Vega Radio Engineering Corporation
JSC Vega Radio Engineering Corporation (Russian: АО «Концерн радиостроения «Вега», earlier CKB-17, NII-17, MNIIP) is a Russian company specializing in military radar and surveillance and C&C systems for ground-based, airborne and space systems like A-50, Almaz-1 and UAVs.
Founded as CKB-17 (Russian: ЦКБ-17) on October 1, 1944 by the Decree of State Defence Committee of USSR.
Headquarters located in Moscow on Kutuzovskiy, 34.
Currently, Director General and General Designer is V.S. Verba
Overview
The company develops terrestrial, air and space surveillance systems, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). It also manufactures civilian products, such as air traffic control equipment. As of August, 2009, Vega is the only domestic company manufacturing UAVs for the Russian Armed Forces.
Vega's flagship product is the Tipchak mobile aerial system for reconnaissance and target designation. The system operates up to six UAVs launched from a pneumatic catapult. Each UAV has a range of 40 kilometers (25 mi) and a 3-hour endurance. It can provide targeting for artillery and theater-based ballistic missiles at distances up to 350 km (217 mi). The first Tipchak system entered service with the Russian Armed Forces in 2008.
GosNIIAS
FSUE State Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Systems or GosNIIAS for short (Russian: ГосНИИАС) is a Russian R&D enterprise, providing a scientific support of aviation weapons systems development. Founded by the decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on 26 February 1946 from some of the Mikhail Gromov's LII laboratories under a name of the NII-2. On 24 March 1994 the Institute is known under its current name of GosNIIAS.
GosNIIAS has a status of the State Centre of Science of the Russian Federation.
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NII-88
NII-88 (Scientific-Research Institute No.88) was a research bureau for the Soviet space program. The bureau was established on May 13, 1946 and was located at Podlipki, northeast of Moscow. Based on his Plant No. 88, Dmitriy Ustinov had successfully lobbied to control post-war research and development of rockets in late 1945.
Impressed by his work in Germany on the analysis of the V-2, Ustinov appointed Sergey Korolev chief designer of section 3 on long-range missiles, later called OKB-1. In 1956, OKB-1 was removed from NII-88 to become an independent bureau.
Helmut Gröttrup headed a group of German scientists working for the Soviets at Branch 1 of NII-88 located on Gorodomlya Island. Their job was to help reconstruct a Russian Version of the V-2, called the R-1, after which they were returned to Germany. the facility was also spied on by American u-2 spy planes in the late 1950s.
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Daisy Marie
Daisy Marie (born February 6, 1984) is a retired American pornographic actress,nude model and featured dancer.
Early life
Marie was born in Oregon and she moved to East Los Angeles, California when she was 3 years old.
Career
After starting out in bikini modeling, Marie began her career in pornography in 2002, a day after her 18th birthday. She has since appeared in over 400 adult movies, made various appearances on The Howard Stern Show, posed for various adult magazines (such as Chéri), and worked with photographers such as Suze Randall. Marie has also worked with Suze’s daughter Holly Randall for the mainstream sports brand Fantasy Fitness. A sports enthusiast, she has shared that she’s a “die-hard Laker fan” with AIP Daily.
She has also appeared in two music videos: in 2005, she appeared in the controversial 50 Cent music video "Disco Inferno", and, in 2007, she was one of the participants in the video for Nickelback's Rockstar.
Marie was one of the finalists on the second season of Playboy TV's reality competition show, Jenna's American Sex Star. She later hosted the Playboy TV series All Nite Party Girls.
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (Italian: Democrazia è Libertà – La Margherita, DL), commonly known simply as The Daisy (La Margherita), was a centristpolitical party in Italy. The party was formed from the merger of three parties: the Italian People's Party, The Democrats and Italian Renewal. The party president and leader was Francesco Rutelli, former mayor of Rome and prime ministerial candidate during the 2001 general election for The Olive Tree coalition, within which The Daisy electoral list won 14.5% of the national vote.
The Daisy became a single party in February 2002. It was set up by former left-leaning Christian Democrats, centrists,social-liberals (former Liberals and former Republicans), as well as other left-wing politicians from the former Italian Socialist Party and Federation of the Greens.
On 14 October 2007 DL merged with the Democrats of the Left to form the Democratic Party (PD).
History
The idea of uniting the centrist components of The Olive Tree coalitions, which were divided in many parties, was discussed at least since 1996. In the 1996 general election there were actually two centrist lists within the Italian centre-left: the Populars for Prodi, including the Italian People's Party (PPI), Democratic Union (UD), the Italian Republican Party (PRI) and the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), and that of Italian Renewal (RI), including the Italian Socialists (SI), which later merged into the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) in 1998, and the Segni Pact (PS). In 1998 splinters from the centre-right coalition formed the Democratic Union for the Republic (UDR), later transformed into Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR), in order to support the D'Alema I Cabinet. In 1999 splinters of PPI, UD and other groups formed The Democrats (Dem).
Daisy (given name)
Daisy is a feminine given name, commonly thought to be derived from the name of the flower. The flower name comes from the Old English word dægeseage, meaning "day's eye". The name Daisy is therefore ultimately derived from this source. Daisy is also a nickname for Margaret, used because Marguerite, the French version of that name, is also a French name for the oxeye daisy. It came into popular use in the late Victorian era along with other flower names. Authors Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran wrote in their 2007 book Baby Name Bible that Daisy has a "fresh, wholesome, and energetic" image. The name has been used for literary characters such as Daisy Miller, the title character of the novella by Henry James, and for television characters such as Daisy Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard. Very short, form-fitting, denim cut-off jeans shorts are named Daisy Dukes after this character.
Daisy was the 166th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2011. It was in steady use for American girls throughout the 20th century and was ranked among the top 200 names for girls between 1900 and 1940. It declined in popularity between 1960 and 1980, but has been climbing in popularity since the 1980s. It was the 294th most common name for all females during the 1990 United States census. Daisy was the 17th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2010 and the 44th most popular name for girls born in Scotland in 2010. It was among the top five names given to girls born in Guernsey in 2010.
