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James Allison (motorsport). James Allison (born 21 February 1968) is a British motorsport designer and engineer, best known for his accomplishments in Formula One, where he is the technical director of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team.

Early life
Born in Louth, Lincolnshire, the son of former Royal Air Force officer, Air Chief Marshal Sir John Allison, and Jill Allison, James was educated at Abingdon School and Cambridge.

Career

Benetton, Larrousse, and Ferrari (1991–2005)
After graduating from Cambridge in 1991, Allison joined the aerodynamics department of Benetton Formula. After a couple of years at Benetton, he moved to Larrousse as head of aerodynamics, before returning to Benetton as head of aerodynamics in the mid-1990s. In 2000, he moved to Ferrari for five years.

Renault/Lotus (2005–2013)
Allison returned to Benetton (by then known as Renault F1) in the role of deputy technical director in 2005. In 2009 Allison became technical director. In 2011, Renault F1 became Lotus Renault GP, before becoming Lotus F1 in 2012.

Return to Ferrari (2013–2016)
On 8 May 2013, Allison quit as Lotus F1 Team technical director to be replaced by Nick Chester. On 29 July 2013, Allison rejoined Ferrari as chassis technical director and then technical director until July 2016. On 27 July 2016, Allison quit as Scuderia Ferrari technical director following the death of his wife.

Mercedes-AMG (2017–present)
On 16 February 2017, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport announced that Allison was to join the team in the newly created role of technical director, following the departure of Paddy Lowe to Williams Grand Prix Engineering.

In April 2021, Allison became Chief Technical Officer at Mercedes-AMG. He also became the Chief Technical Officer at Ineos Team UK Britannia's America's Cup team. This role positioned Allison as technical lead of Ben Ainslie's campaign for the 37th America's Cup, with Mercedes-AMG F1 Applied Science partnering with their existing sailing and design teams, which include Ainslie, Giles Scott, and prominent naval architect and yacht designer Martin Fischer. On 21 April 2023, Allison returned to his previous position as Technical Director of Mercedes-AMG F1, swapping jobs with Mike Elliott, who had taken his place earlier.

Formula One Championships
Allison was part of the design team for the cars that won the following Formula One World Constructors' Championships and World Drivers' Championships:

See also
 List of Old Abingdonians

References

Formula One designers
Living people
1968 births
Ferrari people
People educated at Abingdon School
Mercedes-Benz in Formula One
Benetton Formula
AAC Seastar Sealoon. The AAC Seastar Sealoon is a Canadian amateur-built flying boat, under development by Amphibian Airplanes of Canada. The aircraft is intended to be supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The Sealoon is derived from the earlier biplane AAC SeaStar and features a cantilever mid-wing, two seats in side-by-side configuration in an enclosed cockpit that is  wide, retractable tricycle landing gear and a single pod-mounted engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from composites and aluminium with aircraft fabric covering. Its  span wing has an area of . The aircraft's recommended engine power range is  and standard engines used include the  Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplant. Construction time from the supplied kit is estimated as 1000 hours.

The company CEO, Hans Schaer, indicated in June 2010 that development of the Sealoon was being delayed by the ongoing Great Recession.

Specifications (Sealoon)

References

External links

Seastar Sealoon
2000s Canadian civil utility aircraft
Flying boats
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Amphibious aircraft
Zavod Slantsy. Zavod Slantsy OAO (former names: Gazoslantsevyi zavod and Slantsepererabatyvayushiy zavod Slantsy, ) is a petrochemical company based in Slantsy, Leningrad Oblast, Russia. 

The company was established in 1945 to supply Leningrad with oil shale gas, synthetic gas produced by oil shale pyrolysis.  In 1952, the first unit of a 75 MW oil shale-fired power plant and the first stage of the oil shale gas extraction plant was commissioned.  Since 1955 until 2000 the plant produced shale oil using Kiviter technology.  In addition, it produced other chemical products from oil shale. Oil shale was supplied by the mining company Leningradslanets.  In 1970, the company started petroleum coke tempering.

Zavod Slantsy was reorganization from Slantsepererabatyvayushiy zavod Slantsy in 1993.  In 1998, the 75 MW thermal power plant was converted from oil shale to natural gas. The company continued produce shale oil until June 2003.  As of today, the company produces polymeric petroleum resin and distillates, petroleum coke tempering and gas condensate refining.

Rosimushchestvo controls 41.75% shares (55.7% of votes) of the company while Viktor Vekselberg's Renova Group controls 40% since 2007.  Rosimushchestvo have tried several times to sell its stake. The new auction is scheduled for 7 December 2012.  In November 2011, Arbitration Court at Saint Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry based on the lawsuit filed by Gazprom,  started a supervisory procedure on Zavod Slantsy.

References

Chemical companies of Russia
Defunct oil companies of Russia
Petrochemical companies
Synthetic fuel companies
Oil shale companies
Oil shale in Russia
Companies based in Leningrad Oblast
Oil companies of the Soviet Union
Chemical companies of the Soviet Union
HMAS Nereus. HMAS Nereus (19) was formerly a luxury motor cruiser, commissioned as a channel patrol boat operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during the Second World War. She was one of thirteen similar vessels, known to Sydneysiders as the 'Hollywood Fleet'.

Prior to the War, she was a private vessel built by Lars Halvorsen & Sons and launched in 1939. She was 66 feet (20.12m) in length, with a breadth of 16 feet (4.88m) making her one of the larger vessels of the Hollywood Fleet.  She was powered by twin Chryslers eight cylinder marine engines, each of 175 hp.  She had six cabins, two forward, two amidships and two aft, toilets port and starboard, lounge, saloon, a fore cabin, pantry/galley complete with refrigerator and gas stove, an engine ‘room’ and a bridge control cabin and cockpit.  She was built of hardwood laminated timbers with Oregon stringers and planking.

She was requisitioned and fully commissioned into the RAN on 30 December 1941 under the command of Second Lieutenant E B Beeham RANVR. Nereus was armed with .303 Vickers machine guns fore and aft and depth charge racks on the stern.

Nereus played no role in the Battle of Sydney Harbour (often referred to as the attack on Sydney Harbour) and her whereabouts at the time has not been established. However, Muirhead-Gould's (commander of Sydney Harbour) 22 June Report, includes that on the night after the Battle, Nereus attacked and claimed to have sunk a submarine in Vaucluse Bay. At the time of his report, Muirhead-Gould believed the claim was genuine, but later considered the report to be a false sighting.

Fate
On 2 July 1942, just over a month after the Battle of Sydney Harbour, HMAS Nereus was destroyed by fire. At the time, she had just relieved HMAS Yarroma at the buoy in Obelisk Bay, Sydney Harbour./>

Notes

References

Blunt, William; Lolita and the Hollywood Fleet, First Edition, May 2020.   http://www.lolitaandthehollywoodfleet.com  This publication includes an analysis of specific aspects of the Battle of Sydney Harbour, failures by the Navy, and comprehensive details of the thirteen vessels that formed the 'Hollywood Fleet'
Cassells, Vic; For those in peril: a comprehensive listing of the ships and men of the Royal Australian Navy who have paid the supreme sacrifice in the wars of the twentieth century, Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1995

1939 ships
Patrol vessels of the Royal Australian Navy
Holding current (electronics). The holding current (hypostatic) for electrical, electromagnetic, and electronic devices is the minimum current which must pass through a circuit in order for it to remain in the 'ON' state. The term can be applied to a single switch or to an entire device.  A simple example of holding current is in a Spark gap.

In the most basic of circuits, if the current falls below the holding current even briefly, the circuit is turned 'OFF' (becomes blocked). However, complex circuits and devices may have different delays built-in between the time the current falls below this level and the time the device turns 'OFF'. Whether a device turns 'ON' when current is restored is a design issue.  The current necessary to restore the circuit to the 'ON' state, called the "threshold current" (See threshold voltage), may be much greater than the holding current, or only very slightly more.  Nevertheless, where the device is designed to turn back 'ON' upon restoration of the current and where the device is running at or about the holding current level, slight variations in the current can cause flicker as the device cycles 'OFF' and 'ON'. If flicker is undesirable, it can be reduced by the use of capacitors or other circuits, on the other hand, flicker can be used to measure small events as in a Geiger–Müller tube.

A related term is latching current, which is the minimum additional current that can make up for any missing input (gate) current in order to keep the device 'ON', in other words, to keep the device's internal structure latched.

See also
Silicon controlled rectifier (SCR), a device for maintaining a holding current
Thyristor, a device for maintaining a holding current
TRIAC, a device that can conduct current in either direction when it is turned on

Notes

Solid state switches
Power electronics
Sulochana Gadgil. Sulochana Gadgil is an Indian meteorologist who retired as Professor from the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS) in Bangalore, India. She has studied the how and why of monsoon, including farming strategies to cope with rainfall variability and modeling ecological and evolutionary phenomena. Her research led to the discovery of a basic feature of the sub-seasonal variation in the monsoon cloud bands.

She demonstrated that the monsoon is not a gigantic land-sea breeze  but instead is a manifestation of the seasonal migration of a planetary scale system which is seen over non-monsoonal regions as well. In collaboration with the farmers she derived farming strategies which are tailored to the rainfall variability of different regions in India.

Early life and education

She was born in 1944 in Pune. She hails from a famous genealogical lineage with her great-grandfather being a Minister in the state of Tonk known for his heroic efforts to help the people during the severe droughts. Her grandfather and father were respected physicians of their time. At the same time, her grandfather was a freedom fighter and hosted several active participants of the struggle against colonial rule at his house.  Her mother was a Marathi writer.

She did her early schooling in Pune, in the Marathi medium. She then went on for high-school education in English to Rishi Valley, a boarding school in Andhra Pradesh.  She came back to Pune for her undergraduate studies at Fergusson College where she opted for natural sciences and majored in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. At this juncture, she became engaged to Madhav Gadgil, a fellow student and together they decided to pursue scientific careers. They were both admitted with scholarships from Harvard.

Return to India
In 1971, she returned to India with her husband, who was also a Harvard scholar. She worked in the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology as a CSIR pool officer for two years. She worked with scientists like R. Ananthakrishnan and D.R Sikka during this period. She was recruited to the Centre for Theoretical Studies (CTS) as a member. Her husband was also recruited to CTS as a mathematical ecologist. Out of this, a new institution, the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS), was born.

Personal life
She is married to Madhav Gadgil, an ecologist and they have a daughter and a son.

See also 
 Madhav Gadgil
 Pune University

References

Living people
Indian oceanographers
Women meteorologists
Indian meteorologists
Women oceanographers
Indian climatologists
Harvard University alumni
Savitribai Phule Pune University alumni
Scientists from Bengaluru
Scientists from Maharashtra
20th-century Indian women scientists
21st-century Indian earth scientists
Women scientists from Maharashtra
20th-century Indian earth scientists
Indian women earth scientists
21st-century Indian women scientists
Women climatologists
1944 births
Isuzu Malaysia. Isuzu Malaysia Sdn Bhd (IMSB) was established on 6 September 2004 as a commercial vehicle manufacturer. The company headquarters located in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. The plant development is a joint venture between DRB-HICOM, Isuzu Operations (Thailand) Co. Ltd. and Isuzu Motors Asia Ltd. The management of the plant of about 700 workers is under the authority of the CEO Kenji Matsuoka. Isuzu Malaysia produces the Isuzu N-Series and the popular Isuzu D-Max. Over 5,000 vehicles are produced here annually.

Current models

Former model

External links
Isuzu Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. homepage
Isuzu Malaysia at Wikimapia

References
German Wikipedia page

2004 establishments in Malaysia
Privately held companies of Malaysia
Isuzu
Truck manufacturers of Malaysia
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2004
Companies based in Petaling Jaya
DRB-HICOM
SESAR European Airports Consortium. SESAR European Airports Consortium is a member in the European public-private partnership that is managing the development phase of the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) Programme .

Overview 
SEAC aims at participation in the SESAR project thus developing the future airport systems according to the ATM master plan.

Legal basis 
A consortium agreement defines how these close competitors will work together under the SESAR project.

Funding and budget 
SEAC is taking part in the 700M€ industrial share of the SJU PPP.

Members 
The members of the SEAC Consortium are:
 Aéroports de Paris ADP
 BAA Airports Ltd
 Flughafen München GmbH
 Fraport AG
 Schiphol Nederland B.V.
 Flughafen Zurich AG
 Avinor AS

References

External links 
 SEAC
 SESAR JU web site
 SESAR
 Description of the SESAR Work Packages
 EUROCONTROL

Air traffic control in Europe
Air traffic control organizations
International aviation organizations
Noracon. NORACON (NORth European and Austrian CONsortium) is a consortium member of the SJU PPP that is managing the Research & Development (R&D) phase of the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) Programme .

Overview 
NORACON aims at participation in the SESAR project thus developing the future ATM systems according to the
ATM master plan.

Among the activities are:
 i4D operation - giving improved correlation between airborne FMS and ground predicted trajectories
 Remote and virtual tower - e.g. allowing TWR ATCO to work for multiple airports

Legal basis 
A consortium agreement defines how these close competitors will work together under the SESAR project.

Funding and Budget 
NORACON is taking part in the 700M€ industrial share of the SJU PPP.

Members 
The members of the NORACON Consortium are:
 Austro Control
 Avinor
 EANS
 Finavia
 IAA
 Isavia 
 LFV
 Naviair
 Swedavia

External links 
 NORACON
 SESAR JU web site
 SESAR
 Description of the SESAR Work Packages
 EUROCONTROL

Air traffic control in Europe
Air traffic control organizations
International aviation organizations
BioSphere Plastic. BioSphere Plastic is a manufacturer of biodegradable additives. The company states that their product enhances the biodegradation of synthetic polymers by addition of their technology. It has a capacity at or around 5,800 metric tons a year and has filed for patent protection over their additive worldwide.

BioSphere Plastic released their test reports showing biodegradability of Polyethylene and Polypropylene for public review in July 2012.

BioSphere Plastic scientists have studied microbial biodegradation of polymers and have used this information to increase biodegradation of plastic made with their plastic additives.

Offices

BioSphere Plastic offices are located in Portland, OR, USA, Santiago, Chile, and Bangkok, Thailand.

See also
 List of companies based in Oregon

References

External links
Biosphere Plastic - official website

Companies based in Portland, Oregon
Bioplastics
Biodegradable materials
Volkert, Inc.. Volkert, Inc. is a privately held consulting firm based in Mobile, Alabama.  The company offers engineering, environmental consulting, program management, and construction services. It was founded in 1925 in New Orleans as Doullut and Ewin, Inc.  The company operates with a workforce of 1200 people at more than 50 offices in 20 states and the District of Columbia.  Volkert was ranked at 88 among the top 500 design firms in the United States in 2022 by Engineering News-Record.

History
The company was founded in 1925 in New Orleans as Doullut and Ewin, Inc.  It relocated to Mobile in 1946 and was reorganized as J. P. Ewin, Inc.  It was renamed as the Ewin Engineering Corporation in 1950.  David G. Volkert took possession of the company in 1954.  The company was renamed as David Volkert & Associates, Inc. in 1963.  An employee stock ownership plan was begun in 1975.  New subsidiaries, Volkert Construction Services, Inc. and Volkert Environmental Group, Inc. were created in 1984 and 1985.  It was again renamed in 1999, this time as Volkert & Associates, Inc.  David G. Volkert died in 2001.  The firm was inducted into the Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame in 2003.  It was renamed as Volkert, Inc. in 2009.  Its purchase of Allied Engineering and Testing Inc. of Fort Myers, Florida was announced in October 2012.  Allied Engineering and Testing Inc. employed 90 people in five Florida-based offices at the time of acquisition.  The company announced that there were no immediate plans to modify the operations or staffing levels of the acquired company.

Projects

Arena Stage, Washington, D.C.
Arlington National Cemetery Visitors Center, Arlington County, Virginia
Central Station, Birmingham, Alabama
Capital Beltway Bridge (I-495), Forest Glen Park, Maryland
Clearwater Pass Bridge, Clearwater, Florida
Cochrane–Africatown USA Bridge, Mobile, Alabama
Crescent City Connection approaches, New Orleans, Louisiana
Danziger Bridge, New Orleans, Louisiana
Interstate 10 twin bridges, Mobile Bay, Alabama
Interstate 165, North Section, Mobile, Alabama
L'Enfant Plaza roadway, Washington, D.C.
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway bascule bridges, New Orleans, Louisiana
McDuffie Terminal at Alabama State Docks, Mobile, Alabama
Mobile Regional Airport Terminal Complex, Mobile, Alabama
Panama City-Bay County International Airport Terminal, Panama City, Florida
Perdido Pass Bridge, Orange Beach, Alabama
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C.
Shelton State Community College campus, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Smithsonian Metro Station, Washington, D.C.
United States Navy Memorial, Washington, D.C.

References

Companies based in Mobile, Alabama
Consulting firms established in 1925
Engineering consulting firms of the United States
1925 establishments in Louisiana
EMC2. EMC2 may refer to:

EMC2
 EMC2, the corporate logo of the EMC Corporation

EMC2
 EMC2, Energy/Matter Conversion Corporation, Inc., a company founded by Robert W. Bussard to develop fusion power with a device called the Polywell
 EMC2, the first computer-based non-linear editing system, introduced in 1989 by Editing Machines Corp.
 LinuxCNC, formerly EMC2, the second variant of Enhanced Machine Controller, Linux-based CNC software
 EMC2, the gene that codes for the protein TTC35

Other uses
E = mc² is the equation for mass-energy equivalence.

See also
E=MC2 (disambiguation)
EMCC (disambiguation)
EMC (disambiguation)
HMS Group. The HMS Group is a diversified machine-building and engineering holding company, a manufacturer of pumps, compressors, and oil & gas equipment which production and engineering assets are located in Russia and abroad.

The company's headquarters are located in Moscow, Russia.

Main business activities
Engineering, manufacturing, and complex procurement of the following products and related services:
 Pumps, pumping systems, and pumping stations
 Compressors, gas compression systems, and compressor stations
 Skid-mounted and modular oil & gas field equipment
 Oil & gas processing technologies

Company structure
HMS Group is a joint-stock company established and operated in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation with subordinate enterprises located in Russia and Belarus. 
 HMS Group structure:
 Industrial pumps division
 HMS Livgidromash, Russia
 Livnynasos, Russia
 Promburvod, Belarus
 Bobruisk Machine Building Plant, Belarus
 Hydromashservice (integrated commercial company of HMS Group), Russia
 Dimitrovgradhimmash, Russia
 Nizhnevartovskremservice, Russia
 Oil & gas equipment and solutions business unit
 HMS Neftemash, Russia
 Sibneftemash, Russia
 Sibnefteavtomatika, Russia 
 Giprotyumenneftegaz, Russia
 Tomskgazstroy, Russia
 HMS Compressors business unit
 Kazancompressormash, Russia 
 NIIturbokompressor, Russia
 Oil & gas processing technologies business unit
 HMS Processing Technologies, Russia

HMS Group is a member of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), the Russian Engineering Union , the Russian Pump Manufacturers Association, the Union of Oil and Gas Equipment Producers, the New Gas Industry Technology Association of Equipment Manufacturers.

Company history
Hydromashservice, the bedrock of HMS Group, was founded in 1993. The main business was focused on supply pumps and systems to CIS countries (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Kyrgyzstan) and Russia.

By 1995 Hydromashservice had expanded and entered CIS markets and soon become one of the leaders specializing in the supplying pumps and systems for oil & gas, power, water and utilities.

Since 2003 Hydromashservice has been growing by organic growth coupled with active merging and acquiring pump and oilfield skid mounted equipment manufacturers, R&D and engineering companies as well as servicing and EPC companies:
 2003 – Livgidromash (since 07.07.2014 – HMS Livgidromash) joined the Group
 2004 – Acquisition of HMS Neftemash (before 26.08.2010 – Neftemash)
 2006 – Nizhnevartovskremservice was acquired
 2007 – Takeover of Tomskgazstroy, Dimitrovgradhimmash
 2008 – Promburvod (Minsk, Belarus)
 2009 – Sibnefteavtomatika was acquired
 2010 – Giprotyumenneftegaz became part of the Group 
 2011 – Sibneftemash, joined the Group and Bobruysk Machine Building Plant,
 2012 – Kazancompressormash, Russian compressor manufacturer,
 2013 – NIIturbokompressor was acquired

References

Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange
Manufacturing companies established in 1993
1993 establishments in Russia
Manufacturing companies based in Moscow
Pump manufacturers
Russian brands