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# List of companies of Ecuador

Ecuador is a country in South America. The country's largest exports are oil and agricultural products such as bananas and seafood. The COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador and declining oil prices have greatly strained the business environment.
For further information on the types of business entities in this country and their abbreviations, see "Business entities in Ecuador".

## Notable firms

This list includes notable companies with primary headquarters located in the country. The industry and sector follow the Industry Classification Benchmark taxonomy. Organizations which have ceased operations are included and noted as defunct.
Notable companies Status: P=Private, S=State; A=Active, D=Defunct :
| Name | Industry | Sector | Headquarters | Founded | Notes | Status | Status |
| Claro Ecuador | Telecommunications | Mobile provider & fixed line telecommunications | Guayaquil | 1993 | Telecommunication operator | P | A |
| Corporación Favorita C.A. | Self-service stores | Department Store, Supermarket, and Hypermarket | Quito | 1952 | Conglomerate service | P | A |
| Correos del Ecuador | Industrials | Delivery services | Quito | 1831 | Postal services | S | A |
| CNT EP | Telecommunications | Fixed line telecommunications | Quito | 2008 | State telecom | S | A |
| Ecua-Andino Hats | Consumer goods | Clothing & accessories | Guayaquil | 1985 | Hat makers | P | A |
| Ecuavisa | Consumer services | Broadcasting & entertainment | Quito | 1967 | Television programming | P | A |
| Marathon Sports | Consumer services | Specialty Retailers | Quito | 1981 | Sporting goods retailer | P | A |
| Petroecuador | Oil & gas | Exploration & production | Quito | 1989 | State oil and gas, OPEC member | S | A |
| TAME | Consumer services | Airlines | Quito | 1962 | Airline | P | D |
| Tía | Consumer services | Broadline retailers | Quito | 1940 | Food retailing (supermarket chain) | P | A |
| Tonicorp | Dairy products | Milk | Guayaquil | 1970 | Drinks | P | A |
# Sweetest Thing (disambiguation)

"Sweetest Thing" is a 1987 song by Irish rock band U2.
Sweetest Thing or The Sweetest Thing may also refer to:

## Film

* The Sweetest Thing, a 2002 American romantic comedy film directed by Roger Kumble and written by Nancy Pimental

## Music

* "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)", a 1975 song performed by Juice Newton and rereleased as a single in 1981
* "The Sweetest Thing" (song), a 1991 song by Carlene Carter
* "The Sweetest Thing", a 1997 song on Love Jones (soundtrack)
* "Sweetest Thing", a 2000 song by The Cranberries on Bury the Hatchet
* "The Sweetest Thing", a song by Camera Obscura from the 2009 album My Maudlin Career

## Television episodes

* The Sweetest Thing, an episode from the Nick Jr. girls' animated TV show Shimmer and Shine
* The Sweetest Thing, an episode from the TV series Kavanaugh QC
* The Sweetest Thing, an episode from the TV series Persona
* The Sweetest Thing, an episode from the Comedy Central TV series Comedy Central Canned Ham
* The Sweetest Thing, an episode from the TV series Pennies from Heaven
* The Sweetest Thing, an episode from the cooking TV series The Taste
# Voiceless Victims

Voiceless Victims is a fake non-profit organization based in Lille, France. It claims to raise awareness for migrant workers who are victims of human rights abuses in Qatar. However, in December 2016, several news outlets like Le Monde and Forbes showed that it had been spying on Amnesty International. It also tried to spy on Building and Wood Workers' International and Anti-Slavery International. An international investigation by Amnesty International showed that it had sent e-mails with spyware and malware to their staff; that its founder had a fake LinkedIn profile, with false claims of graduating from the University of Oxford; and that its Facebook posts included fake news stories (for example, a fake article never published by Al Jazeera). Moreover, when they visited the address of its headquarters, Amnesty International found no office, and neighbours said they had never heard of the organisation. Meanwhile, Le Monde did its own investigation and found out that no such organisation was ever registered in France.
# Vision to Learn

Vision to Learn is a US nonprofit organization that provides free optometry services to children in low-income communities.

## History

Founded by philanthropist Austin Beutner in 2012, the organization started with a single mobile clinic in Los Angeles, California, staffed by optometrists.
Vision to Learn had served over 25,000 children by 2014, and by 2019, it had 25 mobile clinics in 12 states.
Ann Hollister, the organization's president, told The Washington Post in 2017 that 70% of Vision to Learn's revenue originated from philanthropy, while the other 30% came from partnerships with organizations like the Los Angeles Clippers and the Los Angeles Unified School District.
In April 2018, the district threatened to cancel a $6M contract with the charity, saying it was behind schedule meeting its commitments. Hollister countered that the district did not have the most recent information and that the delays were due to miscommunications between the district and the schools.
Vision to Learn partnered with Johns Hopkins University from 2016 to 2021, and with eyewear retailer Warby Parker as part of the city initiative "Vision for Baltimore". A study done by the university found that for students most behind in school, receiving eyeglasses narrowed their achievement gap equivalent to four to six months of learning.
As of August 2023, Vision to Learn was active in 15 states and the District of Columbia, and had administered 2.3 million optometry screenings, and distributed 390,000 pairs of eyeglasses to children. Its board of directors include Micky Kantor, Jake Winebaum, and Laphonza Butler.
# Jin Liying

Jin Liying (Chinese: 金禮贏; pinyin: Jīn Lǐyíng; 1772 – 1807) was a Chinese painter. She is regarded as one of the best female painters of the High Qing era.
Jin Liying was born in 1772 in Shanyin, now part of Shaoxing. She was raised in a gentry family in Kuaiji (now also part of Shaoxing) and was taught Confucian and Buddhist classics. At the age of 22, she became the second wife of poet and painter Wang Tan (王曇).
Her paintings depict landscapes, portraits, still lifes, flowers, and Buddhist religious subjects, including dozens of images of Guanyin. A devout Mahāyāna Buddhist, she painted an elaborate hanging scroll of Guanyin in 1803 to commemorate her Bodhisattva vows. She was a successful professional painter and her work was sought after not only in China, but also in Japan and Korea.
Jin Liying died in 1807 at the age of 36.
# Caecilia Metella (daughter of Balearicus)

Caecilia Metella (fl. 1st century BC) was a Roman matron of the first century BC, who belonged to the powerful family of the Caecilii Metelli. She was possibly the mother of Clodius.

## Personal life

Caecilia Metella was the daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus, consul in 123 BC.
She was possibly married to Appius Claudius Pulcher, a politician of an old, somewhat impoverished, patrician family. As a member of an important family and married into another, Metella would be one of Rome's most esteemed matronas. Pulcher had six known children; three sons, Appius, Gaius and the famous Publius, and three girls; one who married Lucullus, one who married Quintus Marcius Rex, and one (known as Clodia) who married Metellus Celer.

## Protector

During Sulla's proscriptions, Metella sheltered Sextus Roscius after his father's murder. Later, Roscius was defended by the young Cicero, helped by Metella's nephews Metellus Celer and Metellus Nepos, in the celebrated speech Pro Roscio Amerino.

## Temple of Juno

This woman has been identified with the one who in 90 BC had a dream of Juno Sospita complaining about the neglect of her temple. Metella cleaned out the temple and was credited with saving the cult of Sospita.

## Cultural depictions

Author Colleen McCullough included Metella as a character in her novel Fortune's Favourites, a fictionalised account of the demise of Sulla and rise of Julius Caesar. She describes Metella as "an ex-Vestal", a claim for which there is no historical evidence.
# Tony Howe

Anthony Valentine Howe (born 14 February 1939) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger for Football League clubs Colchester United and Essex rivals Southend United.
# G. Akash

Akash Ganesan (born 1 October 1996) is an Indian chess grandmaster and former national champion. He currently holds national record in chess for being Youngest National Chess Champion at the age of 16 years and 14 days.
He represented India in World Cup 2013, In the first round he was eliminated by World Championship challenger Fabiano Caruana with 1.5 - 0.5 score favoring the Italian-American. In 2013, he won gold medal in Commonwealth Junior category held at South Africa. In 2014, Akash went on to pursue electronic and communication engineering degree at College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University. He took a break from chess for those 4 years. In 2019 December, He completed his 3rd GM norm and Secured silver medal in National Senior championship held at Sikkim. In 2020 February, Akash won Prague International Chess Festival Open 2020 and got qualified for Prague International Chess Festival Challengers 2021. His Grandmaster title was confirmed at the 2nd Council Meet of FIDE for the year 2020 that was held on 3 July 2020.
# Volksgesetzbuch

The Volksgesetzbuch was the attempt of Third Reich jurists in the Academy for German Law to replace the Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch by a civil law code aligned with the principles of National Socialism.
The project was terminated in 1944 by Reich Minister of Justice, and head of the Akademie, Otto Georg Thierack.
# Arnulfo Obando (boxing coach)

Arnulfo Obando (1962 – 10 November 2016) was a boxing coach from Nicaragua. His most notable boxer was Román González, whom he coached from 2010 to his death in 2016. He was one of five nominated for Trainer of the Year by The Ring magazine in 2015 but the award went to Joe Gallagher.
# Altar, Sonora

Altar (O'odham: Wawuk) is small city and municipal seat of Altar Municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora. It is located in the northwest region of the state at 30°42′49″N 111°50′07″W﻿ / ﻿30.71361°N 111.83528°W﻿ / 30.71361; -111.83528.

## Geography

The town of Altar is situated on the important Mexicali to Hermosillo Highway (Federal Highway 2).

### Climate

Climate data for Altar, Sonora (1951–2010) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 33.0 (91.4) | 36.8 (98.2) | 39.5 (103.1) | 43.0 (109.4) | 46.6 (115.9) | 47.8 (118.0) | 47.8 (118.0) | 47.2 (117.0) | 45.6 (114.1) | 45.5 (113.9) | 46.5 (115.7) | 40.5 (104.9) | 47.8 (118.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 21.7 (71.1) | 24.1 (75.4) | 26.6 (79.9) | 31.0 (87.8) | 35.7 (96.3) | 40.5 (104.9) | 40.4 (104.7) | 39.3 (102.7) | 37.8 (100.0) | 32.8 (91.0) | 26.4 (79.5) | 21.5 (70.7) | 31.5 (88.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 12.6 (54.7) | 14.5 (58.1) | 17.0 (62.6) | 20.5 (68.9) | 25.1 (77.2) | 30.0 (86.0) | 32.1 (89.8) | 31.3 (88.3) | 29.1 (84.4) | 23.4 (74.1) | 17.2 (63.0) | 12.8 (55.0) | 22.1 (71.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 3.7 (38.7) | 5.0 (41.0) | 7.3 (45.1) | 10.2 (50.4) | 14.4 (57.9) | 19.5 (67.1) | 23.8 (74.8) | 23.3 (73.9) | 20.4 (68.7) | 14.0 (57.2) | 7.9 (46.2) | 4.2 (39.6) | 12.8 (55.0) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −10.0 (14.0) | −7.0 (19.4) | −6.0 (21.2) | −1.2 (29.8) | 2.0 (35.6) | 4.0 (39.2) | 10.0 (50.0) | 12.0 (53.6) | 7.0 (44.6) | 0.0 (32.0) | −4.0 (24.8) | −8.0 (17.6) | −10.0 (14.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 22.6 (0.89) | 20.1 (0.79) | 18.5 (0.73) | 6.0 (0.24) | 5.0 (0.20) | 7.4 (0.29) | 70.1 (2.76) | 82.6 (3.25) | 30.8 (1.21) | 23.9 (0.94) | 10.0 (0.39) | 29.6 (1.17) | 326.6 (12.86) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 3.1 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 6.3 | 6.4 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 3.1 | 32.9 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 64 | 62 | 57 | 50 | 47 | 43 | 52 | 58 | 55 | 56 | 61 | 68 | 56 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 237 | 227 | 300 | 326 | 369 | 369 | 333 | 290 | 301 | 296 | 253 | 232 | 3,533 |
| Source 1: Servicio Meteorologico Nacional (humidity 1981–2000) ||||||||||||||
| Source 2: Deutscher Wetterdienst (sun, 1961–1990) ||||||||||||||
# Coldwater Canyon Avenue

Coldwater Canyon Avenue (designated as Coldwater Canyon Drive south of Mulholland Drive) is a street, primarily within the City of Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County, California. It runs 10.3 miles (16.6 km) from North Beverly Drive at Coldwater Canyon Park in Beverly Hills, north up Coldwater Canyon, including a short stretch shared with Mulholland Drive, ending at a crossroad intersection with Roscoe Boulevard in Sun Valley, where the Coldwater Canyon Avenue changes into Sheldon Street.

## Route

Coldwater Canyon Avenue begins at a Y intersection with North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills in the Westside region of Los Angeles. It then heads north within the canyon of the same name, running perpendicular to and then over the central Santa Monica Mountains, then descends into the eastern portion of the San Fernando Valley, continuing through that valley to Roscoe Boulevard. It parallels Laurel Canyon Boulevard for its entire length. Communities it passes through include Beverly Hills, Sherman Oaks, Valley Glen and Van Nuys. When passing through the Studio City community of Los Angeles, Coldwater Canyon Avenue crosses the main Los Angeles River, then runs along the west side of the north–south fork of Tujunga Wash, before crossing the wash to its east side, as the road continues north through the Valley Glen community. Coldwater Canyon Avenue continues north, parallel but at a steadily greater distance from Tujunga Wash. Coldwater Canyon Avenue moves closer to the east side of Tujunga Wash just before becoming the northeasterly Sheldon Street at a crossroad intersection with Roscoe Boulevard, in the western portion of the Sun Valley community of Los Angeles.
Coldwater Canyon Avenue is a busy thoroughfare, particularly as it winds through, and over, the Santa Monica Mountains between Beverly Hills and the San Fernando Valley. In this specific area, the neighborhoods are highly affluent.

## Transportation

Metro Local line 167 services Coldwater Canyon Avenue between Roscoe Boulevard and Ventura Boulevard.
Los Angeles Valley College and the adjacent Metro G Line station are located on Burbank Boulevard and Fulton Avenue, placed two long blocks west of Coldwater Canyon Avenue.

## Features

* Franklin Canyon Park
* Harvard-Westlake School
* Los Angeles Valley College
* Wilacre Park
# Tom McRae (album)

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | link |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.1/10 link |
| Rolling Stone | link |
Tom McRae is the debut album from British singer-songwriter Tom McRae. The album was released in 2000 and was nominated for the 2001 Mercury Music Prize.

## Track listing

All tracks by Tom McRae
* "You Cut Her Hair" – 2:46
* "End of the World News (Dose Me Up)" – 3:48
* "2nd Law" – 2:50
* "Bloodless" – 3:38
* "Draw Down the Stars" – 2:14
* "One More Mile" – 4:16
* "Boy With the Bubblegun" – 3:01
* "Hidden Camera Show" – 4:17
* "A & B Song" – 4:15
* "Language of Fools" – 3:57
* "Untitled" – 3:51
* "Sao Paulo Rain" – 4:51
* "I Ain't Scared of Lightning" – 1:25

## Personnel

* Tom McRae – vocals, electric guitar (1,12), fx (1,4), string arrangement (1,7), guitar (2,4,6,7,8,10,13), percussion (2,6,9,10), piano (3,10), harmonium (4), acoustic guitar (5,9,12), 12 string (7), harmonica (9), keyboards (13)
* Jo Archard – strings (4)
* Sarah Button – strings (4)
* Anthony Clarke – string arrangement (2,10), piano (8,12)
* Mark Frith – electric guitar (2,6,9), piano (2,10), keyboards (2), bass (2,6,9), hammond (9,10)
* Fiona Griffith – strings (4)
* Tom Havelock – cello (1,7,8)
* Chris Hughes – percussion (2,9,10), drums (9)
* Clive Jenner – drums (2,8,10,12), percussion (8)
* Howard Jones – piano (11)
* Tony Marrison – programming (1,2,3,6,9), piano (1,5), string arrangement (1,7), hammond (3), keyboards (5,12), percussion (5,8), guitar (6), bass (8,12)
* Helen Thomas – strings (4)
# Tony James (chemist)

Tony D. James FRSC (born 7 October 1964) is a chemist who is currently Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bath and recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
He was educated at the University of East Anglia (BSc, 1986) and the University of Victoria (PhD, 1991). He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2012 and received the Daiwa Adrian Prize in 2013.
# Vivien John

Vivien John (8 March 1915 – 20 May 1994) was a British painter.

## Biography

Vivien John was born at Alderney Manor in Dorset, the daughter of Dorelia McNeill and the artist Augustus John; she was the youngest of their four children together. After a Bohemian upbringing in Dorset, Vivien John attended the Slade School of Fine Art from 1932 to 1934 and had her first solo exhibition at the Cooling Gallery in London during 1935 before studying with the Euston Road School of artists in the late 1930s. Travelling with her father, she visited Italy, France and then Kingston in Jamaica where a joint exhibition of their paintings was held. John also spent time in Paris with her aunt, the artist Gwen John, during this period. During the Second World War, Vivien John served as a nurse with the Red Cross. As the war came to an end, she took art lessons in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière before returning to London to study at the Chelsea School of Art in 1945.
After the War, John married a haematologist, Dr John White, and the couple spent 1947 in Moscow and periods of the 1960s in both Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. She continued to paint and had a number of exhibitions, including a 1967 show at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and a solo exhibition at the Upper Grosvenor Galleries in 1971. Her work featured in group exhibitions at the Royal Academy, the London Group and with the Women's International Art Club. Examples of John's work was included in the 1987 Slade Contemporaries exhibition and a memorial exhibition was held in 1995.
Fellow artist Gwen John was her aunt, and some of Vivien's half-siblings were cellist Amaryllis Fleming, Sir Caspar John and another artist Gwyneth Johnstone; only Sir Caspar was born from Augustus's only marriage and he became a prominent Royal Navy admiral and later First Sea Lord. Her only living half-brother is retired television director Tristan de Vere Cole (b. 1935). Cole, Fleming, and Johnstone were born from Augustus's other relationships.
# Volkswagen Halle

Volkswagen Halle is an indoor sporting arena located in Braunschweig, Germany. The capacity of the arena is 8,000 people. It is currently home to the Basketball Löwen Braunschweig basketball team.

## Sports

Aside from serving as the home venue of the Basketball Löwen (formerly New Yorker Phantoms) Basketball Bundesliga team, several other sporting events have been hosted in the arena. Those include four editions (2001–2003 and 2005) of the BEKO Supercup, an annual international basketball exhibition tournament organized by the German Basketball Federation, the annual international equestrian tournament Löwen Classics, three editions (2003–2005) of the Handball-Bundesliga All-Star Game as well as the annual pre-season-tournament Handball-Bundesliga-Cup, tennis Davis Cup matches (2001 and 2008), indoor soccer tournaments and boxing.
In October 2007, World Wrestling Entertainment hosted an event as part of the WWE Raw Survivor Series Tour at the arena.

## Other uses

The arena also serves as a concert venue. Artists that have performed at the Volkswagen Halle include a-ha, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Die Ärzte, Die Fantastischen Vier, Dio, Bob Dylan, David Garrett, Nena, Ozzy Osbourne, and Status Quo.
From 2001 to 2009, and again since 2013, the annual finals of the international breakdance competition Battle of the Year have been held at the Volkswagen Halle.
# Eliza Griffin Johnston

Eliza Croghan Griffin Johnston (December 26, 1821 – September 25, 1896) was an American wildflower painter and diarist. She was the second wife of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston.

## Life

Eliza Croghan Griffin was born on December 26, 1821 in Fincastle, Virginia. She was the only surviving daughter of John Caswell Griffin and Mary Talbot Hancock Griffin. After her parents died in 1826, she was raised by her maternal grandfather, then her maternal uncle, who lived in Louisville, Kentucky. She was educated at Mrs. Segoigne’s School in Philadelphia and learned painting, piano, singing, and French.
In 1843, Eliza Griffin married Albert Sidney Johnston. She was the first cousin of his late wife Henrietta Preston. They lived on a plantation near Galveston, Texas called China Grove, which they lost a few years later, unable to pay the mortgage. They later settled in Austin, Texas. In Texas, Eliza Johnston painted Texas birds and wildflowers. A hundred and one of her paintings were published as Texas Wild Flowers in 1971.
When Albert Johnston was appointed to lead the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, she travelled with him from Missouri to Texas in 1855 and 1856. Her diary of this period is a source of historical information about the military of the time and of individuals who were future participants in the American Civil War.
During the Civil War, Eliza Johnston and her children lived with her brother in Los Angeles, California. She raised the children herself after Albert Johnston was killed at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862.
Eliza Griffin Johnston died on 25 September 1896 in Los Angeles.
# One Thousand White Women

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (published by St. Martin's Press in 1998) is the first novel by journalist Jim Fergus. The novel is written as a series of journals chronicling the fictitious adventures of "J. Will Dodd's" ostensibly real ancestor in an imagined "Brides for Indians" program of the United States government.
An introduction by "J. Will Dodd" places the journals in a contemporary context, and lends an air of realism.
The book won the 1999 Fiction of the Year Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association. It has since sold over 250,000 copies in the United States, and its French translation was on the French bestseller list for 57 weeks and has sold over 400,000 copies in that country. Its sequel, published in 2017, is The Vengeance of Mothers.

## Plot

The premise of the story is that the Northern Cheyenne Indians are shrinking in numbers and seek a way to assimilate into white society. They decide to marry white women and have half-blood children, enabling the two cultures to blend naturally. The Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf approaches President Ulysses Grant with the proposal to trade 1000 white women for 1000 horses, an offer publicly refused by the government.
However, the government sees the placating of the Indians as being to their benefit, so they begin the "Brides for Indians" program in which women who are physically healthy and of child rearing age may volunteer to go. However, in order to keep the plan unpublished, they offer the trip to women in prison, asylums, and other restrictive situations.
In Chicago, May Dodd was born into a wealthy family but she fell in love with a man who was "beneath" her, and bore his two children out of wedlock, so her family had her institutionalized in a mental asylum and had her children taken away. The "Brides for Indians" program sounded like a way out of the asylum, so she joined and started a life of adventure.
The story does meet with some non-fictional characters and situations, including Chief Little Wolf of the Northern Cheyenne tribe, description of many Cheyenne beliefs, and the military forced move to the reservations. Some other situations are adapted from real life, including Little Wolf's murder of a tribe member and exile.

## Reception

The book received a positive review from Kirkus Reviews, which stated: "An impressive historical, terse, convincing, and affecting." The book also met with criticism about its depiction of Native people and women, with one reviewer writing: "This is also a case of a truly badly written woman."