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Abdulbari Al Arusi. Abdulbari Al Arusi (born 1961) is a Libyan engineer and politician who served as oil and gas minister of Libya from 14 November 2012 until 22 January 2014.

Early life and education
Arusi was born in Zawiya in 1961. He obtained a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Tobruk University. In 1988, he received a master's degree from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He also holds a PhD from the same university in engineering and corrosion science, which he received in 1992.

Career
After his graduation, Arusi worked in the Sirte Oil Company in different management positions from September 1992 to June 1998. He was then detained in prison between 1998 and 2006. After being released, he held various executive management positions in many engineering companies, including the one in the United Kingdom. He served as executive manager of Libya's Green Holding Company from the end of 2011 to November 2012.

In November 2012, he was appointed minister of oil and gas to the cabinet headed by prime minister Ali Zeidan. Arusi replaced Abdulrahman Ben Yezza as oil minister. Shortly after his appointment, in December 2012, Arusi announced the establishment of the National Corporation for the Exploration and Production of Oil and Gas, a national oil company based in Tripoli. In February 2013, he reported that a new oil area was found in Ghadames Basin, about 650 km southwest of Tripoli, in the western Libya. Arusi's term ended in January 2014 and Omar Shakmak was appointed acting oil minister.

Gaddafi era
Arusi and his family members experienced several critical events during the era of Muammar Gaddafi. In June 1998, he was detained and sentenced on the grounds that he was allegedly a member of the underground Muslim Brotherhood movement. He spent eight years of a life-sentence in Abu Salim prison. He was released in April 2006. His father also spent some time in Abu Salim in the early 1970s. One of his brothers was killed in Zawiya during the Libyan Civil War. In addition, another brother was fatally beaten and lost an eye during the uprising. Arusi's son Abdulrahman was also jailed for a month in July 2011.

Membership
Arusi is a member of the American Association of Corrosion Engineers and a member of the British Institute of Corrosion.

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External links

1961 births
Libyan engineers
Libyan prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
Libyan politicians convicted of crimes
Living people
Oil ministers of Libya
Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Libya
Alumni of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Chemical engineers
Pennant International. Pennant International Group Plc comprises a number of individual companies which provide engineering products and services to wide range of markets in the UK, Canada, Australasia and the US. Its head office is in Cheltenham, UK.

The Company operates through three segments:
Training Systems, both hardware and software based, in the defence sector,
Data Services, to the defence, rail, power and government sectors,
Software, including the Omega suite of software sold into the Canadian and Australian defence sectors.

GenFly

Origins
The GenFly Generic Flying Controls Trainer is an aircraft maintenance training rig developed in the late twentieth century for the Royal Air Force, for use in training airframe mechanics and technicians, particularly in maintenance activities involving flying controls and aircraft hydraulics.

Service

The RAF took delivery of four GenFly units to RAF Cosford, UK. The training manuals were written to RAF aircraft maintenance documentation standards, in order to familiarise students with the format. All four rigs were assigned tail numbers from the RAF military aircraft register, to allow even greater realism in simulating aircraft documentation, while avoiding the possibility of confusion from fabricated tail numbers coinciding with those of real airframes. The tail numbers are: ZJ695, ZJ696, ZJ697 and ZJ698. The device entered service in 2001.

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Royal Air Force education and training
Aircraft simulators
Engineering software companies
Flight training
Military education and training
Training companies
Seth Darst. Seth A. Darst is a Jack Fishman Professor of molecular biophysics at the Rockefeller University. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2008.

Life and career
Darst earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1982. He continued his education with advisor Channing Robertson at Stanford University, where he earned both M.S. (1984) and Ph.D. (1987) degrees in chemical engineering. Darst completed postdoctoral training, also at Stanford, as an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow and a Lucille P. Markley Postdoctoral Scholar in the laboratory of Roger D. Kornberg. He joined the faculty at the Rockefeller University in 1992. Darst's research centers on the structural basis of transcription by exploring the enzymes involved in the process.

Honors and awards
2008 – Elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences
1995 – Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences
1994 – Irma T. Hirschl Charitable Trust Career Scientist

References

External links
 Microbe World audio interview with Dr. Seth Darst

Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
21st-century American chemists
Rockefeller University faculty
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
Stanford University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology
Comfort Systems USA. Comfort Systems USA, organized in Delaware and headquartered in Houston, Texas, provides mechanical and electrical contracting services, primarily HVAC, plumbing, piping and controls, off-site construction, monitoring and fire protection, and installation and servicing of electrical systems. The company has 44 operating units with 172 locations in 131 cities in the United States. It is ranked 629th on the Fortune 500. In 2023, the company was ranked 6th by Engineering News-Record on its list of the top 600 specialty contractors.

In 2023, 54.8% of revenue was from installation services in newly constructed facilities and 45.2% was from renovation, expansion, maintenance, repair and replacement services in existing buildings. In 2023, the company reported record revenue as a result of increases in demand for data centers, semiconductor fabrication plants, food, pet food, and pharmaceuticals.

History
In June 1997, 12 companies were merged into the newly-formed Comfort Systems USA, which then became a public company via an initial public offering.

In February 2002, after a decline in business after the September 11 attacks and facing $205 million in debt due the following year, the company sold 19 subsidiaries to Emcor for $164 million in cash and the assumption of $22 million of debt.

Acquisitions

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1997 establishments in Texas
1997 initial public offerings
Companies based in Houston
Companies in the S&P 400
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning companies
Guerrilla architecture. Guerrilla architecture is the hacking of existing buildings, often old, disused or distressed, adapted to a new function. Guerrilla architecture is both a social and political movement. It challenges the established architectural hierarchy by creating interventions in a very non-conformist way. Students tired of waiting for sustainable transformation in the built environment and disillusioned with the pace of change in architectural sustainability challenge hijack disused spaces to create socially responsible and sustainable designs. Buildings, spaces, attachments and interventions are often characterised by their parasitic or alien nature.

References

Architectural styles
Flowcode. Flowcode is a Microsoft Windows-based development environment commercially produced by Matrix TSL for programming embedded devices based on PIC, AVR (including Arduino), ESP32, Raspberry Pi and RP2040 and ARM technologies using graphical programming styles (such as flowcharts) and imperative programming styles (through C, State Machines and Pseudocode). It is currently in its tenth revision.

Flowcode is dedicated to simplifying complex functionality such as Bluetooth, Mobile Phones Communications, USB communications etc. by using pre-developed dedicated open source component libraries of functions. This is achieved by dragging virtual representations of hardware onto a visual panel, providing access to associated libraries. Flowcode is therefore ideal for speeding up software development times and allowing those with little programming experience to get started and help with projects. This makes it appropriate for the formal teaching of principles of programming microcontrollers.

Flowcode allows the user to develop and view their program using four different visual modes. These are the Flowchart view, the Blocks view (a graphical programming paradigm inspired by Blockly), the C code view and the Pseudocode view. There is also a fifth state machine way of entering code.

Flowcode also has a mode named App Developer which is capable of creating Windows based applications via a runtime executable. This allows the software to also create applications for testing or interacting with the embedded system.

Flowcode also has compatibility with Solidworks.

Notes

External links 
 Official Site

Programming languages
Embedded microprocessors
Integrated development environments
Ace Magic. The Ace Magic is an Indian ultralight trike, designed by John Penry-Evans and produced by Ace Aviation of Tamil Nadu. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design and development
The Magic was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of . The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of . It also complies with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules when equipped with a  fuel tank.

The Magic features a cable-braced hang glider-style high wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.

Designed in the United Kingdom and produced in India, the aircraft is imported into the UK by P&M Aviation.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminium tubing, with its two-surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  wingspan is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a twin-cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke, single-ignition,  Rotax 447 engine. Optional engines include the  Simonini Victor 1 Plus and the four-stroke NS.T NS650. A trim system, adjustable leg length and  panniers are all standard equipment. With the Cyclone wing the aircraft has an empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With a full fuel load of  the payload is .

A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including the high performance Cyclone, the sport 90% double surface Laser, the intermediate Touch and the beginner Spirit.

Specifications (Magic Cyclone)

References

External links

Ace Magic
2000s Indian sport aircraft
2000s Indian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
How They Got Game. How They Got Game is a project that aims to explore the historical and cultural impact of new media, through interactive simulation and video gaming. The involvement was through people researching many defined areas of computing, such as storytelling, strategy, simulation, sports, and shooters.

Project
The preservation of software and documentation is an important aspect of this project, where How They Got Game constructed a digital archive of the source material. This includes preserving both the digital code of the software itself as well as the experience surrounding the software, to the extent possible. This includes the cultural context of the software.

The project also introduced a Stanford class offered in the Science, Technology, and Society program called the "History of Computer Game Design".

Personnel
Henry Lowood and Tim Lenoir headed the project; and there were other contributors involved with the project, such as Casey Alt, Georgios Panzaris, Rene Patnode, Doug Wilson, Waynn Lue, David Lui, and Sarah Wilson. Technical developers involved were Casey Alt and Zachary Pogue.

Henry Lowood is the Harold C. Hohbach Curator of History of science and technology, and film and media collections at Stanford University. He has been an employee of the university for 32 years. He began his profession immediately after graduating from the University of California. 

Lowood began his profession at Stanford University as an ordinary librarian in the 1980s; he was soon promoted to his current role. Since 2000, Lowood has headed a project named "How They Got Game". The main focus of the project is the history and preservation of digital games, virtual worlds, and interactive simulations as new media forms now merging. The research was conducted in five main areas of computer games: storytelling, strategy, simulation, sports, and shooters. He spoke to Robert Ashley in an episode of A Life Well Wasted about the project.

Impact
One outcome of the project is the Machinima Archive, which has been exhibited in two museums in 2003 and 2004, which features the worlds of computer games, art, and military simulation. The Machinima Archive is a joint effort of the Internet Archive, the How They Got Game project, the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences, and Machinima.com. The archive is a collection of machinima films, which can be found on the Internet Archive, and accepts Machinima productions from various internet publishers and other producers.

References

History of video games
Droid Assault. Droid Assault is a top-down scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Puppy Games and released on May 2, 2008 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

The game received mixed reviews from critics, praising its art style and gameplay but calling its length short.

Gameplay 
Droid Assault is heavily based on the gameplay of Paradroid. The game takes place in what is implied to be a spaceship where the player controls a basic model of robot. The player must take control of other robots in order to progress, but only if they have enough "transfer points" to hack into them. The old model then turns into an AI follower of the player and automatically targets enemies. The player can then change between any of the droids in their "robot army" at no cost. Ultimately, the player must face off against a boss robot that is stronger than usual.

Plot 
The game lacks a story, but its setting is implied through textual descriptions of the various droids. The game takes place sometime in the future, with the droids being used for purposes ranging from civilian to military.

Reception 
Droid Assault received mixed reviews from critics.

Silviu Stahie of Softpedia gave the game an 85/100, calling the concept "interesting" and the graphics beautiful, saying the only con was that sometimes the action on screen became too hectic.

Michael Krosta of 4Players gave the game a 66/100, concluding the game is "pleasantly" fast-paced and that the graphics are charming, but said that the levels became repetitive and the game itself didn't last long before its charm wore off.

Alec Meer of Rock, Paper, Shotgun called the game "more than enough pixel-robot goodness for the price" and a "defiantly old-school affair".

Totalbiscuit called the game "super fun" and "strongly recommended" the game in a review, though he criticized the control scheme as in need of improvement.

References

External links 
 Official site

2008 video games
Windows games
MacOS games
Linux games
Retro-style video games
Science fiction video games
Scrolling shooters
Indie games
Video games about robots
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Puppy Games games
Civil Lines (disambiguation). Civil Lines may refer to:

Residential Area
Civil Lines is a number of residential areas built during the British Raj, present in several towns and cities of the Indian subcontinent.

Civil Lines, Allahabad, India
Civil Lines, Bareilly, India
Civil Lines, Budaun, India
Civil Lines, Delhi, India
Civil Lines (Delhi Metro), a station of Delhi Metro rail
Civil Lines, Jaipur, India
Civil Lines metro station (Jaipur), India
Civil Lines (Rajasthan Assembly constituency)
Civil Lines, Karachi, Pakistan
Civil Lines, Moradabad, India

Publications
Civil Lines (magazine), a 1990s Indian magazine

See also
 Civil Lines metro station (disambiguation)
Peckham Technology Inc. Peckham Technology Inc is a United States corporation based in the State of Washington that develops and manufactures complex electronics for military, aviation, and consumer applications.


Business
Peckham Technology Inc was founded in 2012 to perform consulting services for complex electronics in support of volume production activities.

Designs
Product designs include the World's Smallest Mode C and Mode S Aviation Transponders with ADS-B In and Out, Dual-Channel ADS-B Receivers with AHRS and integrated GPS and WiFi. Areas of expertise include radio frequency communications, microcontroller and FPGA, sensors and sensing systems, ultra-miniature and low-power designs for space-constrained and power-limited environments.

External links
Corporate Website
Partner Website

References

Electronics companies of the United States
Ryan Lance. Ryan Michael Lance (born May 21, 1962) is an American engineer and oilman. Since May 2012 he has been the chairman of ConocoPhillips.

Biography

Early life
Graduated from Great Falls High School in Great Falls, Montana. He received a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Montana Tech of the University of Montana in Butte, Montana.

Career
He started his career with ARCO Alaska in 1984. In 1989, he moved to the ARCO operations in Bakersfield, California. In 1992, he transferred to Midland, Texas, to work on ARCO's coalbed methane operations in the San Juan Basin. In 1994, he returned to Alaska as exploration engineering manager. From 1996 to 1998, he worked for Vastar Resources (a spin-off from ARCO, later merged with Amoco, and finally BP) in Houston, Texas, as planning manager. In 1998, he served as vice president of the Western North Slope for ARCO Alaska. In 2001, he returned to Houston as the general manager of Lower 48 and Canadian operations for the Phillips Petroleum Company. Upon the merger between Conoco, Inc. and Phillips Petroleum Company in 2002, he became Vice President Lower 48 for ConocoPhillips.  He has been chairman and CEO of ConocoPhillips since May 2012.

He serves on the boards of directors of Spindletop International, the American Petroleum Institute and the Independent Petroleum Association of America. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

He sits on the advisory board of his alma mater, Montana Technological University.

References

Living people
Montana Technological University alumni
American chief executives of energy companies
ConocoPhillips people
ARCO
Amoco
People from Great Falls, Montana
1962 births
Great Falls High School alumni
PTE technique. The Photothermoelectric (PTE) effect is based on the Seebeck effect, where the heating is achieved by absorbing light on a thermoelectric (TE) material. Synonymous to PPE technique for thermal characterization of materials, PTE can be used to thermally characterize both thermoelectrics (acts as sensor and sample) and other sample materials (while acting as a sensor).
An advantage of such sensors stems from their wide temperature range of applicability since pyromaterials are limited to its curie temperature. On the other hand, in order to obtain a useful signal from TE material, depends on its Seebeck coefficient, comparatively large amount of heat (light excitation) has to be deposited on the material. As far as now, Frequency domain PTE technique is in its preliminary stage for the thermal characterization of materials. Advances were done in liquid thermoelectrics as well on PTE.

References

Materials testing
PLA Information Engineering University. The Information Engineering University (IEU) is a military university in Zhengzhou, Henan, under the People's Liberation Army. It was established in 1999. Before that, it was named as the PLA Information Engineering Institute.

The name Zhengzhou Information Science and Technology Institute is used as a cover by researchers from the university, when they wish to hide their affiliation with the Chinese military. The name Zhengzhou Institute of Surveying and Mapping has been used for a similar purpose – that institute, officially known as the PLA Institute of Surveying and Mapping, was integrated into the PLA Information Engineering University in 1999.

It is reputed to be a center for information warfare research.

See also 

 Academic institutions of the armed forces of China
 Chinese information operations and information warfare

References 

 
Military academies of China
Educational institutions established in 1999
1999 establishments in China
People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
Universities and colleges in Zhengzhou
1999 in Zhengzhou
Alfons Baiker. Alfons Baiker (born April 14, 1945 in Zürich) is a Swiss Chemist specializing in Catalysis. Baiker studied chemistry at ETH Zurich. After obtaining his PhD in 1974 he followed several post-doctoral stays at various universities. In 1989 he became a full professor in catalysis and reaction engineering at ETH where he worked until his retirement in 2010.

Research 
Dr. Baiker's research covers a wide range of topics, including:
Asymmetric catalysis, chiral surfaces, catalytic oxidation, utilization of carbon dioxide in catalytic synthesis, environmental catalysis, reactions in supercritical fluids, flame synthesis of catalysts and in situ spectroscopy of catalytic surface processes.

References

External links 
 Biography at ETH Zürich home page 
 Group's Home page
 Alfons Baiker's Festschrift. J. Phys. Chem. C 115(4), 841-1374

1945 births
Living people
Swiss chemists
ETH Zurich alumni
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Linsum Bridge. The Linsum Bridge is a bridge in Kampung Linsum at Rantau, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia which crossing Simin River. At the time of construction, the 50-metre bridge was the world's longest single span ultra-high performance ductile concrete (UHPdC) bridge as the first of its kind in the country.

References 

Bridges completed in 2011
Bridges in Negeri Sembilan
Seremban District