Hikari Research-2 Motor Glider was a Japanese civil design which first flew in August 1941. Its gliding performance was encouraging but its development ended as Japan entered World War II in December 1941.

Design and development

In 1940 Fukuda received a request from the Aviation Board of Japan for a motor glider. The Fukuda Hikari Research-2 was completed in July 1941 and was only the  second Japanese motor glider, following the Nippon Hachi Motor Glider.

The Resesrch-2 had a wooden structure throughout and was fabric covered. It was a conventional low wing monoplane with a fixed undercarriage, distinguished by its higher than average (13.75) aspect ratio wing, which was tetrahedral in plan with slightly blunted tips. Like may gliders, the Research-2's wing was equipped with spoilers.

It was powered by an aero-engine developed in the U.K. by Flying Squirrel, better known for their motorcycles, an air-cooled, inverted, twin cylinder inline  two-stroke with an output of . Behind the engine the fuselage was rounded in section. The Research-2 was flown from an enclosed cockpit over the wing leading edge; the top of the cockpit glazing merged, unbroken, into the upper fuselage. The tail was also conventional, though the fuselage-mounted horizontal surfaces were well forward of the vertical tail, which had a tall but narrow fin and large unbalanced rudder.

Its faired landing legs were kept short by wing root stubs with anhedral, producing a mild, inverted gull wing.

Operational history

The Research-2 was first flown on 5 August 1941. The pilot was Isamu Oda, an experienced flyer of both powered and unpowered aircraft. Subsequent tests showed better than calculated performance but later in the year Japan's involvement in the Second Sino-Japanese War broadened into the Pacific War, and civilian aircraft development ended.

Specifications

References

Single-engined tractor aircraft
Motor gliders
1940s Japanese civil aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1941
Hermann Howaldt. Hermann Howaldt (26 November 1852, Kiel - 17 May 1900, Kiel) was a German engineer and entrepreneur; co-founder and board member of "Howaldtswerke AG", now Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW).

Life and work 
After attending the , he served an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer at "Schweffel & Howaldt", with his father, August Howaldt. He then completed a formal study of the subject at the Technical University of Hanover.

In 1880, following August's retirement, he and his brothers,  and , took over the company and changed its name to "Gebrüder Howaldt". he worked as the chief designer and, later, Operations Manager. When the company was incorporated as "Howaldtswerke AG" in 1889, he became a board member and Director of the machine factory. Just before his death, he was elected a member of the Kreistag (District Council) for the . It is generally believed that he died from overwork.

He was married twice, to Emma Amalia Christiane, née Jungclaussen (1859-1885), and her sister, Maria Elisabeth Magdalena (1852-1930). He had five children, altogether. His son, Erwin, married Anneliese Scheibe, daughter of the mineralogist, .

In 2005, HDW became a division of "ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems".

In Kiel, at the mouth of the Schwentine, the site of the original shipyard is now occupied by the , an old factory building that was reimagined as a museum, by the architect, .

Sources 
 
 Christian Ostersehlte: Von Howaldt zu HDW. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2004, .
 Hermann Howaldt In: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck. Band 12, Neumünster 2006, , pps.214 ff.

External links 
 Treffpunkt Howaldt, homepage for the Howaldt family website

1852 births
1900 deaths
Engineers from Schleswig-Holstein
German shipbuilders
German mechanical engineers
Businesspeople from Kiel
Himal Cement Industry. Himal Cement Industry (Nepali: हिमाल सिमेन्ट कारखाना) was a state owned cement factory of Nepal. It was established in 1967 and was the first and biggest cement industry of Nepal till it shut down in 2002. The capacity of the plant was 160 TPD in 1975. After renovation, the capacity was increased to 200 TPD. The industry is remembered for its  historical significance as it substantially increased the cement demand in Nepal for development works. Prior to its construction, cement was imported from India, Singapore and European countries.

History
Himal  Cement  Industry was located in Chobhar, Kirtipur in the suburbs of Kathmandu (it is now occupied by the Chobhar Dry Port). The project was originally constructed with a financial aid from Germany. The  production  line was delivered  in  1967 and the operation started in 1975. The initial design capacity was 48,000  tonnes  of  cement  annually accounting for about 18%  of  Nepal's  cement  demand. But the production was far below. The plant was rehabilitated in 1986 by a Chinese supplier with installation of electrical filters for dust removal and additional mills. The factory had clinker production, grinding and packaging facilities.

Due to technical problems the plant was shut down briefly in 1990.  The plant was finally shut down in 2002 after a large opposition by the locals concerning dusts and air pollution.

Current status
The land of the factory is now used to develop a dry port by Nepal Intermodal Transport Development Board with the loan assistance from the World Bank. The dry port will contain warehouses, parking lot, litigation shed, administrative buildings, quarantine, bank and other required facilities for customs clearance. The dry port will have a capacity of about 600 containers and parking facility for about 350 trucks. However, the locals demand that land be utilized only after consulting them.

See also
Udayapur Cement Industry, another state owned cement industry of Nepal
Herbs Production & Processing Co. Ltd., state owned herb industry of Nepal

References

Industry in Nepal
1987 establishments in Nepal
Government-owned companies of Nepal
Cement companies
2002 disestablishments in Nepal
Pont des Chutes. The pont des Chutes is a covered bridge in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada.

Among the last in Quebec, 34 covered bridges were constructed in Abitibi, and are associated with the colonisation of the region in the early 1900s. Today fewer than half of them are extant.

The single-lane bridge is of Lattice truss bridge design. This design was modified by the Quebec Ministry of Colonisation and was used for more than 500 covered bridges in Quebec.

Built in 1954, it was severely damaged in 1961 and again in 1964 when the central pillar failed. The capacity was 8 tonnes. It is so named because of the rapids (chutes) underneath it.

The bridge does not benefit from any provincial or municipal protection.

References

See also 
 List of covered bridges in Quebec

Buildings and structures in Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Bridges completed in 1954
Covered bridges in Canada
Road bridges in Quebec
Orange Line (CapMetro). The Orange Line is a proposed north-south light rail line that will serve the central spine of Austin from North Lamar to Stassney Lane. It is in the planning stages as a part of CapMetro's Project Connect. It is estimated to begin revenue service as early as 2029.

History
A contract for preliminary engineering work along the line was approved on March 20, 2019. In 2020, the planned route was truncated in length to reduce construction costs, with bus bridges providing connectivity through the rest of the corridor. Potential future phases may extend the line north to Tech Ridge and south to Slaughter as initially envisioned — those alignments are expected to be included in National Environmental Policy Act processing to allow for conversion to light rail in the future.

Route
The Orange Line is  long and will run in its own dedicated transitway, including the Downtown Transit Tunnel, which will allow it to bypass the traffic that plagues the corridor it follows. The Orange Line will operate from North Lamar Transit Center to Stassney & Congress, and will follow the current route of the CapMetro Rapid 801 or a similar alignment. It is planned to run along The Drag.

Future extensions to the line would feature stations at Tech Ridge, Parmer, Braker, Rundberg, William Cannon, and Slaughter.

Stations

Stations are listed north to south.

References

External links
Map and fact sheet A
Fact sheet B

Capital Metro
Light rail in Texas
Rail transportation in Austin, Texas
Transportation in Travis County, Texas
Proposed railway lines in Texas
2029 in rail transport
Air Rajneesh. Air Rajneesh was a carrier based at Big Muddy Ranch Airport from 1981 to 1985.

There is very little known about the operations of Air Rajneesh except that its primary purpose was to bring cargo and new recruits to the Rajneeshee commune.  The Director of Operations was Ma Prem Patipada.

Fleet 
The known aircraft in Air Rajneesh's fleet, as of 1984, were:

 3 DC-3s
 1 Convair 240 (once owned by Howard Hughes)
 1 BN-2 Islander (the first plane added to Air Rajneesh)
 1 Helicopter (Military style)

Gallery

References

External links
 Operator: Air Rajneesh
 Air Rajneesh And The Rajneeshi Commune
 Air Rajneesh on Sannyas Wiki

Airlines established in 1985
Airlines disestablished in 1985
Rajneesh movement
Defunct airlines of the United States
Airlines based in Oregon
Mihaela Cardei. Mihaela Cardei is a Romanian-American computer scientist known for her research on wireless ad hoc networks. She is a professor in the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University, where she is also associate dean for graduate studies.

Education and career
Cardei earned bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science in 1995 and 1996, respectively, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest. She completed her Ph.D. in 2003 at the University of Minnesota, under the supervision of Ding-Zhu Du.

She joined Florida Atlantic University as an assistant professor in 2003, was promoted to professor in 2014, and became associate dean in 2018.

Recognition
Florida Atlantic University named Cardei their researcher of the year at the assistant professor level for 2006–2007.

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Romanian computer scientists
Romanian women computer scientists
Politehnica University of Bucharest alumni
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
Florida Atlantic University faculty
American women computer scientists
Romanian emigrants to the United States
Solar-blind technology. Solar-blind technology is a set of technologies to produce images without interference from the Sun. This is done by using wavelengths of ultraviolet light that are totally absorbed by the ozone layer, yet are transmitted in the Earth's atmosphere. Wavelengths from 240 to 280 nm are completely absorbed by the ozone layer. Elements of this technology are ultraviolet light sources, ultraviolet image detectors, and filters that only transmit the range of wavelengths that are blocked by ozone. A system will also have a signal processing system, and a way to display the results (image).

Ultraviolet sources
Ultraviolet illumination can be produced from longer wavelengths using non-linear optical materials. These can be a second harmonic generator. They must have a suitable birefringence in order to phase match the output frequency doubled UV light. One compound commercially used is L-arginine phosphate monohydrate known as LAP. Research is underway for substances that are very non-linear, have a suitable birefringence, are transparent in the spectrum and have a high degree of resistance to damage from lasers.

Optical system
Normal glass does not transmit below 350 nm, so it is not used for optics in solar-blind systems. Instead calcium fluoride, fused silica, and magnesium fluoride are used as they are transparent to shorter wavelengths.

Filters
An optical filter can be used to block out visible light and near-ultraviolet light. It is important to have a high transmittance within the solar-blind spectrum, but to strongly block the other wavelengths.

Interference filters can pass 25% of the wanted rays, and reduce others by 1000 to 10,000 times. However they are unstable and have a narrow field of view.

Absorption filters may only pass 10% of wanted UV, but can reject by a ratio of 1012. They can have a wide field of view and are stable.

Ultraviolet detectors
Semiconductor ultraviolet detectors are solid state, and convert an ultraviolet photon into an electric pulse. If they are transparent to visible light, then they will not be sensitive to light.

Use
Solar-blind imaging can be used to detect corona discharge, in electrical infrastructure. Missile exhaust can be detected from the troposphere or ground. Also when looking down on the Earth from space, the Earth appears dark in this range, so rockets can be easily detected from above once they pass the ozone layer.
Israel, the People's Republic of China (PRC), Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (US) are developing this technology.

References

Ultraviolet radiation
Military optical devices