Alterna-pop-rock singer and songwriter Angela Taylor has seven years of classical conservatory training. She composed, recorded, and mixed her debut album Songs for Strong Girls, which was released in early The album was co-produced by Grammy award-winning producer John Jennings and as the title implies, has the theme of female empowerment. In an August 2001 review written by Music Monthly editor Suzie Mudd, the album was named Best Regional Album. The readers of the magazine voted her as the Best Female Vocalist.One of the songs on the Songs for Strong Girls album, called “Anything,” a story about the one that got away, won the MASC Pop Songwriting Competition.Angela was born to parents who were performers. Her mother was an aspiring concert pianist and her father was a vocalist in the gospel group, The Quarter Tones.Her earliest memories of performing go back to when she was three years old. She remembers standing on top of the furniture using anything she could get her hands on as a microphone. When Angela was three she also started learning to play the piano. Later Angela also learned how to play other instruments including flute, drums, and guitar. By the end of grade school Angela was already a master flute player (virtuoso flautist).She studied as an undergraduate at The Peabody Conservatory with a double degree in flute and recording engineering and a minor in voice. She later went on to receive her master’s degree in computer music from the same school.While studying, Angela used her classical training on some of the country’s leading concert hall stages and musical gigs in bars, clubs, and universities all over the United States. For a while she fronted for the alternative band, Lust and Termite. When this professional relationship ended she worked on her solo career performing at The 9:30 Club in DC, Kenny’s Castaways in NYC, and Anastasia’s Asylum in LA.
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Iron metal: the part of our life
Iron (US pronunciation: with two syllables, and UK pronunciation: with one) is a chemical element with the symbol Fe (Latin: ferrum) and atomic number. It is a metal in the first transition series. Like other group 8 elements, it exists in a wide range of oxidation states. Iron and iron alloys (steels) are by far the most common metals and the most common ferromagnetic materials in everyday use. Fresh iron surfaces appear lustrous silvery-gray, but oxidize in air.Iron is the most common element in the earth as a whole, and the fourth most common in the Earth's crust. It is produced as a result of stellar fusion in high-mass stars, and it is the heaviest stable element produced by stellar fusion because the fusion of iron is the last nuclear fusion reaction that is exothermic. Iron is the most widely used metal, and iron compounds, which include ferrous and ferric compounds, have several uses as well.Iron has been used since ancient times, though not as early as bronze or the other copper related alloys. Iron is ubiquitous in modern life; it is used primarily for its structural strength. Pure iron is soft (softer than aluminium), but the material is significantly strengthened by addition of minute amounts of impurities, such as carbon. Alloying iron with appropriate small amounts (up to a few per cent) of other metals and carbon produces steel, which can be 1,000 times harder than pure iron. Iron is smelted in a blast furnace, where ore is reduced by coke to metallic iron.Elemental iron is reactive; it oxidizes in air to give iron oxides, also known as rust. The rusting of iron and iron alloys is undesirable, and has a major economic impact. Unlike many other metals which form passivating oxide layers, iron oxides occupy more volume than iron itself. Thus, iron oxides flake off and expose fresh surfaces for corrosion. Iron oxide mixed with aluminium powder can be ignited to create a thermite reaction, used in welding and purifying ores.Iron exists from oxidation state , although are the most common. It forms binary compounds with the halogens and the chalcogens. Among its organometallic compounds, ferrocene was the first sandwich compound discovered. Iron plays an important role in biology, forming complexes with dioxygen as hemoglobin and myoglobin; these two compounds are common oxygen transport proteins in vertebrates.
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Iron metal: the part of our life
Iron (US pronunciation: with two syllables, and UK pronunciation: with one) is a chemical element with the symbol Fe (Latin: ferrum) and atomic number. It is a metal in the first transition series. Like other group 8 elements, it exists in a wide range of oxidation states. Iron and iron alloys (steels) are by far the most common metals and the most common ferromagnetic materials in everyday use. Fresh iron surfaces appear lustrous silvery-gray, but oxidize in air.Iron is the most common element in the earth as a whole, and the fourth most common in the Earth's crust. It is produced as a result of stellar fusion in high-mass stars, and it is the heaviest stable element produced by stellar fusion because the fusion of iron is the last nuclear fusion reaction that is exothermic. Iron is the most widely used metal, and iron compounds, which include ferrous and ferric compounds, have several uses as well.Iron has been used since ancient times, though not as early as bronze or the other copper related alloys. Iron is ubiquitous in modern life; it is used primarily for its structural strength. Pure iron is soft (softer than aluminium), but the material is significantly strengthened by addition of minute amounts of impurities, such as carbon. Alloying iron with appropriate small amounts (up to a few per cent) of other metals and carbon produces steel, which can be 1,000 times harder than pure iron. Iron is smelted in a blast furnace, where ore is reduced by coke to metallic iron.Elemental iron is reactive; it oxidizes in air to give iron oxides, also known as rust. The rusting of iron and iron alloys is undesirable, and has a major economic impact. Unlike many other metals which form passivating oxide layers, iron oxides occupy more volume than iron itself. Thus, iron oxides flake off and expose fresh surfaces for corrosion. Iron oxide mixed with aluminium powder can be ignited to create a thermite reaction, used in welding and purifying ores.Iron exists from oxidation state , although are the most common. It forms binary compounds with the halogens and the chalcogens. Among its organometallic compounds, ferrocene was the first sandwich compound discovered. Iron plays an important role in biology, forming complexes with dioxygen as hemoglobin and myoglobin; these two compounds are common oxygen transport proteins in vertebrates.
