omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
REFIt. rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. It can be used to boot multiple operating systems, including triple-boot setups with software such as Apple's Boot Camp Assistant. It also provides a way to enter and explore the EFI pre-boot environment. The name "rEFIt" is likely a play on the terms "refit" and "EFI".

Development on "rEFIt" was abandoned by Christoph Pfisterer in 2010. However, in 2012 the developer Roderick W. Smith forked is as a new project called rEFInd.

References

External links 
 rEFIt
 rEFInd

Free boot loaders
Free system software
Macintosh firmware
Software using the BSD license
Cantera (software). Cantera is an open-source chemical kinetics software used for solving chemically reacting laminar flows. It has been used as a third-party library in external reacting flow simulation codes, such as FUEGO and CADS, using Fortran, C++, etc. to evaluate properties and chemical source terms that appear in the application's governing equations. Cantera was originally written and developed by Prof. Dave Goodwin of California Institute of Technology. It is written in C++ and can be used from C++, Python, Matlab and Fortran.

See also 
 Chemical kinetics
 Autochem
 CHEMKIN
 Chemical WorkBench
 Kinetic PreProcessor (KPP)

References

External links 
Cantera Github repository
Online documentation for Cantera 2.4
Presentation on Cantera features at 2006 NSF workshop
Download link

Computational chemistry software
Combustion
Thomas Lewis (industrialist). Thomas Lewis (died 1764) was one of the founders of the Dowlais Ironworks, one of the largest ironworks in Wales.

Career
Born into a landed family from Llanishen, Cardiff, a branch of the Lewis of the Van Family, Thomas Lewis became an iron-master. He already owned the Pentyrch blast furnace and several small forges when he became a partner in Dowlais Ironworks in 1759. Lewis was the partner who arranged the mineral leases and construction of the new ironworks: the works were carried out by his business, Thomas Lewis & Co. He headed the business and his family interest was not bought out until 1848.

He was also a partner in the firm  of Coles, Lewis & Co which had interests at Melin-y-cwrt and Ynys-y-gerwn.

Lewis's family had lived at Llanishen for many generations but he was responsible for building the New House there. He was clearly a highly respected individual and served as High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1757.

He died in 1764.

References

1764 deaths
Businesspeople from Cardiff
High sheriffs of Glamorgan
Year of birth unknown
IMPS. IMPS or Imps may refer to:

 Imps*, a comedy film released in 2009*
 Immediate Payment Service, instant payment inter-bank electronic funds transfer system in India
 OMA Instant Messaging and Presence Service
 Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite, an April Fools' Day RFC
 The Oxford Imps, an improvisational comedy troupe

 Insensitive munition propulsion system

See also
 IMP (disambiguation)
HMC Valiant. HMC Valiant is a Border Force (customs), formerly UK Border Agency, cutter of the United Kingdom.  She was launched by Damen Shipyards in the Netherlands in 2003 and is one of four  cutters formerly operated by His Majesty's Revenue and Customs, and since 2008 operated by the UK Border Agency and after its dissolution in 2013 operated by the UK Border Force.

Prefix
The Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise Departments merged to form HM Revenue and Customs on 18 April 2005, and from this time customs cutters changed their prefix from "HMRC" (His Majesty's Revenue Cutter) to "HMCC" (His Majesty's Customs Cutter). Following transfer to the UK Border Agency this was shortened to the current "HMC" (His Majesty's Cutter) and a new livery applied to the fleet of cutters.

Construction
HMC Valiant is the fourth of the Customs and Excise's fleet of  customs patrol vessels.  She was built in 2003 in the Damen Shipyards in the Netherlands, and has a steel hull with an aluminium superstructure. Much effort has been expended in making her quiet to reduce crew fatigue; the engines are raft-mounted, decks throughout the ship are of a floating type, and her compartments are constructed on a box-within-a-box principle.

A  Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) can be launched from her stern slipway.  She is fitted with a  per minute fire fighting system for dealing with fires in other ships.

Propulsion

Valiant is fitted with twin Caterpillar 3516B DI-TA Elec engines driving twin 4-bladed controllable-pitch propellers through a pair of 3.5:1 reduction gearboxes.  The total installed power of  giving a top speed of . A single Promac bow thruster is installed for slow speed manoeuvring in confined spaces.  Electrical power is supplied by a pair of 106kWA generators.

Operational history
On 23 April 2015, together with the Royal Navy frigate Somerset, she intercepted the Tanzanian-registered tug Hamal in the North Sea, about 100 miles off Aberdeen, leading to the seizure of more than three tons of cocaine, believed to be the single largest seizure of a Class A drug in the UK.

In June 2021, it was revealed that the Valiant had successfully requested permission to enter French waters to pick up migrants and take them to Britain. The Home Office launched an urgent investigation into the matter.

References

External links

Ships built in Vlissingen
Ships of the United Kingdom
2004 ships
Customs cutters of the United Kingdom
Jan Vanthienen. Jan Vanthienen (born 1956) is a Belgian Information systems scientist and Professor of Information systems engineering at Leuven University (KU Leuven), known for his contributions to Business Process Modeling, Process mining and Business Engineering.

Biography 
Vanthienen received MA in Applied Economics and computer science at the Leuven University in 1979, and a PhD in Applied Economics at the Department of Applied Economics, Leuven University, in 1986.

He started working as a Researcher at the Leuven University in 1979, where he became an Associate professor in 1987, a Professor in 1994, and a Full Professor in 1996. At the moment, in 2009, he is chairholder of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Chair on E-Business at KU Leuven and co-chairholder of the Microsoft Research Chair on Intelligent Environments.  He has been a visiting professor at Loyola College in Maryland, Sellinger School of Business and Management, Baltimore, Md in 1991, at the University of Antwerp since 1998 and at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School from 2000 to 2003.

Vanthienen has been a member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Informatie" from 1995 to 1999, "International Journal of Digital Accounting" since 2001 and "Expert Systems with Applications" since 2002.

He is a founding member of the Leuven Institute for Research in Information Systems (LIRIS), and a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.

, Vanthienan served on the Editorial Advisory Board for the peer-reviewed Elsevier journal Decision Support Systems.

Work 
His research interests are in the field of Information systems: Information systems analysis and design, business rules & business processes, business intelligence, knowledge-based systems, intelligent systems, object-oriented development, decision tables, e-learning, information management.

More specific research topics are Business rule modeling, rule-based business processes, E-business, business intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Marketing, knowledge based systems, V&V, decision tables, help desk and service automation.

Publications 
Vanthienen has published numerous papers, articles and other publications. A selection:
 2006. "Designing compliant business processes with obligations and permissions. Business process management workshops". With S. Goedertier. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 4103, pp. 5 – 14.
 2007. "A new approach for discovering business process models from event logs". With S. Goedertier et al. DTEW - KBI_0716, pp. 1 – 20.
 2007. "EM-BrA2CE v0.1: A vocabulary and execution model for declarative business process modeling". With S. Goedertier and R. Haesen. DTEW - KBI_0728.
 2008. "Semantic decision tables: self-organizing and reorganizable decision tables". With Y. Tang, and R. Meersman. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. pp. 434 – 449.

References

External links 
 Jan Vanthienen Personal homepage.

1954 births
Living people
Belgian computer scientists
Belgian business theorists
Catholic University of Leuven alumni
Academic staff of the Université catholique de Louvain
HMC Seeker. HMC Seeker is a Border Force (customs) cutter of the United Kingdom.  She was launched by Damen Shipyards in the Netherlands in 2001 and is one of four  cutters formerly operated by HM Revenue and Customs, then from 2008 she was operated by the UK Border Agency and after its dissolution in 2013 operated by the Border Force.

Prefix
The Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise Departments merged to form HM Revenue and Customs on 18 April 2005, and from this time customs cutters changed their prefix from "HMRC" (His Majesty's Revenue Cutter) to "HMCC" (His Majesty's Customs Cutter). Following transfer to the UK Border Agency this was shortened to the current "HMC" (His Majesty's Cutter) and a new livery applied to the fleet of cutters.

Construction
HMC Seeker is the lead ship of the Customs and Excise's fleet of 42-metre customs patrol vessels.  She was built in 2001 in Damen Shipyards in the Netherlands, and has a steel hull with an aluminium superstructure. Much effort has been expended in making her quiet to reduce crew fatigue; her engines are raft-mounted, decks throughout the ship are of a floating type, and her compartments are constructed on a box-within-a-box principle.

Her  Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) can be launched from her stern slipway.  She is fitted with a  per minute fire fighting system for dealing with fires in other ships.

Propulsion
She is fitted with twin Caterpillar 3516B DI-TA Elec engines driving twin 4-bladed controllable-pitch propellers through a pair of 3.5:1 reduction gearboxes.  The total installed power of  gives her a top speed of . A single Promac bow thruster is fitted for slow speed manoeuvring in confined spaces.  Electrical power is supplied by a pair of 106kWA generators.

References

Ships built in Vlissingen
Ships of the United Kingdom
2001 ships
Customs cutters of the United Kingdom
Ultimate++. U++, formally known as Ultimate++ - is a C++ RAD framework that aims to reduce the code complexity of typical desktop applications by including all necessary toolkits into a single C++ framework. Programs created with it works on multiple Operating Systems and Hardware Architectures with performance without needing to write platform-specific code.

It has its own Integrated Development Environment called TheIDE that is designed to handle all library features and plugins.

Features
Some key features includes

 An IDE with a GUI designer
 Uses heavily RAII and  auto pointers-like mechanisms to avoid manual memory management and could limit the use of pointers in the code 
 Can emulate native widgets look and feel. On X11 systems, Ultimate++ supports GTK+ widgets look and feel.
 The standard distribution comes with U++ sources included.
 Uses  as a template system instead of STL.
 Supports databases, with libraries to connect with various database systems.
 Designed for high-performance application use cases with a low memory footprint and efficient use of system resources.
 Retains backward compatibility, allowing developers to upgrade to new versions of the framework without issues.
 Provides support for Unicode to make applications in multiple languages.
Document editor, Debugger, auto completion and Icon Designer for making tool icons with less effort.
Possible to work with Android NDK and SDK
Web development and other features

Supports

Operating system

 Windows
 macOS
 GNU / Linux 
 Unix-Like OS

Compiler / Port

 GCC
 Clang
 Visual C++
 MinGW
 Mingw-w64

Database

 Microsoft SQL
 MySQL
 PostgreSQL
 Sqlite

Software built on U++ 
Example applications using U++ are:

 BEMRosetta - hydrodynamic coefficients viewer and converter
 Openwind - wind farm design software
 UppCAD - multipurpose CAD system
 WordNet Browser - browser for WordNet

See also

 GTK+
 Widget toolkit
 List of widget toolkits

References

Further reading

External links
 
 Amazon book: Getting started with the U++ Framework

Widget toolkits
Application programming interfaces
Free computer libraries
X-based libraries
C++ libraries
Cross-platform software
Free integrated development environments
Linux integrated development environments
Software using the BSD license
Articles with example C++ code
Programming tools for Windows
Carlton Forge Works. Carlton Forge Works is an aerospace manufacturing company that produces seamless rolled rings. Carlton was founded in 1929 and was privately held. According to Manta and Business Week, the company has about 250-300 employees. The company was previously owned by Allan Carlton.

Carlton Forge Works manufactures mostly rolled rings by open-die forging and some forged parts by closed-die forging. The forged rings or forged parts are often refer to as “forgings” in the forging or aerospace industry. The forgings are made using either ferrous metals or nonferrous metals. However, Carlton utilizes mainly nonferrous metals. Properties of nonferrous alloys are resistance to corrosion, electrical conductivity, and ease of fabrication. The production of these materials, for example, includes titanium, aluminum, iron, nickel, cobalt based alloys, stainless steels, carbon steels, copper, and lead.

The primary products of Carlton Forge Works are rotating and structural components, land-based turbine engines, and aircraft parts for commercial and military aviation; the company serves the aerospace, gas turbine, commercial, and nuclear industries. Unlike other forge shops, Carlton makes high quality forgings for major customers such as General Electric, United Technologies (Pratt & Whitney), Honeywell International, Rolls-Royce, GKN, MTU, Mitsubishi, Samsung, and other smaller companies. Although not a large corporation, its departments consist of sales, purchasing, accounting, production, engineering, manufacturing, metallurgy, and quality.

History

Since its inception in 1929, Carlton Forge Works' business experienced expansion and contraction. The revenues of the company have gone up and down due to the cycle of the aerospace industry. In the past, there had been reported layoffs. Carlton is located in Paramount California and has two websites, carltonforgeworks.com as their primary website and pccforgedproducts.com/brands as part of parent company PCC.

In 2009, Precision Castparts Corporation (PCC) acquired Carlton Forge Works in a $850 million deal that broadened the company's forging operations. The transaction also includes another hammer forging operation in Oxnard, California, called Arcturus Manufacturing Corporation. The CEO of PCC Mark Donegan said that Carlton had been a target for acquisition for a long time because the company had been doing several big aerospace projects, including the Boeing 787 and Airbus aircraft. Furthermore, the acquisition enables PCC to provide a full range of products to current customers, and increases the forging capabilities.

External links
 http://www.carltonforgeworks.com

References

Manufacturing companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Manufacturing companies established in 1929
Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
1929 establishments in California
Aerospace companies of the United States
Paramount, California
2009 mergers and acquisitions
Mostafa Mir-Salim. Sayyid Mostafa Agha Mirsalim (Persian: سید مصطفی میرسلیم) (born 10 June 1947) is an Iranian engineer and conservative politician. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He was formerly a member of Islamic Consultative Assembly from 2020 to 2024.

He was a presidential candidate at the 2017 election which placed third with receiving 1.16% of the votes.

Early life and education 
He obtained B.Sc. in Mechanics from Universite de Poitiers in 1969, M.Sc. in Mechanics from École nationale supérieure de mécanique et d'aérotechnique and M.Sc. Fluid Mechanics & Thermodynamics from Attestation d`Eludes Approfondies, Universite de Poitiers both in 1971 and M.Sc. in Internal Combustion Engines  from École Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs in 1972.

He worked as an intern in Alsace Mechanical Industries until 1976, when he returned to Iran. He worked at Tehran Metro as the operational director from 1976 to 1979.

Career 
Mir-Salim served as the national police chief following the Iranian Revolution. He was proposed by then president Abulhassan Banisadr in July 1980 as a candidate for the prime minister as a compromise candidate acceptable to both Banisadr and the Majlis dominated by the Islamic Republican Party. However, Banisadr was pressured to accept Mohammad-Ali Rajai instead. From 1981 to 1989, Mir-Salim was the advisor to then president Ayatollah Khamenei.

In the beginning of 1989, on the occasion of the death and funeral of Hirohito, the 124th Emperor of Japan who had ruled for over 60 years until he died on January 7, Mir-Salim and Hossein Saffar Harandi, a Member of Parliament and the Chairman of Parliament Committee on Agriculture, went to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to attend the Rites of Imperial Funeral on February 24 with Mohammad Hossein Adeli, Ambassador Extraordinary Plenipotentiary in Japan, and his wife.

Mir-Salim was appointed Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance in 1994. His tenure was characterized by a strongly conservative Islamist direction, aiming to stave off the "cultural onslaught" of Western culture and promote pious Islamic culture in its place, including through the use of repressive measures. The Ministry under his direction was particularly known for closing a number of reformist newspapers.

He was later appointed to the Expediency Discernment Council.

He is assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran.

Electoral history

Personal life 
According to Iranian Diplomacy, Mirsalim  is married to an Iranian  woman. He is fond of swimming and usually wears shenandoah beard, collarless tuxedos and dark calottes that serve as his signature look.

References

1947 births
Living people
Politicians from Tehran
University of Poitiers alumni
Members of the Expediency Discernment Council
Government ministers of Iran
Islamic Coalition Party politicians
Islamic Society of Athletes politicians
Central Council of the Islamic Republican Party members
Iranian expatriates in France
Iranian mechanical engineers
20th-century Iranian engineers
20th-century Iranian politicians
Mohan Lal Grero. Mohan Lal Grero is a Sri Lankan educationist, engineer, and former politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka representing the Colombo District and was the State Minister of University Education. He was elected as an opposition United National Party member of parliament but crossed over to the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance in November 2011. He is the founder of the Lyceum International School.

Education
He received his primary education from Royal Preparatory School and moved to Ananda College for secondary education in 1966. In 1974 he entered the Katubedda Campus of the University of Sri Lanka and graduated in 1980 with an honours degree in engineering. In 1986 he gained his Pilot's license and gained an Executive Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Colombo, winning the Professor Linus de Silva challenge Gold Medal.

References

External links
Mohan Lal Grero Foundation

Living people
Sri Lankan educational theorists
United National Party politicians
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Alumni of Ananda College
Alumni of Royal Preparatory School
Members of the Western Provincial Council
Members of the 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Members of the 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Year of birth missing (living people)
The Hotel Majestic St. Louis. The Hotel Majestic St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri, United States (formerly known as the DeSoto Hotel and the Omni Majestic Hotel) is a restored 91-room historic hotel built in 1913–1914. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The Majestic Hotel has  of space, nine stories and  tall at its maximum height, and is based on a steel frame. It also has brick curtain walls
and concrete floors. The hotel was designed as a tri-part structure, including a base, shaft, and capital, and is divided by the use of white terracotta.

Following major renovations over the course of 2018 and 2019, the hotel is planned to debut in August 2020 as Le Méridien St. Louis Downtown.

History

Majestic Hotel
First opened near the end of September, 1914, the hotel is one of St. Louis' few hotels which date from before World War I. The building's Renaissance Revival design is an example of common styles in St. Louis architecture in the 1920s. The hotel was built to serve middle-class guests, but it had advanced fireproofing, two restaurants, and a rathskeller.

In 1913, construction for the hotel began, replacing a three-story building. The hotel cost about $250,000 to build. However, it is unclear who designed the hotel. Plans for the hotel give credit to Harry F. Roach, while building permits list the architect as Albert B. Groves. Both men were well-known St. Louis architects who had each designed various other hotels, but were never in partnership.

DeSoto Hotel
The Majestic Hotel was later renamed the DeSoto Hotel and still served guests until 1979, when it was announced that the building would be replaced with a parking garage due to the high cost needed to restore the building so it could meet more recent building codes. However, the hotel was given to new owners, and they planned to renovate the building for office space. However, a joint venture by Eugene Wolff, Dick Deutsch, and Southwestern Bell, called Majestic Associates, used $7 million to restore the building into a luxury hotel, called the Hotel Majestic. Southwestern Bell also spent $15 million in 1987 to renovate the building. Robert G. Pope of Southwestern Bell was in charge of this renovation.

Crowne Plaza, Omni Majestic Hotel & Le Méridien St. Louis Downtown

In 1996, the hotel was sold for $4.3 million to Bray & Gillespie LLC, which operated it under the Crowne Plaza brand.  In 1997, Omni Hotels acquired the hotel from Crowne Plaza and rebranded the property as the Omni Majestic Hotel until 2016, when Omni Hotels & Resorts sold it to Iowa-based Hawkeye Hotels. Hawkeye has been conducting a major renovation of the hotel throughout 2018 and 2019, and will introduce Marriott's Le Méridien brand in St. Louis upon completion in August 2020.

References

Renaissance Revival architecture in Missouri
Hotel buildings completed in 1913
Hotels in St. Louis
Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
National Register of Historic Places in St. Louis
1913 establishments in Missouri
Downtown St. Louis
Buildings and structures in St. Louis
Scout X-1A. Scout X-1A was an American  sounding rocket which was flown in 1962. It was a five-stage derivative of the earlier Scout X-1, with an uprated first stage, and a NOTS-17 upper stage.

The Scout X-1A used an Algol 1C first stage, instead of the earlier Algol 1B used on the Scout X-1. The second, third and fourth stages were the same as those used on the Scout X-1; a Castor 1A, Antares 1A and Altair 1A respectively. The fifth stage was the NOTS-17 solid rocket motor, which had been developed by the Naval Ordnance Test Station.

The Scout X-1A was launched on its only flight at 05:07 GMT on 1 March 1962. It flew from Launch Area 3 of the Wallops Flight Facility. The flight carried an atmospheric re-entry experiment to an apogee of , and was successful. Following this, the Scout X-1A was replaced by the Scout X-2.

References

 

1962 in spaceflight
X-1A