Jean Kennedy Smith

Jean Kennedy Smith

Jean Ann Kennedy Smith (February 20, 1928 – June 17, 2020) was an American diplomat, activist, humanitarian,[1] and author who served as United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1993 to 1998. She was a member of the Kennedy family, the eighth of nine children and youngest daughter born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald, and was their last surviving and longest-lived child. Her siblings included President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, and Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver.

As Ambassador to Ireland, Smith was reportedly instrumental in the Northern Ireland peace process as President Bill Clinton's representative in Dublin. She was heavily criticized after urging the U.S. State Department to grant a visa to Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams, although her family claimed that this step influenced the Provisional IRA in its declaration of a ceasefire in 1994. However, Adams has claimed that it was President Clinton who led the Northern Ireland peace process and that during the process, Smith relied on advice from an influential Belfast priest. President of Ireland Mary McAleese conferred honorary Irish citizenship on Smith in 1998 in recognition of her service to the country.

Smith was the founder of Very Special Arts (VSA), an internationally recognized non-profit dedicated to creating a society where people with disabilities can engage with the arts. In 2011, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, by President Barack Obama for her work with VSA and with people with disabilities.

Jean Ann Kennedy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on her elder sister Kathleen's eighth birthday.  Kennedy was the eighth of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Kennedy.  Her siblings included U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, and Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver.  She has been described as having been the shyest and most guarded of the Kennedy children. She attended Manhattanville College (at the time a Society of the Sacred Heart school, and still located in Purchase, New York), where she befriended future sisters-in-law Ethel Skakel (who married Jean's older brother Robert in 1950) and Joan Bennett (who married Jean's younger brother Ted in 1958).  Kennedy graduated from Manhattanville in 1949

Reference

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

Raven symone

Raven symone

Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman  (/sɪˈmoʊn/;  born December 10, 1985),  also known mononymously as Raven, is an American actress, singer, songwriter and producer. She began her career as a child actress, appearing as Olivia Kendall on The Cosby Show (1989–1992) and Nicole Lee on Hangin' with Mr. Cooper (1993–1997). As a teenager, she starred as Raven Baxter on the Disney Channel television series That's So Raven (2003–2007), for which she was nominated for numerous accolades. Since 2017, Raven-Symoné has reprised her role as Raven Baxter on Raven's Home, for which she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming. Her film credits include Dr. Dolittle (1998), Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001), College Road Trip (2008), and successful television films, including Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999), The Cheetah Girls (2003), its sequel Cheetah Girls 2 (2006), For One Night (2006), and Revenge of the Bridesmaids (2010).

In music, Raven-Symoné released her debut studio album at the age of seven, Here's to New Dreams (1993), which saw the moderate commercial success of the single "That's What Little Girls Are Made Of".  Her subsequent studio albums, Undeniable (1999), This Is My Time (2004), and Raven-Symoné (2008) saw some commercial success on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States. She also contributed vocals to several soundtracks from her Disney projects, including The Cheetah Girls (2003), That's So Raven (2004), That's So Raven Too! (2006), and The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006), several of which were certified platinum and gold. Raven-Symoné has also lent her voice to the animated series Kim Possible for the character Monique, and films such as Tinker Bell (2008). She was also a co-host of the ABC daytime talk show The View from 2015 to 2016. VH1 ranked her at number nine on their "100 Greatest Kid Stars Of All Time" list in 2012

Raven-Symoné was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Lydia (Gaulden) and Christopher Pearman.  She has a younger brother, Blaize. As an infant, she worked for Atlanta's Young Faces Inc. Modeling Agency and was featured in local print advertisements. At age two, she worked with Ford Models in New York City and appeared in ads for Ritz crackers, Jell-O, Fisher-Price, and Cool Whip. At age three, her family moved to Ossining, New York where she attended Park School. 

In 1989, Raven-Symoné auditioned for a role in the Bill Cosby movie, Ghost Dad. At the age of three, she was considered too young for the role, but Cosby liked her so much that he found a role for her on his show, The Cosby Show, as his step-granddaughter Olivia. She made her debut in the premiere episode of the show's sixth season, and remained until the series finale in 1992. She then appeared as the younger version of Halle Berry's starring character, a headstrong biracial slave, in the TV movie Queen: The Story of an American Family, based on the book by Alex Haley. In 1992, Raven-Symoné began her singing career at the age of seven, when she signed with MCA Records. She spent that year and the next taking vocal lessons from Missy Elliott. Her debut album, Here's to New Dreams, was released on June 22, 1993, which spawned two singles: "That's What Little Girls Are Made Of" and "Raven Is the Flavor". "That's What Little Girls Are Made Of" reached No. 68 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album however was not successful, and due to low sales she was dropped from MCA Records in 1995. The album sold over 73,000 copies in the US

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven-Symon%C3%A9

DACA

DACA

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a United States immigration policy that allows some individuals with unlawful presence in the United States after being brought to the country as children to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit in the U.S. To be eligible for the program, recipients cannot have felonies or serious misdemeanors on their records. Unlike the proposed DREAM Act, DACA does not provide a path to citizenship for recipients. The policy, an executive branch memorandum, was announced by President Barack Obama on June 15, 2012. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) began accepting applications for the program on August 15, 2012.

In November 2014, President Obama announced his intention to expand DACA to cover additional undocumented immigrants. Multiple states immediately sued to prevent the expansion, which was ultimately blocked by an evenly divided Supreme Court. Under President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security rescinded the expansion in June 2017, while it continued to review the existence of DACA as a whole. In September 2017, the Trump Administration announced a plan to phase out DACA. The government deferred implementation of this plan for six months to allow Congress time to pass the DREAM Act or some other legislative protection for undocumented immigrants. Congress failed to act and the time extension expired on March 5, 2018, but the phase-out of DACA has been put on hold by several courts. On August 31, 2018, District Court Judge Andrew Hanen ruled that DACA is likely unconstitutional. However, he let the program remain in place as litigation proceeds.  In June 2020 the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration's order to rescind DACA, saying the administration had not provided adequate reasoning under the Administrative Procedure Act. 

Research has shown that DACA increased the wages and employment status of DACA-eligible immigrants,  and improved the mental health outcomes for DACA participants and their children. Research also suggests it reduced the number of undocumented immigrant households living in poverty.  There is no evidence to indicate that DACA recipients have higher crime rates than native-born Americans; most research shows that immigrants have lower crime rates than native-born Americans. Economists reject that DACA has adverse effects on the U.S. economy or that it adversely affects the labor market outcomes of native-born Americans. 

In August 2018, USCIS estimated there were 699,350 active DACA recipients residing in the United States.  Immigration researchers estimate the population to be between 690,000 and 800,000 people

The policy was created after acknowledgment that "Dreamer" students had been largely raised in the United States, and this was seen as a way to remove immigration enforcement attention from "low priority" individuals with good behavior. "Dreamers" get their name from the DREAM Act, a bill that aimed to grant legal status to young immigrants residing in the U.S. unlawfully after being brought in by their parents. The undocumented immigrant student population was rapidly increasing; approximately 65,000 undocumented immigrant students graduate from U.S. high schools on a yearly basis.  The vast majority of Dreamers are from Mexico. 

The DREAM Act bill, which would have provided a pathway to permanent residency for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States upon meeting certain qualifications, was considered by Congress in 2007. It failed to overcome a bipartisan filibuster in the Senate.  It was considered again in 2011. The bill passed the House, but did not get the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster in the Senate.  In 2013, legislation had comprehensively reformed the immigration system, including allowing Dreamers permission to stay in the country, work and attend school; this passed the Senate but was not brought up for a vote in the House.  The New York Times credits the failure of Congress to pass the DREAM Act bill as the driver behind Obama's decision to sign DACA.

Reference

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

مجموعة إل جي

مجموعة إل جي

مجموعة إل جي الكورية (بالكورية : 법인 إل جي) تتواجد في  كوريا الجنوبية وتعتبر هذه الشركة ثاني أكبر شركة قابضة حيث تنتج الإلكترونيات والكيماويات ومنتجات الاتصالات السلكية واللاسلكية وتعمل الشركات التابعة لها مثل شركة إل جي إلكترونيكس، عرض إل جي، إل جي للاتصالات وتواجد منتجات إل جي في أكثر من 80 بلدا.

مؤسس شركة إل جي القابضة (كوإن-هوي) الذي أسس في البدء شركة (لاك هوي) الكيميائية الصناعية في عام 1947.، وفي عام 1952، اصحت لاك هوي (التي تلفظ "لاكي" تعني محظوظ، التي تسمى حاليا إل جي) فقد أصبحت في ذلك العام أول شركة كورية في صناعة البلاستيكية. كما توسعت الشركة في الأعمال التجارية للبلاستيك، فأسست في عام 1958 شركة أخرى اسمتها جولد ستار المحدودة، (التي تسمى حاليا شركة إل جي إلكترونيكس)

في عام 1959، صنعت جولد ستار جهاز الراديو الأول الذي كتب عليه (صنع في  كوريا الجنوبية). تم بيع العديد من الأجهزة الإلكترونية الاستهلاكية تحت اسم العلامة التجارية جولد ستار، في حين تم بيع بعض المنتجات المنزلية الأخرى (التي كانت غير متوفرة خارج كوريا الجنوبية) تحمل اسم العلامة التجارية لاكي. وكان العلامة التجارية الشهيرة لاكي لمجموعة منتجاتها النظافة مثل الصابون والمنظفات الغسيل هاي تي، معجون الأسنان في لاكي وPerioe.

وفي عام 1995، حضرت الشركة للتنافس بشكل أفضل في الأسواق الغربية، والتي سميت شركة "ال جي"، وهو اختصار "لاكي جولد ستار". وشعارها المختصر LG تحتها عبارة لحياة أفضل. منذ عام 2009، كما تمتلك إل جي نطاق الموقع LG.com باسمها.

منذ عام 2001، انجزت إل جي اثنين من المشاريع المشتركة مع رويال فيليبس للإلكترونيات : إل جي فيليبس LCD، ولكن شركة فيليبس باعت أسهمها في أواخر عام 2008. كما دخلت شركة إل جي في مشروع مشترك مع شركة نورتل نتوركس وأنشأت إل جي - نورتل، كما ان شركة إل جي لديها مشروع مشترك مع شركة هيتاشي، إل جي لتخزين البيانات، والذي يقوم بتصنيع منتجات التخزين البصرية مثل الأقراص بيانات دي في دي مدمج، إل جي أصبحت مملوكة لنادي البيسبول ال جي توينز منذ عام 1989.

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Peter Paul

Peter Paul

Peter Paul (born March 8, 1957) is a former American actor, producer, television personality and bodybuilder.  He was born on March 8, 1957 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Peter Paul and his twin brother David Paul usually acted together in films and were collectively called "The Barbarian Brothers."

They both appeared in the two-hour Season 3 premiere episode of Knight Rider titled "Knight of the Drones". 

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_(actor)

Sachy

Sachy

K. R. Sachidanandan (1972 – 18 June 2020), professionally credited as Sachy,  was an Indian screenwriter, director, film producer, author, poet, and theatre artist.  He is known for his work in the Malayalam film industry. Initially, he co-wrote films with Sethu as a writer duo known as Sachi-Sethu, their works include Chocolate (2007), Robinhood (2009), Makeup Man (2011) and Seniors (2012). He made his independent debut as a screenwriter with the 2012 film Run Baby Run and his directorial debut with Anarkali (2015). He co-produced the film Chettayees under he company Thakkali Films. It was followed by Ramaleela. Sherlock Toms, and Driving Licence.  His last film was Ayyappanum Koshiyum (2020).

Sachy was born and brought up at Kodungalloor in Thrissur district of Kerala, India. He completed his bachelor's degree in Commerce from SNM College, Maliankara and an LLB from Govt. Law College, Ernakulam. He practised as a lawyer in Criminal Law and Constitutional Law for eight years in the High Court of Kerala. During his time at college, Sachy was active in his college film society and theatre, directing several plays.

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachy_(writer)

BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland.

It is one of the three BBC national regions, together with BBC Cymru Wales and BBC Northern Ireland. Its headquarters are in Glasgow, it employs approximately 1,250 staff as of 2017, to produce 15,000 hours of television and radio programming per year.  Some £320 million of licence fee revenue is raised in Scotland, with expenditure on purely local content set to stand at £86 million by 2016-17.  The remainder of licence fee revenue raised in the country is spent on networked programmes shown throughout the UK.

BBC Scotland operates the regional variant of BBC One, the BBC Scotland channel, BBC Radio Scotland, as well as radio and television outlets, Radio nan Gàidheal and BBC Alba, which broadcasts in the Scottish Gaelic language.

The first radio service in Scotland was launched by the British Broadcasting Company on 6 March 1923.  Named 5SC and located in Bath Street in Glasgow, the services gradually expanded to include the new stations 2BD, 2DE and 2EH, based at Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh respectively.  Around 1927, the new Corporation, as the BBC now was, decided to combine these local stations into regions under the generic banner of the BBC Regional Programme. Regional programmes throughout the UK were merged to form the BBC Home Service in 1939, and, with a break for the Second World War, national opt outs remained on the station and its successor BBC Radio 4 until the establishment of a separate BBC Radio Scotland in November 1978.

Television in Scotland began formally on 14 March 1952 using the 405-line television system broadcast from the Kirk o'Shotts transmitter. In the beginning all programmes came from London but some with Scottish content were made using an Outside Broadcast Unit. Eventually, BBC Scotland established the right to "opt out" of the network more and more. When BBC Two arrived in Scotland in 1966 (having begun in London two years earlier and spread across the country), broadcasts began in black and white on 625-lines CCIR System I from the Black Hill transmitter. BBC Two upgraded to PAL colour in 1967 (including Scotland) across the UK, with BBC One (network programmes only at first, with local output still in black-and-white) and STV following in December 1969, and in 1971, BBC Scotland's Queen Margaret Drive Studio "A" in Glasgow became   

In September 1998, BBC Choice Scotland was launched as BBC Scotland's first digital service. 

For many years, BBC Scotland has tried to increase the number of programmes it makes to be shown on the networks. This ambition was greatly aided by the move of BBC Scotland's headquarters in 2007 from Queen Margaret Drive to BBC Pacific Quay where state of the art digital studios were built and by the decision of the BBC centrally to move a number of programme departments, such as Children's, out of London.

Reference

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