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Franz Götz (politician). Franz Götz (born 16 September 1945 in Ingolstadt, Germany) is a German politician. He was a member of the state parliament of Bavaria for the SPD from 1978 to 2003. In 2007, he left the SPD and joined the Free Voters.

Early life 
Götz attended the Reuchlin Gymnasium school in Ingolstadt, where he obtained his Abitur. After leaving school, Götz studied Engineering in Saarbrücken, Trier, and Munich. He passed his general civil engineering examination in 1968 and obtained an additional qualification in civil engineering business administration in 1970. He was then employed in industry for two years. He then studied to be a teacher in the subjects Construction and Ergonomics at occupational schools, passing the first and second Staatsexamen in 1973 and 1975, respectively. Until 1978 he taught in Ingolstadt and then became a consultant ergonomist. In 1982 he was awarded a doctorate by the  Technical University Munich .

Political career
Götz joined the SPD in 1970. From 1978 he was a member of the Ingolstadt town council. He was elected (indirectly) to the Bavarian state parliament on the SPD list in 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, and 1998.  He was a member of the following committees:
Education and Culture committee: 30 October 1978 to 19 October 1982
Federal and European Matters committee: 20 October 1982 to 21 October 1986, 6 May 1988 to 23. October 1990, 30 October 1990 to 14 October 1994 und 29 October 1998 to 31 May 2001
Petitions committee: 15 October 1985 to 1 December 1985
Civil Service committee: 15 October 1985 to 21 October 1986
Constitutional, Legal, and Local Government committee: 12 November 1986 to 23 October 1990 and  30. October 1990 to 14 October 1994
Economics, Transport, and Border Areas committee: 10 November 1994 to 27 September 1998
Local Government and Security committee: 31 May 2001 to 5 October 2003
In 2007, without laying down his town council mandate, Götz left the SPD and joined the parliamentary party of the Free Voters.

Commercial and social activities 
Götz was the sole managing director of  GERO Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Beziehungen in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft zwischen Deutschland und Rumänien mbH, a company he founded in 2001.  He liquidated this company 2010. In 2003 he was co-founder of the Hilfswerks des Lions Club Ingolstadt "Auf der Schanz" e.V. and was its president until 2009.

Honours 
Bavarian Order of Merit
Bavarian Constitutional Medal (Bayerische Verfassungsmedaille) in silver and in gold.
Honorary doctorate of the University of Oradea

Personal life 
Götz is Roman Catholic, unmarried, and has one child.

References 
 

Members of the Landtag of Bavaria
Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians
People from Ingolstadt
Technical University of Munich alumni
1945 births
Living people
Politicians from Bavaria
Carter Machinery. Carter Machinery, founded in Virginia in 1927, is a producer of lubricants for engines and other mechanical purposes. By the 1980s, it also became the largest dealer in Caterpillar equipment in the United States, and it was acquired by Caterpillar, Inc. in 1988. Caterpillar contended that the acquisition, breaking its tradition of having only independent dealerships, was necessary to protect its right to dictate who could sell and service their product in the state of Virginia. Carter was bought out by its management in 2011, again becoming an independent dealer for Caterpillar.

Major Milestones 

 1927 – Virginia Tractor Company is founded. 
 1952 – Carter Machinery Company, Inc. officially founded.
 1955 – Bluefield, WV store opened.
 1957 – Norton, VA store opened.
 1962 – Corporate headquarters moved to present location in Salem, VA.
 1965 – Norton, VA store moved to an expanded facility. 1975 – Reconditioning Center, created to rebuild major components and machines, opened at Salem headquarters.
 1977 – Oakwood, VA store opened.
 1982 – Eastern Virginia territory, served by Virginia Tractor Company, acquired and combined under Carter Machinery, adding four stores: Chesapeake, Fishersville, Norfolk and Richmond, VA. During the same year, a new store in Pineville, WV was opened.
 1985 – Warrenton, VA store opened.
 1986 – Newport News store opened.
 1990 – Fredericksburg and Richmond Power Systems Division stores opened.
 1991 – Lynchburg store opened.
 1993 – Roanoke Power Systems Division store opened.
 1995 – Chesapeake Power Systems Division store opened.
 1996 – Roanoke General Construction Division store opened.
 1997 – Fishersville, VA store moved to present location.
 1999 – Richmond Power Systems Division store moved to present location.
 2000 – South Hill and Chesterfield stores opened.
 2001 – Lynchburg store moved to present location.
 2006 – Pineville, WV and Abingdon, VA stores moved to new, expanded facilities. Harrisonburg store opened.
 2007 – Carter Machinery purchased the Virginia assets of Pioneer Machinery, the Cat Forest Products dealer.
 2008 – Harrisonburg store moved to its present location.
 2009 – Newport News and Yorktown stores moved to new, combined location in Williamsburg.
 2010 – Bluefield, WV store moved to new location in Princeton, WV.
 2011 – Change of ownership from Caterpillar Inc. as a result of a management led buyout.
 2013 – Carter Machinery became the exclusive Blue Bird Bus dealer in the state of Virginia.
 2013 – Carter Machinery acquired the expanded Cat Mining equipment distribution and support business for our territories from Caterpillar Global Mining LLC.
 2020 - Carter Machinery acquired Alban Tractor Company, the Cat dealer for Maryland and Delaware.

Investments 
In May 2018 Carter Machinery invested an undisclosed amount in Used Equipment Guide.

References

External links
Official corporate website

Manufacturing companies established in 1952
Manufacturing companies based in Virginia
1952 establishments in Virginia
Pasinger Fabrik. Pasinger Fabrik is a former factory in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, which is used as a cultural centre and event venue nowadays. It is located in Pasing, a quarter in the western part of Munich.

History
The industrial buildings of Pasinger Fabrik were built in 1895 by the German architect August Exter. Originally, it was used as a manufacturing plant by the Heymann shoe factory, which produced leather shoes. After a fire in 1904, the household appliances manufacturer Ritter acquired the factory. In 1986, the city of Munich bought the buildings to use them for new purposes.

Cultural Centre
Pasinger Fabrik functions as a cultural centre, featuring the VIEL LÄRM UM NICHTS theatre, a restaurant, and a bar that regularly hosts concerts. It also offers various projects catering to children, adolescents, and families.

The cultural centre presents a diverse range of programs, including performances by theatre groups, comedians, political satirists, and musicians from different genres. Its large gallery frequently showcases temporary exhibitions. Additionally, Pasinger Fabrik houses Munich's smallest opera house, which annually stages one or two operas or operettas specifically adapted for a small cast and orchestra.

Theatre Viel Lärm um Nichts
The theatre VIEL LÄRM UM NICHTS (named after Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing) has made an essential contribution to the development of Pasinger Fabrik into the cultural centre it is today.

The theatre was founded by the German actors Margit Carls and Andreas Seyferth in 1985. After working in state and municipal theatres for several years, they decided to set up their own theatre in order to combine the quality you can find in these theatres with a more autonomous, individualistic and collective way of producing.

Such an approach is characteristic for German ‘off-theatres’ or ‘free theatres’, which, similarly to fringe theatres, stand for experimental and unconventional performances. Free theatres usually have much smaller budgets than state and municipal theatres (the most dominant theatre categories in Germany), which rely heavily on public funding. Nevertheless, some free theatres also receive public funding; the city of Munich has supported the theatre VIEL LÄRM UM NICHTS since their first production, for example.

The repertoire of the theatre VIEL LÄRM UM NICHTS consists mainly of their own translations and versions of classic plays. Moreover, dramatisations of narrative texts are frequently performed. Characteristically, the theatre experiments with new stage concepts instead of performing on the usual proscenium stage.

In 1996 as well as in 1997, the theatre was listed as one of the 10 best off-theatres in the German-speaking area by the Impulse Theater Festival in Germany.

References

External links 
Pasinger Fabrik
theater VIEL LÄRM UM NICHTS

Theatres in Munich
Buildings and structures in Munich
Pasing-Obermenzing
Alexander Flyabout D. The Alexander Airplane Company D-1 Flyabout was an early entry into the light aircraft market by the popular biplane aircraft manufacturer. The aircraft was later manufactured by Aircraft Mechanics, Inc.

Design
The D-1 was a conventional landing geared high winged monoplane with side-by-side seating powered by a  Continental engine, with a firewall-mounted fuel tank. The cabin featured doors on both sides of the aircraft. It was the first aircraft certified under new CAA rules for aircraft under .

Operational history
The prototype's capabilities were demonstrated by flying up to  above Pikes Peak with the  model. Test pilot Proctor Nichols later reported having flown through a tornado formation in the demonstrator returning from the Cleveland National Air Races.

Variants
D-1
First outfitted with a  Continental engine.
D-2
Improved model with Szekely engine.

Specifications (Flyabout D-1)

See also

References

External links
Alexander D-2 registrations

High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Mathews Petit Breezy. The Mathews Petit Breezy is an American ultralight aircraft that was designed by Lyle Matthews in conjunction with his partners Al Petit and Kindall and Wink Turner. It was made available in the form of plans for amateur construction. The aircraft was inspired by the larger RLU-1 Breezy.

Design and development
The Petit Breezy was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . The aircraft has a standard empty weight of . It features a strut-braced high-wing, a single-seat, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from riveted aluminum tubing, with the wings and tail covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its  span wing is supported by V-struts with jury struts. The wing features half-span ailerons. The tail is a strut-braced cruciform tail. The fuselage consists of an aluminum keel tube that runs from the nose wheel to the tail. The pilot is accommodated on an open seat mounted to the main keel tube and a second seat can be fitted under the wing.

In 2011 plans were still available for the design from the Vintage Ultralight Association. Construction time from the plans is estimated at 200–300 hours

Specifications (Petit Breezy)

See also

References

External links
Photo of Mathews Petit Breezy

Petit Breezy
1980s United States ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Stewart M-1. The Stewart M-1 Monoplane was the first of two aircraft designed and built by the W.F. Stewart Company, as their usual work of building custom wooden auto bodies was falling out of favor at that time.

Design
The M-1 was a conventional landing gear equipped, all-wooden construction, mid-winged monoplane with two tandem open cockpits, each of which had side-by-side seating for a total of four people. It was powered by a  Curtiss OX-5 engine. The wing spar was made of spruce with mahogany veneer.

Operational history
The prototype was test flown from 1928 to 1929. Production was canceled with the onset of the Great Depression. One owner operated the aircraft from Flint, Michigan until 1934. The prototype was dismantled in 1937.

Specifications (Stewart M-1)

References

W.F. Stewart Company aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1927
Single-engined tractor aircraft
The Conquest of Space (Lasser book). The Conquest of Space is a nonfiction book written by David Lasser in 1930 and self-published in 1931. It was the first book written in English that presented rocketry and spaceflight in a serious manner. The book profiles a fictional journey to the Moon to explain the science of rocketry as it stood in 1931. It uses contemporary knowledge on rockets to create a reasonable description of the hardware necessary to make spaceflight possible. The book was out of print until 2002, when it was republished by Apogee Books. , the book remains in print.

According to the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, it contains the earliest known use of the word "astrogator", meaning space navigator.

Reception
The book was generally well received. The New York Times stated on January 10, 1932 that "despite its literary and artistic faults the book cannot but capture the imagination of a reader interested in science." Harold Horton Sheldon wrote the original introduction to the 1931 edition. Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote the introduction to the 2002 edition, said that the book "was one of the turning points in [his] life."

Despite being published in 1931, it "still stands up to scrutiny" for many of its predictions in rocketry. However, other predictions appear to Larry McGlynn as "quaint" and "naive", among them the use of rockets solely for peaceful purposes.

References

1931 non-fiction books
Spaceflight books
Self-published books
6023d Radar Evaluation Squadron. The 6023d Radar Evaluation Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.  It was last assigned to the 41st Air Division, stationed at Naha Air Base, Okinawa.  The unit was inactivated on 31 July 1960.

History
The unit's mission was to fly evaluation flights against new ground surveillance air defense radar installations.  It also evaluated proposed radar (fixed and mobile) and perform intruder tests against operating Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) sites.  It also provided training to ground radar sites.   It was the last USAF operator of B-29 Superfortresses, and the unit at times had to curtail flights due to high out-of-commission rate of aircraft, which were supported by cannibalization of spare parts from non-flying aircraft kept in storage in the United States.

Squadron inactivated in July 1960 after last USAF B-29 flight on  21 June 1960.  Aircraft could no longer be reliably supported due to lack of logistics support.

Lineage
 Established as 10th Radar Evaluation Flight (Electronic Countermeasures), and activated on 21 March 1952
 Re-designated: 6023d Radar Evaluation Flight, 18 March 1954
 Re-designated: 6023d Radar Evaluation Squadron, 1 January 1959
 Inactivated on 31 July 1960

Assignments
 Fifth Air Force, 21 March 1952
 Attached to: 6007th Composite Reconnaissance Group, 18 March 1954-3 July 1956
 41st Air Division, 3 July 1956 – 31 July 1960
 Attached to 51st Air Base Group, 1 July 1958-31 July 1960

Stations
 Yokota Air Base, Japan, 21 March 1952
 Johnson Air Base, Japan, 3 July 1956
 Naha Air Base, Japan, 1 July 1958 – 31 July 1960

Aircraft
 ECM TB-29 Superfortress, 1952-1960

References

Test and evaluation squadrons of the United States Air Force
MAJCOM squadrons of the United States Air Force
Military units and formations established in 1952
Artificial Intelligence Center. The Artificial Intelligence Center is a laboratory in the Information and Computing Sciences Division of SRI International. It was founded in 1966 by Charles Rosen and studies artificial intelligence. 

One of their early projects was Shakey the Robot, the first general-purpose mobile robot. More recently, the center funded early development of CALO and Siri. The center has also provided the military with various technology.

See also
 Augmentation Research Center

References

External links
 www.ai.sri.com

SRI International
Artificial intelligence laboratories
Steel Industries Kerala Limited. Steel Industrials Kerala Limited (Steel Industrials Limited Kerala or SILK) is a state-owned steel manufacturing company in the state of Kerala, India. The company manufactures steel castings, does structural fabrications, building of small vessels and barges, breaking of ships and vessels. Steel and Industrial Forgings Ltd is a subsidiary of the company.

References 

State agencies of Kerala
Engineering companies of India
Companies based in Thrissur
1974 establishments in Kerala
Indian companies established in 1974
Government agencies established in 1974
Build or Bust. Build or Bust is a reality television series.

Premise
The concept for Build or Bust was that host and custom motorcycle builder Russell Mitchell took in a member of the public who thought it would be easy to build a bike "just like the guys on TV." Russell gave the guy (or girl) access to all the tools and parts necessary to make a custom motorcycle, allowing the contestant one month to assemble it. If at the end of that time the contestant built a bike that met Russell's standards, they get to keep it. If they did not, they lost the motorcycle.

Episode guide

Season 1: 2005

Season 1 Episode 1:
Fat Fingers
A short-fused jock attempts to build a bike and inject his own ideas only to discover his head is not as big as his forearms.

Season 1 Episode 2:
The Snake
Sweet-talking, overly confident Chad slithers his way into the shop.

Season 1 Episode 3:
The Sage
Professional blacksmith Joe brings an old world discipline and aesthetic to the art of bike building.

Season 1 Episode 4:
Girls Can Build, Too
Female mechanic Alex is all passion and sass.

Season 1 Episode 5:
Bicycle By Day, Chopper By Night - Part 1
Alan converts bicycles into motor bikes in his spare time; Jesse Rooke joins the crew at Exile Cycles.

Season 1 Episode 6:
Bicycle By Day, Chopper By Night - Part 2
Tensions rise as the guys at Exile Cycles question Jesse Rooke's motives.

Season 1 Episode 7:
The Real Ron
Army vet Ron reminisces over life as he fights a new battle, a costume chopper.

Season 1 Episode 8:
The William Wall Show
Rough rider Bill Wall is pure passion and determination as he sets forth on the ultimate lone journey, building a custom bike from the ground up.

Season 1 Episode 9:
Johnny Comes Marchin' Home
Exile bad boy Johnny returns as a master builder. Young Texan Adam brings a lot of confidence and attitude.

Season 1 Episode 10:
The Accident
Seattle custom woodworker Chris attempts to transfer his knowledge of building with wood to building with metal.

Season 1 Episode 11:
The Diva
Bike enthusiast and TV personality Kerry Casem attempts to build a custom chopper.

Season 2: 2006

Season 2 Episode 1:
The Detroit Designer
JC builds a bike.

Season 2 Episode 2:
Delivery Man by Day, Bike Builder by Night
Robb Harbison builds the bike of his dreams.

Season 2 Episode 3:
The Farmhand
Satya, a hardworking farm worker tries to win a bike in 30 days.

Season 2 Episode 4:
Massachusetts Man
Jason Roche.

Season 2 Episode 5:
Simply 'Mr. Finner'

Season 2 Episode 6:
Canada Represents

Season 2 Episode 7:
So-Cal Rebel
Bike builder Johnathan Smith.

Season 2 Episode 8:
Kick Start John
Hot rod builder John Schiess.

Season 2 Episode 9:
Mini Bike Builder
Justin Taylor.

Season 2 Episode 10:
Jim the Survivor
Jim Silba.

Season 2 Episode 11:
Brian the Engineer
Tragedy threatens the build.

Season 2 Episode 12:
EPISODE: 12
Brian pushes forward in his build though still mourning the passing of his friend.

See also
Biker Build-Off

References

2005 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings
2000s American reality television series
Motorcycle television series
Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn. Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH (ODEG; literally "East German Railway") is a joint venture, founded in June 2002, of the Prignitzer Eisenbahn (part of the Netinera Group) and BeNEX, with each company owning 50% of the joint venture. It operates passenger services on eleven railway lines in Berlin/Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.

Rolling stock

 

14x Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1
6x Siemens Desiro Classic
6x Stadler GTW
16x Stadler KISS
1x Stadler Flirt
7x Siemens Desiro ML

Network

Current services

Former services

Network map

References

External links
 

Railway companies of Germany
Private railway companies of Germany
Railway companies established in 2002
Companies based in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Transport in Berlin
Transport in Brandenburg
Transport in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Transport in Saxony
Transport in Saxony-Anhalt
The International Engineering School. The International Engineering School was an undergraduate school within the Engineering faculty at Tel Aviv University  (TAU). The TAU International Engineering School, or the International School of Engineering, offered a Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, an 8-semester program delivered entirely in English. As of 2021, the program is now defunct, with the last class expected to graduate in 2024.

Faculty
TAU's Faculty of Engineering was established six years ago by merging three research departments. Over 30 of the 52 Engineering Faculty members are fellows of international professional associations such as the IEEE. Moshe Kam, the current president of the IEEE, is an alumnus of the Engineering Faculty.

Academic Ranking
According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, TAU's Engineering faculty ranks in the top 100 in the world. According to the Academic Ranking, TAU performed #32 in Mathematics, between 51 and 75 in Physics and #28 in Computer Science.

References

External links
The Tel Aviv University International School of Engineering Website

Universities and colleges established in 1956
Research institutes in Israel
Tel Aviv University
Colleges in Israel
Engineering universities and colleges in Israel
1956 establishments in Israel
Mathews PUP. The Mathews PUP (Perfect Ultralight Plane), also called the P.U.P., is an American ultralight aircraft that was designed by Lyle Mathews in 1983 and made available in the form of plans for amateur construction.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . The aircraft has a standard empty weight of . It features a biplane wing arrangement, a single-seat, open cockpit, conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from aluminum tubing and covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span, unstaggered wings employ both interplane struts and cable bracing. The lower wing has less span than the upper wing. The fuselage consists of a single aluminum rectangular 2x3 inch (5 X 8 cm) tube. The standard recommended engine is a Kawasaki 440 snowmobile engine that produces  and yields a  cruise speed along with a rate of climb of 600 feet per minute (3.0 m/s).

Specifications (PUP)

References

External links
Photo of a PUP

PUP
1980s United States ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Sunbeam Spartan. The Sunbeam Spartan was a British 12-cylinder aero-engine designed and built in 1916.

Design and development
Louis Coatalen concentrated on water-cooled engines for the most part, but did design an air-cooled V-12 named Spartan. Little is known of this engine which had a bore of   and stroke of , capacity of  and output of  driving a propeller through a reduction gearbox. The single overhead camshaft operated two inlet and two exhaust valves per cylinder via rockers, and ignition was supplied by two 6-cyl. magnetos supplying spark to one spark plug per cylinder.

Specifications (Spartan)

See also

References

Bibliography
 
 Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

External links
 

Spartan
1910s aircraft piston engines
V12 aircraft engines