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Emma Haruka Iwao is a Japanese computer scientist at Google. In 2019 Haruka Iwao calculated the world's most accurate value of pi (π). Her calculation reached 31.4 trillion digits. This was much longer than the past record of 22 trillion digits. Early life and education. As a child, Iwao became interested in pi. She was inspired by Japanese mathematicians, including Yasumasa Kanada. She studied computer science at the University of Tsukuba. Daisuke Takahashi taught her there. She won the Dean's Award for Excellence in 2008, before starting graduate studies in computing. Her master's dissertation was about high performance computer systems. After graduating, Iwao worked as a software engineer for Panasonic, GREE and Red Hat. Career. Iwao joined Google as a Cloud Developer Advocate in 2015. She worked for Google in Tokyo and then moved to Seattle in 2019. Iwao does training in how to use the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). She also helps application developers. She works to make cloud computing easier for everyone to use. She makes online demos and teaching materials. In March 2019 Iwao calculated the value of pi to 31.4 trillion digits, using 170 Terabytes (TB) of data. The calculation used a multithreaded program called y-cruncher. It ran on more than 25 machines for 121 days.
Diane Larsen-Freeman (born 1946) is an American linguist. She is now a Professor Emerita in Education and in Linguistics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She works in Applied linguistics. She studies in second language acquisition, English as a second or foreign language, language teaching methods, teacher education, and English grammar. Her work on the complex/dynamic systems approach to second language development is very important and well-known. Career. Larsen-Freeman began her career as a Peace Corps volunteer. She taught English in Sabah, Malaysia from 1967 to 1969. She says this experience started her interest in language acquisition. She went on to graduate studies at the University of Michigan, earning her PhD in linguistics in 1975. Larsen-Freeman worked at the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles and then the SIT Graduate Institute. In 2002, she returned to the University of Michigan to direct the English Language Institute. She was also Professor in the School of Education and the Department of Linguistics. She retired from the University of Michigan in 2012. She has emerita positions at the English Language Institute and in Education and Linguistics at the University of Michigan, and at the SIT Graduate Institute. She is still active in her field, and teaches courses on the structure of English and second language development as a visiting senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Larsen-Freeman mostly researches second language acquisition. She also studies English grammar. She thinks grammar is not only a set of structural patterns, but also important for making meaning and for changing language to meet a communicative context. She thinks that complexity theory is a new and useful way to understand language, its acquisition, and its use. She sees all three as complex changing processes that do not move neatly in a straight line. She applied this idea to teaching grammar, or “grammaring” as she calls it. The dynamic approach to second language development includes the idea that students each have their own path to learning, and that teaching is fundamentally a process of managing learning. Larsen-Freeman was also the editor of the journal "Language Learning" for five years. In 1997, she wrote a leading article applying complex/dynamic systems theory to study second language acquisition. A book of papers in her honor, "Complexity Theory and Language Development", was published in 2017. Related pages. List of women linguists
The Thermomicrobia is a group of thermophilic green non-sulfur bacteria.  The group is based on the type species "Thermomicrobium roseum" and on "Sphaerobacter thermophilus". They are aerobic and chemoorganotrophic (a term which means their metabolism is rather like most fungi).
Sunny Garcia (born Vincent Sennen Garcia; January 14, 1970) is a professional surfer. His top surfing achievement was becoming the ASP WCT World Champion in 2000 but Garcia also holds the record for most WQS event wins, 22, and holds six Triple Crown of Surfing titles. He initially retired in 2005 but is now competing again.  On April 30, 2019, Garcia, who has depression, was hospitalized in intensive care unit at a Portland, Oregon hospital under critical condition after trying to kill himself.
B. Subhashan Reddy (2 March 1943 – 1 May 2019) was an Indian judge. He served as Chief Justice of Madras High Court from 2001 to 2004. After this, he served as Chief Justice of Kerala High Court from 2004 to 2005. He became the first chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Andhra Pradesh in August 2005. He was born in Amberpet, Hyderabad. Reddy died on 1 May 2019 in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, at the age of 76.
S. Pedda Yerikal Reddy (4 June 1950 – 30 April 2019) was an Indian politician. He was born in Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh. He was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) before becoming a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) member in 2014. In 2019, he joined Jana Sena Party. He served as a member of the Lok Sabha for the Nandyal constituency from 2004 until his death. Reddy died of a lung infection on 30 April 2019 in Hyderabad. He was 68 years old.
Alejandro Enrique Planchart (July 29, 1935 – April 28, 2019) was a Venezuelan-American musicologist, conductor and composer. He was thought to be one of the leading experts on the music of Guillaume Du Fay. He was also an expert on music of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. He taught at Yale University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was born in Caracas. Planchart died on April 28, 2019 in Santa Barbara, California. He was 83.
Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley, PC, FRSL (born 28 December 1932) is a British Labour politician, author and journalist. He was born in Sheffield, England. He was MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook for 33 years from 1964 to 1997. He was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992 during the Neil Kinnock leadership. Hattersley retired from the House of Lords on 19 May 2017.
Yves-François Blanchet (born April 16, 1965) is a Canadian politician. He is the leader of the Bloc Québécois since January 2019. He is the Member of parliament for the Quebec riding of Beloeil—Chambly. From 2008 to 2014, he was a member of the Quebec National Assembly. He was first elected to the National Assembly in the 2008 Quebec general election. He represented the riding of Drummond.
The People's Party of Canada (PPC; ) is a federal political party in Canada. The party was created by Maxime Bernier on September 14, 2018, shortly after he resigned from the Conservative Party.  The party is conservative, libertarian, populist, classical liberal, and right-wing.  Bernier was the party's only Member of Parliament, having represented the riding of Beauce from 2006 to the 2019 federal election. On March 21, 2022, Maxime Barneir announced the People's Party ending it's activity on YouTube, complaining about alleged "censorship."
Blanca María Rodríguez de Pérez (January 1, 1926 – August 5, 2020) was a Venezuelan socialite. She was the First Lady of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993. She was the wife of Carlos Andrés Pérez. She was born in Rubio, Venezuela. Rodríguez died of respiratory failure caused by a pulmonary embolism in Caracas on August 5, 2020 at the age of 94.
The 2019 UNCC shooting was a mass shooting. It happened at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the United States at around 5:40 PM EDT on April 30, 2019.  The shooting, which occurred on the last day of classes for the spring semester. It sent six people to the hospital, two of whom were dead upon arrival, and three others were in critical condition. The shooting occurred inside a classroom in the Woodford A. Kennedy Building while students were giving a final presentation. The suspect, Trystan Terrell, was taken into police custody.
Louis (Lou) Rosenblum (15 November 1923 – 4 April 2019) was an American research scientist and activist. His works were about the movement for freedom of Jews of the Soviet Union. He was a founder of the first organization to support the freedom of Soviet Jews. He was a research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. Rosenblum died on 4 April 2019 at his home in Wellesley, Massachusetts at the age of 95.
Fred Hemke, DMA "(né" Frederick Leroy Hemke, Jr.; July 11, 1935 – April 17, 2019) was an American classical saxophonist and educator. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was among the leading American composers and helped raise the recognition of classical saxophone. For a half century, from 1962 to 2012, Hemke was a full-time faculty music educator at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music. Hemke retired from Northwestern University in 2012.  Hemke died on April 17, 2019 in Evanston, Illinois at the age of 83.
Martin Luther Kilson Jr. (February 14, 1931 – April 24, 2019) was an American political scientist. He was the first black academic to be appointed a full professor at Harvard University, where he was later the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government from 1988 until his retirement in 1999. Kilson died on April 24, 2019 in Lexington, Massachusetts at the age of 88.
Nils John Nilsson (February 6, 1933 – April 23, 2019) was an American computer scientist. He was one of the founding researchers in the ideas of artificial intelligence. He was born in Saginaw, Michigan. He was the first Kumagai Professor of Engineering in computer science at Stanford University from 1991 until his retirement. His best known work was Shakey the robot. Nilsson died on April 23, 2019, at his home in Medford, Oregon, at the age of 86.
Shakey the Robot was the first general purpose mobile AI robot. The project combined research in robotics, computer vision, and natural language processing. Because of this, it was the first project that melded logical reasoning and physical action. Shakey was developed at the Artificial Intelligence Center of Stanford Research Institute (now called SRI International) by Nils John Nilsson from 1966 to 1972.
Petar Omčikus (; ); October 6, 1926 – April 26, 2019) was a Serbian painter. He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He worked in Paris, France. He was born in Sušak, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Omčikus died in Belgrade, Serbia on April 26, 2019 at the age of 92.
Elizabeth Josephine "Jo" Sullivan (August 28, 1927 – April 28, 2019) was an American actress and singer. She became a musical theatre star with her best known role in the original production of "The Most Happy Fella". She was nominated for a Tony Award in 1957. Loesser in Mounds, Illinois. Loesser died on April 28, 2019 at her home in New York City of heart failure at the age of 91.
Elizabeth Santos Leal de Carvalho (May 5, 1946 – April 30, 2019), known professionally as Beth Carvalho, was a Brazilian samba singer, guitarist, cavaquinist and composer. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. Her works mainly focused on the indigenous people of Brazil.  Carvalho died of problems caused by a staph infection on April 30, 2019 in Rio at the age of 72.
Luis Maldonado Venegas (November 19, 1956 – April 30, 2019) was a Mexican politician and lawyer. He was born in Mexico City. Maldonado was a member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution. He was a federal deputy representing Mexico City and the fourth electoral region in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress from 2015 to 2018. Maldonado also was the national president of the Convergencia political party. Maldonado died in Mexico City on April 30, 2019 from problems caused by surgery at the age of 62.
English Landing Park is along the Missouri River in Parkville, Missouri, United States. There is a set of train tracks that runs along the park. It has a jogging/biking trail, several shelters for picnics, a soccer field, a baseball diamond, volleyball courts, two playgrounds and a nine-hole Frisbee golf course.  The area of English Landing Park was bought in 1838. The Power Plant Restaurant, which sits right next to the railroad tracks at the entrance to the park, was built in the mid-19th century as a coal-fired twin-boiler power plant that fed the entire city. The park later became a civil war port for the slave trade.  Parkville was not a Civil War battlefield, but there was still mass genocide as numerous slaves tried desperately to escape across the river into Free Kansas. These slaves were buried in three large unmarked cemeteries. After the Civil War, the port was abandoned and the area slowly changed from a bustling city to what is Parkville. The park includes the historic Bridge, built 1898 which spanned Linn Branch Creek. Flooding. During the Great Flood of 1993, the park and most of Downtown Parkville were submerged under more than 15 feet of water. On May 4, 2003, English Landing Park narrowly missed an EF1 tornado that came across the river and cut damage paralleling the railroad tracks before crossing 9 Highway. In May 2007, the Missouri River flooded the entire park with less than 3 feet of water. The river receded approximately a week later. Also in 2007, the Power Plant Restaurant's neglected smokestack had to be torn down, eradicating an icon of the city's past. On March 17, 2019, The river flooded up over English Landing Park all the way to the train tracks before retreating a few days later. No buildings were damaged but playground equipment and structures at the dog park were damaged and lost. Also, a bridge that goes over the Linn branch creek collapsed.
Major General Eldon A. Bargewell (August 13, 1947 – April 29, 2019) was an American army general. He was Commander of Delta Force from 1996 to 1998. Bargewell was born in Hoquiam, Washington. He served in the Vietnam War, Gulf War, Operation Just Cause, Operation Acid Gambit and in War in Afghanistan. Bargewell was killed after his lawnmower crushed him on April 29, 2019 at his home in Eufaula, Alabama at the age of 71.
Hoquiam ( ) is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. The population was 8,776 at the 2020 Census. Its name comes from a Native-American word meaning "hungry for wood".
Dinko Tsvetkov Dermendzhiev (; 2 June 1941 – 1 May 2019) was a Bulgarian football player and manager. Dermendzhiev played his all of his club career for Botev Plovdiv. He played as a forward between 1959 and 1978. He also played for Bulgaria from 1962 to 1977. He played for his country 58 times, scoring 19 goals. He was in the squad for Bulgaria at three FIFA World Cups (1962, 1966 and 1970). Dermendzhiev later became a football manager. He was in charge of Botev Plovdiv, Levski Sofia, Lokomotiv Plovdiv, as well as many other teams. He last managed in 2001. Dermendzhiev died of problems caused by a stroke on 1 May 2019. He was 77.
Caroline Bittencourt (13 December 1981 – 28 April 2019) was a Brazilian model and television presenter. In 1997, she started her modelling career at the age of 15. She lived in Italy for a time and worked for fashion houses such as Valentino and Roberto Cavalli. She later worked on television for RedeTV!, as a reporter for the "Top Report" program, and on RecordTV's "Hoje em Dia". She was born in São Paulo. On 28 April 2019, Bittencourt died by drowning during a boat trip off the coast of Ilhabela, São Paulo state. She was 37.
Luciano Comaschi (3 July 1931 – 30 April 2019) was an Italian football and manager. He played as a full back. He played for Brescia and Napoli. He also played for Italy at youth international level. He was born in Montichiari. Comaschi died in Rome on 30 April 2019, at the age of 87.
Oliver Taylor Hawkins (February 17, 1972 – March 25, 2022) was an American musician, best known as the drummer and occasional lead singer of the rock band the Foo Fighters. Prior to joining the band in 1997, he was the touring drummer for Alanis Morissette as well as the drummer in a progressive experimental band called Sylvia. In 2004, Hawkins formed his own side project, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, in which he plays drums and sings. He was voted "Best Rock Drummer" in 2005 by the UK drumming magazine "Rhythm". Death. On March 25, 2022, Hawkins was found dead in his hotel room at the Casa Medina hotel in Bogotá, Colombia at the age of 50. Shortly before his death, Hawkins said his chest began to hurt and hotel staff called medical officials. No cause of death was announced. The band was on tour in South America when he died. The next day, opioids, benzodiazepines, antidepressants and tetrahydrocannabinol were found in his system.
Cultural Materialism is a way to understand why and how societies change. It grew in popularity by Marvin Harris in 1968 through his book The Rise of Anthropological Theory. It brings together many different ideas such as Marxism, cultural evolution, and cultural ecology.  In order to understand societies as a cultural materialist, you need to first divide up societies into three parts: infrastructure, structure, and superstructure.  Infrastructure provides the footing for the following parts, providing basic needs for the society. Structure, is the well being of a society’s political, social, economic organizations. Superstructure is the way ideas are used within symbols in a society. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________
"Sweet but Psycho" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Ava Max. It was released on August 17, 2018. Max wrote the song with Madison Love, William Lobban Bean, Andreas Andersen Haukeland, and its producer, Cirkut (known for his work with artists like Katy Perry). The song has been successful worldwide, reaching number one in the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, and Germany and the top ten in the US.
Gliese 832 c is a extrasolar planet that goes around the red dwarf Gliese 832. It is found about 16 light years from Earth in the Grus constellation. It has 5.4 times the mass of Earth, and has a radius of 1.5 times Earth's radius. The planet is thought to be on the hot edge habitable zone: the part of the habitable zone closest to the star. Habitability. Gliese 832 c is thought to lie in the habitable zone, which is the zone around a star where water can be liquid. However, it may not be hospitable to life as we know it. While it gets about as much sunlight as Earth does, the planet is probably tidally locked, This means that one side of the planet is always facing the star. This would mean that the day side of the planet is extremely hot, while the dark side is cold. Between the day and night zones, life might be able to exist.
The 2020 presidential campaign of Howie Hawkins, both the co-founder of the Green Party and its three time gubernatorial candidate of New York, was informally launched on April 3, 2019. Hawkins announced the formation of an exploratory committee to seek the Green Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 2020 presidential election. On May 28, 2019, Hawkins officially announced his campaign's launch. In June 2020, he became the presumptive nominee for the Green Party nomination.
The 2020 presidential campaign of Adam Kokesh was announced on July 18, 2013, making Kokesh the first Libertarian to enter in the race for the 2020 United States presidential election. The Fall 2017 "Taxation Is Theft" national tour was a preparation period where Kokesh championed his voluntaryist platform of "Nobody for President!" On January 16, 2018 Kokesh officially filed the papers for his presidential campaign. Later the same day, he was pulled over by Texas police twice, and was arrested the second time. Kokesh was released on January 25.
The 2020 presidential campaign of John McAfee, anti-virus software pioneer and cryptocurrency investor, was formally launched on June 3, 2018.  McAfee announced on June 3, 2018 via Twitter that he would run for President of the United States again in 2020, either with the Libertarian Party or under a party of his own creation. McAfee insisted that he did not want to be president, and that his primary goal in running for office was to raise awareness of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.  On January 3, 2019, McAfee revealed on Twitter that he had not paid federal income taxes for eight years, claiming that the income tax was illegal. On January 22, McAfee announced via Twitter that he would be continuing his campaign "in exile", following reports that he, his wife, and four of his campaign staff were being indicted for tax-related felonies by the IRS.  McAfee said that he was in "international waters", and had tweeted that he was on his way to Venezuela.
Sir Arvi Hillar Parbo (10 February 1926 – 1 May 2019) was an Estonian-born Australian business executive. He was the chairman of three of Australia's largest companies at the same time. Parbo was born in Tallinn, Estonia. Parbo joined Western Mining Corporation in 1956 and over the next 12 years held the positions of Underground Surveyor, Underground Manager, Technical Assistant to the managing director, and Deputy General Superintendent. He was appointed General Manager in 1968 and became a Director in 1970. In 1974, Parbo was appointed chairman and managing director of Western Mining Corporation. Parbo died in Melbourne on 1 May 2019, aged 93.
Dunaden (26 February 2006 – 30 April 2019) was a Thoroughbred racehorse. He was trained in France. In his 46 races, he won 10 and was placed in the top three 19 times. He won the 2011 Melbourne Cup, ridden by French jockey Christophe Lemaire and trained by Mikel Delzangles. Other major wins by Dunaden include Prix de Barbeville (2011), Geelong Cup (2011), Hong Kong Vase (2011) and Caulfield Cup (2012). Dunaden was retired in 2015. On 30 April 2019, he died after a paddock accident at Overbury Stud in England.
Qaem Shahr (; also known as Qā’em Shahr) is a city in Iran. It is the capital of Qaem Shahr County in the Mazandaran Province. The city had a population of 204,953 people in 2016. Before the Iranian revolution, the city was known as Shāhi (or Ŝâhi).
Micha Lindenstrauss (‎; 28 June 1937 – 2 May 2019) was a German-born Israeli judge. He was born in Berlin, but moved to Israel before World War II. Lindenstrauss was the State Comptroller between 2005 and 2012. In the Israel Defense Forces, he was a military prosecutor, and later, as a judge in a military tribunal. Lindenstrauss died on 2 May 2019 at the age of 82.
Hirannaiah or Hirannayya known by his stage name Master Hirannaiah (15 February 1934 – 2 May 2019) was an Indian movie actor. His best known roles include "...Re" (2016), "Care of Footpath 2" (2015) and "No. 73, Shanthi Nivasa" (2007). He was mainly a theatre actor. He was born in Mysore, Karnataka. Hurannaiah died on 2 May 2019 at a hospital in Bengaluru, Karnataka of problems caused by liver disease, aged 85.
Su Yu-chang (; – ) was a Chinese martial artist, scholar and physician. He spent his life teaching Kung Fu, traditional Chinese philosophy and medicine all over the world. He was born in Dongshan, Taiwan. Su died at a hospital in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain on 29 April 2019, aged 78.
Alessandra Panaro (14 December 1939 – 1 May 2019) was an Italian movie actress active from late 1950s and early 1960s. She was born in Rome. Her best known role was in Dino Risi's comedy "Poveri ma belli" in 1959 and Luchino Visconti's crime drama "Rocco e i suoi fratelli" in 1960.  Panaro died at a hospital in Geneva, Switzerland on 1 May 2019, aged 79.
Dino Risi (23 December 1917 – 7 June 2008) was an Italian movie director. He was thought to have been the greatest comedic movie director in Italy. His best known works were "Poor, But Handsome (Poveri ma belli)", followed by two sequels, which he also directed; "A Difficult Life (Una vita difficile"); "The Easy Life (Il sorpasso)"; "Opiate '67" or, in a cut version, "15 From Rome (I Mostri)"; and "Scent Of A Woman (Profumo di Donna)".