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Balaka Township, Malawi

Balaka is a township in Southern Region, Malawi and headquarters for the Balaka District. The township was formerly a boma of Machinga District, before the Balaka District was created in 1998.

A growing commercial centre on the road from Zomba to Lilongwe, as well as on a Blantyre–Salima rail route. The immediate trading centres that surround Balaka are Ntcheu, Phalula, Liwonde and Ulongwe. The town is situated roughly 130 kilometres North of Blantyre and about 200 kilometres South of Lilongwe.

The town's population is composed of people of multiple ethnicities. However, the Yaos and Ngoni's make up the biggest percentage.

The Andiamo, Montfort Media, and "Lucius Banda's" residential areas are characterised by well planned and modern houses which the locals equate to Lilongwe's formal houses of Area 10.

Transport
In 2004, the passenger terminals were renovated, and now features recreational bars and several hawkers and restaurants that serve passengers on excursions. Telephone bureaus and cyber cafés are available for emergency communications.

Just opposite the entrance to the bus park, there is a yard where taxis park ready for transporting people to any desired destination. There are also lorries are hired for heavy goods.

There is a rail line that passes through the town. It helps people make use of cheap transport to Blantyre and other nearby places. Its route to Lilongwe via Salima was closed and is yet to be reopened.

Business
Notable fast growing businesses are transportation, operating shops, timber selling, and most technical jobs. The market in Balaka is not very big and most of the things that are available on the market are food stuffs and clothes. It is a modern market of Malawi standard and can accommodate many vendors even though most of them prefer to sell their things outside the market. There are also a variety of shops which keep in stock different items. Some of these shops are hardware shops, Groceries, and others that specialise in clothes.

There are six well-known superettes in Balaka town: Metro shop, Ashraffi Superette, Four Ways Superette, Select Superette, Balaka's Best and Seven Star (renamed Fair price Trading as from 1 September 2014). All these superettes provide good items to the citizenry.

Prominent hardware shops are Low Price Enterprise, MAC Hardware, Kuwait Enterprise, and Bolamoyo Investments which have quality hardware merchandise in stock. The most prominent furniture business is Umunthu Furniture situated behind the old PEP shop.

Balaka has only four known banks. There is Standard Bank just opposite the main mosque. Another one is Malawi savings bank( now known as FDH Bank from May 2016) which operates within the post office. National Bank, which has been under construction, opened its doors in February 2009 thereby giving the local populace competitive banking services. Opportunity International Bank is operational as from May 2014; though offering loan services only.

Religion
Balaka is a town and district that has people of mixed religious beliefs, mainly Christians and Muslims. Major Christian Churches in Balaka are Catholic, Church of Central Africa Presbyterian, Anglican, Seventh Day Adventist, Lutheran, and Nazarene.

The Catholic Church
It is called St Louis Montfort catholic parish. The church was officially opened on 30 October 1994 by the late bishop Alessandro Assolarri. Present on the day were the former Malawi president Bakili Muluzi and the former Tanzanian president late Julius Nyerere.

Church of Central African Presbyterian
Church of Central African Presbyterian (or CCAP) is another big denomination that has a big following in Balaka. It is situated behind the sports stadium in the heart of Balaka. As of January, 2012 there is a new church building which has replaced the old and small prayer house.

Anglican
Is situated next to Seventh Day and the Mosque. It attracts many followers as well but its prayer house is small and old. The site where Anglican church is found has many other churches as well including Seventh Day Adventist, Nazarene, and the Mosque.

Education
Balaka has a number of education institutions ranging from primary to tertiary levels. Notable primary schools that offer quality education include Bakhita Primary, Praise Private, St. Augustine Primary, St. Louis Montfort Primary, and Kirk Range Private. Secondary schools that are recognised for quality education are Bakhita Girls, St Charles Lwanga Boys, Balaka Secondary School, Kirk Range Private, MEPIC Private and St. Louis Secondary school. All these are in proximity of not more than 3 km². Tertiary education is also available. However, formal schools that offer tertiary education are all branches of Andiamo Youth Cooperative Trust.

Technical college
This college enrols students who wish to become motor vehicle mechanics, architects, carpenters with Joinery skills, electricians, and musicians.

Dental college
This college enrols students who wish to become dentists. The college is within Comfort Clinics compound. It is managed by an Italian specialist who has currently 4 students.

Accounts and secretariat studies
These courses are offered at Bakhita where the secondary school is found.

Civil Society (NGOs, CBOs, FBOs)
Balaka has a number of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs).

Sue Ryder Foundation
The Sue Ryder Foundation was founded in 1990. This local charity is based in Balaka Township and provides community-based nursing, rehabilitation and health education services to 6,500 people living in the rural areas of Balaka and Ntcheu. The work of the foundation is supported by village headmen and 600 local volunteers. www.suerydercare.org/Malawi

Self Help Africa
Self Help Africa is an international development agency that is currently implementing a rural development programme in the Kalembo area of Balaka District, Malawi. The project is working to enable more than 9,000 rural households to produce more food and earn a sustainable living. Self Help Africa has been supporting agricultural and economic development programmes in rural sub-Saharan Africa since 1984, and has been operating in Malawi since the mid-1990s.

Maphunziro Foundation
Maphunziro Foundation was registered in 1996 and serves the local population of Balaka with a variety of projects and initiatives to build capacity for community-based orphan care, HIV/AIDS and life skills education, income-generation (economic empowerment), and access to secondary education. The Maphunziro Foundation office is located in Mlambe Motel in Balaka Township. Maphunziro is a Chichewa word meaning "education".

Bola Moyo
Bola Moyo was formed in 2004 to address various challenges faced by the people of Balaka, including HIV/AIDS and other diseases, food insecurity, gender inequality, and poverty. The organisation focuses on empowering youth through various programs and initiatives including a youth centre (House of Many Stories), learning garden and secondary school sponsorships. Bola Moyo has offices in Portland, Oregon (USA) and Balaka Township, Malawi. Bola Moyo is a Chichewa phrase meaning "better life".

Entertainment and leisure
Over the weekend, locals organise discotheques and teen times. However, live band performances attract more people that discos.

Balaka is a home to two big bands in Malawi: Alleluya Band which belongs to Andiamo Youth Cooperative, and Zembani Band which is owned by Lucius Banda.

Press
Balaka is home to Montfort Media, one of the more prominent printing presses in Malawi. Popular magazines produced by this press are Together Magazine (a youth magazine) and The Lamp, a political journal. Since 2008, the media house started publishing MKWASO in Chichewa, Malawi's widely spoken vernacular. Back in 1992, the press was set ablaze by "ayufi" (MCP thugs) after it had published a pastoral letter written by Malawi bishops against one party rule.

Luntha Television has just been established a year ago and it telecasts religious events around Malawi. It is managed by a Montfort priest, padre Luciano Marangoni.

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Liwonde

Liwonde, or Livonde, is a town located in Machinga District, in the Southern Region of Malawi.

Geography
Located in Machinga District in the Southern Region of Malawi, Liwonde is located in the Shire River valley. Its main landmark is the road that connects Zomba to Lilongwe, making the town an important crossroads between Balaka, Machinga, Mangochi and Zomba.

Another important Liwonde landmark is the Liwonde National Park nature conservation area. The town thus serves as a dormitory, support center and access base for tourists and researchers traveling to Liwonde National Park. Trips to the interior of the park depart from Liwonde by sailing along the Shire River (year-round) or by car on the access roads.

Demographics
The main ethnic groups in the town are the Chewas and the Yaos, with minorities of the Ngoni and Lomwe peoples. There is an important group of expatriates left over from the Mozambican civil war, as well as Asian immigrants.

Climate
In the region of the town of Liwonde, the tropical savanna climate (Aw) prevails, with a hot thermal sensation throughout the day.

Vegetation
The savannah that surrounds the town is characterized by the small amount of trees, especially the many bushes. Among the large trees, the baobab stands out.

Economy
Liwonde's economy is basically agricultural, centered on the production of corn flour, tomatoes, onions, cabbage, bananas, pumpkins, cassava, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, sugar cane, rice and beans. There is also an important breeding of goats for meat consumption, as well as poultry breeding for egg consumption.

As a regional hub for neighboring towns, Liwonde is home to retail shopping centers such as PTC, McConnell's and Euro Superette, which supply the town with food, sundries and beverages.

Infrastructure
In 2002, the town had a residential supply of water and electricity, but it was not available to the majority of the population. There was also landline and mobile telephony, with signal failures. Liwonde also had a hospital.

The town has a railway station on the Nacala railway, under concession of Central East African Railways. The town of Liwonde has one of the most important railway stations on the Nacala railway, linking Mwanza and Nkaya (west) to Nayuchi and Port of Nacala (east).

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Mangochi

Mangochi is a township in the Southern Region of Malawi. Located near the southern end of Lake Malawi, in colonial times it used to be called Fort Johnston. As of 2018, it has a population of 53,498.

History
Mangochi was founded by colonial administrator Sir Harry Johnston in the 1890s as a British colonial defence post on the littoral plain of the Shire River's western shore. After this, Fort Johnston – as the town was then known – was an important slave market and administrative centre.

The British gunboat Gwendolen, named after Lady Gwendolen Gascoyne-Cecil, daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, was built in Mangochi in 1897. At 340 short ton, it was the largest ship to sail on Lake Malawi until being scrapped shortly after World War II. The gunboat, operated by the Protectorate of Nyasaland, is said to have fought the first naval battle of the First World War when it defeated the German vessel Hermann von Wissmann in August 1914.

Rioting in June 2003 injured three people. From March to November 2007, roughly 480 children were rescued from child labour on tobacco farms in Mangochi. In July 2008, elephants terrorised areas around Maldeco Fisheries in Mangochi and caused several deaths and damage to property, mainly crops. The Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Culture proposed moving the elephants into several game reserves, although the proposal stalled when some residents said they wanted the elephants to remain.

Geography
Mangochi is at an elevation of 1541 ft, near the southern end of Lake Malawi, between the main lakeshore road and the Shire River and 8 km south of its entrance into Lake Malombe. The town is roughly 120 mi northeast of Blantyre, Malawi's largest city. It is situated 1+3/8 mi from Mponda, 2+1/4 mi from Chipalamawamba, 2 mi from Mbaluku Laini and 1+3/8 mi from Yangala.

Climate
Mangochi has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen: Aw).

Languages and ethnicities
Yao, specifically the Mangochi dialect, is the main language spoken in this town. A Swahili settlement was also established in Mangochi. Mangochi is mainly inhabited by the Yao people.

Economy
Mangochi was developed as an agricultural centre and has marine-engineering shops. Cash crops grown in the area include tobacco, cotton, and groundnuts. Rice and maize are intensively grown along the lakeshore, and commercial fishing is also important.

Amenities
Amenities include several shops, supermarkets, a post office and banks.

Bridges
Within Mangochi there is the Bakili Muluzi Bridge, which Lonely Planet described as "scenic".

Museums
The Lake Malawi Museum houses ethnic, environmental, and historical exhibits. They include the Hotchkiss gun with which the British gunboat Gwendolen defeated the German gunboat Hermann von Wissmann with a single shot in their brief naval engagement in August 1914. The museum has also a scale model of the Gwendolen. An even older exhibit is a marine steam engine that was built in 1898 and powered the Universities' Mission to Central Africa's SS Chauncy Maples until 1953.

Religion
Mangochi is home to a large mosque as well as a modern Catholic Cathedral. The city has the largest muslim population in terms of percent.

Clocks
Mangochi is home to a clock tower erected in honour of Queen Victoria, dating back to the early 20th century.

Transport
Mangochi is located just off the M3 road. All buses travelling from Monkey Bay to Blantyre stop in Mangochi. Minibuses travel to Liwonde, Zomba, and Blantyre. Matolas travel to Liwonde National Park and to the border town of Chiponde.

Tourism
Mangochi is described by Lonely Planet as having a "vaguely Swahili feel", with "palm trees, Arab-looking people and coconuts for sale in the street." There are several guesthouses and lodges for tourists in Mangochi.

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Monkey Bay

Monkey Bay or Lusumbwe is a town in Mangochi which is in the Mangochi District in the Southern Region of Malawi. The town is on the shore of Lake Malawi and is one of the main ports on Lake Malawi. The population of Monkey Bay was 14,955 according to the 2018 census. Monkey Bay is 206 km from Lilongwe, Malawi's capital city, and 253 km from Blantyre. Monkey Bay is a tourist resort and is often travelled through on the road to Cape Maclear.

History
Monkey Bay was ruled by the Muslim Yao chief and slave trader, Mponda, during the 1880s. In the late 19th century, the first Bishop of Likoma, Chauncy Maples, drowned near Monkey Bay in Lake Malawi. In the 1960s, there was a Fisheries Research Laboratory in Monkey Bay, funded by the then-Nyasaland colonial government.

Geography
Monkey Bay is on the shore of Lake Malawi and is one of the main ports on Lake Malawi. It is at an elevation of 1630 ft.

Monkey Bay is situated 4 mi from Chimpamba, 2 mi from Zambo, 1 mi from Msumbi and 1/2 mi from Mbalamanja.

Living standards
In March 2003, the then-Malawian President Bakili Muluzi held a rally in Monkey Bay, and promised to help reduce poverty. The charity Save the Children is active in the Monkey Bay area. According to a German development volunteer working with the Back to School Foundation, the residents of Monkey Bay are not living at the poverty line, but at the existence line. Houses are simple clay cottages, and few households can afford electricity, as the connection costs alone are three times the average monthly wage.

Amenities
There is a supermarket and a market in Monkey Bay, although there are bureaux de change or automatic teller machines. On 22 February 2010, a first bank opened its doors. Malawi Savings Bank Agency which was operating from the Post Office building moved into their own convenience, a refurbished and spacious building at the trading centre.

There is not a functioning internet café although there are signs for one. There are several guesthouses. The nearest ATM is in the town of Mangochi.

Transport
Monkey Bay is connected to Lilongwe and Blantyre by bus services. The nearest airport is at Ulongwe, 49 mi away. Two passenger ferries make weekly sailings along Lake Malawi between Monkey Bay and Chilumba; the MV Ilala and the Mtendere. The Ilala is 350-passenger steamship that has served the route since 1951. In March 2003, the European Union funded improvements to the road linking Monkey Bay with Masasa and Golomoti. In February 2006, the Malawian government announced plans to build a road from Monkey Bay to Cape Maclear. In March 2006, there was no road access to Monkey Bay, after the worst floods since 1978 had washed away several kilometres of road and a bridge. The rainfall measured around 158 mm and several thousand people in the Mangochi District were made homeless.

Education
The Nankhwala Catholic School is in Monkey Bay.

Medical
Monkey Bay has a hospital, but medical services are not extensive; surgery and diagnostics are however available in Monkey Bay.

Law and military
Monkey Bay has a police station. It is also the headquarters of the 220-strong marine force of the Army of Malawi.

Tourism
Monkey Bay has been described as "the country's best known resort" by Agence France-Presse, and Factiva refers to Monkey Bay as the "best known resort-area" in Malawi. The area has "sandy beaches and tropical fish", and is popular with tourists. There are diving schools in Monkey Bay, however, according to the Daily Telegraph, the schools are considered poor by tourists. The town is also a transit point to Cape Maclear.

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Mulanje

Mulanje, formerly called Mlanje, is a town in the Southern Region of Malawi, close to the border with Mozambique, to the east. It is near the Mulanje Massif.

Location
The town of Mulanje lies along the M-2 highway from Thyolo to the west to the Mozambican border to the east. It is approximately 69 km, by road, south-east of Blantyre, the commercial and financial capital of Malawi. This is approximately 380 km, by road, southeast of Lilongwe, the largest city in Malawi and the country's capital. The geographical coordinates of the town of Mulanje are: 16°01'33.0"S, 35°30'29.0"E (Latitude:-16.025833; Longitude:35.508056).

Overview
Mulanje is a tourist attraction and serves as a staging base for climbers who want to scale Mount Mulanje or those who want to explore the countryside at its base. Residential and camping accommodation is available.

Mulanje is also the headquarters of a conservation group, the Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust. The small town of Mulanje is the center of Malawi's tea growing industry. The Lujeri Tea Estate, adjacent to the border with Mozambique, is the location of the 8.25 MW Ruo–Ndiza Hydroelectric Power Station, that is owned and operated by Mulanje Renewable Energy Plc, a private enterprise.

Points of interest
The following points of interest in or near the town of Mulanje include the following: (a) the offices of Mulanje Town Council (b) the offices of Mulanje District Administration (c) Mulanje District Hospital (d) a branch of National Bank of Malawi (e) a branch of NBS Bank and (f) the headquarters of Malawi-Mulanje Mountain Biodiversity Conservation Project.

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Nsanje

Nsanje (formerly Port Herald) is the main city in Nsanje District within the Southern Region of Malawi.

The intense urbanization in the fertile Shire River valley has formed an extensive urbanized zone that runs from the city of Bangula, further north, passing through the city of Nsanje, in the center, and arriving in the city of Marka, in the south, even crossing the Mozambican border, covering the town of Vila Nova de Fronteira.

Transport
The city has a railway station on the Sena railway, under concession of Central East African Railways. The railway through Nsanje that connects Blantyre with Beira, Mozambique was severely disrupted by the Mozambique Civil War and remains closed. The main road north connecting the city to the rest of Malawi is being upgraded.

Shipping
A project is currently underway to dredge part of the Shire River in order to make sea transport to Malawi viable. The Shire merges with the Zambezi River, near Caia, Mozambique, and the Zambezi then flows into the Indian Ocean. As of September, 2010, some of the main concrete work on the jetty was complete and the port was officially declared open in a ceremony attended by President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. However, by August 2016 the port was still incomplete and unused, despite a feasibility study with positive results concluded a few months earlier, and talks were being held on restarting the project.

Climate
Nsanje lies only about 46 meters above sea level. During the summer months, daytime highs can exceed 120 °F (49 °C).

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User:Rpchase

Robert Chase is a student at the Courant Institute. He was a student at UMass Amherst. He graduated with majors in math and linguistics and minors in physics and computer science. His intellectual interests vary widely. He likes to read science fiction, speculative fiction. He grew up in Brockton and Melrose Massachusetts.

Rob uses wikipedia everyday. He sporadically edits articles, usually about books he's read but sometimes about mathematics. It wasn't until late November of 2005 that he came upon pages suggesting that wikipedians actually communicate with each other through means other than the edit comments. He hopes to explore the community of wikipedians more in the months and years to come.

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Southern Region

Southern Region or South Region may refer to:

 * Southern Nigeria
 * Southern Region (Boy Scouts of America)
 * Southern Region, Bauchi, Nigeria
 * South Region, Brazil, an official grouping of states for economic and statistical purposes
 * Southern Region (Eritrea)
 * Southern Region (Iceland)
 * Southern Region, Ireland, statistical region
 * Southern Region, Malawi
 * Southern Region, Malta
 * Southern Region, Serbia
 * Southern Region of British Railways
 * Southern Thailand, Thailand
 * South Region (Cameroon)

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Central Region, Singapore

The Central Region is one of the five regions in the city-state of Singapore and the main metropolitan region surrounding the Central Area. Comprising 13,150 hectares of land area, it includes 11 planning areas within the Central Area, as well as another 11 more outside it. The region is home to many of Singapore's national monuments as it was historically the site where the city was first founded and the country's only UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Singapore Botanic Gardens, a 0-year-old tropical garden is also located in the region.

Although the Central Area is by nature chiefly commercial, especially the area in the Downtown Core, it also includes 335,400 residential housing units of various types, ranging from HDB flats to more exclusive forms of private housing, such as bungalows. There are also 1000 hectares of green spaces, including parks, gardens and other recreational spaces linked by 19 km of park connectors, which were built in order to make this area aesthetically pleasing.

Planning strategies

Planning considerations for the URA Master Plan 2003 involving the Central Region took into consideration its existing strengths. Besides being the core area for business and entertainment in the city, it contains districts steeped in history, various housing types, and numerous institutions for education and community life. Despite the highly built-up character, it still boasts a rich variety of parks, open spaces, and other recreational areas. It is also well connected to the rest of the city through extensive road and rail connections, plus an international gateway to the world via the Maritime ports.

The Urban Redevelopment Authority envisaged the introduction of more homes of various types to the area, particularly in the Downtown Core which has been overwhelmingly commercial for the past decades. Supporting institutions and transport networks were upgraded or introduced to cater to the rising resident population in the area.

In terms of business, the New Downtown@Marina Bay was developed into an extension of the existing central business district. To encourage greater land-use flexibility, new business zones and white zones were also introduced. Business and research activities were promoted at the new one-north and medical park within the grounds of the Singapore General Hospital at Outram Park.

For recreation, plans were made to further extend the park connectors to new and existing parks in the region. New sporting facilities were also introduced, such as the redevelopment of the Kallang Sports Hub. Building conservation will continue to be enforced, and nodes for nidge activities will be provided for the masses. Plans for spaces catering specifically for youth activities near Orchard Road are a case in point.

Geography
With a land area of 132.7 km2, the Central Region is situated on the southern part of Singapore Island, constituting a total of 21 planning areas. It is the only region to border all the other regions and the Straits of Singapore to the south. The region is also home to the 3.2 kilometers long Singapore River, from its source at Kim Seng Bridge to where it empties into Marina Bay. The region also features Singapore's natural tallest point - Bukit Timah Hill with a height of 163.63 metres (537 ft.) above ground level.

Planning Areas

 * Bishan
 * Bukit Merah
 * Bukit Timah
 * 11 planning areas of the Central Area
 * Geylang
 * Kallang
 * Marine Parade
 * Novena
 * Queenstown
 * Southern Islands
 * Tanglin
 * Toa Payoh

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Northern Region

Northern Region may refer to:
 * Northern Region, Ghana
 * Northern Region, Eastern Cape, South Africa
 * Northern Region, Malawi
 * Northern Region, Malta
 * Northern Region, Manitoba, Canada, a region situated on the Canadian Shield including Manitoba's Hudson Bay coastline
 * Northern Region, Nigeria (former)
 * Northern Region (Sydney), alternative name for the northern suburb of Sydney in Australia
 * Northern Region, Uganda
 * AAA Northern Region, a sports league of large high schools in Virginia
 * Northern Region Film and Television Archive, an English organisation
 * Uttar Pradesh (lit. 'northern region'), a state in northern India

North or Nord Region may refer to :
 * Nord Region, Burkina Faso
 * North Region, Brazil, an official grouping of states for economic and statistical purposes
 * North Region, Cameroon
 * North Region, Singapore

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Roberto Rodríguez (baseball)

Roberto Muñoz Rodríguez (February 5, 1941 – September 24, 2012) was a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres, and Chicago Cubs. He played in the United States under the name of Roberto Rodriguez.

Born in Caracas, Rodríguez carried a varied repertoire that relied on intelligence over raw explosiveness. He had a variable-speed fastball (reaching 90 MPH), a slider, a tough curveball, and a circle change-up as his most effective offering.

Once considered one of the best prospects in the Kansas City Athletics minor league system, he also pitched for the San Diego Padres and Chicago Cubs organizations.

Rodríguez was signed by the Athletics as an amateur free agent in 1963, spending seven minor league seasons from 1964–1970. He posted a 42–28 record and a 3.15 earned run average in 124 pitching appearances before being promoted to the big team in May 1967. He returned to the minors in early June and was recalled two months later.

He went 1–1 with a 3.57 ERA and two saves in 15 games (five starts). On August 27, he earned his first and only major league victory against the Detroit Tigers, 2–1, allowing four hits to a powerful lineup that included Norm Cash, Bill Freehan, Al Kaline, Dick McAuliffe, Eddie Mathews and Jim Northrup.

After that, Rodríguez would remain in the organization after the team was renamed the Oakland Athletics in 1968. He returned to the majors in 1970, pitching for the Athletics, Padres and Cubs in the same season. He later played three Triple-A seasons with the Tacoma Cubs and the Wichita Aeros from 1971 through 1974.

In a three-season career, he compiled a 4–3 record with a 4.81 ERA and seven saves in 57 games. Over the course of his 11-year minor league career from 1964–1974, he went 61–43 with a 3.60 ERA in 904 games.

In addition, Rodríguez played in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League during 17 seasons (1961–62/1978–79). ″Pluto″, as his teammates nicknamed him, went 64–49 with a 3.04 ERA and 59 saves in 168 games (97 starts), to become the first pitcher in VPBL history to top both 50 wins and 50 saves. The mark was later matched by Luis Aponte (1973–74/1996–97) and Giovanni Carrara (1990–91/2009–10).

After retiring he worked as a pitching coach in his Venezuelan homeland. He also served as an instructor in the baseball academy operated by Carlos Guillén in Maracay. In 2011, he gained induction into the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame.

Rodríguez died in Maracay in 2012, at the age of 71, after suffering a heart failure.

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Northern Region, Malawi

The Northern Region is a region of Malawi. It had a population of 2,289,780 in 2018, and covers an area of 26,931 km2, making it the smallest region both by population and area. Its capital city is Mzuzu. Starting in the north and going clockwise, the Northern Region borders on Tanzania, Lake Malawi, Malawi's Central Region, and Zambia.

Geography
Of the 28 districts in Malawi, six are located within the Northern Region.

 * Chitipa
 * Karonga
 * Likoma
 * Mzimba
 * Nkhata Bay
 * Rumphi

In addition to mainland parts of Malawi, the Northern Region also includes the islands of Chizumulu and Likoma in Lake Malawi, which together make up Likoma District.

Major cities
Prominent townships and cities in the region include:

 * Ekwendeni City (Mzimba District)
 * Karonga City (Karonga District)
 * Mzimba City (Mzimba District)
 * Mzuzu City (which is also the capital city of Mzimba District and the region itself)
 * Rumphi City (Rumphi District)
 * Nkhata Bay City (Nkhata Bay District)

Towns

 * Mtawali
 * Maganga

Demographics
At the time of the 2018 Census of Malawi, the distribution of the population of the Northern Region by ethnic group was as follows:
 * 68.4% Tumbuka
 * 10.6% Tonga
 * 6.9% Nkhonde
 * 4.0% Chewa
 * 4.2% Lambya
 * 3.9% Ngoni
 * 2.7% Sukwa
 * 1.3% Lomwe
 * 1.1% Yao
 * 0.2% Sena
 * 0.1% Mang'anja
 * 5.1% Others

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Anianus

Anianus may refer to:

 * Pope Anianus of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria from 62 to 83
 * Anianus (referendary), of the Breviary of Alaric
 * Anianus (writer), 5th-century Egyptian monastic writer
 * Anianus of Celeda, early 5th-century deacon and supporter of Pelagius
 * Aignan of Orleans, also known as Anianus, Bishop of Orléans, canonized
 * A 4th century bishop of Besançon

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Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC (also known simply as Dateline) is a weekly American television news magazine reality legal show that is broadcast on NBC. It was previously the network's flagship general interest news magazine, but now focuses mainly on true crime stories with only occasional editions that focus on other topics. The program airs Fridays at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time (9:00 p.m. Eastern for special two-hour editions). Special weekend encore editions also air at 9 or 10:00 p.m. (two-hour editions at 7 and 8:00 p.m. depending on the night). One or two-hour feature-length editions sometimes air on any given scheduled evening, often to fill vacancies in the primetime schedule on the program's respective nights due to program cancellations. In February 2021, the program aired its first ever docuseries, "The Widower", a five-hour true crime saga about a man who married six women, four of whom died.

Early
Dateline is historically notable for its longevity on the network, compared to the fifteen newsmagazines (often cloning the formulas of 20/20 and 60 Minutes) NBC tried from the mid-70s until its debut which each debuted and ended ignominiously, often in the same year, or even the month they premiered, and were barely promoted, much less needed, during NBC's ratings domination entertainment-wise in the 1980s. It also served to smooth relations with original anchor Jane Pauley, who had been controversially pushed out from Today and seen her own primetime make-up vehicle, the light news-focused Real Life with Jane Pauley, poorly paired with a tabloid newsmagazine, Exposè.

The program debuted on March 31, 1992, initially airing only on Tuesdays, with Stone Phillips and Jane Pauley serving as its co-anchors. Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric joined the program when the previously separate newsmagazine Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric was converted into Dateline Wednesday. Gradually, the program expanded with the addition of a third night (on Friday) in 1994 and a fourth night (on Monday) in 1997, peaking at five nights a week with Sundays in mid-1999 and 2000. The number of nights that the program aired began to be reduced due to viewer exhaustion and the rise of equally economic and popular reality television programming. Editions first began to be removed in the spring of 2001, with the main Tuesday slot being eliminated in 2004.

Dateline was the first "multi-night" franchise that "established brand power by 'stripping' editions," a strategy by NBC's entertainment division to place the program in the same time slot every week. It was considered to be a singular program rather than multiple weekly programs, and included many teasers and multiple installment interviews (NBC later tried a similar strategy of "stripping" with The Jay Leno Show in 2009). In its prime, from 1995 to 1999, Dateline provided significant breaking news coverage. The program featured sensationalized news stories and drew in viewers with stories aired in multiple installments. By 1999, any one individual Dateline edition placed in Nielsen's top 10 most-watched television programs among total viewers during most weeks. NBC capitalized on its relationship with CNBC and MSNBC by airing repackaged stories seen on past Dateline broadcasts on the retrospective series Headliners and Legends and Time and Again.

The program first originated from NBC Studio 3K, using the same set that was used at the time for NBC Nightly News. When Today moved to its current facility, NBC Studio 1A, in 1994, Dateline took over Studio 3B and received its own brand-new dedicated set.

Past contributing anchors were Bryant Gumbel, who left NBC in 1997, Maria Shriver, who left NBC in 2004, and Katie Couric, who left NBC in 2006. On June 24, 2005, Ann Curry co-anchored "Dateline" for the first time and became permanent host shortly thereafter.

Dateline began broadcasting in high definition for the first time on July 21, 2008, with an episode titled "Tower Dogs". Dateline previously shared the multi-level Studio 1A with Today. However, in 2013, the program moved back to Studio 3K, where the early-morning news programs Early Today and MSNBC's Morning Joe First Look are also broadcast. Lester Holt replaced Ann Curry as host of Dateline with the start of the 20th season on September 23, 2011, shortly after Curry became permanent co-host of Today.

General Motors vs. NBC
On November 17, 1992, Dateline NBC aired an hour-long investigative report titled "Waiting to Explode," which focused on allegations that General Motors' Rounded-Line Chevrolet C/K-Series pickup trucks exploded upon impact when involved in collisions due to the poor design of the vehicle model's fuel tanks. Dateline's footage showed a sample of a low-speed accident in which the fuel tank exploded; the explosion during the crash test would later be discovered to have been staged by an expert witness for hire against GM, Bruce Enz of The Institute for Safety Analysis. Enz used incendiary devices and a poorly fitted gas cap to create the impression of a dangerous vehicle. The program did not disclose the fact that the accident was staged.

GM hired investigators from Failure Analysis Associates (FaAA, now Exponent) to study the footage; FaAA investigators discovered while reviewing the video that smoke had actually started to expel from the fuel tank six frames before the actual impact occurred. Acting on a tip from someone involved with the Dateline crash test, investigators with FaAA searched through 22 junkyards in Indiana before finding the charred wreckage of the GM pickups.

It was also later revealed that the Dateline report had been dishonest about the fuel tanks rupturing and the alleged 30 mph speed at which the collision was conducted. The actual speed was found to be higher than stated, around 40 mph, and after x-ray examination of the fuel tanks from the C/K pickups used in the televised collision, it was found that they had not ruptured and were intact. GM subsequently filed an anti-defamation/libel lawsuit against NBC after conducting an extensive investigation. On February 8, 1993, after announcing the lawsuit, GM conducted a highly publicized point-by-point rebuttal in the Product Exhibit Hall of the General Motors Building in Detroit that lasted nearly two hours.

The General Motors lawsuit and the subsequent settlement were arguably the most devastating blows for NBC in a series of reputation damaging incidents during the 1990s and early 2000s. Within NBC, Michael Gartner, who resigned under pressure shortly after the incident, was the source for much of the blame. NBC News President Reuven Frank stated Gartner was hired in 1988, despite having no background in television news, in an attempt to satisfy parent company General Electric, by replacing current journalists with cheaper, less experienced reporters and producers.

In addition to the resignation of the news division's president Gartner, three Dateline NBC producers were dismissed as a result of the incident and the findings of the resulting investigation: executive producer Jeff Diamond, senior producer David Rummel, and Robert Read, producer of the report on the pickups. Michele Gillen, the correspondent involved in the segment, was transferred to NBC's Miami owned-and-operated station WTVJ, where she became an anchor of the station's evening newscasts.

Michelle Madigan
In August 2007, Dateline reporter Michelle Madigan attempted to secretly record hackers admitting to crimes at that year's DEF CON in Las Vegas, Nevada. After being outed by DEF CON founder Jeff Moss during an assembly, she was heckled and chased out of the conference by attendees for her use of covert audio and video recording equipment. DEF CON staff tried to get Madigan to obtain a press pass before the outing happened. A DEF CON source at NBC News had tipped off organizers to Madigan's plans.

To Catch a Predator
To Catch a Predator was a special series of reports, hosted by Chris Hansen, featuring hidden camera sting operations that bust potential sex offenders who carry out online chats with children with the intent of luring them to meet in person and engage in illegal sexual activity. The stings are conducted in partnership with Perverted-Justice, and begin for each potential offender with recordings of online chats of him with a "decoy" employed with the organization, posing as minor, generally between the ages of 12 and 15. If the potential offender and the decoy make an appointment, this is at the pretended home of the pretended minor, which is in fact a house prepared for the television show, with police hiding outside for the subsequent arrest of the offender outside the house.

During the filming of each episode, men who attempt to meet the minor in person are filmed as they enter inside the "sting" house. Shortly after the target is inside, often after talking to the Perverted-Justice decoy (who either briefly meets with the men or converses with them from another room), Hansen would confront each suspect and ask them about their online conversations (which were transcribed and printed) with the decoy. After the confrontation, the men are taken into custody by local police. Some men were arrested even if they never entered the home in question. The segment was cancelled in early 2008 in part due to criticism of the show as well as legal issues.

“Wild Wild Web”
“Wild Wild Web” was a limited Dateline series in which host Chris Hansen would go undercover to reply to illegal or unethical online advertisements. With hidden cameras rolling, Hansen and his producers met with a hitman, people selling body parts, and sweetheart swindles.

To Catch a Con Man
To Catch a Con Man was a series of hidden camera investigations devoted to the subject of identifying and detaining con men who attempted to extract money from victims in advance fee fraud scams, although some editions also focused on exposing and catching identity thieves. The stories, which were also reported by Chris Hansen (who called the identity thieves that the series investigates "a different kind of predator"), were conducted as an undercover sting operation in partnership with cardcops.com, a credit card watchdog group which investigates identity thefts and aims to catch the suspects in the act.

The Real Blacklist
Richard Engel hosted a tie-in version leading into The Blacklist about significant crimes and conspiracies.

The Widower
The Widower is Dateline's first ever docuseries. The Widower takes viewers behind the scenes of a decade-long investigation into Thomas Randolph, an eccentric Las Vegas man accused of killing his wife Sharon. With hundreds of hours of exclusive footage, Dateline NBC veteran producer Dan Slepian captures the confounding murder investigation that soon reveals Sharon was Randolph's sixth wife - and the fourth to die under mysterious circumstances.

Dateline: The Last Day
A spin-off series, Dateline: The Last Day premiered on June 14, 2022 on Peacock.

Comparison with other news magazines
In contrast to NBC's now-cancelled "hard news" magazine program, Rock Center with Brian Williams, Dateline focuses on true crime and human interest stories, predominantly featuring a single story for the entire program. Keith Morrison often serves as narrator for certain editions, usually reporting on real-life murder mysteries chronicled in many editions, and cliffhangers are used prior to commercial breaks. Famous con man Steve Comisar appeared regularly on Dateline as a fraud prevention expert.

The Friday night edition of Dateline features special emphasis on true crime stories, which previously included the "To Catch a Predator" series. Most NBC News specials, either in the form of special interviews or extended special reports on pertinent breaking news stories that occurred earlier in the day, are also broadcast under the Dateline banner. However, on occasion, the Sunday broadcasts (airing in a time slot otherwise reserved for family-friendly programming, aside from CBS' competitor 60 Minutes) focuses on stories tailored for younger viewers, such as recent Sunday reports on teen drivers and child safety; on other weeks, the Sunday editions feature either true crime stories, stories recounting situations in which people have survived life-threatening situations, consumer reports or interviews. Dateline features a single story format, although in the past the program maintained a traditional newsmagazine format with multiple segments of varying length, such as with the Sunday version, which in particular still occasionally features multiple story packages that are tied to a specific theme. Unlike the other flagship newsmagazines on U.S. television (CBS' 60 Minutes and ABC's 20/20), Dateline featured more character-driven stories focusing on the audience's emotional attachment to the persons featured, and fewer non-character driven international and national news stories. However, the success of Dateline led to the other networks to create additional versions of their newsmagazines, 60 Minutes II and additional nights of 20/20 (which were often not as successful).

Executive producer Neal Shapiro pioneered several "signature segments" that appeared regularly on the program. These included Dateline: Survivor, in which a person recounts a near-death experience and their eventual rescue; Dateline Timeline, in which a popular product, person and music single are shown/played that viewers are invited to guess what year it was from; State of the Art, explaining how a special effect or stunt in a movie was technically accomplished; Consumer Alert, in which common consumer complaints or issues (such as food safety and products of suspect quality that may be dangerous) are investigated, Dateline Hidden Camera Investigation, a story using hidden cameras to focus on an issue of public concern; and Newsmakers, light interviews with major figures in politics, entertainment, and business, as well as regular people in the news. The program also included cross-promotional segments with Court TV and magazines People, Good Housekeeping and Consumer Reports. In the 1990s, a common week would feature several "signature segments," breaking news, updates on past stories shown on the program, multi-part investigations, and interviews. Dateline also pioneered the use of viewer feedback including telephone polling and a unique format, the "Interactive Dateline Mystery," where viewers voted (similar to Choose Your Own Adventure) on where the story should go next.

Current on-air staff
Anchor
 * Lester Holt (September 23, 2011–present)

Contributing anchors
 * Willie Geist (2014–present)
 * Meredith Vieira (2006–present)
 * Kate Snow (2015–present)
 * Craig Melvin (2016–present)

Correspondents
 * Blayne Alexander (2023–present)
 * Andrea Canning (2012–present)
 * Hoda Kotb (1998–present)
 * Josh Mankiewicz (1995–present)
 * Keith Morrison (1995–present)
 * Dennis Murphy (1994–present)

Former on-air staff
Former anchors
 * Jane Pauley (March 31, 1992–May 13, 2003)
 * Stone Phillips (March 31, 1992–July 2, 2007)
 * Tom Brokaw (1994–2004)
 * Katie Couric (1994–2006)
 * Natalie Morales (2004–2021)
 * Ann Curry (June 24, 2005–September 16, 2011)
 * Matt Lauer (1997–2017) (contributing anchor)

Former correspondents
 * Maria Shriver (1992–2004, 2013–2015)
 * Deborah Roberts (1992–1995)
 * Chris Hansen (1993–2013)
 * Elizabeth Vargas (1993–1996)
 * Brian Williams (1996–2015)
 * Norah O'Donnell (1999–2011)
 * Martin Bashir (2010–2014)
 * Erica Hill (2013–2016)
 * Megyn Kelly (2017–2018)
 * Jeff Rossen (2012–2019)

Syndication
Repackaged hour-long true crime episodes of Dateline air on various cable and satellite channels such as Investigation Discovery, E!, USA Network (E! and USA are owned by NBC parent company NBCUniversal) and OWN, usually with the network names suffixing the generic branding of Dateline on.... Several other brandings exist, with Dateline: Secrets Uncovered as a part of Oxygen, Dateline: Real Life Mysteries on TLC (along with Dateline on TLC), and Dateline Extra the branding for repackaged episodes on MSNBC, also owned by NBCUniversal. All episodes are repackaged by NBC News under its non-fiction Peacock Productions banner. The NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock has featured a full-time streaming channel made up of Dateline episodes since its July 2020 launch. NBC News' free streaming channel NBC News NOW also airs episodes of Dateline NBC every weekend.

On September 25, 2017, Dateline began airing archived true crime-focused episodes in daily broadcast syndication; the NBC branding is completely removed. These episodes also air as part of MyNetworkTV's Wednesday and Thursday night lineups.

International broadcasts
Dateline is broadcast in Canada, mainly through NBC and MyNetworkTV affiliates from U.S. border cities (such as KING-TV and KZJO in Seattle, WDIV-TV and WADL in Detroit, and WGRZ-TV and WNYO-TV in Buffalo, New York) that are widely available in that country; until the fall of 2022, new editions of the show were not simulcast on a Canadian network nationwide, though many of the same Canadian counterparts to the cable networks mentioned in the syndication section air the repackaged Dateline on... episodes as a part of their own schedules (especially those containing domestic stories), and some other American stations airing in Canada carry the Dateline syndicated package outside of network hours. Since the fall of 2022, Citytv simultaneously airs new episodes of Dateline with NBC in Canada (with domestic advertising), a rarity as Canadian networks do not generally simulcast American newsmagazines.

Dateline NBC is also seen on the 24-hour news network Orbit News in Europe and the Middle East, which broadcasts MSNBC and other NBC News programs for several hours a day. It is also broadcast on the Seven Network in Australia on Sundays at 5 a.m., although is pre-empted by paid programming on regional affiliates Prime Television and Golden West Network. In the Philippines, the program airs on TAP Edge.

Nielsen ratings

 * Series debut: 12.9 household rating/17.1 million viewers
 * Series high: 21.2 million viewers (10/4/1994)

NOTE: Data from 2007 to present includes Live+ Ratings.
 * Season averages

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Central Region, Malawi

The Central Region of Malawi, population 7,523,340 (2018), covers an area of 35,592 km2. Its capital city is Lilongwe, which is also the national capital. The region has an outlet on Lake Malawi and borders neighbouring countries Zambia and Mozambique. The Chewa people make up the majority of the population today.

Geography
The Central region is bounded on the north by the Northern Region, on the east by Lake Malawi, on the southeast by Southern Region, on the southwest by Mozambique, and on east by Zambia.

Central Region straddles the western edge of the East African Rift. Lake Malawi occupies most of the rift valley, with a narrow plain running along its western shore. Much of the region lies on a plateau, known as the Central Region Plateau or Lilongwe Plain. The plateau covers 23,310 square km (9,000 square miles). A belt of hills and escarpments separates the plateau from the rift valley lowlands to the east. The Dwangwa, Bua, and Lilongwe rivers drain the plateau, emptying eastwards into Lake Malawi.

The southwestern boundary of the region is mountainous, including the northern end of the Kirk Range and Dedza Mountain (2,198 m).

Administration
Of the 27 districts in Malawi, 9 are located within the Central Region They are: Dedza, Dowa, Kasungu, Lilongwe, Mchinji, Nkhotakota, Ntcheu, Ntchisi, and Salima.

Ethnic groups
At the time of the 2018 Census of Malawi, the distribution of the population of the Central Region by ethnic group was as follows:
 * 71.5% Chewa
 * 14.6% Ngoni
 * 4.9% Yao
 * 3.2% Tumbuka
 * 3.1% Lomwe
 * 0.9% Tonga
 * 0.5% Sena
 * 0.4% Sukwa
 * 0.4% Mang'anja
 * 0.2% Nyanja
 * 0.1% Nkhonde
 * 0.1% Lambya
 * 0.2% Others

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Dateline

A dateline is a brief piece of text included in news articles that describes where and when the story was written or filed, though the date is often omitted. In the case of articles reprinted from wire services, the distributing organization is also included (though the originating one is not). Datelines are traditionally placed on the first line of the text of the article, before the first sentence.

Format
The location appears first, usually starting with the city in which the reporter has written or dispatched the report. City names are usually printed in uppercase, though this can vary from one publication to another. The political division and/or nation the city is in may follow, but they may be dropped if the city name is widely recognizable due to its size or political importance (a national capital, for instance). The date of the report comes after, followed by an em dash surrounded by spaces, and then the article.

A typical newspaper dateline might read:

The same story, if pulled from the United Press International wire, might appear with the UPI identifier as:

Datelines can take on some unusual forms. When reporters collaborate on a story, two different locations might be listed. UPI and the Associated Press omit a dateline "when a story has been assembled from sources in widely separate areas." In other cases, the exact location may be unknown or intentionally imprecise, such as when profiling a riverboat plying its route, when covering military operations while on a ship at sea or following an invasion force, or when covering a press conference aboard an airplane.

Other media
The concept of a dateline has been adapted to television. Reporters on news programs might have their location mentioned in an introduction from the news anchor:

A field reporter might also end his stories by combining the location from where he filed the report with a "lockout" (the last thing a reporter says in the report, and includes his name and station ID, in addition to a news branding such as Eyewitness News); especially if the segment is recorded and not live. For example, the last bit of a report could sound like:

A number of current affairs TV shows have dateline as part of their name.

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Pablo Torrealba

Pablo Arnoldo Torrealba [tor-ray-ahl'-bah] (born April 28, 1948) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1975 through 1979 for the Atlanta Braves, Oakland Athletics, and Chicago White Sox.

Listed at 6' 1" (1.78 m), 185 lb.(78 k), Torrealba batted and threw left handed. He was born in Barquisimeto, Lara. His son, Steve Torrealba, is a former catcher who also played for the Braves organization.

In a five-season career, Torrealba posted a 6–13 record with 113 strike outs and a 3.27 ERA in 239 innings pitched.

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Southern Region, Malawi

The Southern Region of Malawi is an area of Malawi. It covers an area of 31,753 km2. Its capital city is Blantyre. In 2018, its population was 7,750,629.

Of the 28 districts in Malawi, 13 are located within the Southern Region. They are: Balaka, Blantyre, Chikwawa, Chiradzulu, Machinga, Mangochi, Mulanje, Mwanza, Neno, Nsanje, Phalombe, Thyolo, and Zomba.

Demographics
At the time of the 2018 Census of Malawi, the distribution of the population of the Southern Region by ethnic group was as follows:
 * 39.3% Lomwe
 * 24.9% Yao
 * 8.3% Ngoni
 * 8.2% Sena
 * 6.8% Mang'anja
 * 6.6% Chewa
 * 3.8% Nyanja
 * 0.9% Tumbuka
 * 0.4% Tonga
 * 0.1% Nkhonde
 * 0.0% Lambya
 * 0.0% Sukwa
 * 0.7% Others

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Talk:Leinster

Untitled
The map needs to be corrected to include Co. Longford in Leinster. -- 217.44.142.112 16:40, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Done! Djegan 16:52, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Green or black?
What is this background? In text green, in picture black :|

Large towns?
Why isn't Carlow in the list of large towns with a population of 20,724?

Stadr not S + Tir
Leinster, Munster and Ulster are all Anglicised forms of Viking names for the three provinces. The Old Norse word used for territory/place/region was stadr not Nordic S-genitive and the Irish tír, meaning country. It is even stated in the Ulster Wikipedia article as stadr as well as on web, so i think it should be used here.

It sounds good in theory but why would the Danes use the Irish word for it when they have a word of their own meaning near enough the same thing and coincidentally sounding slightly the same? Mabuska (talk) 22:04, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Scope
As per this IWNB discussion, there are concerns that this article (and indeed other articles on the provinces) may include content only very loosely related to the subject. Specifically, in the case here, while there may be a "Leinster History" (eg Laighin, Kingdom of Leinster, the Pale, etc), "Leinster Sport" (eg Rugby team, GAA provincial organisation, etc), and "Leinster Geography" (eg the counties that make up the province) it is skirting OR and SYNTH to imply that there is a "Leinster Culture" or "Leinster Economy" (as distinct from that of the rest of the country, the Dublin Region, the regions or anything that follows actual provincial bounds). Thoughts are welcome before possibly restoring to something akin to a version before such concepts were added/invented. Guliolopez (talk) 20:35, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * OK. I left this sit for 2 weeks or so. And didn't hear anything that suggested the apparent broad consensus elsewhere wasn't applicable here. So I went ahead and removed the "Economy" and "Venues" sections (as neither of these things are organised on a provincial basis), and moved/reworded the "Culture" section to reference those sporting entities (which are actually organised on a provincial basis). Guliolopez (talk) 20:17, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

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I’m not overly familiar with Leinster Irish, but from a Donegal-centric perspective, the IPA for Laighin and Laighean seem wrong to me. Phonetically, I would pronounce Laighean as written, [l̪ˠaɪnˠ] (or [l̪ˠaɪənˠ]), but that doesn’t adhere to the Wikipedia IPA notation for Irish, according to which it ought to be [l̪ˠəinˠ].

But more oddly, how/where does Laighin, which I would pronounce identically except for the slender final consonant, [l̪ˠəi(ɪ)nʲ], grow an extra syllable and a long vowel to become [l̪ˠaːjɪnʲ]? Kokoshneta (talk) 18:12, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

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Steve Torrealba

Steven Alexander Torrealba [tor-ray-AHL-bah] (born February 24, 1978, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela) is a former Major League Baseball catcher. He is a right-handed batter who played in the majors for the Atlanta Braves (2001–2002). Torrealba's father, Pablo Torrealba, also pitched for the Braves, along with the Athletics and White Sox from 1975 to 1979.

Career
Torrealba was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Atlanta Braves in 1995, working his way up the system until he made his major league debut on October 6, 2001. In his only at-bat of the postseason in 2001, Torrealba hit a double in Game 1 of the NLDS against the Houston Astros. He appeared in only 2 games for the Braves in 2001 and 13 in 2002 and became a free agent after the 2002 season. On February 13, 2003, he signed with the St. Louis Cardinals and played 46 games for Triple-A Memphis, becoming a free agent after the season. On February 4, 2004, he signed with the New York Yankees. Torrealba played only 4 games for Triple-A Columbus before being released on April 28.

In 2005, he signed with the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League. He played 98 games, batting .263 with 8 home runs. In 2006, he played with the Atlantic City Surf, after being signed by the Cincinnati Reds in January, but not playing any games for them. On January 10, 2007, Torrealba signed with the Detroit Tigers and played for their Double-A affiliate in Erie. He spent 2008 and 2009 in the Baltimore Orioles organization before becoming a free agent at the end of the 2009 season.

In a two-season career, Torrealba hit .105 with one RBI in 17 games played.

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Talk:Digital sum

While I think the topic definitely deserves an article, I wonder whether "digital sum" is really the standard name for this operation? Casual googling seems to suggest that the digital sum of a number is more commonly taken to be the repeated digit sum, i.e. the decimal digital sum of 782 is computed by 7+8+2=17, 1+7=8 to be 8. AxelBoldt 16:42, 8 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes, you're right. I'll try to correct this article. -- Alex Nisnevich (talk) 21:21, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Professional mathematicians call it "digital root." Anton Mravcek 22:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:E. B. Ford

Requested move
E.B. Ford → E. B. Ford – Naming conventions -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 15:13, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

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 * Oppose there is no consensus on whether articles with initials should have _ indeed (whatever thinks), the more common way is without the underscore. — Dunc|☺ 15:15, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose Unneccessary, in line with no clear policy I can find, and does not add to clarity. Naturenet | Talk 20:55, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Support: See my comment below. —Wknight94 (talk) 13:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

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 * The convention itself Is located here. See also that the majority of articles (and, in particular, virtually all the ones with many edits) are in the form "X. Y. Lastname." Regardless of what says, I think that WP:Be bold leads me to move such pages in keeping with a standard that was already written, regardless of consensus. I only put this here after being convinced it was a gesture of good will. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 19:08, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I hate to split hairs and I do applaud your attempt to enforce a standard. However the reference you gave itself refers to another page of conventions and the two are not consistent, the latter page giving examples of both styles with apparent approval. Nowhere is the specific point of spacing addressed except by unannotated example. I do not believe there is a consensus on whether or not there should be spaces in names formatted like E.B. Ford. I suggest that the reason there is no such consensus nor likely to be one is because it is a trivial issue. Therefore it is not worth moving a page to achieve compliance. Naturenet | Talk 19:43, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I sway to and fro on this issue but I have to admit the wording in this section of WP:NCP is quite clear. "For abbreviated names (if these are the most used) every abbreviation is followed by a point, and every point is followed by a single space" — and the boldface is in the convention itself, not added by me.  There is only one exception shown in the convention, B.G. James, and that article has since been moved to Brian Gerard James.  In one of these move requests, I pointed out that every source I could find had no space in the middle but the ruling still went against me.  Personally, I would have moved this page since the opposes were unconvincing.  —Wknight94 (talk) 13:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
 * You're right, I'm wrong, the guidelines are unambiguous. I withdraw any objection on grounds of policy. I would still assert that this entire thing is de minimus. Naturenet | Talk 17:59, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Moved per discussion. Special thanks to Wknight94 for participation :)  Teke ( talk ) 00:10, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Life
"...but there are few other sources on his life." The ODNB gives a few interesting personal references. Chrysippo (talk) 10:29, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

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Hampton, Ontario

Hampton is a community located in the municipality of Clarington, Ontario, Canada. It was the location of the offices of Darlington Township until 1974 when it became part of the newly created Town of Newcastle (now Clarington) as part of the municipal government restructuring that created the Regional Municipality of Durham.

Hampton was founded by Henry Elliot in 1840, who opened the first mill here in the former Darlington Township. At first it was called Elliot's Mill and by 1848 just Millsville. Other former names have included Hog's Hollow and Shantytown. The Elliott home backed onto the pond and is one of the most historic properties in the Billings. With the opening of the post office the name Hampton was chosen, as it was an abbreviation of Henry Elliot's birthplace, Kirkhampton in Cornwall, England.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Hampton had a population of 775 living in 272 of its 276 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of 755. With a land area of 1.23 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Hampton Post office history
The first post office in Hampton was opened in 1851. At that time, the name of the village was Millsville, but the name was changed with the opening of the post office. Henry Elliott served as its first Postmaster. His son, Henry Jr., took over the position until 1915, when Mr. W. Horn was appointed. During this period, the post office was located on the east side of town at Horn's store (later destroyed by fire in 1983). In 1937, the post office was moved to Barron's store across the street.

Finally, in 1971 the post office was moved to the federal building at its present location on Millville Ave, with Pete Barron as Postmaster. For many years, Marguerite (Chic) Richardson was the Assistant Postmaster. Mrs. Nancy Pella became Postmistress in 1982. Mrs. Pella retired in 2011. Mrs. Heather Garvock is the current Postmaster. Today, it services the village with lock boxes and two rural routes. One of these rural routes came into being with the closure of the Enniskillen post office in 1986.

Hampton Community Association
Hampton Community Association (HCA) is a non-profit volunteer based organization that manages Hampton Community Hall and organizes local community events in Hampton. The purpose of the HCA Board and Volunteers is to encourage community participation and provide a gathering area for the Hampton residents, and to encourage the rental of the Community Hall to be financially self sustaining, and to be representative of as many facets of the community as possible. The HCA board consists of Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, 8 Members-at-Large and Volunteers. The board meets monthly at the hall, which is open to the public. Once a year in January at the Annual General Meeting (AGM), the HCA members and its residents, along with special guests such as Clarington mayor, Clarington council members, and other important guests meet together at the Hampton Community Hall and discuss important topics about the community and its surrounding areas, Q&A sessions are also held where you can ask anything. Also during the meeting, the Hampton Community Association holds an Election for the open positions as well HCA Constitution revisions/updates during AGM.

In film

 * In 2005 Stephen King's 11.22.63 TV series starring James Franco was filmed in Hampton and Enniskillen. Old Scugog Rd. North of Hampton was used all the way to and including Hampton Auto Care garage that was converted to gas station south of the cemetery, also a scene was filmed on King Lane dirt road heading towards Holt Road.
 * The 2002 John Q film's baseball scene was filmed in Hampton, Ontario.
 * In 1982 an episode of The Littlest Hobo, titled "Trooper", was filmed in Hampton, Ontario. The Hampton Junior Public school as well as a local house were used as settings. The town itself representing the evacuated town of Middleton. Several children from the school were used as extras.
 * The 1971 biker film, The Proud Rider, was partially filmed outside the Hampton United Church during the film's final scene.

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Deposit model

In the field of archaeology a deposit model is a method of identifying the character and degree of survival of buried archaeological remains over a specified area without necessarily excavating the whole area.

Following the introduction of archaeology into the planning process in most western nations, the importance of gathering as much information as possible on a site without digging it up has grown. Such information can be used to inform the decisions made by planners, developers and archaeologists about the necessity for, and nature of, any archaeological work in advance of new building.

A deposit model uses the results of previous excavations and other intrusive archaeological investigations to estimate the nature of the archaeology over a wider area. Productive excavations in one area would suggest that land nearby would also be productive. Since the buried archaeological record is essentially a volume of earth trapped between the two archaeological horizons defined by the underlying natural geology and the horizon of modern intrusions projecting down into the record, the detailed mapping of the underlying geology of an area has become important in deposit modeling and has resulted in a growth of work for geoarchaeologists. The results of surveying can be extrapolated between known geographical points and used to estimate the impact of certain types of development.

By taking into account known disturbances to the ground certain areas can be presumed to have limited archaeological potential. A survey of buildings identifying which have basements in them for example may suggest that certain streets have had all their archaeology removed (or truncated) in the past.

Where buildings stand on top of probable or known archaeology the effect that their foundations and floors have on ground water levels may also be important in the degree of preservation that can be expected.

All this information can be stored on a computer GIS database and analysed and augmented as time goes by and further information is revealed.

An early deposit model of the city of York was produced in the early 1990s and has been used to inform archaeological decisions in the city since.

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Talk:Ronald Fisher

Publication name
The article previously noted that Fisher "published as R. A. Fisher". The note was then deleted. I believe that the note is valuable, and so have undone the deletion. As per WP:BRD, I have created this Talk section for discussion. BetterMath (talk) 14:57, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Seems of value to me. Qwfp (talk) 20:19, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Why do you think the detail that Fisher used his initials in publications is valuable in this case, when it is obvious that "R. A." means Ronald Aylmer? Hrodvarsson (talk) 00:46, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * He could have used "R. Fisher" or "Ronald Fisher" or "Ronald A. Fisher" or "Ronald Aylmer Fisher". Instead he used "R. A. Fisher". Thus, it is information about Fisher and Fisher's work. The information tells what the reader will see when looking at Fisher's publications. It explains why there is a book R.A. Fisher: An Appreciation, why there is another book (by Fisher's own daughter) R. A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist, why Savage entitled his famous paper "On rereading R. A. Fisher", why the R. A. Fisher Lectureship has the name that it does, why the cited OED quote refers to "R. A. Fisher", etc. BetterMath (talk) 05:14, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * All of those are variations of his name, WP:QUOTENAME. If he used a pseudonym such as "John Jenkins" (or a similar name that is not related to his real name) when publishing, it would be important to list. In this case, it is the same as saying "Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin" published as "Friedrich Hölderlin", redundant. Hrodvarsson (talk) 21:03, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
 * That he published under the name "R. A. Fisher" is information, which would not otherwise be known: it is not redundant, contrary to your apparent claim. Such information should obviously not be removed. Additionally, I do not see any conflict with WP:QUOTENAME. BetterMath (talk) 00:01, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It is redundant as "R. A." is a variation (initials) of his name, Ronald Aylmer. It would be useful information if he published using initials which did not relate to his name but that is not the case. Hrodvarsson (talk) 23:46, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * How is it obvious that "R. A." means Ronald Aylmer? It could equally mean Richard Anthony, or Rupert Adrian. I'd studied statistics and been aware of RA Fisher's work for a several years before I found out what his initials stood for. Qwfp (talk) 08:39, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * See the first three words of this article: "Ronald Aylmer Fisher". It is obvious that R. A. means Ronald Aylmer. If you think Fisher's common name is R. A. Fisher, then consider requesting a move to "R. A. Fisher", as Joseph John Thomson is "J. J. Thomson", but that is irrelevant to the WP:QUOTENAME argument I made. (You could have put "RA Fisher" in a search engine at any point during your studies and found out what the initials stood for by the way, so I am not sure what argument you are trying to make.) Hrodvarsson (talk) 21:03, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

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Is eugenicist one of Fisher's main identities, even the first one?
Fisher was a eugenicist. That was a terrible, wrong, but not uncommon belief in his time. Is that one of his main identities, or even the first one? Recently it appears that someone has insisted in inserting the word eugenicist as Fisher's first identity.

I do not see that as an identity for Winston Churchill. It appears on Francis_Galton's page but it is after his other identities "statistician, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist". The question is, what is Fisher known and remembered for? We should include his eugenics views and his work related, but we should put it in perspective too.Js2g (talk) 01:26, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

 * He was a founding member of "the Committee for Legalizing Eugenic Sterilization" (https://www.jstor.org/stable/3704332?seq=1) and was editor of the Annals of Eugenics for 20 years (1934-1954, https://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/timeline/543d5b1328f51f0000000004). Seems hard to argue that it wasn't part of his identity Hadleywickham (talk) 22:43, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

 * Thank you for adding these references. It does appear part of his identity, just not what he is remembered for. It seems to me the current order (statistician, geneticist, and eugenicist) of his identities is an acceptable one. Js2g (talk) 02:01, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

 * Eugenics was part of Fisher's work. But was it important enough, relative to his other work, to mention in the opening paragraph? That seems a much tougher case to make. For example, the article correctly notes that John Maynard Keynes, R. C. Punnett, and Horace Darwin were other founding members of the University of Cambridge Eugenics Society. But none of their articles include eugenicist in their opening paragraphs. Why should only Fisher's? Rubincausalmodel (talk) 11:52, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I think that if we are willing to consider his work in "biology" or "psychology" prominent enough to be listed in the first sentence, there's no reason to exclude "eugenics". He did far more work in eugenics than in legitimate biology.  As for what he is "remembered for", if he is not remembered as a eugenicist, then that is a misconception which should be corrected in this article. April Sagan (talk) 19:49, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

 * Indeed. You mention Keynes and Punnett, yet we would have to include Karl Pearson as well. It is worth noting that the journal Annals of Human Genetics was once the Annals of Eugenics. There is a serious problem with the effort to smear Fisher after his death. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:646:8C01:2E70:D0AE:6D62:B6AA:8CBA (talk • contribs)

Karl Pearson's support of eugenics is mentioned in the lead of his article, though not in the first sentence. The fact that the Annals of Eugenics changed its name does not mean that early issues are not problematic. Take Karl Pearson and Margaret Moul's article on the "Problem of Alien Immigration: On the Intelligence of the  Alien Jewish Children", in volumes 1 and 2. which uses an analogy of breeders of cattle to Jewish immigration.

However, it does seem like the Annals took a very different tone when Fisher took over as editor. Gone are the explicitly political aims to of using the scientific study of eugenics, to guide morals and legislation. Instead, it focuses more clearly on Genetics and Mathematical Statistics. Just compare Pearson's VALE! and Fishers new forward. Editorship seems to coincide with taking over the Galton chair of eugenics at UCL.

I'm inclinded to say that it should be mentioned in the Lead, possibly the first paragraph but not the first sentance.--Salix alba (talk): 09:42, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

My concern is about consistency. Wikipedia has several articles about prominent eugenicists (including a Nazi named in this article!) without the same identifier.B1db2 (talk) 21:30, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

I reverted my initial deletion because I wanted some feedback about my reasons. B1db2 (talk) 21:34, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * WP:OTHERCONTENT is not a reason to change a consensus on Wikipedia. We decide how to write about a subject based on coverage of that subject in independent reliable sources, not based on how different subjects are covered differently in different sources. If there are indeed eugenicists whose role in eugenics is not covered on their pages but is a core part of their encyclopedic notability, I do encourage you to discuss that on the talk pages for those articles. - Astrophobe  (talk) 21:44, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the clarification, although I don’t see a consensus established on this issue. It appears to have been unilaterally decided by one editor. However, I am a bit rusty. I am inclined to delete the identification based on the discussion so far. Advice appreciated. B1db2 (talk) 22:20, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Nope, a cursory search at the talk page history shows that this has been discussed in dozens of edits over several years by more than one editor. - Astrophobe  (talk) 00:20, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I was able to find discussions about his involvement in eugenics, but nothing until the June 2020 edit about the identification in the lead sentence. In fact, for a few years he was not introduced as a eugenicist until an anonymous user added it in June 2020. Then it was deleted and then added again. This is hardly a consensus and the current Talk page doesn't resolve it. B1db2 (talk) 03:18, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I think society as a whole is having a major reassessment of Fisher. When Gonville and Caius College stated in June 2020 that they would remove the window of Fisher that changed the weighting we should give to the eugenics. The we have UCL removing his name from Centre for Computational Biology.. His bio on the UCL page now has a prominent section on Eugenics. --Salix alba (talk): 07:04, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * No doubt we should have a prominent section on eugenics, but I think we should be careful about how we identify people. His role in eugenics is secondary to his occupation and scientific contributions, and I don't think his recent notoriety changes that. Anyway, Wikipedia appears to be the only mainstream reference source that introduces him that way. Not sure that helps credibility B1db2 (talk) 20:48, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Race
The section describing Fisher's involvement with the UNESCO declaration on racial equality (he opposed it) has been removed recently for not being suitably sourced (rather than any other reason). If there's a need for secondary sources, will these do>

The page about Fisher at the Fisher Centre for Computational Biology, University College London: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/departments/genetics-evolution-and-environment/gee-labs/r-fisher-centre-computational-biology/ronald-fisher

This post by the Science History Institute: https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/ronald-fisher-a-bad-cup-of-tea-and-the-birth-of-modern-statistics

This paper from the American Historical Review: https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/112/5/1386/41062 Tslumley (talk) 00:55, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I just restored the text, because the stated objection in removing that text was a concern about WP:NOR due to a lack of secondary sources. As you note, there is no actual lack of secondary sources, they just happened to not be included in that subsection yet. I've pulled in what should be more than enough to establish the veracity of the simple factual claims in that section, which are attested in dozens of strong WP:RS, but of course it's good to start the WP:CONSENSUS train often and early. - Astrophobe  (talk) 01:00, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I should also say, please don't let what I already did discourage you from adding those sources too. To my mind more references on this material are now pretty redundant since the simple claims in the article are thoroughly established in secondary sources from academic journals to major book publishers (and just packing in too many citations for the sake of it runs up against WP:CITEKILL), but those sources probably give lots of ideas for how to expand the subsection's contents. - Astrophobe  (talk) 01:03, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for refs. It seems they pretty much trace to the primary source, which is the UNESCO "The Race Concept: Results of an Inquiry" publication. In my expansion of this section, I simply referred to the primary source, with added page numbers for ease in finding the exact quotes. Charldee (talk) 04:28, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The stated concern, for which I introduced those references, was avoiding WP:NOR. Replacing all of the secondary sources with the same original primary source and cherry-picking quotations from it only sets the text up to be deleted again for the same reason. I have no objection to creating a standalone section for this material, but whatever WP:CONSENSUS eventually emerges from this it's already clear that it needs to be based on in-depth scholarly statements in reliable sources, not just selections from the primary source. - Astrophobe  (talk) 19:09, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
 * To clarify, the secondary sources aren't there to provide a substantially more in-depth or alternative take on the material that's in the primary source. I introduced them simply to satisfy editors who seemed to want secondary sources that would establish that he really did write these things and it really is notable enough for the article and it really does belong to part of his legacy as a scientist. It can't both be true that the material should be removed because we haven't included secondary sources about it and that the secondary sources need to be removed. So an explicit consensus is needed between those positions. - Astrophobe  (talk) 19:22, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

 * This version seems much better (to me) then the previous version, which I had edited out. Perhaps I was overly concerned about WP:NOR? Rubincausalmodel (talk) 11:54, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Saying Fisher held "strong" views on race is argumentative and without cited basis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:646:8C01:2E70:B4A8:56CE:2BDB:334C (talk) 00:30, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It doesn't have to be cited in the introduction if it's cited elsewhere in the article. — howcheng  {chat} 23:40, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Dunno; such views may be one of the main reasons nonbiologists and nonstatisticians come to this article now days. Prolly oughta stay in the lede.  Anyway, some of the sources are in the original argumentation itself, where the strength of Fisher's views is noted by a consensus-forming group he was working with, thus secondary.  It seems to me a direct link to the cited work's URL (in my book this is https://unesdoc.unesco.org/in/rest/annotationSVC/DownloadWatermarkedAttachment/attach_import_97ea8be3-7f7c-4ee0-b76e-c94c352a77e5?_=073351engo.pdf ) might be in order for our ref named "UNESCO1952," rather than just another page that maybe lets you run a script to get the PDF.  Can this not be improved within the constraints of the citation template we're using here? - phi (talk) 12:19, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

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Yorvit Torrealba

Yorvit Adolfo Torrealba (born July 19, 1978) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays and Milwaukee Brewers. He bats and throws right-handed.

San Francisco Giants
Torrealba signed with the San Francisco Giants as a minor league free agent on September 14, 1994. He made his major league debut with the Giants on September 5, 2001, as a September call up. His first major league hit was a triple. No other MLB player would record a triple for his first MLB hit until Jason Perry in 2008. Torrealba became the Giants back up catcher for the 2002 season after a strong spring training. During Torrealba's early career, his defensive abilities were his key strength, particularly his ability to throw out baserunners. He had 136 at-bats in 2001 and 200 in 2002. During the 2002 postseason, Torrealba would still serve as the backup catcher although he made no appearances as the Giants lost the 2002 World Series to the Anaheim Angels.

Yorvit showed some potential, but when Benito Santiago left via free agency in 2003, the Giants opted to trade for A. J. Pierzynski rather than test Torrealba as a full-time player. He continued to serve as the backup catcher when the Giants signed Mike Matheny prior to the 2005 season; in fact, he played less than when Pierzynski was the starter. Torrealba expressed frustration over his lack of playing time to the media more than once, saying he believed he was capable of playing every day. Manager Felipe Alou publicly discussed the possibility of converting Torrealba into a utility player to get him more playing time, but that never came to pass.

Seattle Mariners
Torrealba was traded, along with pitcher Jesse Foppert, to the Seattle Mariners for outfielder Randy Winn at the trading deadline of the 2005 season. The Mariners were in the midst of a 93-loss season and were rebuilding, and Torrealba competed for the opportunity to be Seattle's starting catcher.

Colorado Rockies
After the 2005 season, the Seattle Mariners traded Torrealba to the Colorado Rockies for Marcos Carvajal after signing Kenji Johjima to be their starting catcher. With the Rockies, Torrealba had a chance to be the starting catcher, but lost the job after he was injured prior to the 2006 season, establishing Danny Ardoin as the Rockies starting catcher. Torrealba's injury was a lingering shoulder injury that was caused by overtraining.

During November 2007, rumors that Torrealba would sign with the Mets intensified. Torrealba and the Mets agreed on a deal for $14.4 million over three years. The deal had seemed to be done, but with the failing of Yorvit's physical he was never sent to New York. Torrealba would later file a grievance against the Mets. On November 29, 2007, he re-signed with the Rockies.

Torrealba began the 2007 season for the Rockies platooning with rookie catcher Chris Iannetta. When Iannetta struggled, Torrealba won the starting job. On May 29, 2007, against the St. Louis Cardinals, Torrealba hit a grand slam, the 3rd of his career. He finished the season with a .255 average and 47 RBIs in 396 at-bats and he threw out only 17 percent of potential base-stealers, down from his success in previous seasons. Torrealba had some big hits for the Rockies during late 2007, when the Rockies won 12 of their last 13 to force a one-game playoff against the San Diego Padres, which the Rockies won. Torrealba homered off Jake Peavy in that game. Torrealba also hit a 3-run home run off of former teammate Liván Hernández in Game 3 of the 2007 National League Championship Series. Torrealba led the Rockies to the World Series for the first time ever but lost the series to the Boston Red Sox in a 4-game sweep.

Through the 2007 season, Torrealba posted a career .251 batting average with 30 home runs and 173 RBIs in 440 games. As a catcher, he compiled a .997 fielding average with only seventeen errors in 2587 chances; Torrealba's defense has been above average throughout his career. He has thrown out over 32% of all baserunners attempting to steal. His ability to throw out runners was a career low 19.7% in 2007. Due to his impressive postseason play, Torrealba has recently been dubbed "Mr. Rocktober."

Torrealba has an unusual throwing motion, as he brings his hand to earside and then snaps his arm in a quick motion, although it seems to work for him, given his success at throwing out baserunners.

On November 6, 2009, the Rockies decided to go with youngster Chris Iannetta as their primary catcher and declined their 2010 contract option with Torrealba, making him a free agent.

San Diego Padres
On February 9, 2010, Torrealba and the San Diego Padres signed a one-year contract with a mutual option for a second year. In 2010, he batted .271, and led the league's catchers in fielding percentage, at .996. Following the season, Torrealba declined the option, but was later offered arbitration by the Padres.

Texas Rangers
Torrealba agreed to a two-year contract with the Texas Rangers for $6.25 million. Torrealba homered in his second game with his new team.

In 2011, he batted .273 with 7 home runs. On defense, he was third in the league in errors by a catcher, totalling 9 errors. Torrealba led the Rangers into the postseason until the team lost the 2011 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals.

On July 30, 2012, Torrealba was designated for assignment by the Texas Rangers He was released on August 8, 2012.

Toronto Blue Jays
Torrealba signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays on August 14, 2012, and reported to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. Torrealba was added to the 40 man roster and called up to the Blue Jays on August 21. On August 22, Torrealba played first base for the first time in his career.

Milwaukee Brewers
On September 21, 2012, Torrealba was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers for cash considerations or a player to be named later. He ended up appearing in six games for the Brewers, going 0-for-5 at the plate with one walk.

Second stint with the Colorado Rockies
He signed a minor league contract with the Colorado Rockies on January 24, 2013. In 61 games, Torrealba batted .240 and had 8 doubles and 16 RBIs for the Rockies.

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Torrealba signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on January 31, 2014. He got released and became a free agent on March 23.

Chicago Cubs
Torrealba signed a minor league contract with the Chicago Cubs on June 12, 2014. He was released a month later.

Personal life
Torrealba's parents gave him his name when they could not decide between Yorman and Victor. They decided to combine the two into "Yorvit". Torrealba's parents still reside in Venezuela.

Torrealba has two sons named Yorvis Eduardo Torrealba (1997) and Julian Xavier Houston-Torrealba (2000). In June 2009, Yorvit Torrealba was unexpectedly placed on the Rockies' restricted list. On June 4, 2009, it was announced that the reason for his absence was that his 11-year-old son and "his two uncles" had been kidnapped. The abductors set Yorvis and the other family members free without picking up the $50,000 that had been agreed upon. He then moved his son out of Venezuela to Miami. Yorvis Eduardo tossed the first pitch in the third game of the 2009 National League Division Series against the Phillies, and he was drafted by the Rockies in the 20th round of the 2019 MLB draft.

Controversy
On December 23, 2011, while playing for the Leones del Caracas in the Venezuelan Winter League regular season, Torrealba argued heatedly following a strikeout. He then was ejected by umpire Dario Rivero, Jr. Before leaving, he delivered a shot to Rivero in the head. Torrealba claimed that his attack on the umpire was because of a disputed strike call prior to striking out. As a result, the league suspended Torrealba for 66 games, which did not carry over to Major League Baseball or any other baseball circuit.

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