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THK-2. 

The THK-2 was a single-seat, single-engine aerobatic trainer aircraft developed in Turkey in 1944 intended as an advanced trainer. It was a conventional, low-wing cantilever monoplane with an elliptical planform and of wooden construction. The cockpit was enclosed and the main units of the tailwheel undercarriage retracted backwards into the wing.

Designed by Polish engineers who had come to Turkey to help establish the Türk Hava Kurumu factory, the first prototype flew in 1944 and the second flew the following year. This led to production in series, but only four further examples were built before the project was abandoned. When THK was taken over by MKEK, this was one of the designs selected for further work. However, although the designation MKEK-2 was allocated, nothing further came of this. The THK-2s were used by the Turkish Air Force in their intended role until the mid-1950s.

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1940s Turkish military trainer aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Turkish Aeronautical Association aircraft
ArrayFire. ArrayFire is an American software company that develops programming tools for parallel computing and graphics on graphics processing unit (GPU) chipsets. Its products are particularly popular in the defense industry.

Products
The company's first major product was Jacket, a library that extends MATLAB with GPGPU capabilities on CUDA-enabled Nvidia GPUs, released in June 2008 (version 1.0 in January 2009).

Jacket was followed by ArrayFire, a similar GPGPU extension for C, C++ and Fortran. There are three versions available, one for CUDA GPUs, one for OpenCL devices and another for regular CPUs.

ArrayFire is partially funded by DARPA, who uses it in its "Memex" dark web search software.

Since version 3.4 the library is Open Source.

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Nvidia
American companies established in 2007
Software companies based in Georgia (U.S. state)
GPGPU
Companies based in Atlanta
Technology companies of the United States
Software companies of the United States
2007 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Software companies established in 2007
Arthur Reid Lempriere. Major-General Arthur Reid Lempriere (Ewell, Surrey, England, 22 August 1835 – 10 April 1927) was a British Army officer of the Royal Engineers, including of the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment that founded British Columbia as the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866).

He was in the third and the largest group of Royal Engineers to arrive in British Columbia in 1859. He served in British Columbia until 1863. Lempriere surveyed the route from Hope to Lytton through the Coquihalla River in 1859. Three geographical features are named for him in the northern reaches of the North Thompson River and along British Columbia Highway 5 in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District of the British Columbia Interior, between the communities of Kamloops to the south and Tete Jaune Cache-Valemount to the north:
, in the Monashee Mountains, with an elevation of 
Lempriere, a railway point on the Canadian National Railway transcontinental main line (used today by freight traffic and the Via Rail Canadian train). There was a post office from 1942 to 1945 when Japanese were interned at a work camp in this area.
Lempriere Creek, a right tributary of the North Thompson River, which has its mouth just upstream of confluence of the North Thompson River and the Albreda River, where the North Thompson River turns 90° right and heads south.

A fourth feature named after him is Lempriere Bank, an ocean bank south of Aristazabal Island in the Pacific Ocean on the British Columbia Coast.

He retired from the British Army in 1882.

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1835 births
1927 deaths
Royal Engineers officers
Pre-Confederation British Columbia people
English explorers of North America
Explorers of British Columbia
British surveyors
LNWR Experiment Class. The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) had two classes of steam locomotive identified as Experiment Class:

 LNWR Webb Experiment Class of the 1880s, by Francis Webb
 LNWR Whale Experiment Class, 4-6-0 1905- by George Whale

Also, there was the Experiment Goods, LNWR 19in Express Goods Class of 1906
THK-16. 

The THK-16 Mehmetçik (Turkish: "Little Mehmet") was an aircraft designed in Turkey in the early 1950s to provide the Turkish Air Force with a domestically designed and built jet trainer. The project was cancelled without the aircraft having been built.

As designed, the THK-16 was to have been a conventional, mid-wing monoplane with the pilot and instructor seated in tandem under a long canopy. Power would have been provided by two small turbojets mounted in underwing nacelles, and construction was to have been metal throughout. Design work was practically complete in 1952 when Türk Hava Kurumu was bought out by MKEK. Although the THK-16 was selected as one of the THK designs that MKEK felt was worth continuing with and allocated the designation MKEK-3, the Turkish Air Force purchased the Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star as its jet trainer and work on the local design was abandoned.

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1950s Turkish military trainer aircraft
Twinjets
Turkish Aeronautical Association aircraft
Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Kosan Biosciences. Kosan Biosciences, Inc. (stock symbol: KOSN), was a pharmaceutical company which dealt with cancer therapeutics medications.  The company was working on advancing two new classes of anticancer agents through clinical development: heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) inhibitors and epothilones.

Their technology platform was based on manipulation of the genetic instructions of microbes for making natural product polyketides. Rearranging the modular units in natural polyketide synthases, combining modules from different enzymes, and incorporating novel synthetic chemical starter units enabled them to produce a wide variety of novel polyketides that would be difficult to obtain via organic synthesis alone.

Founded in 1995, Kosan was headquartered in Hayward, California and had approximately 90 employees.  Kosan was funded in part as a venture capital start-up with funds from Sofinnova Ventures of California.
Kosan was one of a small number of biotech companies focussed on polyketide drug discovery and development. Another was Biotica Technology Ltd.. 

On June 26, 2008, Kosan Biosciences was acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb for $190M.

Discodermolide
Discodermolide is a recently discovered polyketide natural product found to be a potent inhibitor of tumor cell growth.  Kosan had been working in conjunction with the Amos B. Smith research group on a preclinical drug development program.

Management
Helen S. Kim was the President & CEO of Kosan Biosciences in 2008 until it was sold to BMS.  One member of the Board of Directors, Dr. Jean Deleage, was one of the founders and managing partners of Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., a private venture capital firm which invested in information technology, communications, and healthcare/biotechnology companies.

References

External links
Bristol-Myers Squibb acquires Kosan (26 June 2008)
Chemical & Engineering News, (1 March 2004), "Scaled Up Synthesis of Discodermolide
KOSAN BIOSCIENCES INC SEC FILINGS

Organizations established in 1995
Companies based in Hayward, California
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
1995 establishments in California
Nike Flywire. Nike Flywire is a thread, composed of vectran or nylon, developed by Nike to minimize weight and maximize support, and used in the upper part of a sneaker. Shoes containing Flywire became available for consumer purchase in 2008.

Development
Flywire was created by Jay Meschter, Director of Innovation at Nike. He began by taking a foot last and marking the key points of where a shoe needs to support the foot. When Meschter saw an embroidery machine, he determined the machine could be used to make long stitches. Long stitches allow lightweight fibers to support the foot in key points, instead of using layers of material that support the whole foot.

Nike designed Flywire with inspiration from a suspension bridge, where many cables provide support. This allows support to be placed where necessary, especially in the forefoot (metatarsus and toes) and heel. The cables are designed to wrap around the foot like tendons.

Vectran
 
Nike adapts Vectran fibers, which are produced by Kuraray, into embroidery threads, before use in the shoe.  Vectran fibers are thinner than human hair, and relatively inexpensive.  Vectran is lightweight, flexible, and high in tensile strength, the stress at which material deforms (five times stronger than steel), which makes it an ideal component for synthetic fibers.  Vectran has also been used by NASA and in bicycle tires, among other things.

Weight
Due to the Vectran fibers, shoes containing Nike Flywire weigh as little as 93 grams, "approximately the weight of a Snickers bar with a bite missing."  There is little excess weight because the upper is very thin, and the Vectran fibers are only added where support is needed.  Shoe weight can be reduced up to 50% through the use of Flywire.  Track spikes (running shoes with spikes added for traction) containing Flywire are now lighter than Michael Johnson's famous Golden Shoes of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.  These spikes are so light that athletes claim they are like "a second skin" or "spikes coming out of their feet." This is a goal that Bill Bowerman tried to achieve as co-founder of Nike and a spike designer.

Shoes
Many Nike shoes contain Flywire. These shoes are designed for a variety of activities and sports, including running, athletics, basketball, badminton, football, American Football, baseball and tennis. The athletics shoes were debuted at the 2007 World Championships at Osaka, while the rest made their first appearance at the 2008 Summer Olympics, in Beijing, China, though all are now available for consumer purchase.

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Shoes
Nike, Inc.
Lomax (kit car). The Lomax is a British kit car produced since 1982 by several companies. It is a custom two-seater retro-style fibreglass body on a Citroën 2CV or Citroën Dyane chassis and components, and is available in three-wheeler and four-wheeler designs.

History 
The Lomax was introduced in 1982 by the Lomax Motor Co. of Willoughton, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. It was designed by Nigel Whall.

In the late 1980s production was transferred to the Mumford Motor Co. of Gigg Mill, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, where it was produced until the early 1990s. From then it was built at Cradley Motor Works in Cradley Heath, West Midlands. By 2009 the car was still being produced by Cradley Motor Works in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.

Since the early 1990s the Lomax has been sold in the Netherlands and Germany.

Design

The design is slightly reminiscent of the better-known Morgan Three Wheeler of the 1930s. The car consists of a fibreglass body mounted on an un-modified Citroën 2CV or Dyane floorpan and engine. Later a steel tube chassis was introduced. A Lomax is usually an open two-seat roadster. 

The original 1982 prototype had a bespoke four-wheel chassis which was specially constructed, and of shorter wheelbase than the donor car, a Citroën Ami. Early "three-wheeler" variants were actually four-wheelers, with two rear wheels closely paired as in some Heinkel bubble cars of the 1960s. Later versions were genuine trikes, three wheels with two wheels in front and one at the back, this allowed to benefit from the (lower) 3-wheel UK road-tax. A four-wheel variant followed later, using an unmodified 2CV chassis.

The naming convention was the number of cylinders, the number of seats, and the number of wheels. The common model designations are 223 (2 cylinders, 2 seats, 3 wheels) or 224 (2 cylinders, 2 seats, 4 wheels). A few examples used the engine from the Citroën GS or GSA, designated 424 (4 cylinders, 2 seats, 4 wheels).

The Lomax weighs approximately , delivering a top speed of approximately  with a 602cc 2CV/Dyane engine. Petrol consumption is -.

Variants

The major variants of the Lomax are:
 Lomax 223: Three-wheeler
 Lomax 224: Four-wheeler
 Lomax Lambda 3/4: Redesigned rounder versions of the 223 and 224 respectively
 Lomax Supertourer: Four-wheeler resembling a 1930s touring car, retaining the 2CV's cooling fan and heat exchanger instead of the simple air cooling of other models

See also 

 Burton (car)

References

External links

Lomax Cars (archived 27 June 2023)
Cradley Motor Works, Lomax manufacturers
Lomax-Club (Germany)
Lomax, 2CV kit car club, Netherlands

Citroën 2CV
Front-wheel-drive vehicles
1990s cars
Cars powered by boxer engines
Kit car manufacturers
Motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Cars introduced in 1982
KTM Class 29. The KTM Class 29 is a class of mainline diesel electric locomotives built in China by Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Company for operations by Keretapi Tanah Melayu of Malaysia on its freight services.

History

20 locomotives were acquired around 2005, but proved less than reliable than the Class 26 bought at the same time. By 2008 only 5 out of 20 were in service due to the high number of technical problems. As a consequence KTM had to lease locomotives from India at a cost of $1000 per train per day. As the units were still under warranty, the manufacturing company was called in and a KTMB task force was formed to fix the problem. By December 2008 eighteen units had been overhauled and were in working order.

While the main objective of the locomotive is to pull heavy freight, it easily handles local shuttle trains with an operating speed averaging 110 km/h.

See also
New Zealand DL class locomotive, similar design manufactured by Dalian Locomotive Company for export to New Zealand

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External links 

Images

Video
, KTMB Class 26 delivery ceremony

CRRC Dalian locomotives
Co-Co locomotives
Keretapi Tanah Melayu
Diesel–electric locomotives of Malaysia
Metre gauge diesel locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 2005
David Culler. David Ethan Culler (born November 12, 1959) is a computer scientist and former chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a principal investigator in the Software Defined Buildings (SDB) project at the EECS Department at Berkeley and the faculty director of the i4Energy Center. His research addresses networks of small, embedded wireless devices, planetary-scale internet services, parallel computer architecture, parallel programming languages, and high performance communication. This includes TinyOS, Berkeley Motes, PlanetLab, Networks of Workstations (NOW), Internet services, Active Message, Split-C, and the Threaded Abstract Machine (TAM).

Culler earned his B.A. at UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. at MIT.

Culler was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for contributions to scalable parallel processing systems, including architectures, operating systems, and programming environments. He is also a Fellow of both ACM and IEEE. In 2003 his work on networks of wireless sensors earned him a place on Scientific American's annual list of top 50 innovators and Technology Review's “10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World.” More recently, he has received the 2013 SIGCOMM Test of Time Award for PlanetLab, and the 2013 Okawa Prize.

Culler founded Arch Rock, a company that makes wireless networked sensors. He recently joined Google as a distinguished engineer.

David Culler is the son of noted computer scientist Glen Culler, and the brother of distinguished pure mathematician Marc Culler.

References

External links
 Culler's webpage

Living people
American computer scientists
2002 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Researchers in distributed computing
1959 births
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
People from Berkeley, California
Integrated Overhead SIGINT Architecture. Integrated Overhead SIGINT Architecture, or IOSA, incorrectly reported to be codenamed Intruder, was a spy satellite system to be operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office, which would have replaced the Mentor and Mercury systems. The satellites were reported to have been under development in 1995. The Intruder system was designed to combine the electronic signals intelligence (ELINT) and communications intelligence (COMINT) roles of signals Intelligence (SIGINT) spacecraft, which had previously been performed by different satellites, the Rhyolite and Vortex series respectively.

It was reported that NROL-26 may be the launch designation for the first Intruder satellite. NROL-26 was scheduled to launch in 2005 on a Delta IVH from launch complex Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, but was delayed due to a number of issues. It launched on 17 January 2009, and subsequently designated USA-202. Documents leaked in 2013 however showed that recent launches had been of Orion satellites - an alternative name for the Mentor series. The same document also confirmed that the reported codename for IOSA, Intruder, was associated with a different programme; the Naval Ocean Surveillance System.

References

Reconnaissance satellites of the United States
Signals intelligence satellites
Excelsior Manxman. The Manxman was a motorcycle designed and built by H. J. Hatch and Eric Walker of the Excelsior Motor Company in Tyseley, Birmingham. Although it never won the Isle of Man TT, the Manxman was a very popular and reliable motorcycle which was successful in international racing and the Manx Grand Prix.  Production was halted by World War II and did not resume.

Development

The Excelsior Motor Company did not make engines before World War II so Excelsior's Eric Walker worked in partnership with Blackburne's Ike Hatch, building on ideas developed by Rudge motorcycles on four valve engines to develop an entirely new twin camshaft design with pushrod operated valves that they called the 'mechanical marvel'. This was planned as the power unit for a new motorcycle to be called the Marvel and the prototype won the 1933 lightweight TT.

It was decided however, that this engine was too complicated for mass production so the team developed a simpler two valve single overhead cam configuration in 250cc, 350 and 500cc capacities which were all marketed as the Manxman and had the Isle of Man emblem on the engine casing and a bronze cylinder head. Although riders found it heavy, the Manxman handled well and was very reliable - if a bit over engineered.

Road and race versions were produced but the 500 was only ever marketed as a sports roadster. In 1936 a four valve version was developed  and won second place in the 1936 and 1937 Lightweight TT races.  The Manxman also became a popular choice for the independent TT racers or privateers who went on to achieve many wins until World War II stopped them racing. In 1937 the company developed a shorter-stroke 250 engine and an aluminium-alloy cylinder head with right-hand exhaust port.

References

See also
List of motorcycles of the 1930s

Motorcycles of the United Kingdom
Motorcycles introduced in the 1930s
Class 18. Class 18 may refer to:

 A18-class container ship
 Belgian Railways Class 18 (Alsthom)
 Belgian Railways Class 18 (Siemens)
 British Rail Class 18
 Fenniarail Class Dr18
 GER Class T18
 NSB Class 18
The DRG Class 18 were German steam locomotives operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn between the wars. These express tender locomotives had been taken over from the state railways and had a 4-6-2 (Pacific) wheel arrangement.

 Class 18.0: Saxon XVIII H
 Class 18.1: Württemberg C
 Class 18.2: Baden IV f
 Class 18.3: Baden IV h
 Class 18.4-5: Bavarian S 3/6
 Class 18.6: PKP Class Pm36
 Class T 18.10: turbine locomotives

See also
 DR 18 201
 Type 18 (disambiguation)

Steam locomotives of Germany
2′C1′ locomotives
Boingz. Boingz is a Wii game developed by NinjaBee and published by RealNetworks that was released on November 24, 2008. It costs 1000 Wii Points.

Overview
Boingz sees the player trying to help creatures lost on an alien world by helping them find the magical gates that will take them home. The game features 30 side scrolling levels.

Using the Wii Remote, the players is able to flick around stretchy alien creatures by grabbing their antenna and pulling it in an opposite direction to launch them around the platforms. Around the level are additional creatures to flick around and use to solve puzzles. The player can also stretch the creature out and attach a thumbtack to their antenna to attach objects to them in order to pick up items and to pull down weights to open doors to other areas. However, the player will also have to find and collect Twinklies to power-up their creatures' elastic-power.

Reception
IGN gave it a 7/10, calling the game "fun and unique" with "satisfyingly clever" gameplay mechanics and level design, though they also weren't impressed by the presentation. 1UP.com gave it a C− grade, calling the idea "clever" but with gameplay that "steadily gives way to restless fatigue" and graphics that are "a complete eyesore".

References

NinjaBee games
North America-exclusive video games
2008 video games
Video games developed in the United States
WiiWare games
Wii-only games
Wii games

Cooperative video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Orba (satellite). Orba, also known as X-2, was intended to be the first satellite launched by a British rocket. It was launched at 00:34 GMT on 2 September 1970, atop a Black Arrow rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, but failed to reach orbit after the second stage of the carrier rocket shut down 13 seconds early. Orba was built from spare parts due to funding restrictions, and was to have been used to measure upper atmosphere density by monitoring the decay of its orbit.

See also

Prospero X-3
Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes

References

Satellite launch failures
Space programme of the United Kingdom
Spacecraft launched by Black Arrow rockets
Spacecraft launched in 1970
20th-century rocket launches
BBÖ 114. The BBÖ 114 was a class of one Austrian three-cylinder 2-8-4 express train steam locomotive.

At the same time as plans were developed for the two-cylinder 214 series, design emerged in the Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik for a three-cylinder engine. In order to be able to compare the two designs it was decided to build a prototype of each one. Number 114.01 was built in the Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik and delivered in 1929.

In general the advantage of three-cylinder locomotives lies in their more powerful torque and a better balance of the rotating masses, which leads to lower wear and tear. The disadvantage is a higher fuel consumption due to the three steam engines. This was true in the case of 114.01 which in comparison with locomotive 214.01 had a 9% higher consumption of coal. Difficult access to the inside gear and the associated poor maintainability of locomotive 114.01, combined with the fact that 214.01 did better in the trial runs, led to the 214s going into series production. Number 114.01 remained in service with the BBÖ as a one-off.
A visible difference from the 214s is the visible parts of the unusual Marshall valve gear with its rotating camshaft.

In 1938 the Deutsche Reichsbahn redesignated this locomotive as number 12 101.

Number 114.01 was employed on the locomotive schedules (Umlaufplan) of the 214s and, amongst other things, was allowed to head the first Arlberg Orient Express after the Second World War. In 1948 it was converted to oil-firing due to the shortage of coal. On 6 August 1949 the middle cylinder broke. Due to the irreparable damage the locomotive was sidelined and dismantled in 1953.

See also 
 Deutsche Reichsbahn 
 List of DRG locomotives and railbuses

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2-8-4 locomotives
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Wiener Neustädter locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1929
Standard gauge locomotives of Austria
1′D2′ h3 locomotives
Passenger locomotives