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leanne del toso ( born 12 august 1980 ) is a 3 @@ 5 point wheelchair basketball player who represented australia at the 2012 summer paralympics in london where she won a silver medal diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy at the age of nineteen del toso started playing wheelchair basketball in 2006 playing in the local victorian competition she was named the league 's most valuable player in 2007 that year started playing for the knox ford raiders in the women 's national wheelchair basketball league ( wnwbl ) the following year she was named the team 's players ' player and most valuable player ( mvp )
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del toso has played for the dandenong rangers in the wnwbl since 2008 in the semifinal between her dandenong rangers and the goudkamp gladiators in 2009 she scored 31 points while pulling down 19 rebounds that saw the rangers win 81 42 the dandenong rangers won back to back titles in 2011 and 2012
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del toso made her debut with the australia women 's national wheelchair basketball team known as the gliders at the 2009 osaka cup in japan since winning a silver medal in london she has participated in the 2013 osaka cup in japan where the gliders successfully defended the title they had won in 2008 2009 2010 and 2012
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nicknamed dori del toso was born on 12 august 1980 at the age of nineteen she was diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ( <unk> ) a heredity condition that involves damage to the nerves del toso has two siblings her younger brother daniel also developed the disease prior to her diagnosis she played regular basketball del toso has worked as a receptionist and as a participation assistant for basketball victoria as of 2013 she lives in watsonia victoria
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del toso was a 4 point wheelchair basketball player due to the progress of her disease she was reclassified as a 3 @@ 5 point player in 2013 as of 2012 she has a scholarship with the victorian institute of sport and in financial year 2012 / 13 she received a a $ 20 @@ 000 grant from the australian sports commission as part of its direct athlete support ( das ) program she received $ 17 @@ 000 in 2011 / 12 and 2010 / 11 $ 5 @@ 571 @@ 42 in 2009 / 10 and $ 5 @@ 200 in 2008 / 09 in 2012 she trained in dandenong kew box hill and knox
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del toso started playing wheelchair basketball in 2006 an australian paralympic committee flyer on the wall at her local gym asking are you the next paralympian prompted del toso to respond she was advised to take up wheelchair basketball playing in the local victorian competition in 2007 she was named the league 's most valuable player that year she made her debut in the women 's national wheelchair basketball league ( wnwbl ) with the knox ford raiders at the end of the season she was named the most improved player she played for the rangers ( now known as victoria ) since 2008 in the second round of the 2008 season the dandenong rangers defeated the western stars 53 47 she scored 20 points in her team 's victory in the second round of the 2008 season playing for the dandenong rangers in a 38 72 loss to the hills hornets she scored 12 points that season she was named the team 's players player and most valuable player ( mvp )
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in 2009 del toso played in the wnwbl finals in the semifinal between the dandenong rangers and the goudkamp gladiators she scored 31 points while pulling down 19 rebounds that saw the rangers win 81 42 in 2010 she was named the dandenong rangers 's most valuable player the rangers won the wnwbl title in 2011 in a round four game in 2012 against sydney uni flames that the rangers won 55 44 she scored 14 rebounds the rangers won the league championship again that year
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in 2008 del toso was named as a reserve for the australia women 's national wheelchair basketball team known as the gliders for the 2008 summer paralympics she made her national team debut at the 2009 osaka cup the following year when her team finished first that year she also participated in the four nations in canada and the japan friendly series one of six players who played for the dandenong rangers in the wnwbl she was selected to participate in a national team training camp in 2010 in july 2010 she played in a three @@ game test series against germany she was member of the australian team at the 2010 world championships that finished fourth she also played in the 2010 osaka cup where her team finished first she played in four games in the 2012 gliders world challenge
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del toso was selected to represent australia at the 2012 summer paralympics in wheelchair basketball the london games were her first in the group stage the australia women 's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 summer paralympics posted wins against brazil great britain and the netherlands but lost to canada this was enough to advance the gliders to the quarter @@ finals where they beat mexico the gliders then defeated the united states by a point to set up a final clash with germany the gliders lost 44 58 and earned a silver medal
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since the games del toso has participated in the 2013 osaka cup in japan where the gliders successfully defended the title they had won in 2008 2009 2010 and 2012
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= no 79 wing raaf =
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no 79 wing was a royal australian air force ( raaf ) wing of world war ii it was formed in december 1943 at batchelor northern territory as part of north @@ western area command led by group captain charles eaton the wing comprised four squadrons on its establishment flying beaufort and b @@ 25 mitchell bombers and beaufighter heavy fighters no 79 wing took part in the new guinea and north @@ western area campaigns during 1944 45 eventually transferring to balikpapan in the dutch east indies as the allies advanced northward by the end of the pacific war the wing was attached to the australian first tactical air force and was made up of nos 2 and 18 ( netherlands east indies ) squadrons both flying mitchells the latter transferred to the netherlands air force in late 1945 while the former returned to australia where it disbanded the following year no 79 headquarters itself disbanded in october 1945 soon after the end of hostilities
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no 79 wing was established at batchelor northern territory on 30 november 1943 its combat units consisted of nos 1 and 2 squadrons ( flying beaufort light reconnaissance bombers ) no 31 squadron ( beaufighter long @@ range fighters ) and no 18 ( netherlands east indies ) squadron ( b @@ 25 mitchell medium bombers ) the wing was commanded by group captain charles eaton whose dutch personnel called him oom charles ( uncle charles ) operating under the auspices of north @@ western area command ( nwa ) darwin no 79 wing participated in the new guinea and north @@ western area campaigns during 1944
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through march april 1944 the beaufighters attacked japanese shipping while the mitchells and beauforts bombed timor on a daily basis as a prelude to operations reckless and persecution the invasions of hollandia and aitape eaton organised a large raid against su dutch timor on 19 april consisting of thirty @@ five mitchells beauforts and beaufighters the force destroyed the town 's barracks and fuel dumps a result that earned the personal congratulations of the air officer commanding nwa air vice marshal king cole on the day of the allied landings 22 april the mitchells and beaufighters made a daylight raid on dili portuguese timor the ground assault on hollandia aitape met little opposition credited in part to the air bombardment leading up to it
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in may 1944 nos 1 18 and 31 squadrons attacked japanese positions in timor while no 2 squadron was withdrawn from combat to re @@ equip with mitchells no 79 wing 's light and medium bombers suffered from a lack of suitable targets as they had few airfields in forward areas from which to refuel no 2 squadron returned to operations with mitchells in june that month no 18 squadron flew 149 sorties damaging japanese airfields and shipping in the timor area but lost its commanding officer to anti @@ aircraft fire during a raid
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in june july 1944 no 79 wing supported the allied attack on noemfoor no 18 squadron was again the wing 's most active unit flying 107 sorties in september the beaufighters and mitchells attacked japanese shipping and infrastructure in ceram and celebes but lost nine aircraft and twenty @@ six crewmen killed among them squadron leader wilbur wackett son of commonwealth aircraft corporation manager lawrence wackett by the end of the month mitchell missions were put on hold while replacement crews were trained in late 1944 plans were made to transfer no 79 wing from north @@ western area command to northern command in papua new guinea where it would undertake operations against the japanese in new britain the wing 's composition for this move was to be nos 2 and 18 squadrons operating mitchells and 120 ( netherlands east indies ) squadron operating p @@ 40 kittyhawks no 31 squadron was transferred from no 79 wing to the australian first tactical air force at morotai in december the same month group captain eaton posted out and was replaced by group captain john ryland
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weather hampered the wing 's activities in january 1945 no 1 squadron was withdrawn to queensland to re @@ equip with mosquitos with no 13 squadron flying venturas taking up the slack on anti @@ shipping missions the squadron accounted for around half of the thirty @@ eight enemy vessels sunk by no 79 wing in february and a similar ratio to the twenty sunk the following month wing operations were cut back in march as preparations were made to transfer the mitchells to jacquinot bay in new britain on 6 april all twenty available aircraft of nos 2 and 18 squadrons were ordered to join b @@ 24 liberators of no 82 wing in an assault on a japanese convoy that included the cruiser isuzu the liberators were late for their rendezvous with the mitchells off sumba so the latter at the very limit of their range attacked the convoy regardless they claimed two direct hits without loss despite anti @@ aircraft fire from the cruiser and other ships and frontal attacks by enemy fighters allied submarines sank the damaged isuzu the next day
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the wing 's proposed move to new britain was cancelled in may 1945 after the netherlands government requested that its squadrons operate over the dutch east indies no 120 squadron was transferred to biak while no 79 wing and its two mitchell squadrons were ordered to move to borneo under the command of first tactical air force by july no 79 wing had relocated from batchelor to balikpapan leaving no 13 squadron under the control of north @@ western area command after the pacific war ended in august 1945 the mitchells joined liberators of no 82 wing repatriating raaf personnel from borneo to australia no 79 wing headquarters was disbanded on 8 october the following month no 18 squadron was reassigned to the netherlands air force no 2 squadron returned to australia in december disbanding in mid @@ 1946 these were the only two squadrons in the raaf to operate mitchells during the war
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= vitamin d ( glee ) =
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vitamin d is the sixth episode of the american television series glee the episode premiered on the fox network on october 7 2009 it was written by series creator ryan murphy and directed by elodie keene in the episode glee club director will schuester ( matthew morrison ) pits the male and female club members against each other for a mash @@ up competition will 's wife terri ( jessalyn gilsig ) takes a job as the school nurse to stop him becoming closer to guidance counsellor emma pillsbury ( jayma mays ) but is fired after giving the students performance @@ enhancing pseudoephedrine tablets
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the episode features mash @@ up covers of it 's my life by bon jovi and confessions part ii by usher and halo by beyoncé knowles and walking on sunshine by katrina and the waves both tracks were released as singles available for digital download vitamin d was watched by 7 @@ 30 million us viewers and received generally positive reviews from critics performances by morrison mays and jane lynch as cheerleading coach sue sylvester attracted praise as did the staging of the musical mash @@ ups however aly semigran of mtv and mandi bierly of entertainment weekly both noted critically that dramatic storylines in the episode dominated over the musical performances
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believing the glee club members are becoming complacent ahead of the forthcoming sectionals director will schuester ( matthew morrison ) divides the club into boys against girls for a mash @@ up competition cheerleading coach sue sylvester ( jane lynch ) observes that head cheerleader quinn fabray 's ( dianna agron ) performance standards are slipping when quinn blames her tiredness on her glee club participation sue renews her resolve to destroy the club planning to sabotage will 's personal life
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sue tells will 's wife terri schuester ( jessalyn gilsig ) that guidance counselor emma pillsbury ( jayma mays ) has romantic feelings for will determined to stay close to her husband terri takes a job as the school nurse despite having no medical qualifications she encourages emma 's boyfriend football coach ken tanaka ( patrick gallagher ) to propose to her which he does after asking will if there is any reason she should not marry ken and being warned off will by terri emma accepts his proposal terri is still hiding the fact she experienced a hysterical pregnancy from will and upon realizing how much her life is changing due to her pregnancy quinn agrees to let terri secretly adopt her baby
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finn hudson ( cory monteith ) is exhausted by his extra @@ curricular activities so terri gives him pseudoephedrine tablets which finn shares with the rest of the males in the glee club the effects of the tablets enhance their performance and they give an energetic mash @@ up of it 's my life and confessions part ii when kurt hummel ( chris colfer ) tells the girls the secret behind the boys ' performance they too request the tablets from terri and give a high @@ spirited mash @@ up of halo and walking on sunshine finn and rachel berry ( lea michele ) feel guilty for cheating however and agree to nullify the competition when principal figgins ( iqbal theba ) learns what has happened he fires terri and angry with will appoints sue as co @@ director of the glee club
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recurring characters who appear in vitamin d are glee club members santana lopez ( naya rivera ) brittany pierce ( heather morris ) mike chang ( harry shum jr ) and matt rutherford ( dijon talton ) former glee club director sandy ryerson ( stephen tobolowsky ) principal figgins ( theba ) football coach ken tanaka ( gallagher ) terri 's co @@ worker howard bamboo ( kent avenido ) and local news anchors rod remington ( bill a jones ) and andrea carmichael ( earlene davis ) joe hursley guest stars as joe
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the episode features mash @@ up covers of it 's my life by bon jovi and confessions part ii by usher and halo by beyoncé knowles and walking on sunshine by katrina and the waves both tracks were released as singles available for digital download it 's my life / confessions part ii charted at number 7 in ireland 14 in the uk 22 in australia 25 in canada and 30 in america while halo / walking on sunshine charted at number 4 in ireland 9 in the uk 10 in australia 28 in canada and 40 in america michele has revealed that she practiced talking manically for several days in order to convey the effects of pseudoephedrine on rachel in order to portray the character in her altered state she questioned how manic is the right amount of manic what would rachel be like on uppers what would she sound like she deemed performing the mash @@ up piece in that state so much fun
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the episode was watched by 7 @@ 30 million us viewers and attained a 3 @@ 2 / 8 rating / share in the 18 49 demographic glee maintained its ratings from the previous week despite all of the other new wednesday night shows of the season declining by double @@ digit percentages it was the eighteenth most watched show in canada for the week of broadcast with 1 @@ 61 million viewers in the uk the episode was watched by 2 @@ 008 million viewers ( 1 @@ 608 million on e4 and 400 @@ 000 on e4 + 1 ) becoming the most @@ watched show on e4 and e4 + 1 for the week and the most @@ watched show on cable for the week as well as the most @@ watched episode of the series at the time
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vitamin d was nominated for the best comedy series episode award at the 2010 prism awards it received generally positive reviews from critics shawna malcom of the los angeles times noted that she preferred the boys ' performance to the girls ' commenting their number had the same heart @@ soaring power as don 't stop believin ' [ performed in the pilot episode ] malcom enjoyed sue 's character development in the episode claiming that in less skilled hands there s no doubt sue would be an over @@ the @@ top disaster but thanks to the incomparable jane lynch i can t wait to see what trouble the character stirs up next aly semigran of mtv also enjoyed the boys ' performance more than the girls ' and gave the episode a mostly positive review writing that it moved the series ' storylines to a whole new level she felt however that the episode didn 't have nearly enough singing mandi bierly for entertainment weekly similarly noted that so much happened in this hour that the musical numbers though enjoyable were almost an afterthought bierly favoured the girls ' performance and praised morrison 's acting commenting matthew morrison communicates so much with his eyes there s a softness and a longing in them that i m always surprised emma ( jayma mays ) matches
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mike hale for the new york times praised mays ' performance noting jayma mays registered emma s devastation with just the slightest widening of those enormous eyes in fact all the best non @@ singing moments in the episode were hers hale was less impressed with the rest of the episode deeming the pregnancy storyline so boring that is hardly mattered he noted that for many viewers the best moments in the episode probably came very early on and involved jane lynch s sue sylvester who still got all the best lines jarett wieselman for the new york post agreed with this assessment opining that although the episode was filled with more brilliant moments than ever before the stand @@ out scene was sue writing in her journal which wieselman deemed jam @@ packed with so many one liners it acted as a vacuum sucking the smart out of everything else on tv from 9 05 to 9 07 pm fellow new york post critic maxine shen deemed the episode her favorite of the series so far anna pickard of the guardian called the pseudoephedrine storyline relentlessly silly [ ] but joyfully so preferring the boys ' performance to the girls ' as some excellent comedy helped me forget about finn 's dodgy autotuned vocals for once
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= fern hobbs =
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fern hobbs ( may 8 1883 april 10 1964 ) was an american attorney in the us state of oregon and a private secretary to oregon governor oswald west she was noted for her ambition and several accomplishments as a young woman and became the highest @@ paid woman in public service in america in her mid @@ twenties
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hobbs made international news when governor west sent her to implement martial law in the small eastern oregon town of copperfield the event was considered a strategic coup for west establishing the state 's authority over a remote rural community and cementing his reputation as a proponent of prohibition
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hobbs later worked for the american red cross in europe and at the oregon journal newspaper she died in portland in 1964
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hobbs was born on may 8 1883 in bloomington nebraska to john alden hobbs and cora bush hobbs her family moved to salt lake city utah when she was six years old she lived there for 12 years finishing high school her father then met with financial difficulties and she moved to oregon settling in hillsboro there she put her younger brother and sister through school while studying stenography and working for a living
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she soon became a private secretary to the president of the title guarantee and trust company the bank which held many assets of the oregon common school fund failed during hobbs ' time there ben olcott who was the secretary of state and a member of the state land board was charged with protecting the common school fund and was involved in negotiating with the failing bank over the state 's assets he took note of hobbs ' strong loyalty to her employer
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after the bank 's failure hobbs worked as a governess for j wesley ladd ( brother of william s ladd ) in portland she also helped raise her younger brother and sister studied stenography and the law and worked as a secretary in 1913 hobbs graduated from willamette university college of law with a bachelor of laws degree and was admitted to the oregon state bar
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olcott who managed oswald west 's successful 1910 campaign to become governor of oregon recommended that west hire hobbs as his private stenographer she was hired and impressed west to the point that he hired her as his private secretary two years later at that time at age 27 she was the highest @@ paid woman in public service in the united states earning $ 3 @@ 000 per year
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= = martial law in copperfield oregon = =
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west ordered hobbs to copperfield oregon to restore law and order on january 2 1914 along with a group of six militia men that included oregon state penitentiary warden bk lawson copperfield located on the snake river in baker county had grown up around construction projects for a railroad tunnel and power plant fifteen @@ hundred jobs in the area came from the railway project of e h harriman or the power generation facility
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the town had descended into lawlessness with a number of saloons brothels dancing halls and widespread gambling the town had no law enforcement officers and the local government officials had become bar keepers governor west had extended prohibition laws some local residents had appealed to the state government for <unk> but they were widely ignored in copperfield over half the residents of the town had signed a petition addressed to west alleging that saloons owned by the mayor and city council members were selling liquor to minors and staying open later than their posted hours governor west responded by ordering county officials to restore order close the saloons and force the resignations of the corrupt city leaders by december 25 1913
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county officials did not take care of the problem so west sent hobbs hoping the presence of a woman would prevent any outbreak of violence hobbs was a petite woman standing 5 feet 4 inches ( 1 @@ 63 m ) tall and weighing less than 100 pounds ( 45 kg ) she was dispatched with orders to restore order and to implement martial law if necessary while hobbs was traveling to eastern oregon both she and governor west were coy with reporters about the presence of the militia men suggesting that hobbs might be acting alone
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the saloon keepers who received word that hobbs was accompanied by law enforcement officers only shortly before her arrival greeted her by dressing up the town with bunting blue and pink ribbons and flowers a town meeting was arranged at 2 30 pm on january 3 hobbs renewed the call for the resignation of city officials but was the request was refused hobbs ' escorts then arrested the city leaders and ordered lawson to declare martial law it was the first time in oregon since the civil war that martial law was put into effect
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soon the town was disarmed and order restored with the gambling equipment and weapons confiscated and the saloons closed down hobbs then left lawson in charge and caught the 4 00 pm train out of town that same day the residents did not openly resist hobbs or the militia men although nearly all were armed and had been prepared to offer non @@ violent resistance she stopped at the county seat in baker city to officially remove the town 's officials in front of a judge before returning to the state capitol in salem the baker county circuit court quickly enjoined the militia from holding the town under martial law sheriff rand began assembling a posse to carry out the court order governor west requested a hearing seeking rand 's temporary removal from office and appointed hobbs to represent the state as special counsel
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the actions of the governor were later challenged in court with hobbs and west among the defendants the saloon keepers sought remuneration for liquor they claimed was confiscated during the period of martial law the baker county circuit court determined the governor 's actions were within his powers and the oregon supreme court ultimately concurred
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these events made hobbs the most famous woman in oregon at that time hobbs also made national and international news for these events writer stewart holbrook reported
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after the copperfield affair hobbs continued as governor west 's secretary until the end of his term in 1915 she visited the union county town of cove in february 1914 also to investigate complaints about a saloon a local election had declared the town dry but a county election had declared the entire county wet on advice of a judge the mayor of cove stated that he was unable to determine whether the saloon was legal or not but expressed deference to the governor 's wishes hobbs did not order the saloon closed down
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she then moved to portland and practiced law women 's rights groups promoted hobbs as a candidate to run for governor but she never ran for office within a few years fern hobbs became the commissioner of oregon state industrial accident commission working on getting taxes due on the oregon & california lands in 1917 with the united states entering world war i she began a long association with the red cross from 1917 to 1922 she worked in europe including time spent as the chief of the casualty division in paris france in that position hobbs was responsible for notifying dead soldiers ' next of kin she returned to europe in the 1930s working in the rhine valley when it was occupied by france
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upon returning to oregon hobbs worked as a secretary for the oregon journal newspaper she retired in 1948 as the secretary to the paper 's business manager fern hobbs died on april 10 1964 at the age of 80 and was buried at the hillsboro pioneer cemetery in hillsboro oregon
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the oregon writer stewart holbrook interviewed her in the early 1950s a few years after her retirement observing that she still weighs 104 pounds her eyes are clear and blue behind her glasses there is not a gray hair on her head she lives as quietly as she has always lived except for those dreadful few days so long ago [ concerning copperfield ] holbrook noted during his interview that the subject of copperfield bores her and concluded his account of her as follows
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= jessie stephen =
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jessie stephen mbe ( 19 april 1893 12 june 1979 ) was a twentieth @@ century british suffragette labour activist and local councillor she grew up in scotland and won a scholarship to train as a teacher family finances dictated otherwise leading to her becoming a domestic worker at the age of 15 she became involved in national labour issues as a teenager via organisations such as the independent labour party and the women 's social and political union after moving to lancashire and london she visited the united states and canada where she held meetings with the public including migrant english domestic workers
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stephen later become more involved in formal political parties being elected as a local councillor and standing as a candidate in general elections after moving to bristol she became the first woman president of bristol trades council she was appointed mbe in 1977 and her life is commemorated by a blue plaque in bristol
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