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Kanotix, also referred to as KANOTIX, is a Linux distribution Live CD (LiveDistro) based on Debian (until 2006 unstable, in 2007 KANOTIX moved to Debian Etch) with advanced hardware detection. It can run from an optical disc drive without using a hard disk.

Kanotix uses KDE as the default desktop environment. GNOME and other window managers can be downloaded using APT.

The name "Kanotix" is derived from the founder's nickname "Kano". Kanotix's mascot is a fangtooth.

Content
Kanotix is based on Debian stable (currently "Etch"). It contains a lot of backports. So many of the main applications are more recent than are available in Etch.

Kanotix includes about 1,200 software packages:
KDE, the default desktop environment, including the Konqueror, IceWM, Beryl (allows access to a 3D desktop environment)
 Amarok, Video Disk Recorder
 Beryl (window manager)
 Internet access software, including the KPPP dialer, ISDN utilities and WLAN-NdisWrapper
 Iceweasel-web browser,  IceDove Mail/News Client, Pidgin instant messenger
 K3b, for CD (and DVD) authoring and backup
 The GIMP, an image manipulation program
 Gparted and other tools for data rescue and system repair
 Network analysis and administration tools
 LibreOffice, an office suite
 Programming and development tools
 NTFS-3G used by default

Installation
Kanotix can be installed to the hard disk using the (graphical) acritoxinstaller , which, depending on optical drive, hard disk and processor speed, can take around 10 – 20 minutes.

Versions
Versions

History
In 2003 Jörg Schirottke was known with the nickname "Kano" in the former Knoppix-Forum (no more available). The distribution derived from "Kano's Scriptpage for Knoppix" . He wrote about Knoppix: "I like it much, but I had to improve it :)". So he did. One of the main differences from Knoppix was the support of hard disk installation.
The first "Kanotix"-preview was released at 24 December 2003 "KANOTIX XMAS 2003 PREVIEW".
In 2004 and 2005 KANOTIX was a popular distribution ranking in the "top 20" of "distrowatch.com". In 2004 the releases were named "Bug Hunter" (Bug Hunter-01-2004 - X-2004). After problems with the stability in 2006 Jörg "Kano" Schirottke decided to move from Debian Sid to a less volatile basis.
In October 2006 the main Kanotix co-developer (and most of Kanotix's other developers) left the project, to start sidux, another distribution based on Debian sid. The last Kanotix release based on Debian Sid was 2006-01-RC4.

Current Releases

Other websites
Other websites

 Official site
 acritoxinstaller 

Knoppix
Linux distributions
Live CD
X86-64 Linux distributions
Debian-based Linux distributions
Sokoto is a city in the northwest of Nigeria, near to where the Sokoto River and Rima River meet. The people in Sokoto are mostly Muslims. Sokoto was the capital city of Gobir from the 10th century. Sokoto was made as a caliphate, an Islamic state, in the 19th century. 

From around 1900, the British took control of Sokoto, which then made up a large part of the north-west corner of Nigeria. Sokoto became a province (area) of the British colony of Nigeria.

References 

Cities in Nigeria
The Dominican city of Moca is the head municipality of the Espaillat province.

It is in the Cibao Valley, south of the Cordillera Septentrional (English: Northern mountain range), in the southern part of the province.

History
People began to live in Moca during the first years of the 18th century, when the eastern part of the Hispaniola was the Spanish colony of "Santo Domingo".

After the Haitian independence, Jean Jacques Dessalines tried to get the eastern part of the island, that had been given by Spain to France. He tried for three weeks but could not take the city of Santo Domingo and so he came back to Haiti.

Those troops that went back to north Haiti, on 3 April 1805, kill all the inhabitants of Moca, except two persons, and burned completely the town.

Population
The municipality had, in 2010, a total population of 94,981: 47,569 men and 47,569 women. The urban population was  of the total population.
Geography
Moca has a total area of  and Is at an elevation of . The city is at  to the north of Santo Domingo, on the western end of the Yuna Valley, the eastern part of the larger Cibao valley.

The municipality is on flat land with small hills to the west and low mountains to the north; these mountains are part of the Cordillera Septentrional and its highest mountain in the municipality, and in the province, is Loma El Mogote (),  high.

The municipality of Moca has the municipality of Jamao al Norte to the north, the Hermanas Mirabal province to the east, the La Vega province to the south, the Santiago province to the west and the Puerto Plata province to the northwest.

Climate
Moca has a tropical wet climate (Köppen climate classification : Af) with no dry or cold season as it is constantly moist.

The average amount of rainfall for the year in the city is . The month with the most precipitation on average is May with  of rainfall, followed by October with .
The driest season is winter. The month with the least rainfall on average is March with an average of  and the second is February with .

Moca is in a warm region; the average temperature for the year is . The warmest month, on average, is June with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of

Administrative division
The municipality of Moca has eight municipal districts:

Economy 
The main economic activity of the province is agriculture and the main products are plantain, cassava, coffee and cacao.

Poultry raising, for both eggs and meat is also very important. Pigs are also raised in this municipality.

References

Settlements in the Dominican Republic
1822 establishments
19th-century establishments in the Spanish West Indies
1820s establishments in North America
The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River. It is an area where many people live in Nigeria. 

Nigeria has become Africa's biggest producer of petroleum, and there are many oil wells in the Niger Delta.  The natural gas from the oil wells is all burnt, causing environmental problems.

Because of the money from petroleum production, there have been many political problems in recent times.  For example, many oil workers have been taken as hostages.

Other websites

Geography of Nigeria
River deltas
In baseball, batting is the act of going against the other team's pitcher and trying to hit the baseball ball. A batter or hitter is the player who swings his bat to try to hit the ball. In Major League Baseball, pitchers usually do not bat unless they are playing in the National League where batters have to bat even if they are pitchers. In the American League, pitchers do not bat, and only pitch.

Batting the primary method by which Baseball teams play offense and score runs. A Batter bats by standing in the Batter's Box at Home Plate and either swinging or not swinging at the pitches the Pitcher throws. This activity collectively is known as an At Bat. The goal of the batter is get to get a hit, while the pitcher wants to get an out.

Other websites 
 Official Rules of Major League Baseball "The Batter"

Baseball
"My Happy Ending" is a song written and produced by Avril Lavigne and Butch Walker for Lavigne's second album, Under My Skin (2004).

Track listing 
Japan CD
(BVCP-29613; Released July 07, 2004)
 "My Happy Ending" (radio version)
 "My Happy Ending" (album version)
 "Don't Tell Me" (live acoustic version)

UK CD single 1 / French single
 "My Happy Ending" (album version)
 "Take It" (previously unreleased)

UK CD single 2
 "My Happy Ending"
 "My Happy Ending" (live acoustic version)
 "Take Me Away" (live acoustic version)
 "My Happy Ending" (music video)

Germany, Italy and Taiwan CD single
 "My Happy Ending" (album version)
 "My Happy Ending" (live acoustic version)
 "Take Me Away" (live acoustic version)
 "Take It" (previously unreleased)
 "My Happy Ending" (music video)

Australia CD single
 "My Happy Ending" (clean version)
 "My Happy Ending" (live acoustic version)
 "Take Me Away" (live acoustic version)
 "Take It" (previously unreleased)
US CD promo
 "My Happy Ending" (radio version) - 4:02
 "My Happy Ending" (album version) - 4:02
 "My Happy Ending" (Callout Hook) - 0:10

UK CD promo
 "My Happy Ending" (album version) [explicit]
 "My Happy Ending" (radio edit)[clean]

Charts

Release history

References 

Avril Lavigne songs
2004 songs
A club (also known as cudgel, baton, truncheon, night stick, and bludgeon) is a weapon mainly used to hit someone or something.  A club is a short staff, or stick, usually made of wood, and used as a weapon.  

A club can be used in one or two hands, but it is usually used in one hand.  A quarterstaff is a clubs that needs both hands to be used.  Many kinds of clubs are used in martial arts and other fields, including the law enforcement baton.

The wounds caused by a club are known as bludgeoning or blunt-force trauma injuries. In the United States, clubs are not as popular as the taser.

Weapons
Parental Advisory is a sticker that tells parents that something may not be suitable for children. The sticker is usually placed on Music CDs. It tells parents that the texts of the songs contain words or phrases that some consider bad for children. Parental Advisory stickers will usually appear on Hip Hop and Rap albums. Comic books may also have a Parental Advisory sticker on them.

References 

Music
Itzhak Perlman (born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist.

Early life 
Perlman was born in Tel Aviv which, three years later, became part of the state of Israel.  When he was small he listened to the violin on the radio and decided he wanted to play it. He studied at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv.  Then he moved to the United States to study at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian and Dorothy DeLay. He made his first public performance at Carnegie Hall in 1963. In 1964 he won the Leventritt Competition. Soon afterward he began to tour widely. He also appeared on American television in shows including Sesame Street.  He was invited to play at the White House. 

Perlman had been ill with polio at the age of four. He got better, and managed to learn to walk again with the use of crutches. Today, he still walks with crutches and plays the violin sitting down.
Career 
In 1987, he joined the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for their concerts in Warsaw and Budapest, as well as other Eastern bloc countries. He toured with the IPO in the spring of 1990 for their first-ever performance in the USSR, with concerts in Moscow and Leningrad, and toured with the IPO again in 1994, performing in China and India.

Perlman usually plays solos, but he also plays chamber music with other musicians, including Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman and, especially, with Pinchas Zukerman.

Perlman usually plays classical music but sometimes he plays jazz.  He made an album made with jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, and klezmer. Perlman has been a soloist for a number of movie scores, including the score of the 1993 film Schindler's List by John Williams.

Perlman plays on a special Stradivarius violin called the Soil Stradivarius, made in 1714. He also plays on a Guarneri del Gesu made about 1743.
In recent years, Perlman has also begun to conduct, taking the post of principal guest conductor at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Perlman has made many recordings and received many great honours.

Perlman performed at Barack Obama's presidential inauguration. He joined cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Gabriela Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill.  Together they played "Air and Simple Gifts", a new arrangement by John Williams based on the Shaker hymn "'Tis A Gift To Be Simple."

Personal life 
Itzhak Perlman lives in New York City with his wife.  They have five children.

References

1945 births
Living people
American violinists
Grammy Award winners
Jewish American musicians
Jewish Israeli musicians
Musicians from Tel Aviv
"Keep Holding On" is a 2006 song by Avril Lavigne. It was on the Eragon soundtrack, as well as the album The Best Damn Thing. It was Avril Lavigne's first CD song (but not CD single) released in North America since "Fall to Pieces". It was released in Australia on the iTunes Store as a digital download.

2006 songs
Avril Lavigne songs
Telstra is the national telecommunications service in Australia. It is a member of the S&P/ASX 20 and Australia's largest telecommunications company by market share. Telstra is the largest wireless carrier in Australia, with 18.8 million subscribers as of 2020. Telstra has a long history in Australia, originating together with Australia Post as the Postmaster-General's Department upon federation in 1901. Telstra has transitioned from a state-owned enterprise to a fully privatized company and has recently focused on diversified products and emerging technologies, according to technologists James Gilpin and Gerard Devan regarding the strategic direction of the giant Telco.

References

Telephone companies
Companies of Australia
Maxim Vengerov (born 1974) is a famous Russian violinist/conductor.

Life

Career 
Universally hailed as one of the world’s finest musicians, and often referred to as the greatest living string player in the world today, Grammy award winner Maxim Vengerov also enjoys international acclaim as a conductor and is one of the most in-demand soloists. 

Born in 1974, he began his career as a solo violinist at the age of five, won the Wieniawski and Carl Flesch international competitions at ages 10 and 15 respectively, studied with Galina Tourchaninova and Zakhar Bron, made his first recording at the age of 10, and went on to record extensively for high-profile labels including Melodia, Teldec and EMI, earning among others, Grammy and Gramophone artist of the year awards.
In 2007 he followed in the footsteps of his mentor, the late Mstislav Rostropovich, and turned his attention to conducting and in 2010 was appointed the first chief conductor of the Gstaad Festival Orchestra. June 2014 saw Mr Vengerov graduate with a Diploma of Excellence from the Moscow Institute of Ippolitov-Ivanov with professor Yuri Simonov and he has since enrolled in a further 2-year program of opera conducting. 

In the 2016/17 season Mr Vengerov returned to Australia to open the season of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and conducted the season finale of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, with whom he is Artist in Residence this year. Further guest conducting engagements included the RTE Orchestra Dublin, Munich Philharmonic and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras.
The coming 17/18 season will see Mr Vengerov return to Carnegie Hall with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and premiere a new concerto at the Beijing Music Festival written for him by the renowned composer Qigang Chen before conducting Eugene Onegin in Brisbane and Moscow. He will also tour Europe, China and the US in recital.  

As one of Mr Vengerov’s greatest passions is the teaching and encouraging of young talent, he has held various teaching positions around the world and is currently Ambassador and visiting Professor of the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland (IMMA) and as of September 2016, the Polonsky Visiting Professor of Violin at the Royal College of Music in London. 

In 1997 Mr Vengerov became the first classical musician to be appointed International Goodwill Ambassador by UNICEF. 

He plays the ex-Kreutzer Stradivari (1727).

References

Other websites 
 Maxim Vengerov official site 
 Maxim Vengerov fan site

1974 births
Living people
Grammy Award winners
Russian violinists
Novosibirsk
Rudi Dutschke born Alfred Willi Rudi Dutschke (March 7, 1940 – December 24, 1979, Århus, Denmark) was a spokesperson of the left-wing German student movement of the 1960s. He famously split from those who went on to form the violent Red Army Faction. Instead he wanted to have 'a long march through the institutions' of power to create radical change from within government and society by becoming an important part of the machinery. This was an idea he took up from Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism.

In 1968, he survived an assassination attempt which seriously injured him. He had to re-learn how to speak altogether. Because of this attempt, he developed epilepsy. He drowned in his bath tub 12 years later. This was caused by an epileptic seizure.

References

German politicians
1940 births
1979 deaths
Sportswear is clothing, including footwear, worn for playing sports or to exercise.

Sportswear includes shorts, tracksuits, T-shirts, polo shirts and trainers. It also includes some underwear, such as the jockstrap. Sportswear is also often worn as casual fashion clothing.

Sports athletes wear a combination of different items of clothing such as sport shoes, pants and shirts. Some athletes wear personal armour such as helmets or American football body armour. 

sports clothing
In team sports, the number, often referred to as the uniform number, squad number, jersey number, shirt number, sweater number, is the number worn on a player's uniform. It distinguishes each player from others wearing the same uniform. This is so that officials, scorers and spectators have something to identify each player. The number is usually shown on the back of the jersey. The player's surname is often written above or below the number. Sometimes the number also displayed on the front or sleeves, or on the player's shorts or headgear.

Related pages
Uniform number (Major League Baseball)
Uniform number (American football)

Team sports
Numbers
Sports words
Uniform numbers are used to tell and identify different baseball players's and coach's. Over time, numbers can have a much more meaning to the player and fans. A number can be symbolic of a player's legacy, and has resulted in all kinds of superstition (or rumors). Uniforms numbers are put on the backs of baseball uniforms.

Retired numbers in Major League Baseball
Many teams retire numbers of important players who used to play for their team. Retiring a number means that nobody on that team can use that number anymore. Players' numbers are not retired while they are still playing baseball.

The number "42" was retired by all of Major League Baseball in 1997 because it was used by Jackie Robinson, who was the first black player in Major League Baseball. Players who were already wearing #42 were allowed to keep using the number, but nobody else could use it. As of 2010, New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera was the last player using #42.

Major League Baseball
The New York Knickerbockers were one of the first organized baseball teams who played the baseball rules that are still used today. The team was started by Alexander Cartwright, who is said to be one of the original developers of modern baseball.

In 1849, the New York Knickerbockers wore the first ever recorded baseball uniform. Their uniforms were pants made of blue wool, white flannel shirts and straw hats.

The team was based in New York City. It was established in 1845 and disestablished in the 1870s.

References 
Orem, Preston D. (1961), Baseball (1845-1881) From the Newspaper Accounts, Altadena, CA: Self-published ASIN B0007HTB88
Peterson, Harold (1969, 1973), The Man Who Invented Baseball, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons

Other websites 
"The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club" at Hickoksports.com 
"The History of Baseball – Alexander Cartwright"  at About.com
History of baseball
History of New York City
Sports in New York City
1840s establishments in New York (state)
1845 establishments in the United States
19th-century disestablishments in the United States
1870s disestablishments
Baseball teams in the United States
The Los Angeles Dodgers or LA Dodgers are the professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. They complete in Major League Baseball (MLB). The team played in the West Division of the National League. They play in Dodger Stadium. The team began play in Brooklyn, New York, starting in 1883. The team had several informal nicknames over the years, including the "Atlantics", the "Bridegrooms", the "Superbas" and the "Robins". The name "Dodgers" was first used in the 1890s. It was short for "Trolley Dodgers".

The Brooklyn Dodgers played in several ballparks. The most famous of them was Ebbets Field, their home from 1913 through 1958. In 1959 they moved to Los Angeles. They played in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for four years. In 1962 they opened Dodger Stadium, and have played there ever since.
The Dodgers have been to the World Series 22 times, and won it six times: 1955, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1981, 1988 and 2020.  Most recently, they were in the World Series in 2017, 2018, and 2020 and lost the first two times to the Houston Astros and the Boston Red Sox, respectively.  They defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2020 World Series.

Many famous baseball players have played for the Dodgers, including:

Jackie Robinson, the first African-American in the modern Major Leagues
Sandy Koufax
Roy Campanella
Don Newcombe
Maury Wills
Don Drysdale
Pee Wee Reese
Fernando Valenzuela
Kirk Gibson
Steve Garvey
Dusty Baker
Orel Hershiser
Darryl Strawberry
Mike Piazza
Gary Sheffield
Shawn Green
Adrian Beltre
Manny Ramirez

Other websites 

 Official Website
 Los Angeles Dodgers Opening Day Lineups 
 Dodgers Blog 
 Photograph of Boys of Summer  that appeared in SPORT magazine.
 Los Angeles Team Building - Dodger's Mentoring
 Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Reference
The Oakland Athletics, also known as the Oakland A's, are a professional Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of the American League. From  to today, the Athletics have played in Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.

The Athletics were an original member of the American League in 1901, playing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The name "Athletics" had been used by several other Philadelphia teams dating back to the 1860s. Most of the various "Athletics" teams wore a Gothic or Old English letter "A" on their uniforms. The current Athletics still often wear that old-style "A" or "A's" on their uniforms.
The old Athletics were very successful, winning several World Series championships. By the early 1950s, they were not playing well and the fans were no longer supporting them. So after over 50 years in Philadelphia, the Athletics moved to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1955. They were not very successful there, either. They moved again, to Oakland, in 1968. As the Oakland A's, they have won several World Series.

Notes

References

Other websites 

 Official Website
 Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society
 Oakland Athletics stats and minor league statistics 
 Sports E-Cyclopedia
 Eddie Plank 
 Oakball Forums 
 Oakland A's Minor League Information

 
1901 establishments in the United States
Sports in San Francisco
The Pittsburgh Pirates are a professional Major League Baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  They play in the Central Division of the National League. They have won five World Series championships. The Pirates are also often called the Bucs or the Buccos. This is because the word "buccaneer" is slang for pirate.

The Pirates had success in the early 1990s. However, between 1993 and 2012, the Pirates did not have a winning season.

PNC Park
The Pirates play their home games at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. PNC Park is next to the Allegheny River, and downtown Pittsburgh can be seen from the stadium.

History

The Pittsburgh Pirates were formed in 1882. They first played their games across the river from downtown Pittsburgh, in an area that was then a separate city called Allegheny. The team was also called Allegheny, or "the Alleghenys". Around 1890, the city of Pittsburgh annexed Allegheny. The team was then renamed "Pittsburgh", with no nickname yet.
In 1891, the Pittsburgh team signed a contract with a player who had belonged to a team in another league. They were accused of "pirating" the player's contract. Soon after, the fans started calling the team "the Pirates". Later the team adopted the name as their official team name, the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The Pirates have won five World Series. They won their first in 1909, beating the Detroit Tigers. The Pirates also won World Series titles in 1925, 1960, 1971, and 1979. 

Some famous players for the Pirates have been Honus Wagner, Ralph Kiner, Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell.

References

Other websites 

 Official Website
 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh Pirates
 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh Pirates
 Pittsburgh Lumber Co. - Pirates Blog 
 Sportsocracy 

 
1882 establishments in the United States
1880s establishments in Pennsylvania
Coach could mean:

Transportation 
 Coach (carriage), a horse-drawn carriage
 Stagecoach, An early form of long distance public transport
 Coach (vehicle), a type of passenger-carrying road vehicle.
 Coach (rail) a type of passenger car used in rail transport.
 Economy class in travel can be referred to as "coach"

Coaching 
 Coach (sport), the director of athletes' activities in sports
 Head coach
 Coach (baseball), includes manager, assistant coaches, on-field coaches, and specialized coaches
 Coach (hockey), head coach or assistant coaches
Coaching
dating coaching
Co-coaching

Popular media 
Coach (TV series), an American sitcom starring Craig T. Nelson
Coach (comics), a Marvel Comics character in X-Force

Corporations 
Coach Inc., an American leather goods company famous for its handbags
Coach Canada, an inter-city coach company in Canada
Coach USA, a bus transport company in the United States
People 
 Jonathan Coachman, World Wrestling Entertainment personality a.k.a. "The Coach"
 Coach Ernie Pantusso, the character played by Nicholas Colasanto on the sitcom Cheers
 Mike Ditka, former head coach of the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints head coach, a.k.a. "Da Coach"
Rent is a rock musical. The music and lyrics were written by Jonathan Larson. The musical is based on the Italian opera, La bohème. The musical opened on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre on 29 April 1996.  It closed on 7 September 2008 after a run of 5,123 performances. It opened on the West End in 2008. In 2005, it was adapted to a movie. Rent won the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Other websites 

 Official Rent musical site
 Rent Musical on Broadway.com

Broadway musicals
West End musicals
Musicals adapted to movies
1990s musicals
Rock musicals
Tony Award winning musicals
Pulitzer Prize winners
1996 works
In sports, a coach or manager is a person who directs and trains a sports team or sportsperson. If there is a difference between coach and manager, it is this:
the coach will train the players
the manager will deal with the business aspects
The borderline areas are selecting the team, and buying new players.

Other websites 
Coaching Certification. 

Training
Manuel Aristides "Manny" Ramírez Onelcida (born May 30, 1972 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a former American Major League Baseball player. The Boston Red Sox traded Ramirez to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Jason Bay on July 31, 2008. He signed with the Tampa Bay Rays in 2011.  He retired on April 8, 2011.

He is a nine-time Silver Slugger and one of twenty-four people to have hit over 500 career home runs. He is well recognized for his strong offensive abilities. Ramirez has the most career grand slams of any active baseball player, and has led the American League is three key batting measures: batting average, home runs and runs batted in. For the past ten years, Ramírez has been a fixture in the Midsummer Classic, and is an eleven-time All-Star. In 2004, he was named the Most Valuable Player of the World Series after helping the Red Sox win their first World Series championship in over 85 years.

Statistics 
Statistics of Ramirez as of June 6, 2008:

References

Other websites
Other websites 

 Official Home Page 
 

1972 births
American League All-Stars
Boston Red Sox players
Chicago White Sox players
Cleveland Indians players
Dominican Republic baseball players
Living people
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Tampa Bay Rays players
Leica could mean:
Leica Camera, a German camera manufacturer
Leica Geosystems AG, a company in eastern Switzerland that makes surveying and geomatics equipment
Leica Microsystems GmbH, a German company that makes microscopes and other precision optics
Alfonso Guilleard Soriano (born January 7, 1976) is a Dominican Republican professional Major League Baseball player. He currently is a free agent.  He has used to play with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers and Washington Nationals before the Cubs. He played as a second baseman for the Yankees and Rangers. He bats right-handed and has batted as a lead-off hitter for most of his career.

Statistics

Batting

Fielding

Related pages

Other websites 
 Baseball Prospectus: Alfonso Soriano

1976 births
Living people
Washington Nationals players
Chicago Cubs players
New York Yankees players
Texas Rangers players
National League All-Stars
Linspire, also known as LindowsOS (also Lin---s, pronounced Lindash), is a commercial Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux (Ubuntu). Linspire is sold by Linspire, Inc. and is focused on ease-of-use for the average person, rather than catering to  advanced needs. As of 2007-10-10, the most recent stable release of Linspire is version 6.0 which was released in October of 2007. Linspire is available to download and costs US$ 50.

History
History 

Based in San Diego, California, Lindows, Inc. was founded in August 2001 by Michael Robertson with the goal of developing a Linux-based operating system capable of running major Microsoft Windows applications. It based its Windows compatibility on the Wine API emulation layer. The company later abandoned this approach in favor of attempting to make Linux applications easy to download, install and use. To this end a program named "CNR" was developed: based on Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool, it provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface and a slightly modified package system for an annual fee. The first public release of Linspire was version 1.0, released in late 2001.

CNR
CNR

Linspire's CNR (originally "Click'N'Run") is a software distribution service based on Debian's APT. It is designed to serve as a GUI-based, user-accessible means of downloading and installing various applications, both free and proprietary. The service allows users to install available applications using a single click. CNR also includes a set of Click and Buy (CNB) software, which includes many commercial applications to members at a discounted rate. Currently CNR has over 38,000 different software packages, ranging from simple applications to major commercial works such as Win4Lin and StarOffice. CNR was originally subscription-based with two tiers: basic service cost $20 annually, and gold, featuring discounts on some commercial applications, $50. In 2006, Linspire announced that the basic service was to be made available for free.

Web Software
Web Software 

CNR.com  also provides access to thousands of Web-based Applications, providing the Linux community with the option of local Linux and Web Software, available through a single source (as of February 2008).
The same capabilities to browse and search the library of products with additional capabilities planned to improve the Web Software experience (bookmarking). The community will also have the capability to add new products to the already extensive library of applications available.

Freespire
Freespire

In August 2005, Andrew Betts released a Live CD based on Linspire and named Freespire.  Linspire, Inc. offered users a "free Linspire" (purchase price discounted to $0) by using the coupon code "Freespire" until September 9 2005. On April 24 2006, Linspire announced its own project named "Freespire". This follows the model of community-oriented releases by Red Hat and Novell in the form of Fedora and openSUSE. Freespire is a community-driven and -supported project tied to the commercial Linspire distribution, and includes previously proprietary software from Linspire, such as the CNR Client, while other elements, which Linspire, Inc. licenses but does not own, like the Windows Media Audio compatibility libraries, remain closed-source.
Criticism 
Linspire has drawn some criticism from the free software community. This has included anger for including proprietary software, with GNU founder Richard Stallman commenting: "No other GNU/Linux distribution has backslided so far away from freedom. Switching from MS Windows to Linspire does not bring you to freedom, it just gets you a different master."

References

Other websites
Linspire official website
Freespire official website
Freespire wiki 
LugRadio podcast featuring an interview with Kevin Carmony

Ubuntu (operating system) derivatives
Linux distributions
Debian-based Linux distributions
maemo (properly not capitalized ) is a project that oversees the development of the Internet Tablet OS and the maemo application development platform. The maemo project is paid for by Nokia.

maemo SDK 
The maemo SDK is based around the Debian-oriented Scratchbox Cross Compilation Toolkit, which provides a  sandbox environment in which development may take place. Scratchbox uses Qemu to emulate an ARMEL processor or sbrsh to remotely execute instructions. Scratchbox-compatible rootstraps are available for both x86 and ARMEL, so the majority of development and debugging takes place on x86, with final packaging being for ARMEL.

Related pages
 Openmoko
 LiMo Foundation
 Hildon
 Android (mobile phone platform)

References

Other websites 
 maemo.org
 maemo wiki (old one)
 maemo planet
 maemo Bugzilla
 maemo in freedesktop.org
 Scratchbox Cross Compilation Toolkit
 #maemo on freenode
 Material for Nokia's own introductory course on maemo 

Debian-based Linux distributions
MEPIS (pronunciation: meh-pis) is a set of Linux Distributions distributed as Live CDs. The most popular of these distributions is SimplyMEPIS. MEPIS distributions are based on Debian, some of them indirectly. For example, SimplyMEPIS 7.0 is based mainly on Debian, with additional source code from Ubuntu (which is also based on Debian). MEPIS distributions are created by Warren Woodford.

It can either be installed onto a hard drive or used as a Live CD, which makes it a boot disc for troubleshooting many operating systems. It includes KDE, the K Desktop Environment.

History 
MEPIS was designed as an alternative to SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, and Mandriva Linux (formerly Mandrake) which, in the creator Warren Woodford's opinion, were too difficult for the average user. MEPIS's first official release was on May 10, 2003.
Distributions
The most popular MEPIS distribution, SimplyMEPIS, is designed for everyday desktop and laptop computing. SimplyMEPIS 7.0 contains several new packages and features. It contains Linux 2.6.22 and OpenOffice.org 2.3.0. It was released on 2007-12-23.

Related pages
 NeXT

References

Other websites 
 Official site
 MEPIS Community Forum , main community site
 antiX , a fast, lightweight and easy to install Linux distribution live CD based on MEPIS

Reviews
SimplyMEPIS 7.0 is a keeper
Review: SimplyMepis 7.0 
SimplyMEPIS 7.0 Beta 6
antiX M-7, The Fat-free Mepis
MEPIS AntiX on 450MHz K6-2, 256Mb

Live CD
Ubuntu (operating system) derivatives
X86-64 Linux distributions
Linux distributions
Debian-based Linux distributions
The St. Louis Cardinals (also called "the Cards" or "the Redbirds") are a Major League Baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are part of the Central Division in the National League. The Cardinals have won a National League record 11 World Series championships, second in Major League Baseball for most championships behind the New York Yankees, who have 27. They last won a World Series in 2011.

The Cardinals were started by the American Association in 1882 as the St. Louis Brown Stockings, who got their name from an earlier National League team. They joined the National League in 1892 and have been known as the Cardinals ever since 1900. The Cardinals began play in the current Busch Stadium in 2006, becoming the first team since 1923 to win the World Series in their first season in a new ballpark. They are the oldest current professional sports franchise west of the Mississippi River. The Cardinals have a strong rivalry with the Chicago Cubs that began in 1885.

References

Other websites
Other websites 

 
 Current records and standings
 St. Louis Cardinals Team Index at Baseball Reference
 St. Louis Cardinals Team Page at Scout.com
NepaLinux is a Debian and Morphix based Linux distribution focused on desktop usage in Nepali language computing. 

It contains applications for desktop users like OpenOffice.org, Nepali GNOME and KDE desktops, and a way for people to type Nepali text.
The development and distribution of NepaLinux is done by Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya.  Version 1.0 was produced as part of the PAN Localization Project, with the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada. NepaLinux is an effort of promoting Free and Open Source Software in Nepal.

In October 2007, NepaLinux was the joint recipient of the Association for Progressive Communications' annual APC FOSS prize.

References

Other websites 
 The official site for NepaLinux
 A look into NepaLinux, Kantipur daily newspaper, Kathmandu, Nepal

Linux distributions
Debian-based Linux distributions
Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 movie produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It was Pixar's fourth computer animated
Halloween movie. The movie was released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States on November 2, 2001. It was released in Australia on December 26, 2001 and in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2002.

Monsters, Inc. had a 3D re-release in theaters on December 19, 2012. A prequel titled Monsters University, which was directed by Dan Scanlon, was released on June 21, 2013. A television series titled Monsters at Work was released on Disney+ on July 7, 2021.

Plot
Monsters Inc. is a factory where monsters walk into the bedrooms of children at night to scare them and harvest their screams, which generate energy to power the city of Monstropolis.
The film begins when a monster named Thaddeus unsuccessfully scares a child. One of the things he did wrong was that he left the door open, which is the worst mistake a monster can make because a child can walk out of the room and into the Monsters Inc. factory. According to Mr. Waternoose, the CEO of Monsters Inc., human children are toxic and even a single touch can kill a monster. For this reason, he needs scarers that are tough and frightening, such as Sulley. Sulley is the top scarer at the company, thanks to his assistant Mike. Randall, at second place, will work hard to take the top spot away from Sulley.

Sulley and Mike get up that morning and head to Monsters Inc. for work. In the lobby, he sees his girlfriend Celia Mae, the receptionist at the company. This means she answers calls from other monsters who work there. Mike wishes Celia a happy birthday and wants to take her to a fancy sushi restaurant called Harryhausens.
Sulley discovers that laughter can save the company, as laughter is proven to be 10 times more powerful than screams. With that, Sulley takes the helm of Monsters Inc. as the new CEO. During the company’s first day of making children laugh, Mike and Sulley go to the simulation room to find Boo’s door put back together. Sulley enters it and sees Boo. At that point, the movie ends.

Release dates

Version 3D

3D Version

Voice cast
Voice cast

Development
The idea for Monsters, Inc. came during a lunch in 1994 attended by John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft. One of the ideas that came out of the brainstorming session was a movie about monsters. "When we were making Toy Story, Pete Docter claimed, "everybody came up to me and said that they totally believed that their toys came to life when they left the room. When Disney asked us to make more films, I wanted to tap into a child-like notion that was similar to Toy Story. I knew monsters were coming out of my closet when I was a kid. So I decided monsters would be appropriate". Docter's original idea revolved around a 30-year-old man dealing with monsters (which he drew in a book as a boy) coming back to bother him as an adult. Each monster represented a fear he had, and conquering those fears caused the monsters eventually to disappear.
Pete Docter started working on the script in 1996. He completed a draft treatment in February 1997 with Harley Jessup, Jill Culton and Jeff Pidgeon. However, Sulley worked in the scream refinery before being changed to Monsters Inc.'s top scare producer. Also Boo was 6 years old, but was changed to 3 years. This was because "The younger she was, she became the more dependent on Sulley," claimed by Pete Docter.  The initial story did not have the character of Mike Wazowski. Mike wasn't added to the story until in April 1998, when development artist Ricky Nierva drew a concept sketch of Mike and everyone liked it. Jeff Pidgeon and Jason Katz story-boarded a test in which Mike was helping Sulley choose a tie for work and Mike Wazowski soon became a vital character in the movie. Originally Mike had no arms, and had to use his legs as appendages, however due to technical difficulties arms were soon added. Billy Crystal had been approached to play Buzz Lightyear in the original Toy Story, but turned down the offer
. However, once he saw the film, he regretted not taking the part, and when he was approached to play Mike, he jumped at the offer. The film went into production in 2000.
One of the major breakthroughs of Monsters, Inc. was the simulated movement of Sulley's fur and Boo's shirt. The animators would animate the characters "Bald and Naked". Once the animation was finished, a computer program aided by the Simulation Department would apply the hair and cloth onto the characters. If Sulley moved the hair would react to the movement just like it would in nature. The same goes for Boo's T-shirt that would produce wrinkles in the fabric. This would save the animators from animating the three million hairs on Sullivan individually.

Harryhausen's was originally going to be blown up but due to the September 11 attacks, the explosion was replaced with a plasma containment orb.

A lawsuit by Stanley Mouse alleged that the characters of Mike and Sulley were based on drawings he had tried to sell to Hollywood in 1998.
Soundtrack
 Love Will Keep Us Together by Mark Kozelek
 Pretty Noose by Soundgarden
 Break On Through (To the Other Side) by Aaron Carter
 Put That Thing Back Where That Came or So Help Me by P.O.D.
 She's Out of My Life by Michael Jackson
 Can't Fight This Feeling by REO Speedwagon
 Island in the Sun by Weezer
 If I Didn't Have You by Chuck Mosley

References

Other websites

 Information at Pixar's site 
 
 

2001 animated movies
2001 computer-animated movies
2012 3D movies
Disney animated movies
Impact of the September 11 attacks
 
Movies composed by Randy Newman
Movies that won the Best Original Song Academy Award
3D re-releases
Durango is a state in northwest Mexico. About 1,510,000 people live there. Its capital is Victoria de Durango.

References 

 
1824 establishments
19th-century establishments in Mexico
1820s establishments in North America
A girlfriend is a female friend or romantic partner.

Girlfriend may also mean:

Music 
 Girlfriend (band)
 Girlfriend (album), an album by Matthew Sweet
 Girl Friends, a Korean pop duo

Songs 
 "Girlfriend" (Michael Jackson song)
 "Girlfriend" (Pebbles song)
 "Girlfriend" (Matthew Sweet song)
 "Girlfriend" (The Pillows song)
 "Girlfriend" (Billie song)
 "Girlfriend" (Alicia Keys song)
 "Girlfriend" ('N Sync song)
 "Girlfriend" (The Darkness song)
 "Girlfriend" (Avril Lavigne song)
 "Girlfriend" (Bow Wow and Omarion song)
 A song by B2K on the album Pandemonium!

Television 
 Girlfriends, an American television show
 "Girlfriends" (Flight of the Conchords), a television episode
 Doctor Girlfriend, a character from the animated series The Venture Bros.

Other meanings 
 Girlfriend (magazine)
 Girlfriends (1978 film)
Bohemian Rhapsody is a song by English rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury, and was released on their 1975 album A Night at the Opera.

Promotional video
Though some artists had made video clips to accompany songs (including Queen themselves; for example, their earlier singles "Keep Yourself Alive", "Liar", "Seven Seas of Rhye" and "Killer Queen" already had "pop promos", as they were known at the time), it was only after the success of "Bohemian Rhapsody" that it became a regular practice for record companies to produce promotional videos for artists' single releases. The Guardian stated it "ensured videos would henceforth be a mandatory tool in the marketing of music". These videos could then be shown on television shows around the world, such as the BBC's Top of the Pops, without the need for the artist to appear in person. A promo video also allowed the artist to have their music broadcast and accompanied by their own choice of visuals, rather than dancers such as Pan's People. According to May, the video was produced so that the band could avoid miming on Top of the Pops since they would have looked off miming to such a complex song
. He also said that the band knew they would be set to appear at Dundee's Caird Hall on tour, a date which clashed with the programme, thus a promo would solve the issue. The video has been hailed as launching the MTV age.
The video opens with a shot of the four band members standing in diamond formation with their heads tilted back in near darkness as they sing the a cappella part. The lights fade up, and the shots cross-fade into close-ups of Mercury. The composition of the shot is the same as Mick Rock's cover photograph for their second album Queen II. The photo, inspired by a photograph of actress Marlene Dietrich, was the band's favourite image of themselves. The video then fades into them playing their instruments. In the opera section of the video, the scene reverts to the Queen II standing positions, after which they perform once again on stage during the hard rock segment. In the closing seconds of the video Roger Taylor is depicted stripped to the waist, striking the tam tam in the manner of the trademark of the Rank Organisation's Gongman, familiar in the UK as the opening of all Rank film productions.
All of the special effects were achieved during the recording, rather than editing. The visual effect of Mercury's face cascading away (during the echoed lines "Magnifico" and "Let me go") was accomplished by pointing the camera at a monitor, giving visual feedback, a glare analogous to audio feedback. The honeycomb illusion was created using a shaped lens. The video was edited within five hours because it was due to be broadcast the same week in which it was taped. The video was sent to the BBC as soon as it was completed and aired for the first time on Top of the Pops in November 1975.

Alternate version
This video was directed by Paul Rudish and released on December 22, 1996, the video is was based on the fairy tale "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" by Hans Christian Andersen, a broken toy soldier with one leg falls in love with a toy ballerina and protects her from an evil jack-in-the-box. Unlike the original story, this version has a happy ending. It was animated by Rough Draft Korea.
Chart performance 
While, at first, record companies believed the song would not receive radio airplay due to its length (5 minutes and 55 seconds) and its difference to other songs of the time, it became #1 on many charts. It is now played on the radio in full-length.

References 

1975 songs
Queen (band) songs
School of Rock is a 2003 American musical comedy movie starring Jack Black.

Plot 
Dewey Finn (Black) has been kicked out of his band.  His roommate is a substitute teacher.  Finn finds one of his requests for a private school and goes in his roommate's place as he needs the money for rent.  He soon finds out that the school, in Woodbury, New York,  has music lessons, so he enlists the class to become his band.  They plan to perform at Battle of the Bands.  However, his roommate's girlfriend finds out that Finn was impersonating her boyfriend and gets him kicked off the job.  Finn is down until the kids get their own school bus, pick Finn up, and play at the concert.  The band loses to another one, but Finn establishes a school for rock, and the kids come over to his place to take lessons.

Sequel 
On July 14, 2008 the School of Rock 2 sequel was confirmed. In 2012, Jack Black said that a sequel is unlikely.

References

Other websites