UNCF, the United Negro College Fund, also known as the United Fund, is an American charity organization that funds scholarships for black students and general scholarship funds for 37 private historically black colleges and universities. UNCF was created on April 25, 1944 by Frederick D. Patterson (then president of what is now Tuskegee University), Mary McLeod Bethune, and others. UNCF is headquartered at 1805 7th Street, NW in Washington, D.C. In 2005, UNCF supported almost 65,000 students at over 900 colleges and universities with about $113 million in grants and scholarships. About 60% of these students are the first in their families to attend college. About 62% have annual family incomes of less than $25,000. UNCF also runs over 450 named scholarships.
UNCF's president and chief executive officer is Michael Lomax. Past presidents of the UNCF included William H. Gray (Pennsylvania politician) and Vernon Jordan.
Sigma, Capiz
Sigma is a town in Capiz, Visayas, in the Philippines. In 2015, it had a population of 30,134 people.
Sigma is 28 kilometers away from Roxas, the capital of the province of Capiz.
Capiz
Capiz is a province of the Visayas region in the Philippines. The province's capital is Roxas City. The province is one of the 15th most visited places in the country and is known for its seafood.
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Aída Judith León
Aída León de Rodríguez, born Aída Judith León Lara (born June 23, 1928) is an Ecuadorian philanthropist. She was the First Lady of Ecuador to Guillermo Rodríguez, her husband from 1972 to 1976.
León was born in Pujilí, Cotopaxi Province. In 1953, she married General Guillermo Rodríguez and had five children.
As First Lady of Ecuador, León was president of the National Children's Trust (INNFA since 1980). León was in charge of the evacuation and treatment of victims of a flood in Babahoyo.
Tom Weisner
Tom Weisner (October 6, 1949 – December 28, 2018) was an American politician. He was the mayor of Aurora, Illinois from 2005 until 2016. He worked for five years as a volunteer in the Peace Corps. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was born in Batavia, Illinois. He was re-elected in 2012, but in May 2015 announced his retirement. He resigned in August 2016 due to poor health.
Weisner died of colon cancer-related complications on December 28, 2018 in Aurora, aged 69.
Wendy Beckett
Wendy Beckett (25 February 1930 – 26 December 2018), better known as Sister Wendy, was a British nun, television personality and art historian. She was born in South Africa.
Beckett became famous during the 1990s when she presented a series of BBC television documentaries on the history of art. Her programmes, such as "Sister Wendy's Odyssey" and "Sister Wendy's Grand Tour," often drew a 25 percent share of the British viewing audience.
In 1997, Sister Wendy first appeared on television in the United States, on public television. That same year "The New York Times" described her as "a sometime hermit who is fast on her way to becoming the most unlikely and famous art critic in the history of television".
Beckett died on 26 December 2018 at the Carmelite Monastery in Quidenham, Norfolk at the age of 88.
Peritonitis
Peritonitis is inflammation of the peritoneum, the lining of the inner wall of the abdomen and cover of the abdominal organs. Symptoms may include severe pain, swelling of the abdomen, fever, or weight loss.
Causes include perforation of the intestinal tract, pancreatitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, stomach ulcer, cirrhosis, or a ruptured appendix.
Treatment often includes antibiotics, intravenous fluids, pain medication, and surgery.
Tomokatsu Kitagawa
Kitagawa died on December 26, 2018 in Osaka of complications from peritonitis, aged 67.
Toshiko Fujita
Fujita died of breast cancer on December 28, 2018 in Tokyo at the age of 68.
Peter Hill-Wood
Peter Denis Hill-Wood (25 February 1936 – 28 December 2018) was a British businessman. He was born in London. He was chairman of Arsenal Football Club. He also was vice-chairman of Hambros Bank. On 14 June 2013 Hill-Wood stepped down and was replaced as chairman of Arsenal by Chip Keswick.
On 28 December 2018, Hill-Wood died in London, aged 82.
Robert Costanzo
Robert Jason Costanzo (born October 20, 1942) is an American actor. He was born in New York City. He is known as the voice double for Danny DeVito. His first role was in the 1975 movie "Dog Day Afternoon". He is also known for his voice role of Detective Harvey Bullock on "", "", "The New Batman Adventures" and "Static Shock"
His movie roles include "Total Recall", "Die Hard 2", "Dick Tracy", "City Slickers", and "Down and Derby". His television roles include in "Boston Legal", "Hannah Montana", "Friends", "Days of Our Lives", "The Golden Girls" and as Commissioner Stenchler in the Sega CD game "Sewer Shark".
Brenda Vaccaro
Brenda Buell Vaccaro (born November 18, 1939) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in "Midnight Cowboy", "Once Is Not Enough", "Airport '77", "Capricorn One", "The Pride of Jesse Hallam", "Supergirl", "The Mirror Has Two Faces", "Heart of Midnight", and in "Zorro, The Gay Blade".
She received one Academy Award nomination, three Golden Globe Award nominations (winning one), four Primetime Emmy Award nominations (winning one), and three Tony Award nominations.
Her best known stage roles were in "The Affair" (1962), "Cactus Flower" (1965), "How Now, Dow Jones" (1967), "The Goodbye People" (1968), the female version of "The Odd Couple", (1985), and "Jake's Women" (1992).
Bird Box (movie)
Bird Box is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic thriller movie directed by Susanne Bier. It is based on the 2014 Bird Box novel of the same name by Josh Malerman.
The movie is about a woman, played by Sandra Bullock, who, along with a pair of children, named Boy and Girl, must make it through a forest and river blindfolded to avoid supernatural creatures that take the appearance of their victims' worst fears, regrets, and losses that cause them to die by suicide.
Trevante Rhodes, Jacki Weaver, Rosa Salazar, Danielle Macdonald, Lil Rel Howery, Tom Hollander, BD Wong, Sarah Paulson, Colson Baker and John Malkovich also star.
"Bird Box" had its world premiere at AFI Fest on November 12, 2018, and began a limited release on December 14, before streaming worldwide on Netflix on December 21, 2018.
Jason Wiles
Jason Austin Wiles (born April 25, 1970) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the television series, such as Colin Robbins in "Beverly Hills, 90210" and as Maurice Boscorelli in "Third Watch". He was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
Clay County, Missouri
Clay County is a county in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the county had a population of 221,939, making it the fifth-most populous county in Missouri. The county seat is Liberty. It was founded on January 2, 1822.
Gitega
Gitega is the capital of Burundi. It is also the second-largest city. Gitega is east of Burundi's largest city, Bujumbura. It is also the capital and largest city of Gitega Province.
On 29 April 1972, the king Ntare V was killed in Gitega.
In March 2007, President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza said that Burundi was going to bring back its capital to Gitega, saying that it is a better location for a capital than Bujumbura.
The Ant Bully
The Ant Bully is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure fantasy comedy movie written and directed by John A. Davis based on the 1999 children's book of the same name by John Nickle.
It features the voices of Zach Tyler Eisen, Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, and Paul Giamatti, was produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone, John A. Davis and Keith Alcorn's DNA Productions, and was released in theatres on July 28, 2006, by Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Concurrently with the general release, it was offered in big screen IMAX 3D, the format, also used with "Blended".
Tripureswar
Tripureshwar is a village in Dhading District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal.