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Chauka. A Chauka system is a method for harvesting rainwater, typically used in arid areas that are subject to monsoon rains.  Chauka comes from the Hindi word for square.
The system consists of square shaped embankments.  On three sides there are nine inch walls and one side is left open to allow rainwater to fill the structure.  As one structure fills, then the overflow fills the next chauka and so on.  Retaining the rainwater in this way helps prevent soil erosion and recharges the surface water enabling various grasses to thrive.  This has the effect of holding the soil together and, as the chauka system is used mostly on common land, provides grazing areas for cow and goat herds. For this to be effective it is combined with the planting of grass seeds and trees.

This system is widely in use in the Dudu block of Jaipur district in Rajasthan, India.  Here a local village development organisation GVNML, working in the area of Natural Resource Management, has been responsible for its uptake among local villages.

See also
Rainwater harvesting
Water conservation
Agriculture

References

Water resources management
Flood!. Flood! is a 1976 American made-for-television adventure film directed by Earl Bellamy.

Plot
A large freshwater lake above the small town of Brownsville, Oregon is a popular tourist attraction and fishing destination, which provides the town with much of its economic activity.  After a season of heavy rains, the lake is nearly overflowing. The mayor of the town refuses to open the flood gates to relieve pressure on the dam, for fear of impacting the sportsfishing industry, and the town's economy from the tourist trade.

When the dam starts sprouting small leaks due to the pressure, town board member, Paul Burke enlists the help of Sam Adams to determine the safety of the dam.  When the dam starts showing signs of imminent collapse, and the floodgates are jammed and unable to be opened to lower the level of the lake, Burke enlists friend (and helicopter pilot) Steve Brannigan to free the stuck gates using a helicopter before the dam bursts, and floods the town below.

Cast
Robert Culp as Steve Brannigan
Martin Milner as Paul Burke
Barbara Hershey as Mary Cutler
Richard Basehart as John Cutler
Carol Lynley as Abbie Adams
Roddy McDowall as Mr. Franklin
Cameron Mitchell as Sam Adams
Eric Olson as Andy Cutler
Teresa Wright as Alice Cutler
Francine York as Daisy Kempel
Whit Bissell as Dr. Ted Horne
Leif Garrett as Johnny Lowman
Ann Doran as Emma Fisher
Elizabeth Rogers as Nancy Lowman
James Griffith as Charlie Davis
Edna Helton as Mrs. Wilson
Gloria Stuart as Mrs. Parker
Jack Collins as Jack Spangler

Production
Irwin Allen had huge success with two disaster films. In 1975 he announced he would make three TV movies for ABC, The Forgotten World, Flood and Time Traveller. The film ended up on NBC

In August 1976, Robert Culp and Martin Milner signed to star. Filming started that month at Fern Ridge Reservoir west of Eugene, Oregon.
Filming continued in Brownsville, Oregon and at the Fall Creek Lake dam, the featured dam in the film. The Brownsville Christian Church was used as the hospital, while the Brownsville Fire Station/City Hall was used as City Hall, but only for exterior shots, as was Main Street. The nearby Crawfordsville Covered Bridge was used also. Brownsville is also the same town that was used to film many scenes for Stand By Me in 1985.

Reception
The Los Angeles Times said it "fails to offer much excitement".

References

External links

Flood! at TCMDB

Flood! at BFI

1976 television films
1976 films
1970s adventure films
1970s disaster films
1970s English-language films
American disaster films
Disaster television films
Films directed by Earl Bellamy
Films produced by Irwin Allen
Films scored by Richard LaSalle
Films set in Texas
Films shot in Eugene, Oregon
NBC original films
1970s American films
English-language adventure films
Joachim Maier. Joachim Maier (born 5 May 1955) is Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart (Germany) and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society.

Education and career 
Maier studied chemistry at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, made his Masters and PhD in Physical Chemistry there. He received his habilitation at the University of Tübingen. From 1988 to 1991 he was responsible for the activities on functional ceramics at the MPI for Metals Research in Stuttgart, and from 1988 to 1996 he taught defect chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Notwithstanding other prestigious offers, he decided in favor of the Max Planck Society. In 1991 he was appointed Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society, Director at the MPI for Solid State Research and Honorary Professor at the University of Stuttgart. He is the recipient of various prizes and a member of various national and international academies including German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, German Technical Academy Acatech, Academia Europaea, Academy of Science and Literature (Mainz, Germany), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, IUPAC Fellow. Joachim Maier is Editor-in-Chief of Solid State Ionics and on the board of a number of scientific journals.

Research 
Maier's major research fields comprise physical chemistry of the solid state, thermodynamics and kinetics, defect chemistry and transport in solids, ionic and mixed conductors, boundary regions and electrochemistry. In this context energy transfer and storage are to the fore. Maier developed a scientific field nowadays termed nanoionics. Nanoionics refers to questions of ion transport, stoichiometry and reactivity in confined systems and is of equal significance for chemistry, physics and biology. In these fields Maier has authored/coauthored more than 800 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

References

1955 births
Living people
20th-century German chemists
Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
21st-century German chemists
Solid state chemists
Computational chemists
Max Planck Institute directors
Saarland University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tübingen
People from Neunkirchen, Saarland
Kaplan IT Training. Kaplan IT Training, formerly Transcender, provides IT (information technology) certification practice exams, practice labs, and online learning courses. Kaplan IT Training offers test preparation solutions that are used by IT professionals to improve their technical skills and prepare for industry certification exams, including
 Microsoft
 Cisco
 CompTIA
 Oracle
 ITIL
 (ISC)2
 PMI (Project Management Institute)
 EC-Council
 Adobe
 Axelos
 GIAC
 ISACA
 Logical Operations
 LPI
 VMware
 Juniper Networks
 Amazon Web Services
Kaplan IT Trainings's products are used by certified training and education centers, college and university students, and IT staff members at many large corporations.

Company

Transcender was established in 1992, shortly after Microsoft Corporation introduced its certification program. In December 2003, Transcender joined Kaplan IT Learning and became a division of Kaplan, Inc. Kaplan is a wholly owned subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHC), formerly known as The Washington Post Company, and is a provider of online higher education, K-12 services, and professional training programs. Kaplan was founded by Stanley H. Kaplan, an American businessman who is recognized as a pioneer of scholastic test preparation. In 2017, Transcender became known as Transcender, powered by Kaplan IT Training.

Certification preparation products

Kaplan IT Training's IT certification preparation solutions reinforce learning objectives and validate knowledge to help students prepare for their certification exams. Products include
 Exam simulations
 Flashcards
 Skillsoft eLearning
 Practice Labs
 GMetrix exam preparation
The Kaplan IT Training team comprises IT-certified subject matter experts, technical writers, and technical editors to create and edit its practice exam items, explanations, and references.

Awards

Kaplan IT Training, formerly Transcender, has received several industry awards. The latest awards include
 Windows IT Pro: Editor's Best Training, 2008
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 asp.netPRO: Best Training, 2004 (Reader's Choice)
 Windows Server System Magazine: Best Product for Training and Certification, 2004
 Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine: Best Exam Preparation Product, 2004

External links
 Official Website

References

 

Educational software companies
Gunnar Ring Amundsen. Gunnar Ring Amundsen (12 July 1894 – 11 December 1972) was a Norwegian engineer and businessperson.

He was born in Vestre Aker as a son of Axel Amundsen (1856–1939) and Caroline Cathrine Marie Ring (1869–1949). He underwent schooling at Thunes Mekaniske Verksted from 1913 to 1915, then later in Ilmenau, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in Brazil from 1921 to 1922. In 1922 he married Alice Eisenbach, the eldest daughter of Brazilian factory owner Yorge Eisenbach.

In 1922 he was hired at Vulkan Jernstøberi og Mekaniske Verksted. He worked as the chief executive officer of the company from 1939 to 1964. He was also a delegate to the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 1946. He chaired the employers' association Mekaniske verksteders landsforening from 1947 to 1951, having been a board member since 1930, and chaired Støperienes landsforening from 1929 to 1938 and 1946 to 1948. In the national Norwegian Employers' Confederation he was a central board member from 1938 to 1959, then deputy chairman from 1964 to his death. In the national Federation of Norwegian Industries he was a board member from 1937 to 1942 and 1948 to 1952.

He was the chairman of Vulkan from 1939 to his death, of Norges Standardiseringsforbund from 1948 to 1962 (board member since 1931), of Osterhausgates Trevarefabrikk from 1944 to 1957, of Industrikontroll from 1948 to 1965, of Elektrisk Bureau from 1955 to 1965 (board member since 1949), of Norsk Kabelfabrik from 1955 to 1965.

He was decorated as a Knight of the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross. He died in December 1972 and was buried in Vår Frelsers gravlund.

References

1894 births
1972 deaths
Norwegian expatriates in Germany
Norwegian expatriates in the United States
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
20th-century Norwegian engineers
20th-century Norwegian businesspeople
Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour
Norwegian expatriates in Brazil
Dynamic timing verification. Dynamic timing verification is a verification that an ASIC design is fast enough to run without errors at the targeted clock rate.  This is accomplished by simulating the design files used to synthesize the integrated circuit (IC) design.  This is in contrast to static timing analysis, which has a similar goal as dynamic timing verification except it does not require simulating the real functionality of the IC.

Hobbyists often perform a type of dynamic timing verification when they over-clock the CPUs in their computers in order to find the fastest clock rate at which they can run the CPU without errors.  This is a type of dynamic timing verification that is performed after the silicon is manufactured.  In the field of ASIC design, this timing verification is preferably performed before manufacturing the IC in order to make sure that IC works under the required conditions before mass production of the IC.

See also
Dynamic timing analysis

References

Timing in electronic circuits
Formal methods
Schreder Airmate HP-11. The Schreder Airmate HP-11 is an American mid-wing, V-tailed, single seat glider designed by Richard Schreder. Airmate was the name of Schreder's design company.

Design and development
The HP-11 (HP stands for high performance) was designed to compete in the FAI Open Class in the 1962 US Nationals and represented the designer's continued pursuit of the perfect competition sailplane.

The HP-11 is an all-metal design, with a wing that features a 26:1 aspect ratio, a  wingspan and a NACA 65 (3)-618 airfoil, the same airfoil that had been used on the HP-8 and HP-10.

A total of 42 HP-11s were built from kits and plans before production was ended in favour of the Schreder HP-14.

Operational history
Flying the HP-11 in the 1962 US Nationals, Schreder came in third in the competition and had the longest flight, . Schreder also flew it to third place in the Open Class at the 1963 World Gliding Championships held at Junín, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. At that event Schreder flew a  flight.

In April 2011 there were 28 HP-11s registered with the US Federal Aviation Administration and three with Transport Canada.

Variants
HP-11
Initial model, with fixed monowheel landing gear.
HP-11A
Improved model for amateur construction from plans or kits, with a retractable monowheel landing gear.
Bowlus BZ-1
Version designed by Michael Bowlus with the front fuselage from a North American F-86 Sabre drop tank, the tail from an HP-18 and the wings from an HP-11. The wingspan was reduced to .
Kohler Alpha
Version with a newly designed fuselage and HP-11 wings.

Aircraft on display
National Soaring Museum - HP-11A
US Southwest Soaring Museum - HP-11
Chico Air Museum - HP-11A

Specifications

See also

References

External links

Photo of an HP-11A

Schreder aircraft
1960s United States sailplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1962
V-tail aircraft
Shoulder-wing aircraft
Shiv G. Kapoor. Shiv Gopal Kapoor is the Grayce Wicall Gauthier Chair professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His interests are manufacturing technologies and material machining. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison for his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering.

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20110807215433/http://mechse.illinois.edu/content/directory/faculty/profile.php?user_id=36
 http://www.me.mtu.edu/~jwsuther/uiuc_symp/

Living people
American mechanical engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Indian materials scientists
Indian mechanical engineers
Elna (Japanese company). Elna Co. Ltd is a Japanese manufacturer of electrolytic and electric double layer capacitors. It also produces custom printed circuit boards for OEM use. The company took on the name "Elna" when it acquired Elna Electronics Co. in March 1968. However, the company was established in 1937, though not under the name "Elna". Elna's headquarters is located in Yokohama, Japan.

References 

 http://www.elna.co.jp/en/company/data.html 

Capacitor manufacturers
Electronics companies established in 1937
Manufacturing companies based in Yokohama
Electronics companies of Japan
Japanese companies established in 1937
Japanese brands
Plumett AL-52. The AL-52 is a compressed air launcher of British origin manufactured by Plumett Ltd. The AL-52 is capable of launching grappling hooks for the likes of special forces and line throwing. The AL-52 can also be mounted onto the ground for launching heavier payloads.

Users
 - Irish Special Forces
 - UKSF

References

Tools
Climbing equipment
Mountaineering equipment
Pneumatic mortars
Battle Rush: Build Up Robot Tournament. is a Japan-exclusive video game for the Nintendo Family Computer. The game was one of six that required Bandai's  System in order to operate.

Gameplay
Players build their own combat robots to use in a fighting tournament. These robots are built in factories that assign the robot a name in addition to installing its head, body, shoulder, and feet. The player has a pre-game lobby to get ready for the robot combat action. All matches have rounds of 60 seconds (unlike the 99-second round of most modern fighting video games). Both robots have a separate gauge for energy and damage. Standard punches and kicks can be thrown in addition to special moves (which look like ammunition).

Reception
On release, Famicom Tsūshin scored the game a 16 out of 40.

References

1993 video games
Bandai games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Single-player video games
Tose (company) games
Video games about robots
Video games developed in Japan
Richard E. DeVor. Richard Earl DeVor (1944–2011) was a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Manufacturing and research professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests consist of mathematical modeling/simulation of material removal processes and mathematical modeling of the end milling/face milling processes. He attained his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He died in July 2011.

References

External links
 First - Manufacturing Leadership Symposium.

2011 deaths
21st-century American engineers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
1944 births
Plymouth Ironworks. The Plymouth Ironworks was a major 18th century and 19th century ironworks located on land leased from the Earl of Plymouth at Merthyr Tydfil, in South Wales. The metal produced was considered to be the finest in South Wales. 

The Ironworks was established by John Guest and Isaac Wilkinson in 1763, but the venture was unsuccessful and transferred to Anthony Bacon in 1765. On his death in 1788, Richard Hill became the owner. Anthony Hill, a later owner, adopted the Bessemer process. On his death in 1862, the company was taken over by Fothergill, Hankey and Bateman until its closure in 1882.

References

Ironworks and steelworks in Wales
1763 establishments in Great Britain
British companies established in 1763
Smith Termite. The Smith Special also known as "Smitty's Termite" or simply the Smith Termite is a single place homebuilt aircraft built primarily out of wood.

Design and development
Wilbur L. Smith, was an experienced wooden construction aircraft homebuilder, having built a Pietenpol Sky Scout in 1930.  He designed the Termite using chalk on a basement floor. Don Cookman later drew up the plans.

The aircraft is a braced parasol wing monoplane with all-wood construction. The exception being the motor mount, struts and landing gear are made out of steel. It was designed to use an engine from an Aeronca aircraft. Spruce was used as the structural material with birch plywood covering. The spars are from an Aeronca K. The controls are modified from a Piper Cub. The aircraft does not have brakes or a tailwheel.

Operational history
A Continental A-40 was installed after an engine failure resulted in a forced landing, flipping the aircraft on its back during testing.

Aircraft on display
The Smith Special "Termite" is displayed at the Oregon Air & Space Museum in Eugene, Oregon. The fabric covering has been removed to show the all wood construction.

Specifications (Smith Special "Termite")

See also

References

Homebuilt aircraft
Tourist attractions in Eugene, Oregon
1950s United States civil utility aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Termite aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1957
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Supreme Knowledge Foundation Group of Institutions. Supreme Knowledge Foundation Group of Institutions, formerly Sir J. C. Bose School of Engineering, is an engineering college situated at Mankundu in Hooghly, West Bengal, India.  The college is affiliated to the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT). It was established in 2009 by the Supreme Knowledge Foundation (SKF). The college is 34 kilometers from Kolkata city and 30 minutes journey from Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (Kolkata International Airport).

Campus 
The college campus is adjacent to Mankundu railway station (Howrah-Bandel line). The campus has access to National Highway-2. The 10.4 acres campus is embraced with greenery.

Infrastructure 
Most of the faculty members have notable research background along with Masters and Ph D. The institute offers separate hostels for boys and girls within the campus. Though on campusing placement rate is low and in the past some of the students were placed in some non existing companies.

Events 
 Ecstasy 
Every year students organize ‘Ecstasy’, a creative event that helps students to polish their personality and skills.

Research 
The college has established the Sir J. C. Bose Creativity Center, where faculty members and researchers work under leadership of Professor (Dr) B. N. Biswas.

See also

References

External links 
 Official website

Information technology institutes
Colleges affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology
Engineering colleges in West Bengal
All India Council for Technical Education
2009 establishments in West Bengal
Educational institutions established in 2009
Mendoza C-1934. The Mendoza C-1934 was a light machine gun similar to the M1918 BAR manufactured in Mexico. It was chambered in 7 mm calibre and had a 20-round magazine fed from the top.

Rafael Mendoza produced machine guns for the Mexican Army beginning in 1933 and all have been noted for their lightness and cheap construction without sacrificing reliability. They use a gas cylinder system that delivers a short impulse to the piston, and the bolt is similar to that of the Lewis Gun, rotating and driven by two cams engaged with the piston rod. The C-1934 model adds a simplified method of stripping, by simply removing a lock pin, the stock and rear of the receiver can be folded down to allow the bolt and piston to be withdrawn backwards.

See also
Furrer M25
Bren gun
Mendoza HM-3
Mendoza RM2
Mondragón rifle

References

Mendoza C-1934 light machinegun

Light machine guns
Machine guns of Mexico
XADO. Xado () is a multinational chemical group with headquarters in Germany, the Netherlands, and Ukraine, manufacturing high-tech nano technology products and lubricants such as revitalizants, lubricants, oils, greases, aftermarket oil additives, fuel additives.

History 
The company was founded in 1991 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The name Xado was shortened from the Russian Kharkovskiy Dom ("Kharkiv house"). In 1998, the directors of the company patented the development of a revitalizant product, a metal treatment which has the ability to repair, restore and protect the mechanism against wear. The first consumer-packaged product was introduced in December 1999. In 2004 in the Netherlands, together with European manufacturer of oils Eurol, Xado established Xado Lube B.V., specializing in manufacturing oil with atomic revitalizant XADO Atomic Oil. In addition to the Netherlands, Xado has headquarters in Germany; Xado products are produced under Xado Germany and Xado Lube B.V. Netherlands licenses. Xado repairing products possess TÜV performance confirmation certificate, ISO 17025, American Petroleum Institute (API) approvals.

Activity 
The company manufactures over 1,600 products, primarily for car maintenance, which can be purchased in more than 100 countries all over the world (as of March 2023).
The best-known Xado products include revitalizants, atomic oils, and VeryLube car care products. The specialists assess Xado as the major player in the Ukrainian market of imported and domestic antifriction materials as well, actively occupying almost all major regions of the post-Soviet countries. The company's share of the market is 24%, whereas in the segment of nanoceramics it is up to 90%.

Sports 
 Xádo owns a motorsports team XADO Motorsport, the champion of Ukrainian Rally and Circular Racing Cups.
 Xádo is a sponsor of Pro100!XADO, the first Ukrainian gamer team to win the International computer games tournament.
 In September 2011 Xádo started to cooperate with one of the most titled football clubs of Ukraine, “Shakhtar”.

References

External links
 XADO information website
 XADO Online store

Ukrainian brands
Oil additives
Firearm manufacturers of Ukraine
1991 establishments in Ukraine
Companies based in Kharkiv