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Guangzhou Circle. Guangzhou Circle  () is a landmark building located in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China. It is the headquarters of the Hongda Xingye Group and the Guangdong Plastic Exchange (GDPE), the world's largest trading centre for raw plastic material with more than €25 billion annual turnover in 2012.

Architect 
The building was designed by Italian architect Joseph di Pasquale. The building's height is , and features 33 stories. The building has a total area of , and was developed with a global investment of roughly 1 billion RMB (US$150 million).

Di Pasquale stated he was looking for a design based on Oriental psychology and perception, and used the Chinese use of logographic symbols (sinograms) in writing as inspiration.

Many other meanings are linked with the building: the iconic value of jade discs and numerological tradition of Fengshui. In particular, the double disc of jade (bi-disk) is an ancient royal symbol of a Chinese dynasty which ruled in this area around 2000 years ago. The building reflection in the water of the river creates the same type of image: a double jade bi-disc. This figure also corresponds to the number 8 and the infinity symbol, which has a strong propitiatory value in Chinese culture.

The building also takes a reference from an idea of the Italian Renaissance;  (squaring the circle). The two circular facades contain and support suspended groups of storeys, which "square" the perfect circumference of the facades in order to make the interior space orthogonal and habitable.

Location 
Located at the south west boundary of the city, the building stands on the bank of the Pearl River.

Design 
The building is similar to another circular building in Shenyang, although, unlike the other, the central core is open, with no glass. It is the world's tallest circular building, and has the unique feature of an empty circular core almost  in diameter.

The public areas of the building are not yet open, although the public plaza in front is open.

In 2014, CNN listed the building as one of the 10 most interesting buildings worldwide.

Some critics believe that Guangzhou Circle is one of the most bizarre buildings in China.

In the years following its construction, the Guangzhou Circle was identified as one of the most iconic buildings of the city of Guangzhou. Its image has been used on various occasions for information posters in public places and for advertising campaigns.

See also

List of tallest buildings in Guangzhou

References

External links 

Office buildings completed in 2013
Skyscraper office buildings in Guangzhou
2013 establishments in China
2013 in Guangzhou
İdris Güllüce. İdris Güllüce (born 11 February 1950) is a Turkish civil engineer and politician who served as the Minister of Environment and Urban Planning of Turkey between 2013 and 2015. As a member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), he served as a Member of Parliament for İstanbul's first electoral district between 2007 and November 2015.

Early life
İdris Güllüce was born to Hüseyin Güllüce and his wife Sıddıka in Hasankale (today Pasinler) of Erzurum Province on 11 February 1950.

He was educated in civil engineering at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul and went on to study Organization Management at Gebze Institute of Technology earning a Master's degree.

Güllüce is married and has five children.

Career

Profession
After working as an engineer and manager at construction sites in Libya, Güllüce became business partner of a company, and served there as managing director.

Politics
He entered politics at regional level. Güllüce was elected Mayor of Tuzla municipality in Istanbul serving three legislative terms. Güllüce was member of the city council in Üsküdar and deputy chairman of the Istanbul Metropolitan city council. He published a book entitled "Problems of Regional Governments and Their Solutions".

Güllüce was elected into the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in the 2007 general election as an MP from Istanbul Province. He was re-elected a second time into the parliament in the 2011 general election. Between 2009 and 2013, he served as the chairman of the parliamentary Public Works, Transportation and Tourism Commission.

On 26 December 2013, İdris Güllüce assumed office as Minister of Environment and Urban Planning, succeeding Erdoğan Bayraktar during Erdoğan's cabinet reshuffle with ten new names announced the day before, on 25 December, following the 2013 corruption scandal in Turkey.

Legacy
A cultural complex opened in 2005 and featuring a theatre capable of 460 spectators, the Tuzla İdris Güllüce Cultural Center, is named in his honor.

References

1950 births
People from Pasinler
Yıldız Technical University alumni
Turkish civil engineers
Gebze Institute of Technology alumni
Turkish expatriates in Libya
Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians
Deputies of Istanbul
Ministers of public works of Turkey
Living people
Mayors of places in Turkey
Members of the 25th Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 24th Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 23rd Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 63rd government of Turkey
Cogwheel (disambiguation). A cogwheel is a type of gear.

Cogwheel, Cogwheels or Cogwheeling may also refer to:

 Cogwheel rigidity, or cogwheeling, a sign of hypokinesia
 Cogwheel diagram, a type of Venn diagram
 Cogwheels, a 1927 book by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

See also
 Cog (disambiguation)
 Rack railway, or rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway
 System Settings, an application included with macOS
 Settings (Windows), a component of Microsoft Windows
Ralph Harper McKee. Ralph Harper McKee (June 20, 1874 – February 24, 1967)  was a professor at the department of chemical engineering at Columbia University. He was the first person to be awarded a patent for a novel plant.

Biography
He was born on June 20, 1874, in Missouri to James T. McKee and Mary Frances Ricketts.

In 1923 he and Max Kahn developed a novel fat substitute, called intarvin.

He was married, and in 1928 he and his wife divorced.

By 1932 he was in the department of chemical engineering at Columbia University where he was able to manufacture diamonds "larger than ever before produced artificially" and was able to produce artificial wool from jute.

In 1938 he received the first patent issued for a novel plant variety.

He died on February 24, 1967, in Manhattan, New York.

Footnotes 

1874 births
1967 deaths
Columbia University faculty
American chemical engineers
Synthetic diamond
Photoaffinity labeling. Photoaffinity labeling is a chemoproteomics technique used to attach "labels" to the active site of a large molecule, especially a protein. The "label" attaches to the molecule loosely and reversibly, and has an inactive site which can be converted using photolysis into a highly reactive form, which causes the label to bind more permanently to the large molecule via a covalent bond. The technique was first described in the 1970s. Molecules that have been used as labels in this process are often analogs of complex molecules, in which certain functional groups are replaced with a photoreactive group, such as an azide, a diazirine or a benzophenone.

References

Molecular biology techniques
Chennai Institute of Technology. Chennai Institute of Technology  (CIT Chennai) is an industry-connected autonomous institute, and is a co-educational engineering college located at Kundrathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It was established in 2010 by the Parthasarathy Seeniammal Educational Trust. Chennai Institute of Technology, one of the top colleges in Tamil Nadu, was established with an objective of providing quality technical education with adequate industrial exposure than any other college in Chennai. 

Chennai Institute of Technology has one of the if not 'THE' best faculties who not only clarify students questions at any time but also helps and motivates students to reach their dreams. Apart from interactive classroom scenario, they also offer periodic guest lectures by experts from many top industries and academic background which provides thirst to the students to learn and prepare for the ready-to-serve industrial requirements. Chennai Institute of Technology (CIT) has been approved by the AICTE, New Delhi. Chennai Institute Of Technology gives access to students to learn courses from other departments. Chennai Institute of Technology also adapts and teaches students the latest industrial technology like Industry 4.0, nanotechnology, defense and space research and also many more for which they have a whole center for different technology in the college itself. CIT has also tied up with various companies around the globe for students placement. Until February 2024, CIT held a placement record of 95%, the highest salary on-campus package of 22 lakhs per annum and off-campus package of 44 lakhs per annum.

Courses

Undergraduate streams 
 B.E Mechanical Engineering
 B.E Computer Science and Engineering
 B.E Electrical and Electronics Engineering
 B.E Electronics and Communication Engineering
 B.E Mechatronics Engineering
 B.E Civil Engineering
 B.E Bio-Medical Engineering
 B.Tech. Information Technology
 B.Tech. Computer Science and Business Systems
 B.Tech. Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
 B.E Computer Science and Engineering with specialisation in Artificial intelligence and Machine learning
 B.E Computer Science and Engineering with specialisation in Cyber Security

Postgraduate streams 
 M.E Computer-Aided Designing /Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM)
 M.E Computer Science & Engineering
 M.E Applied Electronics
 PhD.

Rankings
The university was ranked 151-200 in India by the NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework) in the overall category in 2024.

References

External links
 www.citchennai.edu.in
 www.cittakshashila.in

Engineering colleges in Chennai
Colleges affiliated to Anna University
Educational institutions established in 2010
2010 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Ministry of Environment (Sri Lanka). The Ministry of Environment (; ) is the cabinet ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka with oversight of the environment and the Mahaweli Development programme, as well as the general development of the Mahaweli River, its environs and communities living within defined 'Mahaweli development zones'.

Effective 1 September 2017, the ministry banned the use of polythene with a thickness of under 20 microns for use, sale or distribution, as well as the use, sale or distribution of polystyrene food containers and utensils.

List of ministers 
Parties

References

External links
 Ministry of Environment
Government of Sri Lanka

Environment ministers of Sri Lanka
Environment
Environmental organisations based in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Environment
Horace Roome. Major-General Sir Horace Eckford Roome  (17 May 1887 -  29 June 1964) was an officer of the Royal Engineers.

He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich on 18 December 1907.

During the First World War he was awarded the Military Cross in 1916 for 'distinguished service in the field in Mesopotamia' and was Mentioned in Despatches.

During World War II he was appointed Brigadier and Chief Engineer India from 1 August 1939 to 20 November 1941.

He was promoted acting Major-General 21 November 1941, temporary Major-General 21 November 1942, and finally substantive Major-General 8 May 1944 (with seniority 25 September 1941).

He was Engineer-in-Chief, General Headquarters, India in 1945.

He was awarded CBE in 1941 and the CB in 1944. He was knighted KCIE in 1946.

He retired on 8 January 1947.

His son was Major-General Oliver Roome, R.E.

References 

1887 births
1964 deaths
Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Recipients of the Military Cross
Deputy lieutenants of Hampshire
British Army generals of World War II
British Army personnel of World War I
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Royal Engineers officers
Thomas Novak (engineer). Thomas Novak, PhD, PE (born September 27, 1952, in Brownsville, Pennsylvania) is   the Alliance Coal Academic Chair of Mining Engineering at the University of Kentucky, appointed in 2010. Previously, he held appointments at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Virginia Tech, the University of Alabama and Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD in mining engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1984. His research focuses on techniques to assess and improve mine safety and ventilation. His most recognized contributions to the field have been in understanding how electrical hazards such as lightning can trigger explosions in underground mines. This work has helped to explain a number of mine-related catastrophes in the last 30 years and has served to significantly improve mine safety.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

References

External links 
Thomas P. Novak, Microsoft Academic Search

Living people
American mining engineers
Mine safety
University of Kentucky faculty
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Penn State College of Engineering alumni
People from Brownsville, Pennsylvania
1952 births
Engineers from Pennsylvania
Fellows of the IEEE
American electrical engineers
Aist 1. Aist 1 (, meaning Stork 1) is a Russian technology demonstration satellite which was launched in December 2013. Aist 1 is operated by the Samara Aerospace University, who constructed it in partnership with TsSKB Progress. It is the second launched Aist satellite, following Aist 2's April 2013 launch.

Satellite
Aist1's primary technological mission objectives are demonstrating its systems and bus and investigating how to minimize acceleration caused by microgravitational effects. It will also measure micrometeoroid and microscopic orbital debris impacts, and test new sensors and techniques designed to study Earth's magnetic field.

Aist 1 was launched aboard the maiden flight of TsSKB Progress' Volga upper stage equipped Soyuz-2-1v carrier rocket, from Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 at 12:30 UTC on 28 December 2013, following a series of delays. The same rocket also deployed two SKRL-756 radar calibration satellites. Aist separated from the upper stage at 14:10 UTC, 100 minutes after liftoff.

References

Spacecraft launched in 2013
Satellites of Russia
2013 in Russia
Spacecraft launched by Soyuz-2 rockets
Technology demonstration satellites
Geospace monitoring satellites
Edward Hoppus. Edward Hoppus was an English surveyor who introduced the Hoppus unit of measure. The hoppus measures the solid content and value of any piece of timber, stone, or other building material which is square or round.

Hoppus' book, Hoppus's Measurer: A Book of Early Wood Frame Construction Tables & Guides for the Mathematically Disinclined, was first published in 1736 as The Hoppus's Measurer, or Measuring Made Easy to the Meanest Capacity.

Publications
Hoppus, E. (1737). The Gentleman's and Builder's Repository: Or, Architecture Display’d. Containing the Most Useful and Requisite Problems in Geometry. .... The Whole Embellished, ... with Eighty-four Plates, ... The Designs Regulated and Drawn by E. Hoppus, ... and Engraved by B. Cole. ... London: C. Hitch; J. Hodges; and B. Cole.
Hoppus, E. (1738). Practical Measuring Made Easy to the Meanest Capacity, by a New Set of Tables ... Printed, and sold by E. Wicksteed.
Hoppus, E. (1837). Hoppus's Tables for Measuring, Or, Practical Measuring Made Easy: By a New Set of Tables ... Longman and Company.
Palladio, A., Hoppus, E., & Cole, B. (1736). Andrea Palladio's Architecture in Four Books ...: The Whole Containing 226 [i.e. 222] Folio Copper Plates. Benjn. Cole engraver the corner of Kings-Head-court, near Fetter-lane, Holbourn, & John Wilcox opposite the New church in the Strand.

References

English surveyors
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
18th-century English people
Frontier MD-II. The Frontier MD-II was an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed and supplied as a kit by Frontier Aircraft Inc of Vail, Colorado, introduced in the 1990s.

Design and development
The MD-II featured a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit accessed via doors, fixed conventional landing gear with wheel pants and a single tractor engine.

The aircraft was fabricated from 2024-T3 aluminum sheet. Its  span wing employed a USA 35B airfoil, mounted flaps and had an area of . The cabin width was . The acceptable power range was  and the standard powerplant used was the  Avia M 332 (LOM) four cylinder, inverted, air-cooled, supercharged, inline aircraft engine.

With the Avia engine the MD-II had a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for pilot, passenger and baggage was .

The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit at 1500 hours.

Operational history
By 1998, the company reported two kits had been sold with two aircraft complete and flying.

In December 2013, no examples were registered with the US Federal Aviation Administration.

Specifications (MD-II)

References

MD-II
1990s United States sport aircraft
1990s United States civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Durango F-85. The Durango F-85 was an early personal computer introduced in September 1978 by Durango Systems Corporation, a company started in 1977 by George E. Comstock, John M. Scandalios and Charles L. Waggoner, all formerly of Diablo Systems. The F-85 could run its own multitasking operating system called DX-85M, which included an integral Indexed Sequential (ISAM) file system and per-task file locking, or alternatively CP/M-80. DX-85M utilized a text configuration file named CONFIG.SYS five years before this filename was used for a similar purpose under MS-DOS/PC DOS 2.0 in 1983.

The F-85 used single-sided 5¼-inch 100 tpi diskette drives providing 480 KB utilizing a high-density 4/5 group coded encoding. The machine was using a Western Digital FD1781 floppy-disk controller with 77-track Micropolis drives. In later models this was expanded to a double-sided option for 960 KB (946/947 KB formatted) per diskette.

Durango later dropped the "F-85" model name and adopted a user model system, with 700 being the entry model and 950 being the full-featured model.

Still later, they designed a 80186-/80286-based 16-bit system, the Durango "Poppy"; MS-DOS was selected as the entry operating system.

See also
Group coded recording

Notes

References

Further reading
 https://books.google.com/books?id=XPDvkYPCkWgC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86
 https://books.google.com/books?id=Alpvxl7sBqIC&pg=RA1-PA63&lpg=RA1-PA63
 https://books.google.com/books?id=qZiwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA185&lpg=PA185

External links
 

Personal computers
Computer-related introductions in 1978
Glassic SQ2000. The Glassic SQ2000 (also written as SQ 2000 and SQ-2000) is an American homebuilt aircraft, designed and produced by Glassic Composites LLC of Sale Creek, Tennessee. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The SQ2000 features a cantilever mid-wing with tip rudders and a canard, a four-seat enclosed cabin accessed via doors, fixed or optionally retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from composites. Its  span wing has a wing area of . The cabin width is . The acceptable power range is  and the standard engine used is the  Lycoming IO-360 powerplant.

Like many canard designs, the SQ2000 has lengthy runway requirements. The standard day, sea level take-off run is , while the landing roll is .

Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that two kits had been sold and that one aircraft had been completed and was flying.

In December 2013 five examples were registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, although a total of eight had been registered at one time.

Variants
SQ2000 XP
Retractable gear model. The SQ2000 XP has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for pilot, passengers and baggage is . The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 700 hours.
SQ2000 ES
Fixed gear model, with oleo strut-mounted gear. The SQ2000 ES has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for pilot, passengers and baggage is . Other differences from the SQ2000 XP include a wing area of  and a cruise speed of . The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 750 hours.

Specifications (SQ2000 XP)

References

External links
Photo of a Glassic SQ2000 XP

SQ2000
1990s United States sport aircraft
1990s United States civil utility aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Canard aircraft
DATANET-30. The DATANET-30, or DN-30 for short, was a computer manufactured by General Electric designed in 1961-1963 to be used as a communications computer. It  was later used as a front-end processor for data communications. It became the first front end communications computer. The names on the patent were Don Birmingham, Bob McKenzie, Bud Pine, and Bill Hill. 

The first freestanding installations beginning in 1963 were Chrysler Corporation message switching systems, replacing Teletype punched tape systems. In 1964, acting as a front end processor along with an interface to the GE-225 computer, a professor at Dartmouth College developed the BASIC programming language. Multiple teletype units were attached to be the first time-sharing system.

The DATANET-30 used magnetic-core memory with a cycle time of 6.94 μs. The word size was 18 bits and memory was available in sizes of 4K, 8K, or 16K words. The system could attach up to 128 asynchronous terminals, nominally at speeds of up to "3000 bits per second" (bit/s), but usually limited to the 300 bit/s supported by standard common-carrier facilities of the time, such as the Bell 103 modem.

The DATANET-30 could also operate in synchronous mode at speeds up to 2400 bit/s.

A Computer Interface Unit allowed the DATANET-30 to communicate with a GE-200 series computer using direct memory access (DMA).  It could also attach to the I/O channel of a GE-400 series, or GE-600 series system.

An optional attachment allowed the DATANET-30 to attach GE-200 series peripherals such as disk storage, magnetic tape, or a line printer.

The system was also a general purpose computer, with a number of special-purpose hardware registers.  The instruction set contained 78 instructions.

Assemblers were provided for the DATANET-30, one of which could run on the DATANET itself and one on the GE-225.

References

External links
Photo of DATANET-30 at Computer History Museum
Photos of historic GE computers

General Electric mainframe computers
Transistorized computers
Networking hardware
Computer-related introductions in 1965
18-bit computers
Charles F. West (aviator). Charles F. West (April 24, 1899 – July 14, 1972) was a pioneer aviator and the North Pacific Area Chairman of the Early Birds of Aviation.

Biography
He was born on April 24, 1899. He built a biplane glider and soloed in it in the year 1914.

In 1936 he attempted to rescue Paul Redfern who was lost on an expedition to South America. On one expedition he discovered an Indian tribe that had jerrycans that appeared to be part of Redfern's flight equipment.

He died on July 14, 1972, in Oakland, California.

References 
 
 

1899 births
1972 deaths
Members of the Early Birds of Aviation