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Electrorides. Electrorides Inc  is an electric vehicle maker, based in Laguna Niguel, California. The company founder and CEO is Tedd Abramson. Electrorides Zerotruck debuted at the Alternative Fuels & Vehicles National Conference and Expo in Las Vegas May 11–14, 2008.

Products 
The Electrorides ZeroTruck is an all-electric truck. It is based on an Isuzu N-series platform, retrofitted with an advanced technology brushless DC electric motor and a lithium-polymer battery 65 kW pack US built. It is a  GVWR medium duty truck with a  range.
The company plans to begin taking orders for the ZeroTruck in January 2009 and to make its first deliveries in June 2009 and recently delivered a ZeroTruck to the City of Santa Monica for their Water Services Dept. (see photo). While most alternative fuel solutions for trucks are hybrids, the ZeroTruck is fully electric.

See also 
 List of production battery electric vehicles

References

External links 

 https://web.archive.org/web/20110710181052/http://www.electrorides.com/aboutus.htm 
 https://web.archive.org/web/20110129032749/http://www.zerotruck.com/Home.html

Plug-in hybrid vehicles
Plug-in hybrid vehicle manufacturers
Battery electric vehicle manufacturers
Electric concept cars
Electric vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Companies based in Orange County, California
Ronald McCaffer. Ronald McCaffer (born 1943) is Emeritus Professor of Construction Management at Loughborough University in Loughborough, England. He is a specialist in the management of the processes, technology, contractual and procurement systems of the construction industry.

Biography

Early life and education
McCaffer was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He received a BSc in Civil Engineering from Strathclyde University in 1965. He was awarded PhD in 1977 from Loughborough University and DSc in 1998 from University of Strathclyde.

Academics career
At Loughborough University, McCaffer has been head of civil engineering (1987–1993), dean of engineering (1992–1997), deputy vice-chancellor (1997–2002), director of strategic business partnerships, innovation and knowledge transfer (2002–2006), and emeritus professor (since 2009).

Other appointments have included duties at the University of Technology, Malaysia, University of Hong Kong, University of New South Wales and visiting professor at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Honours
McCaffer is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (1991), Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2009), Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building.

He is a member of the board of trustees of the British University in Egypt, and previously a member of Innovation East Midlands, a member of the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board and member of Court at Cranfield University.

Books
Modern Construction Management
Management of Off Highway Plant and Equipment
Worked Examples in Construction Management

External links
Home page *MERIT the international construction business game *Modern Construction Management

Academics of Loughborough University
Scottish civil engineers
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
People associated with Cranfield University
1943 births
Living people
ERoom. eRoom is an on-line project collaboration, or collaborative software product from Opentext Corporation. Originally developed by eRoom Technology Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, product features include e-mail management, calendaring, instant messaging, project plans, databases, and document management.

The company, first called Instinctive Technology, was founded in 1996 by a group predominantly from Lotus Development Corporation (which had been acquired by IBM Corporation in 1995), and was led by CEO Jeffrey Beir.

One of eRoom's first clients was Hewlett-Packard, which became one of the first clients to use eRoom's hosted service, in which the eRoom software was run on its own servers rather than the customers' servers, for a monthly fee. 

In December 2002, (announced in October) Documentum acquired eRoom Technology in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at more than $100 million.  After Documentum bought eRoom Technology, Inc., they began integrating the eRoom product with their Content management platform, Documentum 5.  The first integrated release, eRoom Enterprise, was released in February 2003. Version 7 of eRoom, which was released later that year, added a library of horizontal applications for audit management, deal management, customer management and project management.

In October 2003, almost a year after the eRoom acquisition, Documentum, Inc, was purchased by EMC2.

On October 12, 2015, Dell Inc. announced that it would acquire EMC in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $67 billion—the largest-ever acquisition in the technology industry. The merger closed on September 7, 2016. EMC has been renamed to Dell EMC as a result of the merger.

On September 12, 2016, OpenText, acquired Dell EMC's ECD division—which included Documentum, and eRoom—for $1.6B USD.

See also 
 List of collaborative software

Notes

External links 
 eRoom Picks Up Steam
 Lotus, eRoom duke it out over collaboration apps
 Will the digital office take off for grounded corps?
 eRoom Technology launches eRoom 5.0
 eRoom Technology Delivers Major Update to eRoom.net Hosted Digital Workplace
 eRoom Technology Introduces Next Generation Digital Workplace with Unveiling of eRoom Version 6.0
 Ford Motor Company Globally Deploys eRoom Technology's Digital Workplace for Collaborative eBusiness Initiatives
 Courting Trial Technology
 Easy Enterprise Collaboration 
 Documentum Acquires eRoom, Says Earnings On Target
 eRoom New version of eRooms announced at well-attended Documentum conference
 EMC Documentum eRoom
 eRoom to Office 365 Migration
 About eRoom, on Knowledge Management Community

Proprietary software
Collaborative software
Artificial Life (journal). Artificial Life is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers artificial life, the study of man-made systems that exhibit the behavioral characteristics of natural living systems. Its articles cover system synthesis in software, hardware, and wetware. Artificial Life was established in 1993 and is the official journal of the International Society of Artificial Life. It is published online and in hard copy by the MIT Press.

Abstracting and indexing 
Artificial Life is abstracted and indexed in Academic Search, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, CSA Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts, Compendex, Current Contents, EMBASE, Excerpta Medica, Inspec, MEDLINE, METADEX, PubMed, Referativny Zhurnal, Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, and The Zoological Record.

References

External links 
 
 International Society of Artificial Life

Evolutionary computation journals
MIT Press academic journals
Quarterly journals
Artificial life
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1993
Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies
The purpose of a system is what it does. The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer, who observed that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do." The term is widely used by systems theorists, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behavior is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behavior with a more straightforwardly descriptive view.

Origins of the term
Stafford Beer coined the term POSIWID and used it many times in public addresses. In his address to the University of Valladolid, Spain, in October 2001, he said:

Uses
From a cybernetic perspective, complex systems are not controllable by simple notions of management, and interventions in a system can best be understood by looking at how they affect observed system behavior. The term is used in many other fields as well, including biology and management. Whereas a cybernetician may apply the principle to the results inexorably produced by the mechanical dynamics of an activity system, a management scientist may apply it to the results produced by the self-interest of actors who play roles in a business or other institution.

See also
 Duck test
 The proof of the pudding is in the eating (Wiktionary)
 Systemantics

References

External links
What is Cybernetics? Conference by Stafford Beer (video recording)

Heuristics
Systems theory
Systems thinking
Teleology
2001 introductions
Design Issues. Design Issues is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering design history, theory, and criticism. The journal typically includes theoretical and critical articles, book reviews, and illustrations. Design Issues was established in 1984 and is published online and in hard copy by MIT Press.

Abstracting and indexing 
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

References

External links 
 

Arts journals
Engineering journals
Academic journals established in 1984
MIT Press academic journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Maritime E-Commerce Association. The Maritime e-Commerce Association (or MeCA) is a not-for-profit group of marine business and technical experts in the UK who are collectively committed to speeding up the process of marine-related business transactions through the development of application-to-application interoperability standards.

MeCA promotes e-commerce for the benefit of all parties in the marine supply-chain, including ship owners/managers, suppliers and software providers. It does this by developing, maintaining, harmonising and promoting common standards (including technical standards and protocols for interoperability between systems).

Founded in December 1999, MeCA has developed its own XML based standard, called MTML (Marine Trading Mark-up Language) derived from IMPA's ETSF EDIFACT standard. It has widespread support throughout the maritime buyer and supplier community as well as with marine supply chain software providers. The latest version is MTML Version 2.0. This support includes close relationships with IMPA (International Marine Purchasing Association) and ISSA (International Ship Suppliers Association).

The Maritime e-Commerce Association was responsible for developing the maritime industry’s first XML based communications standard, called MTML (Marine Trading Mark-up Language).
Shipserv and SpecTec were one of the founding members of MeCA.

External links
 MeCA home page

Organizations established in 1999
1999 establishments in the United Kingdom
E-commerce in the United Kingdom
Non-profit organisations based in the United Kingdom
LTM. LTM may refer to:
 LTM, (massive) Low Taper Fade
 LTM, IATA code for Lethem Airport, Guyana
 LTM Recordings, British record label
 Long-term memory, memory that can be stored as little as a few days or as long as decades
 Leica thread-mount, an M39 screw lens mount introduced by Leitz Camera in the 1930s
 Last Twelve Months, a financial term also known as trailing twelve months
 Local Traffic Manager, a web networking term synonymous with the term "load balancer"
 Logical Technology Model, term used in solution architecture to describe high-level hardware infrastructure
Lake of Two Mountains High School
 Limited Time Mode in video games like Fortnite Battle Royale or Rocket League
 London Transport Museum, Transport Museum in London, United Kingdom
 ltm (gene), several lolitrem biosynthesis genes
Amazon-class sloop. The Amazon class was a class of six screw sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1865 and 1866.

Construction

Design
Designed by Edward Reed, the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction, they were equipped with a ram bow. The hull was of wooden construction, but they were the first class of sloops to incorporate a form of composite construction; they had iron cross beams while retaining wooden framing.

Propulsion
Propulsion was provided by a two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine by Ravenhill, Salkeld & Company driving a single  screw. Vestal and Nymphe were fitted with three-cylinder Maudslay engines.

Sail plan
All the ships of the class were built with a barque rig.

Armament
The class was designed with two 7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle-loading rifled guns mounted on slides on centre-line pivots, and two 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns on broadside trucks. Dryad, Nymphe and Vestal were rearmed in the early 1870s with an armament of nine 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns, four each side and a centre-line pivot mount at the bow.

Ships

Notes

Bibliography

 

 
Ship classes of the Royal Navy
Sloop classes
 Amazon
Highdown New Mill, Angmering. Highdown New Mill or Ecclesden Mill is a tower mill at Angmering, Sussex, England which has been converted to residential accommodation.

History
Highdown New Mill was built in 1826. The mill was working until 1872. In 1880, the cap and sails were blown off. By the 1930s the mill was an ivy clad ruin. It was converted into a house in the early 1970s. The tower has recently been clad in wooden shingles.

Description

Highdown New Mill is a four-storey brick tower mill. It had four Patent sails and the beehive cap was winded by a fantail. The mill drove two pairs of millstones. All that remains today is the tower, with various additions and extensions.

Millers
Timothy pierce
 1829 - 1872

References for above:-

References

Further reading
 Online version 

Tower mills in the United Kingdom
Grinding mills in the United Kingdom
Windmills completed in 1826
Windmills in West Sussex
1826 establishments in England
Aeroprakt A-22 Foxbat. The Aeroprakt A-22 Foxbat is a Ukrainian two-seat, high-wing, tricycle landing gear ultralight aircraft that was designed by Yuri Yakovlev and is manufactured by Aeroprakt. In the United States the A-22 is referred to as the Valor, while in the UK and Australia it is called the Foxbat. It has also been marketed as the Vision.
The Aeroprakt A-22 is supplied either as "ready-to-fly" factory built aircraft, or as a kit, consisting of 152 pieces. The kit can be built in about 500 man-hours.

The A-22 meets the definition of an FAI microlight.

History

Design and development
Aeroprakt of Kiev began design of the A-22 in February 1990, with the first prototype making its maiden flight on 21 October 1996, and a German-certified version entering production in 1999.

The A-22's structure is almost completely metal with the engine cowling, wing fillets and wheel spats made of composites. The wings and control surfaces are fabric covered. The aircraft has excellent visibility, due to the large amount of glazing, including convex doors, that allow the occupants to look straight down. The A-22 uses a 3-axis control system, giving the pilot full control over the aircraft. The A-22 uses flaperons in place of ailerons and flaps, giving a stall speed of  with the flaperons fully down.

The kit comes with either the  Rotax 912UL or optionally the  Rotax 912ULS. The  Jabiru 2200 can also be fitted.

Originally the A-22 came fitted with a 40-litre inboard fuel tank behind the seats, although later models have wing tanks holding 37.5 litres per side. The propeller is a 3-blade composite ground adjustable KievProp. Dual controls are standard, using a single central "Y" yoke or optionally twin yoke control system.

Military usage

As of April 2024, the Ukrainian military have converted the A-22 into a kamikaze drone. At least one has been used in the drone hunting role targeting small fixed wing drones with a passenger armed with a Malyuk rifle. On 6 November 2024 an A-22 drone reportedly struck and damaged three ships of the Caspian Flotilla in the Kaspiysk naval base  from the front line in Ukraine.

Variants
A-22L2
Ultralight version built in Ukraine with a maximum takeoff mass of  for the landplane , also available as a seaplane.
A-22LS
Light-sport version for the American market with a higher maximum takeoff mass of

Specifications (A-22 Valor, Rotax 912 ULS engine)

References

External links 

1990s Ukrainian ultralight aircraft
Foxbat
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
George C. Schatz. George Chappell Schatz (born April 14, 1949), the Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University,  is a theoretical chemist best known for his seminal contributions to the fields of reaction dynamics and nanotechnology.

Early life and career
Born in Watertown, New York and raised in Sackets Harbor, New York, he obtained his B. S. in chemistry from Clarkson University in 1971. At Clarkson, he was mentored by organic chemistry professor Richard Partsch, who encouraged him to spend a summer working at Argonne National Laboratory in 1971. He went on to earn a Ph.D. from Caltech in 1976 under Aron Kuppermann. While working on his doctorate, he took classes taught by Richard Feynman on quantum electrodynamics and particle physics. Following postdoctoral work at MIT under John Ross, he joined the chemistry department at Northwestern University. Schatz is a member of the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit.

To date he has co-authored over 1000 scientific papers and co-authored two books with his colleague Mark A. Ratner: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry and Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry. Recently much of Schatz's research has been concerned with nanotechnology and bionanotechnology. His work has collectively received over 130,000 citations, including a 2003 article on the optical properties of nanoparticles which has been cited more than 12,000 times.

A longtime senior editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry, he became its editor-in-chief in 2005. The journal previously (1997) having been split in Journal of Physical Chemistry A (molecular physical chemistry, both theoretical and experimental) and Journal of Physical Chemistry B (solid state, soft matter, liquids), Schatz initiated the spin-off of a third journal, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, focusing on nanotechnology and molecular electronics.

Awards and honors
Schatz is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1987) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2007) and the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.  Schatz has won the Ahmed Zewail Prize award of the journal Chemical Physics Letters for "outstanding contributions to the theory and understanding of gas-phase reaction dynamics, plasmonics, and nanostructured materials". The biennial prize was developed by Elsevier to honor Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail, who was a longtime editor of the journal.

References

External links
 Official home page at Northwestern University
 Editorial profile at the Journal of Physical Chemistry home page

1949 births
Living people
Northwestern University faculty
American physical chemists
Theoretical chemists
Members of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Guy C. Barton House. The Guy C. Barton House was a very elaborate and expensive Victorian home in the Midtown area of Omaha, Nebraska, United States, a home and entertaining center of an industrialist and philanthropist.  The house caught fire and was demolished in 1982.

Guy Conger Barton was president of the Omaha and Grant Smelting Company (associated with the American Smelting and Mining Company), president of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway (which built the Douglas Street Bridge over the Missouri River), president of the South Omaha National Bank, and was involved in other businesses as well.

It was designed by Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb, a leader in Richardsonian Romanesque style,  on commission for Barton.  The mansion was built in 1899 at cost of $250,000.  The three-story red brick mansion was located at 3522 Farnum Street.

Details in its National Register nomination include: "The main entrance, facing the south, is sided by a three-story Victorian tower on the west. The highly decorative cast-iron double doors cost $7,000 when they were first installed. The entrance hall is of solid mahogany wall panels and stanchions that are draped and tapestried in two-tone velours. On the left of the entrance hall is the music room or "Gold Room" which is decorated in Louis XV style."

It was site of great parties.  In its National Register nomination it was stated that the house "portrays a past era unique not only in architectural movements but also in the socio-economic development of
capitalism of America."  It was deemed significant as "a perfect example of Victorian elegance at its highest. The architectural style is a romantic adaptation of Victorian and Romanesque."

The property included a large carriage house with stables below.  This provided quarters for a coachman, horses, and "special quarters for the family cow which was kept there as late as 1915" when it was owned by H. S. Clarke, another banker.

A wine cellar with capacity for 1,250 bottles was protected by a heavy door and a burglar alarm connected to Mr. Barton's bedroom.

An underground passage provided access from the house to the stables.

There was a fire.

In 1982 the Security National Bank took steps towards demolition of the building; a law firm opposed that and appealed to Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt.

The mansion later became the Heafey & Heafey Mortuary.

It was demolished in 1982.

It was delisted (removed) from the National Register in 2018.

Barton's collection of paintings is described in "History of the City of Omaha Nebraska".

Barton is also associated with 2226 Howard St. and businesses not mentioned above.

References

Demolished buildings and structures in Omaha, Nebraska
Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Nebraska
Houses completed in 1899
Buildings and structures demolished in 1982
National Register of Historic Places in Douglas County, Nebraska
Former National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska