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Technoform. Technoform is a German manufacturing company headquartered in Kassel, Germany, with operations worldwide. The company specializes in the extrusion of thermoplastic profiles and employs 1,600 people worldwide.

History 
Technoform was founded in 1969 by Karl-Hans Caprano and Erwin Brunnhofer in Kassel. The family-run enterprise first began to manufacture technical extrusions from thermoplastics under the German-language tagline "Präzision in Kunststoff" (English: Precision in plastic). The first patent application for the PPZ I process developed by Technoform was filed in 1975.

In its early years, the company manufactured special profiles made from polystyrene, surface profiles made from ABS for skis, and running surface profiles from polyethylene. Over time, the company successively expanded its product portfolio, and, since the 1990s, has continually enlarged its production and sales capacities across various divisions. The company is now in its second generation, managed by family members of the original founders. It has a presence in major markets with its own dedicated production facilities or regional sales offices on nearly every continent.

At the end of September 2016, two companies, the Kassel-based Extrusion Tooling GmbH (TET) and the Fuldabrück-based Technoform Bautec GmbH, announced their intention to merge. This would theoretically lead to an automatic breakup of TET's existing works council following the merger. This led to accusations from multiple parties that this was the real intention behind the merger.

Locations 
The company headquarters are in Kassel in the north of the state of Hesse in Germany. Technoform is one of the major companies in the region. The German production sites are located in Kassel and Lohfelden. Technoform also has manufacturing facilities in Belgium, Italy, Spain, Poland, the United States, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Technoform also has sales offices in 25 countries worldwide: Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Turkey, the USA and the United Arab Emirates.

Products 
Technoform specializes in the extrusion of thermoplastic profiles. This specialization applies particularly to the manufacture and development of insulating profiles for aluminum windows, doors, and facades. Technoform is also one of the leading suppliers of plastic hybrid stainless steel spacers and other thermally optimized solutions for the edge seal of the insulating glass unit. Along with its range of standardized products, the company also offers tailor-made solutions and high-precision thermoplastics adapted to the individual needs of customers from numerous industries.

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Manufacturing companies of Germany
Companies based in Kassel
1969 establishments in West Germany
May Harena. The May Harena is a river of the Nile basin. Rising in the mountains of Dogu’a Tembien in northern Ethiopia, it flows eastward to empty finally in the Giba and Tekezé River.

Characteristics 
The May Harena is a confined ephemeral river with an average slope gradient of 100 metres per kilometre.

Hydrology

River discharge in May Harena is highly seasonal, with the river only carrying water in the rainy season, after rain events. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that most of the urban drainage from Hagere Selam is rapidly directed to this river. Conservation activities (such as those by the Selam WatSani project aim at buffering these floods. There is however a strong contrast with better regularised adjacent May Sho'ate River.

Flash floods and flood buffering
Runoff mostly happens in the form of high runoff discharge events that occur in a very short period (called flash floods). These are related to the steep topography, often little vegetation cover and intense convective rainfall. The peaks of such flash floods have often a 50 to 100 times larger discharge than the preceding baseflow.
The magnitude of floods in this river has somewhat been decreased due to interventions in the catchment. 
On some steep slopes, exclosures have been established; the dense vegetation largely contributes to enhanced infiltration, less flooding and better baseflow. Physical conservation structures such as stone bunds and check dams also intercept runoff.

Boulders and pebbles in the river bed
Boulders and pebbles encountered in the river bed can originate from any location higher up in the catchment. In the uppermost stretches of the river, only rock fragments of the upper lithological units will be present in the river bed, whereas more downstream one may find a more comprehensive mix of all lithologies crossed by the river. From upstream to downstream, the following lithological units occur in the catchment.
 Upper basalt
 Interbedded lacustrine deposits
 Lower basalt
 Amba Aradam Formation
 Antalo Limestone

Trekking along the river
Trekking routes have been established across and along this river. The tracks are not marked on the ground but can be followed using downloaded .GPX files. Trek 12 V runs parallel to the river, on its northern side.

See also 
 List of Ethiopian rivers

References

Rivers of Ethiopia
Dogu'a Tembien
Tigray Region
Nile basin
Michael Kießling. Michael Kießling (born 29 May 1973) is a German engineer and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2017.

Political career 
Kießling became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election, representing the Starnberg and Landsberg districts. 

In parliament, Kießling serves on the Committee on Construction, Housing, Urban Development and Communities and the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. In this capacity, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the conversion of facilities no longer used by the Bundeswehr.

Other activities
 Nuclear Waste Disposal Fund (KENFO), Alternate Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2022)
 Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, Member of the Board of Trustees

References

External links 

  
 Bundestag biography 

1973 births
Living people
Members of the Bundestag for Bavaria
Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025
Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
People from Hinwil District
Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Social Union in Bavaria
Joint Navigation Warfare Center. The Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) is a subordinate center of United States Space Command's Combined Force Space Component Command. It is responsible for planning and coordinating navigation warfare operations. The JNWC is located at Kirtland Air Force Base.

Mission
The Joint Navigation Warfare Center plans, tasks, integrates, provides C2, and supports integrated Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) worldwide. 

Navigation warfare means the use of the "Air Force Global Positioning System satellite navigation system by the Department of Defense and its allies, and attempts to disrupt the system by adversaries." 

Command and control is conducted day-to-day, through reachback capabilities and deployable subject matter experts, in support of combatant commanders (CCDRs). Assistance is provided via the JNWC NAVWAR support cell, coordination cells, and deployable theater coordination cells. CCDR requests for NAVWAR capabilities are supported by United States Space Command components after deconfliction and prioritization of ongoing missions.

History
Established on 1 October 2004, the Joint Navigation Warfare Center was initially under the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, but in October 2007 was moved under the Joint Functional Component Command for Space, which evolved into United States Space Command.

References

Joint military units and formations of the United States
Space units and formations of the United States
Centers of the U.S. Department of Defense
Military units and formations established in 2004
Joint Overhead Persistent Infrared Center. The Joint Overhead Persistent Infrared Center (JOPC) is a subordinate center of United States Space Command's Combined Force Space Component Command. It is responsible for planning and coordinating overhead persistent infra-red operations. The JOPC is located at Buckley Space Force Base.

Mission
The Joint Overhead Persistent Infrared Center is a joint endeavor between United States Space Command and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The JOPC develops integrated OPIR collection and exploitation strategies and plans for OPIR sensors (both Intelligence Community, inc. National Reconnaissance Office and Department of Defense sensors, such as the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS). These plans and strategies support missile warning, missile defense, awareness of the operating environment, technical intelligence, and civil/environmental mission areas.

References

Joint military units and formations of the United States
Space units and formations of the United States
Centers of the U.S. Department of Defense
Georges Kipouros. Georges John Kipouros is a Greek Canadian materials engineer, university professor, and former dean of the University of Saskatchewan College of Engineering. He presently serves as adjunct professor at the Faculty of Engineering of both Dalhousie University and University of Waterloo. He is the winner of the 20th Canadian Metal Chemistry Award, and is known as an ambassador for the engineering profession in Canada. At Dalhousie University he served as the vice chair of the Senate, assistant dean of the Faculty of Engineering, director of the Minerals Engineering Centre and head of the Mining and Metallurgical Engineering Department. He is known for his contributions to the processing of aluminum, magnesium, rare earth metals and molten salts, as well as the analysis of corrosion in additive manufacturing. In addition he is known as a major expert in powder metallurgy. He is the inventor of a technique for measuring metal corrosion in active pipelines, allowing for early detection of problem areas. At General Motors, he integrated the recovery and recycling of reactants into the production of neodymium from its oxide, rendering the process more cost-effective. He also led the technology transfer from laboratory research to plant production.

He received a Diploma of Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, as well as a Master of Applied Science and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. From 1982-1985 he served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Donald Sadoway. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, University of Patras, University of Trondheim and Tohoku University.

For his contributions to scholarship, Kipouros has been elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In 2009 he was awarded the title of Distinguished Lecturer by CIM. He has served as an advisor to the Canadian International Development Agency, the NATO Science for Peace and Security programme, and Mehran University of Engineering and Technology.

References

External links
CAE Directory of Fellows

Canadian engineers
Greek engineers
Academic staff of Dalhousie University
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
National Technical University of Athens alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Roger J. Marzulla. Roger J. Marzulla (born August 12, 1947) is an American attorney who served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources from 1988 to 1989. He is a founding partner at Marzulla Law, LLC in Washington, D.C.  He began his legal career as a trial lawyer in San Jose, California, after graduating magna cum laude from the University of Santa Clara School of Law.

References

1947 births
Living people
United States assistant attorneys general for the Environment and Natural Resources Division
Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project. The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting from 2004. The award was originally titled "Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Broadcast Program", and changed in 2005 to "Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Broadcast Program, Commercial, or Music Video". It was again changed in 2009, this time to "Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture", and again in 2011 to "Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture". Before its final change in 2015, to its current title, it was re-titled in 2014 to "Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture".

Winners and nominees

2000s
Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Broadcast Program

Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Broadcast Program, Commercial, or Music Video

Outstanding Created Environment in a Broadcast Program or Commercial

2010s
Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Broadcast Program

Outstanding Created Environment in a Broadcast Program or Commercial

Outstanding Created Environment in a Commercial, Broadcast Program, or Video Game

Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project

2020s

References

E
Awards established in 2004
601st Engineer Grouping (Argentina). The 601 Engineer Grouping (Agr Ing 601) is an Argentine Army (EA) combat engineer grouping that specialised CBRN defense management, defusing and disposal of bombs and land mines, disaster response, hydraulic engineering, hyperbaric welding, military engineering, and wildfire prevention. It is based at Campo de Mayo Army Garrison.

Structure 

 601 Engineer Grouping Headquarters. Campo de Mayo Army Garrison.
 601 Engineer Battalion. Campo de Mayo Army Garrison.
 601 CBRN and Emergency Support Company. San Nicolás de los Arroyos Barracks.
 601 Facilities Maintenance Engineer Company. Villa Martelli Army Garrison.
 601 Army Divers Engineer Company. Villa Martelli Army Garrison.
 601 Transport Engineer Company. Campo de Mayo Army Garrison.
 601 Water Engineer Company. Campo de Mayo Army Garrison.

Source

Humanitarian aids 

In 2019, the Ministry of Defense supplied the 601 Engineer Grouping with heavy equipment, water treatment plants, pneumatic machines and tools, New Holland D-180C bulldozers, Komatsu WA-320 front loaders, Case 580-W backhoe loaders, GEFCO drills and Sany STC-800 cranes. Argentine Army's Engineer Branch personnel manufactured a water purification and bagging plant. It has a capacity of 6000 L by micro filtration or 3000 by reverse osmosis, and can pack 1200 sachets of water per hour.

In 2019, 601 Engineer Grouping elements deployed at Santa Cruz de la Sierra y Concepción, Bolivia, in order to provide logistical support to the fight against Amazon rainforest wildfires. The movement was carried out in coordination with units of the Navy of the Argentine Republic. Personnel and equipment of the Grouping with its Headquarters and Staff joined the mission, in addition to the 601st Water Engineer Company. Also operators of road machinery of the 601st Engineer Battalion. An approximate number of 200 troops was totaled.

References 

Army units and formations of Argentina
San Miguel Partido
Engineering units and formations
Group sized units of armies (land forces)
Fire, Fusion & Steel. Fire, Fusion & Steel is a supplement about vehicle construction published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1993 for the science fiction role-playing game Traveller .

Description
Fire, Fusion & Steel is a 112-page softcover book designed by David Golden and Guy Garnett, with illustrations by Steve Bryant and Bryan Gibson, and cover art by Chris Foss. The focus of the book is designing various vehicles, both ground vehicles and space ships, in accordance with both the laws of physics and the rules of Traveller. Various formulae for calculating parameters are included, as well as 225 tables of reference numbers. 

For example, to calculate a rocket's thrust in newtons, the player is directed to add the rocket's mass in kilograms to the square root of the rocket's designed velocity in kilometres per hour, then divide the sum by a modifier taken from Table 119.   

In his 2014 book Designers & Dragons, Shannon Appelcline commented that the Traveller supplements released by GDW in 1997 "included a few more equipment books and Fire, Fusion & Steel, an extensive vehicle creation system; together these were just the sort of thing you'd expect to find in a Traveller line."

Reception
In the January 1998 edition of Dragon (Issue #243), Rick Swan acknowledged that Traveller had always been fuelled by "hard science", but even so, he confessed "to being baffled by Fire, Fusion & Steel, a supplement so dense with numbers that it might as well be written in Chinese... it more closely resembles a physics text for precocious grad students." Swan concluded by giving the book an average rating of 3 stars out of 6, saying "For those of us who still count on our fingers, Fire, Fusion & Steel is about as appealing as a rat in our lunch box."

Reviews
White Wolf #47 (Sept., 1994)

References

Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1993
Traveller (role-playing game) supplements
Studienbüro für Spezialflugzeuge SB-1. The Pilatus SB-1 was to be an experimental aircraft developed by the Studienbüro für Spezialflugzeuge at the ETH Zurich department of aircraft statics and aircraft construction at request of the Federal Air Authority. (SB - Schweizer Bergflugzeug - Swiss mountain aircraft).

Design and development
In 1938 the Bundesamt für Zivilluftfahrt was looking for an aircraft able to land at minial airfields in mountain valleys. In fact the aircraft was desired to define the criteria such possible future airfields would have to meet. So this was not to be the aircraft for such air transport itself but a mean to find possible airfield locations.

The SB-1 was intended to be a mid-wing monoplane with accommodation for four people. The fuselage was to have built-up from welded steel tube covered with light-alloy (front) and fabric (rear). The aircraft would have been powered by a single Argus As 10E / Argus As 410 air-cooled V-8 engine, located at the center of gravity, in the fuselage, below the wing centre-section. The engine drove two-bladed propellers, driven by V-belts and idlers, mounted on the wing leading-edges either side of the fuselage, reducing drag and imbuing favorable low-speed flight characteristics due to the air flow of the propellers acting directly on the leading edge of the wing. The SB-1 was designed with a fixed tail-wheel undercarriage and also had a twin-fin tail unit. A study was also made of two coupled engines mounted in the fuselage.

The wing profile was tested in the local wind tunnel at the ETH. The power transmission for the propellers was tested in a factory building at Uster in original size using an aircraft engine borrowed from the Flugwaffe. A structure of the wooden wing was built in Berne and tested at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology as well as at the department of aircraft statics and aircraft construction.

Development of this project was abandoned when after evaluation of the Fieseler Storch in 1940 it became clear, that the configuration chosen wouldn't lead to the desired aircraft.

Even the type SB-2 of the same developer, that was subsequently built, was actually never tested in its originally intended role.

Specifications (SB-1)

Pilatus "SB" projects 
SB-2 Pelican The only SB project to be built and flown.
Pilatus SB-5 An enlargement of the SB-2, abandoned before construction began.
 (Nothing is known about possible SB-3 or SB-4 designs).

References

External links

1940s Swiss civil utility aircraft
ETH Zurich
SB-1
Mid-wing aircraft
Single-engined twin-prop tractor aircraft
Twin-tail aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Abandoned civil aircraft projects
Mid-engined aircraft
Studienbüro für Spezialflugzeuge SB-5. The Pilatus SB-5 was a study for a civil utility aircraft by the Studienbüro für Spezialflugzeuge at the ETH Zurich department of aircraft statics and aircraft construction.

Background 
In November 1940, the design of the SB-2, designed by the same office, was proposed to its client the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation which was at the time seeking a test aircraft to evaluate criteria for airfields in mountain valleys. Thus the desired aircraft would be a low-speed aircraft with STOL (Short Take-Off and Landing) performance, as well as very good climbing performance. It was not until May 1944, that the SB-2 first flew.

The SB-5 was a study for an enlarged version of the Pilatus SB-2,. According to the reports of the Studienbüro delivered to the Schweizerische Flugteschnische Vereinigung, whom the Studienbüro was subordinated, design commenced in the first quarter of 1944 and was last mentioned in the first quarter of 1945 as being terminated.

The  Pilatus SB-5 was to be a single-engine high wing monoplane with a fixed nosewheel with a light-alloy semi-monocoque fuselage shell, accommodating 9 passengers in 3 rows of three, with an optional passenger in the co-pilots seat. Power was to have been supplied "possibly" by a Wright Cyclone driving a 3-bladed propeller.

Specification

Pilatus "SB" projects 
SB-1 Intended as a pure experimental aircraft, commercial use was not planned.
SB-2 The only SB project to be built and flown.
SB-5 An enlargement of the SB-2, abandoned before construction began.
 (Nothing is known about any designs with the names SB-3 and SB-4).

References

External links

 

1940s Swiss civil utility aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
ETH Zurich
Pilatus aircraft
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
Abandoned civil aircraft projects
Single-engined piston aircraft
Douglas Tennant. Charles Douglas Smith Tennant CBE (1906 – 19 November 1985) was a British trade union leader.

Tennant came to prominence in 1935, when he helped to found the Navigators' and Engineer Officers' Union (NEOU).  This affiliated to the International Mercantile Marine Officers' Association (IMMOA).  In 1940, the IMMOA evacuated to London, and Tennant was appointed as its acting general secretary, soon winning the post on a permanent basis.  In 1943, he also became general secretary of the NEOU.

After the war, Tennant felt that officers in the merchant navy were better represented by the International Transport Workers' Federation, and so in 1948, the IMMOA transferred all its industrial functions to that body.  Tennant became chair of its Seafarers' Section, and vice-chair of its Civil Aviation Section, while continuing to run a largely inactive IMMOA until its dissolution, in 1964.

In 1956, Tennant arranged for the Marine Engineers' Association to merge into the NEOU, which was then renamed as the Merchant Navy and Airline Officers' Association.  He remained its general secretary until his retirement, in 1971.

Tennant was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1952 New Year Honours.

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1906 births
1985 deaths
General secretaries of British trade unions