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"The Heroes may refer to: * The Heroes (fantasy novel), a 2011 fantasy novel by Joe Abercrombie * The Heroes (1916 film), a 1916 short comedy film starring Oliver Hardy * The Heroes (1973 film), a 1973 film starring Rod Steiger * The Heroes (1980 film), a 1980 Hong Kong film * The Heroes (1994 film), a 1994 Italian comedy film * The Heroes (miniseries), a 1989 Australian-British television war film based on Operation Jaywick starring John Bach and Jason Donovan * The Heroes (band), a British rock band active in the early 1980s * "The Heroes" (1998), a song by Shed Seven from the album Let It Ride * "The Heroes" (1947), a Nelson Algren story in The Neon Wilderness See also * Heroes (disambiguation) * The Hero (disambiguation) "
"Ezequiel Oscar Videla Greppi (born 15 January 1988), known as Ezequiel Videla (), is an Argentine footballer that plays as a defensive midfielder. External links * Profile at Tenfield Digital 1987 births Living people Uruguayan footballers Uruguayan expatriate footballers Montevideo Wanderers F.C. players San Martín de San Juan footballers Instituto footballers Universidad de Chile footballers Club Atlético Colón footballers Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers Club Guaraní players Aldosivi footballers Argentine Primera División players Paraguayan Primera División players Primera B Nacional players Uruguayan Primera División players Association football midfielders Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Chile Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Argentina Expatriate footballers in Chile Expatriate footballers in Argentina "
"Andrea Hill was Suffolk County Council's chief executive from March 2008 to July 2011, when she left the authority by mutual agreement. Early career Hill attended The Sandon School, Sandon, Chelmsford, Essex and then studied public administration at Birmingham University and followed her father, an Essex County Council officer, into local government. Her first post was as a management trainee at Thurrock Council in the 1980s, followed by director of communications and policy development at North Hertfordshire. In the mid-1990s she was assistant chief executive at Cambridge City Council, and by 2001 she had gained her first chief officer post at Colchester District Council, aged 37, on a salary of £85,000.The Guardian (guardian.co.uk) 19 September 2001 Among her achievements there was a £1.5 billion PFI contract for a new army garrison.bbc.co.uk 10 March 2008 County council CEO In August 2004 Hill became chief executive of Bedfordshire County Council. During her three years tenure, it moved from two to three stars in the Audit Commission's ratings, and was described by them as one of twenty "strongly improving" authorities in the country. Suffolk county council Hill was appointed chief executive of Suffolk County Council in March 2008 at the age of 44. She was a powerful and vocal advocate of the emerging "New Strategic Direction" of outsourcing council functions, which became an exemplar for ministers. However, as the cuts of 2010/11 began to loom ever closer, so the media interest in Hill increased, with headlines about her rather than the council.Crackdown on council fat cats By April 2011 Andrea Hill wrote her side of the controversy in the council's house magazine: Inside SCC."So let me tell you the truth about the recent stories: those 'vanity' photographs; my training; the trips to America with BT. I didn't spend £1,500 of taxpayers money on photographs of myself. The Council did pay a photographer for several photographic assignments, but the portraits cost £900 and were for 17 different people. So the per capita cost was £53. And they weren't shot in a studio as some of the papers have claimed, but in the corridors of Endeavour House. And they were taken on 25 June 2009 at a time when we weren't having to cut services. The Council has a licence to publish them so we don't have to pay the photographer to use them. So what's the story about my training? The Council has spent £12,075 + VAT on coaching for me over the past 3 years. This training has been agreed with councillors are part of my annual appraisal and I have found it incredibly helpful in helping me do a tough job in a complex environment. Sol, my coach, isn't a 'lifestyle guru' as the papers claim. Despite what the Daily Telegraph reports, I didn't "convince voters to pay £400,000 for her psychology sessions". The fact behind the story is that the Council spent £400,000 on leadership training for over 400 staff over 2 years before any spending cuts were being considered. And many of those 400 people have thanked me, on behalf of the Council, because the training was the best they had ever received. Ask them if they thought it was 'psychobabble' as the newspapers like to print - and I can assure you Paul McKenna was nowhere in sight. So what about the two trips to America with BT have they compromised my judgement? In 2008 I did go to both Boston and San Francisco as part of a training programme sponsored by BT. So did 30 other public sector Chief Executives. So too did my predecessor a few years before me and so too have 4 other council Chief Executives or Chief Constables from Suffolk. Not a penny of my trip was funded by taxpayers - not the course, or flights, or hotels, or mileage, or meals or even a cup of coffee. And yes my husband and one of my sons came to join me one weekend at my personal expense, not charged to BT, not charged to the taxpayer. Has it clouded my judgement in relation to BT? No it hasn't: I have just negotiated £4m of efficiencies and cost reductions in our contract charge this year. And what about how I got the job? Some of the reporting seems to imply something underhand happened. I have no idea why. I applied for the job in open competition - anyone in the country with the right qualifications and experience could have applied. I was interviewed and tested as were other candidates. I won the job fairly." But by then the council's new direction had become increasingly distrusted by elected members, who threw it out with the election of Mark Bee as the replacement council leader for Jeremy Pembroke. That may have sealed Andrea Hill's fate. In July 2011 (aged 47) she received a year's salary as pay-off for relinquishing her post, following a "whistle-blowing" enquiry that exonerated her of any wrongdoing.The Guardian (guardian.co.uk) 5 May 2011 ; The daily Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk) 4 July 2011 In October 2011 she was replaced by Deborah Cadman OBE.East Anglian Daily Times 20 Oct 2001 Subsequently Ms Hill subsequently took a sabbatical role as a yachting holiday flotilla hostess in the Virgin Islands. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Local government in Suffolk Suffolk County Council Andrea Hill attended The Sandon School, Sandon, Chelmsford, Essex "