جولي باييت

جولي باييت

جولي باييت (بالإنجليزية: Julie Payette)‏ ولدت في مونتريال عام 20 أكتوبر 1963 هي الحاكم العام التاسع والعشرون والحالي لكندا ورائِدة فضاء ومُهندسة كندية وقد شاركت برحلتين إلى الفضاء وهي STS-96 وSTS-127 التي استغرقت 25 يوم للوصول والعودة، وقد شغلت منصب رئيس رواد الفضاء الكنديون.

ومنذُ يوليو 2013، شغلت جولي باييت وظائف جديدة بمونتريال وهي الآن مُديرة لِمركز العلوم هناك.

مسيرتها الدراسية

أتمت دراستها الابتدائية والثانوية في مونتريال، في كلية مونت سانت لويس. بعد ذلك وفي عام 1982 حصلت على شهادة البكالوريا الدولية في كلية العالم المتحد الأطلسية في ويلز، وفي عام 1986، نالت شهادة البكالوريوس العلمية في الهندسة الكهربائية من جامعة ماكجيل في مونتريال، وأخيرا في عام 1990 حصلت على شهادة الماجستير في هندسة الكمبيوتر في جامعة تورونتو.

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Julie Payette

Julie Payette

Julie Payette CC CMM COM CQ CD (French pronunciation: ​[ʒyli pajɛt]; born October 20, 1963) is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who has been governor general of Canada since 2017, the 29th officeholder since Canadian Confederation. 

Payette holds engineering degrees from McGill University and the University of Toronto. She worked as a research scientist before joining the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) in 1992 as a member of the Canadian Astronaut Corps. She completed two spaceflights, STS-96 and STS-127, and has logged more than 25 days in space. She also served as capsule communicator at NASA Mission Control Center in Houston and from 2000 to 2007 as CSA's chief astronaut.

In July 2013, Payette was named chief operating officer for the Montreal Science Centre. She also held a number of board appointments, including the National Bank of Canada.  On July 13, 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Queen Elizabeth II had approved the appointment of Payette as the next governor general of Canada.  She was sworn in on October 2, 2017. 

Payette was born on October 20, 1963, in Montreal, Quebec,  and lived in the Ahuntsic neighbourhood, attending Collège Mont-Saint-Louis and Collège Regina Assumpta.  In 1982 she completed an International Baccalaureate diploma at the United World College of the Atlantic in South Wales, United Kingdom. 

For her undergraduate studies, Payette enrolled in McGill University where she completed a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering in 1986, after which she completed a Master of Applied Science degree in computer engineering at the University of Toronto in 1990. Her thesis focused on computational linguistics, a field of artificial intelligence.  She is a retired member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec 

During her schooling, between 1986 and 1988, Payette also worked as a systems engineer for IBM Canada's Science Engineering division. From 1988 to 1990, as a graduate student at the University of Toronto, she was involved in a high-performance computer architecture project and worked as a teaching assistant. At the beginning of 1991, Payette joined the communications and science department of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland, for a one-year visiting scientist appointment. When she returned to Canada, in January 1992, she joined the Speech Research Group of Bell-Northern Research in Montreal where she was responsible for a project in telephone speech comprehension using computer voice recognition. 

Reference

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

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director, producer, and writer. 

Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express (1978), and wrote the gangster movie Scarface (1983). Stone achieved prominence as writer and director of the war drama Platoon (1986), which won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture. Platoon was the first in a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served as an infantry soldier. He continued the series with Born on the Fourth of July (1989)—for which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar—and Heaven & Earth (1993). Stone's other works include the Salvadoran Civil War-based drama Salvador (1986); the financial drama Wall Street (1987) and its sequel Money Never Sleeps (2010); the Jim Morrison biographical film The Doors (1991); the satirical black comedy crime film Natural Born Killers (1994); a trilogy of films based on the American Presidency: JFK (1991), Nixon (1995), and W. (2008); and Snowden (2016).

Many of Stone's films focus on controversial American political issues during the late 20th century, and as such were considered contentious at the times of their releases. They often combine different camera and film formats within a single scene, as demonstrated in JFK (1991), Natural Born Killers (1994), and Nixon (1995). 

Like his subject matter, Stone has become a controversial figure in American filmmaking, with critics accusing him of promoting unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, and of misrepresenting real-world events and figures in his works.  

Stone was born on September 15, 1946, in New York City, the son of a French woman named Jacqueline (née Goddet)  and Louis Stone (born Louis Silverstein), a stockbroker.  He grew up in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut. His parents met during World War II, when his father was fighting as a part of the Allied force in France.  His American-born father was Jewish and his French-born mother was Roman Catholic, both non-practicing.  Stone was raised in the Episcopal Church,  and now practices Buddhism. 

Stone attended Trinity School in New York City before his parents sent him away to The Hill School, a college-preparatory school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. His parents divorced abruptly while he was away at school (1962) and this, because he was an only child, marked him deeply. Stone's mother was often absent and his father made a big impact on his life; father-son relationships were to feature heavily in Stone's films perhaps because of this. 

He often spent parts of his summer vacations with his maternal grandparents in France, both in Paris and La Ferté-sous-Jouarre in Seine-et-Marne. Stone also worked at 17 in the Paris mercantile exchange in sugar and cocoa – a job that proved inspirational to Stone for his film Wall Street. He speaks French fluently. Stone graduated from The Hill School in 1964.

Stone was admitted into Yale University, but left in June 1965 at age 18  to teach high school students English for six months in Saigon at the Free Pacific Institute in South Vietnam.  Afterwards, he worked for a short while as a wiper on a United States Merchant Marine ship in 1966, traveling from Asia to Oregon across the rough Pacific Ocean in January  He returned to Yale, where he dropped out a second time (in part due to working on an autobiographical novel A Child's Night Dream, published 1997 by St. Martin's Press). 

Reference

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

Edmonton Eskimos

Edmonton Eskimos

The Edmonton Football Team or EE Football Team  (formerly known as the Edmonton Eskimos) are a professional Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta, competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The Eskimos play their home games at The Brick Field at Commonwealth Stadium and are the third-youngest franchise in the CFL. The Eskimos were founded in 1949, although there were clubs with the name Edmonton Eskimos as early as 1895. The Eskimos are arguably the most successful CFL franchise of the modern era (since 1954), having won the league's Grey Cup championship fourteen times (including a three-peat between 1954 and 1956 and an unmatched five consecutive wins between 1978 and 1982), most recently in 2015. This places Edmonton second overall to the Toronto Argonauts, who have won seventeen Grey Cups (with seven of those since 1954).

The Eskimos hold a North American professional sports record by qualifying for the playoffs for 34 consecutive years between 1972 and 2005.   Edmonton has had the most regular season division championships in the CFL's modern era with 21, with their most recent coming in 2015. The team has a rivalry with the Calgary Stampeders and are one of the three community owned teams currently operating in the CFL.

The team's name has drawn controversy and criticism, as the term "eskimo" is considered in Canada to be a racial slur against the Inuit.  On July 16, 2020, it was reported that the club will be dropping the 'Eskimos' name. . On July 21, the team officially retired the name, and temporarily began using "Edmonton Football Team" and "EE Football Team" until a new name is decided. 

The EE Football Club is one of three "community owned" teams in the CFL (owned by local shareholders). This was once the most common type of ownership in the CFL.  In 2006 the Ottawa Sun reported that shares cost $10 each, but were not open to the general public and required the approval of the 80 existing shareholders.  This contrasts with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, one of the other community owned teams in the CFL, who have offered shares to the public on occasion since 2004 (much in the same way as the NFL's Green Bay Packers do). The Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the other community owned team, operates as a corporation without share capital.

Reference

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

Aeroplan

Aeroplan

Aeroplan is a coalition loyalty program  owned by Air Canada, Canada's flag carrier. The Aeroplan program was created in July 1984 by Air Canada as an incentive program for its frequent flyer customers. In 2002 it was spun off as a separate corporate entity and eventually sold to Aimia. On May 11, 2017, Air Canada announced it plans to launch a new loyalty program to replace the Aeroplan program in 2020.  On August 21, 2018, Air Canada, along with TD, CIBC and Visa, agreed to acquire Aeroplan from Aimia for CA$450 million in cash.  There are approximately 5 million active members in the program. 

In recent years, Aeroplan has evolved into a loyalty marketing program with retail partners such as Home Hardware, Birks and Nestlé Canada. Aeroplan is also used by Air Creebec, Canadian North, Calm Air, and First Air.  Internally, Aeroplan has deployed the MicroStrategy platform for business intelligence reporting and analytics for its personnel to analyze member information, track purchasing patterns, identify profiles of loyal members, and align its loyalty program with members' preferences. 

Many Aeroplan members collect miles via credit cards. Credit cards were originally allocated to CIBC and Diners Club/enRoute, but were later offered to AMEX Bank of Canada, while Diners Club withdrew from the program.  (The contract with CIBC expired at the end of 2013, and Aimia began a new partnership for credit cards with Toronto-Dominion Bank as of January 1, 2014. )

In 2012, approximately 2.3 million rewards were issued to members, including more than 1.6 million flights on Air Canada or other Star Alliance carriers, which offer travel to more than 1,000 destinations worldwide.

When it was created in 1984, Aeroplan's operations were fully integrated with those of Air Canada. In 2002, Aeroplan was spun off as a wholly owned subsidiary of Air Canada.

In June 2005, Air Canada's parent company, ACE Aviation Holdings, sold 12.5% of Aeroplan for $250 million through an initial public offering, thereby creating the world's first publicly traded loyalty program, Aeroplan Income Fund.

On December 20, 2007, Aeroplan Income Fund acquired Loyalty Management Group, a loyalty marketing and customer-driven insight and analysis business that owns and operates Nectar, the UK's leading coalition loyalty program.

On May 28, 2008, ACE Aviation Holdings disposed of its remaining holdings in the fund.  As such, the Aeroplan program is no longer under direct control of Air Canada.

The corporate name was changed to Aimia in order to "reflect the fact that the program has grown and diversified into a comprehensive customer loyalty program with hundreds of participating retailers." 

In November 2018, Aimia signed a definitive agreement with Air Canada to sell Aeroplan back to Air Canada for $450M in cash

Reference

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

Alyssa Nakken

Alyssa Nakken

Alyssa Nakken (born June 13, 1990) is an American professional baseball coach for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). She is the first female coach in MLB history.

Career

Nakken is from Woodland, California, and graduated from Woodland High School in 2008. In high school, Nakken played softball, basketball, and volleyball.  She attended California State University, Sacramento, where she played college softball for the Sacramento State Hornets as a first baseman.  She had a .304 batting average and was named to the All-Pacific Coast Softball Conference all four years, from 2009 through 2012.  Nakken graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology. 

Nakken joined the Giants' baseball operations department as an intern in 2014. She worked for the team on health and wellness programs.  In 2015, she earned a master's degree in sports management from the University of San Francisco.  The Giants promoted her to the major league coaching staff as an assistant coach in January 2020, making her the first full-time female coach in MLB history.  Though she will wear a baseball uniform, she will not be in the dugout during games, as there is a seven coach maximum, and those seven were hired prior to her. 

On July 20, 2020, Nakken became the first woman to coach on the field in a major league baseball game, during exhibition play. Nakken was first base coach for the Giants' game against the Oakland A's. The Giants won 6-2. 

References

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

روبن ويليامز

روبن ويليامز

روبن ويليامز (بالإنجليزية: Robin Williams)‏ (من مواليد 21 يوليو 1951 - توفي يوم 11 أغسطس 2014) هو ممثل وكوميدي أمريكي حاصل على جائزة الأوسكار عن فيلم غود ويل هانتينغ (1997) في حفل توزيع جوائز الأوسكار السبعون في مارس عام 1998 من بين أربع ترشيحات نالها للجائزة المرموقة. كما فاز بست جوائز غولدن غلوب من اثنى عشر ترشيحا، أولها عام 1979 عن مسلسل مورك وموندي، وكان آخرها جائزة سيسيل بي دوميل الفخرية عام 2005. وحصل على جائزة الأيمي مرتين وجائزة غرامي خمس مرات.

بدأ مشواره المهني ككوميدي مسرحي في سان فرانسيسكو و لوس أنجلوس. بدأت شهرته بعد مسلسل مورك وموندي (Mork & Mindy) الذي قدم منه أربعة مواسم بين 1978 و1982. عانى روبن من الإكتئاب ومن الإدمان على الكحول والمخدرات لفتره طويلة من عمله كممثل. في 2014 وجد ميتا في منزله بولاية كاليفورنيا منتحرا خنقا. بعد الوفاة أعلنت زوجته أن روبن كان يعاني من مرحلة متقدمه من داء باركنسون. وأشارت تقارير إلى إصابته بمرض آخر يدعى داء جسيمات ليوي الذي يتسبب في أعراض مرضية أشهرها الاكتئاب الشديد والهلوسة الدماغيه.

ولد روبن ويليامز لأب من أصول أيرلندية إنجليزية، وكان والده روبرت فيتزجرالد ويليامز (بالإنجليزية: Robert Fitzgerald Williams) يعمل مديراً تنفيذياً في شركة فورد، أما أمه لوري (بالإنجليزية: Laurie) فكانت تعمل عارضة أزياء وهي من أصول فرنسية. نشأ روبن ويليامز في مارين كاونتي - كاليفورنيا حيث التحق هناك بثانوية ريدوود (بالإنجليزية: Redwood High School) ومن ثم في بلومفيلد هيلز - ميشيغان حيث التحق بكلية ديترويت الصباحية (بالإنجليزية: Detroit Country Day School) وهي كلية خاصة تخرج منها العديد من المشاهير منهم ستيف بالمر المدير التنفيذي السابق لشركة مايكروسوفت. في عام 1973 اختير روبن ويليامز مع كريستوفر ريف من بين ألفي طالب للألتحاق بمدرسة جوليارد للفنون (بالإنجليزية: Juilliard) وهي من أهم المعاهد في العالم لفنون التمثيل، التحق الاثنان هناك بالعديد من الدروس المشتركة وتكونت هناك بين الإثنين صداقة عميقة امتدت لغاية وفاة الممثل كريستوفر ريف عام 2004، وبينما أن أسلوب كوميديا روبن ويليامز لم تعجب كل أساتذته فإن تمثيله الدرامي لآقى استحسان الجميع.

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https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2