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# Thomas A. Dunn

Thomas A. Dunn (born October 12, 1942) is a member of the Illinois Gaming Board. Prior to this, he served as a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate and an associate judge in the Will County court system.

## Biography

Dunn was born October 12, 1942, to Francis and Helen Dunn in Joliet, Illinois. He graduated from Joliet Catholic High School and went to work as a truck driver while attending St. Ambrose College. He graduated from St. Ambrose in 1964. In 1966, he joined the United States Marine Corps where he flew over 200 missions as a helicopter machine gunner during the Vietnam War. During his two-year military career, he was awarded four Air Medals, Permanent Air Combat Wings, and a Presidential Unit Citation. He graduated from DePaul University College of Law in 1971. During his legal career he worked in the office of the Cook County Public Defender and as a partner in the Joliet law firm of Dunn, Martin and Miller.
He served for a time as a member of the Illinois Democratic Central Committee. In 1986, he was elected to the Illinois Senate to succeed George E. Sangmeister in the 42nd district. The 42nd included the Joliet, New Lenox, Frankfort, and Lockport townships in Will County.
In the 1991 Republican controlled decennial redistricting process, Dunn was drawn into the 43rd district with fellow Democratic incumbent Jerome J. Joyce. The new 43rd included portions of Will, Kankakee and Iroquois counties. Jerome Joyce opted to retire early. Neither he or his successor and wife Janet J. Joyce opted to challenge Dunn for the Democratic nomination. In the general election, Dunn faced Democrat-turned-Republican Charles Pangle of Bradley.
During his time in the Senate, Dunn was the chief advocate to bring riverboat gambling to help his district. This came to fruition with the opening of Harrah's Joliet in 1993. He voted against the proposed Lake Calumet Airport in Hegewisch, Chicago and opposed repurposing the Joliet Arsenal for similar airport use. He served as a member of the Illinois Task Force on Crime and Corrections. Governor Jim Edgar charged the task force with the responsibilities to study future space needs, including costs, for correctional facilities; consider cost-effective alternatives to imprisonment; analyze current policies, statutes and sentencing procedures that affect inmate population; and identify solutions that protect both taxpayers' safety and their pocketbooks.
In 1997, he resigned upon his appointment to a judgeship. He was succeeded by Will County Democratic Party Chairman Larry Walsh of Elwood. In 2000, Dunn ran for the Democratic nomination for a judgeship on the Illinois Appellate Court. He lost the primary to Mary McDade, who would go on to win the general election. He stepped down from the bench in 2005. In 2015, he was appointed by Governor Bruce Rauner to the Illinois Gaming Board.
# API (disambiguation)

An API, or application programming interface, is any defined inter-program interface.
API or api may also refer to:

## Companies and organizations

* Academic Programs International, an American study-abroad provider
* American Petroleum Institute, an American trade-lobbying and international-standardization organization
* AmeriStat Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a US-based international wholesaler and exporter of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies
* Animal Protection Institute, an American non-profit organization
* Anonima Petroli Italiana, an Italian petrol (gasoline) company
* Associated Producers Incorporated a B picture subsidiary of 20th Century Fox
* Athletes' Performance Institute, an American training facility for competitive athletes
* Australian Pharmaceutical Industries
* Australian Property Institute, an Australian professional organization in valuation
* Automated Processes, Inc., an American audio electronics company
* Automobile Products of India, an Indian automotive company
* Aviation Partners Inc., an American aviation components company

## In education

* Academic Performance Index, a measure of scholastic performance used in California, United States
* Auburn University, formerly known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute

## Places

* Api (mountain), Nepal
* Api Chamber, a large cave chamber in Malaysia
* Mount Api, Malaysia

## In politics

* Alliance for Italy, a centrist political party in Italy
* Arab Peace Initiative, a peace initiative proposed in 2002 at the Beirut Summit of the Arab League

## In science and technology

* Active pharmaceutical ingredient, a basic component of any medicine or pharmaceutical drug
* Advanced primer ignition, a type of blowback operation for firearms that ignites the primer when the bolt is still moving with the goal of increasing rate of fire and decreasing felt recoil.
* Petroleum industry nomenclature deriving from American Petroleum Institute
** API gravity, a measure of the density of petroleum
** API number, a unique identifier applied to each petroleum exploration or production well drilled in the United States
** API unit, a standard measure of natural gamma radiation measured in a borehole
* Analytical Profile Index, a miniaturized panel of biochemical tests compiled for identification of groups of closely related bacteria
* API oil-water separator
* Air Pollution Index, a measure of air quality used in Hong Kong and Malaysia
* Armor-piercing incendiary, a type of armor-piercing shot and shell
* Atmospheric pressure ionization, a type of ionization in mass spectrometry
* Apnea–hypopnea index, an index used to indicate the severity of sleep apnea

## Other uses

* Advance passenger information, passenger name record collected by commercial transportation operations
* Asian-Pacific Islander
* Aviation Preflight Indoctrination, the first major phase of training for a United States Naval Aviator
* Announcement in the public interest, an alternate name for a public-service announcement
* International Phonetic Alphabet, a system of phonetic notation (known in French as the alphabet phonétique international)
* Api (apple), an apple cultivar.
# Richard Davisson

Richard Joseph "Dick" Davisson (December 29, 1922 – June 15, 2004) was an American physicist.
Davisson was the son of Clinton Davisson, a Nobel laureate, and his wife Charlotte; Davisson's maternal uncle, Sir Owen Richardson, was also a Nobel laureate.
During World War II he worked on the Manhattan Project as part of the Special Engineer Detachment. At Los Alamos, he met Professor Robert Williams, who later recruited him to teach at the University of Washington.
As a graduate student at Cornell after World War II, Davisson built a cosmic ray machine that would do everything but write a grad student's thesis. He acquired a huge magnet from Navy surplus, built a cloud chamber and a set of Geiger counters and designed a universal-focus camera to record cosmic ray events. Then he designed and built an early electronic computer to record and sort the events according to energy, mass, charge, direction and frequency. Davisson went on to the University of Washington without a PhD.
Davisson was a member of the University of Washington's team which designed a system for detecting subatomic particles known as muons. After the U.S. government pulled the funding on the Superconducting Super Collider project, the team was recruited by CERN to help build part of the muon detector of the ATLAS experiment in the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator, in which Davisson took part, e.g., creating tools to test the detector tubes and as a liaison between the University of Washington's team and the rest of the collaborating group.
Davisson retired in 2000, at the age of 77. He was married for forty years to Elizabeth "Betty" Davisson, a retired psychiatric social worker from whom he separated after fourteen years. They had one son.
# Faridpur-17

Faridpur-17 was a parliamentary constituency in Bangladesh for the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament), located in Faridpur District.

## History

The Faridpur-17 constituency was created for the first general elections of independent Bangladesh in 1973. The seat was abolished in 1984.

## Elected Members of Parliament

| Election Year | Member | Party |
| 1973 | A. F. M. Nurul Haque Howladar | Bangladesh Awami League |
| 1973 (By-election) | M. A. Kashem | Bangladesh Awami League |
| 1979 | Ibrahim Khalil | Bangladesh Muslim League |
# Razey, Ardabil

Razey (Persian: رضي) is a city in, and the capital of, Arshaq District in Meshgin Shahr County, Ardabil province, Iran. It also serves as the administrative center for Arshaq-e Markazi Rural District.

## Demographics
### Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 1,749 in 413 households. The following census in 2011 counted 1,617 people in 426 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 1,581 people in 472 households.
# Barra Hall Park

Barra Hall Park is an 11.06-hectare (27.3-acre) formal park situated near the centre of Hayes in the ward of Wood End in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The park came into existence in December 1923.
The main entrance to the park is off Freemans Lane. There are ten entrances all together, spread around the perimeter of the park.

## History

Barra Hall Park came into existence on 20 December 1923 when the then Urban District Council (UDC) of Hayes bought the Hall and its grounds from Ms Ethel Penfold for £5,700 in order to use it as a town hall. Later alterations by the UDC brought the total to £7,000. The Barra Hall building was officially opened as town hall on 23 February 1924 and its grounds became a municipal park with playground, tennis courts and a paddling pool opened by music hall star Jessie Matthews. In 1965, Hayes UDC was integrated into the London Borough of Hillingdon (LBH) and the hall was eventually supplanted by the new Civic Centre in Uxbridge as main council office.
The Barra Hall building was originally a manor house, formerly known as Grove House. In the late eighteenth century it was home to Alderman Harvey Combe, elected Lord Mayor of London in 1799. It passed ownership and in 1871 was bought by Robert Reid. Reid was an auctioneer and surveyor and claimed to descend from the Reids of Barra. After enlarging and refacing the building he changed its name to Barra Hall in 1875. Army Cavalry were stationed here during World War I. On 6 October 2005, a renovated Barra Hall was opened as a Sure Start children's centre.

## Flora and fauna

Barra Hall Park features ornamental lawns, recreational grass areas, rose and shrub beds, seasonal bedding and numerous mature trees.

## Facilities and features

The main building within the grounds is a grade-two listed manor house, which was at one time the town hall for Hayes and Harlington.
There is also Barra Hall Open Air Theatre, a bandstand, a refreshment kiosk and a children's play area.

## Art and culture

* Hayes town's annual carnival, a major feature of local life since the 1950s, culminates in a fête and funfair on an appointed weekend each July at Barra Hall Park.
* Barra Hall Open Air Theatre is a community venue for music, theatre and dance.
* On Sunday 5 August 2012, Jeremy Deller's art installation Sacrilege (an inflatable life-size model of Stonehenge) was installed in the park from 10.30am to 6pm. An estimated 1,400 people visited on the day.
* The park features a tree sculpture titled "Man looking for his dog" by Tom "Carver" Harvey.
* Parts of Bend It Like Beckham were filmed in the park.
* Parts of Chocolat were filmed in the Barra Hall building.

## Transport
### Buses

The 195 and H98 stop near Barra Hall Park on Church Road, and the U4 stops near the park at Barra Hall Circus. Hayes town centre is approximately 1 km away, with its many other regular bus services.

### Train

The closest train station is Hayes and Harlington, which is a little over 1 km walk away.

### Car

On-site parking is available. Street parking (Park and Pay) may be found on the surrounding roads near to the entrances.
# Connect Society

Connect Society is a school and a non-profit educational society in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1963, Connect Society provides services for deaf and hard of hearing individuals, as well as children of deaf adults.

## History

Connect Society was founded in 1963 as the Association for the Hearing Handicapped. In 2002, Hilda Marian Campbell wrote that "Edith Preston... worked with the Association for the Hearing Handicapped, now known as the Connect Society, to open the first preschool for Deaf and hard-of-hearing children in the basement of Cross of Christ Church in 1962."
From 1979 until 2010, Connect Society was located at 11342 127 Street in the Northwest Edmonton neighborhood of Inglewood. Since 2010, Connect Society has been located in the Alberta School for the Deaf. Connect Society received a $35,000 grant from Desjardins in 2018.

## Programs

Connect Society provides support for Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals through six different programs: (1) Community Living Support Services, (2) Early Childhood Services, (3) The Early Intervention Program, (4) Family Support Services, (5) The In-Home Sign Communication Program, and (6) The In-Home Sign Communication Program. Community Living Support Services offers residential assistance ranging from occasional help to 24/7 care, with staff trained in American Sign Language, Deaf culture, and assistive technology. Early Childhood Services provides preschool and kindergarten education for children aged 3 to 6, integrating English and ASL to develop language, social, and academic skills. The Early Intervention Program supports children from birth to 3.5 years old who are Deaf, hard of hearing, or have Deaf parents, focusing on communication and cognitive development. Family Support Services helps families affected by hearing loss navigate education, healthcare, and social resources. The In-Home Sign Communication Program provides ASL instruction tailored to each family’s needs. Additional literacy programs support early literacy for children and reading and writing skills for Deaf adults. Lastly, Connect Society's Stay and Study Program connects students from outside the Edmonton area with host families, allowing them to access Connect Society’s educational programs.
# Duke Smart Home

The Duke Smart Home (previously the Home Depot Smart Home) is a live-in laboratory and residence hall at Duke University.

## History

In 2003, Mark Younger, an undergraduate student at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering conceived the idea in a senior thesis.
By 2006, The Home Depot had announced a $2 million sponsorship. At the time, Home Depot's senior vice president of merchandising stated that the Smart Home would help the hardware and furnishings retailer "understand the technology behind these solutions and ultimately to bring this technology to the consumer market."
Construction began in 2007 and the building was opened in 2008. At the time, the building was the first "live-in" smart-home laboratory on a college campus. In the years since, the corporate name was dropped.
In 2018, the Smart Home celebrated its 10-year anniversary.

## Facility

The facility is a LEED Platinum certified 6000 square feet residence hall at Duke. The home has a Green Roof which is integrated into the rain-water recollection system, which provides up to 2500 gallons of water for irrigation, toilets, and washing machines. Solar panels provide 100% of the heating needs and more than 30% of the energy used in the house.
The house has living space and laboratories for 10 undergraduates, where they are able to conduct experiments relating to the engineering of smart-homes as every-day life. The university refers to the space as a "living laboratory."
# Gardner-Serpollet

Gardner-Serpollet was a French manufacturer of steam-powered cars in the early 20th century. Léon Serpollet is credited with inventing and perfecting the flash boiler in the late 1800s.
Serpollet produced his own automobiles under the name Serpollet and Gardner-Serpollet until his death in 1907.

## Origins

Léon Serpollet was born in the Ain department of France, and went on to establish his factory with his brother Henri on the rue des Cloÿs in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, a location that has become the Parc Léon Serpollet today. In 1886 the brothers formed La Société des Moteurs Serpollet Frères in Montmartre.

## Flash boiler

Leon Serpollet and his brother Henri, early French steam car pioneers, worked together to perfect the flash tube boiler that introduced an efficient and new way to produce steam. The exact date that their innovative system was first built appears to be unknown, but after further development it went on to make steam power in an automobile more practical because of its advanced design and quick steam output. They made a steam tricycle in the late eighteen-eighties to test the steam engines and it soon convinced others of the merit of the design.
In 1896 Léon Serpollet patented the flash boiler, which made steam a much more practical source of power for an automobile. The oil-fired flash boiler fed steam to a very advanced four-cylinder enclosed engine similar to the contemporary petrol engine design including poppet valves and an enclosed crankcase.

## 1894 Paris-Rouen

On July 22, 1894 four Serpollet vehicles competed in the Le Petit Journal Contest for Horseless Carriages from Paris to Rouen. Maurice Le Blant finished 14th and Ernest Archdeacon finished 16th, but 'De Prandiéres' and Étienne le Blant stopped en route.
* Serpollet steam car De Prandiéres did not finish Le Petit Journal - Contest for Horseless Carriages, Paris-Rouen. Le Petit Journal Sunday July 22, 1894
* Serpollet steam car with 7 seats Ernest Archdeacon finished 16th Le Petit Journal - Contest for Horseless Carriages, Paris-Rouen. Le Petit Journal Sunday July 22, 1894
* Chastel et David Serpollet steam Étienne le Blant did not finish Le Petit Journal - Contest for Horseless Carriages, Paris-Rouen. Le Petit Journal Sunday July 22, 1894

## Gardner-Serpollet formed

In 1898 the brothers met Frank Gardner, a wealthy American. They formed the Gardner-Serpollet Company which began producing cars in 1900.
A 1903 Gardner-Serpollet is on display at Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, Massachusetts.

## The Easter Egg

Besides being an inventor and manufacturer, Leon Serpollet became the first driver of a non-electrically powered car to hold the Land Speed Record. His ovoid steam car Œuf de Pâques (Easter Egg) reached a speed of 120 km/h (75 mph) over the flying kilometre on the Promenade des Anglais at Nice, France on April 13, 1902, exceeding the 1899 record of Camille Jenatzy's La Jamais Contente.
| phaéton tulipée 1905 | 1905 phaéton tulipée on the road | coupé-limousine 1905 body by Kellner |
# Munishwar Dutt Upadhyay

Munishwar Dutt Upadhyay (3 August 1898 – 26 June 1983) was an Indian politician, statesman, and leader in the Indian independence movement. He was a Member of Parliament from Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, belonging to the Indian National Congress.

## Early life

He was born 3 August 1898 in Lakshmanpur Village, Lalganj Tehsil of Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh, to Gazadhar Prasad Upadhyay. He was an exceptionally bright student and learner. He matriculated from Somvanshi Higher Secondary School (PB Inter College), Pratapgarh and did his post-graduation at Kayastha Pathshala, Allahabad, and law education from Allahabad University. Soon he started working with the mayor's office in Allahabad. He married Annapoorna Upadhyay in 1933.

## Political life

He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and was the only person from Pratapgarh who signed the draft of the Indian Constitution. Post-independence, he became the first candidate from Pratapgarh to become a Member of Parliament twice, once in 1951 in the first Lok Sabha elections, then again in 1957 in the second Lok Sabha elections.
After sweeping wins in the first two elections from the Pratapgarh constituency, he was defeated in the third Lok Sabha election by Jan Sangh candidate, Ajit Pratap Singh.
He was secretary of the Congress Parliamentary Board and chairman of the Railway Reforms Committee. He also held the position of Revenue Minister in Uttar Pradesh Cabinet during C. B. Gupta's Chief Ministry for a short period between 1969 and 1970.

## Literary works

* Kisan Sangathan
* Zamindari Pratha

## Death

He died on 26 June 1983 in Pratapgarh and was survived by a son and two daughters.

## Books & memoirs

* Ek aur Kaljyeyi
* Belha ke laal by Dr. Dayaram Ratna Maurya
# Rahul R. Sarma

Rahul R. Sarma is an Indian film director, writer, editor and lyricist working in the Malayalam film Industry. His film Village Cricket Boy won the Kerala State Television Awards for Best Children's Film in 2022.

## Career

Rahul has directed five short films and he was worked as an associated director of Midhun Manuel Thomas.
Rahul's debut film is based on the short story 'Sakshi' written by P. V. Shajikumar.

## Filmography

Key :
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |

### short film

| Year | Title | Director | Screenwriter | Editor |
| 2017 | Oru Ottam Poyalo | Yes | No | Yes |
| 2019 | Raghavan | Yes | No | Yes |
| 2022 | Night Saloon | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2022 | Pedi | Yes | No | Yes |
| 2022 | Village Cricket Boy | Yes | No | Yes |

### assistant director

| Year | Title | Director |
| 2019 | Argentina Fans Kaattoorkadavu | Midhun Manuel Thomas |
| 2019 | Janamaithri | John Manthrickal |
| 2020 | Anjaam Pathiraa | Midhun Manuel Thomas |
| 2023 | Valatty | Devan Jayakumar |
| 2023 | Phoenix | Vishnu Bharathan |
| 2024 | Abraham Ozler | Midhun Manuel Thomas |

### lyricist

| Year | Title | Song name |
| 2024 | Kanakarajyam | "Kaanaadhoorathaaro" |

### director

| Year | Title | Screen writer | Notes |
| | Untitled † | P. V. Shajikumar | Debut film |
# David Miller (darts player)

David Miller is an American former professional darts player who competed in the 1980s.

## Career

Miller competed in the 1982 BDO World Darts Championship, defeating Gordon Allpress in the first round and Tony Brown in the second round 2-0, but was defeated in the quarter-final by Scotland's Jocky Wilson.
Miller quit the BDO in 1983.

## World Championship results
### BDO

* 1982: Quarter Finals (lost to Jocky Wilson 0-4)