Logan Williams

Logan Williams

Logan Williams (April 9, 2003 – April 2, 2020) was a Canadian actor best known for playing the young Barry Allen on the television show The Flash.

Career

Williams was born on April 9, 2003[1] in Vancouver, British Columbia, and raised in the nearby city of Coquitlam.[2] He was an only child and had no cousins.[3] The Tri-City News reported that he attended the Terry Fox Secondary School in the Port Coquitlam area.[4] His first role was at the age of 10 in the 2014 Hallmark TV movie The Color of Rain.[2][3]

From 2014–15, Williams portrayed the younger version of Grant Gustin's Barry Allen on The CW's The Flash, starring in eight episodes across the first two seasons. Gustin noted that he was "impressed by not only Logan's talent, but his professionalism on set".[5] Another co-star, John Wesley Shipp, said that Williams "was 100% committed to playing" his part, and was liked on set.[5] Williams, a member of SAG-AFTRA,[5] also played Miles Montgomery on When Calls the Heart for thirteen episodes from 2014–16,[6] and Max Johnson on Supernatural.[5] He also appeared in The Whispers.[2]

He won and was nominated for several acting awards,[4] including multiple Joeys.[7][8] For his role as Barry Allen he won the 2015 Joey Award for 'Best Actor in a TV Drama Recurring Role 8–12 Years'.[9] He was also nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2015 UBCP/ACTRA Awards.[1]

Death

Williams died on April 2, 2020, at the age of 16.[5] The cause of death was not initially made public.[2] In a social media tribute, Gustin wrote that the news was "devastating", and described Williams' passing as being sudden, also referring to the "strange and trying time" they were experiencing.[10] His When Calls the Heart co-star Erin Krakow posted a tribute saying she was "heartbroken".[10]

His death was reported to Canadian media by his mother, who also said that the family could not grieve together because of social distancing rules in effect during the COVID-19 pandemic.[6] According to reports, his grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles all survive him.

حزب بهاراتيا جاناتا

حزب بهاراتيا جاناتا

حزب بهاراتيا جاناتا (هندي: भारतीय जनता पार्टी [عن هذا الملف Hindi-Bharatiya Janata Party.ogg (؟·معلومات)] المعنى: «حزب الشعب الهندي») هو حزب سياسي قومي في الهند، وهو واحد من الحزبين الرئيسيين في الهند، مع حزب المؤتمر الوطني الهندي. تأسس الحزب في عام 1980.

رئيس الحزب هو Rajnath Singh.

المنظمة الشبابية للحزب هي Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha.

في الانتخابات البرلمانية لعام 2004 حصل الحزب على 85 866 593 صوت (22%, 138 مقعد).

الحزب قائم على نظام هندوسي متعصب ومن ذلك قامت سانجيتا فارشنى، زعيمة الجناح النسائى للحزب بصفع امرأة هندوسية قامت بإحتساء الشاي مع شاب مسلم

BJP

BJP

The Bharatiya Janata Party (pronounced [bʱaːrətiːjə dʒənətaː paːrʈiː] (About this soundlisten); translation: Indian People's Party; abbr. BJP) is the current ruling Political party of the Republic of India.[38] It is one of the two major political parties in India, along with the Indian National Congress.[39] As of 2019, it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament and state assemblies and is the world's largest party in terms of primary membership.[31] BJP is a right-wing party, and its policy has historically reflected Hindu nationalist positions.[23][40] It has close ideological and organisational links to the much older Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)[41]

The BJP's origin lies in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, formed in 1951 by Syama Prasad Mukherjee.[42] After the State of Emergency in 1977, the Jana Sangh merged with several other parties to form the Janata Party; it defeated the incumbent Congress party in the 1977 general election. After three years in power, the Janata party dissolved in 1980 with the members of the erstwhile Jana Sangh reconvening to form the BJP. Although initially unsuccessful, winning only two seats in the 1984 general election, it grew in strength on the back of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. Following victories in several state elections and better performances in national elections, the BJP became the largest party in the parliament in 1996; however, it lacked a majority in the lower house of Parliament, and its government lasted only 13 days.

After the 1998 general election, the BJP-led coalition known as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee formed a government that lasted for a year. Following fresh elections, the NDA government, again headed by Vajpayee, lasted for a full term in office; this was the first non-Congress government to do so. In the 2004 general election, the NDA suffered an unexpected defeat, and for the next ten years the BJP was the principal opposition party. Long time Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi led it to a landslide victory in the 2014 general election. Since that election, Modi has led the NDA government as Prime Minister and as of February 2019, the alliance governs 18 states.

The official ideology of the BJP is integral humanism, first formulated by Deendayal Upadhyaya in 1965. The party expresses a commitment to Hindutva, and its policy has historically reflected Hindu nationalist positions. The BJP advocates social conservatism and a foreign policy centred on nationalist principles. Its key issues have included the abrogation of the special status to Jammu and Kashmir, the building of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya and the implementation of a uniform civil code. However, the 1998–2004 NDA government did not pursue any of these controversial issues. It instead focused on a largely liberal economic policy prioritising globalisation and economic growth over social welfare.

The BJP's origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, popularly known as the Jana Sangh, founded by Syama Prasad Mukherjee in 1951 in response to the politics of the dominant Congress party. It was founded in collaboration with the Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and was widely regarded as the political arm of the RSS.[43] The Jana Sangh's aims included the protection of India's "Hindu" cultural identity, in addition to countering what it perceived to be the appeasement of Muslim people and the country of Pakistan by the Congress party and then-Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The RSS loaned several of its leading pracharaks, or full-time workers, to the Jana Sangh to get the new party off the ground. Prominent among these was Deendayal Upadhyaya, who was appointed General Secretary. The Jana Sangh won only three Lok Sabha seats in the first general elections in 1952. It maintained a minor presence in parliament until 1967.[44][45]

The Jana Sangh's first major campaign, begun in early 1953, centred on a demand for the complete integration of Jammu and Kashmir into India.[46] Mookerjee was arrested in May 1953 for violating orders from the state government restraining him from entering Kashmir. He died of a heart attack the following month, while still in jail.[46] Mauli Chandra Sharma was elected to succeed Mookerjee; however, he was forced out of power by the RSS activists within the party, and the leadership went instead to Upadhyaya. Upadhyay remained the General Secretary until 1967, and worked to build a committed grassroots organisation in the image of the RSS. The party minimised engagement with the public, focusing instead on building its network of propagandists. Upadhyaya also articulated the philosophy of integral humanism, which formed the official doctrine of the party.[47] Younger leaders, such as Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani also became involved with the leadership in this period, with Vajpayee succeeding Upadhyaya as president in 1968. The major themes on the party's agenda during this period were legislating a uniform civil code, banning cow slaughter and abolishing the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir.[48]

After assembly elections across the country in 1967, the party entered into a coalition with several other parties, including the Swatantra Party and the socialists. It formed governments in various states across the Hindi heartland, including Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. It was the first time the Jana Sangh held political office, albeit within a coalition; this caused the shelving of the Jana Sangh's more radical agenda.[49]

Janata Party (1977–80)

In 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency. The Jana Sangh took part in the widespread protests, with thousands of its members being imprisoned along with other agitators across the country. In 1977, the emergency was withdrawn and general elections were held. The Jana Sangh merged with parties from across the political spectrum, including the Socialist Party, the Congress (O) and the Bharatiya Lok Dal to form the Janata Party, with its main agenda being defeating Indira Gandhi.[45]

The Janata Party won a majority in 1977 and formed a government with Morarji Desai as Prime Minister. The former Jana Sangh contributed the largest tally to the Janata Party's parliamentary contingent, with 93 seats or 31% of its strength. Vajpayee, previously the leader of the Jana Sangh, was appointed the Minister of External Affairs.[50]

The national leadership of the former Jana Sangh consciously renounced its identity, and attempted to integrate with the political culture of the Janata Party, based on Gandhian and Hindu traditionalist principles. According to Christophe Jaffrelot, this proved to be an impossible assimilation.[51] The state and local levels of the Jana Sangh remained relatively unchanged, retaining a strong association with the RSS, which did not sit well with the moderate centre-right constituents of the Party.[52] Violence between Hindus and Muslims increased sharply during the years that the Janata Party formed the government, with former Jana Sangha members being implicated in the riots at Aligarh and Jamshedpur in 1978–79. The other major constituents of the Janata Party demanded that the Jana Sangh should break from the RSS, which the Jana Sangh refused to do. Eventually, a fragment of the Janata Party broke off to form the Janata Party (Secular). The Morarji Desai government was reduced to a minority in the Parliament, forcing its resignation. Following a brief period of coalition rule, general elections were held in 1980, in which the Janata Party fared poorly, winning only 31 seats. In April 1980, shortly after the elections, the National Executive Council of the Janata Party banned its members from being 'dual members' of party and the RSS. In response, the former Jana Sangh members left to create a new political party, known as the Bharatiya Janata Party

Sharmila mandre

Sharmila mandre

Sharmiela Mandre (born 28 October 1989)[1] is an Indian film actress and producer. She is well known for her works predominantly in Kannada cinema, as well as a few Tamil & Telugu films.

Early life

Sharmila was born on 28 October in Bangalore. Her paternal grandfather, R.N. Mandre was a veteran in Production, Distribution and Exhibition of Hindi and Kannada films for more than 50 years and built the first air-conditioned theater Sangam in Bangalore and Mysore. Her aunt Sunanda Murali Manohar was a very well known producer who made films like Indian Summer[disambiguation needed], Jeans (film), Provoked, Jodi (1999 film), Dhaam Dhoom, Minnale, Ramji Londonwaley etc. She was educated at Bangalore's Sophia High School and completed her degree at Mount Carmel College.

Career

She started her film through the Kannada film Sajni, opposite Dhyan and had her first commercial success with the film Krishna opposite Ganesh. Her other films include Navagraha (2008), Venkata in Sankata (2009) and Swayamvara (2010).[2]

In 2012 she debuted in Tamil with the film Mirattal, a remake of the Telugu film Dhee, and got accolades for her performance in the film. She immediately went on to sign her first Telugu film Kevvu Keka opposite Allari Naresh. In 2013, she changed her name from Sharmila to Sharmiela. In December 2014, it was announced that she was selected to play the protagonist in the Khalid Mohammed's directorial Katha which would be a remake of the same titled film released in 1983. It was reported that she would play the role played by Deepti Naval.[3] After a brief hiatus, she made her came back to Kannada cinema in 2015 with Mumtaz opposite Dharma Keerthiraj which was a commercial success.

In 2017, she started a new project with Chiranjeevi Sarja titled Aake, a horror story, which is a remake of Tamil film Maya (2015), and her role was essayed by Nayantara. Subsequently, she made a special appearance as a journalist doing a dance number in the Shivarajkumar starrer Leader.[4][5][6] In 2018, she produced a Tamil film Evanukku Engeyo Matcham Irukku.[7] In 2019 she went on to produce two more films in Tamil which are up for release in 2020. She also started a Kannada film under her banner starring Sathish Ninasam, Rukmini Vijayakumar and herself directed by Arvind Sastry.

روبرت داوني جونير

روبرت داوني جونير

روبرت داوني جونير ممثل أمريكي ولد في (4 إبريل 1965) , ترشح لجائزتي أوسكار وفاز بثلاثة جوائز غولدن غلوب والعديد من الجوائز والترشيحات الأخرى ، ظهر في العديد من الأفلام منها تشابلن وقتلة بالفطرة , زودياك. هو معروف بتجسيدة شخصية توني ستارك/آيرون مان في أفلام آيرون مان والمنتقمون وأجزائها التي تلتها. كما جسد دور الرئيسي في شرلوك هولمز. يعد روبرت داوني جونير واحد من أعلى الممثلين أجراً في هوليوود.

حياته المبكرة

ولد في سنة 1965 وبدأ مسيرته الفنية عندما كان في الخامسة من عمره،كانت عائلة روبرت مهتمة بالفن وهذا ما قاده إلى دراسة التمثيل في مركز للتدريب في نيويورك قبل انتقاله للعيش مع والده في ولاية كاليفورنيا وطلاق والديه عام 1978، وفي عام 1982 ترك روبرت الدراسة وكرّس حياته للتمثيل. وذلك بمشاركته في فيلم Pound عام 1970 الذي كتبه واخرجه والده ، ومنذ هذا الدور المبكر استطاع روبرت المشاركة في مجموعة من الأفلام التي يُحسد عليها على مدى أربعة عقود، كما نذكر أيضاً أن روبرت الأب كان مدمناً على المخدرات، ونقل هذه العادة إلى روبرت الابن في سن مبكر، وهذا الإدمان سبب له الكثير من المشاكل على مدة عقود

السيرة المهنية

بدأ روبرت طريقه نحو الشهرة في الثمانينات والتسعينات من القرن الماضي، خلال مشاركته في العديد من الأفلام، أهمها Tuff Turf عام 1985 وTrue Believer عام 1989 وChaplin عام 1992 Natural Born Killer عام 1994 ،

والعديد من الأعمال الأخرى، ولكن مشكلته مع إدمان المخدرات تصاعدت بين العام 1996 وعام 2001 مما أدى إلى العديد من الإعتقالات وزيارات إعادة التأهيل والتوقيفات وطُرد في نهاية المطاف من المسلسل التلفزيوني Ally McBeal عام 1997.

عاد روبرت عام 2003 لبناء مشواره الفني من جديد خلال المشاركة في فيلم Gothika عام 2003 وGood Night and Good Luck عام 2005 وA Scanner Darkly عام 2006، وبعد ذلك في 2008 لعب روبرت دور مدهش في فيلم Tropic Thunder لممثل أفريقي أمريكي رُشح خلاله للأوسكار عن أفضل ممثل دور ثان، واستطاع بعد ذلك أن ينال حب وإعجاب الجمهور من خلال أدواره المميزة، مثل دور المحقق شرلوك هولمز في جزئي فيلم Sherlock Holmes الأول والثاني عامي 2009 و2011، وبالطبع دور الملياردير توني ستارك في جزئي Iron Man الأول والثاني، وفيلم The Avangers عام 2012، وفي 2013 عاد لتأدية دور آيرون مان في Iron Man 3 وفي صيف 2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron. وقد قام بأفضل دور علي الاطلاق في فيلم avengers:end game

حياته المبكرة وعائلته

وُلد داوني في مانهاتن ضمن مدينة نيويورك، وهو الابن الأصغر لعائلة مؤلفة من ولدين. والده هو روبرت داوني سينيور، وهو ممثل ومخرج. أما والدته إلزي آن (فورد بالولادة)، فكانت ممثلة وظهرت في عددٍ من أفلام داوني سينيور الأب. ينتمي والد روبرت إلى أصول متعددة، فهو نصف يهودي ليتواني، وربع يهودي مجري وربع آيرلندي، بينما تملك والدته أصولًا اسكتلندية وألمانية وسويسرية. كان الاسم الأصلي لعائلة روبرت هو إلياس، لكن والده غيّر الكنية كي يتطوع في الجيش. ترعرع روبرت داوني جونيور وشقيقته أليسون في غرينويتش فيليج.

في طفولته، كان داوني جونيور «محاطاً بالمخدرات». كان والده مدمن مخدرات، وسمح لداوني بتدخين الماريوانا في السادسة من عمره، وتلك حادثة قال والده لاحقًا أنه يندم عليها. أوضح داوني فيما بعد أن تعاطي المخدرات أصبح شبيهًا بعلاقة عاطفية بينه وبين والده: «عندما تعاطيت المخدرات مع والدي، كان ذلك أشبه بمحاولة التعبير عن حبه لي، بالأسلوب الوحيد الذي يعرفه». في نهاية المطاف، أصبح داوني يقضي لياليه يفرط في شرب الكحول ويتصل بآلاف الأشخاص سعياً وراء المخدرات».

Ruth May

Ruth May

Ruth May is a British nurse and NHS trust manager in the National Health Service, and is now Chief Nursing Officer for England.[1][2]

After various nursing roles she worked as a theatre sister at Frimley Park Hospital.[2] She was subsequently acting director of nursing at Barnet Hospital then director of nursing and deputy chief executive at Havering Primary Care Trust.[2]

She was chief executive of Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, and chief executive of Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust.[2] She also worked as director of nursing at Monitor from 2015 to 2016.[2][3] From April 2016 to 2019 she served as executive director of nursing at NHS Improvement.[2][3]

She was appointed Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England on 7 January 2019,[1] succeeding Jane Cummings.[4] Her role came to public attention during the 2019-20 COVID-19 pandemic. On one occasion during its early stages, she was driven to call for an end to the abuse of nurses by patients.[5]

She leads the NHS's "Stop the Pressure" campaign, to reduce the incidence of pressure ulcers in hospital in-patients.[2][6]

She was made an Honorary Doctor of Science by Anglia Ruskin University in 2009,[7] and received an honorary doctorates from the University of Suffolk in 2016[8] and another Honorary Doctorate of Science, "for her contribution as a national leader of nursing", from Coventry University in 2019.[9]

She was born in Wales but lived in Colchester for most of the 21st century.[8] She has a daughter who was eight at the time of her (May's) appointment as CNO

Lisa Nandy

Lisa Nandy

Lisa Eva Nandy (born 9 August 1979) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan since 2010. She was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tessa Jowell from 2010 to 2012 and Shadow Charities Minister from 2012 to 2015. She served as shadow energy secretary from 2015, until she resigned in 2016 to co-chair Owen Smith's leadership challenge to Jeremy Corbyn. Nandy stood as a candidate in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election coming in third place with 16.3% of the vote and Keir Starmer winning.

Early life and career

Lisa Eva Nandy was born in Manchester on 9 August 1979,[1][2] the daughter of Louise (née Byers) and Dipak Nandy, an academic and Marxist from India.[3][4][5] Her maternal grandfather Frank Byers was a Liberal MP who held many offices in the Liberal Party, later being created a life peer.[6] Nandy grew up in both Manchester and Bury, where her family subsequently settled.[7]

She was educated at Parrs Wood High School, a mixed comprehensive school in East Didsbury in Manchester, followed by Holy Cross College in Bury.[8][9] She studied politics at Newcastle University, graduating in 2001, and obtained a master's degree in public policy from Birkbeck, University of London.[9]

She worked as a researcher and caseworker for the Walthamstow Labour MP Neil Gerrard.[10] After that, Nandy worked as a researcher at the homelessness charity Centrepoint from 2003 to 2005, and then as senior policy adviser at The Children's Society from 2005 until her election in 2010, where she specialised in issues facing young refugees, also acting as adviser to the Children's Commissioner for England and to the Independent Asylum Commission.[3][11][12][13] She served as a Labour councillor for the Hammersmith Broadway ward on Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council from 2006 to 2010.[9] As a councillor, she served as shadow cabinet member for housing.[7]

Parliamentary career

Nandy was selected as the Labour parliamentary candidate for Wigan constituency in February 2010 from an all-women shortlist.[14] Elected to parliament on 7 May 2010, she became the constituency's first female MP and one of the first Asian female MPs.[15][16][17]

She was appointed to the Education Select Committee in July 2010 and was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tessa Jowell, the Shadow Olympics Minister, in October 2010.[18][19] In 2012, she was made shadow children's minister.[10] In October 2013, she was appointed shadow charities minister.[20]

Following Labour's general election defeat in May 2015 and Ed Miliband's subsequent resignation as party leader, there was some speculation in the media that Nandy would stand in the leadership election.[21] Nandy declined and endorsed Andy Burnham.[22] In August 2015, Owen Jones said that he encouraged Nandy to run for the leadership, but the recent birth of her son prevented it.[23][24] Nandy was also mentioned in the Guardian and the Telegraph as someone from the left wing of the party who could replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader before the 2017 general election,[25][26] and after the 2019 general election in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election.[27]

In September 2015, it was announced that Nandy had been appointed to serve as shadow energy secretary in the Shadow Cabinet.[28] Along with many colleagues, she resigned from her post in June 2016.[29] In the wake of the these resignations, Nandy was approached by Labour MPs who wanted her to stand against Jeremy Corbyn in a leadership election. MPs felt that Nandy and eventual candidate Owen Smith were soft Left politicians who could win the leadership. Nandy declined to stand and instead served as co-chair of Smith's campaign team.[30]

After the election resulted in Corbyn's re-election, Nandy announced that she did not intend to return to the frontbench without the re-introduction of Shadow Cabinet elections, which had been abolished by Ed Miliband in 2011 (the last election being held in 2010). She also spoke of the abuse she had received for not supporting Corbyn, which she described as leaving her "genuinely frightened". She compared her treatment to that which she had received at the hands of the far-right when she first campaigned to become MP for Wigan in 2010.[31]

Nandy following the 2017 general election

In 2018, Nandy set up the Centre for Towns, with data analytics expert Ian Warren. The Centre for Towns bills itself as an "independent non-partisan organisation dedicated to providing research and analysis of our towns".[32] At the end of 2018 Nandy became the new chair of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East.

In January 2020, Nandy wrote a letter to the Wigan Post[34] outlining her intention to stand to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party in the 2020 leadership election, saying that she wanted to "bring Labour home" to its traditional strongholds.[35][36]

On 21 January 2020, Lisa Nandy was endorsed by the GMB union, which praised her "ambition, optimism, and decisive leadership". [37] In February, she won the endorsement of the Jewish Labour Movement, receiving the backing of 51% of JLM members