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Veer Bhadra Mishra. Veer Bhadra Mishra was the founding president of the Sankat Mochan Foundation.

He was a former professor of Hydraulic engineering and former Head of the Civil Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi. He was also the Mahant (High Priest) of the Sankat Mochan Hanuman temple, Varanasi at Varanasi founded by poet-saint Goswami Tulsidas. Mishra was recognized on the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) "Global 500 Roll of Honour" in 1992, and was a TIME Magazines  "Hero of the Planet" recipient in 1999 for his work related to cleaning of the Ganges through the Sankat Mochan Foundation. He was a member of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) under Ministry of Environment, Govt. of India, which was set up in 2009, by the Government of India as an empowered planning, financing, monitoring and coordinating authority for the Ganges, in exercise of the powers conferred under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.

Mishra was conferred the title "Gangaikkaavalan", meaning the 'Protector of Ganga' on 21 August 2006 by the DRBCCC Hindu College, Pattabiram, Chennai-72, Tamil Nadu. On the occasion he was also decorated with a coronet of golden lotus, as per the Sangam Tamil tradition.

Mishra was awarded the prestigious "SaMaPa Vitasta Award 2009" in Delhi by "Sopori Academy of Music And Performing Arts" for his lifetime contribution and service to Indian music and culture.

References

External links
 Sankat Mochan Foundation, Official website

1939 births
2013 deaths
Activists from Varanasi
Banaras Hindu University alumni
Academic staff of Banaras Hindu University
Ganges
Indian environmentalists
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science
Hall, Russell & Company. Hall, Russell & Company, Limited was a shipbuilder based in Aberdeen, Scotland.

History

Brothers James and William Hall, Thomas Russell, a Glasgow engineer, and James Cardno Couper founded the company in 1864 to build steam engines and boilers. In 1866 the company built its first iron steamship, the Douglas, for the Hong Kong shipowner Douglas Lapraik. Like most shipyards of their era, Hall Russell built ships first using iron and later changing to steel.

In 1944–45 Hall, Russell built five coasters under sub-contract for the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company of Fife: hull numbers 773, 776, 781, 785 and 788. In 1956–57 Hall, Russell built two more coasters for Burntisland: hull 750 launched as SS Winga and hull 857 launched as William Cory & Son's MV Corsea.

In 1977 the company became part of the nationalised British Shipbuilders Corporation, before being returned to the private sector in 1986. Having been placed in receivership in 1988, it came under the ownership of A&P Appledore International in 1989, as A&P Appledore International (Aberdeen). However, it had been classed by the Government as a naval shipbuilder, despite traditionally producing fishing vessels and small cargo ships, and closed in 1992.

In the Second World War Hall Russell built a number of Royal Navy s and s. After the war the company built fishing vessels, cargo ships and naval patrol craft. The last vessel completed at the yard was the , launched in 1989 and delivered in 1990.

The most widely known ship built by Hall Russell was MV Sir William Hardy. Launched in 1955, she was the first diesel-electric all-refrigerated trawler built in the UK. Refurbished by Greenpeace, she was renamed on 29 April 1978 the Rainbow Warrior. She was bombed by French agents in New Zealand 10 July 1985. Her masts currently stand outside the Dargaville Museum in the upper North Island, New Zealand.

They were builder of Island-class OPV. The class is still in active service with Bangladesh Navy. MY Steve Irwin was the flagship of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and was used in their direct action campaigns against whaling and against illegal fisheries activities.

They were also builder of Castle-class OPV. The ships of the class are now in active service with Bangladesh Navy. These are now reclassified as corvettes by the Bangladesh Navy.

Gallery

See also
List of ships built by Hall, Russell & Company
Hall Russell United F.C. (Junior football club based in Bridge of Don)

References and sources
References

Sources

Companies based in Aberdeen
Defunct shipbuilding companies of Scotland
Companies established in 1864
1864 establishments in Scotland
Defunct companies of Scotland
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1992
Ships built by Hall, Russell & Company
British companies established in 1864
Manufacturing companies established in 1864
British Shipbuilders
Boeing Condor. The Boeing Condor is a high-tech test-bed piston-engined aerial reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle with a wingspan of over .

Carbon-fibre composite materials make up the bulk of the Condor's fuselage and wings. Although the Condor has a relatively low radar cross-section and infrared signature, it is not unobservable, making it too vulnerable for military use.

The Condor is completely robotic, with an onboard computer to communicate with the computers on the ground via satellite to control all facets of the Condor's missions. The Condor's frame is made of mainly carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer composite, with very low radar and heat signatures.

The Condor had a 141-hour flight test program and first flew on 9 October 1988, with two built.

In 1989, the Condor set the world piston-powered aircraft altitude record of  and was the first aircraft to fly a fully automated flight from takeoff to landing. It also set an unofficial endurance world record in 1988 by flying continuously for more than 50 hours, though the flight was not ratified by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) and is therefore not considered an official record.

During its evaluations, the Condor logged over 300 flight hours, flying over Moses Lake, Washington.

Survivors
The first flight article is now on display in the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California and the second is disassembled at the USAF Museum's restoration centre in Dayton OH.

Specifications

References

External links

Condor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Boeing
The Condor, Hiller Aviation Museum
Aviation Trivia

1980s United States experimental aircraft
Condor
Unmanned military aircraft of the United States
High-wing aircraft
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1988
NDN Firecracker. The NDN Firecracker is a single-engine aircraft designed as a military trainer.

Design and development

In 1976, Nigel Desmond Norman, one of the founders of Britten-Norman, the manufacturers of the Islander, set up NDN Aircraft to build the Firecracker, a single piston-engined trainer designed to replicate the handling of a jet trainer. It was intended that the Firecracker would have a simple structure to allow it to be built under license by third-world countries to help start up local aviation industries. The first prototype, powered by a Lycoming O-540 piston engine, flew on 26 May 1977.

The aircraft configuration is a tandem two-seat aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear. It has a low aspect ratio wing in order to give fighter-like handling and is fitted with an airbrake.

After producing a single piston-engined prototype, NDN developed the aircraft by fitting a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 turboprop engine, producing the NDN-1T Turbo-Firecracker. Three NDN-1Ts were built for a British commercial flying school, Specialist Flying Training, which used them for contract training of foreign military students, the first one flying on 1 September 1983. The Firecracker was entered into the competition to replace the BAC Jet Provosts used by Britain's Royal Air Force as a basic trainer, it being proposed to fit the aircraft for the RAF with a more powerful engine and ejection seats. Although the Firecracker, which was planned to be built by Hunting Group if successful, was one of the four shortlisting aircraft, (the others being the Pilatus PC-9, Embraer Tucano and AAC A20 Wamira), ultimately a much modified version of the Tucano, the Shorts Tucano was chosen.

Although NDN, which renamed itself the Norman Aircraft Company (NAC) in 1985, continued to try to sell the Firecracker, no further production ensued, and NAC went into receivership in 1988.

Specifications (Turbo Firecracker)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

Barnett, Cliff. "Firecracker: trainer for tomorrow?". Flight International, 31 March 1984. pp. 899–902.
Donald, David (editor).The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. Leicester, UK:Blitz, 1997. .
 Field, Hugh. "Firecracker in the air". Flight International, 17 March 1979. pp. 831–834.
 Parker, Ian "Early delivery set for Turbo-Firecracker".  Flight International, 17 September 1983. pp. 738–739.
Taylor, J.W.R.(editor) Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1988-1989. Coulsdon, Surrey, UK: Jane's Information Group, 1988. .
"Firecracker". Flight International, 23 July 1977. pp. 275–279.
"Turboprops form RAF Trainer Shortlist". Flight International, 24 March 1984. p. 741
"Shorts Awarded Trainer Contract". Flight International, 30 March 1985, pp. 8–9.
"Norman calls in receiver". Flight International, 6 August 1988, p. 11.

External links

 NTPS
NAC (NDN) Firecracker et Turbo Firecracker

1970s British military trainer aircraft
Firecracker
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Single-engined turboprop aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1977
Firecracker
Envi. Envi or ENVI may refer to: 

 Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI) in the Canadian Parliament
 ENVI is an acronym for the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
 Envi (automobile), a defunct Chrysler division to develop hybrid and full electric vehicles.
 ENVI (software), a geospatial imagery analysis and processing application

See also
 Envy
HMS Kashmir (F12). HMS Kashmir (F12) was a K-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s, named after the princely state of Kashmir in British India.

Description
The K-class destroyers were repeats of the preceding J class, except that they were not fitted for minesweeping gear. They displaced  at standard load and  at deep load. The ships had an overall length of , a beam of  and a draught of . They were powered by Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by two Admiralty three-drum boilers. The turbines developed a total of  and gave a maximum speed of . The ships carried a maximum of  of fuel oil that gave them a range of  at . The ship's complement was 183 officers and men.

The ships were armed with six 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mark XII guns in twin mounts, two superfiring in front of the bridge and one aft of the superstructure. For anti-aircraft (AA) defence, they had one quadruple mount for 2-pounder "pom-pom" guns and two quadruple mounts for the 0.5 inch Vickers Mark III anti-aircraft machinegun. The K-class ships were fitted with two above-water quintuple mounts for  torpedoes. The ship was fitted with two depth charge throwers and one rack for 20 depth charges.

Construction and career
Kashmir was laid down by Thornycroft in Southampton in October 1937, launched on 4 April 1939 and commissioned on 26 October 1939.

In company with the destroyers  and , Kashmir attacked the  in the North Sea on 29 November 1939, forcing the U-boat to scuttle.

Kashmir was bombed and sunk on 23 May 1941 by German Stuka dive bombers belonging to StG 2 and led by Hubertus Hitschhold, south of Crete in position .

Notes

References

External links

J, K and N-class destroyers of the Royal Navy
Ships built in Southampton
1939 ships
World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom
World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea
Maritime incidents in May 1941
Ships sunk by aircraft during the Battle of Crete
Naval magazine explosions
Ships sunk by German aircraft
Ships built by John I. Thornycroft & Company
Shipwrecks of Greece
Madcap (project). Madcap is a prototype system for using computers to automatically segment and highlight a video stream that was designed by Dan Russell's group at PARC. The digital video of weekly forums was stored on a media server, any events such as clapping were marked and time-stamped. Member notes from attendees with laptops were stored. The audio stream was transcribed. All these were used as annotations and were cross indexed.

The development of this system is mentioned in John Seely Brown's work Growing up Digital and his book The Social Life of Information.

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20070305070159/http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/FEB02_Issue/article01.html
 http://www.rice.edu/projects/code/broadband.html
 http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfc/hcc/F00/abstracts/russell.html

References

Film and video technology
Ural (computer). Ural () is a series of mainframe computers built in the former Soviet Union.

History
The Ural was developed at the Electronic Computer Producing Manufacturer of Penza in the Soviet Union and was produced between 1956 and 1964. The computer was widely used in the 1960s, mainly in the socialist countries, though some were also exported to Western Europe and Latin America. The Indian Statistical Institute purchased an Ural-1 in 1958.

When the University of Tartu received a new computer in 1965, its old Ural 1 was moved to a science-based secondary school, the Nõo Reaalgümnaasium, making the latter one of the first Soviet secondary schools to receive a computer. The name of the computer was also used to coin the first name for "computer" in Estonian, raal, in use until the 1990s until it was replaced by the word arvuti ("computer"). School 444 in Moscow, Russia started graduating programmers in 1960 and had the Ural computer operating by its students on-premises in 1965.

Attributes
Models Ural-1 to Ural-4 were based on vacuum tubes (valves), with the hardware being able to perform 12,000 floating-point calculations per second. One word consisted of 40 bits and was able to contain either one numeric value or two instructions. Ferrite core was used as operative memory beginning with the Ural-2. A new series (Ural-11, Ural-14, produced between 1965 and 1971) was based on semiconductors.

It was able to perform mathematical tasks at computer centres, industrial facilities and research facilities. The device occupied approximately 90-100 square metres of space. The computer ran on three-phase electric power and had a three-phase magnetic voltage stabiliser with 30kVA capacity.

The main units of the system were: keyboard, controlling-reading unit, input punched tape, output punched tape, printer, magnetic tape memory, ferrite memory, ALU (arithmetical logical unit), CPU (central processing unit), and power supply.

Models
Several models were released:
 Ural-1 – 1956
 Ural-2 – 1959
 Ural-3 – 1964
 Ural-4 – 1962
 Ural-11 – 1965
 Ural-14 – 1965
 Ural-16 – 1969

Trivia
 Charles Simonyi, who was the second Hungarian in space, stated that he would take old paper tapes from his Soviet-built Ural-2 computer into space with him: he kept them to remind him of his past.

See also
 Bashir Rameev, chief designer of the Ural series
 History of computing hardware
 List of vacuum tube computers

References

External links
 
 | EMURAL Open source emulator of the Ural-1 computer with GUI

Soviet inventions
Soviet brands
Ministry of Radio Industry (USSR) computers
Cryptographic accelerator. In computing, a cryptographic accelerator is a co-processor designed specifically to perform computationally intensive cryptographic operations, doing so far more efficiently than the general-purpose CPU. Because many servers' system loads consist mostly of cryptographic operations, this can greatly increase performance.

Intel's AES-NI is by far the most common cryptographic accelerator in commodity hardware. VIA PadLock is another recent example.

Operating system support
Several operating systems provide some support for cryptographic hardware. The BSD family of systems has the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework (OCF), Linux systems have the Crypto API, Solaris OS has the Solaris Cryptographic Framework (SCF) and Microsoft Windows has the Microsoft CryptoAPI.

Some cryptographic accelerators offer new machine instructions and can therefore be used directly by programs. Libraries such as OpenSSL and LibreSSL support some such cryptographic accelerators.

Almost all Unix-like operating systems use OpenSSL or the fork LibreSSL as their cryptography library. These libraries use cryptographic accelerators such as AES-NI if available.

See also
 TLS acceleration
 Hardware-based Encryption

References 

Hardware acceleration
Computer optimization
Coprocessors
Cryptographic hardware
Gilkes Wilson and Company. Gilkes Wilson and Company was a British locomotive manufacturer at Teesside Engine Works in Middlesbrough which opened in 1843. Initially repairing locomotives, the company built its first engines in 1847.

History
Gilkes and Wilson was formed as a partnership between Quakers Isaac Wilson and Edgar Gilkes.

Edgar Gilkes was a Middlesbrough councillor, mayor (1863-64) and alderman. He died in Grange-over-Sands in 1894.

In 1865 the company merged with Hopkins and Company (establishers of the Tees Side Iron Works, 1857) to become Hopkins Gilkes and Company.

The firm undertook design, construction and manufacture of the ironwork for the Deepdale and Belah viaducts (b.1857-1860) on the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway to a design of Thomas Bouch and Robert Henry Bow.

In 1875, the name changed again to the Tees-side Iron and Engine Works Company Limited, having built 351 locomotives in total.

Subsequently the firm worked with Bouch on the Tay Bridge, and had their reputation very badly damaged as a result of the Tay Bridge Disaster. The 1870s Long Depression forced several Cleveland iron firms out of business including Hopkins Gilkes.

The company closed in 1880.

Customers
Edgar Gilkes had worked for the Stockton and Darlington Railway and large numbers were built for the line and the North Eastern Railway. Other customers were:
 York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway
 Leeds and Thirsk Railway
 Newmarket and Great Chesterford Railway
 Llanelly Railway
 Liskeard and Caradon Railway.

References

Sources

Further reading

External links
 Tay Bridge, Dundee

Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Middlesbrough
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1843
Defunct companies based in Yorkshire
1843 establishments in England
British companies established in 1843
Doğuş University. Doğuş University (or simply Doğuş) is a foundation university located in Ümraniye, Istanbul.

Description

Doğuş University has twenty programmes in the faculties of Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Economics and Administrative Sciences, Arts and Design, together with nine associate degree programs in the School of Advanced Vocational Studies. Additionally, there are eight postgraduate education programs in the Institute of Social Sciences and three in the Institute of Science and Technology. The European Union Studies program in the Institute of Social Sciences is a member of the consortium IMPREST (International Masters Program in European Studies), which started its academic endeavour in the academic year 2006–2007 and actively cooperated with five other European universities, including Doğuş University.

Due to Doğuş University's ERASMUS (Erasmus University Charter) membership, which started in the spring term of the 2003–2004 academic year, students of Doğuş University can benefit from exchange programs under bilateral agreements signed with over 30 universities.

Campus
 Çengelköy, Üsküdar, Istanbul
 Dudullu, Ümraniye, Istanbul

Academics
Faculty of Arts And Sciences

 Department of Communication Sciences
 Department of English Language and Literature
 Department of Mathematics
 Department of Psychology
 Division of Physics
 Division of Chemistry
 Division of Humanities

Faculty of Law
Law

Faculty of Economics And Administrative Sciences
Department of Business Administration: English and Turkish programmes
Department of International Relations
Department of Economics and Finance: English and Turkish programmes
Department of International Trade and Business

Faculty of Engineering
 Department of Computer Engineering: Computer Engineering Program, Information Systems Engineering Program
Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering: English and Turkish programmes
Department of Control Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering: English and Turkish programmes
Department of Industrial Engineering: English and Turkish programmes

Faculty of Fine Arts And Design
Department of Architecture
Department of Graphics
Department of Painting
Department of Industrial Product Design
Department of Interior Architecture
Visual Communication Design

Institute of Science & Technology
Doctorate: Logistics and Supply Chain Management Doctorate Program
Master: Computer and Information Sciences, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Engineering and Technology Management

Institute of Social Sciences
Doctorate: Financial Economics Doctorate Program
Master
Business Administration: English and Turkish programmes
 MA in European Union Studies
 MS in Financial Economics
 MA in English Language and Literature
 MA in Psychology
 MA in Communication Sciences
Foreign Languages Unit
English Preparatory Programme
Degree English Unit

See also
Turkish universities

References

External links

Universities and colleges in Istanbul
Educational institutions established in 1997
Private universities and colleges in Turkey
1997 establishments in Turkey
No. 7 Operational Training Unit RAAF. No. 7 Operational Training Unit RAAF (7OTU) was a Royal Australian Air Force heavy bomber training unit of World War II. 7OTU was formed on 12 February 1944 at RAAF Station Tocumwal in southern New South Wales to train RAAF B-24 Liberator crews. 7OTU was initially equipped with ex-USAAF B-24Ds but later received new B-24J/L/Ms. At full strength the unit was equipped with 54 B-24s and was responsible for training 28 crews per month. 7OTU was disbanded following the end of the war.

In 1944 one of the few verified instances of sabotage occurred at Tocumwal, when major sections of the wiring looms in 12 B-24s were cut and removed. This put the aircraft out of service for several months until the damage could be assessed, replacement looms fabricated in the USA, then installed by Consolidated technicians flown to Australia to do the work. The sabotage was believed to have been carried out by a Japanese cell that had been under cover in Australia since prior to the war, however no one was ever captured nor convicted of the act.

See also
 B-24 Liberators in Australian service

References
 Nelmes, Michael V. (1994). Tocumwal to Tarakan. Australians and the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. Banner Books, Canberra. 

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