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Valle can refer to:

Things[link]

• A valle (grass valley)

Places[link]

• Valle, Norway, a municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway
• Valle, Møre og Romsdal, a village in the municipality of Skodje, Norway
• Valle, an area in Oslo, Norway (see Valle-Hovin)
• Valle, Arizona, an unincorporated town in the United States
• Valle, Latvia, a village
• Valle del Cauca Department in Colombia
• Valle, Ecuador
• Valle Department, Honduras
• Bale, Croatia, known in Istrian Italian as Valle
• Valle Hundred, a hundred of Västergötland in Sweden
• "Valle", the cultural and climatic zone of the dry subtropical Interandean Valles of the Andes of Peru, Bolivia, and northwest Argentina
• Valles Caldera
• Former denomination of Valle di Cadore, northern Italy
• Valle 1 and Valle 2, thermosolar plants in San José del Valle (Spain).

People[link]

• Dave Valle, American baseball player
• Hector Valle, Puerto Rican baseball player
• Marcos Valle, Brazilian singer, songwriter and record producer

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Shpat Kasapi (Macedonian: Шпат Касапи, Špat Kasapi) (born 1 May 1985 in Tetovo, SFR Yugoslavia) is an Albanian singer from Macedonia.

Biography[link]

Kasapi participated in Festivali i Këngës 47 for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.^[1] He was in a relationship with Miss Universe Kosovo 2011, Afërdita Dreshaj.^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

Chang Yung-fa (張榮發) (1927, Penghu, Republic of China (Taiwan)) is the founder and Group Chairman of the Evergreen Group.

Biography[link]

In 1927, Chang was born in Penghu, while Taiwan was under Japanese rule. After graduating from Taipei Commercial High School at the age of 18, he went to work in the Taipei office of a Japanese shipping line.

After World War II, he joined the seagoing staff of a local shipping company as third officer. His subsequent career was spent with various local companies and he progressed through the ranks to captain.

In 1961, Dr. Chang and some friends jointly established a shipping company and, having helped this company to develop, he decided to branch out on his own, establishing Evergreen Marine Corporation on September 1, 1968 with just one secondhand 15,000 ton vessel, Central Trust.

Over the next four years, Chang painstakingly built his fleet up to twelve, running them empty when necessary to convince his customers his services were both as regular as clockwork and as reliable as the sunset. Within a year, he had expanded to the Middle East. Within three, Chang was dispatching Evergreen ships to the Caribbean.

In 1975, Chang realized that containerisation was the way forward. He built four advanced S-type container ships and launched his U.S. East Coast service. Fifteen months later, he added the West coast of the United States to his network. Europe followed in 1979.

By 1984, he started his most ambitious service yet- two 80-day round-the-world services, one circling the globe in an easterly direction, the other westward. Departing every 10 days, the 20 G-type container ships he employed had a capacity of 2,728 containers each and could travel at a speed of 20.5 knots.

The Evergreen Group has expanded beyond the shipping industry to encompass operations in heavy industrial development, air transport, hotels and resorts services.

The Evergreen Group, with over 27,000 employees and more than 220 offices/agents worldwide, now comprises about 30 major corporations worldwide, 3 of which are listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. During the 2012 Republic of China presidential election, Mr Chang expressed his disapproval of the so called Taiwan Consensus. The China Post reported that he said that the "“Taiwan Consensus” smacks of Taiwan independence" which the paper said was "not his cup of tea".^[1] In February 2012, it was reported that Chang had pledged "to give away all his wealth" (approximately US$1.69 billion), primarily via the Chang Yung-fa Foundation.^[2]

Conferment[link]

• Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the California State University, 1990.
  
• Honorary Doctor of Business Administration from the University of South Carolina, 1995.
  
• Honorary Doctor of Shipping & Transportation Management from the National Taiwan Ocean University, 1998.
  
• Honorary Doctor of Business Administration from the Nottingham Trent University, 1999.
  
• Honorary Doctor of Business Administration from the National Chiao Tung University, 2000.
  
• Honorary Doctor of Transport and Academician from Russian Academy of Transport, 2007
  
• Honorary Professorship from the University of Houston–Downtown, 2008
• Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from the Japanese government, 2012.^[3]

Career accomplishments[link]

Founder and Group Chairman of The Evergreen Group.
Chairman of the Chang Yung-Fa Foundation.
Chairman Of Chang Yung-Fa Charity Foundation.
Advisor to the President of Panama on International Affairs.
Panamanian Honorary Consul-General in Taipei.
Member of the Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine, Management Advisory Committee.
Order Of Chivalry (D.M.P.N.), which carries the title of “Dato”, State Of Penang, Malaysia, 2000.
Officer Of The Legion of Honor, France, 2002.
Recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award, Lloyd's List 2006.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire(CBE), UK, 2006.^{[citation needed]}
Kebesaran Panglima Setia Mahkota(PSM), which carries the title of “Tan Sri”, Malaysia, 2007.
Knight of the Grand Cross (Cavaliere di Gran Croce), Italy, 2007
Commander of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) (Commandeur de l'Ordre de la Couronne), Belgium, 2008^{[citation needed]}
Commander in the Order of Orange-Nassau, The Netherlands, 2011 Focus Taiwan

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External links[link]

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• EVERGREEN GROUP

Miguel del Valle (born July 24, 1951) is an American politician and the former City Clerk of Chicago. He was an Illinois State Senator for two decades, representing the 2nd district of Chicago from 1987–2006. Miguel lost his bid for mayor in Chicago's February 22, 2011 municipal elections, coming in third with 53,953 votes.^[1]

Early and personal life[link]

Del Valle was born in Puerto Rico and was brought to Chicago at the age of four by his parents.^[2] He grew up in the predominately working class Latina/o West Town and Humboldt Park neighborhoods of Chicago.^[2][3] After graduating from Tuley High School (now Roberto Clemente Community Academy) in 1969 he went on to Northeastern Illinois University.^[2] At Northeastern Miguel got involved as a student organizer, joining the Union for Puerto Rican Students and writing for the student publication Que Ondee Sola.
After earning a bachelor's and a master's degree in Education and Guidance from Northeastern, Miguel served as Unit Director of the Barreto Boys & Girls Club and then as Executive Director of the Association House, a non-profit organization providing social services and educational programs on Chicago's northwest side.^[4] During his time as Executive Director of the Association House Miguel was heralded by the Chicago Tribune as an "emerging young leader."^[5] In 1982, after organizing meetings, rallies, and lobbying Chicago's Chicago City Council Miguel was successful in re-instating city funding for Association House's successful jobs program for unemployed youth.^[6]
In 2008, Miguel was awarded an honorary degree from National Louis University for his "inspirational leadership."^[7]
He currently sits on the Board of Directors for Advance Illinois and was appointed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn as Chairman of the Illinois P-20 Council. Additionally he served on several non-profit organizational boards, including Josephinium High School, the Latino Institute and the Spanish Coalition for Housing. He has also served as Chairman of the Mayor Harold Washington’s Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs, and taught a class at Roosevelt University called “Latinos and Public Policy.”
Senator del Valle is married to Lupe, and has four children: Miguel Jr., Ivan, Esteban, and Vanessa.^[8]

Senate career[link]

In 1987, del Valle was elected the first Hispanic Senator in the Illinois General Assembly where he served for 20 years. He was the Assistant Majority Leader in the Illinois Senate, and he was the first Latino to hold that position. He served as an outspoken advocate for Latino representation in the legislative and judicial branches of government. He was the Co-Chair of the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus and was the only Latino member of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus. His leadership in redistricting cases in 1981, 1991 and 2001 led to the creation of Latino majority districts on the city, county, and state levels.
Del Valle sponsored legislation to protect homeowners by stopping the forgery of quitclaim deeds which is the process of transferring the title or deed of property to another individual or company. He has also sponsored legislation to provide harsher punishment for ATM crimes; provide Illinois with more Early Childhood Teachers; provide comprehensive health coverage for every child in Illinois; and increase funding for Advanced Placement courses in Illinois high schools.
Del Valle is the founder of the Illinois Association of Hispanic State Employees (IAHSE). He is the co-founder of several Latino organizations, including the Illinois Latino Advisory Council on Higher Education (ILACHE); the Alliance of Latinos and Jews; and the Illinois Hispanic Democratic Council (IHDC). He also developed the annual Department of Children and Family Services Hispanic Families Conference.
Del Valle is the former Vice-Chairman of the Education Committee, Co-Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Education Funding Reform and the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus. He also served on the Senate Executive Committee, the Senate Labor Committee, and the Higher Education Committee.
In the 2006 Illinois primary elections Del Valle received local media attention for his support of Ramon Ocasio III for judge over the preferred Democratic machine candidate, Ed Lechowicz, son of former Cook County Commissioner and Illinois State Senator Ted Lechowicz. Del Valle, who sponsored legislation to create the subcircuit system state that the system was created to give women & minorities the opportunity to serve on the bench.^[9]

City Clerk[link]

In 2006, Miguel del Valle was appointed, by Mayor Richard M. Daley, as City Clerk of Chicago after the elected sitting clerk was indicted on federal charges. It was highly Del Valle won a city-wide election to the post in 2007, becoming the first Latino elected to the Chicago City Clerk's office.
As City Clerk, del Valle's office is responsible for maintaining official city government records, distributing approximately 1.3 million vehicle stickers and residential parking permits, and issuing city business licenses.
Clerk del Valle is focused on bringing more efficiency and visibility to City Clerk services by providing greater access to public records, including web casting of City Council meetings, expanding community outreach programs, modernizing operations to expedite the sale of dog registrations, city stickers and residential parking.

Significant City Council transparency efforts include posting nearly 700,000 pages of searchable City Council records to the City Clerk website, www.ChiCityClerk.com. This includes every ordinance passed since 1981, the Byrne Administration, as well as city budgets and Mayoral Executive orders going back nearly 30 years. In addition, for the first time ever, City Council meetings can be watched live or on demand via a City Council video archive on the City Clerk website, www.ChiCityClerk.com.

Campaign for Mayor[link]

After Mayor Daley announced that he will not run for another term, del Valle was the first to declare his candidacy in the Chicago mayoral election, 2011. He was the first candidate to air a campaign ad on television, the first to have a website and Facebook page, and the first (and only) candidate to publicly declare he will not accept campaign contributions from companies that do business with the city.

In the election he came in third in a field of six, with about nine percent of the vote.^[10] In his concession speech he promised to continue to push for a progressive agenda, though he would soon leave office as city clerk.^[11]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Del Valle for Mayor
• Miguel del Valle — Chicago City Clerk
• Miguel del Valle — Illinois General Assembly
• Senator Miguel del Valle — Project Vote Smart^{[dead link]}