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Foreman
__NOTOC__ A foreman, forewoman or foreperson is a supervisor, often in a manual trade or industry. Foreman may specifically refer to: *Construction foreman, the worker or tradesman who is in charge of a construction crew * Jury foreman, a head juror *Ranch foreman, the manager of a ranch, overseeing all aspects of the operation *Shop foreman or plant foreman, the frontline supervisor in a skilled trade, manufacturing or production operation *Foreman of signals, a highly qualified senior non-commissioned signal equipment manager and engineer in the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals *Road foreman of engines, a supervisor of locomotive engineers in the United States *Railroad track foreman, the person in charge of daily activities of a crew related to duties involved in the construction, maintenance, inspection, and repair of railroad tracks in the United States People * Foreman (surname) Places * Foreman, Arkansas, a city in the United States * Foreman, Oklahoma, an unincorp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreman (surname)
Foreman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A–E * Al Foreman (1904–1954), English-Canadian boxer * Amanda Foreman (other), multiple people * Anne N. Foreman (born 1947), American diplomat, lawyer, and businesswoman * Aricka Foreman, American poet, essayist, and digital curator * Brownie Foreman (1875–1926), American baseball player *Carl Foreman (1914–1984), American screenwriter and film producer * Carolyn T. Foreman (1872–1967), Resident and Historian of American state of Oklahoma, wife of fellow historian Grant Foreman *Chris Foreman (born 1956), English musician, singer-songwriter, and composer *Chris Foreman (organist), American jazz organist *Chuck Foreman (born 1950), American football player *Dale Foreman, American politician and attorney * Dan Foreman (born 1953), American politician * Darren Foreman (other), multiple people *David Foreman (1946–2022), American environmentalist *Deborah Foreman (born 1962), American actress * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreman (software)
Foreman (also known as The Foreman) is an open source complete life cycle systems management tool for provisioning, configuring and monitoring of physical and virtual servers. Foreman has deep integration to configuration management software, with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt and other solutions through plugins, which allows users to automate repetitive tasks, deploy applications, and manage change to deployed servers. Foreman provides provisioning on bare-metal (through managed DHCP, DNS, TFTP, and PXE-based unattended installations), virtualization and cloud. Foreman provides comprehensive, auditable interaction facilities including a web frontend, a command line interface, and a robust REST API. History Initial development on Foreman started in July 2009 under a different project name. The initial release 0.1 was committed in September 2009 by Ohad Levy. Availability Foreman is targeted on Linux operating systems, but users reported successful installations on Microsoft Windo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreman, British Columbia
Foreman is a community just northeast of Prince George on the southeast side of the Fraser River in central British Columbia. The station was named after a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) supervisor.Prince George Citizen, 27 Aug 1994 Foreman Flats (a descriptive used as early as 1954) comprises about 20 residences inhabiting the northern and western parts of Foreman and is part of Prince George's Blackburn neighbourhood. Vehicular access to the eastern part of Foreman/Foreman Flats is via Shelley Road N. History Railway Foreman, like Prince George to its southwest, and Shelley to its northeast, was an original train station (1914) on the GTP1914 Timetable scanned (the Canadian National Railway after nationalization). Situated at Mile 140.7, Fraser Subdivision (about Mile 230 or 231 during the line's construction), it encompassed camps for Lund-Rogers and Magoffin & Berg. George Hardie, a Foley, Welch and Stewart superintendent, had a clearing contract that included Foreman a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreman, Arkansas
Foreman is a small city in Little River County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 1,011 at the 2010 census. Geography Foreman is located at (33.721213, -94.396888). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which 2.0 square miles (5.1 km2) is land and 0.51% is water. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States census, there were 977 people, 552 households, and 305 families residing in the city. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 1,125 people, 490 households, and 297 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 566 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 67.29% White, 27.29% Black or African American, 1.96% Native American, 1.07% from other races, and 2.40% from two or more races. 2.04% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 490 households, out of which 29.0% had children under the age of 18 living with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Foreman (DE-633)
USS ''Foreman'' (DE-633), a of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign Andrew L. Foreman (1920-1942), who was killed in action aboard the heavy cruiser during the Battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942. Ensign Foreman remained at his station to help in saving his ship until asphyxiated by gas generated by the explosion. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic self-sacrifice. ''Foreman'' was launched on 1 August 1943 at the Bethlehem Steel Company, in San Francisco, California, sponsored by Miss Nadine Foreman, sister of Ensign Foreman; and commissioned on 22 October 1943. Service history ''Foreman'' arrived at Funafuti, Ellice Islands on 28 January 1944 to begin nine months of convoy escort duty in the southwest Pacific. She guarded the movement of men and supplies as well as of larger combatant ships in the lengthy series of operations necessary to consolidate Allied control of the northern Solomon Islands and western New Guinea. Several tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreman, Oklahoma
Foreman is an unincorporated community in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States. The community is southwest of Muldrow, northwest of Fort Coffee and north of Spiro. History Foreman was named for merchant Zack Foreman and had its own post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional ser ... from October 31, 1898, until August 31, 1936. Notable persons * Hooks Foreman, professional baseball player, was born in Foreman. * Zack Foreman, professional baseball player, was born in Foreman. Notes Unincorporated communities in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Construction Foreman
A construction foreman, construction forewoman, or construction foreperson is the worker or skilled tradesperson who is in charge of a construction crew. This role is generally assumed by a senior worker. Duties and functions Normally the foreman is a construction worker with many years of experience in a particular trade who is charged with organizing the overall construction of a particular project for a particular contractor. Typically the foreman is a person with specialist knowledge of a given trade who has moved into the position and is now focused on an overall management of his trade on the job site. He or she is responsible for providing proper documentation to his workers so they can proceed with tasks. Specifically, a foreman may train employees under his or her supervision, ensure appropriate use of equipment by employees, communicate progress on the project to a supervisor and maintain the employee schedule. Foremen may also arrange for materials to be at the constr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreman Glacier
Foreman Glacier () is a glacier flowing south-southeast from the Havre Mountains in the northern portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It drains the southwest slopes of Dimitrova Peak and the west slopes of Breze Peak and flows into Palestrina Glacier north of Balan Ridge in Sofia University Mountains. The glacier was surveyed by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), 1975–76, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ... in 1980 after David Alexander Foreman, a BAS aircraft mechanic at Adelaide Station, 1973–76. See also * Hushen Glacier * Mikado Glacier * Transition Glacier References Glaciers of Alexander Island {{AlexanderIsland-glacier-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road Foreman Of Engines
Road foreman of engines, in the United States, is the traditional title of the person in charge of and the supervisor of, a locomotive engineer. An engineer who wishes to enter the management ranks on a railroad becomes a road foreman of engines. Their job is the overall supervision and to instruct, discipline, train and evaluate, the performance and skill of a railroad engineer. They are essentially an engineer's boss. Background In the United States, engineers are licensed by the Federal Railroad Administration for their craft. Railroads had to designate who can supervise an engineer. Only a person who is an FRA-certified locomotive engineer can instruct and supervise an engineer in his craft. Therefore, the road foremen were designated as "designated supervisor of locomotive engineers" (DSLE). Road foremen also have the responsibility of analyzing data from locomotive event recorders. This is done in post-accident investigation and for random review of a locomotive engineer's pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forman (other)
Forman may refer to: Places: *Forman, North Dakota, city in Sargent County, North Dakota, United States * Forman, West Virginia, unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States * Forman Glacier between Mount Franke and Mount Cole, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica *Forman Park, in Syracuse, New York Surname: * A. G. Forman CBE (1910–1967), Chief of Naval Staff of the Ghana Navy * Al Forman (1928–2013), baseball umpire * Alexander A. Forman (1843–1922), American soldier in the American Civil War *Alison Forman (born 1969), Australian soccer player *Andrew Forman (1465–1521), Scottish diplomat and Archbishop *Arthur Forman (1850–1905), English schoolmaster and cricketer *Bill Forman (1886–1958), baseball player * Bruce Forman (born 1956), American jazz guitarist *Carol Forman (1918–1997), American actress * Charles William Forman (1821–1894), Presbyterian missionary in Pakistan *Christine Jones Forman, American astrophysicist *Craig Form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furman (other)
Furman may refer to: Places * Furman, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Wilcox County, United States * Furman, South Carolina, a town in Hampton County, United States * Furman, Alberta, Canada * Furman, Poland * Furman Bluffs, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica * Furman Historic District, a historic district in the community of Furman, Alabama, United States Other * Furman (surname), including a list of people with the name * Furman, a unit of angular measure equal to (2−16) of a circle and named for Alan T. Furman * ''Furman v. Georgia'', a United States Supreme Court decision that temporarily abolished capital punishment in the U.S. * Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, a joint center at New York University School of Law and the NYU Wagner School of Public Service * Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina See also * Forman (other) * Foreman (other) * Fuhrman, a surname * Furmanov (other) Furmanov may refer to: *Dmitry Furmanov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railroad Track Foreman
A railway track (British English and International Union of Railways, UIC terminology) or railroad track (American English), also known as permanent way or simply track, is the structure on a Rail transport, railway or railroad consisting of the Rail profile, rails, Rail fastening system, fasteners, Railroad tie, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and Track ballast, ballast (or Ballastless track, slab track), plus the underlying subgrade. It enables trains to move by providing a dependable surface for their wheels to roll upon. Early tracks were constructed with wooden or cast iron rails, and wooden or stone sleepers; since the 1870s, rails have almost universally been made from steel. Historical development The first railway in Britain was the Wollaton Wagonway, built in 1603 between Wollaton and Strelley in Nottinghamshire. It used wooden rails and was the first of around 50 wooden-railed tramways built over the next 164 years. These early wooden tramways typicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
