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IM1A2 Abrams. iM1A2 Abrams is a simulation of the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank for the Windows 95 operating system, developed by Charybdis Enterprises, and published by Interactive Magic (also known as Imagic) in 1997. The game was released as a CD-ROM.

Gameplay
iM1A2 Abrams is a simulation focusing on battlefield management as a tank commander controlling an entire company of support vehicles including infantry, artillery, and air strikes as well as the players' own tank platoon(s). Mastering the many company commands, and regular use of the real-time updated tactical map is essential for success. The player also has the ability to "jump" to each crew position (commander, gunner, driver) in every M1A2 vehicle on the battlefield and take control of each directly.

Three separate fictional campaigns are available to play: the Iranian (taking place in Iraq), Bosnian, and Ukrainian. All of the major eastern and western vehicle types were accurately modeled, and a fictional T-95 main battle tank was added to the mix to create more of a challenge for the somewhat superior M1A2 MBT.

Development
The game's head designer was Arnold Hendrick, best known for designing M1 Tank Platoon. To help with the game's authenticity, Hendrick consulted with a number of contacts in General Dynamics and the United States Armed Forces, including a master gunnery sergeant who was actively training Saudis in the use of the MIA2.

Reception 
Publisher Interactive Magic shipped 100,000 copies of the game in preparation for its launch.

Next Generation rated it three stars out of five, and stated that "At times, it feels more like a job than a game.  The designers went for keeping it true to life, and that means authenticity, not adrenaline."

North American distributions of the game included the red black and white "PC Gamer Editor's Choice" sticker. This was one of Interactive Magic's last releases in a line of military simulations. It has been compared to MicroProse's M1 Tank Platoon II over the years, due to many similarities in layout and gameplay.

References

External links
iM1A2 Abrams at MobyGames

1997 video games
Bosnian War in fiction
Charybdis Enterprises games
IEntertainment Network games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Tank simulation video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Video games set in Iraq
Video games set in Ukraine
Windows games
Windows-only games
Ford Falcon. The Ford Falcon is an automobile nameplate by Ford that applied to several vehicles worldwide. 

 Ford Falcon (North America), an automobile produced by Ford  from 1960 to 1970.
 Ford Falcon (Argentina), a car built by Ford Argentina from 1962 until 1991.
 Ford Falcon (Australia), a car manufactured by Ford Australia from 1960 to 2016. 
 Ford Falcon van, a passenger variant of the first generation Ford E Series van (based on the Falcon platform) produced by Ford in the 1960s.

Falcon
Indústria Naval do Ceará. Indústria Naval do Ceará (INACE) is a shipbuilding company based in Fortaleza, Brazil.

INACE was founded by Gil Bezerra in 1968 as a private shipyard. It produces and repairs research, fishing and tug vessels. It built Yachts and warships.

The company was the first to process aluminium hulls in Brazil. The Yard constructed, converted or repaired over 1,000 ships, including fishing boats, tugs, pushers, barges, offshore support vessels, luxury yachts and patrol crafts. Company invested in advanced computer aided design capabilities (CAD) and computer systems to support ship production, as well as in production equipment and tooling.

In 1987, the company entered the American market with the first of a six yacht series. After this, more than fifteen luxury yachts were delivered to USA, Canada and Europe, including the Joana II owned by the famous Formula One and CART champion Emerson Fittipaldi. INACE also and exported to US two 65 ft Buccaneer Class yachts.

The relationship between INACE and the Brazilian Navy is effective and close since the company was founded. In 1996, the company has been contracted to build two patrol craft of 240 ton, delivering the first ship (“Guanabara”) in July 1999 and the second (“Guarujá”) in November 1999. The Brazilian Navy acquired 12 ships at the same project, including the 6 constructed in Germany, and these two units made by INACE become the faster in their class.

External links
 Official website of INACE

Shipbuilding companies of Brazil
Defence companies of Brazil
Companies based in Ceará
Fortaleza
Sandhawk. The Sandhawk was a sounding rocket developed by Sandia National Laboratories in 1966. This single-stage, sub-orbital rocket had a mass of 700 kg (1,540 lb), a takeoff thrust of 80 kN (18,000 lbf), and could reach heights of around 200 km. Sandia launched eight of these rockets between 1966 and 1974 as part of experiments conducted for the United States Atomic Energy Commission. About 25% of the launches failed.

The Sandhawk was also used as the second stage of other sounding rockets, such as Terrier-Sandhawk, launched 30 times, and as the first stage of Dualhawk, with TE-416 Tomahawk as the second stage.

References 

Sounding rockets of the United States
Sandia National Laboratories
283 series. The  is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) on limited express services on the Kinokuni Line (Kisei Main Line) in Japan.

Design
Built jointly by Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, and Nippon Sharyo, two six-car and two three-car sets were built, and introduced on 31 July 1996 to improve travel times on the Kuroshio limited-express service.

Formations

3-car sets

Car 8 has one single-arm pantograph.

6-car sets
The six-car sets are formed as follows.

Cars 3 and 5 each have one single-arm pantograph.

References

External links

 jr-odekake.net Kuroshio (Ocean Arrow) 283 series 

Electric multiple units of Japan
West Japan Railway Company
Tilting trains
Train-related introductions in 1996
Hitachi multiple units
Kawasaki multiple units
1500 V DC multiple units of Japan
Nippon Sharyo multiple units
High-temperature engineering test reactor. The high-temperature engineering test reactor (HTTR) is a graphite-moderated gas-cooled research reactor in Ōarai, Ibaraki, Japan operated by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. It uses long hexagonal fuel assemblies, unlike the competing pebble bed reactor designs.

HTTR first reached its full design power of 30 MW (thermal) in 1999. Other tests have shown that the core can reach temperatures sufficient for hydrogen production via the sulfur-iodine cycle.

Technical details
The primary coolant is helium gas at a pressure of about , the inlet temperature of , and the outlet temperature of . The fuel is uranium oxide (enriched to an average of about 6%).

See also
Very-high-temperature reactor
Hydrogen economy

References

External links
 HTTR at the JAEA website.

Graphite moderated reactors
Nuclear technology in Japan
Ōarai, Ibaraki
Plax. Plax is the name of a manufacturing factory that was located in Stonington, Connecticut.  It began operations in Stonington in 1957, and was later purchased by the Monsanto Chemical Company.  It specialized in the manufacturing of plastic bottles.  The General Manager was Benedict U. Feole, formerly of New Britain, Connecticut and Westerly, Rhode Island.

History

The building that housed 'Plax' has gone through many incarnations.  It was built by John F. Trumbull in 1851.  It was then leased and used to make horseshoe nails and, later, trinkets from the South Sea trade.  It eventually housed the Josly Fire Arms Company and made 16,500 breech-loading carbines, used mainly by the Union cavalry during the Civil War.  It was closed soon after the war and subsequently had several short term tenants.  

In 1876, the Atwood Machine Company took occupancy.

The building was leased by 'Plax', although the dates of occupancy are unclear.  'Plax' was purchased by the Monsanto Company and eventually moved its operations from Stonington, Connecticut to St. Louis, Missouri.  In the Hartford Courant, on November 11, 1963, an article was published stating that  "...Monsanto Chemical Company Friday admitted a Connecticut division of its giant production operation -- the Plax Company at Stonington -- may undergo some changes."

There is a picture of 'Plax' when it was owned by The Monsanto Company, dated 1957. It can be found in the University Archives, Special Collections, of The Washington University Library in St. Louis, Missouri.  This archive houses documents and pictures owned by Monsanto from 1901 to 2006.  (See the second outside link, below.)

This historic building was consumed by a fire on July 3, 2003, although the walls still remain standing.

While the foregoing describes the manufacturing end of Plax, there was more to it than that.  A Research & Development group was based in Bloomfield, Connecticut.  The group developed plastics blow-molding equipment which it installed in its own manufacturing facilities and also licensed to other companies on an international basis.  In the basement of the Bloomfield building it tested the machinery that it developed.  The company held several patents for this type of machinery, which are listed below.  The company began as an offshoot of the Emhart Corporation in the 1950s.

US Patent 2,864,124: Plastics Blow Molding Apparatus. Robert G. Strauss, assignor to Plax Corporation, September 5, 1957

US Patent 2,804,648: Plastics Blow Molding Apparatus. Robert G. Strauss, assignor to Plax Corporation, September 3, 1957

US Patent 3,420,926: Method for Selectively Controlling the Extrusion of Plastics Materials. Robert G. Strauss, assignor to Plax Corporation, January 7, 1969

External links
 The Stonington Historical Society.  This site has many historic pictures of the building.
 Archives, Washington University Library, St. Louis, Missouri

Stonington, Connecticut
Buildings and structures in New London County, Connecticut
Reduced moderation water reactor. The Reduced-Moderation Water Reactor (RMWR), also referred to as the Resource-renewable BWR, is a proposed type of light water moderated nuclear power reactor, featuring some characteristics of a fast neutron reactor, thereby combining the established and proven technology of light water reactors with the desired features of fast neutron reactors. The RMWR concept builds upon the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor and is under active development in theoretical studies, particularly in Japan. Hitachi and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency are both involved in research.

Even in Generation II PWRs, the neutron spectrum is not fully thermalised. The goal of the RMWR is to depart further from the thermal neutron spectrum in order to achieve a breeder ratio of slightly greater than one, so that after the initial fuel charge no enrichment of the uranium input to the fuel cycle is required. The RMWR concept is dependent on nuclear fuel reprocessing in order to achieve its objective of a resource renewable fuel cycle. Hitachi has proposed the FLUOREX process as reprocessing technology for this purpose, instead of the more conventional Purex technology.

In contrast to regular light water reactors and in order to achieve a harder neutron spectrum, which is optimal for breeding purposes, the RMWR uses hexagonal fuel assemblies and Y-shaped control rods. The fuel is MOX (Mixed Oxide), consisting of 18% plutonium, which is surrounded by depleted uranium in the blanket region.

Another RMWR breeder design intends on closing the nuclear fuel cycle by mixing thorium with reprocessed transuranics, which include plutonium, in a thorium containing MOX fuel. The neutron speed would be in the spectrum that could purportedly transmutate the long-lived fission products like Tc-99 & I-127 and as the neutron spectrum is hard/fast enough, to also be capable of burning the usually troublesome minor actinides quite efficiently.

Hitachi announced a collaboration with three U.S. universities on the development of the RBWR/RMWR in 2014.

See also

 Supercritical water reactor, a similar and perhaps even overlapping concept.
 Clean And Environmentally Safe Advanced Reactor, preliminary work in the 1990s.

References

External links 
 IAEA Advanced Reactors Information System: Reduced-Moderation Water Reactor
 Hitachi Power Systems: RMWR and FLUOREX fuel cycle

Light water reactors
Nuclear power reactor types
Fenton Wind Farm. The Fenton Wind Farm is a 205.5 megawatt wind energy project built by enXco (now EDF Renewables), that became operational in the second half of 2007. The $385-million project is near Chandler, Minnesota, United States, on a site that encompasses Murray and Nobles counties and consists of 137 GE 1.5 MW wind turbines.

Power generated by the Fenton Wind Energy project will be sold to Northern States Power, a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy.

The land was and is subject to archeological surveys as it is situated in a culturally sensitive area previously inhabited by the Dakota.

Project history

Apr 2006 - Permit issued

Jan 2007 - Financing of project secured

Sep 2007 - Construction begins

Oct 2007 - Scheduled completion

See also

Wind farm
Wind power in the United States

References

External links

 Fenton Wind Farm

Buildings and structures in Murray County, Minnesota
Buildings and structures in Nobles County, Minnesota
Energy infrastructure completed in 2007
Wind farms in Minnesota
Pro FWD. Pro FWD is a class in drag racing. The E.T. Bracket categories are no-electronics classes. Delay devices, throttle stops, air shifters, transbrakes, etc. or any device that transmits real-time, on-track data to the driver or any remote location are prohibited. All applicable NHRA rules apply based on elapsed time.

E.T. Bracket classes use a .5-second, full-countdown Tree.

Engine 
Restricted to one, 4-cylinder, overhead cam, production-based automotive engine. Maximum displacement 2.8 liter (170.75 cid). Engine swaps permitted; engine must be from same manufacturer as body (For example, Rover K-series engine into Austin Mini or Austin 1100 or Citroën Saxo engine into Citroën 2CV). Redundant power adders, such as a dual stage nitrous system or twin turbos, will be counted as one power adder. All engine block and cylinder head castings must be, or have been, available in a production car or truck from a recognized OEM assembly line with a minimum production run of 5,000 units. Transverse orientation may be converted to longitudinal orientation.

Exhaust 
Open exhaust permitted, except where prohibited by track rules.

Fuel 
Only methanol, NHRA-accepted ethanol, or NHRA-accepted racing gasoline permitted. All other fuels prohibited.

Nitrous Oxide 
Commercially available nitrous oxide permitted, including for supercharged and turbocharged engines. Nitrous bottle(s) in driver compartment must be equipped with a relief valve and vented outside of driver's compartment. Bottle(s) must be stamped with a DOT-1800-pound rating and permanently mounted (no hose clamps or tie wraps). Hoses from bottle(s) to solenoid must be high-pressure steel-braided or NHRA-accepted hoses.

Forced Induction 
All Applications: Restricted to a single turbocharger. All air entering the turbocharger must pass through the turbocharger inlet. Injection of any liquid, gas, or any other substance into the inlet or exhaust housing is prohibited. Turbocharger compressor wheel must be constructed of cast or billet aluminum. Exotic material wheels prohibited. Liquid intercoolers limited to water and/or ice ONLY.

Four-cylinder, single-turbo application: limited to maximum 88mm turbo, where the maximum compressor housing inducer diameter is 89.5mm (3.523 inches), measured at the point where the leading edge of the compressor wheel meets the housing. Compressor wheel inducer diameter not to exceed this value, and contours of wheel must not be "stepped, notched, or clipped"; i.e., the contours must be continuous features from the inducer to the wheel exducer. All air entering the turbocharger must pass through the turbocharger inlet. Injection of any liquid, gas, or any other substance into the inlet or exhaust housing is prohibited.
Turbocharger compressor wheel must be constructed of cast or billet aluminum. Exotic material wheels prohibited.

External links 
 Class Rules from NHRA online

Drag racing classes
All pages needing cleanup
Marlei (car). The Marlei was a racing car built in Portugal by Mário Moreira Leite (bearing an acronym from his name) in the 1950s. It featured an aluminum body and Opel engine. Similar racing cars were constructed in Portugal during the same period when car races became very popular, including the DM (by Dionísio Mateu and Elísio de Melo), the Alba, the Olda, the FAP and the Etnerap.

History 
The project began in 1952 when a beyond recovery Opel Olympia Caravan entered the workshop of Oficina António Sardinha a Vila Nova de Gaia company, which had operations with General Motors. Mário Moreira Leite in his late 50s was the head mechanic at the workshop, he found interest in the Olympia Caravan and started building it into a sports car in his spare time. The bodywork was in a tubular form made up of single piece aluminum most parts of the car were sourced from GM and were highly modified. It featured an 4 cylinder water cooled Opel engine with displacement of 1488 putting out 48hp assisted by a Vauxhall 4 speed transmission, all four wheels had Vauxhall braking system the total weight of the car was 580kg and reached 160kmph.

After this the vehicle went for a lengthy approval process which ended in 1955 and the car entered the competitions but due to the delay the competitor's machines were advanced years ahead of Marlei which resulted in a disadvantage anyway the car still managed to secure second place in its class at IV Rally of Porto.

See also 

 Opel Olympia
 Vauxhall
 General Motors

References

Car manufacturers of Portugal
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers
Metal Masters. Metal Masters is a 2D fighting video game first released in 1991 for the Atari ST, IBM PC, and Amiga. It was ported to the Nintendo Game Boy in 1993.

Plot
The story starts with a villain called the Baron, the Baron is looking for the parts needed to construct the ultimate robot. The player's job is to destroy the robots, thus ruining the parts needed by the Baron.

Gameplay
The player starts out controlling a robot that is a very basic model. The player can add "improvements" to this robot with credits earned during gameplay. There are four areas that each robot is graded on, body, left arm, right arm, and legs. There are several different combinations of parts that can be added to the player's robot for optimum fighting status. During a fight, each area mentioned above is represented by its own health meter. The objective of the player is to deplete the health meters of each area.

Reception
The One reviewed the home computer versions of Metal Masters in 1991, praising the graphics as "impressively animated and colourful", and expressing Metal Masters is an "unusual" beat 'em up in that it's more enjoyable in two-player mode, furthermore calling it a game "for which a good deal of practice pays off." The One however, criticised the 'clanking' sound effects of robots walking as 'grating' and expressed that the game feels too slow. They concluded by stating that  "Ultimately however, the slight slowness of robot maneuverability make what could have been a great battle merely a decent one."

References

External links
 
 

1991 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
DOS games
Electro Brain games
Fighting games
Game Boy games
Infogrames games
North America-exclusive video games
Science fiction video games
Single-player video games
Video games about mecha
Video games developed in Spain
Video games scored by Alberto Jose González
Bit Managers games
Java Interface Definition Language. In software development, Java Interface Definition Language, or Java IDL, is an implementation of the CORBA specification and enables interoperability and connectivity with heterogeneous objects. It is basically an Object Request Broker provided with JDK. The Java IDL enables distributed Web applications to transparently invoke operations on remote network services using the industry standards interface description language (IDL) and Internet InterORB Protocol IIOP from Object Management Group.

External links
 Sun Developer Network: Core Java: Java IDL
 JDK 6 Java IDL-related APIs & Developer Guides
Java (programming language)
Digital Mars. Digital Mars is a small American software company owned by Walter Bright and based in Vienna, Virginia. It makes C, C++, and D compilers, and associated utilities such as an integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows and DOS, which Digital Mars calls an integrated development and debugging environment (IDDE).

The compilers can be downloaded, free of charge, from Digital Mars's web site.
Product names changed over time. The C compiler was first named Datalight C compiler, then Zorland C, then Zortech C, then Digital Mars C/C++ compiler. The C++ compiler was first named Zortech C++, then Symantec C++, then Digital Mars C++ (DMC++).

The company gained notice in the software development community for creating the D programming language. D resulted from Bright's frustration with the direction of the C++ language and from his experience implementing it.
Digital Mars is also notable for having shipped the first commercial C++ compiler for Windows

In 2002, Digital Mars released DMDScript, an ECMA-262-compliant JavaScript engine, written in D.

History
In 1988, Zortech was the first C++ compiler to ship for Windows. PC Magazine ran a graphics benchmark, and reported that most executables produced by Zortech ran faster than executables produced by Microsoft C 5.1 and by Watcom C 6.5.  Stanley B. Lippman wrote that Zortech was the first C++ compiler to implement return value optimization. Later, the C++ standard required this.

In 2023, Mike Engelhardt released a new simulator QSPICE, which uses this compiler on the backend to allow for C++ and Verilog authored behavioral simulation models to be compiled to native code and loaded by the simulation environment.

Reception
In a February 1989 overview of optimizing C compilers, BYTE approved of Zortech C 1.07's $90 price, included IDE, and Microsoft CodeView compatibility. The magazine reported that the software "lacks some of the features of those in the $400 range" but its code often benchmarked better. BYTE concluded that "Zortech does everything that a compiler has to do—at an attractive price".

References

External links
 

C (programming language) compilers
C++ compilers
Karl Schügerl. Karl Schügerl (22 June 1927 – 20 October 2018) was a Hungarian-German chemical engineer. He was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He also was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Budapest University. In 1992 vol. 46 of the Springer book series Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology was dedicated to Karl Schügerl's 65-th birthday. Schügerl was awarded the DECHEMA Medal in 1997.

References

Sources 
 
 CV from the University page
 Detailed curriculum vitae (PDF): http://www.schuegerl-karl.homepage.t-online.de/Schuegerl-Lebenslauf.pdf

External links 
 

1927 births
2018 deaths
People from Sopron
Hungarian engineers
Hungarian chemical engineers