Hurricane Isaias

Hurricane Isaias

Hurricane Isaias (/ˌiːsɑːˈiːɑːs/)  was a Category 1 hurricane that struck portions of the Eastern Caribbean and caused significant damage across much of the Eastern United States in July and August 2020. The ninth named storm and second hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Isaias originated from a vigorous tropical wave off the coast of Africa that was first identified by the National Hurricane Center on July 23, 2020. The tropical wave gradually became more organized, and obtained gale-force winds on July 28, before organizing into Tropical Storm Isaias on July 30. Isaias marked the earliest ninth named storm on record, surpassing 2005's Hurricane Irene by eight days. Isaias strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane the next day, reaching a peak intensity of 85 mph (137 km/h) and a pressure of 987 mbar. On August 1, the storm made landfall on North Andros, Bahamas and subsequently weakened to a tropical storm before paralleling the east coast of Florida and Georgia. As it approached the Carolina coastline, it reintensified back into a hurricane shortly before making landfall near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, at 11:10 PM EDT on August 3 as a Category 1 hurricane, and proceeded to accelerate up the East Coast of the United States.

Numerous tropical storm watches and warnings as well as hurricane watches and hurricane warnings were issued for the Lesser Antilles, Greater Antilles, Bahamas, Cuba, and the East Coast of the United States. Isaias caused devastating flooding and wind damage in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Several towns were left without electricity and drinking water in Puerto Rico, which prompted a disaster declaration by President Donald Trump. In the Dominican Republic, two people were killed by wind damage. A woman was killed in Puerto Rico after being swept away in flood waters. At least two were killed after a tornado touched down in North Carolina and five others were killed by wind damage in Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and New York. In Pennsylvania a woman drowned after her vehicle was swept away by flood waters and a child was found dead after going missing during the height of the storm. A man drowned in rough surf off the coast of New Jersey.

The National Hurricane Center first began tracking a vigorous tropical wave off the west coast of Africa on July 23.  The wave gradually organized and became better defined, developing a broad area of low pressure  Though the circulation was broad and disorganized, convection continued to increase over the system, and the system obtained gale-force winds on July 28. Although the system still lacked a well-defined center, imminent threat of tropical cyclonegenesis and tropical storm-force winds to land areas prompted its designation as Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine at 15:00 UTC on July 28.  The system moved just south of Dominica on July 29, and at 03:00 UTC on the following day, the system organized sufficiently to become a tropical cyclone. Due to its precursor disturbance already having gale-force winds, it was immediately declared a tropical storm and given the name Isaias  When Tropical Storm Isaias developed, it became the earliest ninth named storm on record, breaking the record of Hurricane Irene in 2005 by eight days. Isaias continued strengthening after reaching tropical storm status, with one-minute sustained winds reaching 60 mph (95 km/h) on July 30 as it made landfall on the southern coast of the Dominican Republic. Contrary to predictions by meteorologists, the mountainous terrain of Hispaniola did not weaken the storm, as the system had a broad circulation and developed a new low-pressure center to the north of the island, thus maintaining its intensity. 

Early the next day, hurricane hunters unexpectedly found that Isaias strengthened, reaching its initial peak intensity as a Category 1 hurricane, with 1-minute sustained winds of 80 mph (140 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 990 mbar (29.23 inHg).  Moderate to strong southwesterly wind shear and dry air entrainment began affecting the storm a few hours later, resulting in the low-level center being exposed near the western edge of the convection. After a brief weakening trend, Isaias began to intensify again, with deep convection firing over the exposed center and an eye feature forming on Bahamian radar. Later that evening, data from another hurricane hunter reconnaissance aircraft confirmed a closed eyewall and a lower minimal central pressure of 987 mbar (29.15 inHg).  The storm strengthened afterwards to obtain its peak intensity, with 1-minute sustained winds of 85 mph (140 km/h), despite a somewhat ragged appearance on satellite imagery.  At 15:00 UTC on August 1, Isaias made landfall on Northern Andros Island, Bahamas with winds of 80 mph (130 km/h), slightly weaker than its peak. Land interaction and the continued effects of wind shear and dry air continued to weaken the system, and Isaias dropped below hurricane strength at 21:00 UTC, as its center became completely devoid of convection, although a large burst of convection formed over the center shortly after it moved back over water. 

As the storm neared Southeast Florida, a strong mid-level circulation formed just northeast of the low-level circulation center, spawning intense convection mainly north and east of the LLCC. The storm then paralleled the east coast of Florida and Georgia, with its winds fluctuating between 65–70 miles per hour (105–113 km/h). As the storm turned northeastward, it entered a more favorable environment for strengthening, with wind shear relaxing just enough to allow the storm to redevelop intense convection. The storm began to quickly reintensify, regaining hurricane status at 00:00 UTC on August 4, before reaching a secondary peak intensity, with 1-minute sustained winds of 85 mph (140 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 988 mbar (29.18 inHg).  At 03:10 UTC, the hurricane made landfall near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina at the same intensity.  The date of this landfall made Isaias the earliest fifth tropical cyclone to make landfall in the United States.  Following landfall, Isaias continued to accelerate and only weakened slowly, dropping below hurricane status at 07:00 UTC over North Carolina.  Isaias moved quickly to the north-northeast, crossing through Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania while losing tropical characteristics.  The system fully lost tropical characteristics and became extratropical at 03:00 UTC on August 5 over southern Quebec, east-southeast of Montreal. 

Reference

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

جيك بول

جيك جوزيف بول (بالإنجليزية: Jake Paul)‏ (وُلد في 7 يناير 1997) هو ممثل أمريكي ونجم يوتيوب اشتهر بفضل تطبيق مشاركة مقاطع الفيديو فاين. بزغ نجم جيك بول بعد آداءه دور "ديرك" في مسلسل "بيزاردفارك" الذي عُرض على قناة ديزني.

حياته المبكرة

وُلد بول في مدينة كليفلاند، وترعرع في ويست ليك بولاية أوهايو. تُدعى والدته باميلا آن ستبينك (واسمها قبل الزواج ميريدث) ووالده جريجوري آلان بول، وهو وكيل بيع عقارات. كما أن لجيك بول أصول نمساوية-يهودية، وإنجليزية، وألمانية-يهودية، ومجرية-يهودية، وأيرلندية، وإسكتدلنية، وويليزية. وجيك بول هو الشقيق الأصغر لنجم اليوتيوب لوجان بول.

مسيرة عمله

بدأ بول مسيرة عمله في سبتمبر 2013 بنشر مقاطع فيديو على موقع فاين. قبل أن يغلق موقع فاين، كان قد حصل بول على 5.3 مليون متابع وحازت مقاطع الفيديو الخاصة به على 2 مليار مشاهدة. وفي 2015، تم الإعلان عن قيام بول بدور "ديرك" في مسلسل كوميدي جديد على قناة ديزني بعنوان "بيزاردفارك".

وفي 5 يناير 2017، تمت دعوة بول لحضور جلسة في البيت الأبيض حول وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي. سجل بول فيديو مخاطرة ليعرضه على قناة التدوين المرئي الخاصة به على اليوتيوب، في هذا الفيديو يظهر بول مختبئًا في الحمام قبل التسلسل خارج البيت الأبيض في الساعة 3:30 صباحًا دون أن يواجه الأمن والحراسة.

مراجع

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84

Jake Paul

Jake Joseph Paul (born January 17, 1997)  is an American YouTuber, internet personality, and actor. He initially rose to fame on the now-defunct video application Vine, before playing the role of Dirk Mann on the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark for two seasons. 

Throughout his career, Paul has become the subject of many controversies due to his behaviour including engaging in risky and inappropriate stunts for YouTube content, getting fired from his Disney television show Bizaardvark, and being charged with criminal trespass and unlawful assembly. 

Paul was born on January 17, 1997, in Cleveland,  and grew up in Westlake, Ohio. He is the son of Pamela Ann Stepnick (née Meredith) and realtor Gregory Allan Paul.  Paul began his career in September 2013 posting videos on Vine. By the time Vine was discontinued, Paul had amassed 5.3 million followers and 2 billion views on the app. 

Reference

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

Sally Yates

Sally Caroline Yates (née Quillian; born 1960) is an American lawyer. She served as a United States Attorney, later United States Deputy Attorney General, having been appointed to both positions by President Barack Obama, and later as Acting United States Attorney General.

Following the inauguration of Donald Trump and the departure of Attorney General Loretta Lynch on January 20, 2017, Yates served as Acting Attorney General for 10 days. She was dismissed for insubordination by President Trump on January 30, after she instructed the Justice Department not to make legal arguments defending Executive Order 13769, which temporarily banned the admission of refugees and barred travel from certain Muslim-majority countries (later to include North Korea) on the grounds that terrorists were using the U.S. refugee resettlement program to enter the country. The ban was politically labeled as a Muslim ban. Rather than defend it, Yates stated the order was neither defensible in court nor consistent with the Constitution.  Though large portions of the order were initially blocked by federal courts, the Supreme Court ultimately upheld a revised version. 

Following her dismissal, Yates returned to private practice.

Yates was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to John Kelley Quillian (1930–1986),  an attorney and judge who served as a judge on the Georgia Court of Appeals between 1966 and 1984, and his wife, Xara "Mickey" DeBeaugrine Quillian (née Terrell; 1931–2012), an interior designer.  Her grandmother had been one of the first women admitted to the Georgia Bar; however, she was not hired as an attorney, instead working as a legal secretary for Yates's grandfather. 

Yates went to Dunwoody High School  and attended the University of Georgia, receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1982. In 1986, she earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Georgia School of Law, graduating magna cum laude. While in law school, Yates served as the executive editor of the Georgia Law Review. 

Reference

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

Rockets

A rocket (from Italian: rocchetto, lit. 'bobbin')  is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine. Rocket engine exhaust is formed entirely from propellant carried within the rocket.  Rocket engines work by action and reaction and push rockets forward simply by expelling their exhaust in the opposite direction at high speed, and can therefore work in the vacuum of space.

In fact, rockets work more efficiently in space than in an atmosphere. Multistage rockets are capable of attaining escape velocity from Earth and therefore can achieve unlimited maximum altitude. Compared with airbreathing engines, rockets are lightweight and powerful and capable of generating large accelerations. To control their flight, rockets rely on momentum, airfoils, auxiliary reaction engines, gimballed thrust, momentum wheels, deflection of the exhaust stream, propellant flow, spin, or gravity.

Rockets for military and recreational uses date back to at least 13th-century China.  Significant scientific, interplanetary and industrial use did not occur until the 20th century, when rocketry was the enabling technology for the Space Age, including setting foot on the Earth's moon. Rockets are now used for fireworks, weaponry, ejection seats, launch vehicles for artificial satellites, human spaceflight, and space exploration.

Chemical rockets are the most common type of high power rocket, typically creating a high speed exhaust by the combustion of fuel with an oxidizer. The stored propellant can be a simple pressurized gas or a single liquid fuel that disassociates in the presence of a catalyst (monopropellant), two liquids that spontaneously react on contact (hypergolic propellants), two liquids that must be ignited to react, (like kerosene (RP1) and liquid oxygen, used in most liquid-propellant rockets) a solid combination of fuel with oxidizer (solid fuel), or solid fuel with liquid or gaseous oxidizer (hybrid propellant system). Chemical rockets store a large amount of energy in an easily released form, and can be very dangerous. However, careful design, testing, construction and use minimizes risks.

Rockets consist of a propellant, a place to put propellant (such as a propellant tank), and a nozzle. They may also have one or more rocket engines, directional stabilization device(s) (such as fins, vernier engines or engine gimbals for thrust vectoring, gyroscopes) and a structure (typically monocoque) to hold these components together. Rockets intended for high speed atmospheric use also have an aerodynamic fairing such as a nose cone, which usually holds the payload. 

As well as these components, rockets can have any number of other components, such as wings (rocketplanes), parachutes, wheels (rocket cars), even, in a sense, a person (rocket belt). Vehicles frequently possess navigation systems and guidance systems that typically use satellite navigation and inertial navigation systems.

reference

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

كاجول

كاجول (بالإنجليزية: Kajol)‏ ممثلة هندية من مواليد (5 أغسطس 1974) وتعتبر من أبرز الممثلات في بوليوود، لأنها ولدت لعائلة فنية من الطراز الأول، فهي ابنة الفنانة "تانوجا سامارت" التي مثلت في عدد كبير من الأفلام، ووالدها "سومو موخيرجي" يعمل كمنتج، وأختها تانيشا عملت في برامج التليفزيون قبل أن تنتقل للعمل في التمثيل، وجدّتها هي الممثلة الكبيرة "شوبانا سامارث"، وعمتها هي الفنانة نوتان بيهل، أما ابنة عمها فهي الممثلة الشهيرة راني موخيرجي.

هذه الخبرة الفنية الكبيرة في العائلة منحت كاجول الأرضية الصلبة التي استطاعت من خلالها انتقاء أعمالها بحرفية، حيث تركز كاجول على التمثيل أكثر من تركيزها على النجاح التجاري للعمل الذي تؤديه، خاصة أن لديها الدعم المادي الذي يجعلها غنية عن الانسياق وراء أي عمل لا تقتنع به.

ليست الخبرة الفنية ما ورثته كاجول عن عائلتها فحسب، ولكنها ورثت عن والدتها الشخصية النارية، التي جعلتها تتخذ قرارا جريئا للغاية بترك التعليم وهي في سن الـ17، لتتجه إلى التمثيل، وكانت بدايتها عام 1992 بفيلم " bekhudi" أمام كمال سانداه، ورغم أن الفيلم لم يحقق نجاحا يذكر في شباك التذاكر، إلا أنه كان إعلانا صريحا عن قدوم نجمة واعدة.

فطن المنتجون لموهبة كاجول الفنية، لذلك أسند لها دورا أمام الفنان الكبير شاه روخان في فيلم "baazigar" عام 1993 وحقق الفيلم نجاحا كبيرا، لتشارك عام 1994 في بطولة فيلم udhaar ki zindagi، ولكنه لم يحقق النجاح المتوقع.

كان فيلم yeh dillagi الذي شاركت فيه كاجول مع النجمين أكشاي كومار وسيف علي خان بمثابة الانطلاقة الحقيقية للفنانة في السينما الهندية، حيث وضعها في قائمة نجمات الصف الأول، فكومار المتخصص في أفلام الأكشن كان سيؤدي دوراً مختلفاً تماما وسيف علي خان حتى تلك اللحظة لم يكن في رصيده من النجاح ما يشفع له كي يمكن إسناد مسئولية نجاح الفيلم له، لذلك كان الحمل كله على كتفي كاجول. كما أن كاجول بجانب الملك شاه روخان يعتبران الثنائي الأكثر رومانسية بحسب محبي سينما بوليوود و تمثل ذلك في أدائهما دورا البطولة في فيلم ديلفالي و رجوع العاشق المجنون وأمام زوجها أجاي ديفجان فشكلت ثنائيات ناجحة واستطاعت أن تحقق شهرة واسعة في جيل التسعينات وإلى الآن كاختيارتها لأدوارها وقوتها في التمثيل ولقد لقبت "بالملكة" و"البطلة الأسطورية الحية لبوليوود" وأيضا تعتبر واحدة من أهم ملكات بوليوود.

مراجع

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%84

Kajol

Kajol (born Kajol Mukherjee; 5 August 1974), also known by her married name Kajol Devgan, is an Indian film actress, who predominantly works in Hindi cinema. Born into the Mukherjee-Samarth family, she is the daughter of actress Tanuja Samarth and filmmaker Shomu Mukherjee. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including six Filmfare Awards, and alongside her aunt Nutan, she holds the record for most Best Actress wins at the ceremony, with five. In 2011, the Government of India awarded her with Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour of the country.

After making her film debut through the drama Bekhudi (1992), Kajol had her first commercial success with the thriller Baazigar (1993) and breakthrough with the romance Yeh Dillagi (1994). She went on to establish herself with starring roles opposite Shah Rukh Khan in the top-grossing romantic films Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001). She won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for each of these films and for her roles as a blind Kashmiri woman in Fanaa (2006) and a single mother in My Name Is Khan (2010). Her other notable films include the thrillers Gupt: The Hidden Truth (1997) and Dushman (1998), and the romantic dramas Ishq (1997), Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya (1998), Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha (1998) and Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain (1999). Her highest-grossing releases came with the action comedy Dilwale (2015) and the period drama Tanhaji (2020).

In addition to acting in films, Kajol is a social activist and is noted for her work with widows and children, for which she received the Karmaveer Puraskaar in 2008. She has featured as a talent judge for Zee TV's reality show Rock-N-Roll Family and holds a managerial position at Devgn Entertainment and Software Ltd. Kajol has been married to actor Ajay Devgn since 1999, with whom she has two children.

Kajol was born in Bombay (Mumbai) to the Mukherjee-Samarth film family of Bengali-Marathi descent. Her mother, Tanuja, is an actress, while her father Shomu Mukherjee was a film director and producer.  Shomu died in 2008 after suffering cardiac arrest.  Her younger sister, Tanishaa is also an actress. Her maternal aunt was actress Nutan and her maternal grandmother, Shobhna Samarth, and great grandmother, Rattan Bai, were both involved in Hindi cinema. Her paternal uncles, Joy Mukherjee and Deb Mukherjee, are film producers, while her paternal and maternal grandfathers, Sashadhar Mukherjee and Kumarsen Samarth, were filmmakers. Kajol's cousins Rani Mukerji, Sharbani Mukherjee and Mohnish Behl are also Bollywood actors; whereas another cousin of hers, Ayan Mukerji is a director. 

Kajol describes herself as being "extremely mischievous" as a child. She added that she was very stubborn and impulsive from a very young age  Her parents separated when she was young; but according to Tanuja, Kajol was not affected by the split as "we never argued in front of [her]"  In the absence of her mother, Kajol was looked after by her maternal grandmother, who "never let me feel that my mother was away and working".  According to Kajol, her mother inculcated a sense of independence in her at a very young age. Growing up between two separate cultures, she inherited her "Maharashtrian pragmatism" from her mother and her "Bengali temperament" from her father. 

Kajol was educated at a boarding school named, St. Joseph's Convent School, Panchgani. Apart from her studies, she participated in extra-curricular activities, such as dancing. It was in school that she began to form an active interest in reading fiction, as it helped her "through the bad moments" in her life.  At the age of sixteen, she began work on Rahul Rawail's film Bekhudi, which according to her was a "big dose of luck". She initially intended to return to school after shooting for the film during her summer vacations. However, she eventually dropped out of school to pursue a full-time career in film. On not completing her education, she quoted, "I don't think I am any less well-rounded because I didn't complete school". 

Reference

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