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Clare Vanderpool is an American children’s author. Her first book, "Moon Over Manifest", won the 2011 Newbery Medal. She lives with her husband and four children in Kansas.
Vanderpool was born on November 6, 1964, in Wichita, Kansas. She has a husband, Mark, and four children. Vanderpool still lives in the town that she grew up in. Her children go to the same schools that she went to as a child.
Vanderpool wrote the books "Navigating Early", and "Moon Over Manifest". "Moon Over Manifest" won the 2011 Newbery Medal. It tells the story of a 12-year-old girl, Abilene Tucker, who finds some secrets that start to put together the story of her father’s upbringing.
Vanderpool originally got the idea for "Navigating Early" (published 2013) from one of her mother’s dreams. In the dream, there was a boy who was amazing at piano. Although he never had any lessons, he could hear a difficult piece just once and would be able to play it perfectly. From the dream, she created the book about a boy who had an unexplainable gift, that creates a close friendship with a girl. “Where an author gets her ideas is simple. Ideas come from watching, listening, paying attention, and most of all from the characters themselves.” - Clare Vanderpool.
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American author who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father wasn’t present in her childhood, so she liked to write about strong father figures in her books. She became interested in reading when she was very young. She had a lot of trouble with math.
Lowry began her career writing about children who face major challenges. Most had to do with family. Her first novel was "A Summer to Die". It established her as an important author of young adult fiction. Her books cover many different topics, including the future, war, and humor. They are for young adults who want to read about serious issues. Lowry is a very successful author. She won the 1990 and 1994 Newbery Medal for "Number the Stars" and "The Giver". Some of her stories are based on her childhood, like her character Anastasia Krupnik in the book "Anastasia Krupnik". Some of her most famous books are "Number the Stars", "The Giver", "Gathering Blue", "Bless This Mouse", and "Messenger".
Sharon Draper
Sharon Draper is an American author, poet, and master educator. She has won many awards for teaching and written many books, poems, and short stories. She was a teacher in Cincinnati from 1970-1997 and became an author in 1991, which is the career she is currently pursuing. Her first piece was “One Small Torch”, a short story published in the Ebony magazine in 1991 as the winner of a short story contest with 20,000 entries. In her writing, she choses African-American male characters to give a voice to African-American young men.
Sharon Draper was born on August 21, 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio. She was the eldest daughter of three kids in her family and grew up in a close-knit neighborhood.
Sharon Draper earned her BA from Pepperdine University in 1971 and her MA from Miami University of Ohio in 1974
Sharon Draper was a teacher for the Cincinnati public schools from 1970-1997, and won the 1997 US Teacher of the Year award for her work in the schools. She has described teaching as her "calling and vocation,” and says that she "teaches because I must. It is in my heart and soul; part of the definition of me. I end up teaching wherever I am."
Some of her published works include:
Sharon Draper has won many awards in teaching and writing. She won Coretta Scott King Genesis award for Literature (1995), and American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults award (1995) in her writing career. She also won Ohio State Teacher of the Year (1997), U.S. National Teacher of the Year (1997), National Board Certification, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (1995), Board of Directors, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (1997), National Council of Negro Women's Excellence in Teaching Award (1997), and the Delta Kapa Gamma Honor Society for Women Educators.
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer who has written many successful books for a wide audience.  She gives a voice to those Americans in our community who are sometimes silenced or looked down upon. Ms. Woodson once said, "I feel compelled to write against stereotypes, hoping people will see that some issues know no color, class, sexuality…. I write from the very depths of who I am, and in this place there are all of my identities." Through her quotes and her books she inspires America to take a stand against stereotypes to make our world a better place.
Jacqueline Woodson is the recipient of the 2001 Corretta Scott King Award and a nominee for the 2002 National Book Award.
2018 Jacqueline Woodson received Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the worlds largest prize for people writing childrens and youths literature.
"Jacqueline Woodson introduces us to resilient young people fighting to find a place where their lives can take root. In language as light as air, she tells stories of resounding richness and depth. Jacqueline Woodson captures a unique poetic note in a daily reality divided between sorrow and hope." Citation of the jury
Jacqueline Woodson was born on February 12, 1964 in the town of Columbus, Ohio. Much of Jacqueline's writing later in life may have been inspired by her childhood.  Her books talk about the struggle to find a place to fit in,  and being accepted in society. In fifth grade she was the editor of her school’s magazine. Her seventh English teacher encouraged her to write, and told her she should pursue her dreams, which may have led to where Ms. Woodson is today.
Many of Ms. Woodson’s books for older audiences touch on subjects she experienced growing up.  For example, she wrote about her parent’s struggling marriage, her brother’s struggles with homosexuality, and divisions based off of race in America which she had experienced first hand growing up as an African American in the Midwest.  Also, Ms. Woodson addresses the issue of confidence in young girls.  She says: “I write about all girls because I know what happens to self-esteem when we turn twelve, and I hope to show readers the number of ways in which we are strong."  Jacqueline uses her talent for writing and her experiences of the injustices and stereotypes in our country to promote awareness of important issues and give voices to the voiceless.
Some books she has written include:
Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson is an American author who has written many books. She writes fiction on many different subjects. She was born on October 23, 1961, in New York. As a young child, Anderson loved to listen to her father tell stories and poems. In 1983, Anderson married Gregory H. Anderson, a business executive. One year later in 1984, she earned her bachelor's degree from Georgetown university in Washington D.C. Anderson has published many books for young adults and children. She has written in many different genres as well. Some of Anderson’s most well known books include "Speak", "Fever 1793", and "Catalyst". People appreciate her ability to capture the voices and attitudes of teenagers as they face personal problems in her books. In 2009, Anderson received the Margaret A. Edwards award for her contributions to young adult literature.
Judy Blume
Judy Blume is an American author.
Judy Blume was born on February 12, 1936 to Rudolph and Esther Sussman. She was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Blume graduated with honors from her high school, Battin, and went on to Boston University. She was forced to quit college after a year because of a disease that caused her to have too many large white blood cells. She then transferred to New York University where she graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science in early childhood education. She then had two children, Randy Lee and Lawrence Andrew. Many of her books are about the challenge pre-teens face when growing up in middle-class America.
Judy Blume has written many books, mostly focusing on middle-class children and the problems they face in their lives. Her most famous piece is "Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret". She started out writing books meant only for adults, such as "Wifey, Smart noen", and "Summer Sisters". As time passed, Blume began to write books for children, including:
Her books are published by Bradbury Press. Throughout her lifetime she has received many awards. Some of these include, the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Library of Congress Living Legends award.
Marissa Meyer is well known for writing the Lunar Chronicles, which includes "Cinder", "Scarlet", and "Cress". These books have parts of well known fairy-tales, but she added her own twist. The Lunar Chronicle books were very successful, "Cinder," the first book in the series, made it onto the New York Times Best Sellers list. In November 2015, the fifth in the Lunar Chronicle series will be published, "Winter." Her most recently published book is "Fairest, "another book about fairytales. She even has many unfinished books lying around. She lives with her husband and three cats.
Marissa Meyer was born on February 19, 1984. She grew up in Tacoma, Washington. When Meyer was 14 years old, she was introduced to anime and fan fiction. She was very interested in it and completed 40 stories under the name Alicia Blade. These stories were published on Fanfiction.net. She also wrote a novelette called The "Phantom of Linkshire Manor". In 2007, the novelette was published in the "Bound in Skin" anthology.
Marissa Meyer went to Pacific Lutheran University, and got a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and children’s literature. At Pace University, she received her master’s degree in publishing. After she graduated, she became a book editor in Seattle. Later, she became a freelance typesetter and proofreader.
Tamora Pierce
Tamora Pierce is an American author. She was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania on December 13th, 1954. Tamora Pierce is the daughter of Wayne Pierce and Jacqueline Pierce, but her parents divorced. Her family moved from Pennsylvania to California many times. Tamora loved reading books as a child, and she started writing stories when she was in 6th grade. When she was a teenager, she stopped writing. One of her teachers motivated her to continue writing, and she started writing again as an adult.
Tamora Pierce mainly writes fantasy books, but sometimes historical books. She enjoys writing series because of how the reader gets to live along with the characters. She likes writing books for teenagers. Many of her books have been translated into German, Danish, and Spanish.
Tamora lives in New York, New York with her husband, 4 cats, parakeet, and sometimes rescued animals. She is interested in many topics which sometimes are included in her writing. Some topics she is interested in our culture, crime, wildlife, nature, historical events, and more.
Ally Carter
Ally Carter is an American author. She was born in Oklahoma in 1974.  She went to Oklahoma State University and Cornell University. Carter began writing at age 12. She published her first book in 2005, "Cheating at Solitaire". S. E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" made her interested in writing. Carter first was a screenwriter, then started writing novels. Some of her books were "My True Love Gave to Me", "Double Crossed", "Learning to Play Gin" and "Cheating At Solitaire". She also wrote two series, the Gallagher Girls Books and Heist Society Books. "All Fall Down" came out on January 20, 2015 to start her new series, "Embassy Row".
Carter writes about teenage spies and thieves. Her books have been sold in over 20 languages.  It takes her four to six weeks to write one story, but she spends much more time editing the stories. Her books have appeared on several best sellers lists, such as the New York Times, as well as sold over two million copies in the United States alone.
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Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier was born May 26, 1977 in San Francisco, California. She has published many graphic novels for teenagers, including "Smile, Drama, Sister, Baby Sitter Club Series, and X - men: Misfits". Telgemeier gets ideas for her stories from her life. For example, "Smile" came from her life.
Telgemeier attended the School Of Visual Arts in New York City. She studied illustration. She graduated in 2002. Telgemeier met her husband, Dave Roman, at the School of Visual Arts. After graduating Telgemeier worked for a publisher in New York. But she was thinking about drawing her own books. She now lives and works in Queens, New York. Now, she is a famous cartoonist, animator, and novelist who has written many well known young adult novels.
Raina Telgemeier was born May 26, 1977 in San Francisco, California. In her youth, Telgemeier was very interested in comics, and putting pictures and words together to make stories. As pictured in "Smile", Telgemeier did have both front teeth knocked out in 6th grade.
Both her novels "Smile" and "Sister" have been #1 New York Times best sellers. Telgemeier has received an Eisner Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, a Stonewall Honor, and many Best Of and Notable lists for her popular works of literature.
Kirsten Miller
Kirsten Miller is an American author.
Kirsten Miller was born in 1973 in North Carolina. At age 17 she moved to New York City. Kirsten lives there now.
Kirsten wrote the Kiki Strike series and All You Desire: Can You Trust Your Heart?. These are all novels aimed at young adults. The Kiki Strike series is about two girls who have gained access to catacombs, underground graveyards, and work on accessing the rest of their city. They used their girl scout skills. This series was written in 2006 and 2007. The Eternal Ones series is about a modern day high school girl who sees visions of herself, including one of her dying, in 1920’s New York City with a boy named Ethan Evans. After a lifetime of hearing and ignoring rumors of demons in her small town, she becomes involved with Iain Morrow in New York, who she thinks murdered her in a past life and is out to murder her again. These two books were written in 2010 and 2011.
Kirsten is set apart from other authors by emphasizing the importance of “girl power”. She has chosen many female lead characters because she believes girls can make a change too. She showed this by saying, “While the world wasn’t necessarily designed with young girls in mind, if a girl has a little ingenuity and a lot of confidence, she can make the world work to her advantage” in an teenreads.com interview in 2006.
E. L. Konigsburg
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (February 10, 1930 – April 19, 2013) was an American writer.
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg was born on February 10, 1930 in New York. She was the daughter of Adolph, a businessman, and Beulah (Klein) Lobl. E.L. Konigsburg married a man named David Konigsburg in 1952. With David, she had three children, named Paul, Laurie, and Ross. She went to Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Konigsburg was a follower of the Jewish religion.
Konigsburg is the author of many children’s books, some including "The Outcast of 19 Schuyler Place, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler," and "Silent to the Bone". She began her career as an author later in her life. She left teaching after the birth of her first child in 1955, and returned to teach again in 1960. She stopped teaching again two years later, to move to New York for her husband’s job. With all of her kids at school, she had time to begin her writing career.
E. L Konigsburg is the only author to have two books on the Newbery List at one time. In addition, in 1967, her book was honored in the “Book Week Children’s Festival”. She also won the William Allen White award for "From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler".
Wendy Mass
Wendy Mass is an American author who writes mainly for young adults and children. She was born on April 22, 1967 in Livingston, New Jersey, United States. She is most known for her young adult novel "A Mango Shaped Space" and "Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life".
Wendy Mass currently lives in Sparta New Jersey with her husband Michael, their twins Chloe and Griffin, and their two cats. Mass has lived in New Jersey as well as Los Angeles.
Wendy Mass as a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University, a Masters degree from California State University, and has a Ph.D from Drew University.
Wendy Mass has won the American Library Association (ALA) Schneider Family Book Award for Middle School in 2004 for her book "A Mango Shaped Space". She also has been nominated for 74 state book awards. Many of her books have been translated into 14 different languages and several were recorded as audio books. One of her young adult novels "Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life" was adapted into a movie in 2011.
Cynthia Kadohata
Cynthia Kadohata is an American author, who has written many well known novels. A quote that expresses Cynthia Kadohata’s connection to writing and her books is “My memories become their memories, and their memories become mine.”
She won the 2005 Newbery medal, and she wrote a short fiction that has been seen in the New Yorker, Grand Street, and Pennsylvania Review. Her autobiographical novel on Japanese American life is also widely known and highly reviewed. Cynthia also earned a journalism degree at University of Southern California.
Cynthia Kadohata was born on July 02, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois. Her family moved often to places including Illinois, Michigan, Georgia, Arkansas, and California, and this traveling and the ability to see many new places gave her inspiration for many of her books, especially "The Floating World". In fact, in many parts Cynthia Kadohata’s actual life inspire and encourage her to write.
Later in life, Cynthia adopted her son, Sammy. She was previously married but divorced in 2000.
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich is an American author. She was born on June 7, 1954, in Minnesota. Erdrich lived in North Dakota as a child. Her mother is Chippewa. She has a German-American father. Louise incorporates Native American themes in her books. Major characters represent both sides of her heritage and background. She was married to Michael Anthony Dorris, who was a writer and professor of Native American studies at Dartmouth.
Erdrich was named a most beautiful person in "People" magazine. She was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction in 2001 for her book "The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse". She received the award in 2012 for "The Round House". She has written novels, short stories, poetry, and children's books. Some of these works are "Love Medicine", "Tracks", and "The Plague of Doves". From 1972 to 1976, she attended Dartmouth College. She received the Academy of Poets Prize in 1975. She also received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976.
E. Lockhart
Emily Jenkins, also known as E. Lockhart is an American author. Jenkins was born in New York, New York on September 13, 1967. She writes in many genres such as children’s fiction and adult romance novels. She has even won the Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Award twice. She has also written many respected young adult novels.
Jenkins has always dreamed of being an author. She once said, "Growing up, I spent large parts of my life in imaginary worlds: Neverland, Oz, and Narnia, in particular.” She loved reading and when she was eight, she began to develop her own work. After she wrote her own books, Jenkins became interested in writing full-length novel imitations of "Pippi Long Stocking" and "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase". She got inspiration for her later books like "Five Creatures" from her own life. She said, "I wanted to convey the sense of family I had with my pets." Jenkins has a husband, a daughter, and two cats. They all have different skills and preferences, but she used a Venn diagram to overlap their interests.
Jenkins continues to love spending her time living in her imaginary worlds, which she created within her books. She is an admired figure for many young writers and encourages them to pursue their dreams just as she did.
"Jenkins, Emily." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2015. Biography in Context. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.
Jacqueline Kelly
Jacqueline Kelly is an New Zealand-born American author of children's books.
Jacqueline Kelly was born in New Zealand. She moved to Vancouver Island in Canada at a young age. She moved again to El Paso, Texas where she went to high school and college in Galveston. She went on to get a law degree from the University of Texas. Before becoming a fictional author, she was a doctor and a lawyer.
For "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate", she won the Newbery Honor Book designation, International Reading Association Award, Virginia Law Award, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and Judy Lopez Memorial Award, National Women's Book Association, all 2009, and Josette Frank Award, and the Bank Street College of Education.
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate is set in 1899 and features eleven year old Calpurnia Tate. The novel documents her struggle with Texas heat, science, embroidery and her family. She falls in love with science by spending time with her grandfather, who is a scientist, and "The Origin of Species", by Charles Darwin. She thoroughly battles the expectations of respectable young ladies during the turn of the century.
"Return to the Willows" is written as a sequel to the "Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame.
Paula Danziger
Paula Danziger (August 18, 1944-July 8, 2004) was an American author of children's and young adult literature.
Danziger was born in Washington, D.C. to Samuel and Carolyn Danziger. Though she struggled in school as a child, she attended Montclair State University in New Jersey and earned a degree in 1967. She was a middle school teacher in New Jersey from 1967-1978 while studying for a Master's degree. Her studies were interrupted when she was in a car crash, where a drunk driver hit her car, and she slammed her head against the front window which caused her to have brain damage. In 1978 she left teaching to write full-time.
Although readers loved her books because of the humor, some critics called them superficial and generic. Others praised her work for tackling real-life issues.
Danziger died in 2004 after complications from a heart attack. She was 59.
Some of the awards Danziger's work received:
Dodie Smith
Dorothy Gladys Smith (born in 1896), commonly known as Dodie Smith, was an English children’s book author and playwright. She is most famous for writing "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" and "I Capture the Castle", both adapted into famous films. Ms Smith had not intended to be a writer. Her first love was acting but, she once admitted, "I simply wasn't very good."
Smith was born on May 3, 1896 in Whitefield, UK. When she was eighteen years old, her father died, so after that she and her mother lived with her family - her grandparents, three uncles and two aunts, in an old house with a garden leaning towards the Manchester Ship Canal. Both her mother and grandmother wrote and composed. Almost everyone in the household sang and played an instrument (including pianos, a violin, a mandolin, a guitar and a banjo) and one uncle, a nonprofessional but decent actor, was usually rehearsing, preferably with Smith there to give him cues. Although she had liked theater for a while before she could read, it was hearing of her uncle's parts which really sparked her passion for acting and writing plays, especially as the cues she gave to her uncle got longer and longer and, by the age of nine, Smith had written a forty-page play.
Even when her mother described her first play as dull and boring, she did not stop trying to succeed. Soon she became a young actress for many theaters after studying at the London’s Royal Academy of Art. During World War I, Smith went to France to help amuse the soldiers there and also appeared in a performance of John Galsworthy's Pigeon. In 1923, the actress left the theater to work as a buyer for Heal and Son, a furniture company where she remained for the next eight years, writing for the stage in cinema in her free time. Smith first gained recognition as a playwright, going by the name of C. L. Anthony until 1935. In 1931, Smith sold her play Autumn Crocus to one of her old stage directors. Although she had written a screenplay and a stage play before, Autumn Crocus proved to be the work that turned her career around. Call It a Day was the first play Smith wrote under her own name; also proving to be her most financially rewarding piece. Her plays, generally simple comedies about middle-class life, received much praise, both popular and critical. "The ability to recreate detail, to capture the nuances of everyday conversation, to recognize humor in the trivialities of middle-class life marks the dramas of Dodie Smith," wrote Martha Hadsel. "Her critics sometimes found fault with what they considered her superficiality, but most admitted that her plays provided enjoyable entertainment." Hadsel claimed Smith to be "one of the few successful women dramatists in England and America during the first half of the twentieth century."
Children’s books:
- The Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1956.
- The Starlight Barking, 1968.
- The Midnight Kittens, 1978.
Plays:
- Call It a Day, 1937.
- Bonnet over the Windmill, 1937.
- (And co-director) Dear Octopus, 1939.
- Autumn Crocus, Service, and Touch Wood, 1939.
- Lovers and Friends, 1944.
- Letter from Paris, 1954.
- I Capture the Castle, 1948.
- These People, Those Books, 1958.
- Amateur Means Lover, 1962.
Novels:
- I Capture the Castle, 1999.
- The New Moon with the Old, 1963.
- The Town in Bloom, 1965.
- It Ends with Revelations, 1967.
- A Tale of Two Families, 1970.
- The Girl from the Candle-lit Bath, 1978.
Autobiographies:
- Look Back with Love: A Manchester Childhood, 1974.
- Look Back with Mixed Feelings, 1978.
- Look Back with Astonishment, 1979.
- Look Back with Gratitude, 1985.
Screenplays:
- (With Frank Partos) The Uninvited (adapted from the novel by Dorothy Macardle), Paramount, 1944.
- (With Lesser Samuels) Darling, How Could You! (adapted from Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire by James M. Barrie), Paramount, 1951.
- Also author of screenplay "Schoolgirl Rebels" (under pseudonym Charles Henry Percy), 1915.
Joan Bauer
Joan Bauer is an American author. She was born on July 12, 1951 in River Forest, Illinois. She was the oldest of four sisters with a teacher for a mother and a salesman for a father. In her teen years, her grandmother got Alzheimer's disease. Soon after this, her father committed suicide. Bauer said her teenage experiences influenced her stories. As a teen, Bauer was a waitress, an assistant, typing teacher, and a freelance writer. Bauer currently lives in Brooklyn, with her husband Evan Bauer, her daughter Jean, and dog Max. She’s working on another book, which is due to be published in early 2016.
In her twenties, Bauer had a career in advertising sales. After ten years, Bauer realized she did not like being a saleswoman and decided to quit to become a journalist. Joan Bauer made her writing debut with the book, "Squashed", which earned many positive reviews.
Grace Lin
Grace Lin is an American writer and children's illustrator. Her first book, "The Ugly Vegetables", was published in 1999. She has written four novels: "The Year of the Dog", "The Year of the Rat", "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon", and "Starry River of the Sky". She also writes a series for early readers with twins named Ling and Ting, as well as other books for younger readers. She brings her sketchbook everywhere, and writes down ideas for her books. She wanted to grow up to be a figure skater. She changed her mind because she enjoyed drawing pictures of herself as an ice skater.
Lin was born on May 17, 1974. Her parents were immigrants. She grew up in New York. She has one older sister named Lissy, and a younger sister named Ki-Ki. She married a man named Robert Mercer. He died from cancer in 2007. te a book called "Robert’s Snow" to raise money for cancer research. She now has a daughter who was born in 2012. In 2010, she married her second husband, Alex. Lin is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design. She lives in Florence, Massachusetts.
"Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" received a 2010 John Newbery Honor. She also received an Honorable Mention from APAAL (Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature) in 2007 for "Year of the Dog." She was nominated for the 2007-08 Texas Bluebonnet Award. Several of her books have been chosen for Al Roker’s Today Show Book Club.
Nasrin Oryakhil
Nasrin Oryakhil (born 1964) is a gynecologist and obstetrician from Afghanistan. She received a 2014 International Women of Courage Award.
In 2004, Oryakhil became the Director of the Malalai Maternity Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. At that hospital, she started the first clinic for obstetric fistula repair in Afghanistan. She is the president of the NGO Afghan Family Health Association, and a member of the Afghan Women's Network.
Oryakhil is also part of a group to create a Medical Council in Afghanistan. She supported the creation of the Afghan Midwives Association.
Oryakhil is a member of the Afghan Women’s Network. She speaks to the Parliament and at professional medical conferences. She is part of a working group to start a Medical Council in Afghanistan.
In 2014, Oryakhil received an International Women of Courage Award.
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Thermophile
A thermophile is an organism – a type of extremophile – that thrives at relatively high temperatures. That means between about . Many thermophiles are archaea. Thermophilic eubacteria may have been among the earliest bacteria.
Thermophiles are found in various geothermally heated parts of the Earth's surface. Examples are hot springs like those in Yellowstone National Park and deep sea hydrothermal vents. Also decaying plant matter, such as peat bogs and compost, makes higher temperatures.
Grant Gustin
Thomas Grant Gustin (born January 14, 1990) is an American actor and singer. He is known for portraying the roles of Sebastian Smythe on "Glee" and Barry Allen/The Flash on "The Flash".
He was born Norfolk, Virginia to his mother Tina Haney, a pediatric nurse. He attended the Governor's School for the Arts program in Norfolk for Musical Theatre. He has also been to Hurrah Players Incorporated and graduated from Granby High School. He would then go to the BFA Music Theatre Program at Elon University in North Carolina for two years.
From September 30, 2010 to September 23, 2011, Gustin played the role of Baby John in the Broadway Revival Tour of "West Side Story".
John Wesley Shipp
John Wesley Shipp (born January 22, 1955) is an American actor. He is known for portraying the roles of Barry Allen on the CBS television show "The Flash", Mitch Leery on "Dawson's Creek", Kelly Nelson on "Guiding Light", and Douglas Cummings on "As the World Turns".
He won a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for "As the World Turns" in 1986. He also won a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Performer in a Daytime Drama Series for "Santa Barbara" in 1987.
In 2014, it was announced that Shipp would be cast as Henry Allen, the father of Barry Allen in The CW's "The Flash".
Fatimata Touré
Fatimata Touré is a women's rights activist and the head of the Regional Forum on Reconciliation and Peace in Gao, Mali. She is also the head of Women’s Action, Research, Study and Training Group, which works against fistula. In 2014, she received the International Women of Courage Award.
During the 2012 and 2013 fighting in Mali, a hospital in Gao was attacked. Touré helped the fistula patients find a new place to live, and find medical help. Touré also gave care and shelter to those forced into marriages or raped. She also spoke against violence against women. She made a record of what happened, even as her own home was attacked.
The word Android may mean one of two things:
Information retrieval is a field of Computer science that looks at how non-trivial data can be obtained from a collection of information resources. Commonly, either a full-text search is done, or the metadata which describes the resources is searched. Depending on the content, there may also be other indices. Information retrieval is about finding existing information; it is different from knowledge discovery in databases which is about finding new relationships between different datasets, which were unknown.
Techniques from information retrieval are commonly used in internet search engines, but also when looking for information on a subject in a library, or when searching complex content such as images in a database. This kind of content is usually described using metadata.
When looking for information, the following problems are commonly encountered:
A system for information retrieval will attach a score to each document returned. This score reflects how well the document matches the query of the user. The documents with the best scores are shown to the user, who has the possibility to refine the query.
There are different kinds of models that are used in information retrieval
In addition, each model has parameters, which influence its performance. Some of the models make a number of assumption about the data; they were developed for a very special purpose. Using such a model for a different purpose may not yield good results.
House Party is a 1990 American comedy movie. The movie is about a group of teenagers who attend a house party. Martin Lawrence plays Bilal. Tisha Campbell plays Sydney.
"House Party" was released on March 9, 1990. It got positive reviews from critics.
Oinikhol Bobonazarova
Oinikhol Bobonazarova is a Tajikistani human rights activist. In 2014 she received the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. Department of State.
In 1993, the Tajik government arrested Bobonazarova. They said Bobonazarova planned to take over the government by violence. Bobonazarova was in jail for a few months. Then she became a human rights counselor in the Tajik office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. She also worked for the Tajik branch of the Open Society Foundation. In 2013, she became the head of the “Perspektiva Plus” human rights group. They work for the rights of prisoners, women, and Tajikistani labor migrants. She also worked to create Tajikistan's first independent prison monitoring program. In 2004, Tajik prisons closed to outsiders.
In 2013, Bobonazarova was the first woman to try to run for president in Tajikistan. Her campaign did not get enough signatures. She was the first Tajikistani woman to receive the International Women of Courage Award.
Pseudomonadales
The Pseudomonadales are an order of Proteobacteria. They are gram-negative. Some species can cause diseases, they are pathogen. For example, "Pseudomonas aeruginosa" can cause sepsis. "Azomonas" and "Azotobacter" are able to fix nitrogen.
There are two families: The Moraxellaceae and Pseudomonadaceae. Some examples:
Doug Parker
William Douglas "Doug" Parker is the current Chairman and CEO of American Airlines, Inc.
Parker was born . In 1984 he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Albion College. In 1986 he received his MBA from Vanderbilt University. The same year he started with American Airlines in financial management. In 1991 he moved to Northwest Airlines as Vice President and Treasurer. He moved to America West Airlines in 1995 as their Chief financial officer. On September 1, 2001 he became CEO of America West. After the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington DC the airline business was in financial trouble. Parker lobbied Congress for a financial bailout to keep his airline out of bankruptcy. He was given a $380 million USD loan that saved his airline. In 2005 he became president of US Airways Inc., a subsidiary of US Airways Group Inc.
Parker has served on the board of Arizona Public Service. He also serves on the board of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings.
Parker's wife Gwen is a former flight attendant. They have three children. In 2007, Doug Parker pleaded guilty to his third DUI and was sentenced to 1 day in jail.
House Party 2
House Party 2 is a 1991 American comedy movie. This movie is about a pajama party. Queen Latifah plays Zora. Martin Lawrence plays Bilal. Tisha Campbell is also in the movie.
The movie got negative reviews from critics. It started at #1 at the box office.
Sophie Turner
Sophie Belinda Jonas (born née Turner; 21 February 1996) is a British actress. She plays Sansa Stark in "Game of Thrones", She played Young Adeline March in "The Thirteenth Tale". She also played Heather in the 2015 comedy movie "Barely Lethal".
She was born in Northampton, England. In 2019, she married singer-songwriter Joe Jonas.
Bird (movie)
Bird is a 1988 American biographical movie. It was both directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. "Bird" was released on September 30, 1988. The movie is about the life and music of jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker.
The movie got positive reviews from critics. It has a 78% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie won an Academy Award for Best Sound, a Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and Forest Whitaker won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival.
Mac (movie)
Mac is a 1992 drama movie. The movie is about three brothers who go into construction when their father dies. John Turturro plays Mac. Aida Turturro plays the wife. Ellen Barkin plays Oona Goldfarb.
The movie was released in February 1993.
Bardo National Museum attack
Bardo National Museum (Tunis)
El color de la pasión
El color de la pasión ("The Color of Passion") is a Mexican telenovela. It is produced by Televisa.
Old Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic is the language of some Eastern Orthodox churches. It was the first Slavic language for writing literature. It was made by the brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century.
Independence (mathematical logic)
Decison problem
Jeotgalicoccus marinus
Jeotgalicoccus marinus is a species of gram-positive bacteria. The cells are coccoid which means that look like a circle or sphere. They are facultative anaerobic bacteria: They can use oxygen when it is present. It is moderate halophilic.
"Jeotgalicoccus marinus" was isolated from a sea urchin from the South China Sea.
Diabolus in Musica
Diabolus in Musica is the seventh studio album by American thrash metal band, Slayer. "Diabolus in Musica" was released on June 9, 1998 through American Recordings.
The album peaked at #31 on the "Billboard" 200.
It is considered to be Slayer's most experimental album with most of the album's content written by guitarist Jeff Hanneman. Hanneman described writing for the album as, "When we were writing this album I was looking for something to beat; I wanted something to beat, but nothing impresses me right now. Nothing sounded really aggressive or heavy enough to inspire me to beat it, so I just had to come up with my own shit."
Vocalist Tom Araya had concerns over the lyrics that guitarist Kerry King gave to the song "In the Name of God". King said; "It's like, 'C'mon, man, you're in Slayer. You're the antichrist — you said it yourself on the first album!' You can't draw the line like that. Whether he agrees with it or not, he didn't write it — I wrote it. So you have to say, 'Well, it's just a part of being in this band.' Now Jeff and I, we don't give a fuck. If Jeff wrote something I had a problem with, I would never even raise a fucking finger. I'd be like, 'Fuck yeah, let's do it! Gonna piss someone off? Alright!'"
Señorita Pólvora
Señorita Pólvora, is a television series, produced by Teleset for Sony Pictures Television and Televisa, which will be broadcast in the Latin American by TNT. It is the story of a Beauty Queen, who gets involved in a hit, which lead to the premature death of her father.
Señorita Pólvora follows Valentina, a young, beautiful and wealthy woman who falls for a hit man and thus discovers that the love of his life, and his own family, belong to one of the most powerful of Mexico drug cartels. The Chronicle of their explosive life and its gradual descent into the world of crime a journalist who tries to rescue the mortal Queen of beauty performs it.
Jeotgalicoccus halotolerans
Jeotgalicoccus halotolerans is a gram-positive bacterium.
They are facultative anaerobic bacteria: They can use oxygen when it is present. It is moderate halophilic, it growth in the presence of 0–20% NaCl.
"Jeotgalicoccus halotolerans" belongs to the family Staphylococcaceae.
Saints Cyril and Methodius
Saints Cyril and Methodius were brothers and 9th century Christian missionaries. They Christianized the Slavic peoples of the Danube. They influenced the culture and religion of all slavic peoples. They received the title "Apostles to the Slavs".
The brothers were both born in Thessalonica. Methodios was born and died in 885. Cyril was born and died (under his adopted name Constantine) in 869. Cyril was educated at the University at Constantinople under Photios I of Constantinople. He later taught there when he replaced Photios. Methodios became governor of the province of Opsikion at about the same time.
In 861 the Byzantine Emperor Michael III sent the two brothers to convert the Khazars to Christianity. They continued their religious conversion of the Tatars along the Black Sea for two years. Afterwards the Emperor Michael sent them to Moravia as missionaries. They taught in the Slavic languages and translated the Scriptures into Slavonic. Cyril invented an alphabet called the Glagolitic alphabet. This became the basis for the Cyrillic alphabet. Old Church Slavonic was written in Cyrillic and Glagolitic.
Jeotgalicoccus aerolatus
Jeotgalicoccus aerolatus is a species of bacteria. It is Gram-positive and belongs to the family Staphylococcaceae. It requires oxygen (aerobic).
It was isolated from the air on a turkey farm.
Jeotgalicoccus
Jeotgalicoccus is a genus of gram-positive bacteria. The cells are coccoid which means that they look like a circle or sphere. Most of the species are facultatively anaerobic. They are halotolerant to halophilic.
"Jeotgalicoccus" is named after the Korean fish sauce jeotgal from whence these bacteria were first isolated.
The genus contains following species:
Roll film
Sheet film
Jeotgalicoccus coquinae
Jeotgalicoccus psychrophilus
Jeotgalicoccus psychrophilus is a gram-positive bacterium.
The cells are coccoid. It is psychrophilic. It growth between 4 and 34 °C.
It belongs to the family Staphylococcaceae.
Jeotgalicoccus nanhaiensis
Jeotgalicoccus halophilus
Jeotgalicoccus halophilus is a species of bacteria.
Kalaupapa
Niloofar Rahmani
Niloofar Rahmani (Persian:نیلوفر رحمانی born 1992) is the first female fixed-wing Air Force aviator in Afghanistan's history. She is also the first female pilot in the Afghani military since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Though her family received death threats, she persevered to complete her training.
In 2015, Rahmani won the U.S. State Department's International Women of Courage Award.
Rahmani was born in Afghanistan in 1992. Since she was a child, she had a dream of becoming a pilot and spent nearly a year studying English to be able to attend flight school. She enlisted in the Afghan Air Force Officer Training Program in 2010 and in July 2012 graduated as a Second Lieutenant.
Two female helicopter pilots during the Soviet era, along with her father, served as inspiration for Rahmani's achievement. Her first solo flight was in a Cessna 182. Wanting to fly larger aircraft, she went to advanced flight school and was soon flying the C-208 military cargo aircraft. Women are traditionally banned from transporting dead or wounded soldiers; however, Rahmani defied orders when she discovered injured soldiers upon landing in one mission. Flying them to a hospital, she reported her actions to her superiors, who imposed no sanctions.
When her achievements were publicized, Captain Rahmani's family received threats from both family members and the Taliban, who disapproved of her ambition and career choices. The family has had to move several times but Rahmani is resolute and aims to fly a larger C-130 plane and become a flight instructor to inspire other women.
"Dancing Machine" is a 1973 hit song by The Jackson 5. The song reached #2 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100. It also hit #1 on the American R&B charts. The Jackson 5 got their second Grammy Award nomination for this song.
The song was released on February 19, 1974. It sold more than three million copies.
BBMak
BBMak were an English pop group. The group had three members. They had two hit singles between 1999 and 2003. The singles were "Back Here" and "Still on Your Side". The group were founded in 1999. They disbanded in 2003.
The group sold more than three million albums worldwide.
TNT (TV channel)
Turner Network Television (TNT) (stylized as TNT Drama) is an American cable and satellite television network. It is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. The channel's programming consists of television series and feature movies. It broadcasts mostly dramatic programming, along with some professional sports events. The sports events include NBA basketball games and PGA golf.
As of February 2015, TNT was available to about 95.3 million households (81.9% of households with at least one television set) in the United States.
Camila Sodi
Camila Sodi (born Camila Ía González Sodi on 14 May 1986 in Mexico City, Mexico), is a Mexican singer, actress and model. She is the niece of actress and singer Thalía.
Saúl Lisazo
"No Diggity" is a 1996 new jack swing and rhythm and blues song by Blackstreet. The song reached #1 in the United States and in New Zealand.
The song contains rap verses inside it. The rap verses were performed by Teddy Riley and Dr. Dre.
"Macarena" is a Spanish dance song by Los del Rio. The single is about a woman named Macarena. It was on the 1993 album "A mi me gusta". The song was an international hit in 1995, 1996 and 1997.
The song was recorded in 1992. It was released on August 15, 1995 in the United States. A reworked version peaked at #1 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1996. It stayed there for 14 weeks. The song was also performed by the Bayside Boys.
The original version was released in Spanish language in 1993.
Vänersborg Church
The Vänersborg Church () is a church building in the central parts of the town of Vänersborg in Sweden. It belongs to the Vänersborg and Väne-Ryr Parish of the Church of Sweden. The church was built between 1783 and 1784. It was inaugurated on 5 August 1784.
Brad Richards
Bradley Glenn Richards (born May 2, 1980) was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre. He currently plays for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the Tampa Bay Lightning, Dallas Stars, New York Rangers, and Chicago Blackhawks.
Before playing in the NHL, Richards played 1 season with the Notre Dame Hounds of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) and 3 seasons with the Rimouski Océanic of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). Over his QMJHL career, Richards was able to win the Jean Béliveau Trophy for being the league leader with 186 points, the Telus Cup for being the league's best offensive player, both the QMJHL and Canadian Hockey League Plus/Minus Awards, he was named as a First-Team All-Star in both the Quebec circuit, as well as the CHL and was also named the CHL Player of the Year and Leading Scorer. During the postseason, he was able to win the Guy Lafleur Trophy for being the MVP of the QMJHL playoffs and the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy for being the MVP of the 2000 Memorial Cup after the Océanic won both the QMJHL playoff title and the CHL national championship.
Richards was drafted 64th overall by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft. During the same draft, the Lightning also decided to draft Vincent Lecavalier who is Richard's best friend since the age of 14 and was his roommate at Athol Murray College of Notre Dame and his teammate with the Rimouski Océanic.
In 2004, Richards won both the Conn Smythe and Lady Byng Memorial trophies and also won the Stanley Cup with the Lightning.
During the 2004–05 NHL lockout, Richard decided to play for Ak Bars Kazan of the Russian Superleague (RSL). He also played for Team Canada during the 2006 Winter Olympics. When Canada was eliminated from the 2006 playoffs, the Lightning signed Richards to a five-year, $39 million contract.