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Kate Fleming

Kate Fleming is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Kate Fleming rather than just read about it. In short: Kathryn Ann Fleming (October 6, 1965 – December 14, 2006) was an American actress, artist, singer, and audiobook narrator and producer. She was the owner and executive producer at Cedar House Audio, an audio production company specializing in spoken word, that is located in Seattle, Washington.

Key takeaways

  • Kate Fleming belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
  • Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
  • Connect Kate Fleming to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
  • Reproduce the core statement of Kate Fleming from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Kathryn Ann Fleming (October 6, 1965 – December 14, 2006) was an American actress, artist, singer, and audiobook narrator and producer. She was the owner and executive producer at Cedar House Audio, an audio production company specializing in spoken word, that is located in Seattle, Washington. She is also known for voicing Princess Daisy in the first Mario tennis game for Nintendo 64.

Early life and education Fleming was born in Arlington, Virginia in 1965. She grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1987 (Bachelor of Arts, Religion). Fleming studied at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky, and was an alumna of the 1987/1988 Apprentice Company.

Work After a stint as a professional actor, she branched into audiobooks in the mid-1990s. Fleming recorded well over 200 titles, many under the stage name Anna Fields. In 2004, Fleming won the Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for her performance of Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation. In a July 1, 2005 interview with the William & Mary Alumni Association, Fleming noted several of her favorite narration projects: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates, Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh, and "any title" by Louise Erdrich. In addition to her work on audiobooks, she also narrated the Military Channel's six-episode series Navy Seals, which chronicled the six-month basic training process for US Navy Seals in 2001. Another military-themed narration was for the Discovery Channel documentary Secrets of the Stealth: Nighthawk, on the F-117 Nighthawk, the US Air Force's first stealth plane, and its crucial role in winning the first Gulf War.

Death Fleming was killed when she was trapped inside the flooded basement of her Madison Valley studio during the Hanukkah Eve windstorm of 2006. She is survived by her wife and partner of nine years, Charlene Strong. At the hospital, Strong was denied access to see Fleming until permission was granted by an out-of-state relative. The experience led Strong to advocate for legislation that was eventually passed as Washington's domestic partnership law. After Fleming's death, the City of Seattle commissioned a report to determine the cause of flash flooding in Fleming's neighborhood. As of 2013, the house where Fleming died had been replaced by a garden, and the city has completed a stormwater project in the neighborhood. The project features a reservoir capable of holding excess storm runoff when the rest of the system is over capacity. A memorial at the site is inscribed with words that Fleming would say before going on stage as an actress: "Be a light. Be a flame. Be a beacon."

Filmography

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References

External links Kate Fleming at IMDb Cedar House Audio

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Kate Fleming

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Kate Fleming claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Kate Fleming before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Kate Fleming ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Kate Fleming

In research
Kate Fleming appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry
Engineering practice reuses Kate Fleming in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom
Kate Fleming is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1965 births, 2006 deaths, 20th-century American LGBTQ people, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life
Look for Kate Fleming outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Kate Fleming in 20 minutes

  1. Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
  2. Close the page and write down what Kate Fleming means in your own words.
  3. Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
  4. Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
  5. Explain Kate Fleming out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Kate Fleming in simple terms?

Kathryn Ann Fleming (October 6, 1965 – December 14, 2006) was an American actress, artist, singer, and audiobook narrator and producer. She was the owner and executive producer at Cedar House Audio, an audio production company specializing in spoken word, that is located in Seattle, Washington.

Why does Kate Fleming matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Kate Fleming?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Kate Fleming.

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  • 1965 births
  • 2006 deaths
  • 20th-century American LGBTQ people
  • 20th-century American actresses
  • 20th-century American women artists
  • 20th-century American women singers
  • 21st-century American LGBTQ people
  • 21st-century American actresses
  • 21st-century American women artists
  • 21st-century American women singers
  • Actresses from Seattle
  • Actresses from Washington, D.C.

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