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World War I – known at the time as "The Great War" - officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919 , in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles , France. However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that reason, November 11, 1918 , is generally regarded as the end of "the war to end all wars."
In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…"
The original concept for the celebration was for a day observed with parades and public meetings and a brief suspension of business beginning at 11 a.m.
The United States Congress officially recognized the end of World War I when it passed a concurrent resolution on June 4, 1926, with these words:
Whereas the 11th of November 1918, marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far reaching war in human annals and the resumption by the people of the United States of peaceful relations with other nations, which we hope may never again be severed, and
Whereas it is fitting that the recurring anniversary of this date should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations; and
Whereas the legislatures of twenty-seven of our States have already declared November 11 to be a legal holiday: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the President of the United States is requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on November 11 and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies of friendly relations with all other peoples.
An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday - - a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as "Armistice Day." Armistice Day was primarily a day set aside to honor veterans of World War I, but in 1954, after World War II had required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen in the Nation's history; after American forces had fought aggression in Korea, the 83rd Congress, at the urging of the veterans service organizations, amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word "Armistice" and inserting in its place the word "Veterans." With the approval of this legislation (Public Law 380) on June 1, 1954, November 11th became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.
Later that same year, on October 8th, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first "Veterans Day Proclamation" which stated: "In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose. Toward this end, I am designating the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs as Chairman of a Veterans Day National Committee, which shall include such other persons as the Chairman may select, and which will coordinate at the national level necessary planning for the observance. I am also requesting the heads of all departments and agencies of the Executive branch of the Government to assist the National Committee in every way possible."
On that same day, the President sent a letter to the Honorable Harvey V. Higley, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs (VA), designating him as Chairman of the Veterans Day National Committee.
In 1958, the White House advised VA's General Counsel that the 1954 designation of the VA Administrator as Chairman of the Veterans Day National Committee applied to all subsequent VA Administrators. Since March 1989 when VA was elevated to a cabinet level department, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs has served as the committee's chairman.
The Uniforms Holiday Bill (Public Law 90-363 (82 Stat. 250)) was signed on June 28, 1968, and was intended to insure three-day weekends for Federal employees by celebrating four national holidays on Mondays: Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Columbus Day. It was thought that these extended weekends would encourage travel, recreational and cultural activities and stimulate greater industrial and commercial production. Many states did not agree with this decision and continued to celebrate the holidays on their original dates.
The first Veterans Day under the new law was observed with much confusion on October 25, 1971. It was quite apparent that the commemoration of this day was a matter of historic and patriotic significance to a great number of our citizens, and so on September 20th, 1975, President Gerald R. Ford signed Public Law 94-97 (89 Stat. 479), which returned the annual observance of Veterans Day to its original date of November 11, beginning in 1978. This action supported the desires of the overwhelming majority of state legislatures, all major veterans service organizations and the American people.
Veterans Day continues to be observed on November 11, regardless of what day of the week on which it falls. The restoration of the observance of Veterans Day to November 11 not only preserves the historical significance of the date, but helps focus attention on the important purpose of Veterans Day: A celebration to honor America's veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good.
President Eisenhower's letter to Harvey V. Higley, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, designating him Chairman, Veterans Day National Committee
THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE
Dear Mr. Higley:
I have today signed a proclamation calling upon all of our citizens to observe Thursday, November 11, 1954 as Veterans Day. It is my earnest hope that all veterans, their organizations, and the entire citizenry will join hands to insure proper and widespread observance of this day. With the thought that it will be most helpful to coordinate the planning, I am suggesting the formation of a Veterans Day National Committee. In view of your great personal interest as well as your official responsibilities, I have designated you to serve as Chairman. You may include in the Committee membership such other persons as you desire to select and I am requesting the heads of all departments and agencies of the Executive branch to assist the Committee in its work in every way possible.
I have every confidence that our Nation will respond wholeheartedly in the appropriate observance of Veterans Day, 1954.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Whereas it has long been our customs to commemorate November 11, the anniversary of the ending of World War I, by paying tribute to the heroes of that tragic struggle and by rededicating ourselves to the cause of peace; and
Whereas in the intervening years the United States has been involved in two other great military conflicts, which have added millions of veterans living and dead to the honor rolls of this Nation; and
Whereas the Congress passed a concurrent resolution on June 4, 1926 (44 Stat. 1982), calling for the observance of November 11 with appropriate ceremonies, and later provided in an act approved May 13, 1938 (52 Stat. 351) , that the eleventh of November should be a legal holiday and should be known as Armistice Day; and
Whereas, in order to expand the significance of that commemoration and in order that a grateful Nation might pay appropriate homage to the veterans of all its wars who have contributed so much to the preservation of this Nation, the Congress, by an act approved June 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 168), changed the name of the holiday to Veterans Day:
Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America , do hereby call upon all of our citizens to observe Thursday, November 11, 1954 , as Veterans Day. On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.
I also direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the flag of the United States on all public buildings on Veterans Day.
In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to wish to join hands in the common purpose.
Toward this end, I am designating the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs as Chairman of a Veterans Day National Committee, which shall include such other persons as the Chairman may select, and which will coordinate at the national level necessary planning for the observance. I am also requesting the heads of all departments and agencies of the Executive branch of the Government to assist the National Committee in every way possible.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and cause the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this eighth day of October in the Year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth.
WHAT IS A VET?
by Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC
Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in their eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades; however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking.
He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.
He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.
She - or he - is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.
He is the POW who went away one person and came back another - or didn't come back AT ALL.
He is the Quantico drill instructor that has never seen combat - but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.
He is the parade - riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.
He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.
He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.
He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket - palsied now and aggravatingly slow - who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.
He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being - a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.
He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.
So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say "Thank You." That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded. Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU."
Remember November 11th is Veterans Day.
It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.
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Background: Alagille syndrome (ALGS) is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder, with highly variable phenotype affecting multiple organs. Commonly presents in infancy or early childhood as cholestasis. Mutations in the notch signaling pathway ligand (JAG1) or its receptor (NOTCH2) lead to ALGS. This pathway is important for the pancreatic development. However,no cases of ALGS with Congenital Hyperinsulinism (CHI) have been reported to date.
Aim: To report an atypical case of ALGS presented with CHI.
Case report: A full-term female infant, with birth weight of 2.78 kg, developed cholestatic jaundice and episodes of hypoglycaemia on day 3 of life. Further investigations confirmed CHI and started Diazoxide (5 mg/kg per day) along with Chlorothiazide (7 mg/kg per day). She had mild facial dysmorphism with bossed forehead, prominent nasal bridge and small chin. Microarray showed monosomy of 20p11.21–p12.2 due to interstitial deletion of the short arm of chromosome 20, consistent with ALGS. The infant was discharged at 4 weeks of life on Diazoxide and 4 hourly bottle feeds. She was diagnosed with a cardiac murmur due to a patent ductus, which was subsequently closed by the age of 12 months. At six-months of age, she was noted to have hepatomegaly (2 cm) with mildly raised bilirubin appeared. Diazoxide was discontinued at the age of 1 year after self-weaning of the medications. She has been on regular follow-up visits upto the age of ten years without further episodes of hypoglycaemia or hyperglycaemia.
Conclusion: ALGS is a rare inherited disease with variable phenotypic expressions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of ALGS diagnosed with CHI that was Diazoxide-responsive and resolved at 12 months of age. Further work is needed to understand the mechanism of CHI in ALGS and children should be screened for CHI if any concerns regarding hypoglycaemia.


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The Bad Boss Happens To Everyone, So You Have To Develop A Plan
WE'VE ALL been there at one time or another: stuck with a boss who is moody, tyrannical, uncommunicative, Machiavellian or just plain incompetent, a boss who seems to have emerged, full-blown, from the darkest recesses of Dilbert's nightmares.
You can always quit. But what if you really like the company? Why should you let one jerk chase you off? So let's keep resignation as a last resort for now. But you can't let the problem linger too long. "If you're in a bad situation for more than two years, you've been dumbed down. You're already part of the problem," says Bill Lundin, a clinical psychologist who wrote "When Smart People Work for Dumb Bosses."
Bad bosses come in many varieties. In "Crazy Bosses," the pseudonymous Stanley Bing defines five specific types: bully (management by terror), paranoid (locks himself in his office for three months), bureaucrazy (can be either a wimp or an "organizational fascist"), narcissist (sees those around him as "tiny flecks in the majestic spectacle that is his life story") and disaster hunter (when "all the crazy vapors come together").
Let me add a couple of others: the love bug, a New Age boss who is so busy nurturing and encouraging you that he neglects to mention you're about to be fired for poor performance; and the obsessive-compulsive, who seeks perfection, works until you drop, calls you on Sunday mornings to chat about next week's work and is unable to savor triumphs for more than a nanosecond before starting to worry about what could go wrong next.
Shailendra Gupta worked for a brilliant technician at a consulting firm. But brilliance often breeds arrogance. With this manager, Mr. Gupta recalls, you could never win an argument. His control extended to paper clips-he preferred square ones, and the commonplace oval ones were verboten.
TO MANAGE this disagreeable boss, Mr. Gupta recruited other managers who were in the boss's good graces to pitch proposals. When the boss objected to a potential new hire that the staff liked, he and other managers used reverse psychology, saying they now agreed with the boss. "It wasn't two seconds before he flipped and said to hire the guy," recalls Mr. Gupta, now a consultant with Ernst & Young.
But tricks will get you only so far. In retrospect, Mr. Gupta feels he should have suppressed his ego, avoided confrontations and worked harder to befriend the man outside the office.
"I was one of those kind of people who'd say, 'Why doesn't he understand?'" Mr. Gupta says. "Maybe my role should have been to coach him so he could understand."
The former chief financial officer of a manufacturing company says he worked for a boss who was such a penny pincher that he routinely fired people just before their bonuses came due. He also charges that the boss pressured subordinates to fudge financial figures.
The former executive says he quickly learned the importance of developing allies throughout the company. "I'd work on the side with guys in other departments so we'd all have our act together" when we pitched him a plan, he says. Even if it doesn't always work, the company of fellow sufferers provides stress-relieving solace.
The executive also learned to fight another day. Instead of engaging in life-and-death struggles, he would often back off on an issue, file it away and revive it a few months later after gathering more supporting data.
SOMETIMES, unfortunately, you just have to get out. As an advertising manager for a consumer-products manufacturer, Dick Rosen's boss constantly second-guessed and bullied his staff. Mr. Rosen recalls a nasty incident over an alleged grammatical error in some ad copy. When proved wrong, the boss didn't even apologize. "You had to do it his way or it wasn't correct," Mr. Rosen says.
The mistake Mr. Rosen made was lingering for five years before leaving. He survived that long by anticipating his boss's inevitable objections, even if it meant wasting time on irrelevant issues.
He says he felt like "a battered wife," and like a battered wife he stayed too long, hoping things would change. Going over his boss's head wouldn't have helped, he says. "People say you can go to the boss above them," he notes. "But the company generally knows you have a bad manager and chooses not to do anything about it."
He finally found contentment as a divisional vice president at Spiegel, the catalog company, which he recently left after several years. He now runs the package division of Ambrosi & Assoc., a retail and catalog advertising company in Chicago.
Sometimes, though, having a bad boss isn't such a bad deal. Lisa Grace was the head teller for a bank branch whose technically oriented manager was sadly miscast. "He didn't know the business and didn't want to take time to learn it," she says. "He spent most of his time rewiring the building."
As a result, Ms. Grace and a friend who managed customer service got to run the bank, make his sales calls and attend training seminars he shunned.
"He seldom questioned anything," says Ms. Grace, now a mortgage broker in Fort Myers, Fla. There were times the women wished he would carry his weight, but, Ms. Grace says, nonmanagers are better than micromanagers. "You just have to work around them," she says. "You can have the opportunity to do their job and learn a great deal and prepare yourself for a better position of success across automotive, manufacturing, and management consulting.
By Hal Lancaster, Wall Street Journal, Feb 9, 1999
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More doctors are using alternative methods to treat conditions today. Because of this, make sure your insurance covers alternative treatments like acupuncture, chiropractic care and massage. This type of care can greatly improve your overall care.
Avoid chiropractors who push a lot of homeopathic products. When they are selling this stuff out of their office, they are probably not the best chiropractor. Turn to a medical doctor to get that type of advice.


Kauai is the greenest of all the Hawaiian Islands and is nicknamed the "Garden Island" due to the abundance of tropical rainforests. The dramatic cliffs and beautiful beaches have served as backdrops for major Hollywood films.
On this 6-night, fully escorted golf tour you will play on the best golf courses on Kauai. You will be on island time as you discover ocean-side golf courses, cascading waterfalls, palm fringed beaches and unspoiled nature.
Play golf amongst the swaying palms and tee off over crashing waves.
Hawaiian golf is fun, beautiful and challenging all at the same time.
Makai Princeville, The Ocean Course at Hokolua twice, Poipu Bay and Puakea Golf Courses.
The tour begins at Lihue airport on the island of Kauai. You transfer to your accommodation at the absolute beachfront Lae Nani Resort where you stay 6-nights in a one bedroom Oceanview Condominium, complete with kitchen and balcony. You play 'Puakea GC', famous for its stunning mountain backdrops, the 'Makai Course at Princeville' which overlooks the famous North Coast of Kauai, the clifftop Poipu Bay GC on the sunny south coast and two games on 'The Ocean Course at Hokolua' designed by Jack Nicklaus which has the longest stretch of Oceanfront holes in the whole of Hawaii.
There will be time to enjoy the sights and activities that Kauai is famous for: a helicopter ride, a boat cruise to the Napali Coast or a visit to Waimea Canyon are among the many options.
This is a fully escorted, small group tour with the option to self drive.
A deposit of $1,000AUD per person will secure your place.


A father. A present. A rock song.
Episode 5 is the halfway point of VGHS, and the stakes have never been higher for BrianD. The whole student body to see him and the Law go at it in the scrimmage. Will Brian go for glory or play it safe? Remember, it's all about the game. Also, did we ever mention that The Law has a best selling album?


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Friday, July 25, 2014 Facebook, Linkedin, social media, Twitter
Twitter In Last Place For Gender Equality
Following the publishing of similar statistics by Facebook and LinkedIn, Twitter recently maybe publicly available figures related to the demographics workforce – and they make for somewhat embarrassing reading for anyone with even a pretence for supporting gender equality in the social media economy.
No one comes out of this looking good, although it is Twitter which perhaps has the most work to do. LinkedIn has a workforce which is 61% male – the best proportion for any of the three major companies, although not close to what anyone could describe as being equal. Facebook, with a global split of 69% men to 31% women among its employees, barely makes it into second place.
Twitter boasts a body of staff which is 70% male.
The real damage, however, comes when one looks beyond the overall statistics to a more detailed breakdown of gender equality levels within the companies.
Among those who Twitter defines as working for the 'Tech' department, only 10% are female. Statistics are little better for Facebook and LinkedIn, at 15% and 17% respectively. In the Leadership division LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter have a proportion of female employees of 25%, 23%, and 21% respectively.
All three of these companies had female heads of diversity as the spokespeople for the issue of these statistics, and all three made concessions as to the necessity of building a more diverse and inclusive workforce. The received notion of the 'brogrammer' and the testosterone-fuelled culture of Silicon Valley are well established, and the fact that only 18% of Computer Science graduates are female (compared to around 40% in STEM fields overall and 56% of all undergraduate enrollment in the USA) demonstrates that these is certainly an issue to be addressed at all levels of engagement in the tech sector.
All companies also outlined the steps that they were taking to address they were taking to counteract the male-dominated tech culture, from funding scholarships for women seeking to study in the tech sector to educating their existing workforce on the issues surrounding gender equality.
The most bitter irony in this situation is that, among users, 62% of those on Twitter and 58% of those on Facebook are female. Even LinkedIn has a female population of 46%, about the same as their proportion of non-tech employees.
What these figures make clear is that there is an essential divide between these companies' user bases and their employee population, perhaps an unsustainable one. The strength of the most popular social media platforms lies in their almost infinite flexibility, their ability to be all things to all people, and if the companies themselves are hindered by a particularly gendered viewpoint this is likely to eventually be reflected in the economics of the businesses.
It is probably not necessary for those looking to use social media to further their own business to be overly concerned about this imbalance; in a straightforward B2C relationship it is only the potential customer base which a social network's users represent which is pertinent. In the long term, however, the viability of social networks as a marketing tool rests on the assumption that a broad section of the population will remain engaged with them, and so one eye must be kept on the steps which social media platforms are taking to ensure that their product reaches the widest possible audience.
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LTC John Pleasant Acre
Union County, New Mexico, USA
4 Jan 2005 (aged 84)
Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma, USA
Fort Sill National Cemetery
Elgin, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
SECTION 30 SITE 353
John Pleasant "JP" Acre.
John Pleasant "JP" Acre of Stillwater, died Tuesday, January 4, 2005. Graveside services will be Monday at 12 p.m. Internment will be at Fort Sill National Cemetery in Lawton under the direction of Strode Funeral Home.
He was born in Deadman (Capalen) N.M. on May 8, 1920 to Rufus and Annie (Hyden) Acre. He married Rena Hatter on June 29, 1945 in Watonga. She preceded him in death on March 24, 2004. Throughout his life he lived in Boca Raton, Fl.; The Panama Canal Zone; Anchorage, Alaska; Colorado Springs, Colo; Tacoma, Wash.; Moses Lake, Wash; New Jersey; California; Fountainebleau, France, and Stillwater.
He graduated from Fay High School in 1938 as class valedictorian. He attended Hills Business College in Oklahoma City and in 1941, enlisted in the U.S. Army at Ft. Sill in the U.S. Army Corps. He recieved training as a radar observer in Ft. Scott, ILL., and was assigned as a flight officer in the 6th Night Fighter Squadron initially based in Hawaii. He served in the Pacific Theatre with tours of duty in several areas including Saipan and Iwo Jima. After World War II, he joined the newly formed U.S. Air Force. He married Rena Hatter after a seven-year engagement and she joined him at his duty stations around the world.
During his 20 years in the U.S. Air Force, he had a variety of assignments across the globe. He was assigned to Air Defense Command in Colorado; was part of the test crew for the F-94C; and served with NATO forces in Europe.
After retiring from the Air Force, he began his second career with H&R Block, first as an office manager in Midwest City; and then in Stillwater in 1965 to serve as area manager. He purchased the Perry H&R Block franchise in 1969, retiring for a second time in 1980. He was a member of a First Christian Church, a 50-year member of the Stillwater Masonic Lodge, a past Grand Master for the Stillwater Masonic Lodge, a member of the Retired Military Officers Association and retired from the Air Force a Lt. Colonel.
In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Helen Acre Comer. He is survived by one son, Tom Acre and his wife, Pam, of Westminster, Colo; two daughters, Karen Acre Kenny and her husband, Todd, of Winnetka, Ill., and Wendy Acre Wittenberg and her husband, James, of Granbury, TX; three grandchildren, Katy Kenny of Winnetka, Ill., and Derek and Zachary Cook of Granbury, TX; and three sisters, Margaret Brumfield of Watonga, Ella Keller of Lawton and Friona George of Eufala, and a number of nieced and nephers.
Honorary pall bearers will be his nephews, Tom Keller, Mike Keller, Bill Kelley, David Hatter, Ken Hatter, Mickey Yates, Don Mueller, and his grand-nephew, Chris Gray.
Memorials can be made to Fay School Alumni, Rt.1 Box 14, Fay OK 73646 for the preservation of the Fay School. Published in the Stillwater NewsPress (Stillwater, Ok) January 08, 2005
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Did you read comic books? I did, but only certain ones. It's blasphemy for sure, but I didn't care about Superman or Batman … except for the Batmobile … way cool!
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What I did like were the funny comics … or those that mirrored real life. And from those, there were the cuties … the females who starred in their own strips or were the more knowing sidekicks of the male 'star'.
But first a little history ...
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, these were published in newspapers, with horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in daily newspapers, while Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections. There were more than 200 different comic strips and daily cartoon panels in American newspapers alone each day for most of the 20th century, for a total of at least 7,300,000 episodes.
Storytelling using a sequence of pictures has existed through history. One medieval European example in textile form is the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Printed examples emerged in 19th-century Germany and in 18th-century England, where some of the first satirical or humorous sequential narrative drawings were produced. William Hogarth's 18th century English cartoons include both narrative sequences, such as A Rake's Progress, and single panels.
The Biblia pauperum ("Paupers' Bible"), a tradition of picture Bibles beginning in the later Middle Ages, sometimes depicted Biblical events with words spoken by the figures in the miniatures written on scrolls coming out of their mouths—which makes them to some extent ancestors of the modern cartoon strips.
The first newspaper comic strips appeared in America in the late 19th century. The Yellow Kid is usually credited as the first.
But for the fun stuff, let's travel through time with some of our
Comic Cuties!
Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising. Betty Boop was a hit with filmgoers, and despite having been toned down in the mid-1930s, to appear more demure, she became one of the best known cartoon characters in the world, and remains popular today.
Betty Boop made her first appearance on August 9, 1930, in the cartoon Dizzy Dishes the sixth installment in Fleischer's Talkartoon series. Betty Boop was modeled after superstar actress Clara Bow, the original "It-girl," whose sweet and seductive baby-doll looks were a well-established marquee. The choice of name for the character is built on Bow's three syllable name. Betty Boop was originally created in the mode of an anthropomorphic French poodle.
Max Fleischer finalized Betty Boop as a human character in 1932, in the cartoon Any Rags. Her floppy poodle ears became hoop earrings, and her black poodle nose became a girl's button-like nose. Betty Boop appeared as a supporting character in 10 cartoons, portrayed as a flapper girl with more heart than brains.
Betty Boop is regarded as one of the first and most famous sex symbols on the animated screen;she is a symbol of the Depression era, and a reminder of the more carefree days of Jazz Age flappers. Her popularity was drawn largely from adult audiences, and the cartoons, while seemingly surrealistic, contained many sexual and psychological elements, particularly in the "Talkartoon," Minnie the Moocher, featuring Cab Calloway and his orchestra.
Betty Boop was unique among female cartoon characters in that she represented a sexualized woman. Other female cartoon characters of the same period, such as Minnie Mouse, displayed their underwear or bloomers regularly, in the style of childish or comical characters, not fully defined in a woman's form. Many other female cartoons were merely clones of their male co-stars, with alterations in costume, the addition of eyelashes, and a female voice. Betty Boop wore short dresses, high heels, a garter belt, and her breasts were suggested with a low, contoured bodice that showed cleavage. In her cartoons, male characters frequently try to sneak peeks at her while she's changing or simply going about her business. In Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle, she does the hula wearing nothing but a lei, strategically placed to cover her breasts, and a grass skirt. This was repeated in her first cameo appearance in, Popeye the Sailor (1933). There was, however, a certain girlish quality to the character. She was drawn with a head more similar to a baby's, than an adult's, in proportion to her body. This suggested the combination of girlishness and maturity that many people saw in the flapper type, which Betty was supposed to represent.
Little Lulu is a comic strip character created by Marjorie Henderson Buell, who debuted in The Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935 in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and strewing the aisle with banana peels. Little Lulu replaced Carl Anderson's Henry, which had been picked up for distribution by King Features Syndicate. The Little Lulu panel continued to run weekly in The Saturday Evening Post until December 30, 1944.
Little Lulu was created as a result of Anderson's success. Schlesinger Library curator Kathryn Allamong Jacob wrote, "Lulu was born in 1935, when The Saturday Evening Post asked Buell to create a successor to the magazine's Henry, Carl Anderson's stout, mute little boy, who was moving on to national syndication. The result was Little Lulu, the resourceful, equally silent (at first) little girl whose loopy curls were reminiscent of the artist's own as a girl. Buell explained to a reporter, 'I wanted a girl because a girl could get away with more fresh stunts that in a small boy would seem boorish.'"
A daily comic strip, entitled Little Lulu, was syndicated from June 5, 1950 through May 1969.
Nancy is an American daily and Sunday comic strip, originally written and drawn by Ernie Bushmiller.
The character of Nancy, a slightly chubby and precocious eight-year-old, first appeared in the strip Fritzi Ritz about the airheaded flapper title character. Larry Whittington began Fritzi Ritz in 1922, and it was taken over by Bushmiller three years later.
On January 2, 1933, Bushmiller introduced Fritzi's niece, Nancy. Soon she dominated the strip, retitled Nancy in 1938. Fritzi Ritz continued as a Sunday feature until 1968. At its peak in the 1970s, Nancy ran in more than 880 newspapers.
Margaret - Dennis the Menace
Margaret Wade - a freckled, red-haired, bespectacled know-it-all whose cloying and self-important demeanor is always getting on Dennis' nerves. She is attracted to Dennis and is stubbornly confident in the belief that she will marry him when they are adults, but he will have none of it because Dennis clearly has no interest in her. She always tries to improve Dennis and his manners, but only succeeds in annoying him. She has a certain amount of dislike for Gina, whom she sees as her competition. Gina gains Dennis's respect and admiration by just being herself and Margaret's pretensions fail to make a mark on him.
Cathy was a comic strip drawn by Cathy Guisewite. It featured a woman who struggled through the "four basic guilt groups" of life — food, love, mom, and work — the strip gently poked fun at the lives and foibles of modern women. Cathy's characteristics and issues both made fun of and sometimes fed into negative stereotypes about women. The strip debuted on November 22, 1976, and at its peak appeared in over 1,400 newspapers. The strips have been collected into more than 20 books. Guisewite received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award in 1992 for the strip.
Initially, the strip was based largely on Guisewite's own life as a single woman. However, Guisewite had Cathy's longtime boyfriend Irving propose marriage on Valentine's Day 2004. The two characters married in the February 5, 2005 strip. That same year, Cathy appeared in the 75th anniversary party of Blondie and Dagwood. On August 11, 2010, Cathy Guisewite announced the decision to end the run of Cathy. On October 3, 2010, the final strip ran, with the revelation that Cathy is pregnant with a baby girl.
Blondie is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Chic Young. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, the strip has been published in newspapers since September 8, 1930.[1] The success of the strip, which features a well-endowed blonde and her sandwich-loving husband, led to the long-running Blondie film series (1938–1950) and the popular Blondie radio program (1939–1950). Chic Young drew Blondie until his death in 1973, when creative control passed to his son Dean Young, who continues to write the strip. Young has collaborated with a number of artists on Blondie, including Jim Raymond, Mike Gersher, Stan Drake, Denis Lebrun and currently, John Marshall. Through these changes, Blondie has remained popular, appearing in more than 2000 newspapers in 47 countries and translated into 35 languages.
On February 17, 1933, after much fanfare and build-up, Blondie Boopadoop marries her boyfriend Dagwood Bumstead, the son of a wealthy industrialist. Unfortunately, Dagwood's upper-crust parents strongly disapprove of his marrying beneath his class, and disinherit him. The check Dagwood uses to pay for his honeymoon bounces, and the Bumsteads are forced to become a middle-class suburban family. Blondie's marriage marked the beginning of a change in her personality. From that point forward, she gradually assumed her position as the sensible head of the Bumstead household. And Dagwood, who previously had been cast in the role of straight man to Blondie's comic antics, took over as the comic strip's clown.
The Bumstead family grows with the addition of a son named Alexander (originally "Baby Dumpling") on April 15, 1934, a daughter named Cookie on April 11, 1941, a dog, Daisy, and her litter of five unnamed pups. In the 1960s, Cookie and Alexander grew into teenagers (who uncannily resemble their parents), but they stopped growing during the 1960s when Young realized that they had to remain teenagers to maintain the family situation structured into the strip for so many decades.
Peanuts Girls
Sally Brown is the younger sister of Charlie Brown in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. She was first mentioned in early 1959 and throughout a long series of strips before her first appearance in August 1959.
Sally has flipped blonde hair with a cluster of curls and sometimes a bow in front, and she wears a polka dot dress, usually pink or light blue. In the winter, and most of the time in the later years of the strip, she switched to a shirt and pants. She has a "take it easy" approach to life, preferring to slide by while doing as little work as possible. Her favorite pastime is sitting in her beanbag chair watching TV. In a series of strips from 1982, Sally actually went to "beanbag camp", which consisted of nothing but lazing around in beanbags, watching TV and gorging on junk food, and returned home fat. She can be stubborn sometimes, and is usually convinced she's right until someone proves her wrong, but she also has a good heart and a strong moral sense; like her older brother she is extremely sensitive to the unfairness of life. Charlie Brown usually goes to Lucy in her psychiatric booth when he's feeling depressed, but Sally prefers to confide her troubles to the school building, which is very protective of her and will drop a brick on anyone who doesn't treat her nicely.
In the later years of the strip, Sally also frequently developed "new philosophies" on life, which were typically short sayings or phrases with little or no philosophical value, such as "We'll always have Minneapolis" (a take on the famous line "We'll always have Paris" from the film Casablanca), "Who cares?", "Why me?", and "How should I know?" One time, Sally declared that her new philosophy was simply the word "No", which was to be her answer to every question from that moment on, but then Charlie Brown caught her off guard with a question to which she responded, "Yes!", leading her to grumble, "You ruined my new philosophy." The late 1990s Broadway revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown made reference to this with a new song for Sally (portrayed by Kristin Chenoweth) called "My New Philosophy."
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Sally has a lot of trouble with malapropisms, both in speech and writing (for example, "violins breaking out" rather than "violence breaking out," or "controversial French" instead of "conversational French" or being streched out instead of being stressed out- in the latter example, once Charlie Brown pointed out Sally's error, she lost all interest in taking the class). One of the strip's running jokes is the unintentionally humorous school reports she gives at the front of the class, which are frequently inspired by malapropisms and end with her feeling humiliated as all of her classmates laugh at her. Some of the more memorable reports she has given over the years include "Santa and his Rain Gear", "Handbidextrous" people, and "The Bronchitis", or her report on the oceans of the world, then proceeding to state that there are no oceans in individual landlocked states in the U.S. She often struggles with homework despite Charlie Brown's patient efforts to help her, and she has a particular dislike for math, which she largely finds both intimidating and incomprehensible. However, she has expressed interest in becoming a nurse once she becomes an adult (although this is due to her interest in wearing white shoes, as opposed to the job itself).
Lucy van Pelt is a regular character in the Peanuts cartoon and TV specials. She is the older sister of Linus and Rerun. Lucy was introduced into the strip on March 3, 1952 as a wide-eyed baby who constantly tormented her parents. Very early on, Schulz eliminated the circles around her eyes and allowed her to mature to the age of the other characters. She soon grew into her familiar persona of a bossy, crabby, selfish girl.
Lucy wears a blue-colored dress with white and black saddle shoes for most of the strip's original run. However, in later years, towards its end, she was seen more in a pink dress, until her dress was phased out altogether.
Perhaps Lucy's most famous gimmick in her long existence as a character is the one in which she pulls the football away from Charlie Brown right as he is about to kick it. The first occasion on which she did this was November 16, 1952, taking over for Violet, who had previously subjected Charlie Brown to this trick on November 14, 1955, for fear that Charlie Brown would accidentally kick her instead of the ball. Afterward, Lucy would always intentionally pull the football away from Charles Brown to trick him. The most infamous example of this is the animated special It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown, where her actions cost the football team the Homecoming game, yet Charlie Brown is blamed even though he is clearly not at fault. It became so bad, that later showings edited that part out.
For all her crabbiness and bad temper, Lucy did have a romantic side: she was in love with Schroeder, but he did not return the affection. In this Lucy is seen as insecure, as she shows a need for assurance from Schroeder and Charlie Brown that she is pretty (constantly asking them of their opinion of her appearance), and is known to react harshly when she receives an unfavorable, or even hesitant, answer. Indeed, Lucy seems to be rather thin-skinned when it comes to being insulted herself; once, when Linus countered her statement that he was a terrible brother by saying that she was not such a great sister either, Lucy burst into tears. Another time, her reaction to Charlie Brown's telling her she was not perfect was to storm off angrily without even a word, leaving Charlie Brown to comment, "I've never seen anyone so insulted!"
Little Lotta
Little Lotta is a fictional character published by Harvey Comics from 1953 to 1972, and then sporadically until 1993. A contemporary of Little Audrey, Little Dot and Wendy the Good Little Witch, she was one of Harvey's best-known female characters during the 1960s and featured in many of the company's child-friendly comedy titles. Like many of Harvey's comic headliners, Lotta was notable for a 'quirky' defining characteristic - in this case, an insatiable appetite giving rise to superhuman strength.
Lotta Plump first appeared in 1953 as a backpage feature in Little Dot (where she debuted with Harvey's most successful property, Richie Rich). From the outset, Lotta's dietary habits were a running gag employed in virtually every story and featured prominently on the covers of her two comic titles, Little Lotta (1955-1972, 1974-76; 1992-1993) and Little Lotta in Foodland (1962-1968). A typical cover scene typically displayed Lotta devouring a meal of gigantic proportions or performing some feat of tremendous strength.
Far from being the 'unpopular fat kid' stereotype represented in other popular media (such as contemporary Tubby in Little Lulu) Lotta was depicted as friendly, kind-hearted and always ready to use her tremendous strength for what she deemed as good. She has her share of bullying, but any tormentors quickly regret instigating her wrath. In a sense, Lotta's storylines fulfill two very common childhood fantasies: the satisfaction of visceral desires (eating everything in sight) and freedom through physical power.
Minnie Mouse is an animated character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney. The comic strip story "The Gleam" (published January 19-May 2, 1942) by Merrill De Maris and Floyd Gottfredson first gave her full name as Minerva Mouse. Minnie has since been a recurring alias for her. Both Minnie and Mickey were first drawn in 1928 by Ub Iwerks.
The comic strip story "Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers" (published September 22 – December 26, 1930) introduced her father Marcus Mouse and her mother Margie Mouse, both farmers. The same story featured photographs of her grandparents Marshall Mouse and Matilda Mouse. Her best known relatives, however, remain her uncle Mortimer Mouse and her twin nieces, Millie and Melody Mouse, though most often a single niece, Melody, appears. In many appearances, Minnie is presented as the girlfriend/wife of Mickey Mouse, a close friend of Daisy Duck, Donald Duck's girlfriend/wife, and occasionally a friend to Clarabelle Cow. Minnie's sister, Mandie Mouse was a recurring character early on.
Daisy Duck is one of Walt Disney's cartoon and comic book characters. She was created as a female counterpart and girlfriend to Donald Duck, and first appeared in the cartoon "Mr. Duck Steps Out" in 1940. Daisy has Donald's temper but has far greater control of it (although on rare occasions, her temper can burst out and she can get into rages similar to Donald's), and tends to be more sophisticated than her boyfriend. She usually wears either no pants herself or a dress.
She is mostly shown as showing a strong affinity towards Donald.
Daisy replaced (or, according to some sources, represents a later form of) a short-lived early love interest named Donna Duck, who first appeared in the cartoon "Don Donald" in 1937. In a short 1951 comic strip continuity, Donna returned, reconceived into an unrelated Mexican girl duck who functioned as a rival for Donald's affections.
Daisy is the aunt of triplets April, May, and June Duck, who serve as Huey, Dewey, and Louie's female counterparts. In some appearances, Daisy is presented as a close friend of Minnie Mouse.
Olive Oyl
Olive Oyl is a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar in 1919 for his comic strip Thimble Theatre. The strip was later renamed Popeye after the sailor character that became the most popular member of the cast; however Olive Oyl was a main character for 10 years before Popeye's 1929 appearance.
In the strip as written by Segar, Olive was something of a coy flapper who's extremely thin build lent itself well to the fashions of the time; her long black hair was usually rolled in a neat bun, like her mother's. She was the more-or-less fiancée of Harold Hamgravy, a "lounge lizard" or slacker type who did as little work as possible and was always borrowing money. His attraction to other women—particularly if they were rich—naturally incensed Olive, and she once succumbed to a fit of "lunaphobia" (a kind of angry madness) over one of his amours. (When she recovered, she continued to pretend to have the disorder to win him back.) She was not immune to flattery from other men, but remained committed to Ham until Popeye's appearance. The two did not fall in love at once (her first words to him were "Aw, shut up, you bilge rat!"), but instead fought bitterly (and hilariously) for weeks, before realizing they cared for each other.
The version of Olive Oyl most widely familiar is the version from the theatrical animated cartoons, first created by Fleischer Studios, and then produced by Famous Studios. Unlike most modern damsels in distress, Olive Oyl is tall and skinny, with tightly wound hair and enormous feet (the latter sometimes used to comedy effect). Popeye's comment about her measurements is that she is a perfect 57... 19-19-19. In more recent years, her breast size has been somewhat of a joke on other cartoon shows, suggesting that Olive Oyl should receive breast implants.
In the films and later television cartoons, Olive Oyl is Popeye's girlfriend, although she could be extremely fickle, depending on who could woo her best or had the flashier possessions, and was prone to get angry over the tiniest things. She constantly gets kidnapped by Bluto (aka Brutus), who is Popeye's archrival for her affections, but Popeye always rescues her, winning her affection in the end.
Little Orphan Annie
Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray (1894–1968) and syndicated by Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on August 5, 1924 in the New York Daily News. It ranked number one in popularity in a Fortune poll in 1937.
The plot follows the wide-ranging adventures of Annie, her dog Sandy, and her benefactor Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks. Secondary characters include Punjab, the Asp and Mr. Am. The strip attracted adult readers with political commentary that targeted (among other things) organized labor, the New Deal and communism.
Following Gray's death in 1968, several artists drew the strip and, for a time, "classic" strips were rerun. Little Orphan Annie inspired a radio show in 1930, film adaptations by RKO in 1932 and Paramount in 1938 and a Broadway musical Annie in 1977. The strip's popularity declined over the years and was running in only 20 newspapers when it was cancelled on June 13, 2010.
Annie is an orphan of no definite age, perhaps between ten and twelve. Her distinguishing physical characteristics are a mop of red, curly hair, a red dress and vacant circles for eyes. Her catch phrases are "Gee whiskers" and "Leapin' lizards!" Annie attributes her lasting youthfulness to her Leap Day, February 29, birthday, and so only ages one year in appearance for every four years that pass. Annie is a plucky, generous, compassionate and optimistic youngster who can hold her own against bullies and has a strong and intuitive sense of right and wrong.
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Q: How to leave ordering unchanged on equality using qsort Straight from the qsort manual it says:

If two members compare as equal, their order in the sorted array is undefined.

However, I want qsort to leave the ordering unchanged on equality. That is to say, leave the ordering of two elements as they are in the original array if they have the same value used for ordering.
I'm not sure how to do this using qsort. I would rather not use an alternative sorting library/ roll my own.
Thanks
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edit: now I know the distinction between stable and unstable sorts I realise this is a duplicate.

A: You are essentially asking how to implement stable sorting on top of an unstable sort.
There is not much you can do: you only have control over the comparison function, so you'll have to work on that.
One possibility is to attach a second key ID to each element in the array that corresponds to the original index of that element. Then, if two elements compare equal, just return the corresponding order according to their original indexes.

A: As the GNU libc manual explains,

The only way to perform a stable sort with qsort is to first augment the objects with a monotonic counter of some kind.

So unless you can modify your comparison function so that objects you currently consider "equal" may be distinguished, you'll have to explicitly annotate your objects with indices before sorting, and remove the indices when you're done. You could use something like
struct indexed {
    void *obj;
    int index;
}

A: What qsort is telling you here is his algorithm doesn't allow it to guarantee you the resulting sorting order of two equals members.
What you can do is implementing / using another algorithm, or force them to sort the way they was :

*

*If your comparing function shall return equality, look at how they were originally sorted, and sort them the same way.

A: qsort stands for "Quick Sort", which is a fast but not stable sorting algorithm. Suppose you are sorting in ascending order. In this case, a sorting algorithm is called stable if it won't swap elements that have equal keys. If it may swap elements with equal keys, it is unstable.
There are different solutions to your problem; I'll suggest two of them here.
Solution 1
You may find in Wikipedia some interesting ideas regarding
stability of sorting algorithms, including a method for using unstable algorithms when you actually need a stable one: you extend the sorting key: if you are sorting using an integer value, for example.
Suppose you are sorting an array of integers. Instead of that, you create a structure with two elements: the first (KEY) is your integer. The second (AUX_KEY) is a unique index. Before sorting, you linearly set AUX_KEY to reflect the original order. When sorting, pass to qsort a function that will sort using KEY, but will revert to using AUX_KEY if two keys are equal.
Solution 2
Instead of using Quicksort, use a stable algorithm like merge sort, which you probably have in your programming environment (for example, here's the FreeBSD manpage for mergesort; the same may be available in other programming environments under the same name -- please check) or, if you don't need speed too much, use insertion sort (which you can code yourself -- it takes few lines only in pseudocode). Insertion sort takes has quadratic time complexity (takes time proportional to n^2), while mergesort and quicksort have time complexity O(n log(n)).

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Peter barracks () — a historical monument in Taganrog, Russia, that was built at the end of the 18th century. Is a part of «combined arms cell» of Taganrog Fortress. It is also a valuable object of cultural heritage of federal importance.

History
On 7 December 1803, the garrison battalion of st. Dmitry of Rostov Fortress were moved to Taganrog. It was planned to form there a regiment that would consist of two battalions, so the construction of new barracks for this purpose began. Ten «standard» buildings were built, each having soldier barracks, officer hall and kitchen. Every building was surrounded by a two-meter fence.

Nowadays only one «standard» building still stands. Its original layout has been changed a little since the time of construction. The walls of barracks are made of brick, and the brickwork is as thick as 2,5 bricks. At the facade of barracks there are sixteen rectangular windows. The roof has two sloping surfaces. In the past, all the windows had frameworks inside, but now only one window still has it.

In the 1910s the building was occupied by a penitentiary orphanage. In the 1920s there was a prison for juvenile offenders. In 1937 the buildings were redesigned for living spaces.

Museum
By 1998, the barracks were a property of Taganrog Historical-Architectural Reserve and local cossack organization. There are plans for restoration and establishment of the museum called «Taganrog Fortress Barracks». Soldier barracks, officer hall, kitchen, powder magazine and well are to become part of museum complex.

In 2007 town's administration discussed an idea of establishing «Naval Glory Museum». This proposal was rejected because «it found no support in the Ministry of Culture of Rostov oblast». This proposal was rejected because «it found no support in the Ministry of Culture of Rostov oblast».

In January 2012, the administration of Taganrog decided to establish museum center «Peter barracks» and merge it with Faina Ranevskaya Museum and Alexander I Museum. The project will be called «Taganrog Museum Complex». Establishment is estimated to be finished by 2018.

References

Museums in Taganrog
Cultural heritage monuments in Taganrog
Buildings and structures in Taganrog
Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Rostov Oblast

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Since Carley Lambert was a young child, the Pensacola State College theatre major has been right at home dancing, singing and now acting in front of an audience.
That natural ability and love of the stage recently paid off when Lambert was selected the Florida College System Activities Association Theatre Division Student of the Month for November.
Lambert was nominated by PSC Professor Rodney Whatley.
"Carley recently finished performing a major dance role in our fall production of 'The Addams Family' musical. She played the Stewardess Ancestory, which we designed as being the leading member of the group of ancestors in the play," he said.
Lambert did not even know she had been nominated but was still grateful to Whatley.
Lambert, 20, attributes much of her success to PSC Professor LaVonne French and the college's Summer Dance Workshop.
"I attended dance workshops for seven years and Professor French was one of the reasons I enrolled in PSC. I was looking forward to taking classes from her," she said.
"College has been an uphill battle for me ─ a challenge but I've found so much support here at Pensacola State," said Lambert who also credits her parents, Lance and Lidia Lambert; brother, Connor; and fiancé, Cruze Angeles, with being very supportive.
The sophomore eventually wants to become a stage performer at Walt Disney World. Right now, she teaches at Time to Shine dance studio.
"I'm a dancer first, and have been dancing for 17 years. I've just recently starting acting and singing but I really love being involved with anything on the stage. It is so fulfilling to witness the joy a performance brings to the audience," she added.