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Mik Kersten. Mik Kersten is a Canadian computer specialist who is the Chief Technology Officer for Planview. He is the author of Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework, a business management book that outlines “a new way of seeing, measuring, and managing software delivery.” 

Kersten also created and leads the open-source Eclipse Mylyn project. Kersten invented the Task-Focused Interface technology underlying Mylyn while working on his PhD at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. While completing his PhD, Kersten and his PhD supervisor, Gail C. Murphy, founded Tasktop Technologies, which was acquired by Planview.

Education 
Kersten graduated from The University of British Columbia with a BSc in Computer Science and Anthropology before continuing his studies and earning an PhD in Computer Science from the same university in 2007.

Career 
Kersten started his career as a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC where he built the first aspect-oriented programming environment while working on AspectJ. He then pioneered the integration of development environments with Agile and DevOps tools while working on his Computer Science PhD at the University of British Columbia.

Founding Tasktop Technologies out of that research, Kersten has written over one million lines of open-source code that are still in use today and has brought seven successful open-source and commercial products to market. He is an active member of the Eclipse Foundation, which acts as a steward of the Eclipse open source software development community. Kersten is also on the board of directors and was a founding member of the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC).

Kersten was named the Chief Technology Officer of Planview, Inc. after Tasktop was acquired by the company. In this role, he leads key innovation initiatives that drive product development for Planview.

Book and Podcast 
Kersten’s book, Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework, was published by IT Revolution Press on November 20, 2018. This introduces the Flow Framework™, a new way of seeing, measuring, and managing software delivery. All of Kersten’s royalties from the sales of this book are donated to the P2P scholarship and not-for-profit organizations supporting diversity, women, and minorities in technology.

After the release of his book, Kersten began hosting a podcast, Mik + One: The Official Project to Product Podcast by Dr. Mik Kersten. This includes conversations with industry leaders where they delve into how they deliver value and drive digital transformations in their organizations. The podcast began in January of 2020.

References

External links
Blog with contributions by Mik Kersten
Publications by Mik Kersten (archive)
Flow Framework

1975 births
Living people
Scientists from Warsaw
Polish emigrants to Canada
University of British Columbia alumni
Polish computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Silver trifluoromethanesulfonate. Silver trifluoromethanesulfonate, or silver triflate is the triflate (CF3SO3−) salt of Ag+. It is a white or colorless solid that is soluble in water and some organic solvents including, benzene.  It is a reagent used in the synthesis of organic and inorganic triflates.

Synthesis
An early preparation method starts from the barium salt of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid (TfOH), from which the free TfOH is formed with dilute sulfuric acid, which is then neutralized with silver carbonate (Ag2CO3).

Ba^2+[{^-}OSO2CF3]2 ->[\ce{H2SO4}][-\ce{BaSO4}] CF3SO2OH ->[\ce{Ag2CO3}] CF3SO2O^- Ag+

The silver triflate is thereby obtained in a yield of 95% and can be recrystallized from benzene/tetrachloromethane or ether/tetrachloromethane for purification.

In an improved version by George Whitesides, dilute TfOH is reacted with silver(I)oxide (Ag2O), which produces AgOTf in 98% yield.

Reactions
It is used to prepare alkyl triflates from alkyl halides: 
CF3SO2OAg + RX → CF3SO2OR + AgX (X = iodide usually)

In coordination chemistry, the salt is also useful to replace halide ligands with the more labile triflate ligand. For example, bromopentacarbonylrhenium can be converted to the more labile derivative using silver triflate:
CF3SO2OAg + BrRe(CO)5 → CF3SO2ORe(CO)5 + AgBr

References

Silver compounds
Triflates
New South Wales D58 class locomotive. The D58 class was a class of steam locomotives built by the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia. They were built with the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement.

Design

In 1943, approval was given for the New South Wales Government Railways Workshops to build 25 freight locomotives. The design was a modified version of the 57 class. The main alterations were the use of a rack and pinion valve gear in lieu of the Gresley 2:1 conjugated valve gear for the middle cylinder and the use of smaller cylinders to enable the locomotives to run to on the Main North line to Broadmeadow, a route which had a tighter loading gauge. They also used a Woodard divided drive of twin coupling rods between the second and third driving wheels. A valance was fitted over the valve gear on the front platform.
Similarly to the earlier D57 class and the later AD60 class, the 58 class were fitted with a mechanical stoker to feed the large firebox

Construction
Eveleigh Railway Workshops built 11 locomotives and Cardiff Locomotive Workshops with two. The first entered service in March 1950. The decision to move to diesel power saw only 13 locomotives completed.

Operations

Whilst the derived rack and pinion valve gear appeared superior in theory, in practice it required more maintenance and lubrication. The smaller diameter cylinders of the 58 class (21.1/2") compared to the earlier 57 class (23.1/4") demanded a later cut-off and thus used more steam. This could cause the locomotives to be uneconomical in the use of coal and water when compared with the 57 class, but the 58's longer valve travel ameliorated this objection if driven as designed to be so. Despite the design being made to enable use on the Main Northern line from Sydney to Broadmeadow, few journeys were ever made on this route. They mainly were used on the Main Western line to Lithgow and in a limited capacity on the Main South line to Junee.

After a very short service life, the entire class had been withdrawn by July 1957 and were all cut up by March 1964. Some parts were recovered and used on 57 class locomotives. There are no surviving examples, however the tender of 5808 lies near Canberra station as an old fuel tank for a Canberra-based diesel shunter (now disused). Some 58 class tenders saw further use as water tankers around New South Wales. One is at the Dorrigo Steam Railway and Museum.

References

58
4-8-2 locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1950
Scrapped locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Australia
Maulana Azad College of Engineering and Technology. Maulana Azad College of Engineering and Technology (MACET) is an engineering institute in the city of Patna,  Bihar, India. The college was preiviously affiliated to Aryabhatta Knowledge University, now it's affiliated to Bihar Engineering University and approved by All India Council for Technical Education. It is also recognized by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of Bihar.

The campus is  from Patna Junction and  from Patna Airport, Patna, Neora, on an  campus.

Foundation
The college was founded by the Milat Education Society, Patna in 1988. It is the oldest private engineering college in Bihar.

Governance 
The college is governed by the governing body of the college, whose president is Dr. Ahmad Abdul Hai, a surgeon of Patna, secretary  Md. Ehsan Ahmad (Retd. IAS), and eight other members.

Administration 
The administration of the college is run by a team consisting of 14 members, whose head is the Director of MACET.

Academics 
MACET offers five engineering courses in the following discipline :

Computer Science and Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electronics Engineering

See also
Education in Bihar
Education in Patna

References

External links 
 

Engineering colleges in Bihar
Universities and colleges in Patna
Memorials to Abul Kalam Azad
Universities and colleges established in 1988
1988 establishments in Bihar
Colleges affiliated to Aryabhatta Knowledge University
Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections. Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections is a British documentary series originally broadcast on the National Geographic Channel, and later on BBC2. It is presented by Richard Hammond, and looks at how engineers and designers use historic inventions and clues from the natural world in ingenious ways to develop new buildings and machines. The show's format is very similar to that of James Burke's 1978 documentary series, Connections. The first series premièred on 8 September 2008, on National Geographic, and on 1 March 2010, on BBC2. The first series contained four episodes. The second series premièred on 7 September 2009, on National Geographic, and on 8 May 2010, on BBC2. The second series contained six episodes. The third series premièred on 8 May 2011, on BBC2 and contained six episodes. The BBC2 broadcasts of the first two series have a slightly shorter running time and contain less information than the original National Geographic broadcasts, with on average one minute of footage cut from every episode. None of the three series of the programme are available to purchase on DVD in the UK, however, all three can be watched on demand for subscribers of National Geographic on Sky, Virgin Media and BT Vision. In Australia, all three series are available on DVD, either separately or as a box-set.

Episode list

Series 1 (2008)

Series 2 (2009)

Series 3 (2011)

BBC2 episodes ratings

Series 1

See also 
Mega Builders
Extreme Engineering
Megastructures (TV series)
Ultimate Factories

References

External links
 Richard Hammonds Engineering Connections at National Geographic Channel
 
 

2008 British television series debuts
2011 British television series endings
BBC television documentaries
2000s British documentary television series
2010s British documentary television series
Documentary television series about technology
British English-language television shows
DHR B Class 778. DHR 778 (originally number 19) is a narrow-gauge steam locomotive, that was built in 1889 for the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. It is preserved in the United Kingdom, and is the only DHR locomotive outside of India. The engine has the oldest locomotive boiler still in use anywhere in the world.

History 
DHR 778 is a  DHR B Class, a design built between 1889 and 1927. A total of 34 were built. By 2005 only 12 remained in use (or under repair) on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. The class was designed by Sharp, Stewart and Company of Glasgow and built by them, their successors the North British Locomotive Company (NBL), and three each by Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW, Philadelphia, USA), and the DHR works at Tindharia.

Number 778 (originally No.19) was built in 1889 by Sharp Stewart & Co at the Atlas Works in Glasgow. It is the only DHR locomotive outside of India. After many years out of use at the Hesston Steam Museum, it was sold to enthusiast Adrian Shooter in the United Kingdom and restored to working order. It was based on Beeches Light Railway, a private railway in Oxfordshire, and has also run on the Ffestiniog Railway, the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway, the Launceston Steam Railway and the South Tynedale Railway. 778 is the only B class with a tender. 

Locomotive  was basedat the Beeches Light Railway until the Shooter's death in December 2022. On 21 June 2023, the locomotive was purchased at auction for £250,000 by The Darjeeling Tank Locomotive Trust (DTLT), with supporters raising the required money three months beforehand. Following the sale, the locomotive and its two matching carriages were relocated by the Trust to the Statfold Barn Railway near Tamworth, Staffordshire.

Special events
In mid-2011, for the 40th anniversary of the Froissy Dompierre Light Railway in France, three Britain-based locomotives visited, including locomotive 778.

In 2013, locomotive 778 ran as a part of Indian Extravaganza Fest in Bedfordshire in East England,  and in 2014 it was the main attraction at the South Tynedale Railway's Indian Summer Event

References

Further reading

1980s

2010s

2020s

2023

Pre-auction

Post-auction

2024

External links
 , 2023 trust established to maintain the locomotive

Preserved narrow gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
Preserved steam locomotives of India
Sharp Stewart locomotives
0-4-0ST locomotives
Individual locomotives of India
2 ft gauge locomotives
Individual locomotives of Great Britain
Steam locomotives of India
ENBau. ENBau is an initiative of Swiss universities for training in sustainable building with the goal of resource efficiency of buildings in the areas of energy, water, materials and processes.

It is the goal of the participation of the Swiss Confederation to the sustainability of this initiative design skills in planning, construction and operation of real estate to promote and reinforce the building as a system is implemented. "ENBau" is the abbreviation for energy and sustainability in construction.

Organisation 
The initiative was founded in 2007 from the University Lucerne (HSLU) together with the Berne University of Applied Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the University of Applied Sciences Chur (HTW Chur). Participation is also given from the Conference of Cantonal Energy Directors Switzerland (EnDK) and the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (BFE) in Berne. President of the leading Cooperation Council is Prof. Peter Schürch; director of the ENBau office for sustainable construction at University Lucerne (HSLU) is Christoph Wagener Ph.D..

Programme 
The aim of the initiative ENBau is a broad-based education campaign at higher levels in sustainable building, energy efficiency, renewable energies and the reduction of CO2 emissions based on the strategy of the 2000-watt society, the Swiss commitment to the Kyoto Protocol and the vision of the Green Building.

The organization of the study-programmes will be implemented through various modules, the academic qualifications are for the individual modules the CAS-degree (Certificate of Advanced Studies) and above all a "Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in sustainable building." The individual modules are:

 Basics for sustainable construction
 Renewable energy
 Passive solar building design
 Building physics and Structural design for sustainable construction
 Facility management
 Architectural engineering
 Business Management, Project management and Process management
 Minergie / Minergie P-building concepts
 Efficient energy use in construction
 Multidisciplinary approach (feasibility study)

See also 

 2000-watt society
 One Watt Initiative
 Sustainable development
 Energy policy
 Low-energy house
 Minergie

External links
 ENBau

References

Energy conservation
Energy policy
Environmental design
Energy in Switzerland
Centers, institutes, and facilities related to the University of Nevada, Reno. There are several notable research and academic institutes, centers and facilities associated with the University of Nevada, Reno.

Centers, Institutes & Facilities
Academy for the Environment
Applied Research Facility
Arthur Brant Laboratory for Exploration Geophysics
Bridge Research and Information Center
Candida Adherence Mycology Research Unit
Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies
Center for Basque Studies
Center for Civil Engineering Earthquake Research
Center for Economic Development
Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities
Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering
Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Peace Studies
Center for Learning and Literacy
Center for Logistics Management
Center for Neotectonic Studies
Center for Research Design and Analysis (CRDA)
Center for Research in Economic Geology
Center of Biomedical Research Excellence
The Collaboratory for Computational Geosciences
Conservation Genetics Center
Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy
Great Basin Institute
Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies
Institute for Innovation and Informatics
Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming
Latino Research Center
Materials Characterization Nevada
Mining Life-Cycle Center
Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Nevada Center for Ethics & Health Policy
Nevada Genomics Center
Nevada Institute for Sustainability
Nevada Seismological Laboratory
Nevada Space Grant
Nevada Terawatt Facility
Nevada Training Partnership
Nevada Transgenic Center
Oral History Program
Photon Ion Research Facility
Raggio Research Center
Research & Educational Planning Center
Sanford Center for Aging
University Center for Excellence in Development Disabilities
W. M. Keck Earth Sciences and Mining Research Information Center

University of Nevada, Reno
Arado Ar 199. The Arado Ar 199 was a floatplane aircraft, built by Arado Flugzeugwerke. It was a low-wing monoplane, designed in 1938 to be launched from a catapult and operated over water. The enclosed cockpit had two side-by-side seats for instructor and student, and a third, rear seat, for a trainee-navigator or radio operator.

Two of the 5 prototypes, D-IFRB and D-ISBC did serve as trainers and were used for air-sea rescue operations from Northern Norway.

Specifications(Ar 199)

References

Notes

Bibliography
 

1930s German military trainer aircraft
Ar 199
HEC-HMS. The Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS) is designed to simulate the precipitation-runoff processes of dendritic drainage basins.  It is designed to be applicable in a wide range of geographic areas for solving the widest possible range of problems.  This includes large river basin water supply and flood hydrology, and small urban or natural watershed runoff.  Hydrographs produced by the program are used directly or in conjunction with other software for studies of water availability, urban drainage, flow forecasting, future urbanization impact, reservoir spillway design, flood damage reduction, floodplain regulation, and systems operation.

The program is a generalized modeling system capable of representing many different watersheds.  A model of the watershed is constructed by separating the water cycle into manageable pieces and constructing boundaries around the watershed of interest.  Any mass or energy flux in the cycle can then be represented with a mathematical model.  In most cases, several model choices are available for representing each flux.  Each mathematical model included in the program is suitable in different environments and under different conditions.  Making the correct choice requires knowledge of the watershed, the goals of the hydrologic study, and engineering judgement.

HEC-HMS is a product of the Hydrologic Engineering Center within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  The program was developed beginning in 1992 as a replacement for HEC-1 which has long been considered a standard for hydrologic simulation.  The new HEC-HMS provides almost all of the same simulation capabilities, but has modernized them with advances in numerical analysis that take advantage of the significantly faster desktop computers available today.  It also includes a number of features that were not included in HEC-1, such as continuous simulation and grid cell surface hydrology.  It also provides a graphical user interface to make it easier to use the software.  The program is now widely used and accepted for many official purposes, such as floodway determinations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the United States.

See also
 Hydrology

References

External links
 HEC-HMS Homepage  at the Hydrologic Engineering Center

Hydrology software
Into That Silent Sea. Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era 1961–1965 is a 2007 non-fiction book by space historians Francis French and Colin Burgess.  Drawing on a number of original personal interviews with astronauts, cosmonauts and those who worked closely with them, the book chronicles the American and Russian programs from 1961 onwards, from the first human spaceflight of Yuri Gagarin through the Mercury, Vostok and Voskhod flights, up to the first spacewalk by Alexei Leonov.

The book is the first volume in the Outward Odyssey spaceflight history series by the University of Nebraska Press. The space program history continues chronologically in the follow-on book In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965–1969. Into That Silent Sea was named as a finalist for the 2007 Eugene M. Emme Award given by the American Astronautical Society.

External links
 Into That Silent Sea Official Publisher Site
 Book review by San Diego Union Tribune
 Book review by Jeff Foust of The Space Review
 2007 AAS Emme Award finalist announcements

2007 non-fiction books
Spaceflight books
Alexei Leonov
Seven Mile Dam. Seven Mile  Dam is a concrete gravity-type hydroelectric dam on the Pend d'Oreille River 15 km SE of Trail, 18 km downstream from Boundary Dam and 9 km upstream from Waneta Dam in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The power plant has a capacity of 848 MW and generates 3200 GWh per year. The May, June and early July flow of the river in most years, is greater than the plants capacity. During these times water is spilled, not used to generate power. The reservoir is 420 ha (1,040 acres), which includes 170 ha (425 acres) of flooded river channel. Under the Canal Plant Agreement operations are coordinated with Waneta Dam.

See also

List of dams in the Columbia River watershed
List of generating stations in BC

References 

Dams in British Columbia
Hydroelectric power stations in British Columbia
Regional District of Kootenay Boundary
Dams completed in 1979
Dams on the Pend Oreille River
Gravity dams
BC Hydro
Publicly owned dams in Canada
Eberhart Steel Products Company. Eberhart Steel Products Company was an American aircraft parts manufacturer, formed in 1918 in Buffalo, New York.  In 1922 Eberhart received a contract to rebuild 50 Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5A's, redesignated Eberhart S.E.5E.  Eberhart also converted the French made SPAD S.XIII, replacing the French engine with an American made Wright-Hispano E.  In 1925 Eberhart Aeroplane and Motor Company was formed as a subsidiary of Eberhart Steel.  The only aircraft Eberhart Aeroplane created was the Eberhart XFG.

Aircraft

References

Citations

Bibliography
 

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Aotearoa Wave and Tidal Energy Association. The Aotearoa Wave and Tidal Energy Association (AWATEA) is a New Zealand organisation established in 2006 to promote renewable energy from marine sources.  This includes energy from tides, waves and ocean currents.

Organisations involved in New Zealand include Genesis Energy, Meridian Energy and Crest Energy.  Several projects are being developed, including Kaipara Tidal Power Station and another in Cook Strait.

Speaking at the 2007 conference, Jeanette Fitzsimons, then NZ Government spokesperson for Energy Efficiency stated that: "I remain very positive, and excited, at the prospects for marine energy in NZ. It is a perfect fit with our history as a maritime nation; the NZ love of the sea and sea going craft; the goals of the NZ Energy Strategy to get as close to 100% renewable electricity as we can; and to the Prime Minister’s aspirational goal to be carbon neutral and truly sustainable."

See also
Ocean power in New Zealand
Electricity sector in New Zealand
Renewable energy in New Zealand

References

External links
 Aotearoa Wave and Tidal Energy Association
 AWATEA - Aotearoa Wave and Tidal Energy Association | NIWA

Renewable energy in New Zealand
Business organisations based in New Zealand
2006 establishments in New Zealand
Cook Strait