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Howe & Howe Technologies. Howe & Howe Technologies (H&H, H and H, or HH) is an American private business headquartered in Waterboro, Maine that specializes in the development, manufacturing, fabrication and design of specialized armored and military-grade-spec vehicles, most notably the Ripsaw combat vehicle. Other products include the Badger, recognized as the world's smallest armored assault vehicle by Guinness World Records and the SR1, or Subterranean Rover 1. The Ripsaw is claimed to be the world's fastest dual tracked vehicle.

H&H is run by twin brothers Michael "Mike" and Geoffrey "Geoff" Howe. Mike is the president of the company and chief engineer while Geoff is the CEO and company manager.

The company is also featured in Howe & Howe Tech, a reality television series produced by Authentic Entertainment for the Discovery Channel.

Howe & Howe Technologies was acquired by Textron Systems in 2018.

References

External links
 
 Howe & Howe Tech show website at Discovery.com

Automotive motorsports and performance companies
Alfred Leblanc. Alfred Leblanc (13 April 1869 – 22 November 1921) was a pioneer French aviator.

Early life
He was born on 13 April 1869 in Paris. In 1888, he became the technical director of the Victor Bidault metal foundry. A keen sportsman, he was an energetic secretary general of the oldest gymnastic society in Paris, that of the XVIieme arrondissement. He became interested in the sport of ballooning, rapidly becoming a successful competitor in the races organised by the Aéro-Club de France

Biography
He later became associated with Louis Blériot, and handled the logistics for Blériot for his cross channel flight of July 25, 1909. He then became the first person to buy a copy of Blériot's aircraft, and also the first pupil at the flying schools which Blériot established, becoming the second person to qualify for an AeCF pilots license through a flight test. (The first licenses were given to prominent aviators without any formal test) He later became one of the chief instructors, and also made proving flights of newly produced Blériot aircraft.

He was placed second in the 1909 Gordon Bennett Cup for balloons.<ref>Gordon Bennett Race for Balloons[[Flight International|Flight]] 30 October 1909</ref>
 
In August 1910, flying a Gnome-engined Blériot XI, he won the Circuit de l'Est'', covering the  in 12hr 1 min 1 sec, an average speed of  Leblanc was first in the race and Émile Aubrun finished second. The race finished at Issy-les-Moulineaux, and 200,000 spectators were gathered to see the finish.

In November 1910, he represented France in the Gordon Bennett Trophy race for airplanes, held in New York, but misjudged a turn on his last lap, and crashed: had he not done so, he would have won the competition, which was won by Claude Grahame-White, also flying a Blériot.

During the first World War, he was the general manager of the Blériot factory at Suresnes.

In 1919, he was appointed manager of the Compagnie des Messageries Aeriennes, an airline formed by the major French aircraft manufacturers in order to create a civil aviation market, and he was also put in charge of the Societe des Stocks, which was formed to dispose of the large number of surplus aircraft and aero-engines resulting from the end of the First World War.

He died 22 November 1921.

Awards
Officer of the Legion of Honor (1920)

Records

1910 – flight airspeed record for 1 mile.

See also
List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Aéro-Club de France in 1909

References

1869 births
1921 deaths
Aviation history of France
French aviation pioneers
French balloonists
Members of the Early Birds of Aviation
French aviation record holders
Ramesh K. Agarwal. Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also the director of Aerospace Engineering Program, Aerospace Research and Education Center and Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at WUSTL. From 1994 to 1996, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Chair of Aerospace Engineering department at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. From 1996 to 2001, he was the Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and the executive director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968.

Research work

Agarwal has worked mostly in computational simulation of fluid flows. He developed a third-order upwind scheme in 1981 for the numerical integration of Navier-Stokes equations and did some of the early calculations of transonic wing-body interactions for aircraft. He has also worked in control systems and numerical simulation of carbon sequestration. He also proposed the Wray-Agarwal one-equation turbulence model in 2015 which is a linear eddy viscosity model, derived from a k–omega turbulence model closure.

Recognition
Dr. Agarwal has been honored with the Reed Aeronautics Award and is a fellow of several professional and honorary societies, including the Royal Aeronautical Society

References

External links
 

1947 births
Living people
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
IIT Kharagpur alumni
Computational fluid dynamicists
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
Washington University in St. Louis faculty
Indian emigrants to the United States
Fellows of the American Physical Society
210 Squadron (Israel). 210 "White Eagle" Squadron of the Israeli Air Force is an IAI Eitan squadron based at Tel Nof Airbase.

History 
The squadron was inaugurated on December 20, 2010, at a ceremony at Tel Nof, and accepted its first UAV in February 2011. Its first commander was Lt. Colonel S. It is currently led by Lt. Colonel A.

210 Squadron is the IAF's first UAV unit to operate away from the IAF's traditional UAV hub at Palmachim. Tel Nof offers a longer runway and the more extensive infrastructure required by the two-ton class Eitan, and will help the integration of UAV operations into the IAF's core operational thinking. The squadron's aircraft wear a Light Compass Grey scheme, and feature tail art in the shape of a white eagle against a black background on their vertical stabilizers.

On January 29, 2012, one of the squadron's UAVs crashed shortly after takeoff from Tel Nof. falling near Kibbutz Hafetz Haim. The aircraft suffered damages estimated at several million dollars. The Eitan fleet was grounded for several months until two investigative teams, one by the air force and another by Israel Aircraft Industries, submitted their findings. The aircraft was found to have gone down during flight testing of a navigational component fitted on one of its wings, which broke. After additional tests by IAI, the air force permitted the Eitan back into the air in September 2012. 

Two months later the squadron took part in Operation Cast Lead. 210 Squadron and the Eitan have been mentioned amid the talk of a possible Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear program. The UAV's high service ceiling, its ability to stay a loft for a considerable amount of time, and large payload and range, have made it especially suited for long-range and advanced reconnaissance and intelligence missions. The aircraft have been linked to possible Israeli strikes against Iranian arms convoy in Sudan.

In 2017, the squadron received "Ethan" aircraft of an improved model with increased carrying capacity and new capabilities. which increased the SDA of the squadron by 50%.

During the Israel-Hamas War, it also played a key role in targeting Hamas militants while flying from Tel Nof Airbase.

References

Notes

Bibliography

Israeli Air Force squadrons
Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership. Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership is the world's first nuclear energy partnership centre at Jasaur Kheri village of Bahadurgarh tehsil in Jhajjar district of Haryana state in India. This centre facilitates deliberation and discussions by international experts on various issues including innovation in nuclear reactors and the nuclear fuel cycle, development of proliferation-resistant reactors, security technologies and the effects of radiation exposure.

Campus
One among six research institutes of the Department of Atomic Energy of Govt of India, this campus is located on 400 acre land in NCR Delhi.

Schools
Five schools are:
 School of Advanced Nuclear Energy System Studies (SANESS
  School of Nuclear Security Studies (SNSS)
 School on Radiological Safety Studies (SRSS)
 School of Nuclear Material Characterization Studies (SNMCS)
 School for Studies on Applications of Radioisotopes and Radiation Technologies (SARRT)

Courses
The institute offers training courses and workshops in various areas through its schools.

See also
 International Solar Alliance

References

External links
 official website 

Nuclear technology in India
Atoms for Peace
Windows Home Server 2011. Windows Home Server 2011, code named Vail, is a home server operating system by Microsoft designed for small office/home offices and homes with multiple connected PCs to offer protected file storage, file sharing, automated PC backup, remote access, and remote control of PC desktops. It was released on 6 April 2011 following the release of Power Pack 3 for its aging predecessor, Windows Home Server. Windows Home Server 2011 is the last Windows Home Server release and was succeeded by Windows Server 2012 Essentials.

Windows Home Server 2011 is based on Windows Server 2008 R2 and requires x86-64 CPUs (64-bit), while its predecessor worked on the older IA-32 (32-bit) architecture as well. Coupled with fundamental changes in the structure of the client backups and the shared folders, there is no clear method for migrating from the previous version to Windows Home Server 2011.

Features 
Windows Home Server 2011 includes additional entertainment capabilities, and an add in feature with an app store. Including web-based media functionality.

Initial speculation by technology columnist Mary Jo Foley fueled the idea that 'Vail' would integrate with Windows Media Center. This prompted the response "Time will tell" by Microsoft Windows Home Server Product Planner Todd Headrick, but by the time of the public beta Microsoft had decided not to integrate Windows Media Center with 'Vail'.

System requirements

Drive Extender removal
On 23 November 2010, Microsoft announced that Drive Extender would be removed from Windows Home Server 2011. This announcement has led to "astonishment and outrage" from testers and users. Criticism of Drive Extender's removal is mainly related to it being seen as a core feature of Windows Home Server and a key reason for adoption. Windows Home Server 2011 developer Michael Leworthy expressed concern that the implementation of Drive Extender might lead to "data error issues." As a result, third-party products entered the market to fill the void left by Drive Extender, including Drive Bender (Division M) and DrivePool (StableBit).

The volume spanning feature of Drive Extender, in which two or more drives are used as one large storage volume, is available using the Dynamic Disks feature as in any other Windows Server release.

References 

Home Server 2011
Windows 7
Home Server 2011
Home servers
Home Server 2011
Xenogenesis (film). Xenogenesis is a 1978 Canadian-American science fiction short film directed by James Cameron and Randall Frakes. It stars William Wisher Jr. and Margaret Umbel.

Plot
Raj (an engineered man, trained to deliver humanity from the final cataclysm) and Laurie (a woman raised by a machine, but she alone knew the power of love) are sent in a gigantic sentient starship to search space for a place to start a new life cycle. Having come across a derelict starship, belonging to an unknown people said to have been dead for fifty thousand years, Raj decides to investigate. He comes across a gigantic robotic cleaner, which attacks Raj and he ends up hanging from an edge. Laurie arrives to help, operating a vehicle which moves on four legs. Raj instructs her to get back to their ship, but she refuses and engages the robot in combat. The film ends with Raj still hanging from the ledge; Laurie pushing the robot towards the edge, with the robot fighting to not go over it.

Cast
 William Wisher Jr. as Raj
 Margaret Umbel as Laurie

Production
Cameron raised $20,000 from a local dentist to fund the film. Most of the film was shot in his living room and the methods he used were self taught. Learning as they went, Cameron said he felt like a doctor doing his first surgical procedure.

In A Critical Companion to James Cameron, the author found themes in Xenogenesis that would be repeated in later films Cameron would direct. They also commented that a scene in Aliens (1986) where Ripley yells at the Queen Alien was similar to a scene in . It was also noted that many of the themes that would appear in later Cameron movies, included a strong female character, can be first found here.

The dentist pulled out of the project based on a demonstration screening. Producer Roger Corman was impressed with the project to hire Cameron to work on projects that would become Battle Beyond the Stars and Piranha II.

References

External links

1978 films
American science fiction short films
Canadian science fiction short films
Films directed by James Cameron
Films with screenplays by James Cameron
American robot films
Films about artificial intelligence
Films scored by Bernard Herrmann
1970s English-language films
1970s American films
1970s Canadian films
English-language science fiction films
1978 science fiction films
English-language Canadian films
Saynor & Bell Canadian Cub. The Saynor & Bell Canadian Cub was a single engine, single seat parasol wing monoplane, designed and built in Canada in 1930.  It was intended to be a simple and economical vehicle with which pilots could increase their flying experience.  It was destroyed on take-off after a few months of flight and no more were built.

Development
Aircraft  engineers George Saynor and Robert Bell came to Canada from England in 1928 to work with Canadian Vickers, only to be made redundant two years later.  They then collaborated in the design of the Canadian Cub, intending to produce a simple and economical single seater in which newly soloed pilots could build up their flying hours.  They worked in the basement of a Montreal house aided by other Canadian Vickers employees but bearing the financial risk themselves.

The Canadian Cub was a parasol wing monoplane with a wooden framed, fabric covered, constant chord wing which was swept at 10° to move the centre of gravity aft and keep the nose short.  The fuselage was a rounded plywood monocoque, with a built-in central pylon carrying an integral 2 ft (610 mm) span wing centre section. The outer wings attached to this centre section, braced with lift struts of the less-common X form from the lower fuselage longerons.  The wing pylon raised the wing to bring it level with the pilot's eyes.  Visibility from the single seat open cockpit was further aided by a small trailing edge cut-out.  The tail surfaces had steel tube frames, canvas covered.  The fin carried a generous, rounded rudder, with its lower edge above the extreme fuselage. The horizontal stabilizer was mounted at mid-fuselage with the elevators separated.  The Canadian Cub had a conventional undercarriage with split axle main gear.  The wheels were mounted on V-struts to the lower fuselage, with axles running inwards and upwards to the central fuselage bottom.

The Canadian Cub was stressed to allow engine powers up to 60 hp (45 kW) but the designers' financial position only enabled them to fit the small 34 hp (25 kW) ABC Scorpion II.  In the end this was the only engine installed.  The Cub first flew on 4 December 1930 from St Hubert Airport, piloted by E.J. Cooper.

Operational history
After the first flight the Canadian Cub was flown by several other pilots, who all agreed it was a delight to fly but that it was underpowered by the Scorpion engine. It had some aerobatic capability and could fly inverted.  Ground handling tests in April 1930 revealed a structural weakness when the undercarriage collapsed.  Repaired, the Cub lost a wing in a collision whilst parked at St Hubert when another aircraft taxied into it.  Fitted with a new wing the aircraft was flown to de Lesseps Field, Toronto, probably to be demonstrated. On 11 October the engine failed at take-off; the pilot was unhurt but the sole Canadian Cub, registration CF-APS, was destroyed.

Specifications

References

1930s Canadian sport aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1930
Juan Luis Vázquez Suárez. Juan Luis Vázquez Suárez is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain.

Education
He was born in Oviedo on July 26, 1946. In the years 1964/69 he studied Telecommunication Engineering at the Superior Technical School of Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (ETSIT) in Madrid. In 1973 he graduated in Mathematics at the  Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he also obtained the Ph. D. degree in 1979 with a thesis directed by Haïm Brezis.

Contributions
Outstanding researcher in concrete areas of the mathematics such as nonlinear partial differential equations and their applications. He is author of numerous research articles in scientific journals like Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Journal de mathématiques pures et appliquées, Advances in Mathematics among others. He was president of Spanish Society for Applied Mathematics (SEMA) in the period 1996/98.  Organizer of international events like the International Conference on Free Boundaries FB1993 (Toledo, Spain) or the Summer Schools at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, UIMP.

Awards and honors
He obtained the Spanish National Prize of Research in Mathematics (Premio Nacional de Investigación Julio Rey Pastor) in 2003, and that year he was included in the  Thomson Reuters list of Highly Cited Scientists.

He was invited as main speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Madrid in 2006 (ICM2006) with the plenary conference entitled "Nonlinear diffusion, from analysis to physics and geometry."

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Books 
 The Porous Medium Equation. Mathematical Theory. Oxford University Press, , , 2006, Clarendon Press, 648 pages, 234x156 mm. Series: Oxford Mathematical Monographs.
 Smoothing and Decay Estimates for Nonlinear Diffusion Equations. Equations of Porous Medium Type. Oxford University Press, , , August 2006, 248 pages, 234x156 mm, Oxford Lecture Series.
 A Stability Technique for Evolution Partial Differential Equations. A Dynamical Systems Approach. PNLDE 56 (Progress in Non-Linear Differential Equations and Their Applications), Birkhäuser Verlag, 2003, 391 pages. (with V.A. Galaktionov.)
 Recent Trends in Partial Differential Equations. American Mathematical Society,  , 2006, 123 pages, Series: Contemporary Mathematics number 409; (with X. Cabré and José A. Carrillo)

References

External links 

Official Web Page
Departamento de Matemáticas UAM

1946 births
Living people
21st-century Spanish mathematicians
People from Oviedo
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
20th-century Spanish mathematicians
Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Madrid
List of abbreviations in photography. During most of the 20th century photography depended mainly upon the photochemical technology of silver halide emulsions on glass plates or roll film. Early in the 21st century this technology was displaced by the electronic technology of digital cameras. The development of digital image sensors, microprocessors, memory cards, miniaturised devices and image editing software enabled these cameras to offer their users a much wider range of operating options than was possible with the older silver halide technology. This has led to a proliferation of new abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms. The commonest of these are listed below. Some are used in related fields of optics and electronics but many are specific to digital photography.

Acronyms and initialisms that are not brand-specific

Initialisms that are used mainly by specific brands

References

General references
 Blair, John G. The Glossary of Digital Photography. Rocky Nook, 2007, .
 Peres, Michael R. The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, Fourth Edition. Focal, 2007, .
 Taylor, Phil. Digital Photographic Imaging Glossary. Trafford, 2006, .
 Glossary, issued by Nikon, explaining the Nikkor lens codes. Retrieved 2011-01-01.

Photography
GE three-power boxcab. The GE three-power boxcabs were early electro-diesel hybrid switcher locomotives. These boxcabs were termed oil battery electrics to avoid the use of the German name Diesel, unpopular after World War I.

History 
The prototype of these locomotives was New York Central 1525 delivered in February 1928. This locomotive had a center-cab design. After successful testing a series of 40 locomotives  with boxcab carbodies were built along with the line of the ALCO boxcabs by a consortium of ALCO, General Electric, Ingersoll Rand and Electric Storage Battery. ALCO built the locomotive frame, carbody and running gear, General Electric built the generator, traction motors and controls, Ingersoll Rand provided the diesel engine, and the traction batteries were made by the Electric Storage Battery Co. of Philadelphia (now Exide).  

The locomotives were mainly used in city areas for switching work, where exhaust-emissions-free operation was required at spurs entering factory halls. The main batch was ordered by New York Central Railroad to be used in the New York City area operating on the West Side Line and the High Line. Some three-power boxcabs also worked Chicago, Detroit, and Boston. One locomotive was built for Rock Island, which used it for switching the LaSalle Street Station in Chicago.

Technical description 
The principle of operation was similar to that of modern hybrid locomotives, the diesel engine driving a main generator of 600 volts DC, which provided charging current to a bank of batteries which powered four traction motors, one per axle. In addition to being powered by the diesel engine, these locomotives were capable of operating as electric locomotives. Two of these locomotives were equipped to operate off of 3000 volt overhead lines, and 34 were capable of operating off of a 600 volt third rail. The locomotives were equipped with a six-cylinder four-stroke in-line engine of . The diesel motor was used to charge the batteries, which could not be charged by third rail power. The battery consisted of 240 Exide Ironclad cells with a total capacity of 301 kWh.

See also
 ALCO boxcab, and GE boxcab, diesel-electric variants of these locomotives.

References

External links
ALCo-GE-IR Boxcabs Page
 Denver Public Library Digital Collections
 Rock Island bi-power locomotive 10,000 (1930 photo)

Diesel locomotives of the United States
Electro-diesel locomotives
General Electric locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives introduced in 1930
Scrapped locomotives
Shunting locomotives