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Higashiagatsuma, Gunma

is a town located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 13,349 in 2467 households, and a population density of 53 persons per km2. The total area of the town is .

Geography
Located in the northwestern portion of Gunma Prefecture, Higashiagatsuma is surrounded by high peaks, including Mount Iwabitsu (802.6 meters). The town hall is 619 meters above sea level.

 Mountains: Mount Iwabitsu, Yakushidake, Sugamine
 Rivers: Agatsuma River, Ishikami River
 Lakes: Lake Haruna

Surrounding municipalities
Gunma Prefecture
 Takasaki
 Shibukawa
 Nakanojō
 Naganohara

Climate
Higashiagatsuma has a Humid continental climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by warm summers and cold winters with heavy snowfall.  The average annual temperature in Higashiagatsuma is 10.8 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1213 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 23.7 °C, and lowest in January, at around -1.4 °C.

Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Higashiagatsuma has declined considerably over the past 70 years.

History
During the Edo period, the area around Higashiagatsuma was part of the hatamoto-administered territory within Kōzuke Province.

With the creation of the modern municipalities system after the Meiji Restoration on April 1, 1889, the town of Hara and the villages of Ota, Iwashima, and Sakaue and Azuma were created within Agatsuma District of Gunma Prefecture. The first three villages merged into Hara in 1965, which was renamed Agatsuma Town in February 1956.

Higashiagatsuma was created on March 27, 2006, by the merger of the town of Agatsuma, and the village of Azuma, both from Agatsuma District.

Government
Higashiagatsuma has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral town council of 14 members. Higashiagatsuma collectively with the other municipalities in Agatsuma District, contributes two members to the Gunma Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the town is part of Gunma 5th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

Economy
The economy of Higashiagatsuma is heavily dependent on agriculture and seasonal tourism. Noted local crops include konjac and myoga production. Tourism from ski resorts and onsen hot springs also contribute to the local economy. Mount Ajara was a venue for the 2003 Asian Winter Games.

Education
Higashiagatsuma has five public elementary schools and one public middle school operated by the town government, and one public special needs high school operated by the Gunma Prefectural Board of Education.

Transportation

Railway
 JR East – Agatsuma Line
 -  -

Highway

Local attractions
Iwabitsu Castle - A castle ruin of Sanada clan.
 Agatsuma Gorge, National Place of Scenic Beauty
Tarusawa Tunnel

References

External links

Official Website 

Towns in Gunma Prefecture
Higashiagatsuma, Gunma
Stereospermum tetragonum

Stereospermum tetragonum, the yellow snake tree,  is 15–20 m tall, trunk 15–25 cm in diam, large leaves 25–50 cm; leaflets 3–6 on each side of midrib, long elliptic, 8-14 X 2.5–6 cm. Large, pale yellow, trumpet shaped flowers occur in panicles. Flowers are pale yellow, slightly curved, about 2 cm, upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, tomentose at mouth, tube terete. The fruit is long, 4-angular, slightly curved, 30–70 cm, about 1 cm in diameter. This, probably, is the source of its common name, snake tree.

Also known as Stereospermum colais, it is found in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka: where it is "common in moist deciduous forests and occasional in openings or margins of evergreen forests, up to 1200 m."

In Vietnam, Stereospermum colais is known as . Its young leaves can be eaten as a vegetable in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

References

tetragonum
The Unimportance of Being Oscar

The Unimportance of Being Oscar is a 1968 memoir by writer/pianist/radio personality/actor Oscar Levant. The book is known for Oscar's laconic witticisms, such as "everyone in Hollywood is gay, except Gabby Hayes — and that's because he is a transvestite."

Levant writes about his family, his mental health issues, his musical career, politics, and more in typically amusing style. The book is full of observations of and encounters with the famous, including George and Ira Gershwin, Benny Goodman, George Bernard Shaw, Virgil Thomson, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, W. S. Gilbert, T.S. Eliot, Moss Hart, Alexander Woolcott, Noël Coward, Somerset Maugham, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood, Paul Bowles, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and many others.

Details
 The title of this autobiography is a pun on the title of the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest.

References 

Music autobiographies
Show business memoirs
1968 non-fiction books
Samson AG

SAMSON AG, founded in 1907 by Hermann Sandvoss, is a German corporation headquartered in Frankfurt. It develops systems and products that can control all types of fluid. Its product line includes valves, self-operating regulators, automation systems, sensors, thermostats, and digital devices, among others.

Background 
SAMSON was founded in 1907 after Sandvoss invented a regulator that can function without an external power supply. The device automatically controls processes by utilizing differences in pressure. By 1916, its main manufacturing facility and headquarters were relocated to Frankfurt's River Main.

Aside from regulators, SAMSON AG develops measurement and control technologies such as control valves, and electro-pneumatic transducers, control valves for HVAC systems - controllers and sensors for HVAC systems. The control valves have modular designs, giving it flexibility in terms of usage in engineering and building automation processes. The range of products in these areas cover chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, power, HVAC and food and beverage industries. In 2002, the sales of its products reached $317 million.

Today, SAMSON operates in over 40 countries with more than 4,500 employees and more than 50 subsidiaries, more than 200 engineering and service centers worldwide.

Products
SAMSON manufactures and supplies control valves, regulators and accessories for process control. Majors products are:

 Control valves
 Positioners, limit switches, accessories
 Measuring and control equipment
 Control valves for HVAC systems
 Controllers and sensors for HVAC systems

Additionally, SAMSON AG and its associated companies AIR TORQUE S.p.A., CERA SYSTEM Verschleißschutz GmbH, KT-Elektronik GmbH, LEUSCH GmbH Industriearmaturen, Pfeiffer Chemie-Armaturenbau GmbH, RINGO VÁLVULAS S.L., SED FLow Control GmbH, STARLINE S.p.A., and VETEC Ventiltechnik GmbH offer technologies for severe requirements: e.g. abrasive and contaminated fluids, high shutdown pressures, lowest interior and exterior leak rates, quick-action, on-off, and control functions, as well as alloys like Monel, Hastelloy, titanium, zirconium, duplex, etc.

Board of directors
Andreas Widl (CEO) Chairman of the executive board, Thomas Steckenreiter (CTO) Vice Chairman of the executive board, Dominic Deller (CFO)

Chairman of the Board: Nikolaus Hensel

References

Manufacturing companies based in Frankfurt
Uluan Peninsula

Uluan Peninsula extends into Lake Toba on the eastern side toward Medan, in Simalungun Regency and Toba Samosir Regency of North Sumatra province. It has experienced a large amount of uplift because of a series of massive volcanic eruptions that began 1.2 million years ago. The most recent eruption, which occurred 70,000 years ago was among the largest known eruptions ever. Uluan is located on the Porsea caldera, a part of the volcano that erupted approximately 800,000 years ago. Parapat, the primary transit point for tourists going to the lake, is located on Uluan.

References

See also
 Toba catastrophe theory

Peninsulas of Indonesia
Lake Toba
Landforms of North Sumatra
Landforms of Sumatra
Asahan Toba basin
Australian National Drag Racing Association

The Australian National Drag Racing Association, or ANDRA for short, is a drag racing sanctioning body in Australia.

The organisation was created in 1973 from a more drag racing oriented faction of the Australian Hot Rod Federation.

Today ANDRA sanctions races throughout Australia.

It also manages the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series - the calendar for which can be viewed here. - and also sanctions group one racing at select events, for example at the 2019 Westernationals where Top Doorslammer and Top Fuel Motorcycle competitors competed for a Gold ANDRA Christmas Tree trophy.

ANDRA Champions

ANDRA Drag Racing Series Champions 
ANDRA Drag Racing Series is made up of six group one classes which are all head ups pro tree drag racing.

Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series Champions

John Storm Memorial Trophy 
In memory of the first National Director of ANDRA John Storm, is an annual national award to sportsman competitor who scores the highest overall points from all rounds of the Summit sportsman series.

ANDRA Hall of Fame 
Dennis Syrmis
Graeme Cowin
Mick Atholwood
Paul Rogers Snr
George Bailey
Gary Miocevich
Jim Reed
Joe ‘Buzzard’ Gatt
John Taverna
Jim Read
Harry White
Larry Ormsby
Eddie Thomas

ANDRA National records

See also

Motorsport in Australia
List of Australian motor racing series
ANDRA Pro Series
ANDRA Top Fuel
2015/16 ANDRA Drag Racing Series
2016/17 ANDRA Drag Racing Series
2015/16 Summit Sportsman Series
2016/17 Summit Sportsman Series

References

External links

 https://web.archive.org/web/20160227012149/http://andra.com.au/series/andra-pro-series-champions.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20160227012117/http://andra.com.au/series/points/andra-drag-racing-series.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20160227012124/http://andra.com.au/series/points/summit-championship.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20160427223713/http://www.andra.com.au/series/calendar/2015-16-calendar.html

Drag racing organizations
Dragin Australia
1973 establishments in Australia
Organizations established in 1973
Australian Centre for Field Robotics

The Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR) is dedicated to the research and teaching of concepts relating to intelligent autonomous systems, at The University of Sydney in NSW, Australia. Originally established as an ARC Key Centre of Teaching and Research in 1999, it now forms part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems, along with groups at the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of New South Wales.

Research direction

The Centre undertakes research in a broad range of areas related to the perception, control and learning capabilities of land, air and sea-based autonomous systems. Work at the ACFR is directed to the perception and systems aspects of this larger research area, specifically:

Perception
Sensor Construction and Deployment
Sensor Representation
Measurement in the presence of uncertainty
Decentralised fusion (DDF) of data from disparate and/or dislocated sensors
Systems
Modelling of large-scale systems
Design

See also 

 University of Sydney
 University of New South Wales
 University of Technology, Sydney
 Australian Research Council

References

External links 

 The Australian Centre for Field Robotics (outdated)
 Centre for Autonomous Systems
 Centre Publications

Robotics organizations
Robotics in Australia
Kamyakarma

Kamyakarma () refers to those karmas (deeds) in Hinduism that are prudential in nature, motivated by the desire for a given outcome. Unlike the nitya karmas, the Shastras do not require daily or regular observance of these rituals. They are generally performed for the sake of their intended results. A few kamyakarmas are listed below:
Putrakameshti
Agnistoma
Agnicayana

See also
Nitya karma
Shrauta

Yajna

References 
Hindu philosophical concepts
Putrakameshti

Putrakameshti () is a special yajna performed in Hinduism for the sake of bearing children. It is classified under a series of rituals called the kamya-karma.

Literature 
In the ancient Indian epic Ramayana, upon the recommendation of Sage Vashishta, King Dasharatha of Ayodhya performed the Putrakameshti Yajna under the supervision of Rishyashringa, an expert in Yajurveda, which has the guidelines for this yajna. After its successful completion, the god of fire, Agni, appeared and gave a bowl of payasam to the King of Ayodhya, which was provided to his three queens in order to promulgate his sons Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata, and Shatrughna.

References

External links 
 Guide to Putrakameshti Homam

Yajna
St. Mary, Montana

St. Mary (Blackfeet: , "Holy Woman") is an unincorporated community on the western border of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation adjacent to Glacier National Park in Glacier County, Montana, United States. The village is the eastern terminus of the Going-to-the-Sun Road which bisects the park east to west, a distance of .

About 54 people reside in the village year-round; however, the population increases tenfold on a busy summer evening. Several lodges, restaurants and cafés, a small grocery store, two gas stations and campgrounds are located in the village. A large housing area for National Park Service personnel is located adjacent to the village, but within the park.

U.S. Route 89 passes through the village, which lies between Saint Mary Lake in Glacier National Park and Lower St. Mary Lake on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

Demographics

Climate
This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, St. Mary has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.

See also
 Saint Mary Visitor Center, Entrance Station and Checking Stations

Images

References

External links

 

Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Unincorporated communities in Glacier County, Montana
Unincorporated communities in Montana
Junkin

Junkin is a surname, and may refer to

 George Junkin, Presbyterian minister and president of Lafayette College
 George C. Junkin, member of the Nebraska House of Representatives.
 George G. Junkin, lawyer 
 John Junkin, British comic actor and writer
 Mike Junkin, American football player
 Trey Junkin, American football player

See also
 Jenkin
 Jenkins
WCEM

WCEM may refer to:

 WCEM (AM), a radio station (1240 AM) licensed to Cambridge, Maryland, United States
 WCEM-FM, a radio station (106.3 FM) licensed to Cambridge, Maryland, United States
 Wainganga College of Engineering and Management, Wardha Road, Nagpur
Dorze people

The Dorze are one of Gamo communities inhabited Gamo Highlands in southern Ethiopia. They speak Gamo language, a dialect of Afroasiatic language.

Population 
According to Ethnologue, the Dorze numbered 29,000 individuals (1994 census), of whom 9,910 were monolingual.

They primarily live in the southern parts of the country, though some have migrated to Addis Ababa and other regions. Many reside in villages near the cities of Chencha and Arba Minch.

Language 
They speak the Dorze language, an Omotic tongue.

Culture 

Weaving is a primary profession for a number of Dorze. Traditional Dorze textiles are colourful.

They are known for their traditional weaving of huts made out of local bamboo. The huts can last up to 80 years.

Their polyphonic multi-part vocal music features a sophisticated use of hocket.

Religion 
Dorze people originally adhered to traditional African religions. Most are members to the faith of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

History 

Communities of Dorze people live on the peripheries of Addis Ababa, mostly in the Burayu and Sebeta areas. A group of Dorze people had a conflict with some Oromo people. This issue got an immediate attention among the Qeerroo who are active in Ethiopian politics in recent years. The incident occurred as the Qeerroo were organizing themselves for the reception of the Oromo Liberation Front leaders, on the 14 and 15 September—following political reform by prime minister Abiy Ahmed. This little conflict between the Dorze and Oromo people grew to a full-blown attack on the whole population of Dorze as the Qeerroo returned from the reception. The result was a universal massacring: killing the men and children with machetes, a ruthless raping of the women in front of their husbands and children, targeting specifically  Dorze (and some Gurage) people living around Addis Ababa, on the 16 and 17 September 2018. Independent media sources called the killing a case of ethnic cleansing. In the Burayu area alone, the  media has reported that 23 people have been killed, more than 500 have been injured and over 15000 people have been displaced. Other sources citing data from the police have confirmed that more 60 people have been killed

References

External links 

Ethnic groups in Ethiopia
Omotic-speaking peoples
Timmy

Timmy is a masculine name, a short form of Timothy or Tim. This variation is popular as a nickname and is commonly used when someone is young, but is also used in adulthood. It is a version of the Greek name  (Timόtheos) meaning "one who honours God", from τιμή  "honour" and θεός "god".

Variant spellings include Timmie and Timme.

People
 Timmy Allen (born 2000), American basketball player
 Timmy Chang (born 1981), American college football coach and former quarterback
 Timmy Chipeco (born 1975), Filipino politician
 Timmy Dooley (born 1969), Irish politician
 Timmy Duggan (born 1982), American road racing cyclist
 Timmy Fitzpatrick, Irish hurling goalkeeper of the 1940s
 Timmy Hammersley (born 1987), Irish hurler
 Timmy Hansen (born 1992), Swedish rallycross driver
 Timmy Hill (born 1993), American stock car racing driver 
 Timmy Horne (born 1997), American football player
 Timmy Jernigan (born 1992), American National Football League player
 Timmy Kelleher (born 1970), Irish hurler
 Timmy Mallett (born 1955), English TV presenter, broadcaster and artist
 Timmy Matley, lead singer of the British group the Overtones
 Timmy Murphy (born 1974), Irish jockey
 Timmy O'Dowd (born 1963), Irish Gaelic footballer
 Timmy Payungka Tjapangati (c. 1942–2000), Australian Aboriginal artist
 Timmy Pettersson (born 1977), Swedish ice hockey player
 Timmy Simons (born 1976), Belgian footballer
 Timmy Smith (born 1964), American former National Football League player
 Timmy Thiele (born 1991), German footballer
 Timmy Thomas (1944–2022), American R&B singer, keyboardist, songwriter and record producer
 Timmy Trumpet, stage name of Australian house DJ and producer Timothy Jude Smith
 Timmy Williams (born 1981), American comedian and member of The Whitest Kids U' Know
 Timmy Yip (born 1967), Hong Kong film art director and designer

Fictional characters
 Timmy, a dog from The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton
 Timmy, a large green monster on The Muppet Show
 Timmy, a lamb from the animated television series Shaun the Sheep and its spin-off Timmy Time
 Timmy, a character from the animated television series Winx Club
 Timmy Baterman, a fictional character from Stephen King's novel Pet Semetary
 Timmy Brisby, a young mouse in the 1982 film adaptation The Secret of NIMH
 Timmy Burch, a wheelchair-using character with a cognitive disability on the TV series South Park
 Timmy Lenox, on the soap opera Passions
 Timmy Martin, the boy who owns the dog Lassie in the long-running TV series Lassie
 Timmy Time, British children's TV character
 The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth, animated children's TV character
 Timmy Turner, from the animated television series The Fairly OddParents

Animals
 Timmy (gorilla) (1959–2011), a longtime resident of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo

See also
 Timmie, given name
 Timme, given name and surname
 Timothy
 Tim (given name)
 Timo
 Timotheus
 Timothée
 Timofey
 Timothy (disambiguation)
 Tim (disambiguation)
 Timoti (disambiguation)

References

Given names of Greek language origin
Masculine given names
English given names
English masculine given names
Hypocorisms
Software management review

A Software management review is a management study into a project's status and allocation of resources. It is different from both a software engineering peer review, which evaluates the technical quality of software products, and a software audit, which is an externally conducted audit into a project's compliance to specifications, contractual agreements, and other criteria.

Process 
A management review can be an informal process, but generally requires a formal structure and rules of conduct, such as those advocated in the IEEE 1028 standard, which are:

 Evaluate entry?
 Management preparation?
 Plan the structure of the review
 Overview of review procedures?
 [Individual] Preparation?
 [Group] Examination?
 Rework/follow-up?
 [Exit evaluation]?

Definition 
In software engineering, a management review is defined by the IEEE as:

A systematic evaluation of a software acquisition, supply, development, operation, or maintenance process performed by or on behalf of management ... [and conducted] to monitor progress, determine the status of plans and schedules, confirm requirements and their system allocation, or evaluate the effectiveness of management approaches used to achieve fitness for purpose. Management reviews support decisions about corrective actions, changes in the allocation of resources, or changes to the scope of the project. 

Management reviews are carried out by, or on behalf of, the management personnel having direct responsibility for the system. Management reviews identify consistency with and deviations from plans, or adequacies and inadequacies of management procedures. This examination may require more than one meeting. The examination need not address all aspects of the product."

References

Software review
REZ: Compact Favorites

REZ: Compact Favorites was the 11th release, and second compilation album, by American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, known at this point as "REZ", released in 1988.

Recording history
Compact Favorites was the name given to a series of CDs by Sparrow Records for several artists on its roster, including Sheila Walsh, AD, Steve Camp and Michele Pillar.  Because CDs were relatively new to the Christian market and still considered a premium format, the idea was to compile the best tracks from albums that weren't likely to be released on CD anytime soon.  Since REZ was with Sparrow for only a brief period, the tracks on this album are pulled from just three albums: Live Bootleg, Hostage, and Between Heaven 'N Hell.

Track listing
 "Love Comes Down"
 "Crimes"
 "Defective Youth"
 "Gameroom"
 "S.O.S."
 "Military Man"
 "Medley" ("Waves," "Awaiting Your Reply," "Broken Promises," "Autograph," "City Streets")
 "The Main Event"
 "2,000"
 "Shadows"

Personnel
 Glenn Kaiser - vocals, guitar, keyboards
 Wendi Kaiser - vocals
 Stu Heiss - guitar, keyboards
 Jim Denton - fretless bass, synthesizer
 John Herrin - drums, percussion

Resurrection Band albums
1988 greatest hits albums
José Antonio de Artigas Sanz

José Antonio de Artigas Sanz (born 1887) was a Spanish engineer who contributed to the standardization of terminology in the field of electrical engineering.

Achievements
He earned his doctorate in engineering in 1907, and became a member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences. Even before graduating, he had used noble gases to create luminescence for the first time and set up a system that improved the performance of incandescent lighting. When the Spanish Permanent Commission for Electricity was set up in 1912 to represent Spain at the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), De Artigas was appointed President of the Spanish Electrotechnical Committee, a post he held for the remainder of his life. At this period, an IEC Technical Committee had already started work on nomenclature, and De Artigas made an important contribution to the preparation of the first edition of the "International Electrotechnical Vocabulary", which contained 2,000 terms divided into 14 groups, and was completed in 1938. In 1952, the Spanish branch of the Committee, under his direction, prepared the Spanish-language version of the Vocabulary, as well as a special version intended for institutes of higher learning in Latin America, containing definitions in Spanish with translations into French, English, German and Italian. He was appointed Honorary President of the IEC at the council meeting held in Madrid in 1959. His work with various international organizations secured unanimous consent to give the scientific unit of light intensity a Spanish name: candela. In addition to his work in electronics, he helped to establish the Spanish precision glass industry and, in North America, succeeded in casting a twenty-three ton glass block completely free of imperfections for the Palomar Mountain telescope.

Resumé

Offices
  Professor of the Higher Institute of Technology for Industrial Engineering.
  Counsellor to the Ministry of Education, the Council of Scientific Research and the International Institute of Statistics.
  Director of the Institute of Industrial Studies and Research, an institute that was later renamed in his honor.
  President of the Council of Industry.
  President of the Institute of Civil Engineers.
  First President of the Technical Section of the Permanent Commission of Weights and Measures.
  Honorary Director of the Spanish National Institute of Medicine and Industrial Safety.
  Counsellor of the National Economic Council.
  President of the National Federation of the National Council of Fuel and Chemical Companies.
  Vice President of the Spanish National Optical Company.
  Director of the research center of the International Glass Commission.
  Honorary Member of the Society of Glass Technology, and the German Association for Glass Technology.
  Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

Honors
  Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic.
  Gentleman in Waiting to His Majesty King Alfonso XIII.
  Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Paris.

1887 births
Year of death missing
Spanish electrical engineers
Spanish engineers
Place of birth missing
Walter Sutherland (rugby union)

Walter Riddell Sutherland (19 October 1890 – 4 October 1918), also known as Wattie Suddie, was a Scotland international rugby union player.

Early life

Sutherland was the son of Alexander and Isabella Sutherland of the Imperial Hotel in Hawick, Roxburghshire. He was educated at Teviot Grove Academy before training to be a sanitary inspector in Hawick. He also played cricket and football and was a champion runner, winning the Scottish Borders title at multiple distances.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played for Hawick RFC.

Provincial career

Sutherland played for the South of Scotland in 1910.

International career

He gained 13 caps playing for the Scotland national rugby union team between 1910 and 1914 and was regarded as the best Scottish wing threequarter of his day.

Military career

The outbreak of the First World War put end to his rugby career, and he served with the Lothians and Border Horse, later the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and finally the Seaforth Highlanders. Second Lieutenant Sutherland was killed in France on 4 October 1918, aged 27, just five weeks before the armistice. He is buried at the Houchin British Cemetery in Pas-de-Calais.

References

External links
 "An entire team wiped out by the Great War".  The Scotsman, 6 November 2009

1890 births
1918 deaths
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders officers
British Army personnel of World War I
British military personnel killed in World War I
Hawick RFC players
Lothians and Border Horse officers
Rugby union players from Hawick
Scotland international rugby union players
Scottish rugby union players
Seaforth Highlanders officers
South of Scotland District (rugby union) players
Rugby union wings
Regina Hexaphone

Regina Hexaphone is a Durham, North Carolina group established in 1997 by Sara Bell and Chris Clemmons.  Its current members are Sara Bell (vocals, guitar, piano), Nathan Brown (electronic organ, accordion, guitar, vocals), Chris Clemmons (bass, vocals), Jerry Kee (drums), and Margaret White (violin, vocals).

Regina Hexaphone was established as a duo in the summer of 1997 after Clemmons heard some of Bell's work.  Their first published work was "Every Traveler's Song", recorded at Kee's Duck-Kee studio in September 1997 with Kee on drums and Brian Sliwa on guitar.  The song appeared on the Third Place Coffeehouse's Local Honey compilation CD.  Regina Hexaphone's first gig was at the Cave in Chapel Hill in late December 1997 with Zeke Hutchins playing drums and Greg Humphreys on slide guitar.  White joined the band about six months later.

The band contributed "Mary Don't You Weep" to the compilation CD Day Before Yesterday in the summer of 1998. The band remained productive and contributed addition recordings, including a self-produced album Eleven Songs, which was recorded and mixed by Kee and Anders Parker and released in 2001.  Kee became the regular drummer at some point.  In June 2004 the first "proper" album, The Beautiful World, was released by the band's own label, Erie Recordings.  In 2007, the band released their most recent album, Into Your Sleeping Heart.

Discography
Eleven Songs, 2001

"Ice"
"Cicadas"
"New Wave Pop"
"Radiate"
"Hero Wings"
"Ethan's Dreams"
"Summer Bats"
"The Robot with the Heart Shaped Hands"
"Land"
"Prowlers"
"One Small Canoe"

The Beautiful World, 2004
"The Seahorse And The Sand Dune"  	
"Ice" 	
"I Hear A Rumor"
"Highway 65"
"40 Days" 	
"Bright Falling Stars" 	
"Cicadas" 	
"One Small Canoe"
"Ethan’s Dreams"
"Radiate"
"Hero Wings"
"Le Machine"
 
Into Your Sleeping Heart, 2007
"Empty the Rivers"
"The Forty-Niner"
"Move"
"Where the Angels Sing"
"Bella Lilla"
"Spider Boys"
"Glory Be"
"Waiting for the Wind"
"Parade"
"Baby Come Down"
"The Rib Shack"
"Mehitabel"

External links
Regina Hexaphone website

Rock music groups from North Carolina
Musical groups established in 1997
Kahler

Kahler may refer to:

Places
Kahler, Luxembourg, a small town in the commune of Garnich
Kahler Asten, a German mountain range

Other uses
Kahler (surname)
Kahler's disease, a cancer otherwise known as multiple myeloma
Kahler Tremolo System, a type of bridge hardware for electric guitars
Kahler v. Kansas, a 2019 United States Supreme Court case

See also
Kähler (disambiguation)
Columbus Quest

The Columbus Quest was a professional women's basketball franchise located in Columbus, Ohio in the now-defunct American Basketball League (ABL).  They were one of the league's original eight teams that started play in 1996.  In the league's brief history, the Quest was its most successful franchise, winning both championships the league awarded.

The Quest's head coach was Brian Agler, who finished with a record of 82–22 during the team's two-plus seasons of existence. After Agler left the Quest midseason to become the head coach of the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx, the team was coached by player-coach Tonya Edwards
.  Many of the Quest's players later played for the Lynx, including Edwards, Katie Smith, Andrea Lloyd-Curry, Angie Potthoff and Shanele Stires.

The Quest played their home games at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Battelle Hall. Despite being the league's most successful team, they had the league's lowest average attendance for all three years of the ABL's existence.

Season-By-Season

1996–97
Finished 31–9, won Eastern Conference by 10 games
Defeated San Jose Lasers in Semifinals 2–0 (best of 3)
Game 1 at San Jose: Columbus 94, San Jose 69
Game 2 at Columbus: Columbus 81, San Jose 69
Defeated Richmond Rage in Championship 3–2 (best of 5)
Game 1 at Columbus: Columbus 90, Richmond 89
Game 2 at Columbus: Richmond 75, Columbus 62
Game 3 at Richmond: Richmond 72, Columbus 67
Game 4 at Richmond: Columbus 95, Richmond 84
Game 5 at Columbus: Columbus 77, Richmond 64
Nikki McCray named Most Valuable Player
Brian Agler named Coach of the Year
Valerie Still named Playoffs Most Valuable Player

1997–98
Finished 36–8, won Eastern Conference by 12 games
Defeated San Jose Lasers in Semifinals 2–0 (best of 3)
Game 1 at Columbus: Columbus 94, San Jose 88
Game 2 at San Jose: Columbus 74, San Jose 62
Defeated Long Beach Stingrays in Championship 3–2 (best of 5)
Game 1 at Long Beach: Long Beach 65, Columbus 62
Game 2 at Long Beach: Long Beach 71, Columbus 61
Game 3 at Columbus: Columbus 70, Long Beach 61
Game 4 at Columbus: Columbus 68, Long Beach 53
Game 5 at Columbus: Columbus 86, Long Beach 81
Valerie Still named Playoffs Most Valuable Player

1998–99
Finished 11–3, leading Eastern Conference by 2 games

References

American Basketball League (1996–1998) teams
Defunct basketball teams in the United States
Basketball teams established in 1996
Basketball teams in Ohio
Sports clubs and teams disestablished in 1998
Sports clubs and teams in Columbus, Ohio
Women's sports in Ohio
Basketball in Columbus, Ohio

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Surcharge (sanction)

Prior to 2000 a local government officer or councillor in the United Kingdom, who had unlawfully spent public funds, or caused loss to a local authority through misconduct could be surcharged to recover public money. The surcharge was applied, after referral to a court by the Audit Commission.

In the case of an illegal corporate decision by an elected body, all the councillors could be surcharged. Councillors from Lambeth London Borough Council and Liverpool City Council who were involved in the rate-capping rebellion in 1985 were surcharged. Councillors in the 1973 Clay Cross Urban District Council Housing Finance Act dispute were surcharged £685 (this is equivalent to £ today) for refusing to increase housing rent.

The Committee on Standards in Public Life recommended repealing surcharge because it was unfair for local government officers and councillors, and "bore no relation to people's ability to pay or their culpability". The Local Government Act 2000 amended the Audit Commission Act 1998 to remove the ability of the Audit Commission or Secretary or State to recover financial losses from individuals. Instead they would be subject to normal sanctions determined by the Standards Board and Adjudication Panel. Following the Tribunal Review such sanctions are now dealt with by the General Regulatory Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal.

See also
 Disgorgement (law)

References

External links
 Audit Commission website

Commission
Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972

Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972 (), F. W. S. Craig, Political Reference Publications, Chichester, Sussex, 1972, provides text and outline map descriptions of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies in Great Britain for the period 1918 to 1983 and in Northern Ireland for the period 1922 to 1983. Also, it includes maps outlining constituencies in Great Britain for the period 1885 to 1918.

It succeeds in covering a period later than 1972 because boundary changes which became effective in 1974 (for the February general election) had been decided in 1971. Only the dates for which the new boundaries would be effective were unknown in 1972. Boundaries described under 1955-1970 remained effective until 1974, and boundaries described under 1971- were effective 1974 to 1983.

The maps divide England into three areas, southern, central and northern, and boundaries between these areas appear to have been very stable throughout the 1885 to 1983 period. Wales is mapped as Wales and Monmouthshire.

Craig makes clear that a work of this kind is unlikely to be free from error, and error is apparent in the way district of burghs constituencies are shown in the maps. Kilmarnock District of Burghs, for example, is shown as if a single area in Ayrshire: in fact, when abolished in 1918, it consisted of two parliamentary burghs in Ayrshire, two in Renfrewshire and one in Lanarkshire.

Craig attributes the maps to David Bird and Peter Westley, saying they prepared the diagrams and frequently had to work from inadequate maps not always free from error.

Craig points also to inadequacies in boundary commission reports, which may have generated errors in the text and maps, despite efforts to check details. He draws particular attention to Leeds South, which commissioners had listed as having a major boundary change in 1955: in fact the constituency boundaries were unaltered, although the official description of it changed.

See also 
 Former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
 The Parliaments of England (), Henry Stooks Smith 1844 to 1850, second edition F W S Craig 1973

Notes 

1972 non-fiction books
Lists of constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Técnicas Reunidas

Técnicas Reunidas, S.A. (, meaning "Gathered Techniques"), or TRSA, is a Spanish-based general contractor which provides engineering, procurement and construction of industrial and power generation plants, particularly in the oil and gas sector.

TRSA is the primary holding company for a group of companies capable of providing several different integrated services for turnkey projects worldwide. Since 1959, the TRSA group of companies has designed and built over 1000 industrial plants worldwide. International projects account for 70% of the company's annual turnover, mainly in Latin America and China. The firm has also moved increasingly into the Middle East, and in January 2009 was awarded a $1.2 billion contract to develop two onshore fields in the UAE for a subsidiary of ADNOC.

Organization
The business divisions of TRSA are oil and gas, power generation and infrastructures.

The areas of activity covered by TRSA's companies are: the petrochemical industry, heat transfer, cogeneration and renewable energies, fertilisers and inorganic chemistry, environmental engineering, iron and steel plants, metallurgy, mining and hydrometallurgy.

Research and development

Since 1971, the company has its own research and development division. The company's R&D Centre, located in Madrid, Spain, is equipped with laboratory facilities and pilot and demonstration plants designed to be adapted to different process configurations. The R&D division develops new processes and the technological and economical improvement of existing ones, applying techniques and procedures of disciplines such as hydrometallurgy and electrochemistry. A fundamental objective is the upscaling from laboratory testing to industrial scale operations.

See also

List of oilfield service companies

References

External links
 

Engineering companies of Spain
Multinational companies headquartered in Spain
Non-renewable resource companies established in 1959
1959 establishments in Spain
Manufacturing companies based in Madrid
Companies listed on the Madrid Stock Exchange
Edinho

Edinho is a Portuguese name, in origin a diminutive form of a forename such as Edison or Edson, both widely used as given names in South America and particularly in Brazil.

Brazilian footballers

Edinho (footballer, born 1955), known as Edino Nazareth Filho, defender
Edinho (footballer, born 1966), full name Édson José Vichetin, right back
Edinho (footballer, born 1967), full name Edon Amaral Neto, forward
Edinho (footballer, born 1970), full name Edson Cholbi Nascimento, goalkeeper, son of Pelé
Edinho (footballer, born 1974), full name Edoson Silva Martins, midfielder
Edinho (footballer, born 1979), full name Edison Carlos Felícissimo Polidório, left back
Edinho (footballer, born May 1982), full name Éder Luciano, forward
Edinho (footballer, born 1983), full name Edimo Ferreira Campos, midfielder
Edinho (footballer, born 1994), full name Francisco Edson Moreira Da Silva, midfielder

Portuguese footballers

Edinho (footballer, born July 1982), full name Arnaldo Edi Lopes da Silva, forward
Edinho Júnior (born 1994), full name Edon Júnior Viegas Amaral, forward
Geordie (disambiguation)

A Geordie is a person from the Tyneside region of England; the word is also used for the dialect spoken by such a person. It is a diminutive of the name George, Geordie is commonly found as a forename in the North-East of England and Southern Scotland.

Geordie may refer to:


Arts and entertainment
Geordie (ballad), a Child ballad, and the name of a character in it
Geordie (band), a 1970s British glam rock band
Geordie (film), a 1955 British film

People
Geordie (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname

Other uses
Geordie, a nickname for Newcastle United F.C.
HMT Geordie – see List of requisitioned trawlers of the Royal Navy (WWII)

See also
Geordi La Forge, a Star Trek: The Next Generation character played by LeVar Burton
Geordie Shore, a British reality television series
Jordi (disambiguation)
Panrationalism

Panrationalism (or comprehensive rationalism) holds two premises true:

 A rationalist accepts any position that can be justified or established by appeal to the rational criteria or authorities.
 He accepts only those positions that can be so justified.

The first problem that needs to be dealt with is: what is the rational criterion or authority to which they appeal? Here the panrationalists diverge into two groups:
 Intellectualists –  to whom the rational authority lies in the human intellect, in the faculty of reason.
 Empiricists – to whom the rational authority is achieved by sense experience (such as seeing or hearing).

Descartes is considered the founder of rationalism and gave the illustration cogito ergo sum as the paradigm to demonstrate what he believed.

The problem of both these appeals is that:
 Intellectualism is "too wide" by letting too much in (basically everything, in a strict sense). 
 Empiricism is "too narrow" in that it excludes too much (basically everything, in a strict sense).

In his The Critique of Pure Reason Kant sought to reconcile both appeals.

See also 
Critical rationalism
Pancritical rationalism

References

W. W. Bartley III, The Retreat to Commitment, La Salle; Open Court Publishing Company, 1984.

Philosophical anthropology
Rationalism
Epistemological theories
Charu

Charu is a Sanskrit word that means 'sweet'.

Name
Charu is a popular name given to Hindu women and men. Notable people with the name Charu include:

 Charu Majumdar: The founder of Naxalbari Andolan in India
 Charulata: Eponymous protagonist of Satyajit Ray's movie

Other meanings
In Sanskrit, charu is the name of a flower.

Charu is a sweet porridge-like foodstuff offered as ahuti (offering) in the Yajnas.

Charu Hasini, or 'sweet smiler', is an epithet of the goddess Rukmini.

In Telugu, the dish rasam is known as charu. In Kannada, it is known as saru or sar.

References

Sanskrit words and phrases
Sanskrit-language names
Swiftcurrent Lake

Swiftcurrent Lake is located in the Many Glacier region of Glacier National Park, in the U.S. state of Montana.  The Many Glacier Hotel, the largest hotel in the park, is along the east shore of the lake. Many hiking trails originate from the area and scenic tour boats provide access to the lake for visitors.

Swiftcurrent Lake lies at  above sea level. Nearby lakes include the much larger Lake Sherburne to the east and Lake Josephine to the immediate southwest. The mountains immediately west of the lake rise  above the lake. The fast disappearing Grinnell Glacier is one of several glaciers and snowfields that provide water for the streams that replenish the lake. Mount Gould, Grinnell Point and Mount Wilbur are the largest mountains immediately west of the lake. It consists of two basins, each between  and  in depth.

See also
 
 List of lakes in Glacier County, Montana

References

Lakes of Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Lakes of Glacier County, Montana
Software peer review

In software development, peer review is a type of software review in which a work product (document, code, or other) is examined by author's colleagues, in order to evaluate the work product's technical content and quality.

Purpose 
The purpose of a peer review is to provide "a disciplined engineering practice for detecting and correcting defects in software artifacts, and preventing their leakage into field operations" according to the Capability Maturity Model.

When performed as part of each Software development process activity, peer reviews identify problems that can be fixed early in the lifecycle.  That is to say, a peer review that identifies a requirements problem during the Requirements analysis activity is cheaper and easier to fix than during the Software architecture or Software testing activities.

The National Software Quality Experiment, evaluating the effectiveness of peer reviews, finds, "a favorable return on investment for software inspections; savings exceeds costs by 4 to 1".  To state it another way, it is four times more costly, on average, to identify and fix a software problem later.

Distinction from other types of software review 
Peer reviews are distinct from management reviews, which are conducted by management representatives rather than by colleagues, and for management and control purposes rather than for technical evaluation. They are also distinct from software audit reviews, which are conducted by personnel external to the project, to evaluate compliance with specifications, standards, contractual agreements, or other criteria.

Review processes 

Peer review processes exist across a spectrum of formality, with relatively unstructured activities such as "buddy checking" towards one end of the spectrum, and more Informal approaches such as walkthroughs, technical peer reviews, and software inspections, at the other. The IEEE defines formal structures, roles, and processes for each of the last three.

Management representatives are typically not involved in the conduct of a peer review except when included because of specific technical expertise or when the work product under review is a management-level document. This is especially true of line managers of other participants in the review.

Processes for formal peer reviews, such as software inspections, define specific roles for each participant, quantify stages with entry/exit criteria, capture software metrics on the peer review process.

"Open source" reviews 
In the free / open source community, something like peer review has taken place in the engineering and evaluation of computer software. In this context, the rationale for peer review has its equivalent in Linus's law, often phrased: "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", meaning "If there are enough reviewers, all problems are easy to solve." Eric S. Raymond has written influentially about peer review in software development.

References 

Software review
Peer review
Fukudamachi Station

is a railway station in Miyagino-ku in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Fukudamachi Station is served by the Senseki Line. It is located 7.7 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Senseki Line at .

Station layout
The station has one island platform connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is staffed.

Platforms

History
Fukudamachi Station opened on　June 5, 1925 as a station on the Miyagi Electric Railway. The line was nationalized on May 1, 1944. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 3,971 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
 
Sendai Fukudamachi Post Office

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

  

Railway stations in Sendai
Senseki Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1925
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Kozurushinden Station

is a railway station in Miyagino-ku in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Kozurushinden Station is served by the Senseki Line. It is located 5.6 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Senseki Line at .

Station layout
The station has two opposed side platforms with the station building located above the platforms. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History
Kozurushinden Station opened on March 13, 2004.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 6,286 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
The area surrounding the station is mainly residential with many newly (~2008) constructed apartment buildings. There is a Coca-Cola factory located nearby.

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

  

Railway stations in Sendai
Senseki Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 2004
Stations of East Japan Railway Company