باسل خياط

باسل خياط

باسل خياط (29 أغسطس 1977 -) ممثل سوري.

بدأ التمثيل منذ أن كان في الثامنة من عمره حيث شارك في مسرح الأطفال، وعندما تقدم لاختبارات القبول في المعهد العالي للفنون المسرحية (دمشق) تم رفضه في المرة الأولى ولكن بالعام التالي اللجنة نفسها قبلته، وتخرج بنفس الدفعة مع الفنانين قصي خولي وسلافة معمار وندين تحسين بيك، وشارك في الكثير من المسرحيات في فرنسا ومصر وبيروت والأردن والكويت وسوريا، وربطته علاقة حب لفترة مع الفنانة التونسية هند صبري لكنها لم تكتمل بالزواج.

مصاب بمرض "حمّى البحر الأبيض المتوسط"، وهو مرض نادر لا شفاء منه.

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احمد الدمرداش

احمد الدمرداش

أحمد الدمرداش (27 يوليو 1975 -)، ممثل مصري. بدأ العمل الفني بعام 2000، من عائلة فنية حيث أن والده الفنان مصطفى الدمرداش ووالدته الفنانة سامية أمين وعمه الفنان والمخرج الراحل نور الدمرداش.

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Leila George

Leila George

Leila George D'Onofrio (born 20 March 1992) is an Australian-American actress. 

George was born in Sydney, Australia  to actor and producer Vincent D'Onofrio and actress Greta Scacchi.  In 2008, she had acting classes at Brighton College. In 2009, she went to Crawley College which her mother attended as well. In 2010, she studied at the Arts Educational Schools, London. In 2011, she went to Australia to study at Sydney Film School. In 2012, she went to the United States to study at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City near her father. 

In 2013, George worked as an additional camera operator for The Last Impresario documentary. In 2014, she with her mother was starring in Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull for Black Swan Theatre Company in Perth. Her mother acted as Arkadina, and she acted as Nina, Arkadina’s love rival. 

In 2016, she played the main role in her first feature television film, Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?.  She was featured in the films Mortal Engines (2018)  and The Kid (2019). 

Reference

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

Connie Culp

Connie Culp

Connie Culp (March 26, 1963 – July 29, 2020) was the first United States recipient of a partial face transplant, performed at the Cleveland Clinic in December 2008.

Culp was shot in the face by her husband Thomas G. "Tom" Culp in a failed murder–suicide in September 2004 inside their bar in Hopedale, Ohio. He also survived and was convicted in 2005 of aggravated attempted murder with a seven-year prison sentence.  Culp forgave her husband at the sentencing and said she would be waiting when he gets out of prison,  but on September 22, 2009, Culp said on an episode of Oprah that she no longer planned to wait for her former husband after her daughter asked her, "Mom, what kind of example would you be setting for me if you went back to the man who shot your face off?"

The shotgun blast destroyed Culp's nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and an eye. She underwent 30 operations prior to the face transplant on December 10, 2008. Surgeon Maria Siemionow led a team of doctors in a 22-hour operation that replaced 80 percent of Culp's face with the face from another woman who had recently died.

Her nose was rebuilt and some of the disfigurement repaired in the operation.  The Associated Press reported that Culp was able to breathe on her own and eat solid food following the transplant, adding "Ms. Culp's expressions are still a bit wooden, and she remains almost blind (right eye is prosthetic, left eye is damaged),  but she can talk, smile, smell and taste food again, and has learned braille. Her speech is at times difficult to understand. Her face is bloated and squarish, and her skin droops in folds that doctors plan to pare away as her circulation improves and her nerves grow, animating new muscles." She worked as an advocate fostering understanding for survivors of burns or other disfigurements. 

In 2010, Culp had her final facial surgery performed and regained much of her facial function, including the ability to smile, speak, and feel facial sensations due to the regrowth of facial nerves

Reference

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

T.J. Warren

T.J. Warren

Anthony "T. J." Warren Jr. (born September 5, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association . Originally from Durham, North Carolina, Warren played small forward for the NC State Wolfpack. In the 2013–14 season, he led the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in scoring and averaged a total of 24.9 points per game. Warren was picked 14th overall in the 2014 NBA draft by the Phoenix Suns. 

Warren graduated from Brewster Academy, but Warren also attended Riverside High School and Word of God Christian Academy prior to Brewster. He averaged 14 points per game on Word of God's team and his team finished the season at 24–3. While at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, Warren was a small forward for his varsity basketball team. Ranked number 32 in the MaxPreps Class of 2012 Top 100, Warren became a hot commodity for college recruits. During his senior year of high school, Warren was viewed by multiple colleges, including North Carolina State University, Georgetown, and University of North Carolina. After visiting some of his prospective schools, Warren officially committed to North Carolina State University on November 2, 2011. Warren was recruited by Orlando Early, the assistant coach at NCSU.[3] Warren was part of the second highest ranked college basketball draft class by CBSsports along with Tyler Lewis and Rodney Purvis. All three of the players were All-Americans and natives of North Carolina.  He became the 23rd ranked prospect on the ESPN recruiting board for the 2012 recruiting class before committing to play for North Carolina State University. 

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._J._Warren

Clippers

Clippers

The Los Angeles Clippers (branded as the LA Clippers) are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Clippers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division in the league's Western Conference. The Clippers play their home games at the Staples Center, an arena they share with fellow NBA team the Los Angeles Lakers, as well as the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL).

The franchise was founded in 1970 as the Buffalo Braves, and were one of three expansion teams to join the NBA that year, along with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Portland Trail Blazers. The Braves saw some success and reached the playoffs three times, led by league Most Valuable Player (MVP) Bob McAdoo. Conflicts with the Canisius Golden Griffins over the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium and the sale of the franchise led to their relocating from Buffalo, New York, to San Diego, California.

In 1978, upon relocating, the franchise was rebranded to be known as the San Diego Clippers, in reference to the sailing ships that can be seen in the San Diego Bay. The franchise saw limited success on the court in its six years in San Diego despite the acquisition of star center Bill Walton, who missed nearly three full seasons due to injury upon his arrival. In 1981, the franchise was acquired by Los Angeles–based real estate mogul Donald Sterling.

In 1984, the franchise was controversially relocated to Los Angeles by Sterling without the approval of the NBA. Despite fines and a lawsuit brought on against franchise ownership by the NBA seeking to return the franchise to San Diego, the team was ultimately permitted to remain in Los Angeles, where they failed to see significant regular season or playoff success. They were frequently seen as an example of a perennial loser in American professional sports, drawing unfavorable comparisons to their historically successful city-rivals, the Lakers.

Between 2008 and 2017, the organization improved through the additions of players such as Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan, and Chris Paul. This lineup led the Clippers as a consistent playoff team and were nicknamed "Lob City". In the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons, the franchise won its first division titles. They appeared in the playoffs seven times from 2012 to 2019, equaling the number of appearances for the franchise from 1970 to 2011.

In 2019, the Clippers signed two-time NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Kawhi Leonard and traded a record number of draft picks for perennial NBA All-Star and Most Valuable Player candidate Paul George.

The franchise began in Western New York as the Buffalo Braves, one of three NBA expansion franchises that began play in the 1970–71 season, along with the Portland Trail Blazers and Cleveland Cavaliers  They played their home games at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, along with another Buffalo team that would begin play that year, the National Hockey League's Buffalo Sabres. 

After two bad seasons, the Braves' fortunes started to change under coach Jack Ramsay and star forward/center Bob McAdoo. McAdoo led the NBA in scoring for three consecutive seasons and was named the league's MVP in the 1974–75 season. The Braves qualified for the playoffs three times in a row, losing twice to the eventual Eastern Conference champions (the Boston Celtics in 1974 and 1976, and the Washington Bullets in 1975). Despite the team's modest success in Buffalo, Braves owner Paul Snyder and the league found it impossible to schedule home games at the auditorium because of the Canisius Golden Griffins men's basketball team, which had a pre-existing lease on the arena and priority on game dates over the Braves. The Griffins saw the Braves as a threat to their own success, and purposely scheduled all the best dates at the arena to prevent the Braves from succeeding. As a result, after a failed attempt to sell the team to an owner who intended to move it to South Florida, Snyder sold the team to Kentucky Colonels owner John Y. Brown, Jr., who decimated the team's roster, traded away all of its stars, and drove attendance down to the point where they could break their own lease on the arena. Eventually, Brown met with Celtics owner Irv Levin in 1978 so they could trade franchise ownerships. Southern California resident Levin then decided to move the Braves to San Diego, something the league would have never allowed him to do with the Celtics. 

Reference

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

Ware State Prison

Ware State Prison

Ware State Prison is a Georgia Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Waycross, Ware County, Georgia. 

The facility first opened in 1990, and has a maximum capacity of 1546 inmates held at close security level.

History

In 2013, the prison was involved in a series of lawsuits related to an attack on an inmate. The inmate, Cleveland Dunn, was attacked by a fellow inmate on September 9, 2011. Dunn alleged in his lawsuit that he did not receive adequate care for his injuries. Dunn claimed that over two weeks had passed before he was taken to Augusta State Medical Prison for medical treatment related to his injuries.  In September 2016, the last of Dunn's lawsuits was dismissed; most of them due to immunity from prosecution under Georgia law

Reference

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