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Rio Group
Membership		23 Latin American and Caribbean states
Establishment		1986

The Rio Group (Portuguese: Grupo do Rio [ˈgɾupu dʒi ˈʁi.u]; Spanish: Grupo de Río [ˈgɾupo ðe ˈri.o]) is an international organization of Latin American and some Caribbean states. It was created on 18 December 1986 in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro by means of the Declaration of Rio de Janeiro, signed by Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela (the members of the Contadora Group and the Contadora Support Group). To some extent it was perceived by some observers as an alternative body to the Organization of American States during the Cold War, since that body was dominated by the United States.^{[citation needed]} The Rio Group does not have a secretariat or permanent body, and instead relies on yearly summits of heads of states.

Current member states/organizations in alphabetical order by column:

List of Summit meetings[link]

Summit	Year	City	Seat country
I	1987	Acapulco	Mexico
II	1988	Montevideo	Uruguay
III	1989	Ica	Peru
IV	1990	Caracas	Venezuela
V	1991	Cartagena	Colombia
VI	1992	Buenos Aires	Argentina
VII	1993	Santiago	Chile
VIII	1994	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
IX	1995	Quito	Ecuador
X	1996	Cochabamba	Bolivia
XI	1997	Asunción	Paraguay
XII	1998	Panama City	Panama
XIII	1999	Veracruz	Mexico
XIV	2000	Cartagena	Colombia
XV	2001	Santiago	Chile
XVI	2002	San José	Costa Rica
XVII	2003	Cusco	Peru
XVIII	2004	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
XIX	2007	Georgetown	Guyana
XX	2008	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic
XXI	2009	Zacatecas	Mexico
XXII	2009	Managua	Nicaragua
XXIII	2010	Cancun	Mexico

See also[link]

• Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, possible successor of the Rio Group
• Union of South American Nations
• Organization of Ibero-American States (The Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture)
• Ibero-American Summit
• Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance/Rio Pact

External links[link]

• Rio Group accepts Cuba; Group demands role in global economic order, Latin America Tribute (Via Global Research), (November 15, 2008) -- The announcement of Cuba joining bloc in November 2008

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Look up rio, río, Rio, or RIO in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Rio or Río are the Portuguese and Spanish words for river and is a common nickname for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Other locations[link]

• Río Bec, Mayan archaeological site
• Río Bravo, Suchitepéquez, a town in Guatemala
• Río Bravo, Tamaulipas, a city in Mexico
• Rio Tuba, a barrio in the province of Palawan, Philippines
• Rio Grande (disambiguation)
• Rio Creek, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in Kewaunee County, USA
• Rio, Florida, a small town in Martin County, USA
• Rio, Illinois, a village in Knox County, USA
• Rio, West Virginia, a village in Hampshire County, USA
• Rio, Wisconsin, a village in Columbia County, USA
• Rio, Greece, a community in suburban Patras, Greece
• Rio, a location in Deerpark, New York, USA
• Rio Grande Valley a location in south Texas
• Rio do Sul, a town in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil

People[link]

• Tina Yuzuki (b. 1986), also known as Rio, Japanese AV idol
• Rio Ferdinand (b. 1978), an English football player
• Rio Mavuba (b. 1984), a French football player
• Rio Reiser (1950-1996), German singer

Surname[link]

• Al Rio (1962-2012), Brazilian comic book artist
• Alphonse Rio (1873-1949), French politician and minister in the French Third Republic
• Michel Rio (b. in 1945), French writer and novelist
• Patrice Rio (b. in 1948), former French footballer

Music[link]

• Rio (album), a 1982 album by the new wave/rock group Duran Duran
  • "Rio" (song), the title song from the above Duran Duran album
• Rio (Lee Ritenour album), a 1979 jazz album by Lee Ritenour
• Rio (Keith Jarrett album), a 2011 jazz album by Keith Jarrett
• Los del Rio, the Spanish music duo that gained international fame for their 1995 song "Macarena"
• Rock in Rio, a series of music festivals held in Brazil and Portugal
• Rock in Rio (album), a 2001 live album recorded in Brazil by the rock group Iron Maiden
• Rush in Rio, a 2003 live album by the rock group Rush
• RIO, for Rock in Opposition, a musical movement in the 1970s
• "Rio", a song by Michael Nesmith which appears on his 1977 album From a Radio Engine to the Photon Wing
• Rio (Aterciopelados album), 2008 album by the band Aterciopelados
• R.I.O., a german danceband

Technology[link]

• Rio (digital audio players), a brand name of a line of digital audio players
• RIO - Reconfigurable Input/Output found in devices such as the CompactRIO
• rio (windowing system), the windowing system for Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system
• Kyocera Rio, or Kyocera E3100, a mobile phone
• Winsock RIO extensions, part of the Winsock network API

Organizations[link]

• Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, a resort in Las Vegas, USA, that opened in 1990
• Rio Tinto Group, a multinational mining and resources group founded in 1873
• Rio Group, founded 1986, an international organization of Latin American states
• Rio Convention, one of several commonly used "Rio" nicknames for the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity
• rio, pronunciation of RHIO, Regional Health Information Organization, a type of organization whose purpose is integration and information exchange among healthcare stakeholders

Transportation[link]

• Avian Rio, a British hang glider
• Ford Del Rio, a 1950s station wagon made by Ford Motor Company
• Kia Rio, a 2000s subcompact car made by Kia Motors
• Panther Rio, a 1970s luxury sedan made by British car makers Panther Westwinds
• RIO, the IATA airport code for all airports near Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Models, diecast miniature cars made in Italy

Politics[link]

• The Rio Protocol of 1942, which temporarily settled a border war between Peru and Ecuador
• Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, a 1992 global sustainable development plan
• Rio Treaty or Rio Pact of 1947, more formally known as the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance

Fiction[link]

• Rio (1939 film), starring Basil Rathbone
• Rio (film), an 2011 animated film from 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios
  • Angry Birds Rio, an edition of the game Angry Birds tying into the release of Rio
• Rio (Shaman King), a character in the anime series Shaman King
• Rio Hinayama, a character in To Heart, a 1997 visual novel
• Rio, a character in the web-show NX Files, running since 2005
• Rio, the main villain from Juken Sentai Gekiranger, a 2007 Japanese tokusatsu television series
• "Rio" (CSI: Miami), the first episode in Season 5 (September 2006) of the American television program CSI: Miami
• Rio: Rainbow Gate, a 2011 anime series based on a pachinko franchise by Tecmo
  • Rio 'Rollins' Tachibana, a character who appears in the Rio: Rainbow Gate anime, as well as some titles in the Dead or Alive video games.

Other uses[link]

• RIO (military), Radar Intercept Officer
• RIO is a Railway Investigation Officer (Melbourne, Australia) Victoria Transit Patrol

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Look up group in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A group is a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

Mathematics[link]

• Group (mathematics), a set together with a binary operation satisfying certain algebraic conditions
  • Group theory, the study of groups
  • Group action, a way of describing the symmetries of objects using groups
  • Group isomorphism, a one-to-one correspondence (function) between two groups which respects the given group operations
  • Group object, a kind of generalization of a group which is built on more complicated structures than sets

Science[link]

Chemistry

• Functional group, a functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule
• Group (periodic table), a column in the periodic table of chemical elements

Biology

• Cultivar group, a formal classification category in the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP)
• Group selection, in evolutionary biology, the idea that alleles can become fixed or spread in a population because of the benefits they bestow upon groups of organisms

Cosmology

• Galaxy groups and clusters, a small number of galaxies near each other
  • Local Group, the group containing the Milky Way Galaxy

Other

• Group delay and phase delay
• a set of lenses stacked together
• Group (stratigraphy), in geology, a lithostratigraphical unit; a group consists of formations, or rock strata.

Business[link]

• Business group, a legal entity comprising several companies

Sociology[link]

• Social groups, a description of various human groups
  • Peer group
  • Working group
  • Interest group
• Group action (sociology)
• Group affective tone
• Group aggression
• Group attribution error
• Group behaviour
• Group cohesiveness
• Group conflict
• Group development
• Group dynamics
• Group guilt
• Group narcissism
• Group polarization
• Group psychological abuse
• Group scapegoating
• Group-serving bias

Computing and the internet[link]

• Group (computing), a collection of users or other objects
  • Group identifier (Unix)
• Group editor, a program that allows many people to edit a shared document over a computer network
• Usenet newsgroup

Military[link]

• Army group
• Group (air force), an air force formation
• Group Captain

Other uses[link]

• Breed Groups (dog), the group or category to which breeds of dogs are assigned by kennel clubs
• Group (auto racing), a category of car allowed to compete in auto racing.
• Group insurance covering people with common characteristics
• A musical ensemble:
  • Boy band
  • Girl group
  • Groupies

See also[link]

• Grouping (disambiguation)
• The Group (disambiguation)
• Functional group (disambiguation)

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Roberta Sá

Roberta Varela de Sá is a Brazilian singer.

Sá was born in Natal and is of Portuguese descent.^[1]

Beginning on 28 February 2011 the airline TAP Portugal began airing its "TAP With Arms Wide Open" (TAP de Braços Abertos) campaign, featuring its new slogan. Three singers, Sá, the Portuguese singer Mariza, and the Angolan singer Paulo Flores starred in a music video with the song "Arms Wide Open."^[2]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• 2004: Sambas e Bossas
• 2005: Braseiro
• 2007: Que Belo Estranho Dia Para se Ter Alegria
• 2009: Pra se Ter Alegria
• 2010: Quando o Canto é Reza
• 2012: Segunda Pele

DVD[link]

• 2009: Pra se Ter Alegria

References[link]

External links[link]

	Brazil portal
	Biography portal
	Music portal

• Roberta Sá Official Website (Portuguese)
• "Roberta Sá canta samba em 'Segunda Pele'." Diário do Pará. Monday February 6, 2012.
• "Roberta Sá: Eu não abandonei o samba. Precisava experimentar outros movimentos musicais." Contigo!. January 30, 2012.
• "A pele tropicalista de Roberta Sá." O Povo. February 1, 2012.

David Dean (born February 3, 1964) is the football coach of Valdosta State University and won a NCAA Division II Football Championship in 2007, his first year as a head coach.

Playing career[link]

Dean walked onto the Georgia Tech football team in 1982 and earned a scholarship the following year playing through the 1985 as a wide receiver. He was a graduate assistant for the team in 1986.^[1]

Coaching career[link]

Dean was an assistant coach at Avondale High School in Avondale Estates, Georgia in 1987. He was an assistant at Valdosta from 1988 to 1992. From 1993 to 1999 he was an assistant at University of West Georgia. From 2000 to 2006 he was offensive coordinator for Valdosta. In his first season in 2000 his quarterback Dusty Bonner won the Harlon Hill Trophy. During this period Valdosta played in the Division II title game in 2002 and won the national championship in 2004.^[1]

Head coaching career[link]

In 2007, Dean was named head coach of the Blazers in 2007 after Chris Hatcher took the head coaching job at Georgia Southern University. The "Dean Machine" started the season with five straight wins. Delta State University defeated the Blazers 35–31, despite being down 28 points at the beginning of the second half. The Blazers then capped off the season with an eight game winning streak and their second national championship title win against Northwest Missouri State University, 25–20. This was the third straight championship appearance by the Bearcats, also the third straight time the Bearcats lost the national championship game. Dean is only the second head coach to lead his team to a national championship in his first season. Earle Solomonson accomplished this at North Dakota State University in 1985.

2008 saw the Blazers make it to the second round of the NCAA Division II playoffs and a 9–3 season, 6–2 in the Gulf South Conference. In 2009, after a 6–4 season in which they finished third in the Gulf South Conference, the Blazers did not make the postseason for the first time under Dean, and for the first time since 2006.

Dean lead the Blazers to an 8–3 record and back into the NCAA Division II playoffs in 2010, marking the third time in his four years he has led his squad to postseason play. After beginning the year unranked, the Blazers rose as high as #7 in the AFCA poll, before finishing the regular season ranked #17.

Awards and honors[link]

Dean was AFCA Coach of the Year in NCAA Division II in 2007 after a season culminating in a National Championship.^[2] Dean was a runner up for Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year in 2008 for Division II. In 2010 he was the AFCA Regional Coach of the Year for NCAA Division II Region 2 and the Gulf South Conference's Co-Coach of the Year.^[3]

Head coaching record[link]

References[link]