Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials MJ,  is an American former professional basketball player and the principal owner of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six championships with the Chicago Bulls. His biography on the official NBA website states: "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time."  He was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. 

Jordan played three seasons for coach Dean Smith with the North Carolina Tar Heels. As a freshman, he was a member of the Tar Heels' national championship team in 1982. Jordan joined the Bulls in 1984 as the third overall draft pick, and quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, demonstrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in Slam Dunk Contests, earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness". He also gained a reputation as one of the best defensive players in basketball.  Jordan won his first NBA championship with the Bulls in 1991, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a "three-peat". Although Jordan abruptly retired from basketball before the 1993–94 NBA season and started a new career in Minor League Baseball, he returned to the Bulls in March 1995 and led them to three additional championships in 1996, 1997, and 1998, as well as a then-record 72 regular-season wins in the 1995–96 NBA season. He retired for a second time in January 1999 but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Washington Wizards.

Jordan's individual accolades and accomplishments include six NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) Awards, ten scoring titles (both all-time records), five MVP Awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game selections, three All-Star Game MVP Awards, three steals titles, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award. He holds the NBA records for highest career regular season scoring average (30.12 points per game) and highest career playoff scoring average (33.45 points per game). In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN, and was second to Babe Ruth on the Associated Press' list of athletes of the century. Jordan is a two-time inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, having been enshrined in 2009 for his individual career and again in 2010 as part of the group induction of the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team ("The Dream Team"). He became a member of the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2015.

Jordan is also known for his product endorsements. He fueled the success of Nike's Air Jordan sneakers which were introduced in 1984 and remain popular today.  Jordan also starred as himself in the 1996 film Space Jam. He became part-owner and head of basketball operations for the Charlotte Bobcats (now Hornets) in 2006, and bought a controlling interest in 2010. In 2014, Jordan became the first billionaire player in NBA history. With a net worth of $2.1 billion, he is the fourth-richest African-American, behind Robert F. Smith, David Steward, and Oprah Winfrey.

Jordan was born at Cumberland Hospital in Fort Greene, Brooklyn,  to Deloris (née Peoples), who worked in banking, and James R. Jordan Sr., an equipment supervisor. His family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, when he was a toddler. 

Jordan attended Emsley A. Laney High School in Wilmington, where he highlighted his athletic career by playing basketball, baseball, and football. He tried out for the varsity basketball team during his sophomore year, but at 5'11" (1.80 m), he was deemed too short to play at that level. His taller friend, Harvest Leroy Smith, was the only sophomore to make the team. 

Motivated to prove his worth, Jordan became the star of Laney's junior varsity team, and tallied several 40-point games.  The following summer, he grew four inches (10 cm) and trained rigorously.  Upon earning a spot on the varsity roster, Jordan averaged more than 25 points per game (ppg) over his final two seasons of high school play.  As a senior, he was selected to play in the 1981 McDonald's All-American Game and scored 30 points,  after averaging 27 points,  rebounds  and 6 assists per game for the season. 

Jordan was recruited by numerous college basketball programs, including Duke, North Carolina, South Carolina, Syracuse, and Virginia.  In 1981, Jordan accepted a basketball scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in cultural geography

References

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Jyotiraditya Scindia

Jyotiraditya Scindia

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia (born 1 January 1971) is an Indian politician. He belongs to the House of Scindia that once ruled in Gwalior and is a former Member of Parliament, representing the Guna constituency in the state of Madhya Pradesh. He is a former member of the Indian National Congress and candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party for the 2020 Indian Rajya Sabha elections from Madhya Pradesh. 

In Indian National Congress, he was a Minister of State with independent charge for Power in the cabinet of prime minister Manmohan Singh from October 2012 until May 2014.  Citing disgruntlement with the top leadership of Congress, he quit the party on 10 March 2020 to join BJP on following day.  After his joining in Bharatiya Janata Party, Scindia supported MLAs also resigned from Congress and also as MLAs. 2020 Madhya Pradesh political crisis also made Kamal Nath to resign as CM.

Scindia was born on 1 January 1971 in Bombay to Madhavrao Scindia and Madhavi Raje Scindia, former rulers of Gwalior, a Maratha princely state. He belongs to Kurmi caste and was educated at Campion School, Mumbai and at The Doon School, Dehradun. 

He was admitted to St. Stephen's College, Delhi, University of Delhi. He later transferred to Harvard College, the undergraduate liberal arts college of Harvard University where he graduated with BA degree in Economics in 1993. In 2001, he received Master of Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. 

Scindia is a grandson of Jivajirao Scindia, the last Maharaja of the princely state of Gwalior, who, although joining the Dominion of India in 1947, was allowed his former titles and privileges, including an annual remuneration, called the privy purse. Upon his death in 1961, his son, Madhavrao Scindia (Jyotiraditya's father) became the last titular Maharajah of Gwalior, as the 26th amendment  to the Constitution of India promulgated in 1971, the Government of India abolished all official symbols of princely India, including titles, privileges, and privy purses. 

His mother Madhavi Raje Scindia (Kiran Rajya Lakshmi Devi) was great-granddaughter of Prime Minister of Nepal and Maharaja of Kaski and Lamjung Juddha Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, a patrilineal descendant of Sardar Ramakrishna Kunwar of Gorkha. He is married to Priyadarshini Raje Scindia (nee Gaekwad) of the Gaekwad family of Baroda, from the Maratha Princely state. His grandmother Vijayraje Scindia was among the BJP's founder members, with his aunts Vasundhara Raje and Yashodhara Raje are party members.  He has a son, Mahanaaryaman Jyotiraditya Scindia (b.November 17,1995) and a daughter, Ananya Raje Scindia (b.March 31,2002).

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyotiraditya_Scindia

كريستيانو رونالدو

كريستيانو رونالدو

كريستيانو رونالدو دوس سانتوس أفيرو (تلفظ برتغالي: ‎/kɾiʃˈtjɐnu ʁoˈnaɫdu/‏;؛ مواليد 5 فبراير 1985) المعروف بـ كريستيانو رونالدو. هو لاعب كرة قدم برتغالي يلعب في مركز الهجوم مع نادي يوفنتوس في الدوري الإيطالي الدرجة الأولى و‌منتخب البرتغال لكرة القدم. غالبا ما يُعتبر أفضل لاعب في العالم ويعتبره الكثيرون من أعظم اللاعبين في تاريخ كرة القدم، حصل رونالدو على خمسة كرات ذهبية كأكثر لاعب أوروبي، وهو أول لاعب يفوز بأربعة أحذية ذهبية أوروبية. وقد فاز بـ 29 بطولة رسمية في مسيرته، من ضمنها خمسة ألقاب دوري، وخمسة ألقاب في دوري أبطال أوروبا ولقب واحد في بطولة أمم أوروبا. يسجل رونالدو الأهداف بغزارة وهو الهداف التاريخي لعدة بطولات رسمية حيث هو الهداف التاريخي للدوريات الخمس الكبرى الأوروبية (414) ودوري أبطال أوروبا (124) وبطولة أمم أوروبا (9) فضلاً عن أنه أكثر من صنع أهداف في دوري أبطال أوروبا (34) وبطولة أمم أوروبا (6). وقد سجل أكثر من 700 هدفا في مسيرته مع الأندية والمنتخب الوطني.

ولد ونشأ في جزيرة ماديرا البرتغالية، تم تشخيص رونالدو بتسارع دقات القلب في عمر 15 سنة، خضع على أثرها إلى عملية جراحية لعلاج حالته. بدأ مسيرته في نادي سبورتينغ لشبونة قبل أن يوقع مع مانشستر يونايتد في سن 18 عامًا في 2003. بعد فوزه بكأسه الأولى كأس الاتحاد الإنجليزي، خلال موسمه الأول في إنجلترا، ساعد اليونايتد على الفوز بثلاثة ألقاب متتالية في الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز وبطولة واحدة في دوري أبطال أوروبا وبطولة واحدة في كأس العالم للأندية. في سن 22 ترشح لجائزة الكرة الذهبية و‌جائزة أفضل لاعب كرة قدم في العالم، وفي سن 23 حصل على جائزة الكرة الذهبية وجائزة أفضل لاعب كرة قدم في العالم من الفيفا. في عام 2009، أصبح رونالدو أغلى لاعب في تاريخ كرة القدم عندما انتقل من مانشستر يونايتد إلى ريال مدريد في صفقة إنتقال بلغت قيمتها 80 مليونجنيه إسترليني (94 مليون يورو/131.6 مليون دولار أمريكي).

مع ريال مدريد فاز رونالدو بـ 15 بطولة، من ضمنها لقبين دوري ولقبين كأس وأربعة ألقاب دوري أبطال أوروبا، ولقبين في كأس السوبر الأوروبي، وثلاثة ألقاب في كأس العالم للأندية. رونالدو هو هداف ريال مدريد التاريخ، وسجل 34 هاتريك في الدوري الأسباني، من ضمنها ثمانية هاتريك في موسم 2014–15 كرقم قياسي وهو اللاعب الوحيد الذي يصل إلى 30 هدفاً في ستة مواسم متتالية في الدوري الأسباني. بعد انضمامه إلى ريال مدريد، احتل رونالدو المركز الثاني في جائزة الكرة الذهبية ثلاث مرات، قبل أن يفوز بها مرتين متتاليتين في عامي 2013 و‌2014. بعد فوزه ببطولة دوري أبطال أوروبا 2016 و‌2017، استطاع رونالدو الفوز بالكرة الذهبية مرة أخرى في عامي 2016 و‌2017. وتبع ذلك تحقيقة لدوري دوري أبطال أوروبا للمرة الثالثة على التوالي، ليصبح أول لاعب يفوز باللقب خمس مرات في النسخة الجديدة. في عام 2018، وقع مع يوفنتوس في صفقة انتقال بقيمة بلغت 100 مليون يورو، كأعلى مبلغ انتقال يُدفع للاعب تجاوز سن الثلاثين، وهو أعلى مبلغ يدفعه أي نادي إيطالي عبر التاريخ.

على المستوى الدولي مع البرتغال، تم اختيار رونالدو كأفضل لاعب برتغالي في التاريخ من قبل الاتحاد البرتغالي لكرة القدم في عام 2015. شارك لأول مرة مع البرتغال في عام 2003 وهو في سن الثامنة عشرة من عمره، ومنذ ذلك الوقت شارك في 150 مباراة، بما في ذلك مشاركته وتسجيله في ثماني بطولات كبرى على التوالي، ليصبح اللاعب الأكثر مشاركة وتسجيل مع البرتغال وأبرز لاعب في تاريخه. سجل أول هدف دولي له في بطولة أمم أوروبا 2004 وساعد البرتغال في الوصول إلى النهائي. تولى قيادة المنتخب في يوليو 2008، حيث قاد منتخب البرتغال إلى أول فوز له في إحدى البطولات الكبرى بفوزه ببطولة أمم أوروبا 2016، وحصل على الحذاء الفضي كثاني أفضل هداف في البطولة، قبل أن يصبح أكثر لاعب أوروبي تسجيلاً للأهداف الدولية عبر التاريخ. هو أحد أكثر الرياضيين قابلية للتسويق في العالم، وقد حصل على لقب أفضل رياضي في العالم من قبل مجلة فوربس في عامي 2016 و2017، بالإضافة إلى أشهر رياضي في العالم من قبل إي إس بي إن في أعوام 2016 و2017 و2018.

ولد كريستيانو رونالدو يوم 5 فبراير 1985 في سانت أنطونيو، وهو حي من أحياء مدينة فونشال، ماديرا، وهو الطفل الأصغر من ماريا دولوريس دوس سانتوس أفيرو، والتي تعمل طباخة. وجوزي دينيس أفيرو ويعمل بستاني المدينة. سمي كريستيانو باسم "رونالدو" بسبب حب والده للرئيس الأميركي الأسبق رونالد ريغن جعله يطلق اسم "رونالدو" على ابنه، حيث أن "رونالد" في الإنكليزية توازي "رونالدو" في البرتغالية، وله ثلاث إخوة هم الأخ الأكبر هوغو والأختان إلمّا وليليانا كاتيا. جدة الأم واسمها إيزابيل أصولها من الرأس الأخضر.

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Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro GOIH ComM (European Portuguese: [kɾiʃˈtjɐnu ʁɔˈnaɫdu]; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Juventus and captains the Portugal national team. Often considered the best player in the world and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time,[note 3] Ronaldo has won five Ballons d'Or  and four European Golden Shoes, both of which are records for a European player. He has won 29 major trophies in his career, including six league titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA European Championship, and one UEFA Nations League. A prolific goalscorer, Ronaldo holds the records for the most goals scored in the UEFA Champions League (128), most hat-tricks in recorded history (56), joint-most hat-tricks in the UEFA Champions League (8), shared with Lionel Messi, most international goals by an active player (99) and the joint-most goals scored in the UEFA European Championship (9). He is the only player to score more than 60 goals in all competitions in 4 consecutive seasons. He is one of the few recorded players to have made over 1,000 professional career appearances and has scored over 700 senior career goals for club and country. Born and raised in Madeira, Ronaldo began his senior club career playing for Sporting CP, before signing with Manchester United in 2003, aged 18. After winning the FA Cup in his first season, he helped United win three successive Premier League titles, the UEFA Champions League, and the FIFA Club World Cup; at age 23, he won his first Ballon d'Or. In 2009, Ronaldo was the subject of the then-most expensive association football transfer when signed for Real Madrid in a transfer worth €94 million (£80 million). There, Ronaldo won 15 trophies, including two La Liga titles, two Copas del Rey, and four UEFA Champions League titles, and became the club's all-time top goalscorer. After joining Madrid, Ronaldo finished runner-up for the Ballon d'Or three times, behind Lionel Messi – his perceived career rival – before winning back-to-back Ballons d'Or from 2013–2014 and again from 2016–2017. After winning a third consecutive Champions League title in 2018, Ronaldo became the first player to win the modern trophy five times. In 2018, he signed for Juventus in a transfer worth an initial €100 million (£88 million), the highest ever paid by an Italian club and the highest ever paid for a player over 30 years old. In his debut season with the club, he was integral in their 2018–19 Serie A win.

A Portuguese international, Ronaldo was named the best Portuguese player of all time by the Portuguese Football Federation in 2015. He made his senior debut in 2003 at age 18, and has since earned over 160 caps, including appearing and scoring in ten major tournaments, becoming Portugal's most capped player and his country's all-time top goalscorer. He scored his first international goal at UEFA Euro 2004 and helped Portugal reach the final of the competition. He assumed full captaincy in July 2008, leading Portugal to their first-ever triumph in a major tournament by winning UEFA Euro 2016, and received the Silver Boot as the second-highest goalscorer of the tournament. He became the highest European international goalscorer of all-time in 2018. 

One of the most marketable and famous athletes in the world, Ronaldo was ranked the world's highest-paid athlete by Forbes in 2016 and 2017 and the world's most famous athlete by ESPN from 2016 to 2019. Time included him on their list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014. As of April 2020, Ronaldo is also the most followed user on both Instagram and Facebook.  With earnings of €720 million (£615 million) from 2010 to 2019, he was ranked second in Forbes list of highest-paid athletes of the decade.

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born in São Pedro, Funchal, on the Portuguese island of Madeira, and grew up in Santo António, Funchal.  He is the fourth and youngest child of Maria Dolores dos Santos Viveiros da Aveiro (b. 1954), a cook, and José Dinis Aveiro (1953–2005), a municipal gardener and part-time kit man.[16] His great-grandmother on his father's side, Isabel da Piedade, was from the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde.[17] He has one older brother, Hugo (b. 1975), and two older sisters, Elma (b. 1973) and Liliana Cátia "Katia" (b. 1977), who is a singer. Ronaldo grew up in a Catholic and impoverished home, sharing a room with all his siblings.  The name Ronaldo was added to Cristiano's name in honour of his father's favourite movie actor, Ronald Reagan, who was U.S. president at the time of Cristiano's birth. 

As a child, Ronaldo played for amateur team Andorinha from 1992 to 1995,  where his father was the kit man,  and later spent two years with Nacional. In 1997, aged 12, he went on a three-day trial with Sporting CP, who signed him for a fee of £1,500. He subsequently moved from Madeira to Alcochete, near Lisbon, to join Sporting's other youth players at the club's football academy. By age 14, Ronaldo believed he had the ability to play semi-professionally, and agreed with his mother to cease his education in order to focus entirely on football.  While popular with other students at school, he had been expelled after throwing a chair at his teacher, who he said had "disrespected" him.  However, one year later, he was diagnosed with a racing heart, a condition that could have forced him to give up playing football. Ronaldo underwent heart surgery where a laser was used to cauterise multiple cardiac pathways into one, altering his resting heart rate.  He was discharged from the hospital hours after the procedure and resumed training a few days later

reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristiano_Ronaldo

Rakshit Shetty

Rakshit Shetty

Rakshit Shetty(ರಕ್ಷಿತ್ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ) (born 6 June 1983)  is an Indian actor and filmmaker who is best known for his work in Kannada cinema. His Films are known for urban legends, Indian folklore, nonlinear storylines, extended scenes of dialogue, references to Indian mythology and a wide variety of other films.

Shetty began his career as a Short Filmmaker with films like Let's Kill Gandhi and many unreleased ventures. Most of the Short films were lost during his career as an actor. He then entered into feature films with Nam Areal Ondh Dina and Thuglak both directed by Arvind Kaushik. His first mainstream success was 2013 Simple Agi Ondh Love Story.

The success of Simple Agi Ondh Love Story made director and producer Simple Suni to invest in Shetty's first directorial Ulidavaru Kandanthe (2014). The movie was a moderate hit at the box office but later gained cult-following. The movie was praised for it's regional authenticity in depicting Udupi and it's people. The movie also paid homage to many of Tarantino's films including Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, also referring to classics like Scarface and Sholay.

After a gap of 2 years from writing he came back with 2016 college comedy film Kirik Party which created sensation at the box office. Portrayal of Indian colleges in a very subtle and humorous way attained critical acclaim. The soundtrack of the film crossed millions of views in YouTube. He also received a lot of accolades including Karnataka State Film Award.

He was born on 6 June 1983 in Udupi in a Tulu-speaking Bunt Tuluva Hindu family.  He completed his schooling at his hometown. During his schooling days he was an avid Huli Kunitha dancer, a folk dance in the Costal Karnataka. This made him provide a major role for the dancers in his 2014 film Ulidavaru Kandanthe. Then studied engineering at N.M.A.M. Institute of Technology, Manglore. After graduating, he worked as a software professional for two years before becoming an actor starting in theatre.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakshit_Shetty

Breonna Taylor

Breonna Taylor

On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American woman, was shot and killed by Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers. Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, Detective Brett Hankison, and Detective Myles Cosgrove broke into her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky. Gunfire was exchanged between Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, and LMPD officers who entered the apartment. The LMPD officers fired over twenty shots, Taylor was shot eight times  and Mattingly was injured by gunfire.  Another police officer and an LMPD lieutenant were on the scene when the warrant was executed. 

The LMPD investigation was searching for two people who were already in police custody  and suspected of selling controlled substances from a drug house more than 10 miles (16 km) away.  One of the people in custody, Jamarcus Glover, had a prior relationship with Taylor.  The search warrant included Taylor's residence because it was suspected of receiving drugs in the case  and because a car registered to Taylor had been seen parked on several occasions in front of Glover's house. No drugs were found in the apartment.

According to police, Walker fired first, injuring a law enforcement officer, and police returned fire. According to a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the police by the Taylor family's attorney, the officers entered the home without knocking or announcing that they were police officers, and allegedly opened fire "with a total disregard for the value of human life

Breonna Taylor (June 5, 1993 – March 13, 2020) was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her parents were Tamika Palmer and Troy Herrod. She graduated from Western High School and went on to study at the University of Kentucky. She was an emergency medical technician  and worked at two hospitals, University of Louisville Jewish Hospital and Norton Healthcare. At the time of her death, she was working for University of Louisville Health.  She was laid to rest on March 21, 2020. 

Kenneth Walker was Taylor's boyfriend, who lived with her in the apartment.

Jonathan Mattingly is an LMPD police sergeant who joined the department in 2000. 

Brett Hankison is an LMPD plainclothes detective. 

Myles Cosgrove is an LMPD plainclothes detective

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Breonna_Taylor

نيها ككار

نيها ككار

نيها كاكار هي مغنية هندية ولدت في يوم 6 يونيو 1988 في مدينة ريشيكيشي في أوتاراخند في الهند، بدأت الغناء في سنة 2006 بعد ظهورها في برنامج إنديان آيدول في موسمه الثاني، في سنة 2008 طرحت أول ألبوم لها بعنوان نيها ذا روك ستار، غنت مع عدة مغنين مشهورين مثل هوني سينغ و ميانغ تشانغ و جيبي غريوال

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