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25900775 | Redleg Snyder | |birth_place=Camden, New Jersey
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Emanuel Sebastian Snyder (born Emanuel Sebastian Schneider) (December 12, 1854 – November 24, 1932) was a Major League Baseball player. He played for the 1876 Cincinnati Reds and 1884 Wilmington Quicksteps.
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25900795 | Ángel Velasco Marugán | | birth_place = Segovia, Spain
| height = 1.70 m
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| position = Forward
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| years1 = 2004–2005
| years2 = 2005–2010
| years3 = 2010–2016
| years4 = 2016–2021
| years5 = 2021–
| clubs1 = Inter Movistar
| clubs2 = Caja Segovia
| clubs3 = Barcelona
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| clubs5 = Real Betis
| caps1 = 7
| goals1 = 0
| caps2 = 140
| goals2 = 55
| caps3 = 122
| goals3 = 47
| caps4 = 150
| goals4 = 70
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Ángel Velasco Marugán (born 16 May 1986), commonly known as Lin, is a Spanish futsal player who plays for Real Betis as an winger.
Honours
*3 Spanish futsal leagues (2004/05, 2010/11, 2011/12)
*3 Copa de España (2011, 2012, 2013)
*1 Copa del Rey (2011)
*2 UEFA Futsal Cup (2012, 2014)
*1 Copa Intercontinental (2005)
*3 Futsal Euro (2010, 2012, 2016)
*1 Campeonato de España de Selecciones Sub-18
*1 Subcampeonato juvenil de clubes de España (2004/05)
External links
*[http://www.lnfs.es/Clubs/Jugadores/temp12-13/25/1894/420/FCBarcelonaAlusport.html LNFS profile]
*[http://www.rfef.es/index.jsp?nodo151&jugador1582 RFEF profile]
*[https://es.uefa.com/futsaleuro/teams/players/98741--lin/ UEFA profile]
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Category:21st-century Spanish sportsmen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ángel_Velasco_Marugán | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.743710 |
25900799 | HMS Beagle (1804) | {|
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'HMS Beagle' was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1804, during the Napoleonic Wars. She played a major role in the Battle of the Basque Roads. Beagle was laid up in ordinary in 1813 and sold in 1814.
Career
Beagle was commissioned in August 1804 under Commander John Burn, who sailed her to the Mediterranean. On 5 December Burn and Beagle captured the Spanish ship Fuenta Hermosa. Burn was temporarily relieved by Commander George Digby between June and August 1805, after which she joined Sir John Orde’s squadron off Cádiz.
On 14 January 1805, Beagle captured the Spanish ship Pastora Hermosa, which was carrying bullion.
Commander Francis Newcombe left the hired armed ship Lord Eldon to replace Burn in February 1806; Beagle remained in the Mediterranean until 1807. On 27 April 1806, Beagle and a number of other vessels were in company with Termagant when Termagant captured Anna Maria Carolina. Beagle then moved to the Downs where she operated between 1808 and 1809.
While under Newcombe's command Beagle captured three privateers in the English Channel. She captured Hazard, of 14 guns and 49 men, on 2 October 1808, Vengeur, of 16 guns and 48 men, on 24 January 1809, and Fortune, of 14 guns and 58 men, on 18 February.
*Hazard, which was under the command of Joseph Marie Lelong, had one man badly wounded before Beagle was able to capture her after a three-hour chase. Hazard had left Dieppe the day before and had captured two light colliers (the Trinity Yacht and Assistance), but Newcombe was unable to find and recapture them. Hazard had been Matthew, of Sunderland, and was carrying a cargo of coals.
*Vengeur was in company with Grand Napoleon, which escaped. Vengeur herself did not surrender until Beagle came alongside, though her captain, M. Bourgnie, was wounded. Vengeur had made no captures.
*Fortune, under Captain Tucker, had one man badly wounded. She was out of Calais and had made no captures.
Participation at the Battle of the Basque Roads
Beagle arrived at Basque Roads on 10 April, having escorted from the Downs the convoy of fireships that were to attack the French anchorage the next day. Beagle'' was the second ship (after the bomb vessel ) to voluntarily arrive to aid Cochrane's Imperieuse after the successful fireship attack, her crew reportedly giving Cochrane three cheers upon arriving. The prize crew that took possession and later burnt the French ship-of-the-line , was under the command of a lieutenant from Beagle and a midshipman from Imperieuse. Beagle also took part in the bombardment of the French ships Aquilon and Ville de Varsovie, skilfully manoeuvring to fire, unlike other British ships that were anchoring to engage.
Beagle was one of the few ships joining Cochrane in ignoring Rear-Admiral Robert Stopford's recall order. Cochrane tasked her with protecting Aetna during the move upriver. Newcombe therefore placed Beagle between Aetna and the grounded French battleships. As a result, Beagle took heavy damage to her rigging and expended nearly all of her powder.
Newcombe's achievements and valour resulted in his receiving promotion to post-captain after the battle. In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the then-surviving participants in the battle the Naval General Service Medal with the clasp "Basque Roads 1809". Two of Beagles sister ships, and were also present at the Basque Roads.Later yearsLater in 1809 Commander William Dolling took command of Beagle, following Newcombe's promotion. In July and August, Beagle took part in the Scheldt operations.
On 4 November Beagle and recaptured Mount Royal, of Pool. On 8 February 1810 Beagle recaptured the brig Resource. On 10 October Dollin and Beagle captured the smuggling lugger Ox, for which they received a reward from the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs.
On 13 June 1810 Beagle captured the smuggling boat Fly, of Bexhill. Three days later she captured several smuggling galleys. Apparently the officers and crew of Beagle purchased the cargo of two of the galleys and sold it.
Commander John Smith took command of Beagle in August 1811. On 14 August 1813, Beagle, in company with , the gun-brig , and the schooner , captured Marmion.
Beagle, Juniper, and participated in the Siege of San Sebastián (7 July – 8 September 1813) as part of the fleet under Captain George Collier assigned to help Sir Arthur Wellesley's campaigns in Portugal and Spain. Beagle had one man dangerously wounded in the taking of the battery on Santa Clara Island. Later, the seamen from the squadron, under Smith's command, maneuvered 24-pounder guns from Surveillante up the steep scarp of Saint Clara Island to assemble their own battery facing San Sebastian, which allowed them to silence the guns there. Smith was slightly wounded while being in charge of the seamen on shore engaged in taking the French battery on Saint Clara Island and in the subsequent operations. In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issuance of the Naval General service Medal with clasp "St. Sebastian" to surviving participants in the campaign.
On 30 November Beagle was in company with when Rover captured the American brig Empress.FateBeagle was laid up in ordinary at Plymouth in 1813. She was sold there on 21 July 1814 for the sum of £900.
Notes
Citations
References
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* Cordingly, David. (2007) (US title)Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 448pp, . (UK title: Cochrane The Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane, 1775-1860) London: Bloomsbury,
* Daly, Gavin (2007) "English Smugglers, the Channel, and the Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1814". Journal of British Studies 46 (1), pp. 30–46.
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25900819 | Fear Itself (Casual album) | | label = Jive
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Fear Itself is the debut solo studio album by American rapper and record producer Casual. It was released on February 1, 1994, via Jive Records. The recording sessions took place between July 1992 and February 1993 at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco, California. The album was produced by Casual and fellow Hieroglyphics Crew members Domino, Del the Funky Homosapien, and Jay-Biz. It features guest appearances from Del the Funky Homosapien, Pep Love and Saafir. The album debuted at number 108 on the Billboard 200 and number 22 on the Top R&B Albums chart in the United States.
The album had three singles issued: "That's How It Is", which peaked at No. 22 on the US Hot Rap Singles, "I Didn't Mean To", which peaked at No. 29 on the US Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales and No. 34 on the Hot Rap Singles, and "Me-O-Mi-O", which peaked at No. 50 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales.
Critical reception
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| rev3 = RapReviews
| rev3score 9.5/10
| rev4 = The Source
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Cheo Hodari Coker of Vibe said, "Casual's braggadocious, rip-roaring flow is fortified by upright bass lines, serpentine jazz/funk horns, and thunderous drum kicks". The Los Angeles Times wrote that "Casual's zippy, improvisational style is backed by nifty, jazzed-up funk beats."
Track listing
| extra1 = Domino
| length1 = 1:42
| title2 = You Flunked
| writer2 = Owens
| extra2 = Casual
| length2 = 3:14
| title3 = Me-O-Mi-O
| writer3 =
| extra3 = Domino
| length3 = 4:06
| title4 = Get Off It
| writer4 = Owens
| extra4 = Casual
| length4 = 3:14
| title5 = That's How It Is
| writer5 =
| extra5 = Del the Funky Homosapien
| length5 = 2:57
| title6 = That Bullshit
| note6 = featuring Saafir
| writer6 = Owens
| extra6 = Casual
| length6 = 1:46
| title7 = Follow the Funk
| writer7 =
| extra7 = Domino
| length7 = 3:55
| title8 = Who's It On
| note8 = featuring Del the Funky Homosapien and Pep Love
| writer8 =
| extra8 = Domino
| length8 = 3:56
| title9 = I Didn't Mean To
| writer9 = Owens
| extra9 = Casual
| length9 = 3:39
| title10 = We Got It Like That
| writer10 =
| extra10 = Domino
| length10 = 3:11
| title11 = A Little Something
| note11 = featuring Del the Funky Homosapien
| writer11 =
| extra11 = Casual
| length11 = 1:21
| title12 = This Is How We Rip Shit
| writer12 =
| extra12 = Jay-Biz
| length12 = 3:36
| title13 = Lose in the End
| writer13 =
| extra13 = Domino
| length13 = 3:45
| title14 = Thoughts of the Thoughtful
| writer14 =
| extra14 = Domino
| length14 = 2:56
| title15 = Chained Minds
| writer15 = Owens
| extra15 = Casual
| length15 = 3:05
| title16 = Be Thousand
| writer16 =
| extra16 = Domino
| length16 = 2:58
| total_length = 49:21
}}
;Sample credits
*Track 1 contains a sample of "Revenge Is a Virtue" written and performed by Roy Ayers.
*Track 2 contains a sample of "Cold Duck Time" written by Eddie Harris, performed by Les McCann & Eddie Harris.
*Track 3 contains a sample of "Rural Still Life #26" written by Mike Lang, performed by Tom Scott.
*Track 4 contains a sample of "Mr. Clean" written by Weldon Irvine and performed by Freddie Hubbard, and "Fire and Rain" written by James Taylor and performed by Phil Upchurch.
*Track 5 contains a sample of "Top Billing" written by Nat Robinson and Kirk Robinson, performed by Audio Two.
*Track 7 contains a sample of "Hard Times" written and performed by Curtis Mayfield.
*Track 8 contains a sample of "Tragic Magic" written and performed by Dr. Nathan Davis.
*Track 13 contains a sample of "Believe It or Not (Theme Music from 'Kojak')" written by Billy Goldenberg, and "Chicken Heads" written by Bobby Rush and Calvin Carter and performed by Black Heat.
*Track 14 contains a sample of "Brawling Broads" written and performed by Roy Ayers.
Personnel
*John "Casual" Owens – vocals, producer <small>(tracks: 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 15)</small>, mixing, sleeve notes
*Adam "A-Plus" Carter – additional vocals <small>(tracks: 1, 12)</small>
*Reggie "Saafir" Gibson – vocals <small>(track 6)</small>
*Paulo "Pep Love" Peacock – additional vocals <small>(track 6)</small>, vocals <small>(track 8)</small>
*Teren "Del the Funky Homosapien" Jones – vocals <small>(tracks: 8, 9, 11)</small>, producer <small>(track 5)</small>
*Extra Prolific – additional vocals <small>(tracks: 12, 16)</small>
*Damani "Phesto" Thompson – additional vocals <small>(track 15)</small>
*Tajai Massey – additional vocals <small>(track 16)</small>
*"DJ Touré" Batiste Duncan – scratches <small>(tracks: 2, 4, 5, 12)</small>, sleeve notes
*Damian "Domino" Siguenza – producer <small>(tracks: 1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16)</small>, mixing
*Jamie "Jay-Biz" Suarez – producer <small>(track 12)</small>
*Matt Kelley – recording engineering
*Chris Trevett – mixing engineering
*Tom Coyne – mastering
*Jean Kelly – design
*Michael Lucero – photography
Charts
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References
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25900831 | Morris Chang | | native_name_lang = zh-Hant-TW
| image = 11.09 總統出席「第一屆李國鼎獎頒獎典禮」 - 53319959711 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Chang in 2023
| office1 = National Policy Advisor to the President
| president1 = Chen Shui-bian
| term_start1 = 20 May 2000
| term_end1 = 19 May 2001
| birth_name | birth_date
| birth_place = Ningbo, Chekiang, China
| occupation | known_for Founder, chairman and CEO, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)
| education = Harvard University<br />Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, ME) <br> Stanford University (PhD)
| spouse = Sophie Chang
| children = 3
| module =
| awards = IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal (2000)<br />Nikkei Asia Prize (2005)<br />IEEE Medal of Honor (2011)<br />Order of Dr. Sun Yat-sen (2024)
}}
Morris Chung-Mou Chang (; born 10 July 1931) is a Taiwanese-American billionaire businessman and electrical engineer who pioneered the foundry model of semiconductor fabrication.
Chang is the founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's first and largest semiconductor foundry. He was the company's chief executive officer (CEO) from 1987 to 2005, and retired as its chairman in 2018. , his net worth is estimated at US$4.6billion.
After attending Harvard University, Chang earned three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a doctorate from Stanford University. He built his business career first in the United States and then subsequently in Taiwan. From 1958 to 1983, Chang worked at Texas Instruments (TI), becoming its vice president. He then left TI in 1983 and was briefly the president and chief operating officer (COO) of General Instrument. He founded TSMC in 1987.
Early life
Chang was born in the city of Ningbo, situated within Chekiang in China, in 1931. When he was young, he wanted to become a novelist or journalist, though his father persuaded him otherwise. The elder Chang was an official in charge of finance for the Yin county government and later a bank manager. Due to his father's career and the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), the Chang family moved to Nanjing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Chongqing and Shanghai.
Chang spent most of his primary school years in British Hong Kong between the ages of six and eleven. In 1941, the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began and Chang's family went back to Shanghai and Ningbo to live for a few months, eventually making their way to the wartime capital of Chongqing. In 1948, as China was in the height of the restarted Chinese Civil War, a year before People’s Republic of China (PRC) was established and the Republic of China (ROC)'s retreat to Taiwan, Chang again moved to Hong Kong. and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1952 and 1953, respectively, and a Master of Engineering in 1955. Chang failed two consecutive doctoral qualification examinations and eventually left MIT without obtaining a PhD. He was tasked with improving germanium transistor yields, besides device development.
Career
Chang worked on a four-transistor project for TI where the manufacturing was done by IBM. This was one of the early semiconductor foundry relationships. Also at TI, Chang pioneered the then controversial idea of pricing semiconductors "ahead of the cost curve", which meant sacrificing early profits ("short term") to gain market share and achieve manufacturing yields that would result in greater profits over an extended timeline ("long-term").
During his 25-year career (1958–1983) at Texas Instruments, he rose up in the ranks to become the group vice president responsible for TI's worldwide semiconductor business. In the late 1970s, when TI's focus turned to calculators, digital watches and home computers, Chang felt like his career focused on semiconductors was at a dead end at TI.
Chang left TI and later became president and chief operating officer of General Instrument Corporation (1984–1985).
Taiwan
In the early 1980s, while still at Texas Instruments, Chang witnessed TI's factory in Japan achieving twice the chip production yield as TI's factory in Texas. This marked his return to the ROC, initially thought to last for a few years, three decades after he left during the chaotic Chinese Civil War mainly between the People's Republic of China and the ROC. This is the beginning of the period where firms increasingly saw value in outsourcing their manufacturing capabilities to Asia. Soon, TSMC became one of the world's most profitable chip makers. Chang left ITRI in 1994 and became chairman of Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation from 1994 to 2003 while continuing as chairman of TSMC. In 2005, he handed TSMC's CEO position to Rick Tsai.
In June 2009, Chang returned to the position of TSMC's CEO once again. The same year, Chang performed the role of Master Dragon in the first episode of “Let’s Go Guang!”, an animated Chinese-learning program for children. In 2016, MIT named Building E52 the “Morris and Sophie Chang Building” in honor of Chang and his wife. Building E52 is the original home of the MIT Sloan School of Management and headquarters of the MIT Department of Economics.
On June 5, 2018, Chang announced his retirement from TSMC, succeeded by C.C. Wei as CEO and Mark Liu as chairman. Chang was awarded the Order of Propitious Clouds, First Class in September 2018.
Chang has served as Presidential Envoy of the Republic of China (Taiwan), under the name Chinese Taipei, to APEC several times. He represented Chen Shui-bian in 2006. Tsai Ing-wen appointed Chang to the same role six times from 2018 to 2023.
In an interview with the Brookings Institution in 2022, Chang said the US federal government’s efforts to increase onshore chip manufacturing by spending tens of billions of dollars would be a very expensive and wasteful exercise in futility. He believed the US would increase onshore semiconductor manufacturing somewhat at a very high cost, and produce at high unit costs, rendering it unable to compete with factories like TSMC. Chang said TSMC chairman Mark Liu decided to invest US$12 billion in Arizona at the urging of the US government. Personal life Chang obtained American citizenship in 1962. Chang married his second wife, Sophie Chang, a cousin of Foxconn founder Terry Gou, in 2001. He has two stepdaughters through his second marriage.
* MIT Corporation, MIT's board of trustees, Life Member Emeritus
* Goldman Sachs member of board of directors (2001–2002)
* Advisor to the Office of the President of the Republic of China
* Committee of 100Honorary doctorates* National Chengchi University, 2007
* Asia University, Taiwan, 2015
Awards and recognitions
by President Tsai Ing-wen, 2018.]]
* 1999, Exemplary Leadership Award from the Fabless Semiconductor Association (now Global Semiconductor Alliance), the first recipient of the award; now the award bears his name, "Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award".
* 2000, IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal for Exceptional Contributions to Microelectronics Industry.
*2002 National Academy of Engineering Member
* 2005, Nikkei Asia Prize for Regional Growth
* 2007, Computer History Museum Fellow Award, for dramatically accelerating the production of semiconductor-based devices and systems by developing an independent semiconductor manufacturing foundry.
* 2008 Robert N. Noyce Award from the Semiconductor Industry Association (US)
* 2011, IEEE Medal of Honor.
* 2011, Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon from the Republic of China.
* 2014 SPIE Visionary Award
* 2018, Order of Propitious Clouds with Special Grand Cordon from the Republic of China.
* 2024, Order of Dr Sun Yat-sen with Grand Cordon from the Republic of China.
Authored books
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* See also * Taiwanese AmericansReferencesExternal links* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?vwEh3ZgbvBrE Stanford engineering hero lecture: Morris Chang in conversation with President John L. Hennessy 2014]
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Category:Taiwanese engineers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Chang | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.818350 |
25900860 | Kings Canyon (Millard County, Utah) | thumb|Sheep herded along the road through the canyon, March 2009
thumb|Elephant Rock, March 2009
Kings Canyon is a canyon within the Confusion Range in Millard County, Utah, United States. US Highway 6/US Highway 50 runs through the windy canyon. The area in and around the canyon is unpopulated, and is only used by humans for transportation and some sheep herding.
The strongly bedded rocks that line the canyon are chiefly Silurian to Devonian carbonate rocks, though pink Tertiary ignimbrites can also be seen sporadically in places.
A side spur of the canyon, called Cat Canyon, is the location of the most famous tourist attraction in the canyon, Elephant Rock which is in the shape of an elephant carrying a pack or load.
See also
List of canyons and gorges in Utah
References
External links
Category:Canyons and gorges of Utah
Category:Landforms of Millard County, Utah | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Canyon_(Millard_County,_Utah) | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.829676 |
25900862 | Marist Poll | The Marist Poll, founded in 1978, is a national public opinion poll operated by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion (MIPO) on the campus of Marist University in Poughkeepsie, New York. The poll was one of the first college-based public opinion polls in the United States. In 2020, polls were conducted in Arizona, Florida, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. The Marist Poll has an 'A' rating from ABC News' FiveThirtyEight and is often cited by journalists and pundits around the world.HistoryMIPO was founded in 1978 by Dr. Lee Miringoff, former President of the National Council of Public Polls, as a poll on Dutchess County elections for a political science class he was teaching on voting behavior. MIPO was reportedly the first college-based survey center in the nation to involve undergraduates in the direct interaction and conducting of all its surveys.
While most of the polls are political in nature, MIPO does frequently conduct polls deemed to be in other areas of public interest. Other subjects commonly polled by MIPO include sports, economics, society and technology.MethodologyMarist polls are typically conducted through random digit dialing in a dual frame manner, contacting both cell phones and landlines, with cell phones comprising the majority of its national sample. Marist modifies the proportion of its frames for local polling, based on data from the National Health Interview Survey. Marist has also used a blend of phone, text, and online surveying for some polls. Marist's frames are primarily obtained from Dynata. Marist uses stratified sampling based on geography. Respondents are contacted through a Voxco computer-assisted telephone interviewing system by live interviewers, typically recruited from the undergraduate student body. Callbacks of phone contacts may be attempted depending on the result of an attempted call. As of 2024, a typical poll will see around a 1% response rate. Polls are typically conducted across 3 to 5 days.
Marist conducts weighting of survey results with US Census data on the variables of age, gender, income, race, and region. Likely voters are identified through a turnout model that incorporates their expressed chance of voting, interest in the election, and past election participation. Consequently, MIPO accurately predicted the results of the presidential contest and U.S. Senate and governor races in each of these states. Other media institutions Marist has partnered with include Telemundo, McClatchy, NPR, PBS Newshour, and Yahoo News.
During the summer of 2013, MIPO announced they have conducted a survey on Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in Major League Baseball. Specifically, the poll asked whether or not players linked to clinics that provide PEDs, such as Biogenesis, should be suspended—even if they did not fail a drug test. The second question asked if players who used PEDs should receive eligibility for the Hall of Fame.
On the October 22, 2013 edition of Real Sports that HBO's longtime, sports-themed monthly newsmagazine and the Marist Poll have launched a new, indefinite joint-polling initiative.
In 2015, Marist temporarily suspended polling of the candidates for nomination during the Democratic primaries and Republican primaries out of concern that polls were being inappropriately used to decide who was included and excluded from the primaries.
See also
* The Phillips Academy Poll
* Quinnipiac University Polling Institute
* Emerson College Polling
* Suffolk University Political Research Center
* Franklin & Marshall College Poll
* Siena Research Institute
* Monmouth University Polling Institute
References
External links
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25900875 | Telok Mas | thumb|Telok Mas
Telok Mas is a small town in Melaka Tengah District, Malacca, Malaysia.
Economy
Telok Mas Industrial Estate
Schools
Henry Gurney Prisoners School
SK Telok Mas
SMK Telok Mas
SMK(A) Sharifah Rodziah
SJK(C) Kuang Yah 光亚华小
SRA Telok Mas
See also
List of cities and towns in Malaysia by population
References
Category:Melaka Tengah District
Category:Towns in Malacca | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telok_Mas | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.845762 |
25900879 | A Badly Broken Code | | recorded | venue
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| next_title = Castor, the Twin
| next_year = 2011
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A Badly Broken Code is the debut studio album by Dessa, a member of Minneapolis indie hip hop collective Doomtree. It was released by Doomtree Records in 2010.
The album title comes from a line in the poem "Nostalgia" by American poet Billy Collins.ReceptionJakob Dorof of Tiny Mix Tapes gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying, "The result is likely one of the best hip-hop songs you'll hear this year, let alone from the rare type of MC that manages to be white, female, and supremely talented all in one." In 2010, City Pages listed it as the "Best Local Album of the Past 12 Months".
The track "The Bullpen" was frequently used as walk out music at rallies by Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar during her 2020 Democratic presidential primaries campaign.
Track listing
| length12 = 2:18
| title13 = Crew
| extra13 = Paper Tiger
| length13 = 2:56
| title14 = Alibi
| extra14 = Paper Tiger
| length14 = 3:03
| title15 = Into the Spin
| extra15 =
| length15 = 2:35
}}
Charts
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| 13
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| 48
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| 22
|-
|}
References
External links
*
*
Category:2010 debut albums
Category:Dessa albums
Category:Doomtree Records albums
Category:Albums produced by Lazerbeak | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Badly_Broken_Code | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.853545 |
25900891 | Nancy Farriss | | birth_place | death_date <!-- (death date then birth date) -->
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| awards = Beveridge Award
| website | education Barnard College
| alma_mater = University College London
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| main_interests | notable_works Maya society under colonial rule: The collective enterprise of survival
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Nancy Marguerite Farriss (born May 23, 1938) is an American historian who is professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania.
Life
Nancy Marguerite Farriss was born on May 23, 1938. She specializes in the colonial history of Mexico, and completed her doctorate from University College London in 1965, after she earned a B.A. at Barnard College. This was followed by brief posts at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica and the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. In 1971 she was appointed as Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and continued there for the rest of her career, becoming Annenberg Professor of History in 1990. She is now professor emerita.Awards* 1983 Guggenheim Fellowship
* 1985 Beveridge Award for Maya society under colonial rule: The collective enterprise of survival
* 1986 MacArthur Fellows Program
Works
* Ecclesiastical immunity in new Spain 1760–1815 1965
* Crown and clergy in colonial Mexico, 1759–1821: the crisis of ecclesiastical privilege, Athlone Press, 1968
*ReferencesExternal links
CNCA / Artes de México
Pasta: Rústica
Número de páginas: 552
Idioma: Español
Publicación: CONACULTA – INAH / Artes de México
Precio: $600
Ciudad de publicación: México, D. F.
País de publicación: México
Category:University of Pennsylvania faculty
Category:University of Pennsylvania historians
Category:Living people
Category:MacArthur Fellows
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:Historians of Mexico
Category:Alumni of University College London
Category:American women historians
Category:1938 births
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:Barnard College alumni
Category:21st-century American women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Farriss | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.860173 |
25900894 | Bobbellapadu | | subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = India
| subdivision_type1 = State
| subdivision_name1 = Andhra Pradesh
| subdivision_type2 = District
| subdivision_name2 = Krishna
| established_title = <!-- Established -->
| established_date | founder
| named_for | government_type
| governing_body | unit_pref Metric
| area_footnotes
| area_rank | area_total_km2 10.61
| elevation_footnotes | elevation_m
| population_total = 1346
| population_as_of | population_rank
| population_density_km2 = auto
| population_demonym | population_footnotes It is a part of Andhra Pradesh Capital Region. Demographics It has approximately 1261 residents in approximately 362 households. It has pincode 521182.Inscriptions
* 1520 C. E.
* 1548 C. E.
References
<references/>
Category:Villages in Krishna district | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbellapadu | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.866301 |
25900907 | The Process (Play-N-Skillz album) | <!-- I appreciate anyone who can help me make this Wiki entry look more refined. I plan to bring back Chicano rap and Pocos Pero Locos, but I need your help. There are a lot of artists that need to be added to Wikipedia. -->
| prev_title = Texas 2 Da World
| prev_year = 2003
| next_title = The Album Before the Album
| next_year = 2006
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The Process is the debut studio album by American record production duo Play-N-Skillz from Dallas, Texas. Its clean version was released in 2004 and its explicit version was released on October 18, 2005 via Universal Records. It features contributions from Adina Howard, Akon, Big Gemini, Big Tuck, Chamillionaire, Frankie J, Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, Lil' Flip, Rob G, Static Major and Three 6 Mafia.
Track listing
| length1 = 3:40
| note1 = featuring Static Major
| title2 = Come Home with Me (Ohh! Baby)
| writer2 =
| length2 = 3:28
| note2 = featuring Akon
| title3 = Do Ya Thang
| writer3 =
| length3 = 3:35
| title4 = Take Ya Clothes Off
| writer4 =
| length4 = 3:46
| note4 = featuring Three 6 Mafia
| title5 = Music's Worth It
| writer5 =
| length5 = 3:31
| title6 = Latinos Stand Up
| writer6 =
| length6 = 4:06
| note6 = featuring Big Gemini & Rob G
| title7 = Call Me
| writer7 =
| length7 = 4:01
| note7 = featuring Chamillionaire & Steve Russell
| title8 = Where I'm From
| writer8 =
| length8 = 4:03
| note8 = featuring Big Tuck
| title9 = Are You Still Alone
| writer9 =
| length9 = 3:40
| note9 = featuring Frankie J
| title10 = Skit
| writer10 =
| length10 = 1:06
| title11 = Freaks
| writer11 =
| length11 = 4:29
| note11 = featuring Krayzie Bone & Adina Howard
| title12 = Now
| writer12 =
| length12 = 4:15
| note12 = featuring Lil' Flip
| title13 = One of Dem Days
| writer13 =
| length13 = 3:41
| title14 = Woods and Plastic
| writer14 =
| length14 = 3:32
| title15 = Represent
| note15 = featuring Layzie Bone
| writer15 =
| length15 = 4:05
| total_length = 55:40
}}
;Sample credits
*Track 2 contains a sample of the composition "Gotta Get You Home Tonight" by Eugene Wilde
*Track 9 contains sampled elements from the composition "Ocean of Thoughts and Dreams" by The Dramatics
*Track 11 contains a sample of the composition "Moments in Love" by the Art of Noise
*Track 13 contains interpolations from the composition "Kiss You Back" written by Ronald Brooks, Gregory Jacobs, George Clinton and Philippé Wynne
*Track 14 contains a sample from the composition "Whatcha See is Whatcha Get" by The Dramatics
Personnel
*Juan "Play" Salinas – main artist, producer, executive producer
*Oscar "Skillz" Salinas – main artist, producer, executive producer
*Stephen Ellis Garrett – featured artist <small>(track 1)</small>
*Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam – featured artist <small>(track 2)</small>
*Paul Duane Beauregard – featured artist <small>(track 4)</small>
*Jordan Michael Houston – featured artist <small>(track 4)</small>
*Roberto Gallinares – featured artist <small>(track 6)</small>
*Big Gemini – featured artist <small>(track 6)</small>
*Hakeem Seriki – featured artist <small>(track 7)</small>
*Steven L. Russell-Harts – backing vocals <small>(track 7)</small>
*Cedric Lee Juan Tuck – featured artist <small>(track 8)</small>
*Francisco Javier Bautista, Jr. – featured artist <small>(track 9)</small>
*Anthony Henderson – featured artist <small>(track 11)</small>
*Adina Howard – featured artist <small>(track 11)</small>
*Wesley Eric Weston – featured artist <small>(track 12)</small>
*Steven Howse – featured artist <small>(track 15)</small>
*James Hoover – mixing <small>(tracks: 1-6, 8-9)</small>
*Brian Stanley – mixing <small>(track 7)</small>
*David Lopez – mixing <small>(tracks: 11-15)</small>
*James Cruz – mastering
*Charles Chavez – executive producer
*Jonathan Mannion – photography
Charts
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References
External links
*
Category:Hip-hop albums by American artists
Category:2005 debut albums
Category:Universal Music Group albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Process_(Play-N-Skillz_album) | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.879615 |
25900920 | Firefox 3.6 | | latest release version 3.6.28 )}}
| programming language C++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript, CSS
| operating system = Windows<br />Mac OS X<br />Linux<br />BSD<br />Solaris<br />OpenSolaris
| engine = Gecko
| platform = Cross-platform
| size = 9.8 MB <small>(Linux)</small><br />18.7 MB <small>(Mac OS X)</small><br />8.2 MB <small>(Windows)</small><br /><small>(all archived)</small>
| language = [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html 75 languages]
| discontinued = yes
| genre = Web browser<br />FTP client<br />Gopher client
| license = MPL/GNU GPL/GNU LGPL/about:rights
| website = [http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/3.6/releasenotes/ www.mozilla.com/firefox/3.6]
}}
Mozilla Firefox 3.6 is a version of the Firefox web browser released in January 2010. The release's main improvement over Firefox 3.5 is improved performance (due to further speed improvements in the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine). It uses the Gecko 1.9.2 engine (compared to 1.9.1 in Fx 3.5), which improves compliance with web standards. It was codenamed Namoroka. In this version, support for X BitMap images was dropped.
This release marked the beginning of a new development cycle for Firefox. As well as receiving major updates, the browser also received minor updates with new features. This was to allow users to receive new features more quickly and the dawn of a new roadmap that reflected these changes. with automatic update to Firefox 12 pushed out to compatible devices by June 2012.
Development
Development for this version started on December 1, 2008. The first alpha of version 3.6 was released on August 7, 2009. The first beta version was released on October 30, followed by Beta 2 on November 10, Beta 3 on November 17, Beta 4 on November 26, and Beta 5 on December 17. The final version was released on January 21, 2010. Minor releases
Firefox 3.6.2 was released on March 23, 2010, followed by version 3.6.3 on April 1 which closed some bugs in the ASLR and DEP handling found at the Pwn2Own contest 2010.
The Firefox developers created a new feature called Lorentz. It is named after the Lorentz National Park. A preview version of Lorentz, Firefox 3.6.3plugin1, was made available on April 8, 2010. Betas of Firefox 3.6.4 were made available starting on April 20, 2010. Firefox 3.6.4 was released on June 22, 2010. The Windows and Linux versions incorporate out-of-process plug-ins (OOPP), which isolates execution of plug-ins (Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime and Microsoft Silverlight by default) into a separate process. This significantly reduces the number of Firefox crashes experienced by users who are watching online videos or playing games; the user can simply refresh the page to continue. Mozilla states that 30% of browser crashes are caused by third-party plugins.
Support for other plug-ins by default in OOPP and on the Mac OS X platform became available in Firefox 4.
Firefox 3.6.6 lengthens the amount of time a plug-in is allowed to be unresponsive to the point before the plug-in quits.
Firefox 3.6.7 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.
Firefox 3.6.8 was a security update that was released a mere three days after 3.6.7, to fix another security fault.
Firefox 3.6.9, in addition to fixing security and stability issues, introduced support for the <code>X-FRAME-OPTIONS</code> HTTP response header to help prevent clickjacking.
Firefox 3.6.10 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.
Firefox 3.6.11 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.
Firefox 3.6.12 was a security update that fixed a critical security issue.
Firefox 3.6.13 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.
Firefox 3.6.14 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.
Firefox 3.6.15 was a stability update that fixed a Java applets issue.
Firefox 3.6.16 was a security update that blacklisted a few invalid HTTPS certificates.
Firefox 3.6.17 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.
Firefox 3.6.18 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.
Firefox 3.6.19 was a stability update that fixed several issues.
Firefox 3.6.20 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.
Firefox 3.6.21 was a security update that blacklisted a compromised HTTPS certificate.
Firefox 3.6.22 was a security update that revoked the SSL certificates for "Staten der Nederlanden" due to fraudulent SSL certificate issuance, as well as fixing an error with .gov.uk domain names.
Firefox 3.6.23 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.
Firefox 3.6.24 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.
Firefox 3.6.25 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.
Firefox 3.6.26 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.
Firefox 3.6.27 was a security update that fixed several issues.
Firefox 3.6.28 is a security and stability update that fixed several issues.
Features
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New features for Firefox 3.6 include
* Built-in support for Personas (browser Graphical user interface themes)
* Check and notification of out-of-date plugins
* Full-screen playback of Theora video
* Support for the WOFF open web font format
* Plug-in directory lock down: Plugins may only to be installed using a .xpi file, not through mere copying to the Firefox plugin directory. This breaks older plugins such as the Java Runtime Environment before 6 Update 15, net framework before 1.2.
* Many performance improvements
End of life
Mozilla discontinued support for Firefox 3.6 on April 24, 2012,<ref name"ReferenceA"/><ref name"Extended Support Proposal"/> which at over 27 months of support made it the longest supported version of Firefox, even longer than Firefox 2 which had over 26 months of total support itself. The underlying Gecko 1.9.2 engine continued to be used, with updates, in Camino.
See also
* History of Firefox
References
External links
* [https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_releasenotes/en-US/firefox/3.6/releasenotes/ Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Release Notes]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121015013328/http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6.28/ Mozilla Firefox 3.6.28 Download link (FTP)]
* [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ Mozilla.com], Mozilla Firefox homepage for end-users
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120301134039/http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ Mozilla.org], Mozilla Firefox project page for developers
* [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/legal/eula/ Mozilla.com], Mozilla EULA
* [https://nightly.mozilla.org/ Nightly.Mozilla.org], Firefox latest builds
3.6
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Category:Unix Internet software
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Category:Software that uses XUL
es:Anexo:Historia de Mozilla Firefox#Firefox 3.6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_3.6 | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.893611 |
25900921 | Rancho San Carlos de Jonata | thumb|upright|Rancho San Carlos de Jonata was granted to José M. Covarrubias, a Californio politician.
Rancho San Carlos de Jonata was a Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Barbara County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Joaquín Carrillo and Jose Maria Covarrubias. The grant was west of Mission Santa Inés in the Santa Ynez Valley, and extended north from the Santa Ynez River along Zaca Creek. The grant encompasses present-day Solvang and Buellton.
History
José Joaquin Carrillo (1801–1868) was the son of Domingo Antonio Ygnacio Carrillo (1791–1837) and Maria Concepcion Nicanor Pico (1797–1871). Joaquin Carrillo married Manuela Carrillo and served as Santa Barbara County Judge from 1851–1853, a position later held by José María Covarrubias from 1861–1863. Joaquín Carrillo owned with his brother Rancho Lompoc and Rancho Mission Vieja de la Purisma.
José María Covarrubias (c. 1809 – 1870), a Frenchman who became a Mexican citizen and came to California in 1834 with the Hijar-Padres Colony to be a schoolteacher. Covarrubias held several key government posts in Monterey and Santa Barbara. Covarrubias married María Carrillo, sister of Joaquín Carrillo. He served as alcalde at Santa Barbara. In 1843 Covarrubias received the Rancho Castac land grant. Covarrubias was a member of the 1849 California Constitutional Convention, and member of the California State Assembly for four terms 1849–1862. In 1850, Covarrubias bought the Island of Santa Catalina land grant from Thomas M. Robbins.
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for the six square league Rancho San Carlos de Jonata was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853, and the grant was patented to Joaquín Carrillo and José M. Covarrubias in 1872.
Rufus Thompson (R.T.) Buell (1827-1905) was born in Vermont. In 1853 Buell joined the California Gold Rush, but by 1857 was dairy farming in Marin County, and in 1865, Monterey County. In 1866, R.T. Buell and his brother, Alonzo Wilcox Buell, bought a quarter of Rancho San Carlos de Jonata from Joaquín Carrillo and José M. Covarrubias. By 1872 R.T had bought the entire Rancho, and dissolved the partnership with his brother Alonzo. A severe drought forced Buell to sell of the rancho in the 1870s.
This property was sold in 1911 to the Danish American Company to establish a Danish colony called "Solvang". The remaining rancho was partitioned among his seven heirs upon his death in 1915.
See also
Ranchos of California
List of Ranchos of California
References
External links
Ranchos of Santa Barbara County Map
San Carlos de Jonata
Category:Santa Ynez Valley
Category:1845 establishments in Alta California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_San_Carlos_de_Jonata | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.897414 |
25900962 | Purpurin | Purpurin or purpurine may refer to:
1,2,4-Trihydroxyanthraquinone, a natural red/yellow dye found in the madder plant
Purpurin (protein), a protein, belonging to the lipocalin family
Purpurin (glass), a red or reddish-brown ancient type of glass
Purpurine, an earlier, but still occasionally seen, name for uroerythrin, the pink/red precipitate from urine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purpurin | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.918059 |
25900985 | Svärd | Svärd, meaning "Sword", is a surname of Swedish origin which may refer to:
People
Anna Svärd (born 1973), Swedish curler
Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd (born 1965), Swedish politician of the Moderate Party
Gunilla Svärd (born 1970), Swedish orienteering competitor
Nils Svärd (1908–2001), Swedish cross country skier who competed in the early 1930s
Oskar Svärd (born 1976), Swedish cross-country skier
Sebastian Svärd (born 1983), Danish footballer
Other
Lotta Svärd (poem), part of Johan Ludvig Runeberg's epic poem The Tales of Ensign Stål
Lotta Svärd, Finnish voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organization for women
Category:Surnames
Category:Swedish-language surnames | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svärd | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.920763 |
25900986 | Juanjo (futsal player) | |birth_place = Cieza, Murcia, Spain
|height
|currentclub = ElPozo Murcia
|clubnumber |position Goalkeeper
|youthyears1 |youthclubs1
|years1 2001–2002 | clubs1 Intec Murcia
|years2 2002–2003 | clubs2ElPozo Murcia
|years3 2003–2004 | clubs3 Intec Murcia
|years4 2004–2010 | clubs4ElPozo Murcia | caps4 232 | goals4 7
|years5 2010–2013 | clubs5 InterMovistar | caps5 36 | goals5 1
|years6 2013–2014 | clubs6 Santiago Futsal
|years7 2014–2016 | clubs7 Benfica | caps7 | goals7
|years8 2016–2020 | clubs8 Barcelona | caps8 | goals8
|years9 2020– | clubs9 ElPozo Murcia | caps9 | goals9
|nationalyears1 | nationalteam1 Spain | nationalcaps1 56 | nationalgoals1
|club-update = 15 October 2016
|nationalteam-update =
}}
Juan José Angosto Hernández (born 19 August 1985), known as Juanjo, is a Spanish professional futsal player who plays as a goalkeeper for ElPozo Murcia and the Spain national team.
Club career
He started his professional career at Intec Murcia and then joined ElPozo Murcia.
Honours
Club
ElPozo Murcia
* Primera División: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10
* Copa de España: 2008, 2010
* Supercopa de España: 2006, 2009
* European Cup Winners Cup: 2003–04
* Copa Ibérica: 2006
Inter Movistar
* Liga Portuguesa: 2014–15
* Taça de Portugal: 2014–15
* Supertaça de Portugal: 2015
Barcelona
*UEFA Futsal Champions League third place: 2018–19
International
Spain<ref name="lnfs profile"/>
* UEFA Futsal Championship: 2007, 2010, 2012, 2016
* FIFA Futsal World Cup: Runner-up 2008
Individual
* LNFS Best Goalkeeper: 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10<ref name"lnfs profile"/>ReferencesExternal links
* [http://www.slbenfica.pt/HomeFutsal/Plantel/Jogador/tabid/1148/PID/3537/SeID/9/Juanjo.aspx Benfica official profile]
*
}}
Category:1985 births
Category:Living people
Category:Sportspeople from Murcia
Category:Spanish men's futsal players
Category:Futsal goalkeepers
Category:ElPozo Murcia FS players
Category:Inter FS players
Category:S.L. Benfica (futsal) players
Category:FC Barcelona Futsal players
Category:Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Category:21st-century Spanish sportsmen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanjo_(futsal_player) | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.925374 |
25900992 | Nimai Bali | | birth_place | spouse Sahila Chadha ()
| children = Princess Bali (daughter)
| years_active = 1993–present
| occupation = Actor
| parents = Rajrani Dutt Bali (mother)
| relatives =
}}
Nimai Bali is an Indian actor who generally plays legendary supporting and villainous roles. He is also famous for his role in the TV series Laado 2.
Career
Bali began his career playing Surya in the TV series Chandrakanta. He went on to play role of Senior Inspector Pratap in the TV series CID: Special Bureau.
He played the role of Lord Vishnu's guard Jaya, and two of Jaya's three asura incarnations, Hiranyakashipu and Ravan in the 2000-2002 Hindi television serial Vishnu Puran.
He again played Duryodhana in Khan's miniseries Jai Mahabharat in 2001, and appeared in the serials Bhabhi, Kumkum - Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan, Doli Saja Ke, Amber Dhara,
Bali played the role of Ravana in Jai Jai Jai Bajrang Bali.
Bali played the role of Inspector Malvade in the Bollywood movie Rahasya, released in January 2015.
He had also appeared in Suryaputra Karn as Drona and Maharaj Kans in Baal Krishna.
He portrayed the role of Ugrapat in the TV serial RadhaKrishn and Shankaracharya in the TV serial Devi Adi Parashakti.
Personal life
Bali is married to actress Sahila Chadha.
| Yuvraj Duryodhan
| DD National
|-
| 2005–2006
| CID Special Bureau
| Senior Inspector Pratap
| Sony Entertainment Television
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| 2007
| Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan
| Inspector Satyadev Tipley
| Star Plus
|-
| 2021–2022
| Sirf Tum
| Vikrant Oberoi
| Colors TV
|-
| 2023
| Tere Ishq Mein Ghayal
| Mayor Kumar Damania
| Colors TV
|-
| 2023–2024
| Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin
| Yashwant Bhosle
| Star Plus
|-
| 2024
| Lakshmi Narayan – Sukh Samarthya Santulan
| Maharishi Bhrigu
| rowspan = "2" | Colors TV
|-
| 2025–present
| Shiv Shakti – Tap Tyaag Tandav
| Maharishi Shukracharya
|-
|}
* Laado 2 as Indra Baba Choudhary (Main Male Antagonist) opposite Ananya Khare who plays Malhari Indra Baba Choudhary
*Phir Subah Hogi (2012) as Hukum
* Chupaun Kaise Laga Chunri Mein Daag, 2012
* Chandrakanta as Surya
* Yug as Hajaari
* Betaal Pachisi as Teja
* Gul Sanobar as Jhigala, 1999–2000
* Wanted as Inspector Abhimanyu
* Raavan as Vanara Bali
* Om Namah Shivay as Jalandhar /Sindurasur/ Duryodhan
* Rishton Se Badi Pratha
* C.I.D. as Senior Inspector Pratap
* Bhabhi as Radheshyam
* Doli Saja Ke as Dhananjay Singhania
* Woh Rehne Waali Mehlon Ki as Abhay Parashar
* Jai Jai Jai Bajrang Bali as Ravana
* Mahabharat Katha as Anushalva
* Vishnu Puran as Hiranyakashipu / Ravan/Jay
* Maa Shakti as Mahishasur
* Bani - Ishq Da Kalma as Balbir Singh Bhullar
* Saath Saath Banayenge Ek Aashiyaan as Ranveer Singh
*Dehleez as Raghuveer
* Jai Mahabharat as Duryodhan
* Balika Vadhu as L.P. Shrivastav
* Suryaputra Karn as Guru Drona
* Shree Ganesh as Tarakasura and Mohasura
* Om Namo Narayan as Adharm (Injustice)
* Baal Krishna as Kans
* Mahakali — Anth Hi Aarambh Hai as Guru Shukracharya
* Porus as Amatya Rakshas
* Chandragupta Maurya as Amatya Rakshas
* Radha Krishn as Ugrapat
* Devi Adi Parashakti as Shukracharya
* Jap Tap Vrat as Shanidev
* Karmaphal Daata Shani as Sage Vishwamitra
* Ghar Sansaar as Mr. Dabla
*Brij Ke Gopal'' as Sahukaar
References
External links
*
Category:Indian male television actors
Category:Living people
Category:Indian male film actors
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25900996 | Dan Fitzgerald | | birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place = Spokane, Washington, U.S.
| alma_mater = Cal State, Los Angeles
| coach_years1 = 196x–1968
| coach_team1 = Daniel Murphy HS (JV)
| coach_years2 = 1968–1971
| coach_team2 = Archbishop Mitty HS
| coach_years3 = 1971–1972
| coach_team3 = Santa Clara (freshmen)
| coach_years4 = 1972–1974
| coach_team4 = Gonzaga (assistant)
| coach_years5 = 1975–1978
| coach_team5 = Santa Clara (assistant)
| coach_years6 = 1978–1981
| coach_team6 = Gonzaga
| coach_years7 = 1985–1997
| coach_team7 = Gonzaga
| admin_years1 = 1978–1997
| admin_team1 = Gonzaga
| overall_record = 252–171 ()
| bowl_record | tournament_record 0–1 (NCAA Division I)<br/>1–2 (NIT)
| championships =
* WCC tournament (1995)
* 2 WCC regular season (1994, 1996)
| awards =
* 2× WCC Coach of the Year (1981, 1994)
* State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame
| coaching_records =
}}
Daniel John Fitzgerald (March 3, 1942 – January 19, 2010) was an American college basketball coach and athletic director at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.
Fitzgerald was the head coach at Gonzaga for 15 seasons between 1978 and 1997 (except for 1981 to 1985) with an overall record of 252–171 (). He led the Bulldogs to their first appearance in the NCAA tournament in 1995, after leading them to their first post-season tournament, the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in 1994, where they won at Stanford in the first round. They had narrowly missed an NIT selection the previous two seasons. Gonzaga returned to the NIT in 1996.
Among his recruits was future Basketball Hall of Fame member John Stockton, out of Gonzaga Prep in 1980. Fitzgerald was also responsible for hiring coaches Mark Few, Dan Monson, and Bill Grier to Gonzaga. His win total was a school record until Few passed him in 2009.
Prior to his hiring in April 1978, Fitzgerald was an assistant coach for three seasons at Santa Clara, with a previous two-year stint as an assistant at Gonzaga under Adrian Buoncristiani, a high school teammate whom Fitzgerald ultimately succeeded. In between, he worked in the private sector for a year. At Gonzaga, his first season as head coach was their final year in the Big Sky Conference. Shortly after his arrival in Spokane, "Fitz" stated he was a strong proponent of moving out of the Big Sky to the WCAC. After becoming part-owner of the Spokane Indians, athletic director (and former baseball coach) Larry Koentopp resigned in the fall of 1978 and Fitzgerald took on the AD position as well.
Following his third year as head coach, Fitzgerald stepped down in 1981 to focus his efforts as athletic director and hired assistant and GU alumnus Jay Hillock as head coach. Hillock resigned after four seasons in April 1985 and Fitzgerald returned to coach the Bulldogs. After making it to the NCAA Tournament a decade later, he announced in 1995 that he planned to coach two more seasons and promote Monson, a GU assistant since 1988, to head coach.
After 19 years as athletic director, Fitzgerald resigned in December 1997, and was succeeded by Mike Roth. Fitzgerald then worked in private business in the Spokane area. He died in Spokane at age 67 after an apparent heart attack on January 19, 2010.
Fitzgerald was also responsible for Gonzaga being put on four years of probation for keeping an illegal slush fund for recruiting purposes, hiding almost $200,000 from the NCAA. The NCAA investigators agreed that Gonzaga did not gain a competitive advantage from use of the money, since the totals spent on recruiting fell within NCAA guidelines.
Born in San Francisco, California, Fitzgerald went to high school at St. Ignatius and graduated in 1959, then attended college at Santa Clara and San Francisco State,Head coaching record
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*<small>West Coast Athletic Conference was renamed West Coast Conference in summer 1989.</small>
References
External links
* [https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/dan-fitzgerald-3.html Sports-Reference.com] – college basketball – Dan Fitzgerald
* [http://digital.gonzaga.edu/cdm/search/searchterm/Dan%20Fitzgerald/order/nosort Gonzaga University Digital Collections] – Dan Fitzgerald
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Category:Basketball coaches from California
Category:California State University, Los Angeles alumni
Category:College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
Category:Gonzaga Bulldogs athletic directors
Category:Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball coaches
Category:High school basketball coaches in the United States
Category:San Francisco State University alumni
Category:Santa Clara Broncos men's basketball coaches
Category:Santa Clara University alumni
Category:Sportspeople from San Francisco
Category:St. Ignatius College Preparatory alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Fitzgerald | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.948780 |
25900997 | Javier de Viana (disambiguation) | Javier de Viana may refer to
Javier de Viana, a populated centre in the Artigas Department of northern Uruguay
Javier de Viana (author) (1868–1926), Uruguayan writer
Francisco Javier de Viana (1764–1820), Argentine sailor, soldier, and political figure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_de_Viana_(disambiguation) | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.950152 |
25901009 | Pseuderanthemum variabile | |taxon = Pseuderanthemum variabile
|authority = (R.Br.) Radlk.
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Pseuderanthemum variabile, commonly known as pastel flower or love flower in its native range, or night and afternoon in the USA, is a small perennial herb in the family Acanthaceae which is native to Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia. It can be an unwelcome nuisance in orchid nurseries in Australia.
Description
Pseuderanthemum variabile is a creeping herb with a highly variable appearance, growing up to high, all parts of which may be pubescent. The wiry stems are around wide. The leaves are lanceolate to ovate in shape with entire margins, and their arrangement is opposite and decussate. They measure up to long by wide with petioles up to long, and have from 3 to 6 lateral veins either side of the midrib.
The leaf colour varies greatly. The upper surface is usually dark green to mid-green, but may have varying amounts of light grey or (rarely) purple patterning. The lower surface of the leaf is usually light green but may also be purple or dark red (see gallery for examples).
The inflorescence is produced from the terminal axil, and the zygomorphic flowers have five petals. Two petals are smaller than the others and are usually uppermost. They measure around and overlap each other slightly. Two more are held perpendicular to the first pair, one on either side, and the last (and largest) petal is opposite the first pair. This one measures about and is often decorated with a variable number of small purple spots. The petals may be any colour shade from white to pink or lilac.
The fruit is a capsule up to long, and may be pubescent or glabrous.
Taxonomy
The basionym of this species is Eranthemum variabile which was first described by the Scottish botanist Robert Brown in his book Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen published in 1810. In 1883 the German taxonomist and botanist Ludwig Radlkofer transferred a number of species, including E. variablile, to the new genus Pseuderanthemum.
Distribution and habitat
This species is found in Papua New Guinea, eastern parts of New South Wales and Queensland in Australia, and in New Caledonia. It may occupy a number of forest types in Australia, most often rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest, but also woodlands, open forest and deciduous vine thickets.
It has been introduced to Florida, South Carolina and Puerto Rico.
Ecology
P. variabile is the food plant for caterpillars of a number of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, including Doleschallia bisaltide, Hypolimnas alimena, Hypolimnas bolina, Hypolimnas misippus and Junonia orithya.
Conservation
This species is listed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science as least concern. , it has not been assessed by the IUCN.
Cultivation and uses
It is an attractive addition to gardens, and can be used as a feature, a ground cover, or a gap filler in a rockery. It is easily grown from seed or cuttings.
In Australia, it is reported by some orchid nurseries as a pest, as it often appears in pots and may be difficult to eradicate.
Gallery
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File:Pseuderanthemum variabile 1.jpg
File:Flowers in Whites Hill Reserve (6980281088).jpg |Whites Hill Reserve, Queensland. February 2012
File:Pastel flower leaf underside (8584224544).jpg |Underside with mild colouration
File:Pseuderanthemum variabile, Cairns.jpg |Forming a groundcover at Cairns Railway Station, Queensland, December 2020.
File:Pseuderanthemum-variabile-ryanthughs-iNat-183663594.jpg |Flower with spots, Barron Gorge Queensland, March 2022
File:Pseuderanthemum-variabile-ryanthughs-iNat-183663621.jpg |Leaves with random patterning above and dark purple below. Barron Gorge Queensland, March 2022
</gallery>
References
External links
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* [https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=Pseuderanthemum+variabile#tab_mapView View a map] of recorded sightings of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium
* [https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?place_idany&taxon_id167477 View observations] of this species on iNaturalist
* [https://flickriver.com/search/Pseuderanthemum+variabile See images] of this species on Flickriver
Category:Flora of the Northern Territory
Category:Flora of Queensland
Category:Flora of New South Wales
Category:Flora of New Guinea
Category:Flora of New Caledonia
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Category:Garden plants | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseuderanthemum_variabile | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.960073 |
25901032 | Whitepages (company) | , in Stanford, California, U.S.
| founder = Alex Algard
| headquarters = Seattle, Washington, U.S.
| location_country = U.S.
| country_of_origin = United States
| area_served = United States
| key_people Leigh McMillan, CEO (2019–present)
| products = People Search<br />Phone Search<br /> Home Address Search<br />Background Check
| production | services Speed Search<br />People Search App<br />Reverse Phone App
| operating_income | net_income
| assets | equity
| owner | num_employees 32 (2019)
| parent | divisions
| subsid | website
| footnotes | intl
| bodystyle | website_type Contact Data
| current_status = Active
}}
Whitepages is a provider of online directory services, fraud screening, background checks and identity verification for consumers and businesses. It has the largest database available of contact information on residents of the United States. Algard bought the Whitepages.com domain for $900,
The site grew and attracted more advertisers. The company brokered deals with Yellowpages and Superpages, whereby Whitepages earned revenue for sending them referral traffic. By 2005, $15 million in annual revenues was coming from these contracts. and Max Bardon took his place as CEO temporarily. Algard returned to the company in 2007. and the company was listed as one of Deloitte's 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America three times. By 2008 the company had $66 million in annual revenues. That same year, it acquired VoIP developer Snapvine in order to add features where users could be called through the website without giving out their phone number. It also introduced an api, which gave third-party developers access to Whitepages' data. Whitepages released an iOS app that August, followed by the Whitepages Caller ID app for Android devices in February 2009 and for Blackberry that May.
The app displayed information on callers, such as their latest social media posts, local weather at the caller's location and the identity of the caller. The ability for consumers to add themselves to the directory was added in the summer of 2009 and being able to edit existing entries was added that October.
Whitepages.com underwent a re-design in 2009. According to VentureBeat reporter Matt Marshall, the redesign made the advertising "cleaner" and made it more obvious when someone was going to a third-party website like US Search. Marshall had previously criticized Whitepages, because website users that clicked on US Search ads and purchased data from US Search were sent through perpetual advertisements for other services that made it difficult to access the information they paid for. A local business lookup feature called "Store Finder" was added in June 2010. The following month, Whitepages.com launched a deal site, Dealpop.com, which differed from Groupon by offering short-term deals on nationally available products. Dealpop was sold to Tippr the following year.
In 2010, Superpages and Yellowpages cut back spending with Whitepages from $33 million to $7 million, causing a substantial decline in revenues and a tense relationship with investors. Algard spent $50 million in cash the company had on-hand and $30 million from a bank loan, to buyout the investors in 2013. He also used his personal house, savings account and personal belongings as collateral for the loan.
Whitepages released the Localicious app in July 2011. The app was released on Android first, because Whitepages was frustrated with Apple's approval process for iPhone apps. Whitepages PRO was also introduced that same year. An updated Android app called Current Caller ID was released in August 2012. In June 2013, Whitepages acquired Mr. Number, an Android app for blocking unwanted callers.
In August 2013 Whitepages purchased all the interests in the company owned by investors for $80 million. In 2015, Whitepages acquired San Francisco-based NumberCorp to improve the database of phone numbers used for scams in the Caller ID app. In April 2016, Whitepages spun-off its caller ID business into a separate company called Hiya with a staff of 40 in Seattle. In September 2016, Alex Algard stepped down as CEO of Whitepages, in order to focus on the mobile spam-blocking spin-off Hiya. He appointed Rob Eleveld as the new Whitepages CEO. Privacy
As of August 2020, users can remove their information from Whitepages by following the tutorial on Whitepages homepage.
Whitepages and similar services have been criticized because of the danger caused by listing the personal information and physical addresses of unwitting people openly online, and for profiting off the exploitation of personal data. Lawsuits On February 1, 2017, Kevin Klingler, identified only as a resident of Illinois, filed suit in Cook County Circuit Court, alleging the behavior of Seattle-based Whitepages violates the Illinois Right of Publicity Law.ServicesWhitepages has the largest database of contact information on Americans. including 200 million records on people and 15 million business listings. Whitepages' data is collected from property deeds, Privacy is a common concern regarding Whitepages' publishing of personal contact information. The Whitepages.com website has features that allow users to remove themselves from the directory or correct and update information. and performs two billion searches per month. In 2016, advertising on Whitepages.com was turned off in favor of selling monthly subscriptions that give users access to background checks and other records. including 411.com, PeopleSearch.com and Switchboard.com. The Hiya app (previously known as Whitepages Caller ID) checks incoming calls against a database of phone numbers known for spam or scam calls and helps users report scams to the Federal Trade Commission. Hiya mobile app replaces the Android user interface for making and receiving phone calls.<ref name"fgy"/>
References
External links
*[https://www.whitepages.com/ Official website]
*[https://www.411.com/ 411.com official website]
*[https://peoplesearch.com/ PeopleSearch.com official website]
Category:Directories
Category:Internet properties established in 1997
Category:Privately held companies based in Washington (state)
Category:Companies based in Seattle
Category:Online person databases
Category:Internet search engines | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitepages_(company) | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.983988 |
25901075 | Fernandão (futsal player) | | birth_place = São Paulo, Brazil
| height = 1.84 m
| currentclub = MFK Dinamo Moskva
| clubnumber = 6
| position = Pivot
| youthyears1 | youthclubs1
| years1 = 2000
| years2 = 2001
| years3 = 2001
| years4 = 2001
| years5 = 2002
| years6 = 2002
| years7 = 2003
| years8 = 2004
| years9 = 2004–2006
| years10 = 2006–2007
| years11 = 2007–2014
| years12 = 2014–
| clubs1 = General Motors
| clubs2 = Ulbra
| clubs3 = Malwee
| clubs4 = Vasco da Gama
| clubs5 = Banespa
| clubs6 = Toledo
| clubs7 = São Miguel
| clubs8 = Joinville
| clubs9 = Martorell
| clubs10 = Playas de Castellón
| clubs11 = FC Barcelona
| clubs12 = MFK Dinamo Moskva
| caps9 = 158
| goals9 = 156
| caps10 = 36
| goals10 = 48
| caps11 = 256
| goals11 = 163
| nationalyears1 | nationalteam1 Spain
| nationalcaps1 = 102
| nationalgoals1 = 70
| pcupdate | ntupdate
}}
Fernando Maciel Gonçalves (born 16 August 1980), commonly known as Fernandão, is a Spanish-Brazilian futsal player who plays for Dinamo as a Pivot.
Honours
*2 Winner UEFA Futsal Cup (2012, 2014)
*1 Runner World Cup (2008)
*1 Campeonato Carioca (2001)
*1 Campeonato Paulista
*3 Campeonatos LNFS (España) (2011, 2012, 2013)
*3 Copas de España (2011, 2012, 2013)
*4 Copas del Rey (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
*1 Supercopa de España (2013)
*6 Catalonia Cup (2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013)
*1 Top scorer LNFS 05/06
*1 Best Pívot of the LNFS (05/06)
External links
*[http://www.f6fernandao.com Official Website]
*[http://www.lnfs.es/Clubs/Jugadores/temp12-13/25/148/420/FCBarcelonaAlusport.html LNFS profile]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121018201147/http://rfef.es/index.jsp?nodo151&jugador905 RFEF profile]
Category:1980 births
Category:Living people
Category:Spanish men's futsal players
Category:Brazilian men's futsal players
Category:FC Barcelona Futsal players
Category:FS Martorell players
Category:Brazilian emigrants to Spain
Category:Kings League players
Category:21st-century Brazilian sportsmen
Category:21st-century Spanish sportsmen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernandão_(futsal_player) | 2025-04-06T15:56:21.993716 |
25901089 | Ismail ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Abi al-Muhajir | Ismail ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Abi al-Muhajir () was an Umayyad governor of Ifriqiya (North Africa) from 718 to 720.
Ismail ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Abi al-Muhajir (or al-Muhajjar) was from a client tribe of the Quraysh.
In 718, Ismail ibn Ubayd Allah was appointed by Caliph Umar bin AbdulAziz or Umar II to replace his predecessor's appointee, the unpopular Muhammad bin Yazid. Ismail was one of the new crop of Umar II's competent governors, with instructions to improve the Kairouan administration and pursue the integration of non-Arab Muslims into the empire, rather than treat them as conquered peoples. As such, Ismail encouraged conversions among the Berbers of North Africa and curbed the abuses of the Arab military caste. Ismail adhered to Islamic law and eliminated extraordinary taxes and slave-tributes on Berber populations. He is credited for completing the conversion of the Berber population to Islam.
In a curious note, Ismail was the first and only Umayyad governor of Ifriqiya who was not given supervisory authority over Iberia (al-Andalus). In an unusual step, Caliph Umar II decided to appoint Al-Samh bin Malik al-Khawlani as the governor of al-Andalus directly, and made him directly answerable to Damascus, rather than going through Kairouan.
Ismail's tenure was competent but short. He was relieved of his post in 720 by Umar II's successor, Caliph Yazid II and replaced by the dubious Yazid bin Abi Muslim as governor in Kairouan.
See also
History of early Islamic Tunisia
History of medieval Tunisia
References
Category:Umayyad governors of Ifriqiya
Category:8th-century Arab people
Category:Tabi‘un hadith narrators | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_ibn_Ubayd_Allah_ibn_Abi_al-Muhajir | 2025-04-06T15:56:22.003838 |
25901107 | Wimmera Regional Library Corporation | The Wimmera Regional Library Corporation is situated in the northwest of Victoria, Australia. It covers an area of approximately 36,800 km2. and serves two local government bodies -Horsham Rural City Council and West Wimmera Shire Council, with a combined population of approximately 23,700. As these figures indicate, its clientele is predominantly rural-based and often has considerable distances between centres.
The Wimmera Regional Library operates 5 static branches in Edenhope, Goroke, Harrow, Horsham and Kaniva.
History
In the 1860s the first library was located in the Mechanics Institute in Horsham on the corner of Firebrace and Wilson streets, then in a building in Firebrace Street. In 1872 it moved to a timber building between Pynsent Street and Roberts Avenue, where it lost many books and records in a fire in 1908. When the library re-opened in 1909 it was in a new building in Pynsent street. In 1937 the name was changed from institute library to Horsham Public Library (the Horsham Mechanics Institute being the first in country Victoria to become a public library). It was called a "free library" although only subscribers could borrow, non-subscribers were allowed to read on the premises.
thumb|right|240px|Horsham Mechanics Institute
World War II postponed plans to consign the library to the council as a municipal project, but in April 1949 the Horsham City Council took over control of the Mechanics Institute. They financed the library, and conducted it as a municipal free library – "City of Horsham Free Library" under a liberal subsidy from the State Government. The Institute building became Council property and was renovated and extended.
In 1951 the Wimmera Shire joined the Horsham City Council in financing the Library. An approach was made to the State Government Library Board in 1955 and in 1957 the Horsham Public Library was established, and The Wimmera & Dunmunkle Shires joined – the Library was then known as "The Horsham & Dunmunkle Municipal Libraries". (Wimmera Shire residents used the City resources until the introduction of the Bookmobile in 1967) In 1962 Lowan and Kaniva Shires joined.
After many meetings and discussions between the Shires and the Library Board, the inaugural meeting of the Wimmera Regional Library Service was held in June 1966 and the WRLS formed. From October 1966 it included the Shires of Arapiles, Birchip, Donald, Dunmunkle, Kaniva, Karkarooc, Lowan, Wimmera & Warracknabeal and Horsham City Council. With the joining of Birchip, Donald, Karkarooc & Warracknabeal Shires, the Library Service now covered a total of 10 municipalities, with an area of 7,871 square miles (18,000sq km) and a population of 40,694 people. Branches were at Horsham, Kaniva, Minyip, Murtoa, Nhill & Rupanyup. The Bookmobile opened in June 1967 operating in Birchip, Donald & Karkarooc Shires, and sites were at Birchip town & schools, Watchupga, Donald town & schools, Watchem, Hopetoun town & schools, Beulah town & schools, Lascelles, Patchewollock, Speed, Tempy & Woomelang. At this time the Addressograph Libromatic Scheme replaced the Browne System, this involved new book & borrower cards and complete borrower re-registration.
In March 1968 the bookmobile began service in Arapiles Shire. An offer of bookmobile service to Dunmunkle was rejected in 1969–70, however early in 1977 it was trialled, and this time the offer was accepted and the Minyip & Murtoa branches were closed in March 1981 and their stock transferred to Rupanyup.
In January 1975 a Library Council report into the Stawell Library joining the Wimmera Regional Library Service was released, but no further action was taken. Further discussions in March 1976 also stalled due to a lack of financial support from the Library Council.
Discussions began with the Shires of Kowree and Kara Kara and the Town of St Arnaud in June 1983 about the possibility of them joining the library service. Following their decision to join, service began on 1 October 1984 to St Arnaud Town and the Kara Kara Shire. The Kowree Shire Library amalgamated with the WRLS in March 1986. A Mobile service was provided to Goroke with branches in Edenhope, Harrow and a joint-use facility in Apsley (Apsley closed on 13 April 1987).
Computerisation of the library's collection was first discussed in March 1972, and conversion of the card catalogue to microfiche had begun September 1980. In 1988 as part of the introduction of a computerised library management system renovations were made to disused toilets at the rear of the Mibus Centre building to create a computer room, and storage area for the Mobile Library. A committee chose Stowe Computing on 1 December 1988, and the first AS/400 computer was installed on 2 February 1989. In April 1989 computerisation of stock began, the first branch to offer automated service was Horsham on 25 September 1989.
Stawell Regional Library finally amalgamated with WRLS in October 1993, and the Mobile library began to visit Stawell Shire sites on 31 January 1994.
Local government re-structure began in January 1995, this led to WRLS member council changing from 15 to 6 (Buloke, Hindmarsh, Horsham, Northern Grampians, West Wimmera & Yarriambiack), the size of the region increased to 36,800 km2. The new Library Corporation was gazetted in April 1996 as the Wimmera Regional Library Corporation. Local Government elections were held in March 1997, and councillors returned to office. The new Wimmera Regional Library Board first met 17 April 1997.
On 12 January 1996 Horsham was the first branch of the WRLC to log onto the Internet via local service provider WimmeraNet. Other branches started offering Internet access from December 1996. Also in 1996 the Library provided its first "Food for thought" program on community 3HHH radio.
WRLC joined the Murraylink consortia in 1998 – a group of public libraries initially based along the Murray River in Victoria. Murraylink programs included a joint materials tender and roving collections of materials.
The Library Management System changed from Stowe's BookPlus to Geac's Libs+ in June–July 1999. MacroPlan/PractiCo undertook a library review into different service delivery methods in 2000. This was followed in April 2001 by John Liddle of J.L. Management Services being employed by the State Government to assess the future direction of the library service & to develop a model which could be used for other library services. The Project extended from May 2001 to March 2002 and led to Service & Funding Agreements – a "fee for service" arrangement, rationalisation of service sites and opening hours.
Satellite Internet access was provided at Horsham branch & Headquarters as part of a Rural Libraries Online project 2000/01, designed to help rural libraries move to faster Internet access. In July 2003 the first ADSL Internet connections were established at Horsham & Stawell.
In 2005 discussion began about the purchase of a new Library Management System, and the decision was made to join the Swift Consortium, which was planning for a joint system purchase, in early 2006. The new Library Management System – Sirsi-Dynix's Unicorn system went live on 3 April 2007.
In July 2018 Buloke Shire withdrew from the Wimmera Regional Library Corporation.
In July 2020 Hindmarsh, Northern Grampians and Yarriambiack Councils withdrew from the Wimmera Regional Library Corporation.
Branches
Edenhope
The Kowree Shire had previously operated a stand-alone single municipality library service. An approach was made by the Shire in July 1968 for information and costs associated with entering the Library Service. The Library's proposal suggested a preference for a mobile service instead of deposit stations for the small towns. No action was taken and the options were investigated again in August 1983. Finally in 1985 after another report by the Library Council of Victoria, agreement was reached on amalgamation of the two library services. The Kowree stock was added into the Wimmera collection and the Kowree Shire joined the WRLS on 31 March 1986, with the Library located in the Shire Offices. The Library moved to the new Community Centre at 78 Elizabeth St in July 2020.
Goroke
The first library in the town was the Mechanics Institute in 1889. As part of the Kowree Free Library service, a small room in the Town Hall served as the Goroke Library. When the Kowree Shire joined the WRLS in 1986, a Mobile library service was initially provided to Goroke outside the Town Hall and outside the school. The Mobile ceased visiting in December 1987, and library services returned to the Town Hall until the Library moved across the road to a refurbished shop in July 2007. The official opening was on 14 July 2007 conducted by Minister Richard Wynne and West Wimmera mayor Darren Rayner.
Harrow
Library services are provided to the Harrow community from a room in the Harrow Hall. The entire collection and furniture was lost when the Hall burnt to the ground in 1976. When the new Hall was built on the same site, a room on the south side of the Hall was set aside as the Library. Following on the amalgamation of the Kowree Shire service with the WRLS, the Harrow branch, opens for 3 hours a week, with the majority of the book stock provided on a rotational basis from the Edenhope library.
Horsham
frame|Horsham LibraryThe Horsham Library began in the Mechanics Institute building in Pynsent Street, but in December 1968 it moved to a purpose-built area in the Mibus Memorial Cultural Centre in McLachlan St (site of the former Temperance Hall which the Council compulsorily acquired from its Trustees, with the neighbouring block owned by Mrs Elizabeth Nattrass). The Centre housed the Horsham Library, Library Headquarters, & Art Gallery.
The Mibus Centre was a memorial for Mick Mibus, Member for Lowan & Minister for Water Supply who died in 1964. It was opened by Mibus' widow, and the Premier Sir Henry Bolte unveiled the plaque.
References
External links
Member Councils
Horsham Rural City Council
West Wimmera Shire Council
Wimmera Regional Library Corporation
Category:Public libraries in Australia
Category:Libraries in Victoria (state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimmera_Regional_Library_Corporation | 2025-04-06T15:56:22.012601 |
25901108 | Green theory | Green theory is a theory of international relations (IR). In contrast to mainstream theories of IR, it posits environmental issues as central to the study of international relations. According to green theory, mainstream theories like neorealism and neoliberalism fail to understand environmental problems through their rationalist and state-centric frameworks of analysis. Green theory focuses on the study of global justice, international development, modernization, and security. Green perspectives in IR emerged in the 1970s as a response to the increase of transnational issues related to the environment. By the end of the 20th century, green theory had established itself within the discipline. Green theory aligns itself with postpositivism that emerged from the so-called third (or fourth) debate of IR. The theory can be divided into an international political economy-oriented wing and a cosmopolitan wing. Initially, the IPE wing, mainly interested in environmental regimes, was stronger, but subsequently many cosmopolitan theorists, like David Held, Andrew Linklater, Henry Shue, and Thomas Pogge, have made contributions related to environmental issues.
See also
Climate change
"The Coming Anarchy"
Critical international relations theory
Ecofeminism
Ecocentrism
Green politics
The Limits to Growth
Sustainable development
Tragedy of the commons
References
Works cited
Further reading
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25901119 | Crows (manga) | | music = Keiichi Gotō
| studio = Knack Productions
| first = January 28, 1994
| last = June 24, 1994
| runtime = 45 minutes per episode
| episodes = 2
| episode_list = #OVAs
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|Kōsuke Mukai|Rikiya Mizushima|Takashi Hasegawa}}
| illustrator = Tatsuya Kanda
| publisher = Akita Shoten
| magazine = Monthly Shōnen Champion
| demographic = Shōnen
| first = October 6, 2017
| last = October 6, 2020
| volumes = 9
}}
is a Japanese high school delinquent manga series by Hiroshi Takahashi. It has the same setting and also shares some characters with Takahashi's later manga QP and Worst.
The series was adapted into a two episode OVA by Knack Productions in 1994 which covered the first three volumes of the manga. It inspired three live-action films: Crows Zero in 2007, Crows Zero 2 in 2009 (both directed by Takashi Miike),
and Crows Explode (directed by Toshiaki Toyoda) in 2014. The films are not direct adaptations but take place before the events of the manga. Several characters from the manga appear in the movies but not the main character Bōya.
Takahashi wrote a one volume side story called Crows Gaiden: Katagiri Ken Monogatari which was published in 2014.
A tribute manga called Crows Respect written by various authors was published by Akita Shoten in 2018. Two manga spin-offs were released in 2017 in Monthly Shonen Champion. The first titled Crows: Explode, written by Kōsuke Mukai, Rikiya Mizushima and Takashi Hasegawa and illustrated by Tatsuya Kanda, began on October 6; it finished on October 6, 2020. The second, Crows Gaiden: Housenka – The Beginning of Housen by Shūhei Saitō, about the beginning of Hōsen Academy, started on November 6.
A beat-em-up game for the Sega Saturn titled Crows: The Battle Action was released in 1997, which was developed and published by Athena.
An action-adventure video game by Bandai Namco Games for PlayStation 4 titled Crows: Burning Edge was released on October 27, 2016. It sold 9,574 units in its first week of release.PlotThe story begins when Harumichi Bōya transfers into the second year at Suzuran High School. Suzuran is notorious for its delinquent students who are nicknamed 'Crows' because of their dark uniforms and inauspicious nature. Quickly enough Bōya meets a group centered around Hiromi Kirishima who are trying to challenge the school boss Hideto Bandō. From there the story follows the exploits of Suzuran students and the teen-aged delinquents of various surrounding schools and gangs.CharactersSuzuran
;|坊屋 春道}}
:Voiced by Hidenari Ugaki (OVA)
:The main protagonist. His loyalty to his friends and cocky nature often get him into conflict but he is otherwise lazy and laid-back and rejects any leadership role.
;|安田 泰男}} / Yasu
:Voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi (OVA)
:Yasu is small and scrawny which makes him an easy target for bullies. He becomes Bōya's closest friend and right-hand man.
;|亜久津 太}} / Atchan
:Voiced by Masashi Sugawara (OVA), played by Issei Okihara (live action)
:Akutsu is bullying Yasu when he first crosses paths with Bōya who quickly teaches him a lesson. Despite being somewhat cowardly he becomes loyal in his own way to Bōya.
;|桐島 ヒロミ}}
:Voiced by Toshiyuki Morikawa (OVA), played by Shunsuke Daito (live action)
:Leader of the group that included Mako and Pon. After initially clashing with Bōya he allied with him to fight against Bandō. Also appears in the manga "QP".
;|杉原 誠}} / Mako
:Voiced by Jūrōta Kosugi (OVA), played by Yū Koyanagi (live action)
:One of the strongest fighters at Suzuran. Managed to get a girlfriend much to Bōya's chagrin. Dropped out of school in his last year.
;|本城 俊明}} / Pon
:Voiced by Kōji Tsujitani (OVA), played by Ryō Hashizume (live action)
:A hotheaded boy usually wearing a face mask after breaking his two front teeth in a bike accident.
;|阪東 秀人}}
:Voiced by Kazuki Yao (OVA), played by Dai Watanabe (live action)
:The ruthless boss of Suzuran when Bōya arrived and a member of the gang The Front of Armament. Also appears in the manga "QP".
;|林田 恵}} / Rindaman
:Voiced by Akio Ōtsuka (OVA), played by Motoki Fukami (live action)
:Third year student and a surly loner who was the only one at Suzuran who could stand up to Bōya in a fight. He has however no interest in gang politics. He is modelled after the character "Ricky Linderman" from the 1980 film My Bodyguard.
;|花澤 三郎}} / Zetton
:A former middle school junior of Bōya who entered Suzuran as a freshman when Bōya was beginning his third year. His nickname comes from a Kaiju in the Ultraman television series.
Kurotaki Alliance
;|古川 修}} / Bulldog
:Boss of Takiya Commerce High School and president of The Kurotaki Alliance. A charismatic leader who bonds with Bōya over their common inability to get anywhere with girls.
;|丸山 賢一}} / Maruken
:Played by Joey Iwanaga (Crows Explode live action)
;|角住 賢一}} / Kakuken
:Played by Shuhei Nogae (Crows Explode live action)
:Maruken and Kakuken are the bosses of Kurosaki Industrial. Though they often argue about trivial things they are such close friends that they are sometimes collectively known as 'MaruKaku'. They are the first to join Bulldog and form The Kurotaki Alliance.
;|中島 信助}} / Ammo
:A freshman at Kawada 2nd High who managed to become the new boss by defeating the previous boss Ishikawa. He is the only freshman to become an officer in The Kurotaki Alliance.
Hōsen
;|美藤 竜也}}
:Played by Haruma Miura (live action)
:Ruled Hōsen Academy, Suzuran's rival school, along with his younger brother Hideyuki. They seek revenge for the death of their older brother. Later the brothers move to Tokyo.
;|金山 丈}} / King Joe
:A freshman who took control of Hōsen after the Bitōs left. Always ambitious and picking fights with the bosses of other schools. His nickname is the name of a robot in the Ultra Seven television series.
Others
;|九能 龍信}}
:Became the leader of The Front of Armament motorcycle gang after his brother Hideomi is defeated. Unlike his brother, Ryūshin is tough and honorable. Later moves to Tokyo to become a professional boxer.
;|桂木 源次郎}}
:Voiced by Masahiro Anzai (OVA)
:A graduate of Suzuran and a construction worker. Many Suzuran students see him as a big brother figure, in particular Rindaman.
OVAs
The ending theme for episode 1 is "Totsuzen, Natsu no Arashi no Youni" by THE STREET BEATS and the ending theme for episode 2 is "Outsider" by THE STREET BEATS.
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Category:1990 manga
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25901120 | Kastor und Pollux | | mapframe-marker = building
| alternate_names = Forum Frankfurt
| etymology | status
| building_type | architectural_style
| location_city = Gallus, Frankfurt
| location_country = Germany
| altitude | current_tenants
| namesake = Castor and Pollux
| groundbreaking_date | start_date 1994
| stop_date = 1997
| topped_out_date | completion_date <!-- or |est_completion= -->
| opened_date | inauguration_date
| relocated_date | renovation_date
| closing_date | demolition_date <!-- or |destruction_date= -->
| cost = DM850,000,000
| client | owner
| landlord <!-- or |management or |operatoror |governing_body -->
| affiliation | height Kastor: <br />Pollux:
| tip | antenna_spire
| roof | top_floor
| observatory | diameter
| circumference | weight
| structural_system | material
| size | floor_count Kastor: 22<br />Pollux: 33
| floor_area = Kastor: <br />Pollux:
| elevator_count | grounds_area
| architect | architecture_firm Kohn Pedersen Fox
| developer | engineer
| structural_engineer | services_engineer
| civil_engineer | other_designers
| quantity_surveyor | main_contractor
| awards | designations
| known_for | parking
| public_transit Festhalle/Messe | 16 17 Festhalle/Messe}}
}}
Kastor und Pollux, also known as Forum Frankfurt, are two high-rise buildings in the Gallus district of Frankfurt, Germany. The twin towers, which are 22 and 33 floors, respectively, were named after Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri of Greek and Roman mythology.
Location and design
Pollux and Kastor were designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and built between 1994 and 1997. Between the two buildings is a green space featuring a fountain and a light sculpture, Synergie, by Swiss artist Christian Herdeg.TenantsZurich Insurance Group has been the main tenant in Pollux since early 2017, working from 17 of the building's 33 floors. DO Deutsche Office AG and Alstria Office AG both rent space in Kastor.
See also
* List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt
* List of tallest buildings in Germany
References
Category:1997 establishments in Germany
Category:Skyscraper office buildings in Frankfurt
Category:Office buildings completed in 1997
Category:Twin towers
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25901174 | Sköld | Sköld is a surname of Swedish origin. It directly translates to the English word "shield". Sköld may refer to:
People
Gunnar Sköld (1894–1971), Swedish road racing cyclist
Hannes Sköld (1886–1930), Swedish socialist and anti-militarist
Johan Sköld (born 1975), Swedish golfer
Kristian Sköld (1911–1988), Swedish chess player
Linus Sköld (born 1983), Swedish politician
Martin Sköld (born 1970), Swedish musician, Kent
Nils Sköld (1921–1996), Swedish Army lieutenant general
Per Edvin Sköld (1891–1972), Swedish Social Democratic politician
Tim Sköld, Swedish musician
Victor Sköld (born 1989), Swedish footballer
Yngve Sköld (1899–1992), Swedish composer, pianist and organist
Other
Skold vs. KMFDM, album with Tim Skold and Sascha Konietzko of KMFDM
HSwMS Sköld, small river monitor built for the Swedish Royal Skerry Artillery in the late 1860s
See also
Skiöld
Skjold (disambiguation)
Skjöldr
Category:Surnames
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