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Mario Montejo. Mario G. Montejo is a Filipino engineer and government administrator. He served as Secretary of Science and Technology under President Benigno Aquino III. Prior to his appointment as secretary, he was a professor at the College of Engineering of the University of the Philippines Diliman.

Science and Technology Secretary
In describing Montejo during the announcement of his Cabinet appointments to the Science and Technology Department post, President Benigno Aquino III said Montejo's team was responsible for the featured slides and waves at the water amusement park Water Fun using Filipino technology.

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Living people
Secretaries of science and technology of the Philippines
Benigno Aquino III administration cabinet members
21st-century Filipino engineers
Academic staff of the University of the Philippines
Year of birth missing (living people)
PWS 3. The PWS 3 was a Polish sport aircraft, developed in 1927 by PWS (Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów - Podlasie Aircraft Factory), which remained a prototype.

Design and development
The PWS 3 was the first sports aircraft manufactured by the Polish aerospace industry (not counting earlier amateur designs). It was designed by Stanisław Cywiński in the PWS factory in 1927. Its interesting feature was a fuselage built upon a bottom boom, what made possible changing of upper fuselage part with cockpits, and developing single-seater, two-seater or other specialized variants.

The prototype of the PWS 3, designated PWS 3B, was flown on 20 May 1927 at Biała Podlaska. After trials, a rudder got improved. In 1928 the plane underwent a modification, receiving rounded wingtips instead of square ones, and smaller ailerons.

Operational history
The prototype PWS 3B was given a registration number P-PWSS, from 1930: SP-ACJ. It took part in the 1st Polish Light Aircraft Contest on 6–9 October 1927, taking the 2nd place (after JD-2 aircraft). Later it was bought by the LOPP paramilitary organization in Lublin and used for propaganda flights.

Construction
The PWS 3 was a two-seater parasol wing braced monoplane of wooden construction. The fuselage was built around a box-section wooden boom, with a kind of superstructure of wood strips, covered with plywood in front and aircraft fabric fairing in the rear. The engine compartment was covered with duralumin sheeting. The empennage was wooden, with the fixed surfaces  plywood covered and fabric on the control surfaces. The rectangular wooden wings had two spars, and were covered with plywood in front and fabric in the rear. Initially it had slotted ailerons on all span, later shortened. The fuselage had two cockpits in tandem, with windscreens and dual controls. The undercarriage consisted of a fixed split axle conventional landing gear, with a rear skid. Both main undercarriage struts and wing struts were fixed to small horizontal winglets at the bottom of fuselage sides. Fuel was carried in two tanks, 100 L capacity in total, in a central wing section.

The 5-cylinder Walter NZ 60 air-cooled radial engine was giving a nominal power of 60 hp and take-off power of 65 hp, driving a two-blade fixed pitch wooden propeller. A cruise fuel consumption was 22 L/h.

Specification (PWS 3B)

See also

References

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Photos and drawing at Ugolok Neba

1920s Polish sport aircraft
PWS-03
Parasol-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1927
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Lot Lot. is a multiplatform puzzle video game developed and published by Irem. Tokuma Shoten published the game on home platforms, including the Famicom.

The player controls one arrow and has to move some pellets (which resemble pachinko balls) from the upper cells (with a four-second delay) to the lower ones without having to confront an evil crab. He will grab the player's pellets and try to prevent the player from scoring with them by cutting the elastic. The crab is forced to leave the board if there are no pellets for him to find.

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1985 video games
Arcade video games
HAL Laboratory games
Irem games
Japan-exclusive video games
MSX games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
NEC PC-8801 games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Puzzle video games
Tokuma Shoten games
Video games developed in Japan
Keystone Motor Company of Philadelphia. The Keystone Motor Company of Philadelphia was the manufacturer of a veteran era automobile in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1900.

History 
Keystone manufactured a water-cooled, single-cylinder engine that delivered . This engine was made available to  other manufacturers. Three models, all priced at US$750, with a wheelbase of 52 in.and tiller steering were offered.

The Autocycle was a runabout for two passengers. The engine was standing free behind the seat without protection by a hood. The vehicle had wire wheels, those in front being slightly larger.

The Wagonette was also a runabout but looked more modern and resembled the Oldsmobile Curved Dash.  The front panel was curved outward and  fenders with step plate were fitted. The engine was concealed in a compartment under the seat, a canopy top was an option.

A third model was the Parcel Delivery  that accommodated the driver only.

In the summer of 1900, Keystone reported that 75 engines, five Autocycles and four Wagonettes were built and sold in its first month.

Philadelphia businessmen (among them Theodore C. Search, head of the Stetson Hat Company) purchased Keystone five months after the car was introduced. This became the Searchmont Motor Company . Keystone chief engineer Edward B. Gallaher became plant manager for the Searchmont.

Sources 
 G.N. Georgano (editor): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present; Dutton Press, New York, 2. Auflage (Hardcover) 1973, 

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
History of Philadelphia
Defunct companies based in Pennsylvania
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1900
1900 establishments in Pennsylvania
American companies established in 1900
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1900
1900 disestablishments in Pennsylvania
1900 mergers and acquisitions

Veteran vehicles
1900s cars
Cars introduced in 1900
Cars discontinued in 1900
New Standard Aircraft Company. The New Standard Aircraft Company was an airplane manufacturing company based in the United States. It operated from 1927 until 1931.

Corporate history
The company was originally formed as the Gates-Day Aircraft Company on October 17, 1927, in Paterson, New Jersey. The founders were Ivan R. Gates (owner of the famous Gates Flying Circus) and Charles H. Day (an aviation engineer with the Standard Aircraft Corporation). The company initially updated the Standard Aircraft Corporation's Standard J-1 United States Army aircraft trainer and then sold it on the civilian market. The firm built a number of biplanes on the J-1 model, including the Gates-Day D-25, GD-23, and GD-24.

Day left the company in April 1928, and Charles L. Augur became its new president. With more stable finances, the company changed its name to the New Standard Aircraft Company on December 29, 1928. The company at one time considered merging with six other, unnamed aviation firms to form a much larger manufacturing concern, but this plan was never acted on. The company continued to develop a large line of aircraft, but the onset of the Great Depression left it significantly weakened. Day returned to the firm as president in 1930, but sold his financial interest in the company in the spring of 1931. The company went bankrupt later that year.

Despondent over the collapse of his company, Gates committed suicide on November 24, 1932.

Aircraft developed
 Gates-Day GD-24 – precursor to New Standard D series; three were built
 New Standard D-24 – production version of GD-24; four were built and two were converted from GD-24s
 New Standard D-25 – five-seat "joy-rider"
 New Standard D-25A – 225 hp Wright J-6
 New Standard D-25B – 300 hp Wright J-6 crop-duster produced by White Aircraft Co. in 1940
 New Standard D-25C – alternative designation of D-29S
 New Standard D-25X – modified D-25; construction number 203
 New Standard NT-2
 New Standard D-26 – three-seat business/executive transport
 New Standard D-26A & D-26B – D-26 with 225 hp Wright J6
 New Standard D-27 – single seat mail/cargo carrier
 New Standard D-27A – D-27 with night flying equipment
 New Standard D-28 – floatplane conversion of D-26
 New Standard D-29 – initial version 85 hp Cirrus Mk3 engine, 1 built.
 New Standard D-29A – production aircraft with 100 hp Kinner K-5
 New Standard NT-1 – Six New Standard D-29As supplied to the United States Navy as the NT-1 trainer in 1930.
 New Standard D-29 Special – D-29A with Menasco B-4.
 New Standard D-29 S – Sport version with coupe cockpit (also known as D-25C).
 New Standard D-30 – floatplane modified D-25
 New Standard D-31 Special – D-29A with Kinner B-5.
 New Standard D-32 Special – 3 seater D-29A with Wright J-6.
 New Standard D-33 Special – 3 seater D-29A with Kinner B-5.

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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Manufacturing companies established in 1927
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1931
1927 establishments in New Jersey
1931 disestablishments in New Jersey
Defunct manufacturing companies based in New Jersey
ArcLight (missile). The ArcLight program was a missile development program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency with the goal of equipping ships like Aegis cruisers with a weapon system capable of striking targets nearly anywhere on the globe, thereby increasing the power of surface ships to a level comparable to that of ballistic missile-equipped submarines.

According to DARPA, the ArcLight program was to develop a high-tech missile based on the booster stack of the current SM-3 and equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle capable of carrying a 100–200 lb (45-90 kg) warhead. The configuration would allow ships carrying the ArcLight missile to strike targets 2,300 miles (3,700 km) away from the launch point. The missile would replace the aging Tomahawk cruise missile and could be fired out of the standard vertical launching systems available on many surface ships. Additionally, the ArcLight missile would be capable of launch from air and submarine assets capable of carrying the BGM-109.

Arthur Mabbett was the program manager of the DARPA project, which was to develop and test two different missile designs.

In DARPA's FY 2012 budget, the ArcLight missile program was terminated. The reason was that more development work was needed and they could not yet reach a high enough lift-to-drag ratio system from a non-fixed-wing vehicle. 2011 was spent reassessing technology needs, and no further funding was requested after that. DARPA commented that ArcLight was not part of Prompt Global Strike and was meant as a theater-based system to work with other systems such as the Tomahawk cruise missile.

See also
Prompt Global Strike

References

Abandoned military rocket and missile projects of the United States
DARPA projects
Proposed weapons of the United States
Future Fibre Technologies. Future Fibre Technologies (FFT) is a fiber optic sensing technologies company based in Melbourne, Australia, with its US head office in Mountain View, California, Middle East head office in Dubai, Indian head office in New Delhi and European head office in London. Founded in 1994, Future Fibre Technologies product line provides optical fiber intrusion detection systems for perimeters, buried oil and gas pipelines and data communication networks.

FFT currently hold a number of patents for its fiber optic sensor and signal processing technologies, and is recognized as a global Tier One supplier in the Global Perimeter Intrusion Market.

FFT is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange ().

History 

FFT was established in Melbourne, Australia in 1994 as a research and development company. In 1998, in response to the demand for cost-effective, optical fiber sensors to protect large perimeters, buried pipelines and physical network communication links, FFT developed technology that could pinpoint the location of intrusions over many miles of deployed optical fiber.

The first FFT products based on this new technology were commercialised in 2002, providing a fiber optic sensor intrusion detection system with the capacity to detect a perimeter intrusion to within 25 metres over up to 80 kilometres of deployed fiber optic cable on a single system.

Subsequently, FFT developed patented Advanced Recognition and Discrimination (ARaD) technology, which overcame the problem of nuisance alarms. Advanced artificial intelligence technology uses signature recognition and signal processing software to identify the difference between an environmental event and an attempted intrusion, reducing the effect of nuisance alarms.

This has led to hundreds of installations throughout the world, with notable installations for Unlimited Technologies Dulles International Airport, US Military JFPASS, and critical naval, infrastructure and airport site perimeters.

References

External links 
 FFT Perimeter Security Home Page
 Fibre Optic 

Perimeter security
Manufacturing companies based in Melbourne
Australian brands
TOPIO Dio. The TOPIO Dio is a robot designed to serve in a restaurant or coffee shop, or as a cocktail bartender, which is manufactured by Vietnam-based company, Tosy. TOPIO Dio has a 3-wheel moving platform, 28 degrees of freedom and is operated remotely with a built-in camera and an obstacle detector. It is 125 cm high and weighs 45 kg.

Development history

Specifications

Technologies 
 Remote control via wireless internet
 Integrate 3D vision via 2 cameras 
 3D operation space of robot defined by the controlling software
 Processes pre-defined images 
 Detects obstacles by Ultrasonic Sensor 
 Three-wheeled base with omnidirectional and balanced motion

See also 

 TOPIO

References

External links 

  - TOSY
  - TOSY
 Topio Dio serves up drinks at bar
 TOPIO Dio: Meet Vietnamese's first service robot
 TOPIO Dio the skillful waiter bartender
 Meet TOPIO Dio Vietnam's first humanoid bartender

Humanoid robots
Service robots
Robotics at TOSY
2010 robots
Three-wheeled balancing robots
Game integrated development environment. A game engine (game environment) is a specialized development environment for creating video games. The features one provides depends on the type and the granularity of control allowed by the underlying framework. Some may provide diagrams, a windowing environment and debugging facilities. Users build the game with the game IDE, which may incorporate a game engine or call it externally. Game IDEs are typically specialized and tailored to work with one specific game engine.

This is not to be confused with game environment art, which is "the setting or location in which [a] game takes place." This is also in distinction from domain-specific entertainment languages, where all is needed is a text editor. They are distinct from integrated development environments which are more general, and may provide different sets of features.

There is also a distinction from Visual programming language in that programming languages are more general than Game Engines.

Examples
Below are some game engines and frameworks which come with specialized IDEs.

3D Game Creation System
Adventure Game Studio
Blender Game Engine (discontinued)
Buildbox
Construct
Clickteam Fusion
CryEngine
FPS Creator
Game Core
Game Editor
GameMaker
Gamut from CMU (not Stanford)
Gamestudio
GDevelop
Godot
Goji Editor
GameSalad
Magic Work Station
PlayCanvas
Roblox
RPG Maker
SdlBasic
SharpLudus
Stencyl
The 3D Gamemaker
Unity
Unreal Engine
Virtual Play Table
VASSAL

References

 
Integrated development environments
Video game development
UltraTech Cement. UltraTech Cement Limited is an Indian multinational cement company based in Mumbai. It is the largest manufacturer of grey cement, ready-mix concrete (RMC) and white cement in India and 5th largest around the globe with an installed capacity of 152.70 million tonnes per annum and 119  million tonnes per annum sales volume.

History 
UltraTech Cement traces its origins to 1983 when it began as the cement division of Larsen & Toubro (L&T), being sold under the "L&T Cement" brand. In 2000, L&T decided to sell its cement business and incorporated a wholly-owned subsidiary to house the cement assets.

In 2001, Reliance Industries sold its entire 10% stake in L&T to Grasim Industries. At the time, L&T was the largest cement manufacturer in India, while Grasim was the third-largest. In 2002, Grasim would increase its stake in L&T to 15% and its attempt to launch an open offer to acquire an additional 20% stake was stayed by the SEBI over a possible violation of takeover rules.

In 2003, L&T announced that it would demerge the cement business into a company called UltraTech CemCo. As part of the demerger plan, Grasim agreed to acquire an 8.5% stake in UltraTech CemCo from L&T, make an open offer to acquire another 30%, and transfer its 15% stake in L&T (residual engineering company) to L&T Employees Welfare Foundation. The deal was executed in 2004, with Grasim obtaining management control of UltraTech CemCo (later renamed as UltraTech Cement) with its 51% stake, while L&T retained 11.5% shareholding.

Mergers and acquisitions 
2013 - Acquired Jaypee Group's Gujarat cement unit for 3,800 cr.

2017 - Acquired Jaiprakash Associates's six integrated cement plants for 16,189 cr.

2018 - Entered into a scheme of arrangement with Century Textile and Industries to demerge Century's cement business into ultratech.

Nov 2018 - Acquired Binani Cement for 7,266 cr.

Dec 2023 - Acquired Cement grinding assets of Burnpur Cement Ltd. From Punjab National Bank's Asset Reconstruction Company's auction for cash consideration of .

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Cement companies of India
Manufacturing companies based in Mumbai
Manufacturing companies established in 1983
Aditya Birla Group
NIFTY 50
Indian brands
BSE SENSEX
1983 establishments in Maharashtra
Indian companies established in 1983
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
Larsen & Toubro
Veronica German. Veronica Kathleen German, Baroness German  (née Watkins; born 12 February 1957) is a Welsh Liberal Democrat politician who was a Member of the Welsh Assembly (AM) for the  South Wales East region between 2010 and 2011.

Background
German has lived in the Newport and Cwmbran area for nearly 30 years. She graduated at Aston University where she studied Chemical Engineering, as well as achieving a Masters in Biochemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham. While a third year student as part of her sandwich degree course, she was assigned to the pilot plant at Cadburys Bournville when they were developing the production of bubbles into the Cadbury Wispa chocolate bar where she worked under her head of Dept. Dave Green.

She was a teacher for 25 years, where she taught Science, Maths and ICT in many schools across the former Gwent LEA area.

German has three children by her previous marriage, all born and brought up in Newport and educated locally at schools in Caerleon.

Political career
German served as a Newport Liberal Democrat councillor between 2004 and 2008. In May 2008, she was elected as a Torfaen councillor representing Llanyrafon North.

In May 2010, the then Assembly Member for South Wales East, Mike German, her husband, was named to the House of Lords as a 'working peer' in the Dissolution Honours list. She succeeded him as an AM, as she was the next candidate on the regional party list in 2007.

German took up her seat as Assembly Member for South Wales East in July 2010, making her the first new member of the Assembly since 2007. Immediately after taking up her new position, German pledged to continue to campaign for the tolls at Severn Bridge to be reduced. Whist an Assembly Member, she was the Welsh Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Health, Local Government and Equalities, as well as a member of the Petitions Committee; the Equal Opportunities Committee; the Health, Wellbeing and Local Government Committee; and Legislation Committee No. 3.

She failed to retain her list seat in the 2011 Assembly election. In the 2012 elections, she did not recontest her Llanyrafon North Council seat. She contested the Monmouth Assembly constituency during the 2016 election and the same seat in the 2017 general election, being unsuccessful on both occasions.

For the 2021 Senedd election, German was selected as the Lib Dem candidate for the Torfaen constituency. She finished fourth behind the Labour, Conservative and Plaid Cymru candidates.

See also
 List of Welsh AMs/MSs with the shortest service

References

External links
Veronica German AM homepage
Website of the Welsh Assembly Government

Offices held

1957 births
Living people
Liberal Democrat members of the Senedd
Wales AMs 2007–2011
Councillors in Wales
Female members of the Senedd
Liberal Democrats (UK) parliamentary candidates
Spouses of life peers
British baronesses
Women councillors in Wales
Pilot ladder. A pilot ladder is a highly specialized form of rope ladder, typically used on board cargo vessels for the purposes of embarking and disembarking pilots. The design and construction of the ladders is tightly specified  by international regulation under the SOLAS regime. Pilot ladders and other boarding arrangements must be carefully prepared for each operation, with the equipment inspected and verified as safe to use before each boarding takes place. Additional requirements relate to the use of man-ropes, platforms, accommodation ladders, combination ladders and securing methods.

Construction
The ladders are made by threading and fixing a series of hardwood, machined steps, each not more than , onto two pairs of minimum  diameter manila ropes, and binding each step to the ropes at  (+- ) intervals. At a maximum interval of eight steps, the standard step is replaced by a spreader, which is an elongated version of the standard machined step, with a minimum length of . The spreader's function is to prevent the ladder from twisting in the prevailing weather conditions when in use.

The lowest four steps of the ladder are normally made from a synthetic or composite resin, which is more resistant than hardwood, to the interaction between the host vessel and the pilot boat coming alongside.

Because the decks of most commercial ships are far above the waterline, pilots and others who need to come aboard at sea can usually only do so if a pilot ladder is put out. When not being used, the ladder is stowed away (usually rolled up) rather than left hanging. Alternative arrangements such as ship-side doors with ladders may also be allowed if approved by a Classification Society.

The use of shackles to secure the ladder is generally not permitted, instead knots should be tied to a fixed securing point on the deck of the ship.

Incidents
Unsafe pilot ladders or pilot boarding arrangements not in compliance with regulation have resulted in numerous injuries or deaths of marine pilots and other persons at sea. In January 2023, a pilot died on the River Humber while boarding via pilot ladder. In May 2023, a Japanese pilot died in a pilot ladder incident in the port of Nagasaki.

Guidance
The Pilot Ladder Manual, published by the Witherbys in 2024 details regulations and procedures for ships and maritime pilot embarkation and disembarkation.

See also
 Accommodation ladder
 Jacob's ladder (nautical)

References

Watercraft components
Vertical transport devices

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