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# Steve McCormick (executive)

Steve McCormick is the former president of The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (2007–2014) and the former president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy (2000–2007). In May 2014, Gordon Moore announced that McCormick was leaving the Moore Foundation to co-found a startup to create the first global, open-source database on ecosystem services and natural capital, called The Earth Genome. McCormick is a board member for many social impact and environmental organizations.

## The Nature Conservancy

McCormick is credited with reorganizing The Nature Conservancy (TNC) into a "truly global entity to fulfill its mission." During his tenure, the group grew to operate in 30 countries and all 50 states in the United States, with revenues in excess of $650 million, with its assets increasing to $5.4 billion. McCormick began his career with TNC in 1976 as western regional legal counsel. He then spent 16 years as executive director of California and Western Region. In 2004, he asked TNC's science staff to develop a framework to guide global conservation at the organization, which ultimately produced The Atlas of Global Conservation to collate environmental information He led the effort to create and incorporate the strategic framework that still guides the group's work, called Conservation by Design (see "Method" at The Nature Conservancy). On June 8, 2005, McCormick defended TNC's land acquisition practices in front of the United States Senate Committee on Finance, after a 2003 Washington Post article, Nonprofit Land Bank Amasses Millions, questioned TNC's motives. An academic study of the incident concluded that the Post's analysis was "reductionist" to the point of "misleading."

## The Moore Foundation

As president and CEO of the Moore Foundation, McCormick wrote prolifically on the importance of supporting basic science, especially for environmental conservation. McCormick oversaw more than $1 billion in grants, many of which were granted to scientific research, including $34.2 million to simulate experimental research in the physics of quantum materials and $12.5 million (joint with Sloan Foundation) to the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. McCormick left "abruptly" with much speculation as to why. It became clear in subsequent months that McCormick left to create a 501(c)(3) non-profit, The Earth Genome, to make environmental information more accessible, using best practices from the tech industry.

## Board service and awards

McCormick has served on numerous boards, including The Independent Sector, Sustainable Conservation, the California Academy of Sciences, and the advisory board of the UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources. He is the recipient of the Chevron Conservation Award; the Department of Interior Silver Award; and the Edmund G. Brown Award for Environmental and Economic Balance.
# MZM

MZM may refer to:
* Money with zero maturity
* Mozambican metical, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Mozambique
* Metroid: Zero Mission, a video game
* The MZM Scandal, a bribery scandal involving MZM, inc.
* Mach–Zehnder modulator
# Mariental railway station

Mariental railway station is a railway station serving the town of Mariental in Namibia. It is part of the TransNamib Railway, and is located along the Windhoek to Upington line that connects Namibia with South Africa.
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# Marin Cureau de la Chambre

Marin Cureau de la Chambre (1594 – 29 December 1669) was a French physician and philosopher born in Saint-Jean-d'Assé, a village near Le Mans.
Details of his youth and where he attended school are unknown. He was initially a physician in Le Mans, and around 1630 moved to Paris, where he became a friend and physician to Pierre Séguier (1588–1672). Afterwards, he was a médecin ordinaire to Louis XIV. Reportedly the monarch was impressed by Cureau de la Chambre's ability to judge human character based on physical appearance.
Marin Cureau de la Chambre is largely known for his work in physiognomy. Between 1640 and 1662 he published a five-volume study on mans' character and "passions" called Caractères des passions. He wrote articles on many other topics, including palmistry, digestion, "reasoning" in animals, occult practices and optics. On the latter subject he investigated the nature of light and color, refractions, and the possibility of primary and secondary colors. He was the author of books on philosophy, and published a translation of Aristotle's Physica.
In 1634 he became an early member of the Académie française, and in 1666 was an original member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was the father of clergyman Pierre Cureau de La Chambre (1640–1693) and of François Cureau de La Chambre (1630-1680) who succeeded him at the Botanical Garden (Jardin des Plantes).. He died in Paris on December 29, 1669.
In 1991 astronomer Eric Walter Elst named the asteroid 7126 Cureau after Marin Cureau de la Chambre.

## Works

* Lumiere (in French). Paris: Jacques Dallin. 1662.
* Nouvelles observations et coniectures sur l'iris (in French). Paris: Jacques Dallin. 1662.
# Marin Drăcea

Marin Drăcea (October 16, 1885, Vânătorii Mici – June 14, 1958, Timișoara) was a Romanian silviculturist.
He was elected a post-mortem member of the Romanian Academy in 2010.
# Carme (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Carme or Karme (/ˈkɑːrmi/; Ancient Greek: Κάρμη Karmē) was the mother, by Zeus, of the goddess Britomartis. She was either the daughter of Euboulus, the son of the Cretan priest Carmanor, or the daughter of Cassiepia and Phoenix, the son of Agenor.
# Carys Parry

Carys Parry (born 24 July 1981) is a Welsh hammer thrower.
Parry was born in Church Village, Rhondda Cynon Taf. She finished sixth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne with a personal best throw of 61.80 metres.
Her current personal best throw is 66.31 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Birmingham. This is a Welsh record and places Parry fourth amongst British hammer throwers, behind Commonwealth champions Lorraine Shaw and Shirley Webb, as well as Zoe Derham. She won the silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Dehli.
Having missed out on qualification for the London 2012 Olympic Games, coming third in qualifiers to Sophie Hitchon, she later qualified for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
# Carvill

Carvill may refer to:
* Carvill (surname)
* Carvill Hall, a historic home in Maryland, United States
* Carvill Hurricane Index that describes the potential for damage from an Atlantic hurricane
# Carvill (surname)

Carvill or McCarvill or MacCarvill is an Irish surname that may refer to the following people:

## Carvill

* Henry Carvill Lewis (1853–1888), American geologist and mineralogist
* Michael Carvill (born 1988), Northern Irish footballer
* Patrick Carvill (1839–1924), Irish politician

## Mc/MacCarill

* Patrick MacCarvill (1893–1955), Irish politician
* Chris McCarvill (born 1971), American musician
# Carpetania

Carpetania was an ancient region of what is today Spain, located between the Sierra de Guadarrama, the mountains of Toledo, the river Guadiana and the mountain range of Alcaraz, including approximately, the present independent communities of Madrid and Castile-La Mancha.
It was the most fertile part of Spain, and its name may derive from the Greek karpos meaning fruit due to abundant cultivation of fruits in the region. It was inhabited by the Carpetani, a pre-Roman tribe. To the south dwelt the Oretani, on the northeast were Celtiberians whose tribes are not further specified. On the northwest to the Vaccei and Vettones. This area was easily conquered by the Romans and quickly integrated culturally and politically. Thus, it is practically unmentioned in the literature of the conquest. It retained a distinct cultural identity through the Visogothic period.
Its main urban nuclei (Toletum, corresponding to present Toledo; Complutum, the present Alcalá de Henares, Consabura, the present Consuegra, Segóbriga (Saelices, River basin) and Laminio) acquired municipal legal statutes soon after the Roman conquest.
It has also been used in Geography to designate the Central System, the mountain range that separates the North Plateau of the South Plateau, although that use (Carpetovetónica Mountain range, by similarity with the Cantabrian Mountains range or the Iberian System) has nearly vanished.
# Mario Vega

Mario Vega may refer to:
* Mario Daniel Vega (born 1984), Argentine football goalkeeper
* Mario Vega (pastor) (born 1958), Christian Pentecostal pastor
# Mario Andretti's Racing Challenge

Mario Andretti's Racing Challenge is a video game that was released in 1991 for DOS and was developed by Distinctive Software. It is a racing game featuring a career mode modeled after Mario Andretti's career. The objective is to earn enough money by winning races to enter and win the indy car series.

## Gameplay

The game is a 3D racing game from the 1st perspective. Replays can be viewed from the 3rd person perspective. The player starts with $20.000 and has to earn money by winning races to enter the higher series. The available series are Sprint Cars, Modified, Stock Cars, Prototypes, Formula 1 and Indy Cars. The games contains one car per series and twelve race tracks are included:
* Indianapolis Fairgrounds
* Ascot Park
* Nazareth Speedway
* Michigan
* Daytona
* Pocono
* Laguna Seca
* Monte Carlo
* Silverstone
* Detroit
* Hockenheim
* LeMans

## Reception

Compute! stated in 1992 that Mario Andretti's Racing Challenge "falls short of the ultimate racing simulation, but it does take us several laps in the right direction."Computer Gaming World noted in 1991 that "it is the first time aficionados have been able to 'feel' the difference in six different types of racing." PC Format gave a 65% rating.
# Mariscal Cáceres District, Huancavelica

Mariscal Cáceres District (Spanish mariscal marshal) is one of nineteen districts of the province Huancavelica in Peru.
The district was named after the Peruvian president Andrés Avelino Cáceres.
# Casnodyn

Casnodyn (fl. first half of the 14th century) was a Welsh-language poet born in Gilfai, near present-day Swansea, south-west Wales.
# Cask breather

A cask breather (sometimes called a cask aspirator) is a type of demand valve used to serve draught beer. The cask breather enables the empty space created when beer is drawn from a beer cask to be filled with carbon dioxide from an external source. This prevents ambient air from being drawn into the cask, thus extending the life of the beer by preventing oxidation.
To avoid carbonation of the beer, the carbon dioxide gas added by a cask breather is at low pressure, unlike the high pressure gas used to pressurize keg beer. Cask breathers are typically used in conjunction with a pressure regulator to ensure the gas pressure is sufficiently low.
Before 2018, the use of cask breathers was opposed by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), a policy that was changed in April 2018 to allow pubs using cask breathers to be classified as real ale pubs and listed in the Good Beer Guide.
# Mark Milloff

Mark Milloff (born 1953 in Miami, Florida) is an internationally exhibited American painter and art professor. He is best known for his heavily layered oil paintings.

## Work

Mark attended and graduated from Connecticut College with a Bachelor of Arts and Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) with his Master of Fine Arts. He has been exhibiting his work for over thirty years beginning with exhibitions at the Alan Stone Gallery in New York City, while he was still in graduate school. At present Milloff is a professor of art at the Rhode Island School of Design, where among his students has been Jordan Wolfson.
In 2013 his work was the subject of a one-man exhibition at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut, "Mark Milloff: An Artist Renders the Whale". Milloff along with Kyle Anderson make up the musical duo the "Cannibal Ramblers" whose sound has been spoken of as "death Delta, Punk and country Blues being dragged by a runaway train....".
He currently lives in Providence with his wife Christine and two children.
# Mario Donadoni

Mario Donadoni (born 19 November 1979) is an Italian retired footballer who played as a defender.

## Career

In 2009, he was transferred by the Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione team U.S. Siracusa for which he played 9 games until 2010. In July 2010 Mario Donadoni was transferred by the Romanian Liga I team FCM Târgu Mureş as a free agent.
# Mark Alvey

Mark Garry Alvey (born 10 June 1980) is a former Australian rules football player who was drafted by the Western Bulldogs in the 1997 draft from the Bendigo U18s. He is originally from Curlwaa in Southern New South Wales and earned a football scholarship to move to Bendigo at the age of 16. A small player (height 176 cm), he was used mostly as a midfielder, rotating through the forward pocket. He never managed to make it into the Western Bulldogs’ best 18 on a consistent basis, which is not surprising considering that his rivals for positions in that part of the ground during this period included Tony Liberatore, Scott West and Jose Romero. He played 45 games in 6 seasons.
In 2004 he was picked up by Essendon Bombers in the draft where he managed 14 games in two seasons as a forward.
# Mark XIX

Mark XIX or Mark 19 may refer to:

## Military

* Mk 19 grenade launcher, a widely used American belt-fed weapon that fires 40 mm grenades
* Mark 19 torpedo, a prototype American torpedo
* Desert Eagle or Mark XIX (1982), a U.S.-Israeli large caliber semi-automatic pistol
* Logistics Vehicle System MK19 Rear Body Unit; US Marine Corps heavy tactical vehicle trailer incorporating a crane

### United Kingdom

* BL 6-inch gun Mk XIX (1916–1940), an artillery piece made by Vickers
* CP Mk.XIX, a Royal Navy central-pivot twin-mount carrying two quick-firing 4-inch guns
* HA/LA Mk.XIX, a Royal Navy high-angle/low-angle twin-mount carrying two quick-firing 4-inch guns
* De Havilland Mosquito NF Mk XIX, a night fighter variant De Havilland Mosquito that could mount American or British radar
* Supermarine Spitfire Mk 19 (1944), the last and most successful Supermarine Spitfire photographic reconnaissance variant
* Vickers Wellington T Mk XIX, service conversion of the Vickers Wellington Mk X for use as a navigation trainer
* ASV Mk. 19 (anti surface vessel), an EKCO airborne radar fitted to the Royal Navy Fairey Gannet
# Mark XV

Mark XV or Mark 15 often refers to the 15th version of a product, frequently military hardware. "Mark", meaning "model" or "variant", can be abbreviated "Mk."
Mark XV or Mark 15 may refer to:

## Technology

* Mark 15 torpedo, 1930 US Navy weapon plagued with development problems in World War II
* Supermarine Spitfire XV; a designation reserved for use with the Supermarine Seafire
* Mark 15 nuclear bomb; 1950s American thermonuclear bomb
* Mark 15 Phalanx CIWS; automated anti-missile gatling gun, entered US Navy service in 1980
* Mark 15, a variant of the 8-inch/55-caliber gun
* MK 15, the US military designation for the McMillan TAC-50

## Other uses

* Mark 15 and Mark XV, the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible
* International Watch Company Mark XV; pilot watch produced from 1999 to 2006
# Cassandra Cass

Cassandra Cass (born 1977/1978) is an American actress and performer and reality-television star.

## Early life and transition

She was born in Des Moines, Iowa to a housewife and a football coach. Her father initially had difficulty in processing her coming out as trans, but eventually came to accept it; her mother was always supportive of her daughter's trans identity. Her father is still alive, but her mother died from cancer. At some point in her early life, she came to realize she would be more comfortable and happy living as a woman.
Cass started socially transitioning and presenting as a woman through clothing, hair, and make-up. After researching different pathways and with the advice of medical professionals, she later made the decision to start hormone therapy and have plastic surgery.
After moving to San Francisco, she underwent gender affirmation. Cassandra is a name she chose from several sources. Her mother's name was Sandra, her given name was Casey, and her drag mother's name (when she was in drag performance) was Dena Cass. So she just combined all three to get Cassandra Cass.
She is known for being a trans woman, and finds that performing in the entertainment world gives validation to her feminine life.

## Career

As an actress, Cass is known for Trantasia (2006), Wild Things (2010), and What's the T? (2012). Trantasia is a documentary that chronicles contestants as they take part in the first ever "World's Most Beautiful Transsexual Pageant." The documentary was featured on Tyra Banks's show, dedicating a whole show to talking about it. Wild Things was an eight-episode reality television series which featured three transgender women on a road-trip to earn money for a relative of one of the three women who was seriously ill. The reality show starred Cassandra Cass, Maria Roman, and Tiara Russell, three original characters from Trantasia. The documentary What's the T? followed the lives of five trans women. Cass has also been on television shows and in other films.
She is also an established performer in San Francisco who does drag and lip-sync shows. And she has had a calendar put out over the last several years.
# Marmentino

Marmentino (Brescian: Marmintì) is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy. Neighbouring communes are Bovegno, Collio, Irma, Lodrino, Pertica Alta, Pertica Bassa, Pezzaze and Tavernole sul Mella. It is located in the Trompia valley area.
# Mark Kaplan

Mark Kaplan may refer to:
* Mark Kaplan (musician) (born 1953), American violinist
* Mark Kaplan (tennis) (born 1967), South African tennis player
* Mark E. Kaplan (born 1967), Florida politician
* Mark N. Kaplan, American lawyer and business executive
# Mark Brennan

Mark Brennan may refer to:
* Mark Brennan (footballer) (born 1965), English footballer
* Mark E. Brennan (born 1947), American Roman Catholic bishop
* Mark A. Brennan (born 1968), Canadian landscape painter
* Mark Brennan (Neighbours), a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
# Mark Loughridge

Mark Loughridge (born December 19, 1953) is an American businessman who was IBM's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Finance and Enterprise Transformation. He stands as IBM's longest-tenured CFO after nearly 10 years in the role.
He joined the company in 1977, where he started as a development engineer in the Office Products Division in Lexington, KY. He was also financial services manager for IBM's lab in Hursley, England. He held a number of senior positions including Vice President and IBM Controller; Vice President of Finance and Planning for IBM Global Services; Vice President of Finance for Sales and Distribution; Vice President of Finance for the IBM Personal Systems Group, and Senior Vice President and General Manager of IBM Global Financing before being named CFO in May 2004. In July 2010, he also took on the Enterprise Transformation role to lead IBM's integration and transformation.
Loughridge joined the board of The Vanguard Group in 2012 and became chairman in July 2024.

## Education

He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and completed studies at Ecole Nationale Superieure de Mecanique in Nantes, France.

## Awards

In 2010 and 2013, Loughridge was rated by the buy-side analysts as the top rated CFO in the IT Hardware Sector by Institutional Investor. In 2012, he was ranked the #1 CFO in America by the Wall Street Journal, and named the "Executive Dream Team" CFO by Fortune Magazine, and the "Best CFO" in the IT hardware category by Institutional Investor.
In 2014, AdvisoryCloud ranked Mark Loughridge as the #1 CFO on ExecRank's Top Financial Executive List.
# Castilleja elegans

Castilleja elegans, the elegant Indian paintbrush, is a herbaceous plant species in the genus Castilleja found in Canada.
# Castilleja grisea

Castilleja grisea is a rare species of Indian paintbrush known by the common name San Clemente Island Indian paintbrush. It is endemic to San Clemente Island, one of the Channel Islands of California. San Clemente Island is owned by the US Navy so the Navy is involved in a management program to recover this species.

## Description

The San Clemente Island Indian paintbrush is a perennial herb coated densely in long gray hairs. The highly branching stem grows 40 to 60 centimeters tall and bears linear leaves each a few centimeters long. The inflorescence is made up of layers of bracts one to two centimeters long, gray-green in color at the bases and tipped with greenish yellow. Between the bracts emerge dull yellow pouched flowers. The fruit is a capsule about a centimeter long containing tiny seeds with netted surfaces.

## Distribution

This species was once considered to be "relatively common" on its home island. Since then the habitat has been severely degraded, mainly by feral goats which were introduced there. The island was also used for grazing sheep and cattle, and some feral pigs were present. The animals may have eaten the plant at times, but they mainly damaged the land by trampling the soil, which led to soil compaction, loss of topsoil, and erosion. The introduction of exotic plant species such as ripgut brome (Bromus diandrus), wild oat (Avena barbata), and red brome (Bromus madritensis rubus) also degraded the habitat.
Due to steep terrain of San Clemente Island the exact abundance of Castilleja grisea is not currently known. Recent surveys have discovered new populations of this species. Surveys in 2007 estimate more than 10,000 plants existing. This plant has been a federally listed endangered species since 1977, when it was one of the first species to be designated so. The plant's population had been drastically reduced by the activity of the feral goats. Its populations has increased at least ten-fold since the removal of these non-native herbivores. The species has recovered so well through management programs by the Navy, it was recommended for downlisting during the last review conducted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Remaining threats include erosion, invasive grasses, and wildfire from military exercises.
The species has a relatively high genetic variability for an uncommon island endemic. This and its steady recovery from low numbers give an optimistic outlook for the species' recovery.
# Casa Cuba

Casa Cuba was a gallery which displayed Cuban art in Bukit Peringgit, Malacca, Malaysia. The gallery was built in June 2007 in the former senior government officer's residence during British Malaya. An initiative of the Cuban embassy in Malacca, the gallery showcases various forms of art by Cuban artists, such as paintings, lithographs and ceramics. As of 2019, it was shut down and converted into state government office.
# Castle Building

The Castle Building is an office building in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its address is 1410 Stanley Street on the corner of Saint Catherine Street West in Downtown Montreal. It is owned by Gold Castle Holdings Limited. The building is now home to a Victoria's Secret outlet and was previously home to a Chapters bookstore, which closed in 2014.
Named for the Castle Tea Company and erected on the site of the former Emmanuel Congregational Church, it was designed by Montreal architecture firm Ross and Macdonald, and was completed in 1927. It has 11 floors. The building's facade material is brick and its facade system is applied masonry. Its architectural style is Neoclassical.
Tenants include postproduction company SHED and digital agency TP1.
The Castle Building was awarded the Heritage Emeritus Award in 2005 by the City of Montreal and Heritage Montreal.