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By 1975, the concept of food banking had gained popularity in other parts of the United States. Van Hengel was offered a federal grant to help spread the food banking concept across the country and left St. Mary's to form the organization known today as Feeding America. He returned to St. Mary's in 1982, while also working as a consultant for new food bank operations as the concept spread worldwide.
St. Mary's continued operating in Arizona using the same model that was being adopted by organizations across the world. Today, St. Mary's is able to collect and distribute meals to more than 600 agencies statewide. The organization estimates that it will provide over 90 million meals to Arizonans in 2019, with the goal of providing 100 million meals to those in need by 2021.
St. Mary's has over 600 partner agencies in 9 different Arizona counties, including homeless shelters, food pantries, and dining halls. St. Mary's still operates using the traditional "warehouse" model of food banking, supplying their partner agencies with donated food.
In addition to assuming the role of a traditional food bank, St. Mary's also runs its own food pantry, allowing people to get food directly from their warehouses. St. Mary's frequently offers "mobile" food pantries — semi trucks filled with food products — in various locations throughout Arizona. These mobile pantries normally run on regular schedules, but they have also been dispatched for special occasions. During the 2018–19 United States federal government shutdown, for example, St. Mary's held a mobile food pantry to provide food for local TSA employees who were working without pay.
Through their Hunger Heroes program, St. Mary's has partnered with a wide variety of local and global companies who donate food, funding, and volunteers to the food bank. According to St. Mary's, it costs one dollar to provide seven meals for a single person, making fundraising a powerful tool in providing assistance to the hungry.
Companies and organizations that have partnered with St. Mary's include:
Many of St. Mary's partners also participate in special campaigns. The annual "Fight Hunger. Spark Change" is one such campaign, where Walmart Inc. employees work with local volunteers to distribute meals from mobile food pantries across the state. Additionally, Walmart and Sam's Club donate a predetermined amount of money to St. Mary's when customers buy select items in stores. In the 2018 campaign, St. Mary's received enough money to distribute 1.67 million meals across Arizona.
Roughly one in four children in Arizona struggle with hunger; the state is currently ranked the fifth-highest state in the U.S for food insecurity. To combat this, St. Mary's has created programs to provide nutritious meals for children.
The Kids Cafe® is an after-school program where children can receive free meals while engaged in tutoring or recreational activities. This program provides roughly 6,000 meals daily to over 130 locations in Arizona. The program is also available during the summer, when children don't have access to the free meals they might receive at school.
The Backpack Program partners with schools and community centers to distribute bags packed with a weekend's supply of food. These bags are given to children once a week with the goal of helping their entire family – as such, each bag contains enough food to supply three meals to a family of four. St. Mary's partners with over 100 schools and community centers to distribute 3,000 backpacks per week.
The Community Kitchen is a 12-week course where adults learn to work in the food-service industry while also developing career and professional skills. The program is intended to help those with barriers to employment develop the skills to become more self-sufficient, providing them with job placement support upon completing the course.
St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance is classified as a "Qualifying Charitable Organization" by the Arizona Department of Revenue, meaning that residents can receive a tax credit for donations up to $800.
St. Mary's depends on involvement from people within the community to continue operating. Some of the ways that people have gotten involved include:
Julie Payne (actress, born 1940)
Julie Anne Payne (July 10, 1940 – June 7, 2019) was an American actress. She appeared in television and movies between 1959 and 1967. Payne's credits include movies "Honeymoon Hotel" (1964), "Island of the Blue Dolphins" (1964) and "Don't Make Waves" (1967), and series such as "The Big Valley" and "The Wild Wild West".
Payne was born in Los Angeles, California. She married screenwriter Robert Towne in 1977, and later divorced. The couple had a daughter. Payne died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on June 7, 2019. She was 78.
Bisbee, Arizona
Bisbee is a town in Cochise County, Arizona, USA. It is about southeast of Tucson. According to the 2010 census, the population of the town was 5,575. The town is the county seat of Cochise County.
Jim Forbes (Australian politician)
Alexander James de Burgh Forbes (16 December 1923 – 10 August 2019) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party. He was a government minister under five Prime Ministers: Robert Menzies, Harold Holt, John McEwen, John Gorton and William McMahon. Forbes served as Minister for the Army (1963–1966), Minister for Health (1966–1971) and Minister for Immigration (1971–1972). He was also MP for Barker from 1956 to 1975.
Forbes was born in Hobart, Tasmania. He served in the army during World War II, and was discharged in 1947. He later attended the University of Adelaide and Oxford University. Forbes lived for many years in the suburb of St Peters in Adelaide, South Australia.
Forbes died at a hospital in Adelaide on 10 August 2019. He was 95.
User (computing)
A user is a person who uses a computer or network service. Users of computer systems typically have no experience on how the software works.
In order to identify oneself, a user has an account (a user account) and a username (also called a screen name, handle, nickname, or nick on some systems), and in most cases also a password.
A user account allows one to authenticate to system services. It also generally provides one with the opportunity to be authorized to access them. However, authentication does not automatically mean authorization. Once the user has logged on, the operating system will often use an identifier such as an integer to refer to them, rather than their username.
Roger Ruskin Spear
Roger Ruskin Spear (born 29 June 1943 in Hammersmith, London) is a multi-instrumentalist (saxophones, clarinet, piano, guitars, percussion) who was a member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.New-York Historical Society
The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library located in New York City. It is at the corner of 77th Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The group was created in 1804 as New York's first museum. It has exhibitions, public programs, and research about the history of New York and the United States. It focuses on Manhattan.
It has been at its current place since 1908.
Louise Mirrer has been the president of the Historical Society since 2004.
Louisiana, Kansas
Louisiana (also known as Brooklyn and Salem) is a ghost town in Douglas County, in the U.S. state of Kansas.
Louisiana was created in 1855. It was close to the Santa Fe Trail. It had many things for travelers, including an inn, a saloon, a stable, and a store. A post office was created at Louisiana in 1856, but it closed in 1857. After William Quantrill's Raiders destroyed nearby Lawrence On August 21, 1863, they came to Louisiana and burned the town to the ground. The only building left was the saloon. The town became a ghost town shortly after.
University nuhelotʼįne thaiyotsʼį nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills
University nuhelot’įne thaiyots’į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills (University nn Blue Quills, formerly Blue Quills Education Centre and Blue Quills First Nations College [BQFNC]) is a university near St. Paul, Alberta, Canada. It was established in 1971. It was called Blue Quills First Nations College (BQFNC) at first. It operated as an indigenous non-profit educational institution. Its goal is to encourage a sense of pride Indigenous values and traditions.
Cross of Valour (Poland)
The Cross of Valour () is a Polish military decoration.
Jerome Ch'en
Jerome Ch'en (, born Ch'en Chih-jang; October 2, 1919 – June 17, 2019) was a Chinese-Canadian historian and author. He served as Chinese history professor at York University in Toronto, Ontario from 1971 to 1987. He was the director of the University of Toronto/York University Joint Centre of Asia Pacific Studies (JCAPS) between 1983 and 1985. He also taught history at the University of Leeds before moving to Canada. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1981. In 1984, he was named Distinguished Research Professor at York.
Ch'en was born in Chengdu, Sichuan. He died in St. Catharines, Ontario on June 17, 2019. He was 99.
Congressional district
A congressional district is an electoral constituency which elects a member of a congress. Countries that have congressional districts are Japan, the Philippines, and the United States. The size of a district is based on the number of people who live in that district. A district is often very big if there are few people that live there; a district is often small if it's in a big city because there would are many people living there.
The United States has 435 districts. Each district has about 747,000 people living in them.
Rafael de la Sierra
Rafael de la Sierra González (20 September 1948 – 19 June 2019) was a Spanish politician. He was a member of the Regionalist Party of Cantabria. He was a member of Parliament of Cantabria and later served as the President of the Parliament of Cantabria from 1999 to 2003. He was also Minister of the Presidency and Justice of Cantabria from 2015 until resigning in April 2019 due to illness.
Sierra was born in Vioño de Piélagos, Piélagos, Cantabria. He was married and had two children. He died on 19 June 2019, at the age of 70.
Dmytro Tymchuk
Dmytro Borysovych Tymchuk (; 27 June 1972 – 19 June 2019) was a Ukrainian politician, military expert and blogger. He was born in Chita, Russian SFSR. He became one of the most popular Ukrainian online activists during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine. He was a founding member of the People's Front political party. He was a member of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, from 2014 until his death in 2019.
On 19 June 2019, Tymchuk was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head in Kiev. According to police, Tymchuk was cleaning the gun when he accidentally fired it, killing him.
Kansas's 2nd congressional district
Kansas' 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. It includes most of the eastern part of Kansas. The size of the district is less than a quarter of the state. The state capital of Topeka and the city of Lawrence are both in this district.
The representative for this district is Republican Steve Watkins. He was elected on November 6, 2018.
Michel Sitjar
Michel Sitjar (13 September 1942 – 10 June 2019) was a French rugby union player. He played as a flanker. He played 13 matches for the France national team between 1964 and 1967. He also played club rugby for Sporting Union Agenais and also rugby league team XIII Catalan. He was born in Castelsagrat.
Sitjar died by suicide (killed himself) on 10 June 2019 in Lamagistère. He was 76.
Kansas's 4th congressional district
Kansas's 4th Congressional District is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is in the south central part of the state. It includes Wichita and nearby areas.
In 2012, in an unusual move, the federal courts intervened in Kansas's decennial redistricting (required by law to adjust boundaries of Congressional and state legislative districts every 10 years, to reflect changing population distributions, as reported by the decennial census).
Sharply criticizing the Legislature for the intractable feud between conservative and moderate factions in the Kansas Legislature (normally responsible for redistricting), and recognizing the rapidly approaching next elections, a federal three-judge panel (the Chief Justice of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and two judges from the Kansas City U.S. District Court) drew the Kansas state and Congressional district boundaries themselves, in rather simple and direct shapes that produced radical changes.
In the process, the Kansas Fourth Congressional District shifted west—still centered approximately on (and demographically dominated by) Wichita, The district's previous eastern boundary — Montgomery County and part of Greenwood County — were moved into another district, while the Fourth District's western edge moved farther west, to include all of Pratt, Stafford, Barber, Kiowa, Comanche and Edwards counties, plus a slender section of southern Pawnee County. In the process, the Fourth acquired a more neatly rectangular shape, and sharply reduced the amount of counties divided between the Fourth and another district.
Kansas's 3rd congressional district
Kansas's 3rd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. Located in eastern Kansas, the district encompasses all of Wyandotte and Johnson counties and parts of Miami county. The district includes the heart of the Kansas side of the Kansas City metropolitan area, including Kansas City, Overland Park, Lenexa, Shawnee, Spring Hill, DeSoto and Olathe.
The district is currently represented by Democrat Sharice Davids, who was first elected in 2018, defeating Republican incumbent Kevin Yoder.
District created March 4, 1875.
Kansas's 1st congressional district
Kansas's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. It has 63 counties from western and northern Kansas (more than half of the state) in it. It is the 12th biggest congressional district in the United States. Located within the district are Manhattan, Salina, Dodge City, Emporia, Garden City, Hays and Hutchinson. It is a very rural district.
It is believed to include the geographic center of the 48 connected states.
Kansas's 5th congressional district
Kansas's 5th congressional district was a congressional district for Kansas.
It existed from 1885 to 1993.
The district included some of the southern suburbs of Wichita. It also included Pittsburg. Most of the district was rural.
Kansas's congressional districts
Kansas has 4 congressional districts. Each has a member in the United States House of Representatives.
List of members of the Kansas United States House delegation, their terms, their district borders, and the districts' political rating from the CPVI. For the 116th Congress, there are 3 Republicans and 1 Democrat.
Historically, the state has at most eight seats (1893–1933). The number of seats decreased from five to four after the 1990 Census.
Table of United States congressional district border maps in Kansas, presented in order of time. All redistricting events in Kansas between 1973 and 2013 are shown.
Charles Dolan
Charles Francis "Chuck" Dolan (born October 16, 1926) is an American billionaire. He is the founder of Cablevision. Dolan's business controls AMC Networks, MSG Networks, and The Madison Square Garden Company, which at one point were all part of Cablevision itself.
List of United States Representatives from Kansas
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Kansas. For tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day) in order of year, see United States Congressional Delegations from Kansas. It includes members who have represented both the state and the Territory, both past and present.
Updated January 2019.
, there are eighteen former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from the U.S. State of Kansas who are currently living at this time. The most recent representative to die was Dick Nichols (served 1991–1993) on March 7, 2019. Nichols was also the most recently serving representative to die.
United States congressional delegations from Kansas
, there are seventeen former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from the U.S. State of Kansas who are currently living at this time.
, there are four former U.S. Senators from the U.S. State of Kansas who are currently living at this time, one from Class 2 and three from Class 3.
Special administrative region
Special administrative regions (SARs) are regions within Mainland China that have their own governments separate from the rest of China. As a result of this, they enjoy a high degree of freedom. The two SARs are Hong Kong and Macau, both were European colonies that got transferred to China during the 1990s.
Due to their new addition to the territory of China, Article 31 of the Chinese Constitution forms the legal foundation for the territories, as opposed to Article 30 which establishes the rest of China's territory.
The term used to refer to the government of Hong Kong and Macau is the phrase, "One country, two systems", coined by Deng Xiaoping in which the territories would be part of one country (China) but use two different systems of government (Hong Kong and Macau basic law) instead of the Communist system of the Chinese national government. This was done to prevent protest of the new government and a loss of freedom that citizens may attribute it to.
Elnhausen
Elnhausen is a country subdivision of Marburg in Hesse.<br>
First documents date back to 1234. At this time the village was probably called "Ellenhusen".
Today the village is divided into the old part with the castle, the church, farms and a newer part with several development areas.
Cyriaxweimar
Cyriaxweimar is a country subdivision of Marburg in Hesse.
Michelbach (Marburg)
Michelbach is a Stadtteil of Marburg in Hesse.
Schröck
Schröck is a country subdivision of Marburg in Hesse.<br>
Schröck has a population of 1,796 and was first mentioned around 1233 under the name of "Scrikkede". The village has one primary school and various sporting places, such as a tennis hall and an outdoor sports arena.
Stadtallendorf
Stadtallendorf is a town in the county of Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hesse, Germany. It lies about east of Marburg. In 2010, the town hosted the 50th Hessentag state festival.
Under the German system of "Naturräume", Stadtallendorf lies in the West Hesse Depression zone ("westhessische Senkenzone") which is divided into basins and ridges. With respect to these, the town lies on the Upper Hesse Ridge which separates the Amöneburg Basin in the west from the "Schwalmbecken" (another basin) in the east. On this ridge may also be found the Neustadt Saddle, abutted by the town's northeast edge. This upland is part of the divide between the Rhine and Weser watersheds.
Stadtallendorf borders in the north on the town of Rauschenberg (Marburg-Biedenkopf) and the community of Gilserberg (Schwalm-Eder-Kreis), in the east on the town of Neustadt, in the southeast on the town of Kirtorf, in the south on the town of Homberg (Ohm) (both in the Vogelsbergkreis), and in the west on the towns of Amöneburg and Kirchhain (both in Marburg-Biedenkopf).
Uncle Ben
Benjamin "Ben" Parker (better known as Uncle Ben) is a fictional character appearing in Marvel Comics by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. He is an uncle of Peter Parker because he is the brother of Peter's father Richard Parker. Uncle Ben and his wife Aunt May raised Peter since his parents died. Peter gets bitten by a radioactive spider and gets its powers. Peter sees a robbery happening and can do something about it but chooses not to. The criminal gets away and later kills Uncle Ben. Peter believes it is his fault for not having done anything to stop the robber so he decides to fight criminals by becoming the superhero Spider-Man. Uncle Ben was introduced in a Marvel Comics story called Amazing Fantasy # 15 in 1962. Unlike many comic book characters he stays dead. In later comics he is the one who told Peter Parker "With great power, comes great responsibility."
Uncle Ben was played by Cliff Robertson in the 2002 "Spider-Man" movie. In it Peter Parker fights back against a bully named Flash Thompson. Uncle Ben tells him to be careful about when to use his strength and that "with great power, comes great responsibility." Peter says Uncle Ben is not his father and should stop pretending to be. When Peter finds Uncle Ben's killer, the killer pulls a gun at him and Peter pushes him out of a window. Peter later tells the Green Goblin "I had a father. His name was Ben Parker." In the 2012 reboot "The Amazing Spider-Man", Uncle Ben is played by Martin Sheen. Unlike in the original movie, and in the comics, Peter does not catch Uncle Ben's killer. Uncle Ben does teach Peter the importance of responsibility but he never says "With great power, comes great responsibility."
Uncle Ben did not appear, nor was he mentioned, in the movie "".
Virgina Kidd
Virginia Kidd (June 2, 1921 – January 11, 2003) was an American literary agent, writer and editor, who worked in particular in science fiction and related fields. She represented science fiction American authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin, R.A. Lafferty, Anne McCaffrey, Judith Merril, and Gene Wolfe. Wolfe modeled Ann Schindler, a character in his 1990 novel "Castleview", in large part on Kidd.
Kidd was born Mildred Virginia Kidd in the Germantown district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the youngest daughter of Charles Kidd, a printer, and Zetta Daisy Whorley. She had polio at age 2. She was paralyzed for a year from the chest down. Growing up she attended the Berlitz School of Languages where she developed fluency in Spanish, Latin, Italian, French, and German. Kidd discovered science fiction at age 9. She became an active science fiction fan. She was a Futurian and, in 1941, became one of the founding members of the Vanguard Amateur Press Association. She did not attend college, saying "because I couldn't go to the University of Chicago, and I wouldn't go to any other." She married opera singer Jack Emden in 1943. They divorced in 1947. She then married the writer James Blish. They were married until 1963. She had four children: Karen Anne Emden (born 1944), Asa Benjamin Blish (born and died 1947), Dorothea Elisabeth Blish (born 1954), and Charles Benjamin Blish (born 1956).
Kidd successfully worked as a freelance writer, ghost writer, and proofreader. She is well known for her work in the feminist science fiction literary movement. She helped marginalized authors. She was a successful businesswoman who worked with major companies such as Ace Publishing and Parnassus Books. She was also a poet, and published "Kinesis", a little magazine for poetry. She helped to start the careers of writers including Sonya Dorman.
Her short stories included "Kangaroo Court", published in 1966 in Damon Knight's "Orbit 1". She edited or co-edited several science fiction anthologies.
She edited two with her client and friend, Ursula K. LeGuin, "Interfaces: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction" (1980) and "Edges: Thirteen New Tales from the Borderlands of the Imagination" (1980). Kidd won the 12th Locus Award in 1979 for "Millennial Women".
In 1965, she founded her Virginia Kidd Literary Agency. The agency was at her home, Arrowhead, in Milford, Pennsylvania. Soon, she had many clients from the science fiction community. She was the first female literary agent in speculative fiction.
Her clients included David R. Bunch, Juanita Coulson, George Alec Effinger, Alan Dean Foster, Richard E. Geis, Ursula K. Le Guin, Zach Hughes, Laurence Janifer, R. A. Lafferty, Anne McCaffrey, Judith Merril, Ward Moore, Christopher Priest, Frank M. Robinson, Joanna Russ, and Gene Wolfe.
She stopped managing the agency in the mid-1990s because of health problems from diabetes. She died in 2003, but the agency still exists.
Along with author Damon Knight and husband James Blish, Kidd developed a method of critique known internationally as the Milford Method.
“The Monster in the Park.” Gérard Klein (translated from French by Virginia Kidd). "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction," Vol. 21, No. 3, 1961
Jean-Marie Hullot
Jean-Marie Hullot (16 February 1954 – 17 June 2019) was a French computer scientist and programmer. He authored important programs for the original Macintosh, NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X platforms. These include the SOS Interface for the Mac, which later became Interface Builder for NeXTSTEP (1985) and later into an important part of Mac OS X. He also led the iCal and iSync development teams for Mac OS X (2002). He worked as CTO of Application Division at Apple Inc. from 2001 to 2005. He was also the President and CEO of Fotopedia, a photo encyclopaedia.
Hullot was born in Paris. He died on 17 June 2019 in Paris, at the age of 65.
Capital region
Pteroxygonum
"Pteroxygonum" is a Polygonaceae genus, related to Fallopia. A few species of the latter have been merged on it, such as F.denticulata.
P denticulatum (C.C.Huang)TM Schust et Reveal (bas.Polygonum denticulatum)
P giraldii Dammer et Diels (syn. Fagopyrum giraldii K.Haralson)
Antigone is a play written by Sophocles. Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus.
Hepburn romanization
Lynn Jenkins
Lynn Haag Jenkins (born June 10, 1963) is an American politician and lobbyist. She was in the U.S. Representative for from 2009 to 2019. Before that, she was the Kansas State Treasurer from 2003 to 2008. Before that, she was in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2000 and the Kansas Senate from 2000 to 2002. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Jenkins was born in Holton, Kansas. She was raised on a dairy farm in Holton, and she attended high school there. She graduated from Kansas State University and Weber State College with an accounting major and an economics minor. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
Jenkins has a mostly conservative voting record in Congress.
Jenkins is against the Affordable Care Act.
Jenkins believes that lowering government spending will help the economy. She is against raising taxes to get a balanced budget.
Jenkins supports the death penalty.
Jenkins is against same-sex marriage.She believes Kansas should have laws that stop discrimination for gay people. She supported the Defense of Marriage Act.
Jenkins has two children, Hayley and Hayden, and was married for 25 years. Her husband Scott filed for divorce on Friday, November 7, 2008. This was shortly after she won the U.S. House election.
Can't Buy Me Love (movie)
Can't Buy Me Love is a 1987 American teen romantic comedy feature movie starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson in a story about a nerd at a high school in Tucson, Arizona who gives a cheerleader $1,000 to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month. The movie was directed by Steve Rash and takes its title from a Beatles song with the same title.
Fagopyrum tibeticum
"Fagopyrum" is a genus of Polygonaceae
F tibeticum (A.J. Li) Adr.Sanchez et Jan.M.Burke
Xinmin Tian et al. 2011
On the origin of the woody buckwheat Fagopyrum tibeticum (=Parapteropyrum tibeticum) in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Molec Phylogenetics and Evol. 61(2):515-20
Yasui Y. and Ohnishi O. 1998
Phylogenetic relationships among Fagopyrum species revealed by the nucleotide sequences of the ITS region of the nuclear rRNA gene Genes genetic syst 73:201-210
Can't Buy Me Love may refer to:
Greta Thunberg (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish activist. She is known for her work against climate change, a popular example of youth activism. She started protesting on 20 August 2018, outside of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm. In December 2018, she attended the UN Climate Change Conference. In the next month, she gave a speech on the World Economic Forum in Davos.
She has received many awards. Three Norwegian MPs nominated her for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.
On 15 March 2019, approximately 1,400,000 people around the world, mainly students, protested against climate change. On 24 May 2019, a second major protest took place.
In December 2019, "Time" magazine named Thunberg "Time" Person of the Year 2019.
Greta Thunberg was born on 3 January 2003. She is the oldest daughter of Malena Ernman, an opera singer and actor Svante Thunberg. Her grandfather is actor and director Olof Thunberg.
At a TEDx speech in November 2018, Thunberg stated that she first heard about climate change at the age of eight, but could not understand why so little was being done about it. At age 11, she had depression and stopped talking. Later, she was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), and selective mutism. She added that selective mutism means that she was speaking only when she needed to and that "now is one of those moments". She further added that the "spectrum" was an advantage "as almost everything is black or white". She said: "I feel like I am dying inside if I don't protest". She hands out leaflets outside the Swedish parliament with the phrase "I am doing this because you adults are shitting on my future."
Her father doesn't like that she misses school but says: "[We] respect that she wants to make a stand. She can either sit at home and be really unhappy, or protest, and be happy". To lower her family's carbon footprint, she insisted on becoming vegan and give up flying. She said she persuaded her parents to give up eating meat by making them feel guilty. "I kept telling them that they were stealing our future." Her mother gave up her international career as an opera singer. Despite invitations to speak at international events, Greta also avoids flying.
Thunberg says her teachers are divided in their views about her missing class to make her protest. She says: "As people they think what I am doing is good, but as teachers they say I should stop." A teacher who supports her said: "Greta is a troublemaker, she is not listening to adults. But we are heading full speed for a catastrophe, and in this situation the only reasonable thing is to be unreasonable."
In May 2019 Penguin, a British publishing house, published "No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference", which is a collection of her speeches. Penguin published "Scenes from the Heart", the Thunberg family's story, in August 2018. All earnings from these books will be donated to charity. In the same month, artist Jody Thomas painted a mural of Thunberg on a wall in Bristol. It portrays the bottom half of her face as if under rising sea water.
Macedonian denar
Macedonian denar is the currency of North Macedonia.
The first denar was introduced on April 26, 1992. It replaced the Yugoslav dinar. In May 1993, the currency was reformed. A new denar was introduced with one new denar being equal to 100 old denars.
RKO Pictures
RKO Pictures is a company in the United States that makes and sells movies. It was first known as RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. RKO was an acronym for Radio-Keith-Orpheum, the original parent company of RKO Radio Pictures. It was one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The company was made by the merger of the Keith-Albee-Orpheum (KAO) theater chain and the Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) studio in October 1928. It was put together by David Sarnoff of RCA. His goal was to create a market for RCA's photophone, which was their sound-on-film technology. By the mid-1940s, the studio was under the control of investor Floyd Odlum.
RKO is well known for the musicals it made in the 1930s. These starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Other well-known actors got their start at RKO. Among these were Katharine Hepburn, Robert Mitchum, and Cary Grant. Many praise RKO's work on film noir. Val Lewton's low-budget horror movies are also praised by movie critics. RKO made two of the most famous movies in history. These are "King Kong" and "Citizen Kane". They also made movies with other studios. These include the well known "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Notorious". RKO also took care of sales for movies made by Walt Disney from 1937 to the mid-1950s. The also took care of sales for Samuel Goldwyn.
In 1948, Howard Hughes took over RKO and this lead to a time of decline. Then in 1955, it was bought by the General Tire and Rubber Company. RKO stopped making new movies in 1957, and mostly shut down two years later. In 1959, the assets of RKO moved to a new company called RKO General. In 1981, RKO was revived under the name RKO Pictures Inc. In 1989, it was sold to new owners. They run it using the name RKO Pictures LLC.
Solar sail
A solar sail (or light sails or photon sails) is a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight. The word 'sail' is by analogy with boats which use a sail to use wind to move. The concept was first proposed in the 17th century by Johannes Kepler. He had a theory that sails could be adapted to "heavenly breezes".
In 1865, James Clerk Maxwell published his theory of electromagnetic fields and radiation. He showed that light (one form of electromagnetic radiation) can put pressure on an object. This pressure is called radiation pressure. This provided a foundation for the science behind the solar sail.
Solar radiation exerts a pressure on the sail due to reflection and a small fraction that is absorbed.
Solar pressure acts on spacecraft, in space or in orbit around a planet. A typical spacecraft going to Mars, for example, is displaced thousands of kilometers by solar pressure. The effects are predicted in planning. This has been done since the time of the early interplanetary spacecraft of the 1960s. Solar pressure also affects the orientation of a craft, a factor that is included in spacecraft design.
The concept of solar sail was later used science fiction, such as the works of Jules Verne.
The idea of a solar sail is to use radiation pressure from the Sun to move a spacecraft, probably using large "mirrors" (large light reflective surfaces). The disadvantage of the method is that the generated thrust is very small. The benefit is that no propellant is needed (as long as there is light). As a result, it is considered a possible option for future spacecraft. To date, only small test versions have been used as experiments.
The total force exerted on an 800 by 800 meter solar sail, for example, is about at Earth's distance from the Sun, making it a low-thrust propulsion system, similar to spacecraft propelled by electric engines. As it uses no propellant, the force is exerted almost constantly. The collective effect over time is great enough to be considered a way of propelling spacecraft.
Plans for the first use of the concept were made in the 1970s by Bruce Murray and Louis Friedman, two researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
On May 21, 2010, Japan's Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched the solar sail, the IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-Craft Accelerated by Radiation Of The Sun). It used a solar sail in space between Earth and Venus. This was the first successful use of a solar sail.
In 2010, NASA launched the solar sail craft NANOSEL-D2. The was the first success of NASA's solar sail craft.
On 2 July 2019 the Planet Society, based in the United States, launched the LightSail 2 satellite, designed using solar sail technology. The lightweight satellite, was launched with the SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was low budget mission funded by donations from 50,000 members. The total budget was less than 7 million USD. In late July 2019, LightSail 2 opened its solar sail. It took about 3 minutes to do so.
Peter Ouwens
Pieter Antonie Ouwens (14 February 1849, Amsterdam – 5 March 1922, Buitenzorg) was a Dutch scientist. He was Director of the Java Zoological Museum and Botanical Gardens. He is best known for writing the first formal description of the Komodo dragon ("Varanus komodoensis") in 1912.
Ouwens was the child of Pieter Anthonis Ouwens, accountant in Amsterdam, and Caroline Reiniera Nagels. He studied at the Royal Military Academy in Breda from 1867. In 1871, he became lieutenant at the Infantry in the Dutch East Indies. In 1883 he was promoted to captain. In January 1879 he married Johanna Vosmaer at Banda Aceh. They divorced a month after the birth of their only child in 1882 in Salatiga. Ouwens then married Jeanne Dikkers in December 1883 in Purworejo. He married again in 1902 with Anna Josephina Soesman.
Ouwens became curator of the Zoological Museum in Buitenzorg. (Buitenzorg is now called Bogor). Lieutenant Jacques Karel Henri van Steyn van Hensbroek was the first Westerner to see Komodo dragons. Hensbroek sent a photo and a skin of a Komodo dragon to Ouwens. He then sent a collector to Komodo who returned to Java with two adults and a young lizard. Ouwens named the species "Varanus komodoensis" in a publication of 1912. Ouwens became Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau and died in Buitenzorg in 1922.
Fulbright Program
The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs. The goal is to improve intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between people from the United States and other countries by exchanging of people, knowledge, and skills. It is one of the most prestigious and fellowship programs in the world. It is also very difficult to receive a grant. American citizens including students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists and artists may receive scholarships or grants to study, do research, teach, or exercise their talents abroad. Citizens of other countries may do the same in the United States of America. The program was started by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946 and is one of the most widely recognized and prestigious scholarships in the world. The program provides 8,000 grants annually.
The Fulbright Program is administered by cooperating organizations such as the Institute of International Education. It is in over 160 countries around the world. The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State sponsors the Fulbright Program and gets funding from the United States Congress from annual appropriation bills. Additional direct and in-kind support comes from partner governments, foundations, corporations, and host institutions both in and outside the U.S. In 49 countries, a bi-national Fulbright Commission administers and oversees the Fulbright Program. In countries without a Fulbright Commission but that have an active program, the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy manages the Fulbright Program. More than 370,000 people have participated in the program since it began; 59 Fulbright alumni have won Nobel Prizes; 82 have won Pulitzer Prizes.
In 1945, Senator J. William Fulbright proposed a bill to use the profits from selling surplus U.S. government war property to fund international exchange between the U.S. and other countries. The timing after the Second War was important. Along side the United Nations, the Fulbright Program was an attempt to promote peace and understanding through educational exchange. The bill had a plan to forgive the debts foreign countries piled up during the war and in return for funding an international educational program. This program was planned to be an essential vehicle to promote peace and mutual understanding between individuals, institutions and future leaders anywhere in the world.
On August 1, 1946, President Harry S. Truman signed the bill into law, and Congress created the Fulbright Program in what became the largest education exchange program in history.
Since it began, the program has operated on a bi-nationally. Each country in the Fulbright Program has an agreement with the U.S. government. The first countries to sign agreements were China in 1947 and Burma, the Philippines, and Greece in 1948.
The Fulbright Program works two ways: U.S. citizens may receive funding to go to a foreign country (U.S. Student Program, U.S. Scholar Program, Teacher Exchange Program, etc.) and non-U.S. citizens may come to the U.S. (Foreign Student Program, Visiting Scholar Program, Teacher Exchange Program, etc.).
Candidates recommended for Fulbright grants should have high academic achievement, a strong project proposal or statement of purpose, demonstrated leadership potential, and flexibility and adaptability to work successfully with the host community abroad.
Fulbright grants are offered in almost all academic disciplines except clinical medical research with patient contact.
Fulbright alumni have occupied key roles in government, academia, and industry. Of the 325,000+ alumni:
Things Fall Apart is a novel that was written by Chinua Achebe. It came out in 1958. The story talks about life in Nigeria before colonialism and the Europeans came to Africa in the 19th century. The main character in the book is a man named Okonkwo. He is an Igbo man that lives in a fictional clan in Nigeria called Umuofia. There are three main parts of the story. The first part talks about Okonkwo's personal life and the Igbo culture and traditions. The second and third parts talk about the British colonialists and Christian missionaries.
"Things Fall Apart" is a very important book. Many people see it as an archetype (something that other works have been based on) for other African novels. The book has been sold over 20 million times. "Time" magazine said it was one of the best 100 English-language books from 1923 to 2005.
Okonkwo is a wrestling champion and a hardworking man. He was born in a poor family because his father was lazy and was in a lot of debt. This makes him hate his father. He tries to be the opposite of everything his father was.
In this part of the novel, Okonkwo and his family are away. Meanwhile, white men come to Umuofia and introduce their religion, Christianity. Okonkwo's son Nwoye becomes a Christian.
The village destroys the church because a convert disrespected an elder during a ritual. Because of that event, Okonkwo and other leaders go to jail.
Okonkwo kills a messenger. However, the other ones escape. He realizes that the village will not fight back.
Okonkwo kills himself to avoid being tried in court. Suicide is not acceptable to the Igbo and so Okonkwo loses his good name.
Oiniades
Oiniades () is part of the municipality Missolonghi, Greece. Its area is 270.899 km. It was named after the ancient town of Oeniadae.
Ancient Oeniadae () was a port town on the west bank of the river Achelous. It was one of the most important towns of ancient Acarnania. Oeniadai was first mentioned in the 5th century BC.
It was against a hill in the marshes. These protected it from invaders. It is the same place the modern village, Katochi.
It was an important port on the route to Corfu. It changed its alliances often in the history. At first it was a member of the Peloponnesian League. But, in 424 BC it joined the Delian League. In the Hellenistic period, Oiniadai allied with the Aetolians until 218 BC when Philip V declared it free. From 211-189 BC during the Roman-Macedonian wars the Aetolians controlled it again. In Roman times it became less important.
The communities below are part of Oiniades:
Eutin () is the district capital of Eastern Holstein county. It is in the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of 2015, about 17,000 people lived in the town.
The name Eutin (originally Utin) is Slavic. Its meaning is not clear. It probably came from the personal name "Uta". The Slavic Obotrites tribe settled eastern Holstein in the 7th/8th centuries A.D. and built a castle on Pheasant Island in the lake now called the Großer Eutiner See.
Dutch settlers came to live in "Utin" in the twelfth century. In 1156 Eutin became a market town. It later became the seat of the Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck because Lübeck itself was an imperial free city. When the bishopric was secularized in 1803, Eutin became part of the Duchy of Oldenburg. In the Greater Hamburg Act of 1937, Eutin passed from the Free State of Oldenburg to the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein. After World War II, it became part of the modern Bundesland of Schleswig-Holstein.
Eutin is birthplace of composer Carl Maria von Weber. To honor him, an open-air theater (') was built in the park of Eutin Castle in 1951. Operas are performed there in July and August during the Eutin Opera Summer Festival ('). The seating capacity of this open-air venue is about 2000. The festival includes music students in Eutin aand students from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, US. Lawrence is a twin city with Eutin.
Eutin has an annual Blues Festival (Bluesfest Eutin) at the beginning of summer. Local musicians, as well as up and coming blues artists from around the world, come to play at this three-day outdoor blues festival. The festival is in the market place in the center of town. Admission is free.
Eutin is surrounded by lakes of the Holsteinische Schweiz, including the Großer Eutiner See, Kleiner Eutiner See, Kellersee and Ukleisee. There are forests around the lakes. Popular activities on these lakes include boating, canoeing, rowing, swimming, and fishing.
Schleswig-Holstein, particularly Eutin, has many rapeseed fields. They produce biofuel. Wind turbines are also a common in this rural region.
Eutin is twinned with:
Each summer, Lawrence and Eutin have an exchange program. High-school students from Lawrence and college students from the University of Kansas have some weeks in Eutin. German students from Eutin come to Lawrence to study. The University of Kansas also created an internship exchange program with Eutin.
World Bicycle Day
In April 2018, the United Nations General Assembly declared June 3 as International World Bicycle Day. The resolution for World Bicycle Day recognizes "the uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the Bicycle, which has been in use for two centuries, and that it is a simple, affordable, reliable, clean and environmentally fit sustainable means of transportation."
Professor Leszek Sibilski from the United States led a grassroots campaign with his Sociology class to promote a UN Resolution for World Bicycle Day, eventually gaining the support of Turkmenistan and 56 other countries. The original UN Blue and White World Bicycle Day logo was designed by Isaac Feld and the accompanying animation was done by Professor John E. Swanson. It depicts bicyclists of various types riding around the globe. At the bottom of the logo is the hashtag #June3WorldBicycleDay. The main message is that the bicycle belongs to and serves all of humanity.
World Bicycle Day is a global holiday meant to be enjoyed by all people regardless of race, ethnicity, creed, class, sex, gender, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic. The bicycle as a symbol of human progress and advancement "[promotes] tolerance, mutual understanding and respect and [facilitates] social inclusion and a culture of peace."
World Bicycle Day is now being associated with promoting a healthy lifestyle for those with diabetes.
Peter Matić
Peter Matić (24 March 1937 – 20 June 2019) was an Austrian actor and voice actor. He appeared in more than 80 movies and TV series between 1961 and 2019. He had roles in movies such as "I Learned It from Father" (1964), "Everyone Dies Alone" (1976) and "Wahnfried" (1986). He is known in German-speaking countries for dubbing the voice of British actor Ben Kingsley.
Matić was born in Vienna. He died on 20 June 2019, at the age of 82.
Okayama Castle
Okayama castle is located in Okayama city near Korakuen. It’s also known as the Crow Castle because of its color.
Roger Béteille
Roger Béteille (28 August 1921 – 14 June 2019) was a French aeronautical engineer. He was born in Vors, Aveyron. In 1952, he joined Sud-Aviation in Toulouse and held senior posts: Head of Flight Testing (1952 to 1957), Head of Rockets and Satellites division (1957 to 1967) and the deputy technical director of and A300 programme manager.
Béteille worked with Air France and Lufthansa, as well as U.S.-based airlines like United, TWA and American Airlines. He also decided that English should be the working language and that measurements should not be metric because most airlines already had American built aircraft.
He is known for the success of Airbus and is sometimes called "Mr. Airbus".
Lionel Tertis
Lionel Tertis, CBE (29 December 187622 February 1975) was an English violist. He was one of the first viola players to have international fame. Tertis was also a known violin teacher. He was born in West Hartlepool, North East England.
Tertis died on 22 February 1975 in Wimbledon, London at the age of 98.
The Heartbreak Kid (2007 movie)