Oliveros (Málaga)
Oliveros may refer to: Places * Oliveros, Santa Fe, a town in Argentina People with the surname * Chris Oliveros, founder of the publishing company Drawn and Quarterly * Déborah Oliveros, Mexican mathematician * Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016), American accordionist and composer Other uses * Oliveros cigars, a brand manufactured by Boutique Blends Cigars Boutique Blends Cigars, formerly the Habana Cuba Cigar Company, is an American manufacturer of premium hand-rolled cigars based in Miami, Florida. The company was established in 1996 during the American cigar boom as the non-Cuban manufacturer of ...

Oliveros, Santa Fe
Oliveros is a town in the . The municipality has 4,750 inhabitants and is classed as a ''comuna''. It is located in the Iriondo Department, 126 km south from the capital of the province. Oliveros is home to a large public psychiatric treatment center and residence (''Colonia Psiquiátrica Dr. A. I. Freyre'') that is run by the provincial government. About 700 patients are overseen by the center, with 500 living permanently within it. The town also has a large number of camping grounds with facilities such as cabins, swimming pools, bars, sports fields, etc., that are often employed by people from the rest of the province, especially the Greater Rosario area. Climate References ''In Spanish.'' * * {{coord, 32, 34, S, 60, 51, W, region:AR_type:city, display=title Populated places in Santa Fe Province ...
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Chris Oliveros
Drawn & Quarterly is a publishing company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, specializing in comics. It publishes primarily comic books, graphic novels and comic strip collections. The books it publishes are noted for their artistic content, as well as the quality of printing and design. The name of the company is a pun on "drawing", "quarterly", and the practice of hanging, drawing and quartering. Initially it specialized in Underground comix, underground and alternative comics, but has since expanded into classic reprints and translations of foreign works. ''Drawn & Quarterly'' was the company's flagship quarterly Comics anthology, anthology during the 1990s. It is currently the most successful and prominent comics publisher in Canada, publishing well-known comic artists such as Lynda Barry, Kate Beaton, Marc Bell (cartoonist), Marc Bell, Chester Brown, Daniel Clowes, Michael DeForge, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Mary Fleener, Joe Matt, Shigeru Mizuki, Rutu Modan, Joe Sacco, ...
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Déborah Oliveros
Déborah Oliveros Braniff is a Mexican mathematician whose research interests include discrete geometry, combinatorics, and convex geometry, including the geometry of bodies of constant width and related topics. Education and career After earning an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1992, and earning a master's degree in 1994 under the mentorship of Mónica Clapp, Oliveros continued at UNAM for graduate study in mathematics, with doctoral research on an unsolved question of Stanislaw Ulam concerning the buoyancy of floating convex bodies. Her 1997 dissertation on the topic, ''Los volantines : sistemas dinamicos asociados al problema de la flotacion de los cuerpos'', was jointly supervised by Luis Montejano and Javier Bracho. She became a professor at UNAM in 1996, but left in 1999 for postdoctoral research at the University of Calgary in Canada. She became a professor there from 2001 to 2005, when she returned ...
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Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, and served as its director. She taught music at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Oliveros authored books, formulated new music theories, and investigated new ways to focus attention on music including her concepts of "deep listening" and "sonic awareness", drawing on metaphors from cybernetics. She was an Eyebeam resident. Early life and career Oliveros was born in Houston, Texas. She started to play music as early as kindergarten, and at nine years of age she began to play the accordion, received from her mother, a pianist, because of its popularity in the 1940s.Baker, Alan"An interview with Pauline Oliveros" January 2003. '' ...
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