title: Dan Marble

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Danforth Marble (April 27, 1810 – May 13, 1849) was an American comedic actor who gained great popularity playing "Yankee" roles in the 1830s and 1840s.

Marble was born in East Windsor, Connecticut and made his stage debut in 1831 at Chatham Garden Theatre in New York, playing the role of Rollin Roughhead in Fortune's Frolic by John Till Allingham.

Marble had great success playing the role of famous daredevil jumper Sam Patch starting in 1836.  He first played the role at the Eighth Street Theatre in Buffalo, New York, where Patch's successful jump at nearby Niagara Falls in 1829 made him a local legend.  Marble went on to star in a number of "Sam Patch" plays throughout the United States.  He also went to England to perform in September 1844, returning to America in 1845.

Marble died of cholera in Louisville, Kentucky on May 13, 1849.  Humorist Jonathan Falconbridge Kelly wrote a biography of Marble which was published in 1851.

Marble married Anna Warren (1815–1872) of Philadelphia, an actress and daughter of actor William Warren (1767-1832), on November 13, 1836.  Their son Edward Marble was an actor and songwriter. Their daughter, Mary Marble, married the actor Samuel Meyers in Chicago in 1855, and acted for many years at McVicker's Theater in that city.

Dan and Anna are buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.

Selected performances
Sam Patch the Yankee Jumper(1836, New York debut in 1837)
Sam Patch at Home
Sam Patch in France
Sam Patch the Jumper (1844)
Vermont Wool Dealer (1838)  (play by Cornelius Ambrosius Logan) (Marble played the Yankee role of "Deuteronomy Dutiful")
Yankee Land (1842) (play by Logan)
The Game Cock of the Wilderness (1845) (by William Leman Rede)
Family Ties (1846) (play by Joseph M. Field, debuted at the Park Theatre in New York on June 19, 1846)
The Stage Struck Yankee (1849) (by O.E. Durivage)

References

External links

 Kelly, Jonathan Falconbridge. Dan. Marble: A Biographical Sketch of that Famous and Diverting Humorist, with Reminiscences, Comicalities, Anecdotes, Etc., Etc. (Dewitt & Davenport, 1851) (235 pgs.)

American male stage actors
1810 births
1849 deaths
People from East Windsor, Connecticut
Deaths from cholera
19th-century American male actors
Burials at Rosehill Cemetery


title: Fort McCoy (film)

text:
Fort McCoy is a 2011 American drama film written by Kate Connor, produced by Connor and Eric Stoltz, and directed by Connor and Michael Worth that stars Stoltz, Connor, Lyndsy Fonseca, Andy Hirsch, Camryn Manheim, Seymour Cassel, and Brendan Fehr.

The film depicts the life of a barber who is hired by the United States Army. His services are needed for a prisoner-of-war camp in Wisconsin.

Plot
In 1944 Frank Stirn moves his family to Wisconsin to become a barber for the US Army and a prisoner-of-war camp it oversees at Fort McCoy. Bitter that he is unable to fight because he is 4F, Frank takes a stand when a Nazi officer threatens his wife.

Production
The film was shot in California, and La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Release
The film was first shown at Boston, Cannes Independent, Rhode Island, Savannah film festivals. The U.S. and Canadian rights were acquired by Monterey Media in March 2014.

Festivals
Fort McCoy was shown at the following festivals:
Rhode Island International Film Festival
Savannah Film Festival
Hollywood Film Festival
Cannes Independent Film Festival
TriMedia Film Festival
Worldfest Houston
Milan Intl Film Festival
Boston Film Festival
Ft Lauderdale Intl Film Festival
Stony Brook Film Festival
Tacoma Film Festival
St. Louis Film Festival
Dublin Film Festival

References

External links

 Fort McCoy at Monterey Media

2011 films
American World War II films
Films set in 1944
Films set in Wisconsin
Films shot in California
Films shot in Wisconsin
2011 drama films
Films about the United States Army
2010s English-language films
2010s American films


title: Tomten, jag vill ha en riktig jul

text:
Tomten, jag vill ha en riktig jul is a Christmas song written by Kenneth Fridén, and recorded by Busungarna in 1982. Released as a single, it peaked at 11th position at the Swedish singles chart, It also appeared at the 1984 Busungarna album "Tjena, vi är Busungarna".

The song describes Christmas with children asking for presents by Santa Claus, including a radio-controlled aeroplane, a pinball game, Donkey Kong, typical for the 1980s, and a table soccer set.

In 1991, Werner & Werner recorded a parody of the song with new lyrics "Tomten du är så otroligt ful" ("Santa, you look so incredible ugly").

In 1997, the song was recorded by Håbo Music School on the EP Flingor som singlar.

In 1998 the song was recorded by Drängarna & Smådrängarna on the album En skitkul jul.

In 2002, the a recording by girl duo Peaches appeared on a Christmas EP. with a video.

In 2008, the song was recorded by Sonja Aldén, Shirley Clamp och Sanna Nielsen during their Christmas show, with new lyrics.

Charts

References

External links
Information at Svensk mediedatabas

1982 songs
1982 singles
Swedish Christmas songs
Swedish-language songs


title: Legend of the Sea Wolf

text:
Legend of the Sea Wolf (, also known as Larsen, Wolf of the Seven Seas) is a 1975 Italian adventure film directed by Giuseppe Vari. It is based on the 1904 novel The Sea-Wolf by Jack London.

Plot
Author and gentleman Humphrey Van Weyden is shanghaied and wakes up aboard Captain Larsen's ship on a seal hunting voyage of indeterminate length.  Captain Larsen runs a tight ship using "hands on" techniques to quell on–board dissension. With seamanship unknown to Humphrey, he is assigned to the ship's cook as a scullery maid.  The Captain informs Humphrey that the sea voyage will allow him to stand on his own two feet and not walk in his father's shoes.

Unsuccessful in their seal hunt, Captain Larsen decides to poach on the seal hunting area of his brother, Death Larsen. Their ship also rescues three survivors from a steamship that has exploded, Maud Brewster and two stokers.

Cast

Chuck Connors: Wolf Larsen
Barbara Bach: Maud Brewster
Giuseppe Pambieri: Humphrey Van Weyden
Luciano Pigozzi: Thomas Mugridge
Ivan Rassimov: Death Larsen
Rik Battaglia
Pino Ferrara
Lars Bloch
Maurice Poli
Nello Pazzafini
Renato Baldini

References

External links

1975 films
Italian adventure films
Films based on The Sea-Wolf
Films directed by Giuseppe Vari
1970s adventure films
Films scored by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis
Sea adventure films
1970s Italian films


title: 1946 State of the Union Address

text:
The 1946 State of the Union Address was given by the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, on Monday, January 21, 1946, to the 79th United States Congress. It was written by Samuel Rosenman and is notable for being the longest State of the Union message at the time: the written speech was sent to Congress, not orally given, and was 25,000 words long. The address combined Truman's economic report with state of the union information regrading returning to a peace economy after the end of World War Two, foreign policy in Europe and the admission of Hawaii into the United States.

In the address, Truman stated, "At Moscow the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Great Britain agreed to further this development by supporting the efforts of the national government and nongovernmental Chinese political elements in bringing about cessation of civil strife and in broadening the basis of representation in the Government. That is the policy which General Marshall is so ably executing today. It is the purpose of the Government of the United States to proceed as rapidly as is practicable toward the restoration of the sovereignty of Korea and the establishment of a democratic government by the free choice of the people of Korea."

Truman also urged Congress to admit Hawaii into the United States, but cautioned them to wait on admitting Alaska until "it is certain that this is the desire of the people of that great territory".

See also
United States House of Representatives elections, 1946

References

State of the Union addresses
Presidency of Harry S. Truman
79th United States Congress
State of the Union Address
State of the Union Address
State of the Union Address
State of the Union Address
January 1946 events in the United States


title: List of current NFC team rosters

text:
The following is a list of current National Football Conference (NFC) team rosters:

NFC East

Dallas Cowboys

New York Giants

Philadelphia Eagles

Washington Commanders

NFC North

Chicago Bears

Detroit Lions

Green Bay Packers

Minnesota Vikings

NFC South

Atlanta Falcons

Carolina Panthers

New Orleans Saints

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

NFC West

Arizona Cardinals

Los Angeles Rams

San Francisco 49ers

Seattle Seahawks

See also
List of current AFC team rosters

NFC


title: Jan Kraus (actor)

text:
Jan Vladimír Kraus (born 15 August 1953) is a Czech actor and TV host. He appeared in more than eighty films since 1967. Kraus was also a judge on Česko Slovensko má talent (Czecho Slovakia's Got Talent). He is the host of the television talk show Show Jana Krause. His father Ota Kraus, a Holocaust survivor, was a journalist and writer. The writer Ivan Kraus is his brother.

He has appeared in several Theatre Studio DVA productions.

Selected filmography

References

External links

1953 births
Living people
Male actors from Prague
Czech male film actors
Czech male television actors
20th-century Czech male actors
21st-century Czech male actors


title: Data exploration

text:
Data exploration is an approach similar to initial data analysis, whereby a data analyst uses visual exploration to understand what is in a dataset and the characteristics of the data, rather than through traditional data management systems. These characteristics can include size or amount of data, completeness of the data, correctness of the data, possible relationships amongst data elements or files/tables in the data.

Data exploration is typically conducted using a combination of automated and manual activities. Automated activities can include data profiling or data visualization or tabular reports to give the analyst an initial view into the data and an understanding of key characteristics.

This is often followed by manual drill-down or filtering of the data to identify anomalies or patterns identified through the automated actions.  Data exploration can also require manual scripting and queries into the data (e.g. using languages such as SQL or R) or using spreadsheets or similar tools to view the raw data.

All of these activities are aimed at creating a mental model and understanding of the data in the mind of the analyst, and defining basic metadata (statistics, structure, relationships) for the data set that can be used in further analysis.

Once this initial understanding of the data is had, the data can be pruned or refined by removing unusable parts of the data (data cleansing), correcting poorly formatted elements and defining relevant relationships across datasets. This process is also known as determining data quality.

Data exploration can also refer to the ad hoc querying or visualization of data to identify potential relationships or insights that may be hidden in the data and does not require to formulate assumptions beforehand.

Traditionally, this had been a key area of focus for statisticians, with John Tukey being a key evangelist in the field. Today, data exploration is more widespread and is the focus of data analysts and data scientists; the latter being a relatively new role within enterprises and larger organizations.

Interactive Data Exploration
This area of data exploration has become an area of interest in the field of machine learning. This is a relatively new field and is still evolving.  As its most basic level, a machine-learning algorithm can be fed a data set and can be used to identify whether a hypothesis is true based on the dataset. Common machine learning algorithms can focus on identifying specific patterns in the data. Many common patterns include regression and classification or clustering, but there are many possible patterns and algorithms that can be applied to data via machine learning.

By employing machine learning, it is possible to find patterns or relationships in the data that would be difficult or impossible to find via manual inspection, trial and error or traditional exploration techniques.

Software
 Trifacta – a data preparation and analysis platform
 Paxata – self-service data preparation software
 Alteryx – data blending and advanced data analytics software
 Microsoft Power BI -  interactive visualization and data analysis tool
 OpenRefine -  a standalone open source desktop application for data clean-up and data transformation
 Tableau software – interactive data visualization software

See also

 Exploratory data analysis
 Machine learning
 Data profiling
 Data visualization

References

Machine learning
Data analysis
Data management
Data quality


title: Kernfs (Linux)

text:
In the Linux kernel, kernfs is a set of functions that contain the functionality required for creating the pseudo file systems used internally by various kernel subsystems so that they may use virtual files.  For example, sysfs provides a set of virtual files by exporting information about hardware devices and associated device drivers from the kernel's device model to user space.

The creation of kernfs resulted from splitting off part of the internal logic used by sysfs. The associated patchset, with Tejun Heo as its main author, was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in kernel version 3.14, which was released on March 30, 2014.
Kernfs took the independent and reusable functionality of sysfs so other kernel subsystems can implement their own pseudo file systems more easily and consistently.

One of the primary users of kernfs is the pseudo file system used internally by cgroups, whose redesign continued into version 3.15 of the Linux kernel.

See also

 procfs a pseudo file system in Unix-like operating systems that presents information about processes (and about some other system information)
 tmpfs a pseudo file system for temporary file storage on many Unix-like operating systems

References

External links

 Source code,  in the Linux kernel source tree

Interfaces of the Linux kernel
Linux kernel features


title: Kernfs (BSD)

text:
In the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) and its descendants, kernfs is a pseudo file system that provides access to information on the currently running kernel.  The file system itself and its content are dynamically generated when the operating system is booted, and the kernfs is often mounted at the  directory.  As a result of its nature, kernfs does not consist of actual files on a storage device, allowing instead processes to retrieve system information by accessing virtual files.

kernfs first appeared in 4.4BSD, and NetBSD 6.0 continues to use kernfs by default while mounting it at the canonical  mount point.

See also

 procfs a special file system in Unix-like operating systems that presents information about processes and other system information
 tmpfs a common name for a temporary file storage facility on many Unix-like operating systems

References

Special-purpose file systems
Unix file system technology


title: Hedley Kett

text:
William Hedley Kett, DSC and Bar (28 July 1913 – 28 June 2014) was a British submariner who commanded two ships during the Second World War.

Early life
Kett was born at Ponders End, Lea Valley, London on 28 July 1913. He was a descendant of Robert Kett, who had led Kett's Rebellion in 1549. Brought up and educated at Blackheath, Hedley Kett first went to sea as a deck apprentice with the Bolton Steamship Company, and was later with the Glover Brothers company. His ship, the tanker Romney, was requisitioned by the Admiralty during the Spanish Civil War, making Kett part of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, and in 1938 he joined the Royal Naval Reserve. He was second officer of RFA Arndale at the outbreak of the Second World War, and became her gunnery officer. He returned to Britain, and was called up for service in November 1939. Volunteering to serve on submarines, he joined the Odin-class submarine  as her navigator. He joined  in August 1940, at first as her navigator, later as her first lieutenant.

Clyde was involved in an action in Tarrafal Bay on 21 September 1941, after having been ordered to ambush U-boats that were meeting there to refuel and resupply. Kett was officer of the watch during the attack, and after attempting to torpedo , Kett dived to reload, and collided with . He then attempted to ram . U-111 sustained heavy damage in the collision, was unable to dive, and was sunk on 4 October by HMT Lady Shirley. U-67 was also badly damaged, and forced to abandon her patrol and return to France. Clyde was then used for 'Magic Carpet' runs, transporting fuel and supplies from Gibraltar to Malta, with Kett overseeing the loading and unloading of the submarine, gaining the nickname 'Tanker'. Clyde would submerge in the harbour by day and unload the goods at night. After carrying out five supply runs, Kett flew back to Britain aboard a Vickers Wellington and attended the course for submarine captains. He married Doris May Mitchell during the brief time between his arrival in Britain, and the start of the course. He also received the Distinguished Service Cross at about this time for his work. Of the eighteen captains on Kett's course, only two survived the war, one was Kett, the other was John Roxburgh, later an admiral.

Command
Graduating from the course, Kett was given command of , assigned as a dummy target off Tobermory for surface ships practising anti-submarine tactics. In January 1943 he took command of , spending the next two years as her commander, and carrying out twelve patrols in her. He attacked a U-boat while off Toulon on 30 October 1943, and was credited, erroneously, with sinking . He received a bar to his DSC. One of Kett's last services in the Mediterranean was to use Ultimatums sonar to plot the location of enemy mines of the southern French coast prior to Operation Dragoon. Kett also commanded HMS Otway, HMS Taku (N38), HMS Tactician (P314), and HMS Springer (P264).

Post war
Kett left the navy in 1946, and went on to receive his licence as a London and North Sea pilot. He remained active in the Royal Naval Reserve, and in 1950 commanded  for a fortnight during his annual training. He was appointed an aide-de-camp to Elizabeth II in 1966, and one of the Younger Brethren of Trinity House in 1971. He became a painter of landscapes and seascapes in his retirement. He died, at the age of 100, on 28 June 2014 and is survived by two daughters, Susie and Anna.

References

External links
 Imperial War Museum Interview

1913 births
2014 deaths
English centenarians
Men centenarians
Royal Navy officers
Royal Navy officers of World War II
Royal Navy submarine commanders
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)
People from Ponders End
Members of Trinity House
Royal Naval Reserve personnel


title: Jan Kraus

text:
Jan Kraus may refer to:

 Jan Kraus (actor) (born 1953), Czech actor and TV host
 Jan Kraus (footballer) (born 1979), Czech footballer
 Jan Kraus (wrestler), Czech wrestler
 Jan Kraus (cyclist) (born 1993), Czech track cyclist


title: 1945 State of the Union Address

text:
The 1945 State of the Union Address was given to the 79th United States Congress on Saturday, January 6, 1945, by the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt.  It was given in the year he died.  It was given during the final year of World War II. He stated, "In considering the State of the Union, the war and the peace that is to follow are naturally uppermost in the minds of all of us.
This war must be waged--it is being waged--with the greatest and most persistent intensity. Everything we are and have is at stake. Everything we are and have will be given. American men, fighting far from home, have already won victories which the world will never forget.
We have no question of the ultimate victory. We have no question of the cost. Our losses will be heavy.
We and our allies will go on fighting together to ultimate total victory."

References

State of the Union addresses
Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt
79th United States Congress
State of the Union Address
State of the Union Address
State of the Union Address
State of the Union Address
World War II speeches
January 1945 events in the United States


title: Cheboksary (disambiguation)

text:
Cheboksary is the capital city of the Chuvash Republic, Russia.

Cheboksary may also refer to:
Cheboksary Urban Okrug, a municipal formation which the city of republic significance of Cheboksary in the Chuvash Republic, Russia is incorporated as
Cheboksary Airport, an airport in the Chuvash Republic, Russia
Cheboksary Dam, a hydroelectric dam on the Volga River, Russia
Cheboksary Reservoir, an artificial lake formed by the Cheboksary Dam in Russia
Cheboksary, Tambov Oblast, a rural locality (a village) in Nikiforovsky District of Tambov Oblast, Russia
Cheboksary railway station, a railway station in the city of Cheboksary, on the Gorky Railway


title: The Butterfly Golden

text:
The Golden Butterfly  is a training two-seat autogyro produced by The Butterfly LLC as a complete kit for homebuild. It won a rotorcraft award for "Outstanding New Design" at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture in 2004.
The instructor has a seat behind and elevated relative to the pupil. To give the aircraft improved safety, the horizontal stabilizer is large and the line of thrust of the propeller is below the centre-of-gravity.

References
The Golden Butterfly Specifications
The Butterfly Gyroplane

External links

2000s United States sport aircraft
Autogyros
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engine aircraft


title: Tory Pragassa

text:
Tory Michael Pragassa (born 14 October 1996) is a Kenyan swimmer. He competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, but did not qualify for the semi-finals of any of his events, finishing 26th in both the 50m breaststroke and 100m breaststroke heats, and 39th in the 50m freestyle heats.

Early career
Pragassa broke five national junior records at the 2012 CASA Inter Clubs Swimming Championship in Mombasa. On 4 June 2012, he clocked 2:06.50 in the 14–15 years' 200m freestyle, beating the previous junior and boys' 2:06.55 record set by David Dunford on 13 March 2004. He then clocked 0:35.81 in the 10–11 years' 50m backstroke event, just shading the boys' 0:35.83 record set by Jason Dunford on 21 February 1998. He shattered the previous junior and boys' 2:23.20 individual medley record set by Kim Jin-woo on 4 October 1998, setting a new time of 2:20.10.

The following year, he won a silver medal at the CANA Zone 3–4 Championships in Lusaka, Zambia, posting a time of 31.93 seconds in the 15–16 years' 50m backstroke event.

References

1996 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Nairobi
Kenyan male swimmers
Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Kenya
Swimmers at the 2015 African Games


Archery at the 2014 South American Games was held at the Parque Deportivo Peñalolén in Santiago, Chile from March 12 to 15. Five competitions were held in men, women and mixed recurve.

Medalists

Medal table

Participating nations
A total of 41 archers from 8 nations competed in archery at the 2014 South American Games:

 (7)
 (6)
 (7)
 (7)
 (3)
 (2)
 (1)
 (8)

References

External links
Archery results – 2014 South American Games

2014
South American Games
2014 South American Games events


title: 2015 FIBA Asia Championship

text:
The 2015 FIBA Asia Championship was the 28th and last edition of the FIBA Asia Championship in men's basketball in Asia. It was organised by FIBA Asia.

At the FIBA Asia Congress held in Doha, Qatar, the Central Board awarded the hosting rights to China. On 4 December 2014, the Chinese Basketball Association acquired approval from FIBA Asia to hold the men's championship at Changsha, Hunan, with the women's championship to be held at Wuhan, Hubei.

As the winner of the tournament, China qualified for the basketball tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics, while the Philippines, Iran, and Japan would participate at the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men, as stated by FIBA and the IOC in qualification quota.

The 2015 edition was the last FIBA Asia Championship, rebranded effective in 2017 as the FIBA Asia Cup and would include teams from FIBA Oceania.

Qualification

According to the FIBA Asia rules, the host nation China and 2014 FIBA Asia Cup champions Iran automatically qualified. East Asia, West Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Persian Gulf each had two berths while Central Asia and South Asia each had one slot allotted. The other four berths were allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2014 FIBA Asia Cup. Therefore, with Chinese Taipei, Philippines, Jordan, and Japan finishing in the top four in that tournament other than Iran and China which were both direct qualifiers, East Asia gained another two berths while the Southeast Asia and West Asia gained an additional slot each.

Venues

Changsha was chosen by the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) as the venue city of the men's championship. Changsha Social Work College's gymnasium was chosen as the primary stadium, while Central South University of Forestry and Technology's gymnasium was the auxiliary stadium.

Draw
The draw was held at Changsha on 27 June 2015. Two teams that were unknown at the date of the draw, the South Asia qualifier and the last remaining team from East Asia were known a short time after.

The top four teams from 2013 were seeded; all other teams except the host team were drawn. By the time that there were three teams in each group, China chose their group, then the remaining three unseeded teams were drawn.

Included were the teams' FIBA World Rankings on the day the draw was made.
* Later determined as  (ranked 61st) and  (ranked 69th), respectively.

Squads

Each team had a roster of twelve players. A team may opt to allocate a roster spot to a naturalized player.

Tournament format
Preliminary round: The sixteen teams were grouped into four groups of four. Each team played all of the teams from its group once. The top three teams with the best record advanced to the second round.
Second round: The qualified teams from groups A and B formed Group E, while those from Groups C and D formed Group F. The results against the teams that had also qualified were carried over. The teams played the teams from the group they had not faced before. The top four teams from each group proceeded to the final round.
Classification round:
Teams eliminated in the preliminary round would be in a single elimination tournament with consolation games to play for 13th place.
Teams eliminated in the second round would figure in a single elimination tournament with consolation games to play for 9th place.
Final round: The remaining teams would figure in a single elimination tournament with consolation games. The champion would qualify to the 2016 Summer Olympics. The runner-up, third and fourth placer would qualify to the Final Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

Preliminary round
All times were local (UTC+8).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Second round

Group E

Group F

Classification round

Classification 13th–16th

13th–16th place semifinals

15th place game

13th place game

Classification 9th–12th

9th–12th place semifinals

Eleventh place game

Ninth place game

Final round

Bracket

Quarterfinals

5th–8th place semifinals

Semifinals

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Third place game

Final

Final rankings

Awards

 Most Valuable Player:  Yi Jianlian
 All-Star Team:
 PG –  Jayson William
 SG –  Guo Ailun
 SF –  Samad Nikkhah Bahrami
 PF –  Yi Jianlian
 C  –  Zhou Qi

Statistical leaders

Player tournament averages

Points

Rebounds

Assists

Steals

Blocks

Other statistical leaders

Team tournament averages

Points

Rebounds

Assists

Steals

Blocks

Tournament game highs

Controversies

Rescheduling of Semifinals
There was suspicion and outrage when the organizers decided to move the schedule of the semifinals game between Philippines and Japan from its original schedule of 9:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Many fans believe that this move was a way for the Chinese to procure undue advantage come the gold medal match.

Finals Pregame
A few hours before the championship match, Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas President Manuel V. Pangilinan accused the host country of pulling off shenanigans. He twittered that the delay of the tournament electric bus to bring the Philippine squad to the game venue as it was not charged would give them less time to warm up. He claimed the SBP were not allocated tickets by the Local Organizing Committee (LOC), so the Philippine squad coaching staff and SBP officials were without tickets hours prior to the game although it was standard practice. He also cited that the Chinese players stayed at a different hotel from the players from the other nations, which violates the FIBA rules.  It was also reported that when the Philippine squad finally arrived at the arena, the goal's net where they were shooting was suddenly removed for repair, which gave them even less time to warm up after the delay from the electric bus incident.

Officiating
The officiating of the referees were also held in question by fans and various teams playing against China, especially the games with Jordan, South Korea, Iran and the Philippines.

Behavioural issues
There was wide criticism of the rude behavior of the Chinese fans were shouting threats towards visiting teams, doing the dirty finger and throwing bottles and paper at the opposing team benches. There were incidents in which foreign fans in the venue were heckled and insulted by Chinese fans while the Chinese Police just stood by. One particular moment was when Calvin Abueva irritated Chinese supporters after he accidentally bumped Guo Ailun with his shoulder while returning to the bench following his fifth and final personal foul. There was a report that a Filipino cameraman got involved in a verbal exchange with a Chinese cameraman. Filipino veteran sportswriter Quinito Henson added that a Chinese photographer had to be restrained from scuffling with a Filipino lensman for shielding Abueva from crowd abuse.

Referees
The following referees were selected for the tournament.

  Duan Zhu
  Peng Ling
  Wen Keming
  Ye Nan
  Yuen Chun Yip
  Harja Jaladri
  Atanu Banerjee
  Snehal Bendke
  Ceciline Vincent
  Amirhossein Safarzadeh
  Naser Abu Rashed
  Yuji Hirahara
  Toru Katayose
  Arsen Andryushkin
  Yevgeniy Mikheyev
  Hwang In-tae
  Mohammad Al-Amiri
  Marwan Egho
  Rabah Noujaim
  Chan Owe Shiong
  Ricor Buaron
  Ferdinand Pascual
  Anan Daraghma
  Victor Mah
  Chen Ying-cheng
  Chung Yi-chih

References

External links

2015
2015–16 in Asian basketball
2015–16 in Chinese basketball
International basketball competitions hosted by China
September 2015 sports events in China
October 2015 sports events in China


title: Daniel Sperling

text:
Daniel Sperling (born March 27, 1951 in Albany, New York, United States) is  the American founding Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis (ITS-Davis); Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Professor of Environmental Science and Policy; and Faculty Director of the Policy Institute for Energy, Environment, and the Economy at the University of California, Davis.

Education
Sperling received his bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering and Urban Planning from Cornell University in 1973, and his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (with minors in Economics, Energy and Resources) in 1982.

Career
From 1973 to 1975, he worked as an urban planner for the Peace Corps in Honduras. From 1976 to 1977 he worked as an environmental planner for the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
In 1991, Sperling founded the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, bringing government, industry, and nongovernmental organizations together to conduct groundbreaking scientific research, and better inform environmental and transportation policy makers. ITS-Davis is now home to more than 60 affiliated faculty and researchers and over 130 graduate students.

In 2007, he was appointed to the California Air Resources Board., and   named   co-director of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard study. He is currently Vice Chair of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies and in 2015 he will be named Chair. He  is currently an associate editor of the journal Transportation Research Part D He is also the Co-Director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation, a U.S. Department of Transportation research, education, and outreach consortium aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from passenger and freight travel.

Honors and awards
In 2004, Sperling was selected as a National Associate of the National Academies, an organization dedicated to advising the government and public on matters of science, technology, and health.

He was appointed chair of the Council on the Future of Transportation for the World Economic Forum in 2009.
Sperling appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss the sustainable transportation issues spotlighted in Sperling’s book Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability (2009).
In 2010, he was one of ten recipients of the 16th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on global change.  He is one of two winners of the 2013 Blue Planet Prize by the Asahi Glass Foundation of Tokyo, which is described as the “Nobel prize for the environmental sciences.” In 2013, he served as chair of the California Fuel Cell Partnership, a public-private organization aimed at promoting the commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Research and publications
Since 1981, Prof. Sperling has authored more than 200 technical papers and 12 books, including Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability published in 2009.

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title: 1913 State of the Union Address

text:
The 1913 State of the Union Address was given by Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, on Tuesday, December 2, 1913.  It was given directly to the 63rd United States Congress by the president as a speech. Wilson was the first to deliver it as a speech, rather than a written message, since John Adams in 1800. With a few exceptions all addresses since then have been given directly following Wilson's lead.

It was his first.  He stated, "The country, I am thankful to say, is at peace with all the world, and many happy manifestations multiply about us of a growing cordiality and sense of community of interest among the nations, foreshadowing an age of settled peace and good will." The speech was just over 3,500 words and took 28 minutes to read.

In 2014 RealClearPolitics placed it 10th on their list of "Top 10 State of the Union Addresses" for its break with tradition.

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title: Walter Abell

text:
Walter Halsey Abell (1897–1956) was an American Art teacher and theoretician.

Early years

Walter Halsey Abell was born in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York.
The Barnes Foundation sponsored him to study in France.
He became a teacher of art and an art theoretician, interpreting art from Marxist and psychological viewpoints.
He taught at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio (1925–27).

Career

Abell taught at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada from 1928 to 1943.
He was one of the first professors of fine art at a Canadian university.
Abell helped to found the Maritime Art Association, and was founding editor of Maritime Art.
The first issue of Maritime Art, the first magazine in Canada devoted to the visual arts, appeared in October 1940.
The Carnegie Corporation provided a small grant to help with starting up, and the Maritime Art Association gave organizational support. Abell was editor, but Violet Gillett was responsible for production of the first issues.

In the late 1930s Abell saw Canadian modernists, particularly women such as Pegi Nicol and perhaps Paraskeva Clark, as a "very important group of young Canadian painters ... more important than the Group of Seven."
André Charles Biéler organized the first conference of Canadian artists in Kingston, Ontario.
Abell told the delegates at the Kingston conference that Canada was a "cultural plutocracy ... determined by a small group possessing great wealth." He proposed that experiments in children's art, folk art and amateur creative workshops were "movements of modern art that have broken old forms and prepared the way for new ones, with increasing emphasis upon the creative possibilities in the common man."

The Kingston conference led to the foundation of the Federation of Canadian Artists in 1941.
The Federation was divided into regions, each with a regional organizer. Abell was head of the Maritimes region.
Walter Abell's journal Maritime Art became Canadian Art in 1943 when Abell moved to Ottawa to join the staff of the Art Centre of the National Gallery of Canada.
Abell moved on to Michigan State University where he taught from 1943 to 1956.
He died in 1956 in East Lansing, Michigan.

Writings

Representation and Form: A Study of Aesthetic Values in Representational Art. New York:  Scribners, 1936
Canadian Aspirations in Painting. Quebec: Culture, 1942
Pleasure From Art : a Guide to Reading. Ottawa:  Canadian Legion Educational Services, 1944
Collective Dream in Art: A Psycho-Historical Theory of Culture based on Relations between the Arts, Psychology, and the Social Sciences. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957

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1956 deaths
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title: Tylomelania masapensis

text:
Tylomelania masapensis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.

The specific name masapensis is named after Lake Masapi, where it lives.

Distribution
This species occurs in Malili Lakes, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its type locality is Lake Masapi.

Ecology
Tylomelania masapensis is a lacustrine species.

The females of Tylomelania masapensis usually have 1-5 embryos in their brood pouch. Newly hatched snails of Tylomelania masapensis have a shell height of 0.3-10.0 mm.

References

masapensis
Gastropods described in 1913


title: William C. Goudy

text:
William Charles Goudy (May 15, 1824 – April 29, 1893) was an American politician and attorney from Indiana. Arriving in Illinois in 1833, he matriculated at Illinois College and then studied law with Stephen T. Logan. He opened a successful law practice in Lewistown, Illinois and was elected district attorney in 1853. He was elected to the Illinois Senate, serving from 1856 to 1860. Goudy moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1859 and became consul for the Chicago and North Western Railway Company

Biography

William Charles Goudy was born on May 15, 1824, in Indiana. He attended public schools and worked in his father's printing office. He arrived in Illinois with his family in 1833. Upon reaching adulthood, Goudy decided to pursue a career in law and enrolled at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. He graduated in 1845 and taught school in Decatur, Illinois. In 1843, he studied at the law office of Stephen T. Logan. There, Goudy became a close friend of Stephen's son David.

Goudy was admitted to the bar in 1847 and opened a practice with Hezekiah M. Wead in Lewistown, Illinois. He first took an interest in politics in 1849 and was elected district attorney of the 10th Judicial District four years later. He resigned in 1855 to announce his candidacy for the Illinois Senate. He was successful in his election bid and served two consecutive two-year terms as a Democrat from 1856 to 1860.

Goudy moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1859 and became one of its prominent lawyers. He argued on behalf of Munn & Scott in the case that would later go to the Supreme Court of the United States as Munn v. Illinois. Likewise, he argued in lower courts for Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois and Bowman v. Chicago & North Western Railway Company; he served as general counsel for the rail line. In 1862, he was a candidate for the United States Senate, but Goudy lost in the primaries to William Alexander Richardson. He was a delegate for the 1868 and 1888 Democratic National Conventions.

Goudy married Helen M. Judd in 1849 and they had two children. Late in his life, Goudy was a member of the National Democratic Committee. He was also a trustee of the McCormick Theological Seminary. Goudy died in his office at the Chicago and North Western of an apparent heart attack on April 29, 1893. He was buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.

Goudy was the first President of the Chicago Bar Association in 1874.

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1893 deaths
Democratic Party Illinois state senators
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Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago)


title: Kinsa

text:
Kinsa Inc. is a health technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. Kinsa helps individuals and communities stop the spread of infectious illness by building a communication network that connects more than a million users with a free app, email alerts, and a connected thermometer.

History
The company was founded by Inder Singh in March 2012.

In 2014, Kinsa raised $9.6 million, led by the venture firm Kleiner Perkins, to be used for developing and testing its first medical thermometer, a thermometer that uses smartphone-connected sensors.

Later in 2014, Kinsa received FDA 510(k) clearance for the smart thermometer. It began to be sold in Apple stores in December 2014. and was featured in an Apple commercial.

In 2015 Kinsa launched another product, a BLE smart ear thermometer, which syncs with the app via Bluetooth. It uses the same health tracker app.

In 2016, Kinsa launched its third product, a second smart ear thermometer, in partnership with Sesame Street Updates to the app for the new smart thermometer include the voice and image of Elmo who speaks to kids as they're taking their temperatures.

In March 2017, Kinsa closed a $17 Million Series B round of financing in March 2017, led by GSR Ventures.

In January 2018, Kinsa's QuickCare Thermometer launched to the public.

During 2020, Kinsa used its database of US temperature data to predict COVID-19 hot spots.  Often before public health officials noticed them.

Products and services
Kinsa studies the unique features of an illness and incorporates what's circulating nearby to offer personalized guidance from symptom onset through recovery. By analyzing geographic illness trends, Kinsa quickly identifies at-risk areas and mobilizes the organizations that can help stop the spread.

Kinsa's smart thermometer collects illness data which is analyzed and displayed by an app developed by the company. Users can track temperatures, symptoms, medication doses and diagnoses, as well as get real-time guidance on what to do if symptoms are cause for concern. The app also has a local groups feature for school communities with a health summary and message board. It tells members which illnesses are going around their school, such as the flu or strep throat.

Kinsa thermometers and apps track symptoms and health history, and offer personalized guidance, services and information about illnesses circulating nearby to help individuals get better faster. The company's line of smart thermometers include the first-ever FDA-cleared, app-enabled smart stick thermometer, a smart ear thermometer, a Sesame Street branded smart ear thermometer, and the Kinsa QuickCare thermometer (oral, underarm, rectal).

Awards
Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation - Grand Prize
Demo Mobile 2013 - Grand Prize
New York City Innovate Health Tech - Grand Prize

References

External links

HealthWeather.Com, a web site ran by Kinsa, based on its US temperature data

companies based in San Francisco
technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
technology companies established in 2012


title: Carl Giers

text:
Carl Caspar Giers (April 28, 1828 – May 24, 1877) was a Kingdom of Prussia-born American photographer active primarily in Nashville, Tennessee, in the mid-19th century. In documenting Nashville's rapid postwar growth and expansion, he photographed numerous prominent individuals, including political leaders, Civil War generals, and important business and cultural figures. A popular resident of the city, he served one term in the Tennessee House of Representatives (1874–1875), having been the nominee of both the Democratic and Republican parties.

Giers was the adopted father of Otto Giers (1858–1940), who continued the family trade into the 20th century.

Life

Giers was born in Bonn, and immigrated to the United States in 1845. He moved to Nashville in 1852, where he initially he worked as a conductor for the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad (he reportedly piloted the first passenger train in Murfreesboro).  In January 1855, he opened a daguerreotype studio at the corner of Deaderick and College streets that featured "powerful side and sky lights" and rooms "fitted up in elegant style," and catered to "the ladies particularly." Later that year, he exhibited his work at Nashville's Mechanics' Fair.  In 1859, Giers overhauled his studio and renamed it the "Southern Photographic Temple of Fine Arts."  Along with daguerreotypes, the new studio offered ambrotypes and miniatures, and provided photographic enlargement services.

During the Civil War, Giers photographed both Confederate and Union soldiers.  After the Union Army occupied Nashville in early 1862, Giers was given a pass to move about freely in the city, and to travel outside the city.  By October 1863, he had moved to a new gallery on Union Street, selling his old gallery to Thomas Farquar Saltsman.  In late 1865, Giers became a founding member of the German Union Committee, which cooperated with the American Central Union Committee to "secure the election of competent and uncompromising Union men to the offices of the State."

During the decade following the end of the war, Giers was a persistent advocate for immigration, and frequently encouraged state officials to advertise the state in Europe.  He was a member of the inaugural Board of Directors of the Tennessee Colonial and Immigration Society in 1866, and served as President of the German Immigration Society during the same period. In 1870, he helped convince thirty-eight German families to move to Tennessee.  He was a frequent presence at Nashville German-American festivals and events during this period, and was "Worshipful Master" of the Masons' Germania Lodge.

During the presidential campaign of 1872, Giers supported the Liberal Republican Party, which opposed the renomination of President Ulysses S. Grant. In March 1872, Giers signed a petition calling on state Republicans to send delegates to the Liberal Republican convention in Cincinnati.  In June 1872, Giers presided over a Nashville German-American convention that endorsed Liberal Republican candidate Horace Greeley for president.

In September 1874, Nashville Democrats nominated Giers for one of Davidson County's four seats in the Tennessee House of Representatives.  Shortly afterward, the city's Republicans also endorsed Giers, and he was easily elected in November.  Giers opposed repudiation of the state's out-of-control debt (the state debt was becoming one of the most contentious issues in Tennessee politics), and argued in favor of reorganizing the state bureaucracy to eliminate unnecessary offices.  He continued to champion immigration, and called for the state to appoint a commissioner to advertise Tennessee in Europe.  He also opposed the controversial convict lease system.  He served only one term (39th General Assembly), and did not seek reelection.

Giers died at his home on Granny White Pike on the outskirts of Nashville on May 24, 1877, "after a long and painful illness."  He is buried in Nashville's Mount Olivet Cemetery.  His family sold his studio to photographer W.E. Armstrong.  Giers' adopted son, Otto Giers (1858–1940), took up photography in 1883, and continued the trade into the early 20th century.

Works

Giers initially worked with daguerreotypes, but was offering ambrotypes and miniatures by the end of the 1850s.  During and after the Civil War, he specialized in carte de visite, a popular type of portraiture at the time. He offered colored photographs (manually colored with oil and ink) as early as 1864.  In 1871, he advertised miniature photographs that fit on the faces of watches.  Giers made frequent trips to the eastern United States, where he acquainted himself with the latest photographic techniques.

Giers' studio, located at 43-45 Union Street in Nashville, was described by the local newspaper as a "mammoth art gallery" and one of the city's key tourist attractions in the early 1870s.  The studio featured a large exhibition gallery with an elaborate display window facing Union Street. A sitting room and dressing rooms for men and women were located toward the back of the building on the first floor.  Operators' rooms were located on the second floor.  Giers kept a negative of each photograph, and provided patrons with a unique number that would allow them to easily order a duplicate at any time.

At its height, Giers' studio employed over two dozen artists, assistants, and other workers.  Artists and photographers who worked at Giers studio at various times included T. M. Schleier, Andrew Bulot, and Charles A. Paret.  Paret, who joined the studio in the mid-1860s, colored many of the photos produced by the studio.  Colonel Lee Crandall (1832–1926), a former officer in the Confederate Army, managed the studio when Giers was away on trips.

Prominent individuals photographed by Giers included presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant, former First Lady Sarah Childress Polk, governors Isham G. Harris, William G. Brownlow, and John C. Brown, and numerous railroad executives and other business officials.  During his term in the Tennessee House of Representatives, he created portraits of each member of the state legislature.  Giers photographed both Confederate and Union generals during the Civil War, including Benjamin F. Cheatham, Felix K. Zollicoffer, John Hunt Morgan, Joseph F. Knipe, George Henry Thomas, and Thomas H. Ruger.  Other prominent individuals photographed by Giers included outlaw Jesse James, whiskey dealer George A. Dickel, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and several former slaves of Andrew Jackson.

Giers displayed his photographs at various fairs in the Nashville region.  He nearly swept the photography prizes at the Tennessee Agricultural and Mechanic Association Fair in October 1871.  He exhibited his work at the Vienna Exposition in 1873 and the United States Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876.  His photographs are now part of the collections of the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Calvin M. McClung Collection in Knoxville, and the New York Public Library.  A self-portrait of Giers is part of the collections of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.

Gallery

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title: Sukhen Dey (weightlifter)

text:
Sukhen Dey (born 28 March 1989) is an Indian Weightlifter from Howrah, West Bengal. He won Gold medal in the men's 56 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland and previously won a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games at Delhi. Dey left behind Malaysia's Mohd Pisol Zulheimi with the Silver medal and Ganesh Mali with Bronze medal.

References
K Sanjita Chanu wins India's first gold in 20th Commonwealth Games 2014

Living people
Weightlifters from West Bengal
Indian male weightlifters
Weightlifters at the 2010 Asian Games
1989 births
Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for India
Weightlifters at the 2014 Asian Games
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for India
Weightlifters at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting
People from Howrah district
Asian Games competitors for India
20th-century Indian people
21st-century Indian people
Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Ganesh Mali

text:
Ganesh Mali (born 14 May 1993) is an Indian weightlifter who won a bronze medal in the men's 56 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow. He lives at Kolhapur city in the Maharashtra state of India.

References

External links
List of Medal winners at Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014

Living people
Indian male weightlifters
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India
Sportspeople from Kolhapur
1993 births
Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Weightlifters from Maharashtra
Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting
21st-century Indian people
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Greensburg Red Sox

text:
The Greensburg Red Sox, based in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, were a professional minor league baseball team that played in the Western Pennsylvania League in 1907.

They were the first professional baseball team to be based in Greensburg. When the team folded after the league's only season in existence, the city would not have another professional baseball team until 1934, when the Greensburg Trojans were established as an affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals.

Notable players include major leaguers Red Bowser, and Huck Wallace, who managed the team in 1907.

Seasons

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title: Victor-Amédée Lebesgue

text:
Victor-Amédée Lebesgue, sometimes written Le Besgue, (2 October 1791,  Grandvilliers (Oise) – 10 June 1875,  Bordeaux (Gironde)) was a mathematician working on number theory. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences in 1847.

See also
 Catalan's conjecture
 Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for specific exponents
 Lebesgue–Nagell type equations

Publications

References

LEBESGUE , Victor Amédée

1791 births
1875 deaths
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title: Tylomelania sarasinorum

text:
Tylomelania sarasinorum is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.

The specific name sarasinorum is in honor of Swiss naturalists Paul Sarasin and Fritz Sarasin, who described 20 Tylomelania species from Sulawesi.

Distribution
This species occurs in Malili Lakes, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its type locality is lake Towuti, Loeha Island.

Ecology
Tylomelania sarasinorum is a lacustrine species.

The females of Tylomelania sarasinorum usually have 1-14 embryos in their brood pouch. Newly hatched snails of Tylomelania sarasinorum have a shell height of 0.5-8.5 mm.

References

sarasinorum
Gastropods described in 1913


title: Paul Goulet

text:
Paul Goulet (born February 25, 1958) is a speaker, author, writer and consultant from Nevada. In 2013, Goulet was recognized as a Distinguished Nevadan by the Nevada System of Higher Education.

Biography

Formal Education
Paul Goulet has earned a bachelor's degree from University of Ottawa. He has also received a master's degree from Ashland University.

Career
Paul Goulet served as the former Senior Pastor of International Church of Las Vegas, a multi-site congregation in Las Vegas, Nevada. Retired from this church in March 2022

The church's three local campuses welcome thousands of worshipers from the Las Vegas metropolitan area on a weekly basis. The church's online extension, iChurch, broadcasts many church services live. The church also hosts International Christian Academy, which educates students ranging from preschool through grade 8, as well as Kairos School of Ministry, a CPP campus of Northwest University.

Goulet has said his goal is to build 2000 churches by the year 2020 through partnerships with Pastors and Bible schools worldwide. He has partnered with John C. Maxwell's EQUIP organization to bring leadership training to Las Vegas, France and other locations.

He has also authored several books and previously hosted and produced the local television program 2020 Vision.

Bibliography
 Crossing Your Next Threshold (2006)
 The Five Powers of God (2007, Thomas Nelson)
 The Transformed Family (2008)
 The Keys of The Kingdom (2014)

References

External links
 International Church of Las Vegas

Living people
American Christian clergy
1958 births
American male writers


title: 1886 in Argentina

text:
Events in the year 1886 in Argentina.

Incumbents
 President: Julio Argentino Roca (to 12 October); Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman (from 12 October)
 Vice President: Francisco Bernabé Madero (to 12 October); Carlos Pellegrini (from 12 October)

Governors
 Buenos Aires Province: Carlos Alfredo D'Amico
 Cordoba: Gregorio Gavier then Ambrosio Olmos
 Mendoza Province: Rufino Ortega
 Santa Fe Province: Manuel María Zavalla then José Gálvez

Vice Governors
 Buenos Aires Province: Matías Cardoso

Events
3 April – President Julio Argentino Roca, with the support of the agricultural elites – as well as of the London financial powerhouse, Barings Bank – fields his son-in-law, Córdoba Province Governor Miguel Juárez Celman, as the PAN candidate for president; he is elected almost unanimously.

Births
23 February – Antonio Alice, painter (died 1943)
6 June – Salvador Mazza, epidemiologist (died 1946)
20 December – Celestino Piaggio, pianist, conductor and composer (died 1931)

Deaths
1 February – Juan Esteban Pedernera, acting president in 1861 (born 1796)
21 October – José Hernández, journalist, poet, and politician (born 1834; heart disease)

References

History of Argentina (1880–1916)
Years of the 19th century in Argentina


title: Ranko Bugarski

text:
Ranko Bugarski () is a Serbian linguist, academic and author.

Life and career
He was born on 1 January 1933 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, where he completed his secondary education and graduated in English and German languages and literatures at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo (1957). After working for three years as a teacher of English at the Institute of Foreign Languages in his hometown, he was appointed by the Department of English, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade as a teaching assistant (1961), to progress through the academic hierarchy to the rank of Professor of English (1980). In 1988 he also became Professor of General Linguistics in the same institution, in a new department which he was instrumental in setting up. He retired in 2000 but remained academically active in different ways for many years thereafter.

He did postgraduate research at University College London with Professor Randolph Quirk as his adviser (1962/63) and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York on a Ford Foundation scholarship (1966/67). After obtaining his Ph.D. degree from the University of Belgrade (1969) by defending a dissertation on a subsystem of English prepositions, he spent the academic year 1969/70 as a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Chicago and a visiting professor of linguistics at Northeastern Illinois State College, Chicago. In addition to courses or individual lectures at nearly all the universities of the former Yugoslavia, he was a guest lecturer at 24 other universities in Europe, the US and Australia (London, Oxford, Paris-Sorbonne, Leiden, Kraków, Vienna, Munich, Barcelona, New York-Columbia, California-Berkeley, Chicago, Cornell, Sydney-Macquarie, Melbourne-Monash, etc.).

Works and reception
As a researcher, lecturer and author he has been active in the fields of English and general linguistics, contrastive and applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, language in relation to identity, culture, ethnicity and nationalism, language attitudes, written language and literacy, terminology and bibliography, translation theory, history of linguistics, the status of Serbo-Croatian, political manipulations of language and wartime hate speech, current Serbian slang, etc. He is the author of some twenty books, ten edited volumes, and scores of articles, book chapters and reviews in international journals, congress proceedings and other collective volumes, mostly in English or Serbo-Croatian but some in German, French, Spanish and several other languages. (For a selective list see below). Among his noted contributions are his early research on English prepositions, acknowledged as a thematic and methodological precursor of cognitive linguistics, his notion of graphic relativity as an extension of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity, his role in defining and organising applied linguistics as an academic discipline in Yugoslavia and internationally, the conception of Serbo-Croatian as one polycentric standard language linguistically but several national languages politically, and his recent pioneering work on lexical blends in Serbian.
He has participated in several dozen Yugoslav, European and world congresses, symposia and other conferences, often also as an organiser or invited plenary speaker. He was the academic organiser of two international conferences at the University of London and editor (with Celia Hawkesworth) of their proceedings: Language Planning in Yugoslavia (Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1992. Pp. 233. ) and Language in the Former Yugoslav Lands (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2004. Pp. 325. ). He has edited scholarly journals and, as translator and editor, introduced to the Yugoslav public the works of some leading linguists (Chomsky, Sapir, Whorf) and modern linguistic disciplines (transformational-generative grammar, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics). At the same time, he has kept international audiences informed about the changing language situation in Yugoslavia and its successor states, with a special focus on the official dissolution of Serbo-Croatian. In 2017, he has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

Some previous or current positions
Co-founder and first president, Yugoslav Association of Applied Linguistics; Vice President, Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA); President, Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE); corresponding member, Research Centre on Multilingualism (Brussels); national correspondent, Soziolinguistische Bibliographie Europäischer Länder, in the yearbook Sociolinguistica (Tübingen/Berlin); Council of Europe Expert on Regional or Minority Languages (Strasbourg); advisory board member, the journals Multilingua (Berlin/New York) and Historiographia Linguistica, with the associated book series Studies in the History of Linguistics (Amsterdam/Philadelphia); Yugoslav Board member, European Society for the Study of English (ESSE).

Other honours
Member, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea (Salzburg); Honorary President, English-Speaking Union of Serbia; Honorary President, Applied Linguistics Association of Serbia; Honorary member, Association of Serbian Anglicists. He has been honoured with three festschrifts: (1) History and Perspectives of Language Study: Papers in Honor of Ranko Bugarski (eds O.Mišeska Tomić, M.Radovanović), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000. Pp. 305. ; (2) Jezik, društvo, saznanje - Profesoru Ranku Bugarskom od njegovih studenata [Language, Society, Cognition: For Professor Ranko Bugarski from his Students] (eds D.Klikovac, K.Rasulić), Beograd: Filološki fakultet, 2003. Pp. 300. ; (3) Jezik u upotrebi - primenjena lingvistika u čast Ranku Bugarskom/Language in Use: Applied Linguistics in Honour of Ranko Bugarski (ed. V.Vasić), Novi Sad/Beograd: Društvo za primenjenu lingvistiku Srbije, etc., 2011. Pp. 382.  (bilingual Serbian/Croatian and English volume). His books Jezik i lingvistika (1972) and Jezik u društvu (1986) have won annual prizes, and in 2011 he was awarded the title "Vitez poziva" [Knight of his calling] by the NGO League of Experts-LEX.

Publications

Books
Most of the first twelve originally published by different publishing houses, thereafter all brought together in the edition of Ranko Bugarski's Selected Works (Belgrade: Čigoja štampa/XX vek, 1996–1997):

 Predlozi over, under, above, below i beneath u savremenom engleskom jeziku [The prepositions over, under, above, below and beneath in contemporary English] (1969, 2nd ed. 1996). Pp. vi+331. ID=47287308. /Ph.D. dissertation, with an English summary/.
 Jezik i lingvistika [Language and linguistics] (1972, 4th ed. 2003). Pp. 301. ID=49205772.
 Lingvistika o čoveku [Linguistics on man] (1975, 3rd ed. 1996). Pp. 218. ID=48322828.
 Jezik u društvu [Language in society] (1986, 3rd ed. 2004). Pp. 261. ID=49207052.
 Lingvistika u primeni [Linguistics in application] (1986, 3rd ed. 2007). Pp. 216. ID=48473612.
 Uvod u opštu lingvistiku [Introduction to general linguistics] (1989, 8th ed. 2013). Pp. 269. ID=48323084.
 Ka jedinstvu lingvistike [Towards unity in linguistics] (1997). Pp. 284. ID=56979468.
 Jezik u kontekstu [Language in context] (1997). Pp. 298. ID=57560588.
 Jezici [Languages] (1993, 6th ed. 2010). Pp. 144. . /Macedonian translation, Skopje, 2001/.
 Pismo [Writing] (1996, 3rd ed. 2010). Pp. 190. . /Macedonian translation, Skopje, 2001/.
 Jezik od mira do rata [Language from peace to war] (1994, 3rd ed. 1997). Pp. 142. ID=52929292. /Greek translation, Athens, 2011/.
 Jezik u društvenoj krizi [Language in a social crisis] (1997). Pp. 168. ID=57789708.
This set was followed by nine further books, all except the last on the list published by Biblioteka XX vek of Belgrade:

 Lica jezika – sociolingvističke teme [Facets of language: Sociolinguistic topics] (2001, 2nd ed. 2002). Pp. 246. .
 Nova lica jezika – sociolingvističke teme [New facets of language: Sociolinguistic topics] (2002, 2nd ed. 2009). Pp. 262. .
 Žargon – lingvistička studija [Slang: A linguistic study] (2003, 2nd ed. 2006). Pp. 295. .
 Jezik i kultura [Language and culture] (2005). Pp. 288. .
 Evropa u jeziku [Europe in language] (2009). Pp. 246. .
 Jezik i identitet [Language and identity] (2010). Pp. 279. .
 Portret jednog jezika [Portrait of a language] (2012). Pp. 278. .
 Sarmagedon u Mesopotamaniji – leksičke skrivalice [Sarmageddon in Mesopotamania: Lexical blends] (2013). Pp. 207. .
 Selektivna sociolingvistička bibliografija: SFRJ/SRJ-SCG/Srbija, 1967–2007 [Selective sociolinguistic bibliography of Yugoslavia/Serbia, 1967–2007] (2009). Beograd: Narodna biblioteka Srbije. Pp. 124. .

Representative sample of articles and book chapters

 On the interrelatedness of grammar and lexis in the structure of English. Lingua 19:3, 1968, 233–263.
 Symmetry and asymmetry in prepositional systems. Zbornik radova povodom četrdesetogodišnjice osnivanja Katedre za engleski jezik i književnost. Beograd: Filološki fakultet, 1969, 57–69.
 Writing systems and phonological insights. Papers from the Sixth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. University of Chicago: Department of Linguistics, 1970, 453–458.
 A system of English prepositions and their Serbo-Croatian equivalents. The Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian-English Contrastive Project (ed. R.Filipović), Zagreb: Institute of Linguistics/Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics. Reports 8, 1973, 3–20.
 The object of linguistics in historical perspective. In: History of Linguistic Thought and Contemporary Linguistics (ed. H.Parret), Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1976, 1–12.
 The interdisciplinary relevance of folk linguistics. In: Progress in Linguistic Historiography (ed. K.Koerner), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1980, 381–393.
 Some thoughts on the structure and applications of linguistics. In: Models of Grammar, Descriptive Linguistics and Pedagogical Grammar (eds G.Nickel, D.Nehls), Heidelberg: Julius Groos, 1980, 22–45.
 Sociolinguistic issues in standardizing linguistic terminology. Language in Society 12:1, 1983, 65–70.
 Sociolinguistics and language universals. Studia Linguistica 37:1, 1983, 1–8.
 Language universals and linguistic relativity. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 19:2, 1985, 45–55.
 (with Melanie Mikes) Types and methods in multilingual research in Yugoslavia. In: Methoden der Kontaktlinguistik/Methods in Contact Linguistic Research (ed. P.H.Nelde), Bonn:Dümmler, 1985, 145–154.
 Translation across cultures: Some problems with terminologies. In: Scientific and Humanistic Dimensions of Language. Festschrift for Robert Lado (ed. K.R.Jankowsky), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1985, 159–163.
 Politique et aménagement linguistiques en Yougoslavie. In: Politique et Aménagement Linguistiques (ed. J.Maurais), Québec: Conseil de la Langue Française/Paris: Le Robert, 1987, 417–452.
 Language planning in Yugoslavia. In: Actes du Colloque International sur l'Aménagement Linguistique/Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Language Planning (ed. L.Laforge), Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1987, 133–141.
 Applied linguistics as linguistics applied. In: The Relation of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (eds O. Mišeska Tomić, R.W.Shuy), New York/London: Plenum Press, 1987, 3–19.
 Multilingualism and markedness in language use: The Yugoslav case. Grazer Linguistische Studien 28, 1987, 5–11.
 Soziolinguistische Aspekte der heutigen serbokroatischen Standardsprache. Die Welt der Slaven 34:2, 1989, 259–273.
 Generative structuralism. In: Yugoslav General Linguistics (ed. M.Radovanović), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1989, 33–46.
 The social basis of language conflict and language attitudes. In: Language Attitudes and Language Conflict/Spracheinstellungen und Sprachkonflikte (ed. P.H.Nelde), Bonn:Dümmler, 1990, 41–47.
 Contrastive analysis of terminology and the terminology of contrastive analysis. In: Languages in Contact and Conflict (eds V.Ivir, D.Kalogjera), Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991, 73–92.
 Graphic relativity and linguistic constructs. In: Literacy and Language Analysis (ed. R.J.Scholes), Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993, 5–18.
 Language and languages: A retrospect. In: History of Linguistics 1993 (ed. K.R.Jankowsky), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1995, 321–326.
 A problem of language identity: The comparative linguistics of Serbo-Croatian. In: Dán do Oide: Essays in Memory of Conn R. Ó Cléirigh (eds A.Ahlqvist, V.Čapková), Dublin: The Linguistics Institute of Ireland, 1997, 67–73.
 Language-internal conflict and language dissolution. In: Recent Studies in Contact Linguistics (eds W.Wölck, A. de Houwer), Bonn:Dümmler, 1997, 29–35.
 Lengua, nacionalismo y la désintegración de Yugoslavia. Revista de Antropología Social 6, 1997, 13–27.
 Discourses of war and peace. Folia Linguistica 34:3–4, 2000, 129–145.
 Language, nationalism and war in Yugoslavia. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 151, 2001, 69–87.
 Serbo-Croatian and its descendants: A case of Umbau? In: Lexical Norm and National Language – Lexicography and Language Policy in South-Slavic Languages after 1989 (ed. R.Lučić), München: Otto Sagner, 2002, 145–149.
 Sprachenpolitik in den Nachfolgestaaten des ehemaligen Jugoslawien. In: Sprache und politischer Wandel (eds H.Gruber, F.Menz, O.Panagl), Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2003, 51–70.
 Serbo-Croatian and English: Some sociolinguistic parallels. In: Germano-Slavistische Beiträge. Festschrift für Peter Rehder zum 65. Geburtstag (eds M.Okuka, U.Schweier), München: Otto Sagner, 2004, 45–52.
 Language and boundaries in the Yugoslav context. In: Language, Discourse and Borders in the Yugoslav Successor States (eds B.Busch, H.Kelly-Holmes), Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2004, 21–37.
 One, two, three, four: It's Serbo-Croatian that counts. In: A Companion in Linguistics: A Festschrift for Anders Ahlqvist on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday (eds B.Smelik et al.), Nijmegen: Stichting Uitgeverij de Keltische Draak/Münster: Nodus, 2005, 310–323.
 What English means to us. In: Interkatedarska konferencija anglističkih katedri Niš 2006 (ed. V.Ž.Jovanović), Niš: Filozofski fakultet, 2007, 11–19.
 European language policy between diversity and globalisation. In: Jezična politika i jezična stvarnost/Language policy and language reality (ed. J.Granić), Zagreb: Hrvatsko društvo za primijenjenu lingvistiku, 2009, 629–640.
 Half a century of linguistics: Some reflections and reminiscences. BAS/British and American Studies 14, 2009, 203–212.
 English in European institutions: Some observations. Belgrade English Language & Literature Studies 1, 2009, 109–117.
 Multiple language identities in Southeastern Europe (with a focus on Serbo-Croatian). In: Europe-Evropa: Cross-cultural Dialogues between the West, Russia, and Southeastern Europe (eds M.Könönen, J.Nuorluoto), Uppsala: Studia Multiethnica Upsaliensia 18, 2010, 34–49.
 Who are you? Profiling individual identities. In: English Language and Literature Studies: Image, Identity, Reality (eds N.Tomović, J.Vujić), Belgrade: Faculty of Philology, vol. I, 2011, 11–17.
 Language, identity and borders in the former Serbo-Croatian area. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 33:3, 2012, 219–235.
 What happened to Serbo-Croatian? In: After Yugoslavia: The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land (ed. R.Gorup), Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013, 160–168.

See also
List of members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Serbo-Croatian language
Societas Linguistica Europaea

References

Further reading
The three festschrifts all contain information on the life and work of Ranko Bugarski. The best single source, however, is the booklet accompanying his Selected Works, with a detailed biographical sketch and a full bibliography of over 500 items in the current 8th edition: Bibliografija uz Sabrana dela (osmo, dopunjeno izdanje), Beograd: Čigoja štampa/XX vek, 2013, pp. 63.

External links

Biography and bibliography of Ranko Bugarski

Linguists from Serbia
University of Sarajevo alumni
Serbian educators
Academic staff of the University of Sarajevo
Academic staff of the University of Belgrade
Applied linguists
Sociolinguists
1933 births
Living people
Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language


title: Thomas Freke (died 1701)

text:
Thomas Freke (c. 1638–1701), of Shroton and Melcombe Horsey, Dorset, was an English politician.

He was born the third son of John Freke of Cerne Abbey, Dorset and his second wife Jane Shurley and studied at the Middle Temple.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Dorset in the periods March 1679 – March 1681, 1685–1687 and 1689 – November 1701 and was picked High Sheriff of Dorset for 1633–34.

He married Cicely, the daughter of Robert Hussey of Stourpaine, Dorset but had no children.

See also
Thomas Freke (1660–1721)

References

1638 births
1701 deaths
Politicians from Dorset
Members of the Middle Temple
English MPs 1679
English MPs 1680–1681
English MPs 1685–1687
English MPs 1689–1690
English MPs 1690–1695
English MPs 1695–1698
English MPs 1698–1700
High Sheriffs of Dorset


title: Fiction set in Equatorial Guinea

text:
There are several works of fiction set in Equatorial Guinea.

Fernando Po, now Bioko, is featured prominently in the 1975 science fiction work The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. The island (and, in turn, the country) experience a series of coups in the story which lead the world to the verge of nuclear war. The story also hypothesizes that Fernando Po is the last remaining piece of the sunken continent of Atlantis.

Due to the country's permissive laws, most of the action in the American novelist Robin Cook's book Chromosome 6 takes place at a primate research facility based in Equatorial Guinea. The book also discusses some of the geography, history and peoples of the country.

Episode 2 of the British sitcom Yes Minister, "The Official Visit", involves the fictional developing country of Buranda in what is actually Equatorial Guinea.

In the 2009 novel Limit by Frank Schätzing, set in 2025, the country's history (and future history) plays a significant role.

The 2011 novel The Informationist by Taylor Stevens is a missing-person thriller that makes detailed use of Equatorial Guinea's mélange of people, economics and geography.

The 2012 Spanish-language novel Palmeras en la nieve by Luz Gabás, as well as its 2015 film adaptation Palm Trees in the Snow, are set in the 1950s and 1960s colonial Spanish Guinea and 2000's Equatorial Guinea.

References


title: Infranord

text:
Infranord is a wholly owned Swedish Government enterprise and a railway contractor, providing engineering services to build and maintain railways. The company is the result of a spin-off when the Swedish Transport Administration was established in 2010, following the merger between the Swedish Rail Administration () and  the Swedish Road Administration (). Today, the company has a presence in all Scandinavian countries, with operations in Sweden and Norway.

The company had 2,500 employees and a turnover of over SEK 4,400 million in 2012, and its head-office is located in Solna.

See also
 Svevia
 Government-owned corporation
 List of government enterprises of Sweden

References

External links
Infranord - Official website (English)

Government-owned companies of Sweden
Construction and civil engineering companies of Sweden
Swedish companies established in 2010
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 2010
Companies based in Solna Municipality


title: Albizia gummifera

text:
Albizia gummifera is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae, native to sub-saharan Africa and Madagascar, and naturalized in
Brazil. It is also known as peacock flower.

It is recognisable as a very large deciduous, flat-topped tree reaching 24-27 metres in height and an attractive shape with thick branches. The largest specimens grow in wet or seasonally wet forest and closed woodland but it also thrives in some woodland areas with a notable dry season where it can be found at altitudes over 1500 metres. It grows best at moderate altitudes of around 700 - 1200 metres above sea level, but reaches down to below this at the southernmost extent of its range, in the Runde valley in Zimbabwe. It usually has a smooth bark, very rarely rough.

References

gummifera
Trees of Africa


The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition) (abbreviated ASN (RDA)) is a civilian office of the United States Department of the Navy.  The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition) requires Senate confirmation, and engages in duties as directed by the United States Secretary of the Navy.

The office was created in 1990 by merging the duties of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics) and the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Engineering and Systems). The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition) is responsible for all of the acquisition functions and programs for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps, subject to the guidelines propounded by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition) is also in charge of the Office of Naval Research.

Organization
 Principal Military Deputy (Research, Development and Acquisition)
 Principal Civilian Deputy (Research, Development and Acquisition)
 Deputy Assistant Secretaries of the Navy
 Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Acquisition and Procurement) – DASN AP
 Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Air) – DASN Air
 Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (C4I and Space) – DASN C4I & Space
 Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Expeditionary Programs and Logistics Management) – DASN ELM
 Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (International Programs) – DASN NIPO
 Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Management and Budget) – DASN M&B
 Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development, Test & Evaluation) – DASN RDT&E
 Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Ships) – DASN Ships
 Assistant General Counsel of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisitions)
 SYSCOM Commanders
 Marine Corps Systems Command – MARCOR SYSCOM
 Naval Air Systems Command – NAVAIR
 Naval Facilities Engineering Command – NAVFAC
 Naval Sea Systems Command – NAVSEA
 Naval Supply Systems Command – NAVSUP
 Office of Naval Research – ONR
 Naval Information Warfare Systems Command – NAVWAR
 Program Executive Officers – PEOs
 PEO for the Joint Strike Fighter – PEO(JSF)
 PEO for Digital and Enterprise Services – PEO Digital
 PEO for Manpower, Logistics, and Business Solutions – PEO MLB
 PEO for C4I – PEO C4I
 PEO for Space Systems – PEO Space
 PEO for Littoral Combat Ships – PEO LCS
 PEO for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons – PEO(UASW)
 PEO for Integrated Warfare Systems – PEO IWS
 Direct Reporting Program Manager for the Strategic Systems Program – DRPM SSP
 PEO for Submarines – PEO Subs
 PEO for Aircraft Carriers – PEO Carriers
 PEO for Ships – PEO Ships
 PEO for the Air ASW Assault, and Special Mission Programs – PEO(A)
 PEO for Tactical Air Programs – PEO(T)
 PEO for Land Systems – PEO Land

Assistant Secretaries of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisitions), 1990—present

References

External links

Office of the Secretary of the Navy


title: Thomas Freke (1660–1721)

text:
Thomas Freke (17 January 1660 – 1721), of Hannington, Wiltshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the  English and British House of Commons between 1685 and 1710.

Freke was the eldest son of Thomas Freke of Hinton St. Mary, Dorset and his second wife Elizabeth Clarke, daughter of Sir William Clarke of Ford Place, Wrotham, Kent. He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford on 19 March 1675, aged 15  and was also admitted at the Middle Temple in 1675.  He married Elizabeth Pile, the daughter and coheiress of Thomas Pile of Baverstock, Wiltshire on 10 October 1683.  He succeeded his great-uncle to Hannington Hall in 1684.

Freke was returned as Member of Parliament  for Cricklade in a double return at the 1685 English general election and was allowed to sit until  10 June 1685 when it was resolved against him. At the 1689 English general election he was defeated in the poll at Cricklade, but was seated on petition on 5 April 1689. He was returned as MP  for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis at a by election on  22 May 1691 and was returned again at the 1698 English general election. He declined to stand in 1701 for various reasons, including the disruption to his domestic life. Later, in 1701, his wife inherited the Shroton estates of another  Thomas Freke and he took up residence there. He was undecided where to stand for Parliament again until the 1705 English general election when he was returned unopposed as MP for  Lyme Regis. He voted for the Court candidate for Speaker on 25 October 1705. He was returned as a Whig for Lyme Regis in a contest at the 1708 British general election. He voted for the naturalization of the Palatines in 1709 and for the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell in 1710. He retired from Parliament at the 1710 British general election.

Freke's wife, Elizabeth,  died in 1714, and he married as his second wife, in December 1718, Mary Corbett. He died without issue in 1721 and the Hannington estate passed to his brother William, the Socinian author.

References

1660 births
1721 deaths
Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
Members of the Middle Temple
English MPs 1685–1687
English MPs 1689–1690
English MPs 1690–1695
English MPs 1695–1698
English MPs 1698–1700
English MPs 1705–1707
British MPs 1707–1708
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Cricklade


title: Duane D. Pearsall

text:
Duane Darwin "Dewey" Pearsall (March 3, 1922 – April 11, 2010) was an American  entrepreneur best known for developing and marketing the first battery-powered home smoke detector in 1965.

Biography

Early life
Pearsall was born in Pontiac, Michigan, on March 3, 1922. He attended high school in Keego Harbor, Michigan and attended General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) from 1940 to 1942. He served in World War II from 1942 to 1945 in the Naval Air Corps, first as a navigator on a submarine patrol and later as a pilot. He married Marjorie Lee Fewel on July 22, 1944. After the war, he attended the University of Denver and graduated in 1947 with a Bachelor of Arts and Science. He then served in the Naval Air Reserve at Buckley Field from 1948 to 1954.

Business and engineering career
Pearsall worked with Honeywell Corporation as a heating and air conditioning sales engineer for seven years before founding the Pearsall Company in 1955.
Pearsall founded Statitrol Corporation in Lakewood, Colorado, in 1963. A few months later Lyman Blackwell, one of Pearsall's engineers at Statitrol, improvised a test to measure the flow of ions in an airstream discharging from a generator. When a technician, smoking nearby, casually exhaled smoke into the fan inlet of the generator, the ion meter pegged. Pearsall immediately realized that the basic ionization technology of this device could also be used for smoke detection. This accidental discovery was similar to a discovery made by Swiss physicist Walter Jaeger in the late 1930s. In 1965 Pearsall began the long process to develop and market a home smoke detector powered by a battery which could be easily installed and replaced. These first units were dubbed "SmokeGard 700", Pearsall was awarded a design patent for this in 1973, and began mass-producing them in 1975. Shortly afterwards, he began working with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). His work with NFPA would eventually lead to the change of the uniform building codes to require smoke detectors in new construction. Statitrol sold the smoke detector invention to Emerson Electric in 1980.

Pearsall sold Statitrol in 1977. Later into his life Pearsall founded several companies and retired three separate times. He was a spokesman and advocate for American small business, which he considered to be the "backbone of the nation's economy". He traveled to Washington, D.C. numerous times to testify before Congressional committees on small business issues. Pearsall helped found the Small Business Council of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 1976, and was chairman of the Colorado Small Business Council in 1979. From 1975 to 1978, he served as a director of the Denver Chamber of Commerce, and from 1982 to 1989, he was a director of the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry, serving as its chairman from 1985 to 1986. In 1983, Pearsall co-founded Columbine Venture Funds, an organization specializing in new technology located in Denver.

Later life
Pearsall and his wife Marge lived in Dillon, Colorado, from 2000 to 2007. They moved to Denver in 2007. Pearsall died on April 11, 2010, at his home in Denver.

Awards and legacy
Pearsall has won several awards and honors for his contributions to fire safety. In 1976, the Small Business Administration named Pearsall as Small Business Person of the Year for Colorado. That same year President Gerald Ford presented him with the National Small Business Person of the Year award. The Society of Fire Protection Engineers recognized him as Fire Protection Man of the Year in 1980. Pearsall was a charter member of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Fire Protection Engineering Board of Advisers and helped create the university's fire protection engineering program, now recognized as one of the leading fire safety study programs in the world. The university has honored him with an honorary doctorate and named him the first recipient of the Center for Fire Safety Studies Herrick Drake Commemorative Award in 1987.
In 1996, WPI awarded him an honorary doctorate degree in science and in 2004 presented him with the WPI Presidential Medal.

The Rockies Venture Club, an organization that helps entrepreneurs obtain funding, established the Duane Pearsall Entrepreneurial Award, given at irregular intervals to noteworthy business owners in Colorado. Recipients have included John Elway, Roy Romer, Bill Daniels (posthumously), John Hickenlooper, and Rick Patch.

Pearsall's autobiography, My Life Unfolded, was written in 2009, but never published.

References

People from Pontiac, Michigan
Kettering University alumni
University of Denver alumni
1922 births
2010 deaths
People from Summit County, Colorado
Businesspeople from Denver
20th-century American businesspeople
United States Navy personnel of World War II


title: Tequendama Province

text:
Tequendama Province is one of the 15 provinces in the Cundinamarca Department, Colombia.

Etymology
The name Tequendama means in the Chibcha language of the Muisca; "he who precipitates downward".

Subdivision
Tequendama Province comprises ten municipalities:
 San Antonio del Tequendama
 Anapoima
 Anolaima
 Apulo
 Cachipay
 El Colegio
 La Mesa
 Quipile
 Tena
 Viotá

References

Panorama

Provinces of Cundinamarca Department


title: Tylomelania tominangensis

text:
Tylomelania tominangensis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.

The specific name tominangensis is named after the Tominanga River, where it lives.

Distribution
This species occurs in the Tominanga River and in Lake Lontoa, south Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its type locality is the Tominanga River near lake Towuti.

Ecology
The females of Tylomelania tominangensis usually have 1-4 embryos in their brood pouch. Newly hatched snails of Tylomelania tominangensis have a shell height of 6.8-8.5 mm.

References

tominangensis
Gastropods described in 1913


title: Roman Atwood

text:
Roman Bernard Atwood (born May 28, 1983) is an American YouTube personality and prankster. He is best known for his vlogs, where he posts updates about his life. His vlogging channel, "RomanAtwoodVlogs", has a total of 5 billion views and 15 million subscribers. He also has another YouTube channel called "RomanAtwood", where he used to post prank videos. The channel has been inactive since 2016. His pranks have gained over 1.4 billion views and 10.4 million subscribers. He became the second YouTuber after Germán Garmendia to receive two Diamond Play Buttons for his first two channels.

On May 28, 2022 he officially launched his third channel, "RomanAtwoodPodcast". The channel is focused around his podcast where he features numerous friends and special guests, such as Steve-O, Vitaly, and FouseyTube.

Personal life
Born in Millersport, Ohio, Atwood has been filming and producing videos since high school. He was born to Curt Dale Atwood and Susan Atwood. He began his independent career by producing a series of DVDs called "The Nerd Herd" which he sold at the Warped Tour in 2006. Atwood has also worked on various film projects and commercials in Columbus, Ohio until 2010, when he decided to focus on his passion of comedy and created the YouTube channel "Sketch Empire".

Prior to his YouTube career, he worked at his family's rope factory called "Atwood Rope". In 2001, he married Shanna Riley, who gave birth to Atwood's first son, Noah Vaughn Atwood (born October 18, 2004). In 2008, after his wife cheated on him with a friend while on vacation, he filed for a divorce.

In 2013, Atwood founded his own merchandise line called "Smile More", selling T-shirts, hoodies, bracelets and other items.

He currently resides in Ohio with his wife Brittney Smith-Atwood, with whom he shares two sons, Kane Alexander Atwood (born October 23, 2011), Knox Atwood (born January 06, 2021), and a daughter, Cora Atwood (born July 16, 2017). Atwood met Smith at the wedding of his friend, Chase Gilroy, where Roman was his best man in 2008. Smith is the sister of Gilroy's wife, Veronica, and the two started dating from there. Atwood proposed to Smith on April 30, 2018, and the two married on July 27, 2018, in Maui, Hawaii.

On May 29, 2019, Atwood's mother, Susan Atwood, died unexpectedly after a tragic accident while on vacation with the entire Atwood family. Atwood subsequently took time out from his social media activity to grieve for his mother.

After uploading a video on New Year's Eve of 2019, Atwood underwent a large period of inactivity on social media for an undisclosed reason.  He uploaded a video on August 18, 2020, in which he greeted his fans and stated that while he could not disclose the reason for his absence, he wanted to reassure fans that he and his family were okay, and that several conspiracy-style videos that had been uploaded by fans and content creators to YouTube discussing his absence were all inaccurate.  Two days later on August 20, the Atwoods revealed that they were expecting a fourth child, though they added it was not the reason for their absence.

On January 11, 2021, Atwood uploaded a video titled "Welcome to the world!" in which he and Brittney revealed that their son, Knox Atwood, was born five days earlier on January 6, weighing in at just under 9lbs.

Atwood is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Career

YouTube

Plastic Ball Prank
In this video, Atwood fills his house with plastic balls 2.5 ft high, turning it into a massive ball pit. This video was uploaded on January 18, 2015, and currently has almost 86 million views. This video was noticed by Nissan, who gave him a 2015 Nissan GTR in exchange to use his video in the "WithDad" campaign during their half-time advert at Super Bowl XLIX. This was awarded the best "Brand Campaign" for the 5th Streamy Awards.

Anniversary Prank
His video "Anniversary Prank Backfires!!" was posted on November 20, 2013, and currently has over 86 million views. It features Atwood pranking Smith on their five-year dating anniversary by confessing that he has cheated on her. The prank backfires when she sees the camera beforehand and pranks him back by pretending that she has cheated on him too. She only reveals her own prank after a few seconds of Atwood reacting badly to the news. At the end of the video, Smith says "I thought you were going to propose".

Killing My Kid Prank
A prank titled "Killing My Own Kid PRANK!!", posted on November 30, 2014, and currently has over 50 million views. The video shows Atwood pranking Smith by throwing a mannequin in a Spider-Man costume, pretending it was their son Kane. When Smith runs to the mannequin, she quickly pulls off its mask, realizing it was not Kane, and in fact the mannequin. At this point, she breaks down into tears as Atwood enters the room snickering at her. She then storms off, but returns when Atwood asks her "Are you really that mad?" She then starts shouting at him and tells him he's "sleeping on the couch". The prank was referenced during Atwood and Smith's appearance on the reality TV series Tanked, where Smith revealed that Atwood did in fact sleep on the couch that night.

ATM prank and freedom of expression case
In March 2014, Roman, along with his accomplices, were arrested by the Columbus Police Department for inducing panic and disorderly conduct during the filming of a prank where he pretended to rob an ATM in public. He was released on bail and was summoned to court. The case was widely contested, with his fans showing up to court to support and watch the case. As a defendant, he won the case on the basis of expression of art and freedom of speech, and the case was settled.

Toilet Paper Prank
A video titled "INSANE Toilet Paper PRANK!!" was posted on March 15, 2015 and currently has over 20 million views. The prank features Atwood toilet papering Howie Mandel's house with the help of Mandel's son, Alex.

Later, Mandel discussed the prank on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and his experience with his son and the clean up.

Film

Natural Born Pranksters
In 2016, Atwood, Vitaly Zdorovetskiy and Dennis Roady released a film produced by Lionsgate, called Natural Born Pranksters which has received little critical attention.  Neither Rotten Tomatoes nor Metacritic have yet aggregated enough reviews to even give the film a score.

On September 24, 2016, the film was released on Netflix.

Television

Tanked
On July 1, 2016, Atwood and his family appeared on an episode of Tanked titled "Internet Tank Sensation". The episode features Brett and Wayde building a customized tank in Atwood's office for Smile More.

Tour
In 2016, Atwood and fellow YouTuber Yousef Erakat started a worldwide tour called "Roman vs. Fousey". They have performed shows in the United States, Canada and the UK.

Business career

Smile More
In 2013, Atwood founded his own merchandise line called "Smile More", selling T-shirts, hoodies, bracelets and other items. At the time, merchandise was handled exclusively by Atwood and his wife, with orders being processed in their basement.

In 2016, Atwood moved the business to its own building located on the same property as his residence. Atwood hired more employees, some of which were family, to help process orders faster and in-house.

On May 7, 2022, Atwood posted a video to his vlog channel announcing that Smile More would be moved entirely to Texas in a collaboration with longtime friend and business partner, Matt Carriker, and his company, Bunker Branding. It was also announced that Atwood and his wife would take part ownership of Bunker Branding.

NFTs
On October 26, 2021, Atwood announced the first NFT of his Smile More collection on OpenSea. The collection was made collaboratively with multiple artists.

Bunker Branding
On May 7, 2022, following the announcement of Smile More's move to Texas, Atwood announced that he and his wife would be taking part ownership of longtime friend Matt Carriker's company, Bunker Branding.

Awards and nominations

References

1983 births
Living people
American male comedians
Prank YouTubers
Mass media people from Columbus, Ohio
YouTubers from Ohio
Comedians from Ohio
Streamy Award winners
21st-century American comedians
YouTube vloggers
Shorty Award winners


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Filmography

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1976 births
Living people
Mexican telenovela actresses
Mexican television actresses
Mexican female models
20th-century Mexican actresses
21st-century Mexican actresses
Actresses from Sonora
People from San Luis Río Colorado