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Microplus. Microplus were a range of GRP boats (glass reinforced plastic - or fibreglass) produced in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s.

Originally trading as Microplas, the company has its origins in the 1950s producing bodyshells for a small number of fibreglass sports cars. However, by 1958 the company had started producing Microplas boats.

In the mid-1970s the company split into two manufacturing groups, Microplas and Chrisidon Marine Limited. Microplas continued to produce body shells and later plastic pipes, while Chrisidon Marine manufactured the boats, by now renamed Microplus.

Models
Over the years of trading, Microplus / Microplas produced a wide range of boats, from small cabin cruisers, through to small fishing boats and a speedboat.

Generally the model name has a direct correlation with the overall length of the completed moulding.

Owners Club 

An enthusiast and owner has created a website and forum dedicated to the history, maintenance and running of the Microplus marque at:

Notes

Boats
Mangalia shipyard. Mangalia shipyard is a large shipyard located  south of the Port of Constanța, in Mangalia, Romania.

History

Daewoo Heavy Industries era
In 1997  Daewoo-Mangalia Heavy Industries  or DMHI was formed as a joint venture between South Korean company Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and the 2 Mai Shipyard in Mangalia. Since it was founded the company built over 127 new ships and repaired around 300 ships.

Damen era
In 2017, Damen Group acquired Daewoo's shares, and from 2018 it took control of the shipyard. Mangalia is the largest of Damen's shipyards. The ownership of the shipyard is shared between Damen and the Romanian Government, with Damen being responsible for its operations.

Operations
The shipyard is spread over an area of , has three dry docks with a total length of  and  of berths. In 2002 the company delivered two tankers of  to the Norwegian company Kleven Floro used for the transportation of orange juice. One of the main customers of the shipyard is the German company Hamburg Süd which ordered six container ships of around  each, and seven ships of  each as well as four tugboats. The company also signed in 2005 an agreement with Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A., NSB Niederelbe, Gebab and Conti Reederei companies for the construction of 12 container ships of around  each that will be delivered in stages until 2011 at a total cost of US$1.1 billion.

Goliath Crane 

In 2008 the shipyard bought the largest gantry crane in North America, the Goliath Crane, formerly located in Quincy, Massachusetts, from the General Dynamics company. Built in 1975, the crane, nicknamed Goliath, Big Blue, The Dog or Horse, has a height of , a span of , a weight of  and a lifting capacity of . The cranes's re-assembly started in March 2009, and from 2010 it started operations. Since Damen took over, the crane is now painted yellow with Damen's logo.

References 

Mangalia
Privatized companies in Romania
Shipyards of Romania
Shipbuilding companies of Romania
Companies of Constanța County
Opal (armoured personnel carrier). The Opal-I is a multi-purpose fully amphibious armoured personnel carrier developed and produced by HSW S.A. in Poland. APC is a development of MT-LB that was produced in HSW under licence. Major changes are reworked nose section and fitted propellers for better floating speed and manoeuvrability, new turret with 12.7 mm NSVT machine-gun instead of old one with 7.62 PKT and powered-up engine. Opal-II is a stretched variant with longer chassis with 7 road wheels on each side, like the 2S1 and MT-LBu and 300 hp (220 kW) SW680T engine.

Variants

WPT Mors
(WPT for Wóz Pogotowia Technicznego - lit. Technical Support Vehicle) - armoured recovery and repair vehicle with light crane, hydraulic dozerblade, welding equipment and an NBC detection system. The vehicle is a basic support vehicle of mechanized battalions equipped with BMP-1 IFV in Polish Land Forces.

TRI Hors
(TRI for Transporter Rozpoznania Inżynieryjnego - lit. Engineering Reconnaissance Vehicle) - engineering vehicle with basic equipment. In use with Polish Land Forces.

TRI-D Durian
It's TRI Hors additionally equipped with trailer-mounted UZR-3 mine clearing system. In use with Polish Land Forces.

ISM Kroton
(ISM for Inżynieryjny System Minowania – lit. Engineer Minelaying System, Kroton is Polish for Croton) - Opal-II based engineer vehicle with mine-scattering system UMN mounted on a cargo bed. UMN consists of 4 launchers, each with 20 launch containers for anti-personnel or anti-tank mines. The ISM has a crew of 2 and a combat weight of 15.25 tonnes. It entered service with Polish Land Forces in 2004.

WEM Lotos
Armoured ambulance vehicle. In service with Polish Land Forces.

ZWD-10R Łowcza-3
(ZWD for Zautomatyzowany Wóz Dowodzenia – lit. Automatic Command Vehicle) - Opal-I based air defence command vehicle equipped with Łowcza system. The troop compartment section of vehicle is higher than in standard vehicle. Also known as LA-3. Vehicle is used by Polish Land Forces.

LSPZRA Sopel
(LSPZRA for lekki samobieżny przeciwlotniczy zestaw rakietowo-artyleryjski – lit. light, self-propelled, anti-aircraft, combined gun and missile system; Sopel is Polish for Icicle) - air defence variant armed with twin 23 mm cannon and two 9M32M "Strela-2M" surface to air missiles. Vehicle designed as air-defence vehicle for mechanized units. Only prototype.

LSPZRA Stalagmit
(Stalagmit is Polish for Stalagmite) - development of Sopel, based on Opal-II, armed with ELOP turret with two 23 mm Model-4216 guns and 4 Grom surface to air missiles. This variant was equipped with more advanced guiding systems. Only prototype.

Bor
Ammunition re-supply vehicle for artillery units. Only prototype.

References

Tracked armoured personnel carriers
Armoured personnel carriers of Poland
Amphibious armoured personnel carriers
Tracked amphibious vehicles
Francis Wentworth-Sheilds. Francis Ernest Wentworth-Sheilds   OBE (also spelt Shields; 16 November 1869 – 10 May 1959) was a British civil engineer.

Francis Ernest Sheilds was born in London in 1869, the younger son of engineer Francis Webb Sheilds. Rev. Wentworth Wentworth-Sheilds was his elder brother. The family added the surname Wentworth in 1877. He was educated at St Paul's School in London and Owens College, Manchester.

He was appointed to be a Major of the Territorial Army's Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an unpaid, volunteer unit which provides technical expertise to the British Army, on 28 March 1925. He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the November 1944 to November 1945 session. Wentworth-Shields was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He died in 1959 in Southampton.

References

Bibliography

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1869 births
1959 deaths
Engineers from London
British civil engineers
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Engineer and Railway Staff Corps officers
Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Presidents of the Institution of Structural Engineers
Government Polytechnic College, Nagercoil. The Government Polytechnic College, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu is one of the two polytechnics founded in 1959 under the second five-year plan. It was initially functioning in the South Travancore Hindu College Premises with 120 students. At that time, there were three branches, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical & Electronics Engineering. It was then shifted to the present campus spreading over 20 hectares in September 1963. The technical High school was then part of the Government Polytechnic College, Nagercoil institution till the year 1986. At present, the curriculum has expanded into five diploma courses namely Civil, Mechanical, Electrical & Electronics And Electronics and Communication Engineering and Computer Engineering, with an intake of 60 students in each branch together with 20 per cent of students through lateral entry. Besides, part-time diploma courses are part of the institution since the academic year 1978–79.

The institution is approved by AICTE.

Number of students in full-time - 1020
Number of students in part-time - 227

External links
 Officoial website of the college

References

Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu
Universities and colleges in Kanyakumari district
Education in Nagercoil
Educational institutions established in 1959
1959 establishments in Madras State
Mozilla Skywriter. Mozilla Skywriter (formerly Bespin) was a Mozilla Labs project aiming to create an open, extensible, and interoperable web-based framework for code editing.

As of January 2011, it has been merged into Ajax.org's Ace and Cloud9 IDE projects.

Name 

The original name was a reference to Bespin, the fictional gas giant from Star Wars where "Cloud City" is located, which relates to the cloud computing nature of the project.

In a time preceding the 1.0 release the name of the project was changed to Skywriter due to "many compliments and complaints" over the previous one. This new name also holds a reference to coding in a cloud environment.

Features 

Skywriter encourages a more shared environment where data can be accessed from any machine.  This allows developers to collaborate on projects through a unified interface accessed through a web browser, no matter where they are physically located. The application is available to anyone after free registration on the website.

Skywriter currently supports syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, C#, C, Ruby, JavaScript and Wiring (used by the Arduino platform).

References

External links 

 
 Skywriter source-code repository (official)
  by Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith at Google I/O 2009
 Bespin source-code repository (old)
 Change log
 Cloud9

Web frameworks
Cloud applications
Electrification of Saint Petersburg Railway Division. Electrification of Saint Petersburg Railway Division. Direct lines from Saint Petersburg Finlyandsky–Vyborg and Saint Petersburg Finlyandsky–Beloostrov through Sestroretsk continued to work with steam haulage after the Russian Revolution up to World War II.

First project
In 1930, the first project for electrification of a railroad line of seashore–Beloostrov rings was developed. But the state boundary was in the urban-type settlement Beloostrov, and the authorities did not improve the transport accessibility area. They rightly believed that the availability of suburban passenger electric trains would increase the number of summer residents in direction of traffic.

Implementation
Without waiting for the end of the war, the chief of department of electrification of the October Railway Kirillov made an application for electrification of the seashore–Beloostrov rings and directions to station Terioki addressed to the Leningrad city town committee VKP managing transport department. After the war, the state border was pushed to a distance of more than 100 kilometers (over Vyborg) and the electrification program was not hampered.

Documents
Documents were issued on the basis of which the electrification of the Leningrad – Zelenogorsk line was authorized:
 Decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 858-316, dated 4 March 1950;
 The order of the Minister of Communications Beschev B. P. No. 176/Ц dated 17 May 1950;
 The final draft prepared by the Institute Lengiprotrans, engineers Keltuyala and Mazursky.

Timeline of electrification
Finlyandsky Rail Terminal–Zelenogorsk – 1951
Zelenogorsk–Ushkovo – 1952
Ushkovo–Roshchino – 1954
Roshchino–Kirillovskoye – 1968
Kirillovskoye–Vyborg – 1969
Vyborg–Luzhayka – 1977
International connection – 1978

Picture gallery

See also
 History of rail transport in Russia
 Miller's line
 Rail transport in the Soviet Union
 Railway electrification in the Soviet Union
 Riihimäki – Saint Petersburg Railway

References 

 
Railway lines in Russia
Short N.2B. The Short N.2B was a  prototype British patrol seaplane of the First World War, designed and built by Short Brothers.  A single-engined biplane intended to replace Short's successful Type 184, only two were built, the Fairey III being preferred.

Development and design
In 1917, the British Admiralty released Specification N.2B for a long-range patrol seaplane to replace the Short Type 184 in Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) service. The Short Brothers' response to this specification, designated Short N.2B was a single-engined,  unequal span biplane with two-bay folding wings.  While Short's wanted to fit a Rolls-Royce Eagle engine, this was rejected by the Admiralty owing to an expected shortage of these engines, with the Sunbeam Maori substituted.

Eight prototype Short N.2Bs were ordered together with competing aircraft from Fairey (the Fairey III). The first prototype flew in December 1917.  When it was tested at the Marine Experimental Aircraft Depot on the Isle of Grain in February 1918, it showed performance no better than the Short 184 with the same engine. While modification with a different propeller and attempts to reduce drag did improve performance, the Fairey III was preferred, being ordered into production in versions powered by both the Maori and Eagle engines, with only the first two prototype Short aircraft being built.

In May 1919, Shorts modified the second prototype with an Eagle engine salvaged from the modified Short N.1B Shirl Shamrock, which had crashed during an attempt to cross the Atlantic, the revised aircraft showing greatly improved climb rate but with speed only increased by 8 mph (13 km/h). The Maori was reinstated, and the second prototype delivered to the Royal Air Force in January 1920.

Specifications (Maori engine)

See also

Footnotes

References

Barnes, C.H. Shorts Aircraft since 1900. London:Putnam, 1967.
Bruce, J.M. British Aeroplanes 1914-18. London:Putnam, 1957.
Mason, Francis K. The British Bomber since 1914. London:Putnam, 1994. .

1910s British military reconnaissance aircraft
N.2B
Floatplanes
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1917
Enrique Canales. Enrique Canales (1936–2007), born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, was a technologist, editor, political analyst, painter, and sculptor.

Education and professional life 
Canales graduated as a mechanical engineer manager in the Technological Institute of Superior Studies of Monterrey and obtained a PhD specializing in technology in the University of Houston. Canales presents himself as a technologist, writer and painter His pictorial and plastic work was exhibited in numerous museums and galleries such as the Museum of Glass in Monterrey, Monterrey Museum, Gallery of Mexican Art, Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Chapultepec Museum, Museum José Luis Cuevas, all three of them located in Mexico City, Gallery quetzalli in Oaxaca, the Amparo Museum in Puebla (which has an extensive collection of Canales) and Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey, among others, he also exhibited his work in Bogota and Paris and developed a plastic work out of glass and clay. He had long stays in Brasil and the United States; in his journeys he found the diversity which has been projected in his work. He started working as an artist when he was 45 years old and without previous studies he started developing experimental methods in order to become self-educated. Five of his most beautiful stained glass windows are found in the Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey. He is considered the artista of both, colors and rebellion.

Canales Santos was also director and counselor in the most important companies from Monterrey, specially in the technology's development.

In addition to his work as an editorial column writer in the newspapers of 'Grupo Reforma' ', he collaborated with the newspaper' 'El Porvenir' 'Monterrey, Mexico. As a writer he developed themes of social criticism, science and technology. Had a capsule in TV Azteca Noreste.

Awards and distinctions 

On May 29, 2007, the Mexican artist received the 2007 Crystal Award from the Museo de Vidrio in the framework of the celebration of the fifteenth anniversary as a cultural space in Monterrey, Mexico, for his work developed in glass.
He was awarded the 'Medal of Civic Merit' "Presea Estado de Nuevo León" in the field of art in May 2007.

References

External links 
 Entrevista con Inmujeres de Nuevo León
 Exposición temporal en Museo del Vidrio de Monterrey
 Sobre la muerte de Enrique Canales en el periódico Milenio
 Sobre la muerte de Enrique Canales en el periódico El Porvenir
 Sobre Enrique Canales en el periódico Milenio
 Obras literarias de Enrique Canales

1936 births
2007 deaths
20th-century Mexican painters
Mexican male painters
21st-century Mexican painters
Mexican male journalists
20th-century Mexican sculptors
20th-century Mexican journalists
20th-century Mexican male artists
21st-century Mexican male artists
EN 1063. EN 1063, or CEN 1063, is a security glazing standard created by the European Committee for Standardization for measuring the protective strength of bullet-resistant glass. It is commonly used in conjunction with EN 1522 (Euronorm standard for Bullet Resistance in Windows, Doors, Shutters and Blinds) to form a ballistic classification system by which armored vehicles and structures are tested and rated. A similar classification system primarily used in the United States is NIJ Standard 0108, the U.S. National Institute of Justice's Standard for Ballistic Resistant Protective Materials which includes glass and armor plate.

Threat Levels 

The protective strength of a glazed shielding is rated based on the type of munitions, or threat level, it is capable of withstanding. There are 7 main standard threat levels: BR1-BR7 (also written as B1-B7), each corresponding to a different type of small arms fire. Additionally, there are two other threat levels (SG1 & SG2) corresponding to shotgun munitions.

To be given a particular rating, the glazing must stop the bullet for the specified number of strikes, with multiple strikes placed within 120mm of each other in the test sample which dimensions are 500±5mm x 500±5mm.

The glazing should also be shatterproof and produce no spalls after each strike. Lastly, the classification levels are numbered in order of increasing protective strength. Thus any sample complying with the requirements of one class also complies with the requirements of previous classes. However, the SG (shotgun) classes do not necessarily comply with BR classes.

The precise test requirements and bullet types used are as follows:

LB - Lead Bullet
FJ - Full Metal Jacket
FN - Flat Nose
RN - Round Nose
CB - Cone Bullet
PB - Pointed Bullet
SC - Soft Core (lead)
SCP - Soft Core (lead) & Steel Penetrator
HC - Hard core, steel hardness > 63 HRC

References 

Glass engineering and science
01063
Armour
Optical Mechanics, Inc.. Optical Mechanics, Inc. or OMI is a high-end American telescope and optics instrument manufacturer. OMI was founded in 2002 and produces observatory telescopes, Lidar telescopes, optical tube assemblies, telescope mirrors and reflective coatings for mirrors. OMI mirrors are used by other telescope makers such as Obsession Telescopes. Also taking on custom projects, they produced the 48-inch Dob, a  aperture, 4, Dobsonian telescope  called "Barbarella" and featured in Astronomy Technology Today magazine (June 2008 Issue). OMI is located in the US state of Iowa. OMI procured the assets of the former optics company Torus Technologies. OMI has an optics shop where it does work on telescopes.

OMI produced the 60 cm, f/10 telescope for TUBITAK National Observatory in Turkey. OMI built the telescope mount for the SuperWASP telescope. The Robotic telescope Rigel Telescope was finished in 2002, a Talon program controlled 0.37-meter (14.5 in) F/14 telescope.

OMI helped re-furbish the  Gueymard Research Telescope at The George Observatory at Brazos Bend State Park. The telescope's mirror was degrading after many decades of use and exposure. The 10 ton 36 inch aperture telescope was acquired from Louisiana State University in 1990. It is a cassegrain telescope, and one of the largest that is open to public viewing through an eyepiece. OMI had to strip off aluminum coating and re-surface the glass mirror. The mirror was ground to a hyperbolic shape, and the refurbishment was conducted in 2014.

OMI refitted the 0.8 m telescope at McDonald Observatory in 2011 to 2012. Another telescope OMI built was the CESAR Cebreros Optical Telescope at Cebreros observatory at the ESA Deep Space Tracking Station  The telescope is a  Cassegrain design with 50cm and a F/10 ratio. (see also Cebreros Station)

OMI Evolution-30
OMI developed the 30-inch mirror for Obsession Telescopes's 30-inch reflector  When Obsession withdrew from the 30-inch market, OMI still wanted to offer their 30-inch mirrors. Drawing on help from Obsession Telescopes and their own experience with the OMI 48-inch telescope, they offered the OMI Evolution-30 in 2009.

References

External links
OMI

Telescope manufacturers
Optics manufacturing companies
Companies established in 2002
2002 establishments in the United States
The Third Millennium: A History of the World AD 2000–3000. The Third Millennium: A History of the World AD 2000–3000 is a 1985 book by the science fiction writers Brian Stableford and David Langford.  It is a fictional historical account, from the perspective of the year 3000, giving a future history of humanity and its technological and sociological developments.

Plot
Some of the developments mentioned include:

 Artificial intelligence.
 Asteroid mining (such as the "Cracking of Ceres").
 Bioengineered foods including whimsical items such as the Jack Spratt Grass Chop, photosynthetic suits grafted to human skin meant to provide a means of sustenance without eating.
 Extreme cosmetic body modification such as skin with pockets, flashing irises, fur, claws, and fingernails which function as timepieces.
 Genetic engineering, including life extension and transhumanism as some humans become engineered to live in extreme environments such as cold, zero-g, and even water-breathing humans for aquatic communities.
 Geopolitical events such as war, famine, pestilence, and terrorism (as well as the "Sinking of Japan" by an earthquake).
 Implementation of fusion power.
 Interstellar colonization, and eventual extraterrestrial contact.
 L5 (Lagrange Point) space colonies such as those proposed by scientist Gerard K. O'Neill.
 Self-driving automobiles (the "Tiger-Dream Machine" from Ford Autocar).
 Sublight starships such as the Bussard Ramjet.
 Terraforming.

Later Stableford works set in the same history

Stableford commented in a 2001 interview that a number of his stories were set in updated versions of the future history imagined in The Third Millennium, such as the story "...And He Not Busy Being Born", the novellas Les Fleurs du Mall, Inherit the Earth, and Mortimer Gray's History of Death, as well as the novels of his Emortality series, four of which were expanded versions of the previously-mentioned stories.

External links
 Interview with Stableford

1985 books
Future history
Fiction set in the 3rd millennium