Tesla Model Y

Tesla Model Y

The Tesla Model Y is an electric compact crossover utility vehicle (CUV) by Tesla, Inc. Tesla unveiled it in March 2019  started production at its Fremont plant in January 2020  and started deliveries on March 13, 2020. 

It is the second vehicle based on the Model 3 sedan platform.  Model Y will offer optional third-row seats for a seven-passenger seating capacity,  currently planned for Q4 2020. 

There are four powertrains for the Model Y: Standard Range, Long Range, Long Range with Dual-Motor All-Wheel Drive, and Performance. The Long Range AWD model and the Performance model are currently being delivered and the Standard Range model is expected in "early 2021". 

The Model Y fills a smaller size segment from its bigger sibling, the mid-sized Tesla Model X.

In 2013, Tesla Motors filed for a trademark on "Model Y". 

In 2015, Elon Musk teased a Model 3-based Model Y with falcon-wing doors. 

In 2017, the Model Y's silhouette was teased to Tesla shareholders at the annual general meeting in June.  Elon Musk also announced that the Model Y would be produced in a new factory, as it was not likely that the Fremont plant would have room to accommodate another production line. 

In June 2018, a new silhouette was revealed by CEO Musk. With the new image, it was stated that the Model Y would be formally announced in March 2019.  The Model Y announcement had been planned for 2018, however production problems with the Model 3 resulted in it being pushed to 2019.   In October 2018, Elon Musk revealed that he has approved the finalized design for the first production version of the Model Y, however production would not start until 2020.  On March 3, 2019, Elon Musk published multiple tweets, announcing the unveiling event and confirming some specifications.  Musk confirmed the vehicle will use standard doors, as opposed to the falcon-wing doors used on the Model X. 

On March 14, 2019, Elon Musk debuted the Tesla Model Y at an event at Tesla's design studio in Hawthorne, CA, where specifications were announced and the vehicle was shown. Test drives of multiple Model Y vehicles were also offered to attendees after the presentation.  Due to its larger size, the Y consumes more energy than the 3, and thus has shorter range. The Fremont Factory was changed to accommodate production of the Y. 

In November 2019, Tesla announced that the Tesla Model Y would be the first vehicle to be assembled at the first European Gigafactory, Giga Berlin. 

Tesla reported in the Q4 2019 earnings report on January 29, 2020, that Model Y production has already started in the Fremont factory, that one can now place an order for their premium versions with all-wheel drive, and that delivery of Model Y will begin in Q1 2020. 

On March 13, 2020 Tesla made their first deliveries of the Model Y, along with publishing its owner's manual

Reference

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

Justin Thomas

Justin Thomas

Justin Louis Thomas (born April 29, 1993) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and a former World Number One. In 2017, Thomas experienced a breakout year, winning five PGA Tour events, including the PGA Championship, his maiden major championship, and also winning the FedEx Cup championship. In May 2018, Thomas became the 21st player to top the Official World Golf Ranking.

Thomas was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Prior to his junior year in high school, he played in the Wyndham Championship on the PGA Tour in August 2009 and became the third-youngest to make the cut in a PGA Tour event, at 16 years, 3 months and 24 days.  Thomas graduated from St. Xavier High School in 2011. 

Thomas played college golf at the University of Alabama, where he won six times for the Crimson Tide.  As a freshman in 2012, he won the Haskins Award as the most outstanding collegiate golfer. He was on the national championship team of 2013. 

Thomas' father, Mike Thomas, has been the head professional at the Harmony Landing Country Club in Goshen, Kentucky, since 1990

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Thomas_(golfer)

Darius Rucker

Darius Rucker

Darius Carlos Rucker (born May 13, 1966) is an American singer and songwriter. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim "Soni" Sonefeld, and Dean Felber. The band released five studio albums with him as a member and charted six top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Rucker co-wrote most of the songs with the other members.

He released a solo R&B album, Back to Then in 2002 on Hidden Beach Recordings but no singles from it charted. Six years later, Rucker signed to Capitol Nashville as a country music singer, releasing the album, Learn to Live that year. Its first single, "Don't Think I Don't Think About It", made him the first black artist to reach number one on the Hot Country Songs charts since Charley Pride in 1983. (Ray Charles hit number one in March 1985 in a duet with Willie Nelson with "Seven Spanish Angels".) It was followed by two more number one singles, "It Won't Be Like This for Long" and "Alright" and the number three hit "History in the Making". In 2009, he became the first black American to win the New Artist Award from the Country Music Association, and the second black person to win any award from the association. A second album, Charleston, SC 1966, was released on October 12, 2010. The album includes the number one singles, "Come Back Song" and "This". His third Country album True Believers (2013) reach No. 2 on the US Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the US Top Country Albums Billboard chart with singles True Believers (#24), Wagon Wheel (#1), and Radio (#14), all charting on the Billboard U.S. Country charts. His first Country Christmas album, Home for the Holidays (2014) reached No. 31 on the US Billboard 200 chart and No. 7 on the US Country Chart. His fourth Country album, Southern Style (2014) reached No. 6 (US Billboard 200) and No. 7 (Billboard US Top Country Albums), respectively with singles Homegrown Honey (#6) and Southern Style (#8) both charting on the U.S. Country charts in 2014 and 2015. His most recent Country album When Was the Last Time (2017) charted #8 on the US Billboard 200 and #2 on the US Top Country Albums (Billboard).

Rucker was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, where his family history goes back generations. He lives in Charleston with his wife and three children.  His single mother, Carolyn, a nurse at Medical University of South Carolina, raised him with his three sisters and two brothers.  According to Rucker, his father was never around, and Rucker saw him only before church on Sundays.  His father was in a gospel band called The Traveling Echoes.  Rucker has said that he had a typical Southern African-American upbringing.  His family attended church every Sunday and was economically poor, and at one point, his mother, her two sisters, his grandmother and 14 children were all living in a three-bedroom house.  But he says that he looks back on his childhood with very fond memories. His sister, L'Corine, recalled that singing was always his dream

Reference

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

ريس ويذرسبون

ريس ويذرسبون

لورا جين ريس ويذرسبون (بالإنجليزية: Reese Witherspoon)‏ (ولدت في 22 مارس 1976، في نيوأورلينز بولاية لويزيانا) هي ممثلة أمريكية حاصلة على جائزة أوسكار. تعد ويذرسبون في السنوات الأخيرة من ممثلات هوليوود اللواتي يتلقين أغلى الأجور للتمثيل.

لورا جين ريس ويذرسبون، ولدت في 22 مارس 1976 في نيوأورلينز بولاية لويزيانا. والدها هو جراح متخصص في طب الأنف والأذن والحنجرة ومقدم سابق في العسكرية، في المقابل والدتها بيتي حصلت على الدكتوراه في التمريض وعملت كأستاذة في جامعة فاندربيلت. تعود أصول عائلة ويزرسبون لأكثر من 200 عام في الولايات المتحدة وهم أحفاد لجون ويذرسبون، الشخص الذي وقع على استقلال الولايات المتحدة، و مؤسس جامعة برينستون.

نشأت ريس ويذرسبون كمسيحية إسقفية، وقالت إنها فخورة "بالتربية الجنوبية" التي تلقتها. قالت إنها أعطتها "شعورًا بالعائلة والتقاليد" وعلمتها "أن تكون ضميريًا حيال مشاعر الناس، وأن تكون مؤدبة، وأن تكون مسؤولة، وأن لا تأخذ أبدًا ما لديك في حياتك". قضت ريس، السنوات الأربع الأولى من حياتها في فيسبادن، ألمانيا حيث كان يعمل والدها مقدماً في قوات الاحتياط بالجيش الأمريكي. بعد ذلك عادت العائلة إلى ناشفيل، كون أن ريس تنتمي إلى عائلة لها عشق للعلوم فكان من المخطط أن تصبح ريس طبيبة، وريس تعترف أنها كانت "محبة كتب حمقاء" وكانت تحصل على الدرجات الممتازة، وتقول «مع ذلك أمي كانت ترى أن رغبتي للتمثيل هي مجرد هواية، وفي يوم من الأيام سآتي وسأقول لها أنني أريد أن أكون جراحة دماغ أو ماشابه».

بعد إتمام عامها السابع، اختيرت عارضة أزياء في إعلان تلفزيوني لمحل بيع الزهور، بعد ظهورها بالإعلان أُسِرت ريس بفكرة النجومية مما دفعها للتفكير أن تصبح ممثلة. في عمر الحادية عشر حققت المركز الأول بمسابقة مواهب على مستوى الولاية. بعد نجاحها من المرحلة الثانوية دخلت جامعة ستانفورد وتخصصت في الأدب الإنجليزي، لكن بعد مرور سنة في الجامعة قررت الانسحاب ومتابعة مهنتها في التمثيل.

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Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. The recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, she is one of the highest-paid actresses in the world as of 2019. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 and 2015, and Forbes listed her among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2019.

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Witherspoon began her career as a teenager, making her screen debut in The Man in the Moon (1991). Following a leading role opposite Mark Wahlberg in Fear (1996), her breakthrough came in 1999 with a supporting role in Cruel Intentions, and for her portrayal of Tracy Flick in the black comedy Election. She gained wider recognition for her role as Elle Woods in the comedy Legally Blonde (2001) and its 2003 sequel, and for her starring role in the romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama (2002). In 2005, she garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in the biographical musical film Walk the Line, which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.

She then starred in several critically and commercially unsuccessful comedies. In 2011, her sole box-office success was the romantic drama Water for Elephants. Witherspoon made a comeback with acting efforts in the drama Mud (2012), and the biographical films Devil's Knot (2013), and The Good Lie (2014). She starred as Cheryl Strayed in the drama Wild (2014), which earned her a second nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards. Witherspoon has since began work in television, by producing and starring in the HBO drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019), the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2019–present), and the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere (2020). For the first one of these, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series.

Witherspoon also owns a clothing company Draper James, and she is actively involved in children's and women's advocacy organizations. She serves on the board of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) and was named Global Ambassador of Avon Products in 2007, serving as honorary chair of the charitable Avon Foundation dedicated to women's causes. In 2000, she co-founded production company Type A Films, which has since merged with Hello Sunshine, a media firm which Witherspoon also co-founded in 2016. Hello Sunshine, focused on female-led stories, has produced a number of films and television series.

Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976  at Southern Baptist Hospital, in New Orleans, Louisiana, while her father, John Draper Witherspoon, was a student at Tulane University medical school.  Witherspoon was born in Georgia and served as a lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve.  He was in private practice as an otolaryngologist until 2012.  Her mother, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Witherspoon (née Reese), is from Harriman, Tennessee. Betty Witherspoon earned three degrees in total, including a Ph.D in education. She became a professor of nursing  at Vanderbilt University.  Witherspoon has claimed descent from Scottish-born John Witherspoon, who signed the United States Declaration of Independence;  however, this claim has not been verified by the Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence genealogists.  Her parents are still legally married, although they separated in 1996. 

Witherspoon was raised as an Episcopalian, and has said she is proud of the "definitive Southern upbringing" which she received. She said that it gave her "a sense of family and tradition" and taught her about "being conscientious about people's feelings, being polite, being responsible and never taking for granted what you have in your life".  At the age of seven, Witherspoon was selected as a model for a florist's television advertisements, which motivated her to take acting lessons.  At age eleven, she took first place in the Ten-State Talent Fair.  Witherspoon received high grades in school,  loved reading, and considered herself "a big dork who read loads of books".  On mentioning her love for books, she said, "I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything." She has been described as a "multi-achiever" and was given the nickname "Little Type A" by her parents.  Witherspoon attended middle school at Harding Academy and graduated from the all-girls' Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, during which time she was a cheerleader.  She later attended Stanford University as an English literature major  but left the school prior to completing her studies to pursue an acting career

Reference

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

USS Bonhomme Richard

USS Bonhomme Richard

Five ships of the United States Navy have borne the name Bonhomme Richard or Bon Homme Richard (pronounced [bɔnɔm ʁi.ʃaʁ]), the French language equivalent of "Goodman Richard". The name is in reference to American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was responsible for writing Poor Richard's Almanack, for which the ships have been named, after the French title of the publication.

reference

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

Betsy DeVos

Betsy DeVos

Elisabeth Dee DeVos (/dəˈvɒs/; née Prince; born January 8, 1958) is the 11th and current United States Secretary of Education since 2017. DeVos is known for her support for school choice, school voucher programs, and charter schools.  She was Republican National Committeewoman for Michigan from 1992 to 1997 and served as chair of the Michigan Republican Party from 1996 to 2000, with reelection to the post in 2003. She has advocated for the Detroit charter school system  and she is a former member of the board of the Foundation for Excellence in Education. She has served as chair of the board of the Alliance for School Choice and the Acton Institute and headed the All Children Matter PAC. 

DeVos is married to former Amway CEO Dick DeVos. Her brother, Erik Prince, a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, is the founder of Blackwater USA. Their father is Edgar Prince, founder of the Prince Corporation.  In 2016, the family was listed by Forbes as the 88th-richest in America, with an estimated net worth of $5.4 billion. 

On November 23, 2016, then-President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate DeVos to serve as Secretary of Education in his administration.   On January 31, following strong opposition to the nomination from Democrats, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions approved her nomination on a party-line vote, sending her nomination to the Senate floor. On February 7, 2017, she was confirmed by the Senate by a 51–50 margin, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking the tie in favor of her nomination. This was the first time in U.S. history that a Cabinet nominee's confirmation was decided by the Vice President's tiebreaking vote. 

DeVos was born Elisabeth Prince on January 8, 1958. She grew up in Holland, Michigan, the eldest of four children born to Elsa (Zwiep) Prince (later, Broekhuizen) and Edgar Prince, a billionaire industrialist of Dutch ancestry.  Edgar was the founder of Prince Corporation, an automobile parts supplier based in Holland, Michigan. 

DeVos was educated at the Holland Christian High School, a private school located in her home town of Holland, Michigan. She graduated from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business economics in 1979.  During college, DeVos was involved with campus politics, volunteered for Gerald Ford's presidential campaign, and attended the 1976 Republican National Convention to participate in a program for young Republicans. 

DeVos grew up as a member of the Christian Reformed Church in North America.  She has been a member and elder of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids. Former Fuller Seminary president Richard Mouw, with whom DeVos served on a committee, said she is influenced by Dutch neo-Calvinist theologian Abraham Kuyper, a founding figure in Christian Democracy political ideology.

Reference

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