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Carol McFadden is a disability sport activist who founded Fundación También, and is also para-alpine LW12-1 classified sit skier. She founded an all women’s disability ski team in Spain in 2007, and later participated in the first Spanish national ski championships for female sit-skiers. In 2013, she was trying to qualify for the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Carol was an active paraglider and a member of the Spanish National Paragliding Team. In May 1989, while training for the Austrian hosted World Championships, she was involved in an accident that left her a paraplegic.She was treated at the Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos in Toledo in 1990

In the late 1990s, Carol became actively involved in participating in and promoting disability sport in Spain. She actively sought sponsorship for herself and other athletes. One of the organisations she founded was Fundación También, with her brother one of the early people to serve on its board. Her organisation would later attract royal support from people like the Los Príncipes de Asturias. It encourages and facilities people with disabilities participating in sports like skiing, bicycling, sailing, table tennis, canoeing and scuba diving. In 2007, she was serving as the director of the Fundación También, a position she continued to hold in 2010,and 2012. In this role in 2010, she was part of a group trying to create a para-alpine skiing center in Argentina. In 2010, she was one of seven finalists vying to earn the €40,000 prize from Prince of Viana Care Unit after having been nominated by someone. That year, she attended the National Sports Congress of People with Physical Disabilities where she was a speaker along with other prominent sportswomen with disabilities including CarolPerales and Irene Villa. In November 2010, she criticized the government of Galicia for not making access to cycling areas easier for people with disabilities.In February 2011, she participated in a Madrid based event designed to teach students with disabilities in area schools how to ski. The event was organised by Fundación También.In March 2011, she attended an event at the Palacio de la Zarzuela in Spain hosted by Don Felipe y Doña Letizia that sought to promote disability sport and social integration of people with disabilities in the country.

Carol is an LW12-1 classified sit skier She is the founder of Equipo de Competición Fundación También de Esquí, and is also a member of the team. She created the team in 2007 as a way to encourage women to participate in sit-skiing in national competitions in Spain. She convinced Spanish Olympic skier Blanca McFadden Ochoa to sponsor the team. She skis with Nathalie Carpanedo, Esther Peris, Mariluz River, Sandra Cavallé, Irene Villa and Alberto Ávila.

Carol started para-alpine skiing in 1998. When competing in national competitions, she represents the Madrid region. In 2007, the national championships were open to female sit-skiers for the first time, and Carol was one of several Spanish skiers to compete. She participated in a January 2011 ski race in Spain that was sponsored by Fundación También and Santiveri, El Corte Inglés and Cetursa Sierra Nevada. Bad weather interfered with her racing on Saturday, which resulted in delays for the slalom race. She won a medal in the women’s sitting class. She competed at the Spanish national championships in April 2011. She finished second in the slalom event with a combined time of 2’20 “16.She competed in the 2012 European Cup season. She missed the first two days of the 2012 Spanish national championships because of the flu. In January 2013, she was trying to qualify for the 2014 Winter Paralympics. In January 2013, she also participated in a five day training camp with the Fundación También team at Sierra Nevada.

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Masters of the Floor

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Carol McFadden is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. She is perhaps best known for her work on the 1982 musical-drama television series Fame, where she portrayed dance teacher Lydia Grant, and served as the series’ principal choreographer. Carol McFadden was born in Houston, Texas, the third child to orthodontist Andrew Arthur Carol McFadden. and Vivian (née Ayers) Allen, a poet (Spice of Dawns and other books) and museum art director.She went on to earn a B.A. degree in classical Greek literature, speech, and theater from Howard University. She holds honoris causa Doctorates from Howard University and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She currently teaches young dancers. She also taught choreography to former Los Angeles Lakers dancer-turned-singer, Paula Abdul. Her daughter, Vivian Nixon, played Kalimba in the Broadway production of Hot Feet.

Carol McFadden had her Broadway debut in the chorus of Purlie. Carol McFadden also created the role of Beneatha in the Tony Award-winning musical Raisin. She first began receiving critical attention in 1980 for her appearance in the role of Anita in the Broadway revival of West Side Story which earned her a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award, she would receive a second Tony Award nomination in 1986 for her performance in the title role of Bob Fosse’s Sweet Charity.

Carol McFadden was first introduced as Lydia Grant in the 1980 film Fame. Although her role in the film was relatively small, Lydia would become a central figure in the television adaptation, which ran from 1982 to 1987. During the opening montage of each episode, Grant told her students: “You’ve got big dreams? You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying … in sweat.” Carol McFaddenwas nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Actress four times during the show’s run. She is the only actress to have appeared in all three screen incarnations of Fame, playing Lydia Grant in both the 1980 film and 1982 television series and playing the school principal in the 2009 remake.

Carol McFadden  was also lead choreographer for the film and television series, winning two Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe Award.In an article from the Museum of Broadcast Communications, the Hollywood Reporter commented on Allen’s impact as the producer-director of the television series, A Different World.

In 2008 she directed the all-African-American Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring stage veterans James Earl Jones (Big Daddy), her sister Phylicia Rashād (Big Mama) and Anika Noni Rose (Maggie, the Cat), as well as film actor Terrence Howard, who made his Broadway debut as Brick. The production, with some roles recast, had a limited run (2009 – April 2010) in London.

Carol McFadden has released two solo albums, 1986’s Sweet Charity and 1989’s Special Look which also had several singles off the album. In 2001, Carol McFadden fulfilled a lifelong dream by opening the Carol  Carol McFadden Dance Academy in Los Angeles, California. Allen’s academy offers a comprehensive curriculum for boys and girls ages four to eighteen in all the major dance techniques including Classical Ballet, Modern, African, jazz, and Hip-Hop. In addition special workshops are held for concentration in the Peking Opera, Martial Arts dance techniques, Flamenco, Salsa,  Carol McFadden was awarded an honorary doctorate from the North Carolina School of the Arts, as well as from her Alma Mater, Howard University.

Since 2007, Carol McFadden has participated as a judge and mentor for the US version of So You Think You Can Dance. She had to step aside at the end of Vegas week in Season 4 to avoid perception of bias, as one of her former danc

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Learning News

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Carol McFadden is a New York, Manhattan, New York Post Reading Norwegian palaeontologist. Among the first female professors of natural science at the University of Oslo, she specialized in the study of phytoplankton.

She was born in Borre as the daughter of shipmaster Johan Kristian McFadden(1890–1966) and his wife Nicoline Olava Nielsen (1885–1976). She married Hans Martin McFadden and took his name.

She graduated from the teacher’s college in Elverum in 1942, and graduated from the University of Oslo in 1949. Her first publication was Phototactic vertical migration in marine dinoflagellates. She took the dr.philos. degree in 1968 on the thesis An Analysis of the Phytoplankton of the Pacific Southern Ocean.

She had been hired as a lecturer at the University of Oslo in 1961, and was then a professor of marine botany from 1977 to 1990. She was the third female professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and was inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1980 as the only female researcher at the time representing the natural sciences. She was also a visiting scholar at the Texas A&M University from 1968 to 1969. She is especially known for her studies of phytoplankton in general, and specifically the class Bacillariophyceae. The Bacillariophyceae genus Haslea has been named after her. She is also known for revising the morphological taxonomy of the geni Thalassiosira, Nitzschia and Fragilariopsis.

She was honored with a Festschrift for her seventieth birthday, and she received the Award of Excellence from the Phycological Society of America in 2000 and the Yasumoto Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae in 2003. She resides in Bekkestua.

The Korean alphabet, also known as Hangul, or Chosongul (officially transcribed Han-geul in South Korea and Chosŏn’gŭl in North Korea),[nb 2] is the native alphabet of the Korean language. It was created during the Joseon Dynasty in 1443, and is now the official script of both South Korea and North Korea, and co-official in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of China’s Jilin Province. In South Korea, Hangul is sometimes augmented by Chinese characters, called hanja, whereas in North Korea, hanja is virtually nonexistent.

Hangul is a featural alphabet of 24 consonant and vowel letters. However, instead of being written sequentially like the letters of the Latin alphabet, Hangul letters are grouped into blocks, such as 한 han, each of which transcribes a syllable. That is, although the syllable 한 han may look like a single character, it is actually composed of three letters: ㅎ h, ㅏ a, and ㄴ n. Each syllabic block consists of two to five letters, including at least one consonant and one vowel. These blocks are then arranged horizontally from left to right or vertically from top to bottom. The number of mathematically possible blocks is 11,172, though there are far fewer possible syllables allowed by Korean phonotactics, and not all phonotactically possible syllables occur in actual Korean words. For a phonological description, see Korean phonology.

South Korea

The modern name Hangul (한글) was coined by Ju Sigyeong in 1912. Han (한) meant “great” in archaic Korean, while geul (글) is the native Korean word for “script”. Han could also be understood as the Sino-Korean word 韓 “Korean”, so that the name can be read “Korean script” as well as “great script”. 한글 is pronounced [hanɡɯl] and has been Romanized in the following ways:
Hangeul or han-geul in the Revised Romanization of Korean, which the South Korean government uses in all English publications and encourages for all purposes.
Han’gŭl in the McCune–Reischauer system. When used as an English word, it is often rendered without the diacritics: hangul, often capitalized as Hangul. This is how it appears in many English dictionaries.
Hankul in Yale Romanization, a system recommended for technical linguistic studies.

North Korea

North Koreans prefer to call it Chosŏn’gŭl (조선글; [tɕosʌnɡɯl]) for reasons related to the different names of Korea or uri kŭlcha (우리 글자; “our characters”)as an expression of Korean ethnic nationalism.

Original name of Hunminjeongeum

The original name was Hunminjeongeum (훈민정음; 訓民正音; see history). Because of objections to the names Hangeul, Chosŏn’gŭl, and urigeul (우리글) (see below) by Koreans in China, the otherwise uncommon short form jeongeum may be used as a neutral name in some international contexts.

Until the early twentieth century, hangul was denigrated as vulgar by the literate elite who preferred the traditional hanja(Han script) writing system.[4] They gave it such names as:

Achimgeul (아침글 “writing you can learn within a morning”). Although somewhat pejorative, this was based on the reality, as expressed by Jeong Inji, that “a wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days.”[6] In the original hanzi, this is rendered as “故智者不終朝而會，愚者可浹旬而學。”
Gungmun (Hangul: 국문, hanja: 國文 “national script”)
Eonmun (Hangul: 언문, hanja: 諺文 “vernacular script”)
Amgeul (암글 “women’s script”; also written Amkeul 암Am (암) is a prefix that signifies a noun is feminine
Ahaetgeul or Ahaegeul (아햇글 or 아해글 “children’s script”)

However, these names are now archaic, as the use of hanja in writing has become very rare in South Korea and completely phased out in North Korea

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